In a similar fashion to the Monochrome Set album mentioned earlier in the week, the first album by The Wild Swans "Bringing Home The Ashes" has suffered the same fate of being deleted for many years and extremely hard to find on CD. The band had a pretty convoluted history; releasing one single "Revolutionary Spirit" on the Zoo label, split up, two of the band formed The Lotus Eaters, had a hit single "The First Picture Of You" and released one album. In the meantime the Wild Swans vocalist Paul Simpson formed Care with Ian Broudie and had a minor hit in the UK. Both of these bands split and everyone got back together as The Wild Swans releasing two albums, split up again, and then The Lotus Eaters reformed for another album. Got that? Anyway, I could have pretty much posted anything from "Bringing Home The Ashes" as its that good so here's two songs.
- The Wild Swans - Bible Dreams
- The Wild Swans - Young Manhood
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2 comments:
Thanks mate for posting these great but sadly missed band,I really loved that LP "Bringing Home The Ashes" which from start to finish is a must have bringing back memories from the past with tracks like "Archangels" & "Whirpool Heart" & a couple of years ago,Renascent released their early works including the first single,some sessions & live outings.Yup,The Lotus Eaters reunite before the new millenium & released a new LP & i even saw them played here back in 2001.
cheers!
You surprised me by posting something from The Wild Swans.
I'm a big fan of the bands that revolved around that group--The Lotus Eaters, Care, The Lightning Seeds...
For me, TWS and TLe and Care are among the most underrated bands of all time.
I'm lucky to have seen TLE when they promoted their second album in the Philippines. I even had the chance to befriend TLE and TWS guitarist Jeremy Kelly, who's a very down-to-earth person.
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