To me it's one of the best songs ever written, and the very unique way of guitar playing gives it really something else and pushes the listener's imagination like no other song. I hope that 'Never know' will never be forgotten, even if it's very, very underrated now.
As a native of Manchester I grew up in my teens/20s listening to Joy Division, New Order, Happy Mondays but always overlooked DC even though i knew of Vini Reilly. I didn't know this song existed until now and it brought a tear to my eye. What a tune.
@@Lukemateee Thank you for your comment and these memories! I first heard this song many years ago during an autumn night programme on Polish Radio, I was enchanted by the specific sound of the song and its, how to put it, ‘aura’. I still have this programme recorded on a cassette tape somewhere....
this song opened my mind for the existence of alternative ways of thinking and creating music, back in the 80s. life was never the same after that. thanks Vini.
He´s a pioneer and major influencer of the first 80´s bands even they don´t want to recognize them, I just know why Cocteau Twins, The Smiths, Diz Juz, The Cure, and many other bands have existed. Pre Ethereal Avant-Garde experimental pop music. Vini is a Genius.
How the hell did I miss this band? I'm 50 ive been into indie music aswell as other genres, a fan of New order and somehow I managed to overlook them... Duhhhhh Thanks to Peter Hook & his unknown pleasures book, and having RU-vid at my finger tips. This is beautiful 👍
The Durruti Column are a really great hidden gem of a band, I discovered them about two years ago after delving into Factory Records back catalog of music, so them being on the same label as bands like Cabaret Voltaire, Section 25, New Order and Joy Division naturally peaked my interest. I love Vini Reilly’s unique guitar playing, and the lush soundscapes he and the band create on their albums, if anyone likes this I’d recommend the “The Return Of The Durruti Column” album.
I've known and loved this achingly beautiful song for 41 years now. Fascinating for me to think about how it's got to me, got under my skin so deeply in so many different ways as I've aged.
59 years old, first time listener. The guitar reminds me of Vini Reilly's guitar on Anne Clark's "Changing places". Love it. AAAAAAH, addendum five minutes after this comment: Vini Reilly's a band member. Fucking unbelievable. 41 years after I listened to Changing Places over and over I discover "his" band...
It’s lovely to read what so many people find uplifting about the Durutti Column. My own favourite tune is Blue Period. If you ever get chance to listen to it - you can thank me later 😊
Haunting beauty. This really takes me back to the day before 'the day' as we say in Manchester, (or rather 'back in the day') the pre Hacienda Factory years. The Return of the Durutti Column was the first Factory album I owned and it was always one of my favourites. Incidentally, this 'video' was probably shot in Marie Louise Gardens on Palatine Road in Didsbury, not far from the original Factory HQ. The location was used for a lot of DC publicity.
I'm about to be 41 years old and this is beautiful. I've read Julie Hamill's interview with Vini Reilly and it has brought me to this song. Vini is way too modest about his guitar playing in the interview. He is brilliant. The emotions and feelings in his guitar playing is beautiful, so touching.
I am so ecstatic to have come upon this favorite song of mine which got accidentally erased on the cassette tape that I had recorded back in college. I had searched on streaming outlets but did not dawn on me to look for it on the you tube ! It just brings back so many memories. Thanks for creating such a great album.
J'ai pratiquement tous les vinyls de Durutti Column mais ce morceau m'a toujours fasciné. Qu'est ce que j'ai pu m'évader, penser à autre chose qu'à notre vie compliquée de tous les jours en écoutant ces quasi 7 minutes de musique intemporelle, aérienne...
J’ai paumer tous mes cassettes de l’époque et ton post m’as donne envie de les chercher a nouveau, car intemporelle et aérienne , malgré les années passées , ça me parle encore…. merci P.R.
C'est cool de lire du français ici, merci Patrice. Je partage tout à fait tes impressions sur ce titre en particulier et sur la musique de Vini Reilly en général.
That, my friend, is the genius of Vini Reilly....words cannot describe or measure his talent...just listen, enjoy and be in awe, and take what you have experienced, through Vini, through your life with you...
Reminds me of a train journey I took from Bern To Geneva on a bright but cold March day. This was playing on my cassette. Thanks a million for posting this gem of a song!
las notas de la guitarra suenan como gotas de agua ,de porcelana,y tejen una melodia tan irreal y llena de una nostalgia maravillosa y de ensueño.esa guitarra es dueña de un poder que como las sirenas obnubilan nuestros sentidos
This and Sketch for Summer are the first two Durutti Column songs I had ever heard and I have been a fan ever since. Listening to Alternative Radio station WHFS in the Washington DC area in the 80's I cannot recall them being played much, but I have heard them on another station in the Baltimore area. Their music is to me Classical, Mozart, Beethoven, and The Durutti Column!
