The House Of Love - Pink Frost (cover The Chills)

"P I N K F R O S T"
I want to stop my crying
I want to stop my crying
But she's lying there dying
How can I live when you see what I've done?
How can I live when you see what I've done?
What can I do if she dies?
What can I do if she dies?
What can I do if she's lost?
Just the thought fills my heart with Pink Frost
I thought I was dreaming -
so I didn't heed her screaming
I'm so scared
I'm so scared
She won't move and I'm holding her head
She won't move and I'm holding her head
She's lost...Bye Bye Bye
She's lost...Bye Bye Bye
She's lost...Bye Bye Bye
Pink frost...Bye Bye Bye
I'm really not lying
I'm so scared
I'll have to stop my crying
Now she's dead
What can I do if she dies?
What can I do if she dies?
What can I do if she's lost?
Just the thought fills my heart with Pink Frost
(Oh no!)

The House Of Love came together in early 1986 in a shabby bedsit at 8 Allingham Street, Islington when Guy Chadwick (vocals and guitar) played a new song to his girlfriend Suzi Gibbons. Chadwick's previous band, Kingdoms, had enjoyed a one-single career on RCA, and in their wake he found himself with a batch of songs, but no band and no label. The song was Christine and suddenly the seeds of his new band were sown. Guy had decided to form a new guitar based band having seen the Jesus and Mary Chain play one of their famous riot gigs at the Electric Ballroom, London. He decided to name his new band after the book "A Spy In the House Of Love" by Anais Nin.

He placed an advert in Melody Maker and recruited Terry Bickers (guitar), New Zealander Chris Groothuizen (bass) and Andrea Heukamp (guitar and vocal) alongside old friend Pete Evans (drums). The House of Love was now properly born and they soon began jamming together at Terry's Camberwell squat. Word spread quickly through the area and they soon began to play gigs at various squats, a disused cinema last used by Dickie Dirts jeans warehouse. The Dickie Dirts gigs soon became a local 'happening' as did gigs at Stoke Newington's The Three Crowns...
Source: http://hem.passagen.se/nyholm/holindex.html

Pink Frost is B-Side of "Girl With the Loneliest Eyes" (12") Written-By - Phillipps* , Moore* from The Chills.

Una gran cancion de The Chills, interpretada con gran calidad por The House Of Love.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• THE HOUSE OF LOVE
• PINK FROST
• THE CHILLS
• PSYCHEDELIC
• INDIE POP

[franklinribeiro]

Sorry The Chills, but this version is better than the original one. :)

[ILUBRYCE]

love it!

[sonofsilence]

@Shirokinukatsukami being from NZ I never realised that the Chills even got heard outside the country. It's good to know they did well. By any chance have you also heard the Clean?

[Shirokinukatsukami]

@franklinribeiro

Not quite, it is a decent version but none shall ever match the original. For one, this is too jaunty.

[Shirokinukatsukami]

@sonofsilence

Why? The song ws a big hit in a time not far removed from this band. They are basically contemporaries.

[StrangerToEarth]

This is sweeter and safer than The Chills original - it makes pink frost, the feeling of deadly chill you feel in the face of death, a boppy thing.

The Chills made it a deeply melancholy, jarring song that gives me goosebumps every time I hear it.

[ReptilesHouse]

@franklinribeiro yes!!

[gemimasaliva]

Excellent cover. Good how they managed to keep that eery melancholy of the original in a different way!

[fenctrl]

@diskochimp

agreed.

[permanentbliss1]

minimalistic and beautiful, love it ;-p

[sonofsilence]

wow I'm impressed that they know this song.