Durutti Column "Never Know"

[simmon4100]

I really like Vini's vocals

[fsmorel123]

oh my god

[NEOMASOCHIST]

THIS SONG IS SO SEXY!

[InVINCEab13]

thank you for the waking dream :)

[hudsonquay]

I never knew how talented he was when I knew him, I guess I was too young to appreciate. Great guy though, I owe him a lot.

[stilldasayme]

Still, I think there are plenty of prog bands that are worthwhile, like Isis or Tool.

[sleepyfish]

feel so lucky to have stumbled upon this

[1000000hz]

yes it's totally beautiful remind me that new Alexandre Navarro Loka album is beauty too surely they got the same cosmic inspiration! i love Guthrie too...

[elevenart]

I still worship Durutti Column. Had my first listen in 1982 and numerous LP's that ended up on a Pima Indian reservation with unknown fate. Sigh.

[fanvidszs]

hypnagogic OG



[AndrexOxybox]

Can't help thinking that the actual Durutti comrades would have glassed 'em and got on with social revolution at a a smarter bpm,

[kemalettinkamu]

Vini has the thumb of Mark Knopfler!

[leeynnad]

Pure genius´s Vini Reilly ! Most secret delight of all the times ! too much secret....

[saxshing]

Fallen in love with this song! what guitar is that too??

[ruaryM]

@saxshing A 70's Gibson Les paul custom.

[SrAnonimo19]

A friend of mine recomended me this band.

And this song blew me away!

[lordsorgo]

I've seen so many horrid artists achieve fame and such popularity but a part of me believes it's better that the Durutti Column is just a whisper in the wind. I think the Durutti Column's fans are the few that appreciate true music and the beauty of pure sound. Why should it not remain that way?

[dan32113]

he influenced John Frusciante"s guitar playing style, or copied it!

[12inchvertical]

@dan32113 when this song came out Frusciante was about 10, so Reilly probably didn't copy J Fru too much :)

[dan32113]

@12inchvertical Vini Reilly influenced Frusciante, read my post!

[babsash1]

beautiful & moving. great video, thanx for posting. a real treasure...

[orthojt]

vinnie gave me my first guitar ++

[cananga47]

Superbe...THANKS

[jamesgfilms]

i want his jumper. Rad.

[GelGsound]

@jamesgfilms I'm digging his jumper too.

[MeRiAnNe666]

this song is breathtaking..his voice is amazing!

[bigbadchang]

Awesome song but whoa! The Coz wants his sweater back!!!

[draleon7]

For the militia group of the Spanish Civil War, see Durruti Column.....O' manchester - Vini Reilly , still going too !!

[fancynot]

T/TREMENDOUS *****

[holkatrol]

AMENAAZING.....

[zzippyman1]

Eno has good judgement in my view. "Never Known" uses all the space and time possible to create a thing of beauty that'll never fade from the memory. The production's so good this piece and others from LC were used to demo high-end turntables in the early 80's. Simply wonderful.

[MDJarv]

LC is one of Eno's all-time favorite albums, and it's clear to see why.

[RoofLight00]

This is real beauty.

[freudastaire]

Portugal loves you Vini

[BingoMandingo]

Greatest Guitarist Ever IMHO....... never felt this much emotion pour out of a guitar like Vini's.

[MrEblevin]

I had the pleasure of relaxing over drinks with these guys at the Bottom Line in 1985 after the 'Live' double CD came out. It was such a personal moment that I cherish to this day.

[WizLaudan73]

how nice does this does this still sound....

[alienCascais]

LC is one of the best records ever. I saw them Lisbon 1984... I still love them after all these years

[mattsonical]

couldn't imagine myself watching their MV now in 2010.....

[loxi59tica]

I saw The Durrutti Column at Stockton-on-Tees last month, they were fucking brilliant, one of the best gigs I've ever been to.

[Skott1966]

Amazing and beautiful song.

[carregalhe]

What a wonderful masterpiece! I can't believe it took so much time to me to know it!

[MDJarv]

Why is this so fucking good??

[noircluck]

@MDJarv because its so fucking good.

[noircluck]

@MDJarv 

[klebbe123]

wow this clip captures such a bittersweet feeling...

[TheRagingLight]

Perfect perfect song.

