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Sound of their breath fades with the light
I think about the loveless fascination
Under the Milky Way tonight
Lower the curtain down in Memphis
Lower the curtain down, all right
I got no time for private consultation
Under the Milky Way tonight
Wish I knew what you were looking for
Might have known what you would find
And it's something quite peculiar
Something shimmering and white
It leads you here despite your destination
Under the Milky Way tonight
Wish I knew what you were looking for
Might have known what you would find
Wish I knew what you were looking for
Might have known what you would find
And it's something quite peculiar
Something that's shimmering and white
Leads you here despite your destination
Under the Milky Way tonight
Wish I knew what you were looking for
Might have known what you would find
Wish I knew what you were looking for
Might have known what you would find
Under the Milky Way tonight
Under the Milky Way tonight
Under the Milky Way tonight
Always forget there’s that bagpipe solo and how perfect it is.
Ahhhh... thank you for reminding me to listen for it! :)
Under the Milky Way must mean a lot more in the Southern hemisphere. That and the clouds of Magellan would be the main reason I would ever spend so much Co2 to travel that far. Just to look up at night and be awed. Are natives who return home ever surprised by that beauty? Lovely song and great band/album. Love RP and all it's mixes!
Sometimes when this place gets kind of empty...I think about the loveless fascination...Under the Milky Way Tonight...
danfl75, I often wish I was a native of Oz, but in my three lengthy times in that distant, wonderful, otherworldly land, looking up at the night sky never failed to take my breath away. There is no North Star, no Big or Little Dipper, no obvious marker for the center of rotation... Looking out the long way through The Milky Way, rather than through the edge of it into intergalactic space, as we are here in the Northern Hemisphere, makes the sky seem more like a stunning, thick, masterfully-crafted Persian carpet than a black screen with white specks on it... There's nothing we grew up looking at for reference... Down there, it's more like looking at an array of infinite tangles of neural synapses or unwinding strands of DNA... As you look along the filaments and tendrils, there are flecks and nuances of every color, and every shade, every degree of contrast is there for you to contemplate as you elevate and enjoy your VeeBee or Cascade... All of Scorpio is visible. I loved tripping out looking at Antares, the "heart" of the scorpion, and Zubenelgenubi and Zubenelshamali, the stars marking its southern and northern "claws;" they are indeed bright enough to navigate by. I can never forget my first nights in Port Douglas, or even better, up at Cape Trib, and past the Daintree, where you're far from any real kind of light pollution. Blew me away. I get a crick in my neck and feel dizzy just remembering the endless hours spent in rapture... GO, and see it! The view of the night sky from the observatory atop Mauna Kea will also knock your eyes out, since it's so high, and 6000 miles from any light pollution, but there's nothing like the sky Down Under! and nothing like this magical, soul-soothing song! Immortal, and worthy of worship!
That's a synthesized guitar, not bagpipes; I'm not sure if that alleviates it for you.
I know a piper who gets really annoyed at this bit
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No, not a synth, it was done on a Fender Jazzmaster guitar with a device called an Ebow that allows a note to sustain as long as the player wants it to. They now have that tech built into the pickup of some guitars available now.
Thank you for that - It is amazing how much one can learn in here. For me, who is very ignorant of the theory of music, appreciation is something very subjective and volatile, depending on my mood at the time. I often wish I had better appreciation of the theory of music and the various instrumentations etc. which I suspect would provide a more technical basis for understanding what I am hearing.
Nope. Doesn't need it, especially when I think it is synth, not actual bagpipes.
No, not a synth, it was done on a Fender Jazzmaster guitar with a device called an Ebow that allows a note to sustain as long as the player wants it to. They now have that tech built into the pickup of some guitars available now.
I saw these guys in a tiny bar at the Grosvenor Hotel in Perth about 20 years ago, awesome night with the girl who is now my wife.
is it safe to assume that you have rated this at 10?
Holds up very well after 35 years.
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Never gets old.
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never heard of "The Church"
(sheltered child...)
liking very much
wtf is a "loveless fascination"?
Feeling no love, but feeling an intense interest in something. No emotion.
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Again? Why do you have to play this crappy song so much?
Curious. What is not crappy for you?
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Am I the only one who wishes the bagpipe (?) solo wasn't there?
Nope. Doesn't need it, especially when I think it is synth, not actual bagpipes.
