Your favorite tracks on ... "UP"

I went for No Way Out, Growing Up and Sky Blue.

My first impulse was Signal To Noise, but I think the big drama of this song is starting not to age well.

My second impulse was I Grieve. While it certainly is an outstanding song that depicts the numbness that takes hold when you lose someone very dear as well as the final reassertion of life, I cannot in good faith call it a "favourite" track on UP.

Had the question been for the most accomplished song on UP, the ones that do what they do better than the other songs do what they do, I Grieve would have been first by a long margin on my list.

No Way Out is, perhaps, my proxy for I Grieve. I like Growing Up for its general "life is a funny old thing" stance and the upbeat music, and Sky Blue for its meditativeness (if that isn't a word it should be).

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I went for No Way Out, Growing Up and Sky Blue.

My first impulse was Signal To Noise, but I think the big drama of this song is starting not to age well.

My second impulse was I Grieve. While it certainly is an outstanding song that depicts the numbness that takes hold when you lose someone very dear as well as the final reassertion of life, I cannot in good faith call it a "favourite" track on UP.

Had the question been for the most accomplished song on UP, the ones that do what they do better than the other songs do what they do, I Grieve would have been first by a long margin on my list.

No Way Out is, perhaps, my proxy for I Grieve. I like Growing Up for its general "life is a funny old thing" stance and the upbeat music, and Sky Blue for its meditativeness (if that isn't a word it should be).

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very interesting examinations

actually there are indeed better versions of Signal To Noise, i.e. on New Blood or the one on the Tibet CD.

I disagree regarding I Grieve - that really touches me, probably even stronger because of the very personal experience related to that song. So it will always be a favorite of mine (although I am pleased he never tried to do that with orchestra)

Come to think of it, imagine Peter did with Signal To Noise what he did with Here Comes The Flood: Take the original superbigscreen arrangement and reduce it to the bare bones in a way that retains the essence of the song. Now that might be very exciting!

i grieve, because the lyrics and the musical arrangement communicate very accuratley what this song means.

i wonder how the 'up' album would have sounded if it hadn't been so delayed and over-produced. lovetown could be considered the missing link between 'us' and the later releases, that is 'ovo', 'long walk home' and 'up'.

Growing Up

More Than This

Signal To Noise

I agree about sky blue! Maybe Peter has further developed versions somewhere in his archives 😂

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More Than This was high on my list in the beginning - but then I couldn’t stand it anymore. Sky Blue is the eine track that has always fascinated me. Probably because it’s a track where you can feel they had an idea and couldn’t make it work … until that day.

I love Sky Blue. A little part of me thinks Peter “cheated” a bit by taking the vocals from the song Cloudless on the Rabbit Proof Fence soundtrack and adding them to the end of Sky Blue, but that feeling is overwhelmed by the vocals from the Blind Boys of Alabama. They are so beautiful and powerful they sometimes bring tears to my eyes.

Growing Up

I Grieve

The Barry Williams Show