so i was working in a record store when the lp 'explicit material' came in as an in store copy promo. the manager was into whatever crap was popular that week, and there was a lot of it. so when the whitney houston promo record also came in that day, i quickly discarded the vinyl record portion of the whitney album and inserted the blue in heaven album into the the whitney lp jacket, since the manager had seen there was a new whitney album that had come in. that was how i never had to hear it.
this song is from 'explict material'. it's good, especially when at it's release there was just so much horrible music at the time. i know, i worked in a record store at the time. this album is more accessible than 'all the god's men', although hardcore bih fans preferred that album more, i ithink. 'gods' was a little too experimental or thick sounding for me, but i did like it.
seen them and something happens and a few other bands at an irish weekend in the mean fiddler in london mid to late eighties, and i can tell you this, the lead singer takes been spat on better than the laed singer of something happens
Raw, Intense and sweaty along with chants of ' Shano is a wanker' referring to his Hot Press interview where he proudly announced ejaculation as his favorite pastime
I remember when this was new in tower records !!!! love this band to death great stuff !!!!! they need to release and make cds again ........... the one song you don't here about that i liked , was called ( the beating in my head ) miss them a lot !!!!!
Anyone have footage of them from the Baggot in 87? I have the audio but not the video! Would love to have it - great Wed nights a lifetime ago....be happy to trade CD for DVD...
@marimod nah you;re grand thanks. I'd be happy to post you a copy of the Baggot gig though if you like. Contact me through the subscriber page and give me your post address and I'll stick a copy in the post.
One of the best bands in the mid 80s. I had several of their songs on tape and I swear that I can't find any of their MP3's to download or even buy. Thank you soooo much for putting this up. I've loved this band for 20+ years...so thank you!
Wasnt aware of them that much back in the 80s. Heard their "all the gods men" album for the first time last week, one of my friends brought it over on vinyl, sounds amazingly fresh, great songs and of course Hannetts great production! Time they reformed!
Amazing Band! great to see this. Saw them December 87, Westport Castlecourt! What a gig!. ears deaffened for a week! Been caning Explicit Material for 23 years! Love This Band!. Yes play more shows lads!
i've been looking for this song for awhile (not having ready access to my cassettes back home in storage) and started to think i made the song up but here it is! thanks!!
The best Irish Band Ever.... The gigs at Sir Henrys were some of the best nights i've ever had... does anyone remember the lark by the lee when BIH played... Brilliant!
I love Blue In Heaven also, they're one of my favorite band. I wouldn't say they were the best Irish Band, as i could mention another one (you might know them): This Burning Effigy
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED FOR ALL THE PEOPLE WHO LIKE THE DARK, GOTH STUFF!!!
One of the reasons I started playing bass 23 years ago! Not that the playing was anything so hot, but it was thick, repetitive, simple, driving, all the things I like in bass playing.
Massive BIH fan from Boston, MA. These guys should have been massive. Really great to see this stuff posted. Trying to track down the SUPERNAUT album Shane did with Dave Long (ex-Into Paradise) Have both BIH records digitally. Happy to swap.
Hey I have a bunch of BIH stuff up to the Explicit period and I even have the Supernaut CD which is not too shabby. Would love to hear from anyone with the Rock'n'Roll RIP EP or ahyone with anything by the Blue Angels incarnation. And Shane et al if you've found this I hope all is well and thanks for the great memories!!
I had the album this song was on bac in high school in the 80's and I used to listen to it constantly. I didn't even know that this had a video! I love his voice. *sighs*
Thank you indeed. I've been looking for the two albums of BIH for years now. Unforunately, the vinyl albums I had are gone. Anyone know where I can get digital copies of songs from Blue In Heaven?
Thank you very much for uploading the video of this great song. I love BiH too. I'm from Spain and I really appreciate this video I've never seen before.
blue in heaven and the sound are my 2 favorite bands ever and it is soooo hard to find stuff by them, i have been trying to find this video for years, i mean literallt since like 90 when i first heard blue in heaven.
is there any possible way i could get a copy of these videos!!!!!?????
Good to see another fan of BiH, there aren't many of us around. I posted another video earlier, of the B-side to this, "beating in my head". I also have some live stuff that I'll upload over the next few days.
I would make you a copy of this stuff, but as you can see the original is not great quality, and it would degrade further if I was to copy it again. Also, I'm in the UK (PAL) and you're in the US (NTSC).
