Prefab Sprout - Donna Summer (Audio)

B-side to WLBD single

[@MrFcordeiro1]

Paddy McAloon is definetely one of the best songwriters ever.It's the first time I hear this track.It has a jazzy touch I like.Donna Summer is well deserved this hommage.

[@themushieman]

Ive just heard a.number of songs of this band which ive never heard before in a row! what a band

[@rickstill122]

Prefab Sprout=Pure Pop Perfection.

[@maryblair9503]

Their music never gets old.

[@Renegade4love]

So rare. So beautiful. For me the perfect definition of a pop song.

[@eiderglast]

I'm languidly enjoying the sadness of this song.... The aging count, he waits on you Beneath the ivy-walled tower The chimes ring out the summer light Also marks the hours Marks the passing hours Tonight's child is quick and slim Leaves her work and master Her heart is beating to the score The thoughts that drive it faster An age that drives it faster What's my name, what's my name? Hers is a world that's metal blue No time to slow to slumber Every line is evidence Every new month's thunder Rattling limbs like thunder. The aging count closes his eyes He's long since past crying What use anger to decry? If you want Donna sighing. Prefer Donna sighing. What's her name, what's her name?

[@markofsaltburn]

“Hers is a world that’s metal blue”. We’ll never know what Paddy meant by that. He’s given us a beguiling puzzle that can never be solved, we have to find our own way into the lives of these two people and the song-world they’re trapped in.

[@StonefieldJim4]

The only album you'll find it on is 'Kings of Rock 'n' Roll: the Best of Prefab Sprout'. Otherwise, it cropped up on various 12" single releases between 1984 and 1988. I virtually wore the vinyl out when I played it over and over when I was 19. It still gives me chills.

[@loddofranck5737]

Paddy est un genie

[@opinionsonly1492]

Just brilliant

[@jauperezyparedes]

Toda UNA OBRA DE ARTE,en la historia de la musica con una grandiosa voz acompañada de esos grandiosos arreglos musicales,que te elevan tanto a un mundo lleno de amor,como a un abismo de desamor.

[@patricktate4866]

Awww... I love this... I've not heard it for sooo long... Such a rueful melancholic song. I have the 12" but the last time I owned a turntable it was 2001. Wonderful to listen to it again

[@Syntpop]

Thanks for this uploading! Ohh.. I miss the good old 80`s!!

[@nix4pool]

Georgie Gershwin, Lennon and Macartney move over Paddy is here, supreme songwriter, music world misses him so much.

[@redrob67]

+Nick Burns He hasn't died, you know. The Prefab Sprout album 'Crimson/Red' was released in late 2013.

[@1964ilovebears]

Crimson Red is far, very far away from the best songs written by Paddy. That magic and elegant, unique pop is not present on Paddy's last release. I do hope he does something more PREFAB SPROUT

[@parasitesundinism]

i hear the songs of georgie gershwin

[@danphillips8632]

Should have been Thomas Dolby backing band

[@sproutyDP]

Another McAloon masterpiece

[@salvatoreingenito5964]

God bless Mr Paddy McAloon!

[@Hotte1071]

This is so good it hurts

[@dweitshrader5743]

And that autumn, too many of us were chasing after something, unsettled, daring, thinking we‘d live forever, while time was waiting to prove us wrong.

[@user-mv5bu2kk8b]

More than ca rs and girls?

[@neoepicurean3772]

on 1.25x it sounds more like a normal Prefab song.

[@scientifico]

this song is like a memory I vaguely remember. Of moments and dark rooms scented by clove cigarettes, drying oil paints Her soft scent next to me. As she heels off the dead man shoes she wears. Her soft woolen feet coming finding snug comfort under my thigh. Ahhh, Marirose.

[@sailaway1966]

Should have been on "Steve McQueen"!

[@johnnormile]

thanks! not sure if we ever got this in america

[@wmrxb15]

Great track! I actually have a fast demo version of this somewhere!

[@markofsaltburn]

Donna, Summer.

[@pmay222]

bloke at back of pic..? i didnt know liverpool player "dirk kuyyt" was in prefab sprout..?

[@vandovalentim16]

Q linda música heim nunca tinha ouvido

[@MrGakung]

very,nice.good sound.up thanks

[@MisAnnThorpe]

Was originally the b side of Couldn't bear to be different. Probably up there with Bonnie as my all time PS favourite. Even the cheap and ridiculously out of place synth stabs can't lessen its greatness. And anyway, that double bass more than compensates!

[@noelephantitis]

Synth stabs are in honor of the eponymous heroine!

[@julianmbrown]

noelephantitis Maybe. But there were some dodgy synth stabs & alike on From Langley Park to Memphis too. No irony intended there, just Thomas Dolby having fun.

[@MisAnnThorpe]

@@julianmbrown Rather telling that he was having "fun" on Prefab Sprout's records rather than his own! "The Golden age of wireless" is remarkably free of sounds that date it, in my opinion, save for perhaps "Commercial breakup" which strangely enough sounds - vocals apart - indistinguishable from "Steve McQueen" period Prefab Sprout!

[@MisAnnThorpe]

@@noelephantitis Do you think so?! What songs are you thinking of? They certainly weren't present on the classics Love to love you baby or I feel love.

[@Renegade4love]

Supreme.

[@ramdoug]

never heard this before. Does any one know which album this is on?

[@scritti]

It's not on any of their albums. It's a B side of Couldn't Bear to be Special. One of their earliest songs.

[@MisAnnThorpe]

Or "Couldn't bear to be special" even, Ms Thorpe!

[@davidcopson5800]

Yes, I'm a bit pedantic too. You have the correct title. I'd say Paddy was both special and different. What a pity they don't bring out an album of just PS B-sides, songs like this are amazing and I only have them on seven or twelve inch vinyl.

[@MisAnnThorpe]

SELF IMPORTANT UPDATE Both Bonnie and Donna Summer have (probably) been overtaken in MsAnnThorpe's affect(at)ions by the almost unbelievably sublime Hallelujah. Up there with the songs of Georgie Gershwin, indeed, with whom Donna Summer wanted to have dinner with, of course.

[@AlphaMaleMonkey]

Martin Mcaloon, the bass player. Slightly resemblant to a footballer with the first touch of Jack the Ripper