All About Eve - D For Desire (1985)

[@punjarb49]

This was their first record. Brought out on 12inch only, before cousin joined on bass.only 600 copies were made, which the band paid for themselves.i know this because i was living with tim bricheno at the time in a squatt in dulwich london.we had nothing in those days totally skint.

[@Albrecht777]

I didn't know that only 600 copies were made! My Dad did pretty well to pick me up a copy for 50p at a car boot sale many years ago, then!

[@metalbearuk]

There was a 7" copy on Ebay recently. Wonder if that was a bootleg?

[@DavidInSugarLand]

@@metalbearuk Must have been. Discogs doesn't list a 7" single version.

[@mso6jx]

The original track can be found on the CDs "Return to Eden" and "Sixty minutes with All About Eve", currently available at a snip from Amazon. The notes from "Keepsakes" say: The recording session was fraught... Zwingmann left... D for Desire would be reviewed with the words "D for Drivel". But their sound was changing fast... "Suddenly, I had to think beyond my bad sub-Siouxsie impersonation." Check out some of the magical songs that came next :o)

[@DrMarcusKane]

Reminds me a lot of THE STAIRCASE by Siouxsie but in a nice way!! Certainly not typical of AAE's later, rockier sound which came a couple of years later with Flowers In Our Hair! Yet this track still sounds epic!!

[@anavarroism]

One of the lucky who owns the 12" single. A portent of much greater things to come...

[@thebarbaryghostsf]

You should also check out "Don't Follow Me (March Hare)", and just about any other song they released BEFORE the debut LP.

[@DESS0009]

I have this track on a 12" vinyl. Once,I went to a record store in Los Angeles and they had another one for $100. I asked the sales clerk why it costed so much."It was rare", she said. Like Mr. punjarb49 says: only 600 copies were made.I did know it until now!

[@waynegrierson6095]

Loved this one from the moment I got it. I now have two copies

[@micael5963]

Very nice song,and i really like the voice,thank you for sharing

[@farfisa]

end of the day is a great track, as was love leads nowhere. I prefer this era of their music over the nicer stuff that followed...

[@Albrecht777]

Me too. This is darker, and more sexual. I don't have the record cover in front of me, but didn't Manuela from X-Mal Deutschland play drums on this? Ah! Just read further down that she did indeed.

[@martin_minimalwave]

So great

[@watchtower183]

Great artwork from the good old 80s.... you really know the music I like!!! Awesome!

[@stellopulgas2966]

Yes!!! this is music. Is great

[@SidonieMoon]

Kinda reminds me of Cocteau Twins!

[@lizcook2703]

Very much Cocteau

[@alanwildergore]

@@lizcook2703 and very much like Siouxsie and the banshees. good influence ;)

[@louvressac]

all about eve first single (with " don't follow me" on the b side) 12 inchs on eden records (artwork by 23 envelope as 4AD) recorded in may 1985....at the time the drummer was manuela zwingmann (formely with x-mal deutschand i think)

[@PauloBorges9]

Very Sad ....I Like this

[@mask4ad]

Thanks for posting this great tune SiouxsieSehnsucht. I don't know either if its really All About Eve. Maybe one of their very earlys. A very nice song, anyway.

[@fokranja]

It's the title track of their debut ep. All songs of that ep are in this style.

[@Ursulauu]

Yes - I paid a bit for the 12" too, it was quite rare. Great record & the B side 'Don't Follow Me March Hare' is just as good also, if not better!

[@comala27]

Ursulauu not rare at all i find this all the time in los angeles 5 dollar record .. i have it twice

[@Ursulauu]

There's only about 2000 copies of the original - that's rare!

[@comala27]

2000 is not rare at all that means there's a couple floating around

[@Albrecht777]

Nice to know. I picked it up in a car boot sale for 50p!

[@luisarranz8005]

Buena canción , una mezcla de Siouxsie y Cocteau

[@watchtower183]

@SiouxsieSehnsucht Yes, we are....

[@Jedistarship]

Yeah, this song is definitely bad ass!

[@thebarbaryghostsf]

Yeah they had a minor hit with "Corpses in the Sand"

[@egyptianminor]

I like that black n white image, is that the cover of this LP, single? demo tape?

[@sylle7]

If I did' t know, I believe it was siouxsie and the banshees

[@punjarb49]

This had a drum machine on.

[@bonzoboots]

No, it's Manuela Zwingmann on drums, but she soon left and the next 3 AAE singles had a drum machine before Mark Price joined

[@luckyinlondon451]

@@bonzoboots i saw them play in basement club at hammersmith clarendon using drum machine..manuela had just left

[@gmansi]

Siouxxie and the banshees??

[@kfearon6345]

Julianne Regan is the singer.

[@NOWtheband]

No, this is by the band named All About Eve.

[@gmansi]

@@NOWtheband Yes, but they sounds like Siouxxie

[@NOWtheband]

@@gmansi - Indeed, they were influenced by Siouxsie And The Banhsees.

[@gmansi]

@@NOWtheband Nice info, thanks!!

[@MarkIngle1959]

must admit i am not keen on this one....

[@NOWtheband]

Fair enough.