The Veils — The Pearl
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There's no time to explain
I'm leaving on the last train
And heading out in grand style
Thinking I might be awhile
I'm looking out for the pearl
The one who'll come to rule the world
She's nineteen in blue jeans
Don't even know what love may mean
She's trying hard to get stoned
Her mind is coming undone
I'm looking out for the pearl
The one who'll come to rule the world
I'm looking out for the pearl
Do tell how it all ends
Where the road forks and where the road bends
So heartsick I can hardly speak
This road will be the death of me
I'm looking out for the pearl
The one who'll come to rule the world
I'm looking out for the pearl
Try to keep real calm, try not to shake my drinking arm
Try to keep real calm, try not to shake my drinking arm...
I'm leaving on the last train
And heading out in grand style
Thinking I might be awhile
I'm looking out for the pearl
The one who'll come to rule the world
She's nineteen in blue jeans
Don't even know what love may mean
She's trying hard to get stoned
Her mind is coming undone
I'm looking out for the pearl
The one who'll come to rule the world
I'm looking out for the pearl
Do tell how it all ends
Where the road forks and where the road bends
So heartsick I can hardly speak
This road will be the death of me
I'm looking out for the pearl
The one who'll come to rule the world
I'm looking out for the pearl
Try to keep real calm, try not to shake my drinking arm
Try to keep real calm, try not to shake my drinking arm...
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SmackDaddy wrote:
I think this was something else already.,...🤔😊
Could we possibly hear something else from them?
I think this was something else already.,...🤔😊
Bei P.J. Harvey geklaut.... :-)
anumidium wrote:
Was just thinking that. come to see the members.
Channeling David Byrne, I love it! 
Was just thinking that. come to see the members.
ScottishWillie wrote:
I’ve been listening to this for years and thinking it was U2. It was only hearing Bill announcing it was The Veils that made me realise my error!
Error indeed.
I’ve been listening to this for years and thinking it was U2. It was only hearing Bill announcing it was The Veils that made me realise my error!
Error indeed.
VV wrote:
Wash your ears please.
Bono?... that you?
Wash your ears please.
Love it.
Considering what they paid for the cover, photo-shopping the burning house, it would've been far more fun actually burning the house - and The Veils would've maintained some credibility.
Channeling 'Gloria' - well done, no complaints. Cheers.
One of the best choruses ever (outro)
skossow wrote:
David Byrne's lovechild with Bono...
David Byrne's lovechild with Bono...
anumidium wrote:
Channeling David Byrne, I love it!
Nice album cover!
Could we possibly hear something else from them?
Finn Andrews stands on his own. DB and Bono are from another bands, not to mention PJ Harvey.
This song (in the verse) suddenly reminds me of Two Silver Trees by Calexico. I think it was the piano that made me think of it.
Yet another RP first for me. Thank you!
Thanks Wolford, I am doing just as you say - listening on YouTube then I will buy the remastered version on CD if I can source it.
Wolford wrote:
John Steinbeck's The Pearl remains a timely, haunting parable (I read my copy about every five years). Brian Eno & Harold Budd's LP The Pearl remains a timely, haunting ambient masterpiece and is the musical equivalent to the final line in Steinbeck's book. You must seek it out if you've never heard it.
Wolford wrote:
John Steinbeck's The Pearl remains a timely, haunting parable (I read my copy about every five years). Brian Eno & Harold Budd's LP The Pearl remains a timely, haunting ambient masterpiece and is the musical equivalent to the final line in Steinbeck's book. You must seek it out if you've never heard it.
Bono?... that you?
Everyone STOP pigeonholing artists.It is what it is...compare if you will.
Finn Andrews is the son of Barry Andrews (ex XTC) from Shriekback.
Don't like the "Bono" vocal so much, but I love the arrangement, the slow build up on a simple groove.
VV wrote:
Sounds like a U2 song.
I’ve been listening to this for years and thinking it was U2. It was only hearing Bill announcing it was The Veils that made me realise my error!
