Swing Out Sister -- Who's Been Sleeping

[@pawdaw]

I have all of SOS's albums- Filth and Dreams is my favorite of them all. It has a depth and complexity that sets it apart from the others. I love its stripped-back sound. I think it was also the first of their albums that brought in the Brazilian influences. Sad that it is so hard to find.

[@janath9118]

I agree with you. It was a more Jazz oriented album with a mix of New wave.

[@sprydo7113]

So amazing..."Corinne is essence of elegance" is in the songs, and fashion

[@RebecaMarques]

Wonderful video clip! Thanks for posting!

[@dereckwhite5774]

This song is quite mesmerizing and contemplative! Love it 😍

[@DoubeEdged7]

That funky bass line

[@aoyagimonaka]

My best favorite is this tune.

[@dereckwhite5774]

I am completely engulfed in this most fascinating and astoundingly beautiful selection!❤❤❤

[@janath9118]

Who's Been Sleeping - a rear song by Swing Out Sister from their 6th album "Filth And Dreams" released in 1999. The Album is very hard to find because it's known that this was released only in Japan, and I don't know the reason why. This was a good Jazz-Pop oriented new wave song. SOS is a very talented British band and they deserve much more attention and acclaim than this. The above video was also a rear to find original clip of Universal Music from MTV channel. But i noticed the first few seconds of the song from the video is missing here. Anyway thank you for uploading this video! Sorry for late comment.

[@kidwaryodproduction]

I remember on that time this album released everyone shocked about their changing of sound. Nowadays everyone started to get and love it a lot. And I'm glad that sound like this still alive (In Japan, And artists like David Florio, Moonchild)

[@jonathannieto3111]

A jewelry of song, like heaven¡ Excellent¡ 🏆🎶🎸👍

[@moorlock2003]

Yes, I'm tending to agree with you. For the longest time I placed "Shapes And Patterns" at the top, but "Filth and Dreams" does indeed have a depth to it that is remarkable. It's got my absolute favorite SOS track of all-time on it, "Closer Than The Sun", but the whole CD is great.

[@pawdaw]

Closer Than The Sun is sublime. World Out Of Control is another favourite.

[@David-up7rv]

KEEP THE HITS COMEING SOS ❤ 🌹 🌟 🤩 ⭐️

[@pablosubrayado]

Música a otro nivel...!

[@falldownhard]

OMG!! God bless you *Hoopla - I never knew their were videos made for these. This is one of my most fave SOS songs - it's so subtle and groovy, yet so catchy - NEVER got tired of this one. Thanks!

[@GinaToySculptor]

My fave song of SOS !

[@bobdooggie]

Such a great album. One of their best along with Shapes and Patterns and the debut. Next time I’m in Japan I’ll have to look for it. Too bad it was only released there 🤔🤔🤔 Corinne looks so beautiful in this video btw 😏

[@bobdavis4848]

I was there in Japan last month, saw it in Disc Union and Tower Records stores, and bought it of course.

[@Bentom86]

She is gorgeous...there's nothing like a pretty lady who can sing. Just a class act, and the videos are a great reflection of her style. It's so great to hear their music influences come out through these songs.

[@galleryteneuesartnouveau9353]

Omy the melodies are simply brilliantly composed what a genius jazz masters indeed💖🎹🎼🎸🎷🎺🎵🎵🎵🎶🎶🎶🎶👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@Bentom86]

@vixapphire, that's a great call! It does have that same melody of "Doo Wop (That Thing)". SOS has that amazing ability of taking melodies we grew up with and mixing them with modern sounds. Absolutely great!

[@rainbowbutterfly1207]

the song is refreshing, and really classy! love it so much!

[@georgenehightower7622]

love this song

[@falldownhard]

Mine too!! SOS is IT. I know hundreds of thousands of songs, thousands of artists - and they are TOPS, out of all of them. Perfection - both beautiful people too inside and out.

