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Deacon Blue: Raintown

 A l b u m   D e t a i l s


Label: Columbia Records
Released: 1987.05.01
Time:
 41:48
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): Jon Kelly
Rating: *******... (7/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.deaconblue.com
Appears with:
Purchase date: 2012
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Born in a Storm (R.Roos) – 1:33
[2] Raintown (R.Roos) – 3:50
[3] Ragman (R.Roos) – 3:08
[4] He Looks Like Spencer Tracy Now (R.Roos) – 3:50
[5] Loaded" (J.Prime/R.Ross/G.Kelling) – 4:29
[6] When Will You [Make My Telephone Ring] (R.Roos) – 5:05
[7] Chocolate Girl (R.Roos) – 3:18
[8] Dignity (R.Roos) – 4:00
[9] The Very Thing (R.Roos) – 3:34
[10] Love's Great Fears (R.Ross/J.Prime) – 3:42
[11] Town to Be Blamed (R.Ross/J.Prime) – 5:19

 A r t i s t s ,   P e r s o n n e l


Ricky Ross – Lead Vocals
Lorraine Mcintosh – Backing & Harmony Vocals
Graeme Kelling – Guitar, Low Voice
James Prime – Keyboards, Backing Vocals
Ewen Vernal – Bass Guitar, Backing Vocals
Dougie Vipond – Drums, Percussion

Chris Rea - Slide Guitar On "Love's Great Fears"
B.J. Cole - Pedal Steel Guitar On "Chocolate Girl"
Jimmy Helms - Backing Vocals On "When Will You (Make My Telephone Ring)"
George Chandler - Backing Vocals On "When Will You (Make My Telephone Ring)"
Jimmy Chambers (Londonbeat) - Backing Vocals On "When Will You (Make My Telephone Ring)"

Jon Kelly - Engineer, Producer
Matt Butler - Engineer
Matt Howe - Assistant Engineer
Karl Lever - Assistant Engineer
Richard Moakes - Assistant Engineer
Lance Phillips - Assistant Engineer
Oscar Marzaroli - Photography
Tomcat - Design
Tim Young - Cut

 C o m m e n t s ,   N o t e s


1987 CD Columbia – CK 40915

Recorded at the Air Studios, London in December 1986 - February 1987.



Raintown is the debut album of Scottish pop band Deacon Blue. The album, written largely by lead singer Ricky Ross, was released in the United Kingdom on May 1, 1987. It proved a commercial success and has to date sold around a million copies, peaking in the UK album chart at 14 and remaining in the charts for a year and a half. The album, widely praised as Deacon Blue's finest work, has the overtones of a concept album relating to the struggles of urban life in the inner city - the city being unmistakably Glasgow, referenced by the roots of the band and by the famous images on the cover of the album, the view of a rainy day over Glasgow's West End (with the Finnieston Crane featuring prominently) and, on the rear, a long-exposure capture of the Kingston Bridge blasting through the city centre at night. The short intro, "Born in a Storm", melodic and interspersed with an unmistakably gloomy atmosphere created by the name, launches into the title track "Raintown", a natural extension of this plot. The weather remains a feature of the atmosphere of the album, reflecting the epitome of the Scots word dreich. Played out in the course of the album is the struggle with money ("Loaded"), unemployment, dreams of something better ("Dignity"), culminating in an angry attack upon urban life ("Town to Be Blamed"). The album does feature lighter experiences though, with the love songs ("Chocolate Girl") and "Love's Great Fears" - a track that Ross has often cited as his all time favourite, featuring a searing slide guitar outro by Chris Rea. On 27 February 2006, Raintown was reissued as part of Columbia's Legacy Edition series. The re-issue was expanded to 2 CDs. The first CD featured the original 11 track album. The second CD featured alternate cuts of all 11 album tracks, as well as the two original CD bonus tracks "Riches" and "Kings of the Western World". The new edition did not include the varied bonus cuts (remixes and b-sides) that were found on the singles from the album.

Wikipedia


An inspiring debut of well-crafted adult pop, heavily under the influence of Prefab Sprout, it was originally released by CBS Records in the U.K. in May 1987. Raintown was released in the U.S. by Columbia Records in March 1988.

Steve Aldrich - All Music Guide



Deacon Blue never really achieved the U2-style fame for which they were obviously being groomed, and after their split in the early Nineties, they have pretty much fallen through the trapdoor of history. Less lyrical than Elvis Costello, less bombastic than Springsteen and less awful than Big Country--but not a million miles away from any of them--the band made four albums (plus 2 b-sides sets and a "Best of" compilation), of which Raintown is the first and most accomplished. Containing a number of singles including "When Will You (Make My Telephone Ring)" and the original version of perhaps their best-known song, "Dignity", this is an album of unashamedly proper, thoughtful, grown-up pop, which deserves more recognition than the mere footnote in history the band eventually achieved.

