Let's hear it for.. Prefab Sprout

[editor]

Top lyrics!

Adolescence - what's it like?
It's a psychedelic motorbike
You'll smash it up ten times a day
Then you walk away
It's moonlight on a balcony
It's pure hormonal agony
Bad poetry. Its greeting card?
Will (the Bard)

Adolescence - why's it so?
Ask someone else; how should I know?
It's a song I sang and then forgot
Too long ago
When I was a Romeo
In love forever
Unable to forget
Some Juliet

Romeo, Romeo
Inconstant? Never!
It's knives flashing in fountains, poison
Capulets' letters that go astray
Molehills bigger than mountains
You're pre sat nav, learning to find your way

Adolescence - what's it for?
It's for keeping your nerve-endings raw, while
relay teams of fevered dreams
Escape each pore

It's moonlight on a balcony
It's pure hormonal agony
Bad poetry. Its greeting card?
Will (the Bard)

Poor Romeo - in love forever
Unable to forget Juliet
Romeo, Romeo - inconstant never
It's knives flashing in fountains, poison
Capulets' letters that go astray
Molehills bigger than mountains
you're pre sat nav, learning to find your way

Adolescence can be rough
I hope your heat-shield's tough enough
I hope that no-one dares to scoff
When you blast off
Adolescence, crimson red
Fireworks inside your head
Are three time brighter than the sun
Girls - have some fun.

From - http://z6.invisionfree.com/sproutnet/index.php?showtopic=3433&st=45

 

[ska invita]

Gideon Coe is going to play a Prefab Sprout concert on his show at some point tonight soon (the show is on right now)
BBC6

 

[white rabbit]

I used to have From Langley Park To Memphis and I tried to get hold of it again without success. Though I have a sneaking feeling I'd think it was shit if I did.

E2a: just downloaded it and it's just as I remember it. I can't really explain why I like it. It says nothing to me about my life and it should encapsulate everything I hate about easy-listening music, and yet like it I do. Maybe there's something nostalgic about it.

 

[editor]

A new song!

For all the prescience of Prefab Sprout’s 2013 song The Devil Came a Calling – which depicts Satan as an unscrupulous huckster happy to feed his lust for power by issuing promises he has no hope or intention of keeping – the McAloon of America looks heartbroken at what has since come to pass. “America, America,” he sings, straining to reach the high notes, “Liberty welcomes everyone / Now she’s blushing in the sun … An orphan child exiled by war / She may become a doctor / And work among the poor /A scientist who finds a cure.”

Why Prefab Sprout's return with America is a whim and a wonder

 

[imposs1904]

 

[dessiato]

There was a 1980s band whigh came from Lincolnshire. The lead singer had an odd hairstyle and was from Grimsby (or Louth) Anyone remember who they were?

 

[Sprocket.]

There was a 1980s band whigh came from Lincolnshire. The lead singer had an odd hairstyle and was from Grimsby (or Louth) Anyone remember who they were?

Swing out sister?
Corinne Drewery lived near Louth.

 

[dessiato]

Swing out sister?
Corinne Drewery lived near Louth.

Thanks. That's the one. Her mother had a business in one of the Grimsby suburbs, Scartho.

 

[Sprocket.]

Thanks. That's the one. Her mother had a business in one of the Grimsby suburbs, Scartho.

Still going too! The band, don’t know about her mam!

 

[editor]

Excellent music blog devoted to all things Prefab Sprout over here:

Not any more. It's just some spammy looking site.

 

[editor]

For fans of Prefab Sprout’s second album, Steve McQueen, there's a lovely acoustic-only version of the album. Listening to it now on Spotify.

An Amazing Legacy – Lisa Cordaro discusses the acoustic Steve McQueen - Sproutology

Thirty years ago, Prefab Sprout’s masterwork, Steve McQueen, was released. I recently wrote...

www.sproutology.co.uk

Really, really good review of the full album here Classic Album: Steve McQueen - Prefab Sprout - Classic Pop Magazine

 

[editor]

And here's the superfan site for all your Sprout-esque needs - Sproutology - Prefab Sprout

These pics are ace! Prefab Sprout at the Brewer’s Arms, c1980

Photo Corner - Prefab Sprout at the Brewer's Arms, c1980 - Sproutology

A collection of absolutely marvellous early photos of Prefab Sprout, courtesy of Andy...

www.sproutology.co.uk

He got asked to write a song for Cher!

And you followed it by writing The Gunman for Cher?

“A year after Jimmy Nail sang them, the man in charge of Warners, who he had his contract with, said that Cher was going to make a record and was going to do something different. But when people say something like that, you’ve got to try and figure out just how different is Cher going to be? Cher is Cher. As a kid I absolutely loved Gypsies Tramps & Thieves.

“So I thought, okay, you could write her something that’s more like a soundtrack, give her a small song in the middle of it, but essentially make the track eight minutes long and like a mini movie with sound pictures. But when I took it to Warners they thought, my God, the vocal doesn’t enter for three minutes! Trevor Horn liked it and said she should do it, but I believe she didn’t like it, or didn’t get it and said something like it was the weirdest song she’d ever heard. I was slightly disappointed that she didn’t see that in certain ways it did relate to her past.”

Sylvie Simmonds, Mojo4Music Website - August 2001 - Sproutology

Paddy McAloon speaks exclusively to Sylvie Simmons about his fight against blindness, his...

www.sproutology.co.uk

 

[editor]

Here's a good read for Prefabbers:

Paddy McAloon and Thomas Dolby: how we made Prefab Sprout's Steve McQueen

‘People think Bonny is about my father’s death, but he wasn’t dead then – I imagined grief’

www.theguardian.com

 

[imposs1904]

Released 36 years ago today. One of my favourite albums of the 80s . . . one of my favourite albums of all time:

 

[editor]

Released 36 years ago today. One of my favourite albums of the 80s . . . one of my favourite albums of all time:

Tis a magnificent album, for sure.

 

[Chairman Meow]

I used to love that Album, a friend bought it to me for my 16th birthday! Must have a re-listen.

 

[DaveCinzano]

was it prefab sprout who sang that "hot dog, jumping frog, alberque" one?

if so, they should be sent down the dumper forever.

I've got the album with that hot dog, jumping frog song on it somewhere. I always used to quite like it and then get really irritated. Too whimsical for my commonsense brain

 

[The39thStep]

Happy Birthday Paddy

 

[DaveCinzano]

Almost posted that Spaced clip without checking first