AhhtheMusic wrote:
Yep. Exactly what I was thinking.
I am hearing a David Bryne influece near the end.
Yep. Exactly what I was thinking.
Stephen_Phillips wrote:
John Steinbeck's The Pearl remains a timely, haunting parable (I read my copy about every five years). Brian Eno & Harold Budd's LP The Pearl remains a timely, haunting ambient masterpiece and is the musical equivalent to the final line in Steinbeck's book. You must seek it out if you've never heard it.
I just had a flashback to a book on the reading list in High School called "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck and was about the infant child of a pearl diver that was stung by a scorpion and the father had to find a way to pay for a doctor.
It was a parable about life in 1940's USA and maybe still true today?
Anyway for a surburban boy living in the UK with a free National Health Service and reading this story it had a profound effect on me.
I know it is nothing about this song - just thought my memory might be something else readers of a similar age would relate to.
It was a parable about life in 1940's USA and maybe still true today?
Anyway for a surburban boy living in the UK with a free National Health Service and reading this story it had a profound effect on me.
I know it is nothing about this song - just thought my memory might be something else readers of a similar age would relate to.
John Steinbeck's The Pearl remains a timely, haunting parable (I read my copy about every five years). Brian Eno & Harold Budd's LP The Pearl remains a timely, haunting ambient masterpiece and is the musical equivalent to the final line in Steinbeck's book. You must seek it out if you've never heard it.
VV wrote:
Bono / Patti Smith love child.
Sounds like a U2 song.
Bono / Patti Smith love child.
This was a cool, edgy song. Almost thinking it was gonna get to some kinda Shins' signature level of prophetic-dark-semi-goth stuff. Then they blew it with the Let's Cop Some Talking Heads Lite ender yammering thing. *meh*
AhhtheMusic wrote:
I am hearing a David Bryne influece near the end.
Stephen_Phillips wrote:
HS Class of 95 - and I FOR SURE remember reading "The Pearl" - I don't remember it that well other than the scorpion bite part. Steinbeck was great at the parable about US life stories. What was called American Lit vs. English Lit.
I just had a flashback to a book on the reading list in High School called "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck and was about the infant child of a pearl diver that was stung by a scorpion and the father had to find a way to pay for a doctor.
It was a parable about life in 1940's USA and maybe still true today?
Anyway for a surburban boy living in the UK with a free National Health Service and reading this story it had a profound effect on me.
I know it is nothing about this song - just thought my memory might be something else readers of a similar age would relate to.
It was a parable about life in 1940's USA and maybe still true today?
Anyway for a surburban boy living in the UK with a free National Health Service and reading this story it had a profound effect on me.
I know it is nothing about this song - just thought my memory might be something else readers of a similar age would relate to.
HS Class of 95 - and I FOR SURE remember reading "The Pearl" - I don't remember it that well other than the scorpion bite part. Steinbeck was great at the parable about US life stories. What was called American Lit vs. English Lit.
Stephen_Phillips wrote:
I spent a fair bit of time in hospital as a kid, but just treated it as an inconvenience. I didn't appreciate the gift that is our NHS. My wife is a nurse now and it astonishes me that we can have such a wonderful profession, unthanked, for £10 per hour. A bargain, I'd say.
I just had a flashback to a book on the reading list in High School called "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck and was about the infant child of a pearl diver that was stung by a scorpion and the father had to find a way to pay for a doctor.
It was a parable about life in 1940's USA and maybe still true today?
Anyway for a surburban boy living in the UK with a free National Health Service and reading this story it had a profound effect on me.
I know it is nothing about this song - just thought my memory might be something else readers of a similar age would relate to.
It was a parable about life in 1940's USA and maybe still true today?
Anyway for a surburban boy living in the UK with a free National Health Service and reading this story it had a profound effect on me.
I know it is nothing about this song - just thought my memory might be something else readers of a similar age would relate to.
