In February 2021, they released their tenth studio album entitled Riding on the Tide of Love to commercial success in the UK. He discovers the stories behind the songs and how Deacon Blue became one of Scotland's best loved bands. The album, widely praised as Deacon Blue’s finest work, has the overtones of a concept album relating to the struggles of urban life in the inner city. The songs "Long Distance from Just Across the Road" (from Loaded), "Town to Be Blamed" (Live) (from When Will You Make My Telephone Ring (1st Release), and "Ronnie Spector" (from Dignity (2nd Release)) were not included, though "Ronnie Spector" was included on the follow-up compilation Ooh Las Vegas.

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The short intro, "Born in a Storm", melodic and interspersed with an unmistakably gloomy atmosphere created by the name, launches into the title track "Raintown", a natural extension of this plot. Five years later, the band held a reunion gig in 1999, and this led on to a new album, Walking Back Home, with the band now working on a part-time basis. A new book about the Glasgow rock band Deacon Blue has revealed the lengths a photographer went to in capturing shots for their debut album cover. Ross, a former school teacher originally from Dundee, was the group's frontman, penning the majority of Deacon Blue's songs. The following year, Ross and Lorraine tied the knot - and the whole band played to an estimated 250,000 fans at the Glasgow Green Big Day concert.Real Gone Kid is evergreen, a song so vibrant that no number of ad campaigns can kill it, while Fergus Sings the Blues and Dignity are greeted wildly by an amped-up crowd. I was intrigued by them, noting as I did their titular nod to a band I used to revere a lot around that time, Steely Dan. Vote up content that is on-topic, within the rules/guidelines, and will likely stay relevant long-term.

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Because they try to be Prefab Sprout, and they succeed almost fully, therefore their music is great. Sophisti-pop was a British rather than an English species of pop, with some of its finest exemplars coming from Scotland. The album failed to reach the same level of commercial success in the United Kingdom that the band experienced with their previous album, City of Love, with the album debuting at number 23 on the charts, spending only one week before dropping out of the UK Top 100 album charts.Deacon Blue appeared at The Homecoming Live Final Fling Show, at Glasgow's SECC on 28 November 2009, and headlined Glasgow's Hogmanay on 31 December 2009. This was released on 31 March 2017 on vinyl, CD, DVD, Blu-Ray as well as digital download of both audio and video versions.

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While it moody atmospherics are typical sophisti-pop fare, they have more of a youthful vibe than many other artists on this list, offering coming-of-age tales for Scots in the 1980s. The band released their debut album, Raintown, on 1 May 1987 in the United Kingdom and in the United States in February 1988. Taylor’s Version) [From The Vault] Now That We Don’t Talk (Taylor’s Version) [From The Vault] Say Don’t Go (Taylor’s Version) [From The Vault] Agora Hills “Slut! Still, this remains one of my favourite albums by a Scottish band and, putting my rain-tinted glasses aside for a moment, here’s why.While their first album is often considered their ‘best’, their 1989 album When the World Knows Your Name became their most commercially successful. Since then, they’ve worked together on a part-time status and continued to release albums every so often.

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Glasgow band Deacon Blue released their iconic Raintown album 35 years ago, which not only stayed in UK charts for a year and a half - but is still widely regarded today. The group originally consisted of Ross, Lorraine McIntosh, James Prime, Dougie Vipond, Ewen Vernal and Graeme Kelling. These and others like them, “Loaded”, “The Very Thing” and “Loves Great Fears” all twist and turn their way into the memory and even if the closing “Town To Be Blamed” overdoes the dramatic, it’s still been a great run of songs. The album, widely praised as Deacon Blue's finest work, has the overtones of a concept album relating to the struggles of urban life in the inner city.It is the one song that hits hardest and a lot of the middle stretch of the record is in comparison merely very only pleasant. With a view of Glasgow plastered on the album cover, there’s no mistaking which city they were talking about. Born in a Storm is a bold and enduring spirit which serves as an apt reflection of the people and places it was inspired by, and a perfect accompaniment to the record. There is a neat through line to newer tracks – the stately A Walk in the Woods and barrel-chested Hit Me Where it Hurts – that display the same melodic solidity and ringing harmonies. I’m an expat now but always say my nationality is Glaswegian and though I don’t like hardly anything else Deacon Blue ever did on the back of this, their debut album, I still hold a soft spot for it, so evocative is it of a certain time and place in my life.