When I was fourteen I listened to Chris Rea and only Chris Rea for about a year or so.
that's what being 14 is all about imo - obsessive dedication to questionable aesthetics. what were your favourite tracks? do you still like them? any deep cuts / dubbed out weirdo b-sides that we're missing?
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 10:31 (six years ago) link
I'd have to revisit them actually, it's been a while. And this thread made me want to do just that. But from what I can remember it was the whole Water Sign - Wired To The Moon - Shamrock Diaries - On The Beach - Dancing With Strangers and then New Light... cycle, with shifting allegiances. They were originally my father's but I made them mine, then forgot about them when I left home and decided to find my own path, I guess. But the feeling of listening to them over and over again in my bedroom has remained, and since my father died a year ago I have been thinking about them more often. I'm going to try to dive in a bit over the next weeks. Will keep you updated.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 12:11 (six years ago) link
please do!
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 12:27 (six years ago) link
"I can hear your heartbeat" was one of those tunes I waited by the radio all day so I could get a chance to tape it
I think Rea was huge in Ireland before anywhere else iirc?
― well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 12:50 (six years ago) link
huge
― the clodding of the american mind (darraghmac), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 14:57 (six years ago) link
I think I used to get Chris Rea and Chris De Burgh confused.
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 15:14 (six years ago) link
And then there's Stephen Rea. Never liked that guy.
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 15:15 (six years ago) link
Bob Mortimer talking about when Chris Rea was on Shooting Stars
― new noise, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 15:27 (six years ago) link
I've been playing the remix of "Josephine" around the new Grimes all afternoon.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 February 2020 20:00 (four years ago) link
'crack that mould' is the best disco-not-disco track i have ever heard.
― mark e, Sunday, 22 March 2020 00:07 (four years ago) link
really enjoying this edit of “loving you again”https://storken.bandcamp.com/track/chris-rea-loving-you-again-storken-la-mer-baltique-edit
― donna rouge, Monday, 15 November 2021 20:30 (two years ago) link
Used to be weirdly huge in France. Josephine still hits a sweet Balearic spot. I should check out more of his stuff
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 12 August 2022 20:02 (one year ago) link
“on the beach” (the song) rules
― brimstead, Friday, 12 August 2022 20:03 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqBCurSwK3k
Love this song so much. Brings back lots of fond memories of that era.
"She says 'what?'"
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Friday, 12 August 2022 20:21 (one year ago) link
lived my whole life til last month never hearing part 1 of road to hell
― Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Monday, 22 May 2023 22:54 (ten months ago) link
The title track!
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 22 May 2023 23:08 (ten months ago) link
it's Knopfler done right
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 22 May 2023 23:09 (ten months ago) link
its exactly that!
tho i hope by agreeing im not signing up unwittingly to knopfler slander generally
― Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Monday, 22 May 2023 23:19 (ten months ago) link