Not even good quality sound i can found in internet, not even the name! And here...i just wrote the words because i'm writing every favourite bands... All Gods Men and "Sometimes" are a must!
so i was working in a record store when the lp 'explicit material' came in as an in store copy promo. the manager was into whatever crap was popular that week, and there was a lot of it. so when the whitney houston promo record also came in that day, i quickly discarded the vinyl record portion of the whitney album and inserted the blue in heaven album into the the whitney lp jacket, since the manager had seen there was a new whitney album that had come in. that was how i never had to hear it.
1skullduggery 1 month ago
Top of the range.release it on cd
TheCoolbreeze1804 1 month ago
this song is from 'explict material'. it's good, especially when at it's release there was just so much horrible music at the time. i know, i worked in a record store at the time. this album is more accessible than 'all the god's men', although hardcore bih fans preferred that album more, i ithink. 'gods' was a little too experimental or thick sounding for me, but i did like it.
1skullduggery 4 months ago
My friend's Irish husband has just converted my ancient cassette of this album to CD so I am happy :D
tablaqueen 4 months ago
Thanks for posting! Yet, another one of "those [underrated] bands" from the 80's... good stuff. Also check out the Woodentops and the Leather Nun.
AnyRoadAnyTime 9 months ago
seen them and something happens and a few other bands at an irish weekend in the mean fiddler in london mid to late eighties, and i can tell you this, the lead singer takes been spat on better than the laed singer of something happens
jamesjosephbible 1 year ago
great band, I saw them in Letterkenny
ciaraturley 1 year ago
fantastic memories of BIH gigs.
Raw, Intense and sweaty along with chants of ' Shano is a wanker' referring to his Hot Press interview where he proudly announced ejaculation as his favorite pastime
raycongo 1 year ago
have just rediscovered blue in heaven and the subterreneans thanks to you tube
great memories of the baggot new inn and lark in the parks of the 80s
have to dig out the vinyl and get a needle for my record deck
damianjfarrell 1 year ago
I remember when this was new in tower records !!!! love this band to death great stuff !!!!! they need to release and make cds again ........... the one song you don't here about that i liked , was called ( the beating in my head ) miss them a lot !!!!!
wackattack180 1 year ago
Anyone have footage of them from the Baggot in 87? I have the audio but not the video! Would love to have it - great Wed nights a lifetime ago....be happy to trade CD for DVD...
lisduggan64 1 year ago
@lisduggan64
I have an FM recording of a Dublin gig that was brodcasted by Dave Fanning in 85 if you want a swap?
marimod 1 year ago
@marimod nah you;re grand thanks. I'd be happy to post you a copy of the Baggot gig though if you like. Contact me through the subscriber page and give me your post address and I'll stick a copy in the post.
lisduggan64 1 year ago
brilliant
james
the grunts
JAMESSPILLANE123 1 year ago
can somebody post the lyrics?
joleen37 2 years ago
The Horrors - "Mirror's Image" sounds very like this.....
gaughanpaul 2 years ago
Not at all. Very different and much worse.
stevekilbey 2 years ago
One of the best bands in the mid 80s. I had several of their songs on tape and I swear that I can't find any of their MP3's to download or even buy. Thank you soooo much for putting this up. I've loved this band for 20+ years...so thank you!
MrsConservativeCHIC 10 months ago
Wasnt aware of them that much back in the 80s. Heard their "all the gods men" album for the first time last week, one of my friends brought it over on vinyl, sounds amazingly fresh, great songs and of course Hannetts great production! Time they reformed!
andymill32 2 years ago
Amazing Band! great to see this. Saw them December 87, Westport Castlecourt! What a gig!. ears deaffened for a week! Been caning Explicit Material for 23 years! Love This Band!. Yes play more shows lads!
arcane231 2 years ago
BIH please play just pne gig for us
JAMESSPILLANE123 2 years ago
YAY!!! I FOUND IT!! Saw these guys in Harvard Square in Boston in the very late 80's and FELL in LOVE. Very fresh and rock hard! MORE MORE MORE!
thunderwolf19 2 years ago
Hi,do u Have 'across my heart'.
tubero2569 2 years ago
Yes I do, but not on video.
mickrocks 2 years ago
i've been looking for this song for awhile (not having ready access to my cassettes back home in storage) and started to think i made the song up but here it is! thanks!!
newwavenympho 2 years ago
The best Irish Band Ever.... The gigs at Sir Henrys were some of the best nights i've ever had... does anyone remember the lark by the lee when BIH played... Brilliant!
clampett81 3 years ago
I love Blue In Heaven also, they're one of my favorite band. I wouldn't say they were the best Irish Band, as i could mention another one (you might know them): This Burning Effigy
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED FOR ALL THE PEOPLE WHO LIKE THE DARK, GOTH STUFF!!!