I spent a fair bit of time in hospital as a kid, but just treated it as an inconvenience. I didn't appreciate the gift that is our NHS. My wife is a nurse now and it astonishes me that we can have such a wonderful profession, unthanked, for £10 per hour. A bargain, I'd say.
Sounds like a U2 song.
nice song !
excellent 8 for now 9 maybe later
I just had a flashback to a book on the reading list in High School called "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck and was about the infant child of a pearl diver that was stung by a scorpion and the father had to find a way to pay for a doctor.
It was a parable about life in 1940's USA and maybe still true today?
Anyway for a surburban boy living in the UK with a free National Health Service and reading this story it had a profound effect on me.
I know it is nothing about this song - just thought my memory might be something else readers of a similar age would relate to.
It was a parable about life in 1940's USA and maybe still true today?
Anyway for a surburban boy living in the UK with a free National Health Service and reading this story it had a profound effect on me.
I know it is nothing about this song - just thought my memory might be something else readers of a similar age would relate to.
What kind of house doesn't have a lane, a footpath, or a driveway?
One suitable for burning?
One suitable for burning?
icuski2 wrote:
but with some style and freshness ^ ^
Sounds a bit like Bono and U2. That's a good thing!
but with some style and freshness ^ ^
Sounds a bit like Bono and U2. That's a good thing!
ScottFromWyoming wrote:
As noted elsewhere, son of Barry Andrews (Shriekback). So if you're hearing Talking Heads or U2, I'm hearing All Lined Up.
Had no idea...thanks!
As noted elsewhere, son of Barry Andrews (Shriekback). So if you're hearing Talking Heads or U2, I'm hearing All Lined Up.
Had no idea...thanks!
pcc wrote:
Reminds me of the theme tune to said TV program from the seventies.
Reminds me of the theme tune to said TV program from the seventies.
"Suicide Is Painless" ?? I don't hear that....but I do hear a strong Bono/U2 influence - which isn't a bad thing in this case
AND...words to live by....."Try to keep real calm, try not to shake my drinking arm"
Sounds like it's going to turn into "Dancing Barefoot" any second now.
He is heading for a spin
AhhtheMusic wrote:
yes, well spotted !
I am hearing a David Bryne influece near the end.
yes, well spotted !
I am hearing a David Bryne influece near the end.
Exit Visa
Dear, that's the beginning.
You'd get it if better when time is an issue.
Dear, that's the beginning.
You'd get it if better when time is an issue.
Past midnight in Germany, need to go to sleep but don't want to stop to listen to this great mixture of highly enjoyable music ....
These ears thoroughly enjoy this album.
franl wrote:
As noted elsewhere, son of Barry Andrews (Shriekback). So if you're hearing Talking Heads or U2, I'm hearing All Lined Up.
Giselle62 wrote:
My first thought was David Byrne, but Wikipedia says the singer is Finn Andrews. The band is out of London.
is it the guy who sang in violent femmes? tom verlaine? or david byrne?
My first thought was David Byrne, but Wikipedia says the singer is Finn Andrews. The band is out of London.
As noted elsewhere, son of Barry Andrews (Shriekback). So if you're hearing Talking Heads or U2, I'm hearing All Lined Up.
Sounds a bit "Bono"..... Cup ' o tea the edge?
Like it! A bit of a PJ Harvey vibe to this tune
Love it!
Timeless theme; love's investment tanks & takes us with it; a pain we've all felt again & again: ouch but can I have some more please?
Greaaat song
wossName wrote:
Yeah, it's remarkably close...
Sounds like it's going to turn into "Dancing Barefoot" any second now.
Yeah, it's remarkably close...
Sounds like "déjà vu"...
mrtuba9 wrote:
Reminds me of the theme tune to said TV program from the seventies.
pcc wrote:
??
M*A*S*H
??
Reminds me of the theme tune to said TV program from the seventies.
moppitup wrote:
Yeah!
