David Sylvian-Secrets Of The Beehive

would love to someday hear the original version of Ride (the one on Everything and Nothing was partially re-recorded). there used to be a snippet of it on the internet somewhere, but I don't think the full thing ever leaked.

With time, however, I found it to be his Scott Walker record

This is very, very true and beautifully said, NTI

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

well distributed results--can imagine most also love mother and child. a classic record

Yeah really nice to see such a well distributed set of votes...kinda proving what a strong album it is...also pretty amazing to think he made this album in his late 20's...

On the waterfront the rain
Is pouring in my heart
Here the memories come in waves
Raking in the lost and found of years
And though I'd like to laugh
At all the things that led me on
Somehow the stigma still remains

Is our love strong enough?"

'tis that time of the year again. So beautiful it aches.

Played 'Beehive' after The Blue Nile, with Mark Hollis lined up next. Any other records that fit this mood?

(On Spotify the album does have 'Promise' as the closer, but not 'Forbidden Colours' before it, which drives me nuts. Fucking streaming era)

The album originally had neither of these at the end; forbidden colours was a bonus track added to the CD. But when it was remastered several years ago, Promise was swapped. I don't know why. forbidden Colors, at least that version, is now orphaned; to the extent that that matters in these 'everything is available somewhere on the internet' days.

I know, but that's why it doesn't make sense to me that they did add on Promise, but left off Forbidden Colours (the 'Beehive' version the best version around imho). Ah well.

"Forbidden Colours" never felt like a part of the album, but that never bothered me. Ending the record on such a stately note seemed appropriate in some way.

I remember being a touch disappointed by Beehive when I got it – I loved how electronic Brilliant Trees and Gone to Earth were. And in some ways it really stands apart in his catalog. But it creates a perfect mood.

Perfect before-bed music.

Wisdom.

Perfect before-bed music.

Mother and Child deserved more votes.

Was coming in to say the very same thing, fetter! That and WPDOA. But I am happy one of my ultimate favorite songs, "Orpheus" (and what I named my old 1995 Chevy Blazer) came up on top, and two additional favorites of mine, "Let the Happiness In" and "The Boy with the Gun", placed not far behind. BTW, there's probably already been a DBOAC poll, hasn't there?

We've only polled this and "Brilliant Trees". There's a rather short DBOAC thread and that's it, so poll away!

Happy birthday!

is this his best album?

Maybe. I've quite come around to Gone to Earth, night music I admire.

I like Gone to Earth best because of the way the two albums play off of each other. The songs are like a journey taking you to the place where the instrumentals can envelop you.

"Orpheus" is the centrepiece of this album, but I think I'd choose the Scott Walker tribute of "Waterfront". I felt that Sylvian's voice got a little rougher and deeper on this record, which is strange since it was only a year later and he hadn't toured between the two records.

I don’t know this album but Gone to Earth is tremendous, dark velvet maroon, gorgeous sound world

haha, I love Gone to Earth but like to listen to it on sunny autumn days!

Ideal Sunday morning music.

the only bad thing i have to say about this album is that it's a tragedy he didn't manage to finish "ride" at the time

From his wiki, never heard this one before:

"I'm not currently thinking about a future in the arts. To quote Sarah Kendzior from her book The View From Flyover Country, "In an article for Slate, Jessica Olien debunks the myth that originality and inventiveness are valued in U.S. society: 'This is the thing about creativity that is rarely acknowledged: Most people don't actually like it.'"[78]"

Though the version of "Ride" on Everything and Nothing isn't exactly the same mix that would have been on this record (the rhythm tracks sound especially different to what he would have done in 1987), I tried coming up with a LP sequence that would integrate it:

Let the Happiness In
Mother and Child
September
Ride
The Devil's Own

The Boy With the Gun
When Poets Dreamed of Angels
Maria
Waterfront
Orpheus

It's so long and such an obvious centrepiece to the record that it's hard to include it without throwing one of the sides off-kilter, hence the radical track shuffling.

It seems that Sylvian gets more satisfaction from visual art and occasional installation-type work these days than even working the margins of popular music where he last wound up.

Even if he was unhappy with the recording at that stage, it's strange that he didn't perform "Ride" on his subsequent tour. I would have preferred to hear it over some of the instrumental indulgences he and the band did.

Though the version of "Ride" on _Everything and Nothing_ isn't exactly the same mix that would have been on this record (the rhythm tracks sound especially different to what he would have done in 1987)

Not really the right thread but surprised to see a Forbidden Colours T-shirt in 2023.

https://shop.davidsylvian.com/products/forbidden-colours-t-shirt

yeah he's rolling out a bunch of merch which is...weird