[HUMIBERT]

go to campus party, if you go y am going too

very very god.............

[PrincessOfZambia]

My friend knows Vini Reilly, she did the vocals for one of the songs - "How Unbelievable", I think... :S

[losfrikisdecuartoeso]

Perfecta.

Hipnotizante.

Maravillosa.

[IamScarface]

Such a wonderful song! This really stands out amongst those from the turn of the eighties. Never knew whether to take Vini Reilly seriously, but this whole album is a killer!

[erictheviking871]

i like the bad brains and early genesis foxtrot and the like i like duritti column petshopboys reggae soul ska soco rumba the only thing i cant do with is heavy metal its fuckin shite try king crimsons earth bound

[coitivada]

The best song!

[hectorianus]

El nombre del grupo, deriva del de la columna de milicianos anarquistas durante la guerra civil española, a cuyo frente se encontraba Buenaventura Durruti, llamada Columna Durruti. Parece ser que Vini Reilly vio el nombre, con falta de ortografía incluida, en el poster de un grupo político situacionista inglés(organización de intelectuales revolucionarios, entre cuyos principales objetivos estaba el de acabar con la sociedad de clases sistema opresivo y combatir la dominación capitalista.)

[hectorianus]

Columna como formación de combate popular y guerra de guerrillas. La columna Durruti salio de barcelona hacia zaragoza en julio de 1936 con 2500 milicianos para recuperar la ciudad. Tierra y libertad.Tiznaos y libertarios. Durruti murió de un disparo a quemarropa. Sirva esto de reconocimiento de los que murieron por defender la dignidad de los pueblos. Paz amor , lucha perdida de los oprimidos. Sangre derramada que hará brotar la esperanza.

[fiscornioman]

Lo siento, pero no creo que este grupo tenga nada que ver con lo citado, ni que el nombre sea por honrar a los susodichos.

Es mi opinion.

[furocuma]

Siento informarte q en UK no todos son subditos de "su bajestad"...Vini es activista y tiene opinion... por eso es q su talento no es apreciado como se deberia

[DrShak2009]

Amazing.

[pecosbull]

the best piece in new wave's history!!!! Durutti Column are THE BEST!! LC is the best record on the world!

[smit0932]

Ye, LC is one of the best records ever made. DC is great, listen to the lost tracks!

[carefreecrow]

Vini rules , true artists are rarely appreciated in their own lifetime !

[JODIDOMIZIO]

Durutti Colummn has just published a 2 Cd's "BEST OF", mainly focused on its early works. Quite good anyway !!!

[HarmonicsExplorer]

This is absolutely amazing.  My first listen of this band. I found out about them in the comments on a 1981 BBC U2 clip of The Ocean here on Youtube.

[zombytozom]

sencillamente magistral!!

[dan32113]

that guitar is perfection! you can"t play better than that, i"ve never heard anyone! & i rate Duane Allman, Beck, Hendrix, Reindhardt, Cooder very highly. but Vini is up with the best!

[rodcrippler]

i know what you mean, but that is very relative, since Vini's musical approach to guitar is really different than what you would expect of a guitar hero, he doesn't have technique, speed or any of the usual stuff, he experiments with different sounds on the guitar while playing few notes as much as possible, now the results are incredible, but i would catalogue Vini more as a master sound engineer/producer than as a guitarplayer per se

[dan32113]

However You class Vini, it isn"t run of the mill. He has a unique sound which is the thing to strive for, after all Clapton is a great guitar player but I know who i"d rather sound like, & it ain"t the one from the Yardbirds. Another sound I love is John Martyn on songs like small hours using echoplex.

[primusvix]

this looks loke green park.....is it?

[GlamrockHippy]

My dad loves Durutti Column & introduced me to them as a young kid, and I've grown to love them too :]

[rodcrippler]

can someone explain me what relation does it have beetween post punk and punk?

most punk is shit and this is awesome!

[Gwyllm01]

Well, that is a matter of opinion, but truthfully, as people fell in love with their instruments, and learned more than three chords, post-punk emerged. There was always this element though early on. It just isn't recognized....

[the1mills]

post punkers realized (most) punk was shit, meaningless and nihilistic, so they created post punk!

