Asylums in Jerusalem

[emile235]

one of the best records ever made but i have no idea who or what it is about if anything/ Help me out

[80schick67]

@emile235 It's about the Israel/Palestine conflict and the madness surrounding it, very pertinent even now.

[napoleonbonerpart]

@emile235 I remember when this came out and Radio 1 invited Green to the studio as a guest. What he said then was that he'd been reading about the time when Jesus was around and that there were loads of these prophets doing the same thing. They used to preach in the markets and live up trees and eat insects and locusts and just generally bum around. The Roman authorities didn't know what to do with them all so they built asylums to lock them away. "He's a Saint, but there's so many"

[emile235]

@napoleonbonerpart i see. Thanks,

[sheamie4]

Each time i come back to this it is as fresh as always. Hard to believe it is nearly 30 years old.

[karray21]

Wicked track....nuff said!

[simonwleeds]

Wow, haven't this great tune in so long. Why does nothing today match the inspiration of songs like these?!

[80schick67]

my mate wants this played at this funeral and I'm happy to comply. Classic!!

[rudyprotrudy08]

I had this on tape!! This track is gorgeous. If anyone doesn't like it they need their head testing!

[shan344]

I found this album used in Kent, Ohio, USA in 87 and have loved it since...threw out all my records, never thought i'd hear it again

[pleomorphia]

i bought this s a 7" picture disc

Did you know that Green left school with 11 O'Levels?

[chevgr]

i got 13

[emile235]

@pleomorphia yeah but he probably derives his sustenance from something like Sam Cooke's WONDERFUL WORLD "don't know much about a science book" etc but thanks for sharing that anyway

[heru1966]

Takes me right back to hear this. I remember hearing it a lot on evening radio 1, this and The Sweetest Girl.

[MrAshbayThorn]

and so thier should be

[bgbreakdown]

Ah! I bought this 45 in the Rough Trade store in SF when the song came out. Good times!

[rubasub]

great to hear such a rad set of punks get so stylish without losing the original flare...you can still hear the early creativity in all this pop polish.

[rudyprotrudy08]

@rubasub Beg pardon............?

[cutekitty11]

thanks for this...remember walkin across peckham rye with this song in my head...the prospect of a muggin never felt so stylish!

[brunsk123]

thanks - this reminds me of kissing a beautiful boy called Iggy. Room D12. Raymont Hall, Goldsmiths. Never thought I would ever hear it again, so many thanks for posting. Ig...who loves ya!

[MehefinHeulog]

superb

thanks

[meltinghat]

this is a brilliant song, i first heard it when my dad played it to me on the single. after finding a load of singles up from this era. anyway, great song and great album

[deadvideokid]

First heard Chris Morris play this on GLR in 1993. Top tune.

[petermontego]

I haven't heard this for 25 years and it's still excellent, whereas some songs you find after years are disappointingly not quite what was lodged in your memory. Thanks.

[georged154]

Oh my god this takes me back to my mid-teens. Cant quite remember it sounding like this, maybe cos its such along time since hearing it, but its gr8. Thanks for taking me back all them years.

[gassiothouse]

I've got the album with this on. so different from the later, disco friendly stuff, although I love that too. Green has done something recently too.

[shan344]

I hated myself 20 years ago for throwing this album out, I could never find it on CD or tape. Thanks for posting!! I had such a crush on the lead singer in the 80's. Is he gay?

[flashburst]

I never thought i'd hear this song again, thanx for uploading.

[toonz666]

Yeah, the track that woke me up to this band in my early teen years.....a wonderful reminder

[jaffa182182]

class

[rosaroo123]

the track that turned me onto Scritti and probably their best of the era.