Caught my attention! Cool tune...
Yeah!
pcc wrote:
??
M*A*S*H
??
Wow, I had to wait for the Talking Head references
M*A*S*H
kcar wrote:
Yeah, I'm hearing a lot more Bono than Byrne.
That appears to be verified by this bar graph.
Yeah, I'm hearing a lot more Bono than Byrne.
That appears to be verified by this bar graph.
Nice vibe...anyone else hearing World Party's "All Come True"?
Caught my attention! Cool tune...
bumping...7 -> 8 
Shimmer wrote:
Same!
I definitely hear David Byrne at the end.
Same!
Bought this based on Bill's play and it is excellent throughout. Thanks Bill.
Very nice indeed.
NICE!
>>> 8
>>> 8
Is the singer's name Vono Box?
Me likey like, very much....
Sounds like World Party.
Whoah, this is a very cool& catchy song; the vocals are strong, the guitars, bass and drums are amazing. Glad to hear something new!
I definitely hear David Byrne at the end.
Cool! Nice hooks.
kcar wrote:
Head of Rough Trade Records, Geoff Travis, has referred to Finn as "a young but maturing real artist in the vein of Nick Cave and David Bowie". So with David Byrne and Patti Smith thrown in, looks like he's got a lot of respectable musical territory covered.
Yeah, I'm hearing a lot more Bono than Byrne.
Head of Rough Trade Records, Geoff Travis, has referred to Finn as "a young but maturing real artist in the vein of Nick Cave and David Bowie". So with David Byrne and Patti Smith thrown in, looks like he's got a lot of respectable musical territory covered.
anumidium wrote:
Nope, Byrne wears his underwear much tighter
Channeling David Byrne, I love it!
Nope, Byrne wears his underwear much tighter
Gene (Still) Loves Jezebel? Cool 80's drumbeats!
anumidium wrote:
I was thinking...the imaginary son of David and Patti Smith.
Channeling David Byrne, I love it!
I was thinking...the imaginary son of David and Patti Smith.
Yuk - for a second or ten I thought it was U2. What a relief. Still gonna PSD though
daveesh wrote:
you mean the burning down the house theme or the vocals?
you mean the burning down the house theme or the vocals?
kcar wrote:
Yeah, I'm hearing a lot more Bono than Byrne.
Yeah...I agree
Yeah, I'm hearing a lot more Bono than Byrne.
Yeah...I agree
ajudd wrote:
Yeah, I'm hearing a lot more Bono than Byrne.
had to double check that this wasn't U2, or at least Bono.
Yeah, I'm hearing a lot more Bono than Byrne.
i like the guitar... nice track.
anumidium wrote:
you mean the burning down the house theme or the vocals?
Channeling David Byrne, I love it!
you mean the burning down the house theme or the vocals?
Channeling David Byrne, I love it!
This one is particularly tasty.
Giselle62 wrote:
My first thought was David Byrne, but Wikipedia says the singer is Finn Andrews. The band is out of London.
is it the guy who sang in violent femmes? tom verlaine? or david byrne?
My first thought was David Byrne, but Wikipedia says the singer is Finn Andrews. The band is out of London.
Love the vocals. I have heard too many good things today.
is it the guy who sang in violent femmes? tom verlaine? or david byrne?
had to double check that this wasn't U2, or at least Bono.
Familiar vocals not sure though
Sounds like it's going to turn into "Dancing Barefoot" any second now.
Indeed, I believe he is. I will see your 6 with a 7. Nice.
Is it just me, or is Bill rolling out an extraordinary amount of new cool music this week?
John Steinbeck's The Pearl remains a timely, haunting parable (I read my copy about every five years). Brian Eno & Harold Budd's LP The Pearl remains a timely, haunting ambient masterpiece and is the musical equivalent to the final line in Steinbeck's book. You must seek it out if you've never heard it.
Ok Wolford, thanks for the tip, I love Brian Eno too so will seek out that LP.