Paris Angels - Perfume (All on You)

Anchor

I picked this song for my pick a good while ago but have havered last few days but finally gave my head a wobble and stuck to the plan.

This is my banger from your youth that you love and had an impact on your musical tastes. Obviously the baggy/indie dance cross over stuff from the late 80's early 90's and the accompanying lifestyle choices that went with it.

This is one of those song you can go without for a few years then think 'I need to listen to that again' and enjoy it, all over again.

A few songs really hit me in this period - this being one. The other standout is WFL - the Vince Clarke remix from the year before.

If anything this had a bit more about it for me - the swirling keyboard intro on the 12" version and those perfect drums for the state of mind you were in then the angular guitar - the Wragg fellah was some guitar player - before Jane Gill's divine dream pop vocal - almost choral - kicks in. But wait - then we get that almost baritone male vocal from Rikki Turner - not varying in scale much - a perfect accompaniment to the female. Ace. Then it just builds and builds with walls of sound. A tremendous track that I gave some right hammer back in the day.

Mr Peel was responsible for my picking up on Paris Angles with foirst single Scope. I lived in a great flat - it was the attic of a huge town house I'd manged to rent for next to nothing as I used to go out the the landlord's daughter. It had beams and exposed frames everywhere. I spent hours just listening to the radio sat at me kitchen table eating beanfeast and reading Viz in this flat. Anyway - then this track was released; they really hit their bootstraps here and I started hearing it in a few pubs, clubs, gigs and after parties in my youth. I feel it was not the hit it deserved to be though. However I suspect most on here will have heard it.

The first album - Sundew - was a good but this is easily the stand out track - Oh yes not far behind. I don't think they lived up to what they could do.

They then recorded another album that got lost due to label buyouts and what not. it was eventually released in digital form on bandcamp in 2013 or something.

It is here if you are interested. It is free.

Anyway - I hope you like it.

Jon

Great single. Out of all of that lot I think only The Mondays Freaky Dancing and its B side The Egg are better.
Don’t know anything else by them.
I think we went down to The Duchess to see them but ended up drinking in The Nags all night, which says more about me than the band.
Good pick. Not heard it in a good while. Thanks

Anchor

Jon I like Freaky Dancing but I like the addition on this track of the production values of the keys. Think it elevates it!

YoungParisian_inExile

Great choice, best track from that whole baggy era in my humble, indie/dance vibe captures it perfectly.
Almost put it on that Get Lost playlist ...
10/10 - thanks

Anchor

YoungParisian_inExile Get it on the playlist!

Jon

Anchor I remember buying freaky dancin in Leeds HMV after work one evening. I bumped into a girl who worked in the offices at our place, she was buying a Sandie Shaw album. When the Mondays got big she asked me if it was the same band and how I’d heard of them.
These days I’m much more likely to listen to Sandie Shaw.

Odd_Job

Super choice

fuzzy

otis

Nice one , I toyed with this. Have got a reserve in place

Reggie_Perrin

Loved this at the time and still love it. Great tune.

Kevin_Stapleton

Great choice. Takes me right back this does. I’d briefly considered it for this thread purely because when I listened to it recently it seemed to embody so much about your early 20’s - that sense of optimism, opportunities, and the whole night ahead of you. It’s definitely one of those songs that I call a “getting ready to go out on a Friday night tune”.

90Piesanhour

Sounds like a million other teeth-grinding, bucket-hat sporting, ‘yeah man, sorted’ tunes to me. Was never really my scene, although I knew a lot of people who were in to it. It’s not crap, but it doesn’t particularly move my soul. Thanks for sharing, though.

cordshoes

Decent choice.
Reminds me of a mid 90s night in The Brickhouse in Manchester.
A bottle of Pils in my hand, and this swirling round, either before or after Temptation or a similar NO song.

king_of_the_slums

Bought this from HMV when they had the 99p promo bucket. Warehouse staple. Girl I was seeing at the time bought me another by them which wasn’t as good. But Perfume was a hard act to follow. Proper zeitgeist business. Just a great track that crossed over from indie to dance. Still sounds good. 👌

Foxy_Dread

It's not my cup of tea.

I was living the life of an old fart by the time all this stuff came out. I was wrapped up in being a dad. I actually discovered who the Stone Roses were in a Primrose Valley cabaret type night. Loads of kids around 12 -14 were dancing to She Bangs The Drum and I thought, something's going on here. Finger on the pulse and all that. Thankfully this kind of stuff hadn't yet made it onto the Primrose Valley Show Band's repertoire.

I had heard of the Paris Angels, the Halifax free paper used to review singles and the Madchester bands used to get an airing. I'd long stopped buying the NME by then, I'd moved on to Straight No Chaser and The Wire.

Living it up.to me was five pints after Sunday morning football. Like I said, an old fart.

Harvest

I play this at least once a month, it's a wonderful thing. It's a very clever track, comes in and out, the female angelic vocals, all kind of rises and falls, love it. Don't see a Roses connection at all other than it was roughly the same period.

Foxy_Dread

Harvest Roses used to show how out of touch I was with things. It literally was the first time I'd heard them.

Jon

Mondays and Roses have nothing in common really but they get lumped together too.

CharlieG

Only very vague recollection of this but really glad you picked this track as it's really good.
Could be the song that New Order wanted to write but never did. 😉