Historians, Your Help Please

[Van Der Zeevalk]

Doing some research on song chart history.
Can't seem to locate any information for the track ' Real Gone Kid ' by the band Deacon Blue.

From memory it was in the very late 1980s, but anyone with any more precise information, please post.

Thanks to all in advance.

 

[shaz63]

It was released in 1988 on their second album "When the world knows your name". Was the bands most successfully commercial album.
Hope that this helps you Steve

 

[Van Der Zeevalk]

It was released in 1988 on their second album "When the world knows your name". Was the bands most successfully commercial album.
Hope that this helps you Steve

It does but if you're accurate it's very embarrassing.
Been listening to a ton of stuff in the last couple of days from 1988, and as you should know 1988 was a fairly significant mark in my history....how could I forget?
I was thinking sort of late summer early autumn 1989 it was charting. For some reason I seem to recall hearing it on the airwaves about the same time as " Waiting For A Start To Fall " 'Ride On Time " and that sort of stuff.
Also associate it with mellow grey sky afternoons in South Melbourne, so the 1988 - 89 timeframe would be right.

 

[Monkster]

It was released in 1988 on their second album "When the world knows your name". Was the bands most successfully commercial album.
Hope that this helps you Steve

According to cddb that album was released in 1989, although the single was released in 88.

So umm yeah I guess my point is you're correct

 

[Van Der Zeevalk]

According to cddb that album was released in 1989, although the single was released in 88.

So umm yeah I guess my point is you're correct

This would tend to agree with my memory then also. Would have been released very late in '88 as it certainly wasn't before September. I remember everything around that period very clearly. Happy times, sadly, just a memory now. Still get reduced to tears every time i hear ' Streets Of Your Town " by the Go Betweens, simply by the effect of being spiralled back in time to those memories, visualising the places, the sounds, the smells, etc. Sad, eh?

Probably got lost underneath all the hype kicked up by that Bobby McFerrin sht ( Don't Worry Be Happy ) which was blasted to death all over the joint at the back end of '88.
Actually, I do remember now, it must have been between Feb - May '89. It was receiving airplay at the same time as that absolute shocker " Orinoco Flow ' by Enya.

 

[Troy Wingate]

Found out that it was released Oct 1988.The album that is was taken from was released April 1989. Just a bit more info to help you out Steve.

 

[Van Der Zeevalk]

Found out that it was released Oct 1988.The album that is was taken from was released April 1989. Just a bit more info to help you out Steve.

This would tally with my above post then.
I knew there was a reason why when i heard it on this disc I was playing it sent a chill up my back.

 

[Monkster]

Happy times, sadly, just a memory now. Still get reduced to tears every time i hear ' Streets Of Your Town " by the Go Betweens, simply by the effect of being spiralled back in time to those memories, visualising the places, the sounds, the smells, etc. Sad, eh?

Man you wanna talk about songs and memories, you're talking to the king

I'm playing 2Pac - I Aint Mad At Cha as I type because of your post

 

[Van Der Zeevalk]

Man you wanna talk about songs and memories, you're talking to the king

I'm playing 2Pac - I Aint Mad At Cha as I type because of your post

Not sure what you mean by that but I think I know where you'd be coming from as I also am very big on tunes and memories - very good at attaching songs to a dateline and remembering hwere I was / what i was doing at the time I first heard the song.

For example, when I first heard the song " We Don't Talk Anymore " way back in July of 1979, I clearly remember being in the chair at a dental clinic, having my face drilled to bits and perving on the gorgeous blonde dental nurse

 

[shaz63]

Found out that it was released Oct 1988.The album that is was taken from was released April 1989. Just a bit more info to help you out Steve.

Mum found it not me. She just forgot to log me out of bf before posting

 

[Monkster]

Not sure what you mean by that but I think I know where you'd be coming from as I also am very big on tunes and memories - very good at attaching songs to a dateline and remembering hwere I was / what i was doing at the time I first heard the song.