JudeFawley666 3 years ago
fantastic thank you so much for posting the video. the nights i used to listen to this in my bedroom pure time travel
KEANETRANSPORT 3 years ago
Brilliant video thanks so much for posting!!!!!
colmranger 3 years ago
Absolutely class!!! Ive been looking to track down this for years!! Brings me right back!!! This Band should have been massive!!!
Stegner101 4 years ago
Oh man!!! Where the hell is my Blue In Heaven tape...Yes this was when vinyl and tapes ruled...Or maybe not!lol
thirteensamhain 4 years ago 3
One of the reasons I started playing bass 23 years ago! Not that the playing was anything so hot, but it was thick, repetitive, simple, driving, all the things I like in bass playing.
jsorensen 4 years ago
Massive BIH fan from Boston, MA. These guys should have been massive. Really great to see this stuff posted. Trying to track down the SUPERNAUT album Shane did with Dave Long (ex-Into Paradise) Have both BIH records digitally. Happy to swap.
TimOak14 4 years ago
Hey I have a bunch of BIH stuff up to the Explicit period and I even have the Supernaut CD which is not too shabby. Would love to hear from anyone with the Rock'n'Roll RIP EP or ahyone with anything by the Blue Angels incarnation. And Shane et al if you've found this I hope all is well and thanks for the great memories!!
mtalby 4 years ago
Blue In Heaven are excellent, Hugh Jones & Martin Hannett productions are great to listen to, even now, it still sounds fresh.
Supernaut CD is not great, although the Into Paradise are better.
I've heard that BIH loved the obscure bands The Chameleons / The Sound & Comsat Angels.
maisiew123 3 years ago
I do still enjoy BIH even today. Massive Chameleons fan as well. I did track down the Supernaut and actually think it is pretty good. Rock on.
TimOak14 3 years ago
We need to get these guys back together !!!
Not even U2 never matched their intensity live
They made the hair stand up on my back !!!
Brilliant!! Anyone remember the Sir Henry gigs Cork and The Mean Fiddler London
I thought I was the only BIH FAN still alive
The Blue angels same guys more or less
James - Drummer with The Grunts . Cork.
JAMESSPILLANE123 4 years ago
jaysus that brings me back
areland 5 years ago
I had the album this song was on bac in high school in the 80's and I used to listen to it constantly. I didn't even know that this had a video! I love his voice. *sighs*
horrorgirl71 5 years ago
here they come down your street, big heads and little feat....
miketb42 5 years ago
Classic 80's Irish rock - so much of it has slipped under the radar
ajhleix 5 years ago
Thank you indeed. I've been looking for the two albums of BIH for years now. Unforunately, the vinyl albums I had are gone. Anyone know where I can get digital copies of songs from Blue In Heaven?
kizzileroy 5 years ago
Hey! Thanks for this.
joeconor 5 years ago
Thank you very much for uploading the video of this great song. I love BiH too. I'm from Spain and I really appreciate this video I've never seen before.
Thanks a lot!!
attisdolens 5 years ago
THANK YOU SO GO**MN MUCH!!!!
blue in heaven and the sound are my 2 favorite bands ever and it is soooo hard to find stuff by them, i have been trying to find this video for years, i mean literallt since like 90 when i first heard blue in heaven.
is there any possible way i could get a copy of these videos!!!!!?????
newwavepop 5 years ago
Good to see another fan of BiH, there aren't many of us around. I posted another video earlier, of the B-side to this, "beating in my head". I also have some live stuff that I'll upload over the next few days.
I would make you a copy of this stuff, but as you can see the original is not great quality, and it would degrade further if I was to copy it again. Also, I'm in the UK (PAL) and you're in the US (NTSC).
Keep watching.....
mickrocks 5 years ago
UNBELIEVEBLE!!!!
Not even good quality sound i can found in internet, not even the name! And here...i just wrote the words because i'm writing every favourite bands... All Gods Men and "Sometimes" are a must!
ezisdog 5 years ago
I tried to follow the track of the band, included called to Island records a 100 years ago...nothing !
We are very few here in POrtugal...but we do exist also!
I Still can not believe this. BLUE IN HEAVEN. Some friends have the vynil but we are still trying to find ao to get the best from it. Its unique...
That CD, DVD, whatever, could be possible for me?
ezisdog 5 years ago