ballet for a rainy day has one of the best bridges there has ever been
@starrywizdom
9 жыл бұрын
+naakkve10 when it rains it rains all the colours in my paintbox!
@markthompson1729
5 жыл бұрын
Three years later and it's still true.
@phillipronan1994
4 жыл бұрын
I support this sentiment
@stevet9863
4 жыл бұрын
When it rains, it rains all the colors in my paint box
@marnieholdsworthgreen8449
2 жыл бұрын
I came to this video specifically to see if anyone else had commented about the sheer brilliance of the bridge in ballet for a rainy day - I didn’t have to scroll far !😂
@amish15552
2 жыл бұрын
The string arrangement on 1000 Umbrellas is all Dave Gregory. Masterful.
@jefferylong4239
2 жыл бұрын
Absolutely
@cremejockey8636
Жыл бұрын
Isn't it Todd Rundgren who did the string arrangements for this whole album? If I recall correctly that's what the linear notes say. I know Todd did a lot for this album either way. Dave Gregory i believe did mostly all of the lead guitar.
@mikkelgranrud6978
Жыл бұрын
@@cremejockey8636 Dave Gregory did the string arrangements for both 1000 Umbrellas and Dear God. I recall him mentioning it in interviews. I can post a source when I find it. :)
@cremejockey8636
Жыл бұрын
@@mikkelgranrud6978 true. I gotta find my CD or cassette of skylarking and see what the linear notes say again. I remember it saying Dave gregory-odd tipple or something like that and Todd rundgren- production, string arrangement etc.
@SlowVillageBand
4 ай бұрын
@@mikkelgranrud6978 exactly. but later, everyone thought that it is rundgren's work and he did get a lot of offers because of this :) he admitted in an interview
@KidIndigo1
10 жыл бұрын
XTC... one of the most underrated, underexposed bands ever. Too bad... its opus is phenomenal. Go Andy.
@Gato76680
6 жыл бұрын
KidIndigo1 and Colin!!!
@Ducksoup67
2 жыл бұрын
Only in the U.S. In the U.K. these guys were as big as any in their day. See Also: Robyn Hitchcock
@SlowVillageBand
4 ай бұрын
this band could have been the biggest act in the world
@davidbowman4259
Ай бұрын
@@SlowVillageBand They're my favorite. Just incredible songwriting and musicianship..
@colin6768
8 жыл бұрын
God what a brilliant album. Used to listen to this to death back in 87. I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that many of the songs on this record are the 80s equivalent of songs from " The Village Green Preservation Society" or Beatles songs such as "Penny Lane", "She's Leaving Home", and others. The same great melodic sensibility pervades this entire album. Fantastic.
@danr.5017
6 жыл бұрын
Season Cylce was the only "Meh" track on this album. Rhyming Cycle with Umbilical was terrible. "Dear God" and "The Man who sailed around his soul" are absolutely briliant. Thease two songs and the way they play together are just too good.
@empiricalmiracle8592
5 жыл бұрын
@@danr.5017 Funny, I think Season Cycle is great, but Dear God is not very good and doesn't deserve to be on the album. Sacrificial Bonfire is a perfect closing song, only to be ruined by Dear God afterwards.
@danr.5017
5 жыл бұрын
@@empiricalmiracle8592 I didn't say season cycle was bad at all, just that it sufers form some really bad rhymes. Ubill-ii cle. its pretty cringy. the idea is great and it's catchy but that line is just painful. Dear god as an athiest anthem is great.
@empiricalmiracle8592
5 жыл бұрын
@@danr.5017 I don't think Dear God fits the tone of the rest of the album. I'm an atheist but that doesn't make the song any better to me on a musical level.
@danr.5017
5 жыл бұрын
@@empiricalmiracle8592 Fair, but you know we don't have to have agree.