LOL just reminds me of summer of 96/97, me and a couple of mates just hanging out, that song was on a mix tape we used to play a lot.

Nothing against you hehe

 

[mark73]

" We Don't Talk Anymore " way back in July of 1979,

I was hoping to never be reminded of that song ever again...Thankyou for helping in that regard...
I think three years previous,his song Carrie was IMO the best Cliff Richard release of the 70's...

 

[Van Der Zeevalk]

LOL just reminds me of summer of 96/97, me and a couple of mates just hanging out, that song was on a mix tape we used to play a lot.

Nothing against you hehe

Nah I didn;t think it was mate. just didn't quite understand what you meant.
That's what this thread was about - was playing this various artists disc the other night and wondered why Real Gone Kid gave me that same old shiver up the back and odd feling behind the eyes.....subconscious memory is an amazing thing.

 

[Van Der Zeevalk]

I was hoping to never be reminded of that song ever again...Thankyou for helping in that regard...
I think three years previous,his song Carrie was IMO the best Cliff Richard release of the 70's...

No mate, sorry, you're way off the mark.
Carrie was issued in January 1980 and was Cliff's first single of the 1980s. It followed Hot Shot ( Oct '79 ) and We Don't Talk Anymore, all cut from the LP ' Rock And Roll Juvenile ( Sep '79 issue )
Just prior to this was what i regard Cliff's best work of the Seventies, the album "Green Light " ( Sep '78 issue ) although the singles " Please Remember Me " ( May'78) Can't Take The Hurt Anymore ( Nov '78 ) and the title track ( Feb '79 ) made no impact. Had some top tracks on it though. And lyrically, it was a masterpiece.

 

[mark73]

No mate, sorry, you're way off the mark.
Carrie was issued in January 1980 and was Cliff's first single of the 1980s. It followed Hot Shot ( Oct '79 ) and We Don't Talk Anymore, all cut from the LP ' Rock And Roll Juvenile ( Sep '79 issue )
Just prior to this was what i regard Cliff's best work of the Seventies, the album "Green Light " ( Sep '78 issue ) although the singles " Please Remember Me " ( May'78) Can't Take The Hurt Anymore ( Nov '78 ) and the title track ( Feb '79 ) made no impact. Had some top tracks on it though. And lyrically, it was a masterpiece.

Am I thinking of Devil Woman? Its a while ago mate so a little hazy but I think he did have a release that made a few chart inroads around '76-'77,it must have been Devil Woman then...

 

[Van Der Zeevalk]

Am I thinking of Devil Woman? Its a while ago mate so a little hazy but I think he did have a release that made a few chart inroads around '76-'77,it must have been Devil Woman then...

Yep I'd say that would be it. Mid 1976 was Devil Woman.
Not his best IMO. B side was a fair song though.
He had a pretty lame period there in the mid 70s when he got swallowed up in the country and western fad at the time. Devil Woman marked his return to a more ' rock ' oriented sound.
Although some of the C & W stuff wasn't bad.....am the proud owner of one of the only 1'000 pressings ever made of ' Honky Tonk Angel ' from 1975.

 

[mark73]

Yep I'd say that would be it. Mid 1976 was Devil Woman.
Not his best IMO. B side was a fair song though.
He had a pretty lame period there in the mid 70s when he got swallowed up in the country and western fad at the time. Devil Woman marked his return to a more ' rock ' oriented sound.
Although some of the C & W stuff wasn't bad.....am the proud owner of one of the only 1'000 pressings ever made of ' Honky Tonk Angel ' from 1975.

Never really heard any of his country releases.Of all the stuff that was circulating at that time,I was more into the jzz/funk,fusion discs.As far as commercially,I was more a Steely Dan/Doobie Bros fan,but I was probably a little harsh on 'We don't talk anymore'...It was a good song at the time but I've probably just heard it too many times that it doesn't really inspire anymore...

PS : Reminds me of another song that came out the same year 'Pilot of the airwaves' by Charlie Dore...