Ronita Dutta - Amazon.co.uk

 

 L y r i c s


Born In A Storm

that hurricane day
will soon pass away
and someone will sweep
all the jetsam back into the bay

and you'll come
like you always did
and knock on my door
like the big bad wind

born in a storm
is that the only excuse you can give
born in a storm
is that all you're going to live


Raintown

it's a rain-dirt-town-job hurts, but it don't pay
all these calls they're making me and driving you insane
don't you see don't you understand
waiting for the phone to ring to make me all i am
you're in the suburbs waiting for somewhere to go
i'm down here working on some dumb show

in a raintown raintown rain down
on all those tired eyes and tears and frowns
in a raintown raintown rain down
on all those days you're not around

it takes a big hearted girl from the north country you can tell
how you payed those bills and went through heaven and hell
and you you cried and you travelled and you spat but you never asked
well how long how long how long is this pain
you're on for three minutes trying hard to say "hello"
i'm down here working on some dumb show

in a raintown raintown rain down
on all those tired eyes and tears and frowns
in a raintown raintown rain down
on all those days you're not around

sitting at home listening to your radio
listening for your old friend talking on some dumb show

in a raintown raintown rain down
on all those tired eyes and tears and frowns
in a raintown raintown rain down
on all those days you're not around


Ragman

offered her a roof
the rain had made it shine
offered her a song
wasn't really mine

i showed her all my things
she offered me belongings
she thought i was a ragman

she offered me possessions
i tied them in a knot
wrapped it in a note
kept it in my pocket

i showed her all my things
she offered me belongings
she thought i was a ragman
i came to her too soon
she should have had a ragdoll
and wound up with a ragman

wing and kites and wedding rings
all these charms i said i'd bring

i showed her all my things
she offered me belongings
she thought i was a ragman
baby you're a rich man
lost in a small world
looking for a ragdoll
wound up with a ragman
with a ragman
ragman


He Looks Like Spencer Tracy Now

there's a shadow on his photograph
on tinian'45
smiling like a college boy
who's glad to be alive
but now he owns a factory
and a store in los alamos
a wife called beverly
sells second hand ford motors

he may have taken pictures
been caught in albuquerque
flown in "great artiste"
on a mushroom cloud
now he may be a senator
or a general or a turn key
but i know he looks like spencer tracy now

and he cries all night
and he cries all night
and he cries all night
and he cries all night

and he may have been with oppenheimer
shaken einsteins hand
said "did we have to drop the bomb"


Loaded

you sigh, you walk, you talk, you care about nothing
sometimes you feel that life has treated you wrong
i've got a feeling you know what the score is baby
but it's hard when you're sitting here surrounded by friends

i've got a love that i'll cling on to
and i'll stay there stay there till the end
'cause one thing i know is

i have found an answer i don't think you don't care
just you laugh 'cause you're loaded
and things are different from there
i have found an answer i don't think you don't care
just you laugh 'cause you're loaded
and things are different from there

you walk and you talk
and you sing and you shout
and you justify about anything
and you rant and you rave and you hope and you say nothing
and you eat and you drink and you dress and you live as if
no one else did baby
no one else like you lives out in this world

i've got a love that i'll cling on to
and i'll stay there stay there till the end
'cause one thing i know is

i have found an answer i don't think you don't care
just you laugh 'cause you're loaded
and things are different from there
i have found an answer i don't think you don't care
just you laugh 'cause you're loaded

i have found an answer i don't think you don't care
just you laugh 'cause you're loaded
and things are different from there
i have found an answer i don't think you don't care
just you laugh 'cause you're loaded
and things are different from there


When Will You (Make My Telephone Ring)

pale blue eyes
same old house no ties
a little bit older but not so
worldly wise
that i can't see
your light's on me
making me regretfully say

the wonder of it all was you
and underneath it all it wasn't true

i want you in everything
in everything
in anything i do
when will you make my phone ring
and tell me i can't give you anything
anything at all now

tiny steps
from ruthless legs
when you've been walking so long
now don't you rest
from disharmony
from disunity
from anything that isn't you and me

the wonder of it all was you
and underneath it all it wasn't true

i want you in everything
in everything
in anything i do
when will you make my phone ring
and tell me i can't give you anything
anything at all now

tired of chasing old dreams
tired of wasting days
tired of waking mornings
just to wait for you till late
tired of searching high
tired of getting low
tired of listening hard
just to wait for you to know that

i want you in everything
in everything
in anything i do
when will you make my phone ring
and tell me i can't give you anything
anything at all now