@gergsar
8 жыл бұрын
the album's a masterpiece
@paulwyles9181
10 жыл бұрын
Skylarking is my all-time fave album. one great track after another
@danielsilvers2896
9 жыл бұрын
paul wyles I fell in love with this album when I was in 6th grade. Just rediscovered it recently. I patted myself on the back and said "damn, Dan, you had great taste in music even back then!" = P
@mattemery9181
5 жыл бұрын
Orange and lemon Raincoats roll and tumble Together, just liked fruit tipped from a tray Pineapple wet heads Watch new hairdos crumble As scenery sunlight shifts away Ballet for a rainy day Silent film of melting miracle play Apples and cherries Are varnished in water Despite, striped awnings bright dismay I push my paintbrush To conjure a new world While this one is slowly washed away Ballet for a rainy day Silent film of melting miracle play Dancing out there through my window To the backdrop of a slow descending grey When it rains, it rains All the colors in my paintbox When it rains, it rains Tickets for the front row seats Up on the rooftops Orange and lemon Raincoats roll and tumble Together, dropped in diamond disarray Ballet for a rainy day Silent film of melting miracle play Dancing out there through my window Behind the curtain silver falling Ballet for a rainy day Silent film of melting miracle play Dancing out there through my window To the backdrop of a slow descending grey One thousand umbrellas Upturned couldn't catch all the rain That drained out of my head When you said we were Over and over I cried 'Til I floated downstream To a town they call Misery, oh oh misery Misery oh oh misery And one million teacups I bet couldn't hold all the wet That fell out of my eyes When you fell out with me Now I'm crawling the wallpaper That's looking more like a roadmap To misery, oh oh misery How can you smile and forecast Weather's getting better And you'll soon forget her If you let the sunshine come through How can you smile and forecast Weather's getting better If you never let a girl rain all over you And just when I thought that my vista was golden in hue One thousand umbrellas opened to spoil the view One million salt seas Recalled from school atlas Alas, would be filled to the brim Sunny Jim couldn't jump it How can I be pleased When I'm handed the keys To a town they call Misery Oh oh Misery So with a mop and a bucket I'll just say forget her And carry on sweeping up Where I've been weeping The Jesters will creep in To strike down the newly crowned Monarch Of Misery, oh oh Misery How can you smile and forecast Weather's getting better And you'll soon forget her If you let the sunshine come through How can you smile and forecast Weather's getting better If you never let a girl rain all over you Just when I thought that my skies were a June July blue One thousand umbrellas opened Two thousand umbrellas opened Ten thousand umbrellas opened to spoil the view
@raoulduke2924
10 жыл бұрын
Really good. Todd's hand on the record shows through.
@seanbancroft3955
2 жыл бұрын
"I push my paintbrush To conjure a new world While this one is slowly washed away" Still one of the greatest lines in music.
@ck4211
7 ай бұрын
That's my favorite line too - but the whole song is beautiful, downright poetic
@davidbowman4259
Ай бұрын
One of the greatest bands of all time. Love love love them.
@LARathbone
3 жыл бұрын
It's not supposed to fade before transitioning like in this video, so for those listening, check out the album - the transition sounds much better and is in fact one of the best parts of the whole album.
@raginhomosapien
Жыл бұрын
I'm living on the coast of callifornia during a 3 week rainstorm and these songs shine a very bright light on my gloom laden walks along Fremont street.
@jjsixstring
Жыл бұрын
Uh, Colin Moulding is totally secretly slaying this bass line!
@pshowisitto
Жыл бұрын
No doubt! He is killing it!
@DoLetsStop
Жыл бұрын
Colin always slays✨✨
@SuperSparrow45
7 жыл бұрын
This albums is essentially the 80's Sgt Peppers.
@kevtruth
5 жыл бұрын
@koropokkur If you threw in Psonic Psunspot I'd agree
@rossmoffitt7364
7 жыл бұрын
Steven Wilson brought me here. This album is indeed a masterpiece. Dear God, Dying, Supergirl... wow. Been listening to this over and over again.
@jimmalone4851
2 жыл бұрын
Have you heard Nonsuch by XTC? There's a few songs on that album that actually sound like Steven Wilson is singing on them. Like War Dance for example
@v-town1980
3 ай бұрын
Steven Wilson?
@muertedkk
11 жыл бұрын
this song helped me a lot during though times, i always hink this as a "Elenor reagby" of the 80's, it's just an incredible song/songs
@richardfurness7556
11 жыл бұрын
Lyrics Shakespeare would have stood and applauded. The sheer breadth of imagery is astonishing.
@davidstobie2751
3 жыл бұрын
I have been listening to these guys since Nigel.
@weevil6969
4 жыл бұрын
So beautiful... here come the tears
@v-town1980
3 ай бұрын
The Beatles: "You're Welcome!"
@peterpaluska7745
2 жыл бұрын
Holy cow! Unbelievable. Best band ever.
@Lyktwz
13 жыл бұрын
1000 Umbrellas was the first XTC's song I knew. Love at First Sight...
@acrovader
12 жыл бұрын
I think this album is pretty timeless.
@fernandogonzalez7625
11 жыл бұрын
Thats right! this albm is like a modern Sgt Peppers and many songs of it are very inspired in The Beatles.