In the summer of 82 DC played that year's incredible edition of Vilar de Mouros 9-day music festival. The natural amphitheatrum was packed in open starlight to see the skinny grand magus of magic-guitar. Unforgettable.
Such a vibey sound, really great guitar tones. This guy is the Genius who played on and probably wrote most of the music on Morrissey's first solo record Viva Hate after Moz broke from The Smiths.
Reilly later admitted that he was greatly stretching the truth when he said this (he certainly may have arranged the guitar parts that he played as he has an instinctive approach to playing) and that he's not sure why he said it but he regrets doing so.
Just rebought this vinyl today, having lost track of the original one I got, some odd 32 years ago, just as it was pressed here in Portugal, under the command of Dr Miguel Esteves Cardoso, one Vini's greatest admirers and personal friends. If you remember well, Reilly even did an album called "Amigos em Portugal", which says A LOT about how important DC were in my country. They were constantly playing LC on national FM radio! I just wish Vini gets better! Long live THE Durutti Column.
If you somehow arrived to this video & song, perhaps you can understand why many consider Vini Reilly to be such a badass guitarist, and just musician in general. Bruce's drumming is also awesome. TDC's music is simply timeless, there's no point in even trying to pigeon-hole it all into genre conventions and all that. It's just simple music -- great music. Whether you heard this decades ago or minutes ago, you could come back to it with ease and it'd still be fresh. This is perfection.
its midday on a friday in winter and im listening to this sitting on my bed while the sun is shining into my room through the window warming my body and face...
Calixte De Coster No, Thom Yorke hasn't left a mark on the music industry like Ian Curtis or Vini Reily has. Sure he's a great musician but it didn't sound something like you've never heard before, Ian and Vini both left their marks in that aspect.
I love this beautiful full filling music.I never get tired of it. These sounds and the tune gives me hope, and makes me open my soul. This is timeless.Thank you. Vinnie
I've seen so many horrid artists achieve fame and such popularity but a part of me believes it's better that the Durutti Column is just a whisper in the wind. I think the Durutti Column's fans are the few that appreciate true music and the beauty of pure sound. Why should it not remain that way?
Sem palavras! O disco LC do Duruti é muuuuuito bom. Simplesmente todo disco é fabuloso! Me dá muitas saudades da década de 80. Queria que já tivessem inventado uma máquina do tempo!
I had the pleasure of relaxing over drinks with these guys at the Bottom Line in 1985 after the 'Live' double CD came out. It was such a personal moment that I cherish to this day.
Beautiful. Beautiful. Quite uplifting and when it ended, the next door neighbours Kids are Screaming at each other and sound like they're smashing something up... Oh, it' their shed. Their Mum has come out now and is cursing them with threats and obscenities, and all this while, their dog has been Barking Continuously. -Um, so I think I'll just play this again.
Well, yeah You're probably right, but you know how it is... It's supposed to be our advantage that we humans live together and (in theory anyway) we all work as part of a fully functioning society... But then you add disfunctional neighbours, vandalism, noise etc, into the mix... MORE MUSIC MAESTRO, PLEASE ! Maybe I will move or else it's time for the aliens to take them some place far away.
All I have to say is there are certain pressures that arise in some people from the stresses of living in this post-mondern era. These stresses cause seemingly unreasonable actions that, in fact, do have a rational correlation to causality.
A taste of the 80's, I mean the GOOD old eighties...Jesus I had forgotten all the simplicity of a well played guitar and harmony. Now that I found Durutti Column, I´m gonna search The Waterboys! This youtube thing rocks!
I cry in my sleep, sometimes you stay Sometimes you stay, you never know why Please say my name, don't turn away The pain is black The pain is bright The pain is black The pain is bright The pain is bright Then I awake and in the half light Watching my movements through half closed eyes You're touching me as a priest loves pornography We played beneath the patterns [unverified] Don't turn away The pain is black The pain is bright The pain is black The pain is bright The pain is bright Kissed by the years, caresses of time Marking the lines, the lines of expression The patterns of place, the patterns of youth The patterns of love, don't turn away Say my name, say my name
Such a pity!In France nobody knows DURUTTI COLUMN.I am sure that ROBERT SMITH have deeply listened how Vini REILLY plays the guitar, at least in the early 80's. I got his CD's released in 2006, still brilliant.Maybe one day, history will rate THE DURUTTI COLUMN as one of the major bands from that time.