Chocolate Girl

alan doesn't understand her
he only thinks in numbers
he only drinks in restaurants
where the girls are fully covered

and he can't trust his yearnings
and he doesn't like pretending
his tempers stretched so much by work
his heart needs gentle rending

he calls her the chocolate girl
'cause he thinks she melts when he touches her
she knows she's the chocolate girl
'cause she's broken up and swallowed
and wrapped in bits of silver

alan doesn't understand this
he says he's only human
so he still lights up with old flames
as if to try and prove it

and he doesn't like emotion
he's not certain of their ardour
if pouting causes so much fun
then breaking hearts is harder

he calls her the chocolate girl
'cause he thinks she melts when he touches her
she knows she's the chocolate girl
'cause she's broken up and swallowed
and wrapped in bits of silver

alan doesn't understand her
he thinks its getting harder
so he spends the night with old friends
underneath the covers

and he talks about the chocolate girl
and how he thinks she melts when he touches her
and that she knows she's the chocolate girl
'cause she's broken up and swallowed
and wrapped in bits of silver

he calls her the chocolate girl
'cause he thinks she melts when he touches her
she knows she's the chocolate girl
'cause she's broken up and swallowed
and wrapped in bits of silver


Dignity

there's a man i meet walks up our street
he's a worker for the council
has been twenty years
and he takes no lip off nobody
and litter off the gutter
puts it in a bag
and never seems to mutter
and he packs his lunch in a "sunblest" bag
the children call him "bogie"
he never lets on
but i know 'cause he once told me
he let me know a secret about the money in his kitty
he's gonna buy a dinghy
gonna call her dignity

and i'll sail her up the west coast
through villages and towns
i'll be on my holidays
they'll be doing their rounds
they'll ask me how i got her i'll say "i saved my money"
they'll say isn't she pretty that ship called dignity

and i'm telling this story
in a faraway scene
sipping down raki
and reading maynard keynes
and i'm thinking about home and all that means
and a place in the winter for dignity
and i'll sail her up the west coast
through villages and towns
i'll be on my holidays
they'll be doing their rounds
they'll ask me how i got her i'll say "i saved my money"
they'll say isn't she pretty that ship called dignity

set it up, set it up, set it up, set it up, set it up, set it up
yeh set it up again, set it up again, set it up again, set it up again
set it up, set it up, set it up, set it up, set it up, set it up
yeh set it up again, set it up again, set it up again, set it up again
and i'm thinking about home
and i'm thinking about faith
and i'm thinking about work
and i'm thinking about how good it would be
to be here some day

on a ship called dignity
a ship called dignity
that ship


The Very Thing

one day all of us will work
we'll stand outside this orchard and we'll talk
when all is said all is done
we'll still be thinking about home

they say that love might be the very thing
if only it could be
and making love is more than anything
and all these thing like buildings
and faces
and memories
and places
don't count for anything

i'll gladly draw the lines of duty
watching summer turn to gold
she's not content with responsibility
she wants to have and then to hold

they say that love might be the very thing
if only it could be
and making love is more than anything
and all these thing like buildings
and faces
and memories
and places
don't count for anything

one day all of us will work
one day all of us will work
one day all of us will work


Love's Great Fears

you know the agony of seeing it all slip away
well maybe noe you'd be happy just to talk it out straight
slipping away
about the danger of believing in plans in hand
about the role that you have in this delecate plan
slipping away

let's talk it out now
let's name them one by one

love's great fears
can't you see them burn
twist and turn as you walk and learn
love's great fears
can't you see them burn
twist and turn as you walk and learn

you know danger of believing that the summer's gone
and with the fading light the feeling that love is falling
slipping away
if you believe in the dangers that you suppose
you think it can tumble down none of us knows
it's all slipping away

let's talk it out now
let's name them one by one

love's great fears
can't you see them burn
twist and turn as you walk and learn
love's great fears
can't you see them burn
twist and turn as you walk and learn


Town To Be Blamed

close your eyes and go to sleep
from the howling howling over these streets
people stare 'cause you're so mad
that wild wild spark that innocent laugh

but baby that's this town
it won't happen next time
yeah baby that's this town
lovers on love downs
it's this town to be blamed

at the top of the block there's a church
at the top of the tower there's the clock
and it rings and it sighs
'cause there's no time for all these lies

but baby that's this town
it won't happen next time
yeah baby that's this town
lovers on love downs
it's this town to be blamed

baby take a walk round to my house
throw off these tired eyes and tears and these frowns
take that lane so narrow and deep and walk those regrets that fill your sleep
you say your sleep is nakedb and your dreams are clothed
but what about your footsteps
who sees them go
who lets you know about these things
who's gonna say the things we think
so take your keys and pack your bags
but leave your books and leave your maps

'cause baby that's this town
it won't happen next time
yeah baby that's this town
it won't happen next time
yeah baby that's this town
it won't happen next time
sure baby that's this town
lovers on love downs
it's this town to be blamed
it's this town to be blamed

work work work
rain rain rain
home home home
again again again

work work work
rain rain rain
home home home
again again again

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