#ripkarlwallinger — Public Fediverse posts
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"C'mon pack your bags, clear the floor
Let's step out through the open door
Leave a note that says goodbyeBuild a new house down by the sea
Get to the place we were meant to be
You'll know it when you smileUp at the window, searchin' the sky
Looking for the rainbow and don't ask my
I wanna see the rainbow come
HeyWe'll be leaving on all sides, hmmm
When the rainbow comesMr. Postman, look and see
If there's a message in your bag for me
Could be a bomb or it could be a letter
It don't matter, it can only get better
Mr. Postman, look and see
If there's a message in your bag for me
You know it's been such a long, long time
Since I could laugh at this world of mine
Yeah, yeahSlippin' and slidin' around in your head
It's be-bop-a-lula then baby you're dead
So c'mon make a bright new dayI need a prayer here, need a blessing
Cast an eye back as you run
Turn around boy, see the rainbow come
HeyYou'll be leaving on all sides
When the rainbow comes
When the rainbow comesSee the world from all sides
When the rainbow comes
When the rainbow comes
Hey"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucxikbY5XT8
#WhenTheRainbowComes #WorldParty #PrivateRevolution #Resist #Resistance #RIPKarlWallinger #RestInPowerKarlWallinger #ResistanceIsFertile -
"Inside my future eye
What I see just makes me cry
I'm way down now
I'm way down now..."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZrIdbumFiI
#WayDownNow #WorldParty #RIPKarlWallinger #90sMusic #PowerPop #GoodbyeJumbo #KarlWallinger #FridayNightMusicVideos -
#SineadOConnor (#ShuhadaSadaqat) worked with #KarlWallinger on #WorldParty's 1990 release, "Goodbye Jumbo", on the song "Sweet Soul Dream".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJcop92PPT0
#FridayNightMusic #FridayNightMusicVideos #ActivismThroughMusic #IndiePop #90sMusic #RIPKarlWallinger #RIPSinead #RestInPower
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#Another1000Years - "The last track on #WorldParty's last album [#DumbingUp, 2000]. #SocialCommentary with a touch of the Beatles song Baby You're A Rich Man"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omc8AU931Io
#KarlWallinger #RIPKarlWallinger #RestInPower #ActivismThroughMusic #FridayNightMusicVideos
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“A flag is gonna be unfurled
It’s color is Green
You’ll seen it on screen
When we raise it high in the name of the World Party”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlqG5LMXHIo
#GreenParty #WorldParty #YourParty? #NeverGiveUp #FuckCapitalism #CorporateColonialism WON'T SAVE US!!!
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“World Party’s” 1985 Origins
The Waterboys’ Mike Scott Explains the Meaning Behind Their Late ’80s Hit “World Party”
by Al Melchior, March 13, 2024
"While #Live Aid was not as topical by the time The Waterboys released Fisherman’s Blues, a version of “World Party” had actually been written in the summer of 1985, just shortly after Live Aid and after the band’s previous album, This Is the Sea, had been completed. A demo for the song is included in The Waterboys’ 2024 box set 1985, which includes recorded and live performances the band produced along the way to making the final version of This Is the Sea, as well as a remastered version of the album. While “World Party” didn’t make it on to that album, you can hear the demo on the fifth disc (of six) of 1985.
The Relationship to Karl Wallinger’s World Party
The late multi-instrumentalist Karl Wallinger, who passed away Sunday (March 10), co-wrote “World Party” with Scott and Waterboys bassist Trevor Hutchinson while he was still a member of the band. Wallinger left The Waterboys in 1985, and he took the song’s name as the name for his new band. With his World Party, Wallinger would score hits in the U.S. with “Ship of Fools,” “Put the Message in the Box,” “Way Down Now,” and “Is It Like Today?” World Party also recorded a track called “World Party,” but it is a different song than The Waterboys’ version."
