Gavin Friday points out on his website that the Prunes have some wit on this album, after all they recorded a Bruce Springsteen parody with “Ballad Of A Man”, which – and we point this out now – shows for a band was almost a no-go for the Gothic school in the post-punk lower house of the early eighties. And anyway, the album title: …IF I DIE, I DIE in its simple inevitability is a nice example of British, sorry, Irish humor. Or have we misunderstood this?
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The Virgin Prunes also posed a few puzzles on their first albums and concerts in Dublin, and even more: they polarized because they were who they were. Outsiders in their own sound theater, anti-patriarchal, anti-commercial and not at all interested in following the footsteps of being a superstar, as the colleagues from U2 have already successfully demonstrated,
whom they had just counted among their best buddies. However, the Prunes music did not dispense with references; the band at times on this album sounds like a dark wave answer to the Bowie of the Berlin years or a squashed piece of The Cure, a bit rock ‘n’ roll (“Walls Of Jericho”) and eerily soulful – a harbinger of melting away of post-punk in the sound of the nineties (“Theme For Thought”).
Gavin Friday was one of the band’s three vocalists, and “Bau-Dachöng” is perhaps the greatest sonic art work they produced, the title a language creation that transcends time and space (Bauhaus? Dachau?). The 40th Anniversary Edition features Colin Newman’s 2004 remix of “Baby Turns Blue” and a half-dozen previously unreleased rough mixes that leave no reason to rewrite Prunes history. If you like, you can dance through these footnotes.
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