2022: #WorldParty’s ‘#PrivateRevolution’ Tackled #Environmental Concerns 35 Years Ago

Seeds planted in the Reagan years continue to bear poison fruit. On Private Revolution, World Party presaged today’s “There is no planet B” slogan 35 years ago.

By Cheryl Graham / 1 March 2022

"By the mid-1980s, the modern environmental movement had fractured into a cornucopia of causes, including #antinukes and #RacialJustice. The music of the day, by and large, did not champion those concerns.

"Enter World Party, the solo project of Welsh musician and producer Karl Wallinger. After a stint playing keyboards in the #Waterboys, Wallinger released Private Revolution, World Party’s debut album, in March 1987. Recorded and produced by Wallinger, its ten original songs center on environmental themes, emphasizing personal responsibility. It’s all set to a sound incorporating groovy psychedelic synths with earthy piano and percussion. Wallinger sings and plays all of the instruments, except for saxophone on one track by Anthony Thistlethwaite (Waterboys) and violin by Steve Wickham (Waterboys and In Tua Nua) on another. Backing vocals are provided by an unknown Irish singer named #Sinead O’Connor."

https://www.popmatters.com/world-party-private-revolution-atr35

#MusicHistory #80sMusic #ReaganEra #ClimateChange #IsItLikeToday
#ClimateActivism through #Music

I've had dreams/visions of the coming times... What the Hopi referred to as #PurifcationDay. Will you defend #MotherEarth? If I am to sacrifice myself for a single cause, it would be to defend #LifeOnEarth. It is the one thing I know for certain....

"I wanna be a witness
Or a victim to your spell
Crackling in lightening
Dressed in shadows
Red like a carousel

I want to be there
When the savage comes
I want to be there
When the savage comes
When your savage earth heart
... Cuts through

"Will you lay all of your
Deepest wildest secrets bare?
Will you let all of those
Rumbling old gods take rage?
I want to be there
When the savage comes
I want to be there
When the savage comes
When your savage earth heart
Cuts through!

"Then I was taken smoothly
By the vulture of the soul
That hideous strength
That numbs the tongue
And he led me like a cinder
Through the fields of hell
To doubt my friends and to hate myself
But when my savage earth heart
... Cuts through"
- Michael Scott, The Waterboys, 1985

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IxGv4AkhVU

#Waterboys #80sMusic #InDefenseOfMotherEarth #Gaia #GaiaRising #ClimateCrisis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLxlkRpxD4I

Corn Circles for #WaterboysWednesday

Derided by some, adored by others. I love this track. #Waterboys

@sharongascoigne Still prefer the absolutely sublime studio version, but glad to have heard this one too. This Is the Sea and Fisherman’s Blues are the only #Waterboys albums I know well. (Played both so much that I had to replace both.) Love how #TheWaterboys and #WaterboysWednesday tags on Masto are stretching my experience with this unfortunately relatively little-known band. I’ve never understood how they stayed under so many people’s radar after those two phenomenal albums from the 1980s.

One of their most beautiful songs (in my opinion) for #WaterboysWednesday

#Waterboys #OutOfAllThisBlue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3fLRJOrOPQ

Alexa is playing me random #Waterboys tracks for #TonightsCookingTunes

It's not something I usually do, I'd much rather listen to a complete album, but their back catalogue is extremely varied so it's quite fun!

Sunday classic vinyl time.
The Waterboys. This Is The Sea.
One for you @sharongascoigne 😜
#vinyl #music #Waterboys

The Waterboys

"Fisherman's Blues"

#theWaterboys #waterboys #nowPlaying #music #liveMusic #mondayTune

https://youtu.be/F-DvqEHJvFA

I just learned that on his latest album, Tom Jones does a cover of "This Is The Sea", the title track from the 1985 album by The Waterboys.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAmBgqjCsqQ
#Waterboys

https://www.beautifuldays.org/lineup/

This is the best line up for a festival that I've seen in years!

Absolutely gutted I can't go. Firstly there's no one I could convince to come with me, but also I'm running my own stall at another local festival that weekend.

#Levellers #Waterboys #OzricTentacles #GazCoombes #GayeBykersOnAcid #JohnnyMarr #PrimalScream #JustinSullivanDeanWhite

No #SilentSunday. 4 being flipped over repeatedly:
- #Waterboys/Fisherman’s Blues - didn’t really appreciate it fully at the time, sounds so much better with age
- #ScottWalker/Scott 4 - that baritone & orchestration, those words
- #TearsForFears/Seeds of Love - melody, melody
& of course sadly
- #Television/#MarqueeMoon - the only guitar sound I ever wanted, no need for effects pedals, fancy solos or any of that show-off stuff. Just the intensity. & poetry.
#AlbumOfTheWeek #NowPlaying #vinyl

@matthew3
Love the #Waterboys keep practicing. 🥰🥰

My Top 1000 Songs #143: The Whole Of The Moon. I may be a fair-weather Waterboys fan, but this one packs a monster gut-punch. A song that self-consciously aims for epic grandeur, and somehow pulls it off. #music #Waterboys https://www.jitterywhiteguymusic.com/2022/12/my-top-1000-songs-143-whole-of-moon.html

A very welcome addition to #MastoMusic is #BertusDowns , uber #Waterboys fan, #Athens #Georgia activist , #jogger who was definitely at that #REM show you were at

Bertisdowns2@lor.sh

Some uplifting #SaturdayMusic for you: The Waterboys' "All of the Moon" (1985). #music #waterboys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TON3PORRDQ