[@watermelon520b]

The memories...=) I never get tired of these songs.

[@agapimu88]

I will never get tired of listening to this song.. everyday.. sun up.. till sun down.. SOS Forever!

[@pericbowen4958]

Corinne.. 😘🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰...message recieved!

[@LMmccallL57]

Whoo! Love this song! I'm so glad that quad442 told me where to find it. Thanks! Sproutinghoopla, I appreciate you sharing the vid! I've never seen it before.

[@agapimu88]

exquisitely beautiful and rare.. corrine is really amazing!

[@eduardomartins8431]

This song was the soundtrack of my love for a person who still meche me a lot. At the time that I heard was crying too. The weariness is belissima. toads love the music of swing out sister but surely this is what most impressed me and I think the person in which I was in love every time I hear it

[@patsubcha]

Thank you Thank you Thank you

[@guestandsons]

Brilliant.At last a chance to see this. Thanks for posting!

[@peterd.9522]

Wow and damn they are so mindblowingly good

[@kvndoom]

This song is pure haunting genius. The entire album Filth And Dreams, in fact. For the 15+ years since I've first heard this song, the words "and I could reach the sky, if I could stop myself from falling down the stairs" have stuck with me, but I could never put my finger on it. Then, just 3 days ago, it just clicked like the last puzzle piece. This song is from the perspective of an abused woman, and holy shit, she's debating with herself whether she should kill herself or kill her abuser. The realization hit me like brass knuckles and my body went cold. I played "Who's Been Sleeping" for my wife and she was toe tapping to the beat, saying it was a catchy tune. THEN I went over the lyrics with her, and she saw just how dark this song is. "Who's been sleeping in my dreams" and "who's been living in my head" are a vision of a better life than what she has. "Meet me when tomorrow's gone, life could be wonderful"... kill this person beside you and flee far away to start over. "Before the morning comes, life could be wonderful"... take your own life and find a different freedom. But she's made a decision and you hear the immediacy in her words. She's going to take some action, but the debate is which way to point the knife. "And I could reach the sky, if I could stop myself from falling down the stairs." That wasn't a metaphor. It was literal. And when that clicked, it all fell into place after all these years. This song is dark. This whole album is dark. The worst parts of the human experience behind a facade of happiness. The genius of Filth and Dreams is how peppy and upbeat the MUSIC sounds, but how dreary and hopeless the LYRICS are. "Closer than the Sun," "Happy When You're High," "When Morning Comes," all follow the same pattern. They sound so peppy and uplifting as background music, but when you dive deep into the words you see the torment and rage and hopelessness hidden beneath. Candy-coated shit. Filth coated in dreams. This album is haunting, it's almost disturbing.

[@kvndoom]

"There's a cure for everything." Yeah, damn. that's deep.

[@kidwaryodproduction]

"Happy When You're High" was the most underrated songs SOS ever did. Still sound fresh and new to this day ❤️

[@RebelBuddha1971]

⁠@@kvndoomYour analysis of this album is fascinating. After close to 25 years I’ve gone back & forth re my feelings about this record. Maybe it’s the somewhat unsettling vibe that runs through WBS and some others. But, hey, at least they’ve taken artistic chances throughout their existence and have occasionally moved or reimagined their music out of its usual lush surroundings.

[@bobdavis4848]

But the character keeps telling him to meet her later (when tomorrow's gone) and saying he will always find a friend; so how can you be so sure she is pondering on killing an abuser or herself? I've taken major steps in my life to try to stop domestic violence, and I'd never rule out that you are right. But I don't know how you can be so positive of the specifics of the tragedy in this story without testimonial from the songwriters. She sang life could be wonderful, not death could be wonderful. I don't get how you got message of direction of knife pointing from that. You say the "...if I could stop myself from falling down the stairs" lyric was literal. You mean in the character's story, right, you don't mean Corinne literally, I hope. Still, it does not make real sense to me, as the wording indicates repeated falling down stairs, yet the character is still alive after all that to sing the lyrics. But it took only one literal falling down stairs to kill Sandy Denny in real life. Well it seems at least we agree that Swing Out Sister are brilliant in general. P.S.: If they meant the song to have such a tragic story, why do the last audio bits heard in the album sound like "la la la" and female laughter, I wonder...