[rodcrippler]

actually, it's tremendously ironical that Johnny Rotten became experimental with Public Image Ltd. after years of trashing prog rock, even the flagship of classic punk realized what good music is all about

[deadboys1010]

He trashed the likes of Emerson, Lake, and Palmer and Pink Floyd the other billions of overly technical bullshitters in music while praising unique bands like Can and Kraftwerk.

PiL was most certaintly not a prog band. I don't think any post-punk band set out to recreate Pink Floyd, but instead sonically expand on a movement that became fashionable instead of revolutionary.

The Durutti Column deserves far more respect than they ever get. Vini approaches music like NO ONE ELSE.

cheers.

[rodcrippler]

PiL was definitely not a prog band, but they introduced some experimentation into their music, therefore they could be easily related to psychedelic rock, one step closer to prog. Durutti Column's as actually into the min9imalism trend, and i truly enjoy their music

btw, why all that aggresion against proggrers, dude?

[deadboys1010]

agreed on the experimentation part, but I'd still liken it closer to Dub and Krautrock with a different approach.

I don't hate all prog bands, just the scene really. Bands like, say Rush and early King Crimson and Pink Floyd (except the tedious 20 minute jams) are alright by me. But into the late-70s and the prog metal break-out the music became obnoxious with over-done guitar solos and singers with no emotion who didn't seem to have a purpose. Too much technicality, and yet nothing special.

[rodcrippler]

Krautrock's in a way prog rock too, hence the similarities with Asia and other 80's prog bands'sound like KC's and Yes'. well, i agree metal per se is usually aggresive and pointless (even tho i like most ofthe music), but prog rock is usually much more than just technicality, personally i enjoy that technicality because it transmits much more to me than mere 3 mins love songs or plain mainstream rock n roll -just words with background music-, prog rock makes music a true artistic expression imo

[MrBojoo]

@deadboys1010 I agree, all action no attraction.

[miguelmartin6]

@deadboys1010 que no tiene emoción???? hay pocas guitarras que digan tanto, no importa ni que es lo que canta

[AORCrazy]

@deadboys1010 You watch through horses eyes my friend, if you don't listen to music you don't have competence to say what you say. I listen to this kind of music and 10 more styles. Please don't spread your unsatisfaction and frustrations around.

[javoutube1]

@rodcrippler thank you

[reanimate21]

this is punk! really? you think that way?

[fiouk]

Vini for ever, incredible artist, incredible LP, incredible song, i would die to see them in concert

[marceloshida]

amazing. i'v saw live videos of VR, is this the first video clip!

[lopezmt]

The real title of this song is "Never Known".

[Crijevo]

It's from the album 'LC', released in 1981. A beautiful album (like everything Durutti released so far :)

[gigi46]

Absolutely fantastic. I love his melancholic guitare sound.

It's painful.

[sawbird]

exquisite

[drewj50]

beautiful

[amicigus]

Sem palavras! O disco LC do Duruti é muuuuuito bom. Simplesmente todo disco é fabuloso! Me dá muitas saudades da década de 80. Queria que já tivessem inventado uma máquina do tempo!

[leoboythecowboy]

Amicigus, será que vce lembra o nome da gravadora que lançou Durutti Column no Brasil por volta de 86, creio que foi a mesma que lançou Felt, mas não me lembro bem..., e é verdade voce está certo bons tempos.

[amicigus]

Se não me engano foi a Factory Records ou a Stiletto.

Muito bons tempos! Grande conjunto! Adoro especialmente o álbum LC, que ao meu ver marcou a banda como sui-generis no mundo!

[overtonico]

Olá, sobre a gravadora...foi o selo Eldorado..., que chegou a tocá-lo na sua programação diária e usou uma faixa como vinheta de abertura p/ algum informativo...se não me engano.

[JODIDOMIZIO]

Such a pity!In France nobody knows DURUTTI COLUMN.I am sure that ROBERT SMITH have deeply listened how Vini REILLY plays the guitar, at least in the early 80's. I got his CD's released in 2006, still brilliant.Maybe one day, history will rate THE DURUTTI COLUMN as one of the major bands from that time.

[pleasekillme1984]

I'm French and I do know and appreciate them, hey!!!

