I saw Peter Hook and the Light do a Joy Division set about 4 years ago- Seeing songs you have been listening to for decades grow legs and run around in front of you for the first time is something I will cherish for the rest of my life. I cant even imagine being in the audience getting to hear Sleep live for the first time. I would have goosebumps for months.
Oh my god, I think I would actually cry. The best slowdive song. I remember getting home after I saw phoebe bridgers in manchester earlier this year and just getting home and wishing I couldve stayed forever, such a strange feeling.
this song is easily in my top 5 favorites, and im SO glad they havent forgotten it. I hope they release a version on their next album. Even just hearing a new take on it from them, even if its an unprofessional recording (although this is the best ive seen so far) is so wonderful. Wish I could've been there
They finally performed Sleep live, holy crap! Bless you Slowdive, you know what your fans like and this sounded heavenly. Please make this a setlist staple!
That is an earlier demo version of the song than the Sarah records version, apparently Christian hadn't added his signature guitar solo track yet, so it's a bit lackluster compared to the previously released version.
wow, the lyrics seems to be a little different than what people understood 2:25 And before we reach you (?) Go far, as far you can instead of Let the Lord embrace you Bow down, spare the reed
So you heard the Eternal single in 1990, then heard the guitarist was joining Slowdive and went to all their shows for the last 30+ years to see if they'd cover another band's song? Or you mean when the bootleg demo surfaced after slowdive split in 95, you went to their shows just to see if they'd play it?
me gistaría saber la letra que ella cantó aquí .. encuentro muchas versiones de la letra y muchas personas que oyen algo diferente.. me gustaría saber la versión de ellos :c
I love how a lot of people are just enjoying music profoundly intimately in the moment. Not so much phones recording because moment like this is not supposed to be recorded, it's supposed to be felt deeply, completely like driving with someone you love in late sunset while wind blows your hair and everything comes to that one unified present moment and you float like ascending to the sky above.
I wish I could've fallen in love in that crowd, just lock eyes with someone and share that moment of completeness as they played this ethereal song, this must be what it feels like to be whole.
Thanks for posting this. I loved it. I've been a fan since 1990 but I'd never heard even heard of this song till maybe last year. Where did everyone else first hear this song? It's a mystery to me.
There are somewhere around 60 bootleg slowdive demos out there floating around the net in various states of bad quality mp3s. Sleep was a song by Eternal, Christian Savill's previous band. Slowdive recorded a demo cover of it in 92, but never released it. In the late 90s and 2000s, with file sharing sites popping up everywhere, lots of younger fans who weren't around while slowdive existed became fans of the band by downloading their "discography" online. With bootleg demos existing right alongside the actual album tracks, they didn't differentiate between them. Lot of 18-20 year old fans of the band listen to their unreleased stuff more than the stuff they put out. It's a weird phenomenon. I'm not sure if there's another band who has such a huge fan base that doesn't actually listen to their albums primarily. You can dig around now and find most of the unreleased songs here and there. Some good songs, several recorded with different arrangements. I recommend picking up the cherry red reissue of Pygmalion, which has 10+ demos recorded during that era on a bonus disc.
@@pgbear yeah, it's totally convoluted! Alan McGee basically just kept rejecting their demo tracks. which ok, so that made them eventually get to Souvlaki, but i mean, just release a bunch of EPs! get the music out there... Ivo always said his regret was not signing Slowdive. who knows what the world would be like now if a label that embraced ethereal music had signed them and supported them? sent them on tour opening for the Cocteau Twins to an appreciative audience.......
@@pgbear but like i was saying, there are a ton of demos out there, just bootleg mp3s... plus copies of a soundtrack called I am the Elephant, U R the Mouse, or something. it's not very interesting, but whatever. and the pygmalion demos are cool- it sounds like the style of pygmalion, but they aren't as cold and depressed, they hadn't had all hope beaten out of them by Creation records. several songs lie right between the tone of Just For a Day, but mixed with some Aphex Twin ambient tracks.
From this interview with Christian it looks like it (and maybe some other old unplayed songs) will be in the live set for a while yet www.mixcloud.com/DKFM_Shoegaze_Radio/starving-for-beauty-christian-savill-two-hour-special/
as iconic as it is, this song should remain unreleased. the fact that it's not published by the band it's somewhat better, as i think of this song as a gem that every fan should discover by themselves
Whenever i listen to this it feels like i'm in the 80's. No social media, no internet.. just going out with friends and having fun. This is a treasure to me.
I really hope they won't give up performing before I start to make my own money. I really wanna see them live, but you know, Turkey is a kind of harsh country when it comes to visiting other countries.
@petetestube2904 yeah, most likely they do earn a lot. The average salary here is way under 1k dollars. that makes it impossible to go abroad especially for students
Please stop posting links to the original Eternal version. That's garage-quality and nothing close to the potential this song has if Slowdive gives it the proper 2020s studio treatment.