[@iamdeznuts1]

corrine in a gem i will always love her voice

[@tomanovci]

Such a great voice, she's sooooo beautiful...

[@dlrgross]

It's so great to see this! Great song, neat images! Thanks!

[@mendawai]

THanks for the video !!!

[@sigeo1985]

I like to listen to this number at dawn.

[@Ashura96]

Given that this song and album were only released in Japan, it really feels adjacent to late 90's J-Urban music that was also popular there at the time.

[@MoonLanta]

Give some examples please?

[@Ashura96]

Love this song, I'll get my hands on Filth and Dreams soon.

[@bobdavis4848]

Did you? I just bought it on my Japan vacation; I love the album, too.

[@guestandsons]

Thanks for posting.......................

[@Ichikohsan]

Nice Original Video, Thnx for upload!

[@cygnus125]

Great!Thank you for upload!

[@visay2015]

ONE OF MY WILDEST DREAMS IS TO BECOME ONE OF SOS's BACK UP SINGER hehehe a great fan since highschool.

[@vixapphire]

Love this tune. Production is highly influenced by the Lauren Hill / Wyclef Jean sound that was blowing up all over during that period ('98/'99), but SOS always sounds like SOS in the end!

[@MoonLanta]

Sheesh! I never thought about this, but it's spot on! Even resembles 'Doo Wop (That Thing)' a bit. Good ears, frendo

[@cygnus125]

I'm also. I love this song most in their songs. or maybe 「get in touch with yourself」in my state of mind right now.

[@13towerofpower]

WHOˇS BEEN SLEEPING pieseň SWING OUT SISTER z albumu FILTH AND DREAMS z roku 1999. Táto skladba bola jediným vydaným singlom vo viacerých remixovaných verziach.Album bol vydaný v marci 1999 len v Japonsku kde je dvojica nesmierne populárna. Album predstavoval silnejší odklon k jazzu ako ranné popovo orientované albumy.Dvojica sa prispôsobila rastúcej popularite hip hopu dôkazom čoho bol agresívny rytmus a hip hop štýl spevu Corrine Drewery.Nakoľko nebol vydaný v UK stal sa zberateľskou raritou.

[@sigeo1985]

iTunesで売って欲しいの。

[@pittiplatsch9635]

Backe Backe Kuchen! Der Bäcker hat gerufen....😄👍

[@GBS1043]

You go Mermaid! Have a good vacation!

[@canaconn2388]

Would it be possible for you to upload this in a higher resolution if you still have the old video?

[@promolivin]

a very rare video...poor quality but thank you for sharing, this musicvideo was not released in my country (any chance you can have a clearer picture ?)

[@GBS1043]

Mermaid ! ! !

[@thekoiponds]

whew..corrine is getting old..but her music always great

[@jesusalma]

@agapimu88 Yo tampoco. SOS forever!

[@GBS1043]

Swing Out Sister Live-Wed, 06/03/09 09:00 PM Bimbos 365 Club San Francisco, CA Swing Out Sister Live-Thu, 06/04/09 08:00 PM El Rey Theatre Los Angeles, CA Swing Out Sister Live-Sat. 06/06/09 Capital Jaz Festival, Washington DC 2pm Swing Out Sister Live-Mon, 06/08/09 08:00 PM B.B. King Blues Club and Grill New York, NY

[@h7opolo]

0:52 corded telephony. 9/11 helped sever the cord.

[@headley62]

Here earlier work was better.

[@GBS1043]

Mermaid ! ! !