But I understand what you mean, mon pote. Not easy to put some post-punk in parties at the moment and this sucks!

[rodcrippler]

you are telling me fella! try to put progressive rock at parties!

[oneilexpress]

my cusin is in this band now, poppy morgan on piano, but only joined recently

[kikolakkes]

una maravilla para el alma....

[nunsexmonk]

It just breaks my heart over and over again

[xaindsleena1]

I have been meaning to check out this guy's music for ages and I have to say I wish I done it sooner - I'm very impressed by what I've heard. I can see where Flying Saucer Attack get (at least one of) their influences from!

[poolsidenyc]

Nice observation for FSA.

[kerdubennak]

fbuleux

[brian200826]

Going to see them in Newcastle tonight!!  Yeeha!!!

[yerzus]

Hermosos acordes, ojalá mas gente pueda tener acceso a esta maravillosa música.

[WriterInSanFrancisco]

Young Vini Reilly. What a vision. I think I could clear up his gloom with a healthy tumble on that grass there.

[pibrocher]

Never heard of these guys, so far this is my favorite song

[saulo07]

A taste of the 80's, I mean the GOOD old eighties...Jesus I had forgotten all the simplicity of a well played guitar and harmony. Now that I found Durutti Column, I´m gonna search The Waterboys! This youtube thing rocks!

[TraumPolizei]

Vini should've joined NewOrder instead of the drummer's girlfriend.

[JODIDOMIZIO]

Yes, you are bloody right !!!!

[BlueWaltz]

perfect!

[XxsilentninjaxX]

Vinny is a guitar god.

[abracadabra287]

brilliant stuff.

[philipbebb]

good do

[cappan03]

Vini is the only true survivor of the post-punk era. Check out his new CD, 'Sunlight to Blue... Blue to Blackness' : outstanding tunes from one of the best guitarists ever. His music still sounds so fresh after all these years...

[SEMHEADPHONES]

Thanks Viny!

[lemosrui]

A musica da minha vida que perdorou por mais tempo ...

[rueckwaertssalto]

this music is just good

[palelightbeauty]

A word of advice: handle the depth of sadness with care, or it will tear us apart.

[carefreecrow]

Great sound of Vin, saw him mid 80's near empty venue!!! All the better for it ...GENIUS

[Tuttle9955i]

Indeed sir!

[carefreecrow]

man think tune is good??

[Tuttle9955i]

man think so - man stamp feet and grunt

[carefreecrow]

man grunt & stamp feet like little girl-man !

[Tuttle9955i]

man think man take piss :~[

[Tuttle9955i]

man does pirouette...

[carefreecrow]

man pirouettes like big russian gay boy dancer with socks down pants... man does !

[Tuttle9955i]

man rofl

[carefreecrow]

man rofw ! (rolls on floor wanking)

[reanimate21]

speechless.

[vibrophonic]

i bought the cassette tape of this album in 90/91 and i was visiting relatives during christmas in Tahoe, and i remember just sitting indoors listening this album while staring out the window at the snow covered mountains, so now whenever i listen to this album it always puts a visual of a desolate snow covered land, Viny is one of my top fave guitarists, my fave guitarists would be Robyn Guthrie of Cocteau Twins, Johnny Marr of Smiths, & Viny Reilly.

[thread14]

Nice.

[swe64]

Beautiful, it is worth six stars!

[bauhaus85]

I'd never thought someone could create such tunes with a guitar! Awesome and beautiful...

[Acidmarx]

the return... the best album of factory.

The essence of Manchester.

la columna de durruti siempre a la vanguardia.

[rogierlulof]

great

!

[MiguelKispo]

At it's time... this song was just "something in the future"! Outstanding (that's the sole word to define it)...

[olli7776]

Haunting beauty. This really takes me back to the day before 'the day' as we say in Manchester, (or rather 'back in the day') the pre Hacienda Factory years. The Return of the Durutti Column was the first Factory album I owned and it was always one of my favourites. Incidentally, this 'video' was probably shot in Marie Louise Gardens on Palatine Road in Didsbury, not far from the original Factory HQ. The location was used for a lot of DC publicity.

[minnessota]

Great song. Thanks for sharing.

[nicck]

this is great! i bought LC on record not so long ago, brilliant album