che bella...mi ricorda la mia adolescenza...grazie
@lunekitten
Жыл бұрын
god the transitions in this album are just so good
@smokinjz
4 жыл бұрын
One thousand umbrellas Upturned couldn't catch all the rain That drained out of my head When you said we were Over and over I cried 'Til I floated downstream To a town they call Misery oh oh misery Misery oh oh misery And one million teacups I bet couldn't hold all the wet That fell out of my eyes When you fell out with me Now I'm crawling the wallpaper That's looking more like a road map To misery oh oh misery How can you smile and forecast Weather's getting better And you'll soon forget her If you let the sunshine come through How can you smile and forecast Weather's getting better If you never let a girl rain all over you And just when I thought that my vista was golden in hue One thousand umbrellas opened to spoil the view One billion salt seas Recalled from school atlas Alas would be filled to the brim Sunny Jim couldn't jump it How can I be pleased When I'm handed the keys To a town they call Misery Oh oh Misery So with a mop and a bucket I'll just say forget her And carry on sweeping up Where I've been weeping The Jesters will creep in To strike down the newly crowned Monarch Of Misery oh oh Misery How can you smile and forecast Weather's getting better And you'll soon forget her If you let the sunshine come through How can you smile and forecast Weather's getting better If you never let a girl rain all over you Just when I thought that my skies were a June, July blue One thousand umbrellas opened Two thousand umbrellas opened Ten thousand umbrellas opened to spoil the view
@plopmomentum7935
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks
@thedrunkenfool
12 жыл бұрын
Thank you for uploading these songs together (shame it fades out a little at the end of Ballet for a rainy day - but that is just a very criticism). Remember playing this album endlessly and my mum laughing at me saying "you playing that bloody misery song again" ha ha ha. Little did she know, it had the opposite affect and the entire album lifted my hearts and spirits :)
@michelepistillo1010
5 жыл бұрын
Uno dei migliori album dove le canzoni non durano più di 3 minuti..
@smokinjz
4 жыл бұрын
Orange and lemon Raincoats roll and tumble Together, just liked fruit tipped from a tray Pineapple wet heads Watch new hairdos crumble As scenery sunlight shifts away Ballet for a rainy day Silent film of melting miracle play Apples and cherries Are varnished in water Despite, striped awnings bright dismay I push my paintbrush To conjure a new world While this one is slowly washed away Ballet for a rainy day Silent film of melting miracle play Dancing out there through my window To the backdrop of a slow descending grey When it rains it rains All the colors in my paintbox When it rains it rains Tickets for the front row seats Up on the rooftops Orange and lemon Raincoats roll and tumble Together, dropped in diamond disarray Ballet for a rainy day Silent film of melting miracle play Dancing out there through my window Behind the curtain silver falling Ballet for a rainy day Silent film of melting miracle play Dancing out there through my window To the backdrop of a slow descending grey
@plopmomentum7935
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks again
@petermcintyreA1
6 жыл бұрын
Get a load, of equally well crafted and executed; and audibly equivalent, songs on their 'Oranges and Lemon's' album, that followed this.
@josephharris6062
6 жыл бұрын
BRAVO!!!!!
@MattMangels
9 жыл бұрын
AldofromBordeaux, I feel like it probably wasn't Todd who played piano. He seems to really feel uncomfortable playing piano! When I saw him at The Fillmore here in San Francisco a couple weeks ago he referred to the part of the show where he played piano as "the pressure cooker".
@lucmormont3663
4 жыл бұрын
Fantastique!
@craigd7808
7 жыл бұрын
Great record.
@jaxxommckaine
12 жыл бұрын
the 1980's music was the best in my opinion song wise stories done to music
@searchanddestroy1996
Жыл бұрын
good job 👍️
@Frankincensedjb123
10 жыл бұрын
6:17 Rain scene outside mall from Minority Report.
@g-plan9future204
5 жыл бұрын
Partridge at his best
@lukero5502
2 жыл бұрын
Missouri isnt that bad guys cmon
@forestdoughty36
6 жыл бұрын
adams crying for eve
@AldofromBordeaux
11 жыл бұрын
who plays acoustic piano on this one ??? Gregory, Rundgreen ?? another one
@TheMightyHartley
12 жыл бұрын
I think the uploader faded it out - the fade isn't on my album :-)
@InParticularNobody
11 жыл бұрын
it's known as the archaic pronunciation - found a lot in (that other English genius...) Shakespeare. A device to stretch a word to fit the iambic pentameter - eg banish-ed. google for "pronouncing shakepeare's words by Dayle Coye". Interestingly if the text was "banished" then Elizabethans would assume it to have 3 syllables. If just two were intended to be spoken, the word would be written as "banish'd".
@gentillygirl545
3 жыл бұрын
I love the language for that reason. Studied composition and English Literature.
@Weloz92
2 жыл бұрын
Mmmiiisery Aw, Aw, Mmmiiisery...
@brianrh40
9 жыл бұрын
Andy
@TonyLovell
12 жыл бұрын
Not so... it blends in, as you hear in the intro to 100 Umbrellas. I think this is an iTunes liberty at wrong.
@niyanlan8928
12 күн бұрын
That is a lyricist
@arcrs40
2 жыл бұрын
likeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
@user-tz4qw8ir9i
2 жыл бұрын
Inspired by The BEATLES..!!! Mc Cartney style...!
@jadewang6601
11 жыл бұрын
Dear Bear Farmer
@fuckamericanidiot
4 жыл бұрын
Why bother putting these together when there's a fade out in the middle? Annoying.
@gentillygirl545
3 жыл бұрын
There is no glitch on the album.
@barbaradenvir5472
4 ай бұрын
******************************
@TonyLovell
12 жыл бұрын
A lyrical singleton: "striped" pronounced as "biped". Valid, I know, but what does one call such a choice of emphasis, grammatically? I do not know.
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