20-year-old me fell in love with this album in general, and this track specifically. Now, 54-year-old me is highly impressed with my taste in music back then.
People have always said that singers like Karen Carpenter, Celine Dionne, Whitney, Mariah Carey have very distinct voices. I would recognize this voice anywhere. Nobody has the sound of this singer. With a voice like this it's a shame the world can't get more. I wonder if her children know how amazing their mother is. And how her voice transpired the world?
Good call! His guitar navigates around her voice, never gets too fancy, but brings such an awesome atmosphere to the song....Well to ALL their songs!LOL
I bought the gem 2nd hand back in 91/92.. sweet Harriet and Eva Cassidy can make me feel something that NO other singer Ever will. btw look up the record on Discogs.. a pricy gem by now :)
This song takes me back to a particular time of my life filled with uncertainty. I was in Manila in 1996, at the airport, it was raining, listening to this song on my Sony FM Walkman (with MegaBass LOL) waiting for my flight back home to the States (to LA, final destination San Diego). The song was playing with just enough static interference for it to enhance the melancholy feeling. I had escaped reality for 2 pleasurable weeks, but was going back to a very difficult reality. I went through something that would have mentally wrecked a lot of people that occurred soon after I came home. Surviving that experience has given me a strength that I can draw upon in times of stress, anxiety and uncertainty. I thank God as much as I can to know that I'm still alive today.
damn that is a powerful memory. music that can bring us to a painful time and yet shine in on us the joy that got us through it... that is where it's at. beautiful
Ironically I'm having a Sunday's Sunday after all these years. A day of self reflecting takes me back to my music discoveries. The Sundays and Cranberries duos was primarily in my pure and innocent 90's secluded dream world.
On my first trip to Europe in 1993 and I was alone in Frankfurt, just me and 4 years of German language I'd learned in high school. Somehow I found myself on a subway and navigating the central city. Not sure how I did it but I do know I was listening to this song all day.
I feel so glad that more than 247k people have listened at least this song once. Some years ago the number was less. The Sundays deserves more. This music comes from heaven, soft rock from the 80s and 90s I really love it, hard really hard to find music like this on these days.
People would rather numb their emotions with substances these days than brave the pain and write a song about what they really feel. Art suffers when the artist refuses to suffer.
I had just started working in the music industry when this came out and I remember SO clearly just praying that I'd get the chance to work with them. It never happened - I never even met them - but I did see 3 or 4 of their amazing gigs including one at the Town & Country club (to promote Blind) where I met my future husband. No one takes you right back to the moment like The Sundays.....there'll never be another band like them.
a good friend of mine gave me this cd in the late 90's. she killed herself some years later. I always remember her when I hear any Sundays. it's a brilliant song.
Sorry about your friend. I have so many memories connected to this band... college, new years in freezing Chicago - in a freezing apartment listening to The Sundays and Belly.
The band and Harriet make such sweetness and sadness melted together seamlessly. How can melancholy sound hopeful and light at the same time??? They do it every time
1990 just got out of a Bad Relationship and started to live my life again...The Sundays..Just seemed to sing the songs that reflected my life as I was learning to live again without distractions and man it was a head rush of freedom
The most painful beautiful song to listen to ever!!..Harriet Wheeler ...I am a stranger to you...but your voice...that music..those gorgeous chords...melancholic bliss..are part of my identity...my life...my relationships...I will love the Sundays for the entirety of my life I'm sure of it...my gratitude for the Sundays is boundless, infinite.. Love. This song has pharmacological effects on me...
Russell,you speak my language(sorry its 2 years later).1990,brilliant year,Twin Peaks,music like the Sundays,B-52s,Depeche Mode,Happy Mondays,Adamski,New Order,Dee-Lite(sorry,I realise if you're American you've never heard of half these bands)Very happy times though,before social media and all that vicious crap.Çheers for the great upload
@@southbeachtalent Sorry it took so long to get back to you, just saw this. For me it took several stints in rehab (it takes what it takes😋), therapy and prescription meds (the best and most current one being Latuda). Hope you aren't still down in it - if you are, don't give up hope!
I went to see them at the old Town & Country club in Kentish Town in 93. Fell in love with them (& Harriet!) then. I remember being drunk getting the tube home and drunkenly yelling, "why didn't they play you're not the only one I know" to the assembled tube-goers. I was also wearing a long sleeve shirt with the Blind album cover on it. I get misty eyed thinking about it. Greatest band ever.
30 ans que j'écoute The Sundays... Un miracle renouvelé à chaque fois. .. J'ai toujours l'impression d'avoir 20 ans. Merci pour la grâce de mes heures sublimes.
Hearing her voice, she is a siren to me. I'm powerless against it. I've never had anyone that can hypnotize me with their voice but she can. Harriet is amazing. The music is as well.
Used to play the hell out of this in the best record store company there has ever been "Tower Records" in Whiteleys, Bayswater in London in 1990. Still listening nearly 30 years later and it's still wonderful.
Absolutely in Love, la femme Smith's, how are these not massively famous, the band are perfect and her voice is unique and morish, feel like I wanna punch the world into appreciation!!
Favorite Sundays song ever. Pierce a hole in the heart. That is the definition of melancholy. So glad I saw them play live in San Francisco summer of 1990.
I once listened to this song on repeat the entire two hour drive home from college. Each time through I picked a different part of the song to follow. Probably their best song and one of my favorites ever
with a knockout debut record jam packed with great songs , i remember this song was the INSTANT MASTERPIECE on first listening! The QUALITY of all their songs was what made The Sundays so EXCITING .... and after all these years the music is still a thrill!
They were never as big as they should have been and their music carreid me through some very very dark times. I had a Sony discman and listend to these CD's until I thought I would wear them out. Her voice was like an angels and it's such a shame they ended too soon but fame was never that important to them it seems. I can only hope they are happy and have an idea what their music meant to some of us.
if this song is so precious to people listening imagine writing these lyrics & preforming this! the emotion is so so gorgeous. I was wondering if ‘ west to the seaside’ could be a reference to bristol uni where i think the band met ? every time i listen the lyrics mean something different i guess part of the fun of it is we will never know the memories they’re really about… one of my fav songs ever
Where's the harm in voicing a doubt You'll find me in the lavatory And where's the harm in talking out loud When I'm on my own What's so wrong with reading my stars When I'll be in the lavatory And what is so wrong with counting the cars When I'm all alone [Chorus] You're not the only one that I know But I'm too proud to talk to you anyway You're not the only one that I know But I'm far too proud to talk to you any day So I say I'm in love with the world And what is so wrong with voicing a doubt When I'm on my own It's perfectly fine to sleep in a chair From Monday 'til Saturday And what is so wrong with talking out loud When I'm all alone [Chorus] [Bridge] So they rode out west to the seaside And they gladly decided to stay After two hours wandering outside Ooh the sea air drove them away, yeah [Chorus] Class!
I remember walking in to a McDonald's 20 yrs ago in norco California and I heard. Here's where the story ends I just broke up with my girlfriend of 6 yrs. And moved an hr and a half away from north Hollywood. It made me cry. And I took an hr and a half long walk .just to say goodbye in my heart ❤️. Cowboy john norco California horse Town USA 🇺🇸
I love The Sundays! Listening to them makes me happy and sad at the same time. Who else is listening this December 2021?! Merry Christmas and may God bless you!❤🎄✝️