#RIPKarlWallinger #KarlWallinger #MikeScott #TheWaterboys #WorldParty
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Another big loss for me personally. #KarlWallinger inspired my activism in a time when most of my friends had given up and sold their souls to big corporations. #RIPKarlWallinger
“One of the finest musicians I've ever known”: Karl Wallinger, guitarist and singer of #WorldParty, dies at 66
A highly-regarded multi-instrumentalist and arranger, Wallinger was also a key early member of #TheWaterboys
By Jackson Maxwell
March 11, 2024"Karl Wallinger, the multi-instrumentalist and singer best known as the leader of the alt-rock band World Party, has died at the age of 66, his publicist announced today (March 11). No cause of death was given.
"'Karl Wallinger, the Welsh-born musician and composer better known as the singular force behind World Party, died Sunday, March 10,' read a statement on World Party's Facebook page. “Presciently ahead of his time with songs such as Ship Of Fools, Put The Message In The Box and Is It Like Today?, in addition to the magic of She’s The One and the Waterboys' Whole Of The Moon, Wallinger was 66.
"'Karl leaves behind a loving family, including wife Suzie Zamit, son Louis Wallinger, daughter Nancy Zamit, and two grandchildren.'
"A native of Wales, Wallinger took up music at an early age, becoming a proficient multi-instrumentalist – and a member of a number of bands – by his teens. An example of Wallinger's musical eclecticism and versatility can be found in his first prominent gig, as musical director of the West End production of The #RockyHorrorPictureShow.
"Paying tribute to his late bandmate on social media, the Waterboys' #MikeScott wrote, 'Just received this. Travel on well my old friend. You are one of the finest musicians I've ever known.'"
Read more:
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The Ballad of the Little Man
"He was doing fine in '39
Thank God he did not win
He kept playing on his fiddle
As he watched old Rome cave in
He sold love away from his children's hearts
And told them it was sin
Now we're all at the mercy, we're all at the mercy
Of that little man withinNow he's sitting in the gardens
As the acid rain comes in
He got it covered full of rhino heads
And boots of leopard skin
He got the means, he make the harvest high
But you can count those hungry people die
We're all at the mercy
Of the greedy man withinSo if you're feeling lonely, baby
If you're feeling blue
If you listen to your little friend
You know he'll tell you what to do
But if you hear his words and you get confused
Start believing they're all true
Then you have just been fooled again
Who said we won't get fooled again?
By the little man within"- #KarlWallinger, #WorldParty, 1986
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATGSSXJEvzs
#Fascism #RabidRight #Nationalism #Environmental #ClimateChange #80sMusic #Activism #Antifa #MAGA #MAGACult #Trump #TheBalladOfTheLittleMan #TheLittleManWithin #Hitler #BalladOfTheLittleMan #RIPKarlWallinger #Project2025 #USPol -
We need a RE-EVOLUTION! The WORLD PARTY is the ONLY PARTY WE NEED! UNITE!
Private Revolution
"If you want a revolution, baby
There is nothing like your own
You don't have to do all those burning books
Revolutionize at homeSomeone's been hiding the pieces
Someone been burning down the trees
So we need your revolution, baby
There's a planet to set freeWe are the revolution, baby
Come to take you home
If you say you want a revolution, baby
There is nothing like your own
We are the revolution, baby
Come to set you free
After you revolution, baby
There is nothing you can't beMan's been killing the tigers
Turn the green fields into sand
And their saying how much they respect our work
Of God and his fine old handBut the world spins on regardless
Which is lucky for you and me
'Cause of all the places in a years' ride from here
This is the only place to beWe are the revolution
Come to take you home
If you say you want a revolution, baby
There is nothing like your ownWe are the revolution, baby
Come to set you free
After you revolution, baby
There is nothing you can't beDon't need a red light
Don't need a blue light
Don't need a yellow lightTake off with the green light now
We got a revolution, baby
Come to take you home
If you say you want a revolution
There is nothing like your ownWe are the revolution, baby
We've come to set you free
After you revolution, baby
There is nothing you can't be"- Karl Wallinger, World Party, 1987
#GreenParty #ClimateCrisis #PrivateRevolution #EightiesMusic #80s #WorldParty #ShipOfFools #SaveMeFromTomorrow #StopCopCity #EarthFirst #FridayNightMusicVideos #RIPKarlWallinger #RIPSinead #sineadoconnor #ShuhadaSadaqat #RestoreNatureNow