Thanks to RP that's no longer true .
I wore that CD out! So good!
Greatest Aussie Group Ever 10/10. But handling their success together 2/10 sadly boys. You could have taken yourselves to world wide #1 but your egos killed your vibe ... so sad, to bad - unless of course you reform now ~ pretty please ?? I’m happy to be your manager ?? Come on Gang of RP listeners, subscribers, et al. Get this message to the Church and make this happen?!?!
Wish granted! - they're back together and touring (at least)
https://www.thechurchband.net/
I give up! <grin>
9>10
Greatest Aussie group? Hands down-- Little River Band
But I do like this song.
That's a synthesized guitar, not bagpipes; I'm not sure if that alleviates it for you.
I would have thought bagpipes as well. Very strange sound.
1988? Geez, those were the days...and great days they were!
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So very great! I remember the first time I heard this song. At an art school friend's birthday party, in his parent's two car garage, in 1988 and seeing a girl I'd never seen before, looking at me, and thinking, oh boy...
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Love this song!
Pretty frackin' brilliant; a couple of fillers, but even they are tight and enjoyable. IMHO, of course.
Took me a decade, but I finally ordered the CD.
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Just discovered RP - thanks for such an awesome station!
Not much CO2 required as you can see the Milky Way from anywhere on earth if you can get out to the countryside and away from light pollution.
Billboard Number 1 hit in the US from March 1988?
Rick Astley, Never Going To Give You Up.
Destruction" and Def Leppard during the long hot summer of 88...
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That's a synthesized guitar, not bagpipes; I'm not sure if that alleviates it for you.
E-bow in fact. A monophonic handheld electromagnetic string driver. Nothing to see up the kilt.
I love bagpipes, every time.
That's a synthesized guitar, not bagpipes. I'm not sure if that alleviates it for you.
Your guitarist was so preoccupied with whether or not he could, he didn’t stop to think if he should.
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J/K I love this song, weird bagpipe-guitar solo and all.
That's a synthesized guitar, not bagpipes. I'm not sure if that alleviates it for you.
Just discovered RP - thanks for such an awesome station!
Wrong. Al Stewart is great!
oh yes, memories of 80's, not really Paradiso but radio and cassettes and home gatherings :)
That's a synthesized guitar, not bagpipes, but I'm not sure if that alleviates it for you.
Wow! That had not occurred to me. I had always been thinking how unusual it was to use bagpipes in a pop song...
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That's a synthesized guitar, not bagpipes; I'm not sure if that alleviates it for you.
What a name for a band!
Cigarettes after Sex suits better to life
but this song is amazing!
DoublePlusGood, comrade! ; )
But that was "back" in 1984 ;-)
1988? Geez, those were the days...and great days they were!
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It is not only a great transition but I hear some similarities (ex: song structure) with Porcupine Tree's Trains.
Once again, a terrific catch by the DJ.
Bill is magic like that
It is not only a great transition but I hear some similarities (ex: song structure) with Porcupine Tree's Trains.
Once again, a terrific catch by the DJ.
Yeah
The two versions of the movie has slightly different music, but as I recall they are both great somehow.
Theatrical/original vs. Director's cut
The awesome music opening with:
"The Killing Moon" by Echo and the Bunnymen (original/theatrical version).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76IkuYLoJkE
or "Never Tear Us Apart " by INXS (director's cut version). 80's epic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyj6YAnaN_M
I love both songs
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But I think the movie itself was better in the original version, before the director felt he had to "explain" some things to the audience.
Not sure though. Gotta see them both again
"Oh, heaven forbid: I am one who delights in all manifestations of the Terpsichorean muse!"
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Having seen the great movie Donnie Darko adds some extra magic to this song.
Having seen the great movie Donnie Darko adds some extra magic to this song.
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Over 10 years living abroad and a track like this just brings the bogan flooding back.
Sloggy Dog, they bring out the BOGAN in all of us. Great band and still so relevant as when it first came out. Awesome live as well
just try....our city did at a winter solstice bonfire a few years back, hundreds of voices and a bonfire in the middle....so great!
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Wouldn't it have been easier to just play some bagpipes?
Perhaps not. You can't just through a stick and find a Highlander to play the pipes for you in Australia, especially since the ban went through.
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Otherwise good band.