The Sundays were an English alternative rock band. The band formed in the late 1980s and released three albums in the 1990s.
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The band's beginnings came with the meeting of Harriet Wheeler and guitarist David Gavurin at university. Wheeler had played gigs with 'Cruel Shoes' an early incarnation of the band Jim Jiminee.[1][2] The duo soon augmented the band with bassist Paul Brindley and drummer Patrick Hannan.
The Sundays secured a recording contract with Rough Trade Records. Their debut singlewas "Can't Be Sure". Their first album, Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic was released in 1990, along with their next single "Here's Where the Story Ends". The album was a UK Top 5 hit.
With Rough Trade's financial troubles and the band's decision to manage themselves, The Sundays' next single, "Goodbye", did not emerge until 1992. Their next album, Blind, arrived the same year, reaching the UK Top 15. The "Goodbye" B-side, a cover of The Rolling Stones' "Wild Horses", also appeared on the US release of Blind and on the soundtrack for the popular television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The band toured in support of these recordings.
In 1997 their third album, Static & Silence was followed by the release of their most successful single to date, "Summertime", which made the UK Top 15. The album itself reached the UK Top 10. However, the band has been on a lengthy hiatus since those releases, with Wheeler and Gavurin focusing on raising their two children.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sundays
The take on this Sunday's cover of a Jagger/Richards classic:
Break-up songs in rock music are many. But few hit such a vital chord as this song does, written around the time the celebrated relationship between Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull had turned sour, and came to a crashing end. But, the song itself is bigger than any autobiographical background that lies behind it. By the 90s, the Sundays version of the song had found a new audience outside of its classic rock home base.
I’ve mentioned in an earlier blog post about the Sundays that lead singer Harriet Wheeler’s voice is a vital instrument, with all imitators left in the dust when it comes to plaintive-yet-honest vocal delivery. With this song, she brings fresh-faced optimism to a song that is about heartbreak. With this song, you get the feeling that even though the narrator is struggling for a lost cause, that she’ll be OK in the end. As such, The Sundays have turned this song about the tragedy of a dying romance into a hopeful tune somehow.
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Wild Horses
Childhood living is easy to do
The things that you wanted, I bought them for you
Graceless lady, you know who I am
You know I can't let you slide through my hands
Wild horses couldn't drag me away
Wild horses couldn't drag me away...
I watched you suffer a dull, aching pain
And now you've decided to show me the same
No sweeping exits or offstage lines
Could make me feel bitter or treat you unkind
Wild horses couldn't drag me away
Wild, wild horses couldn't drag me away...
Faith has been broken and tears must be cried
Let's do some living after we die *
Wild horses couldn't drag me away
Wild, wild horses couldn't drag me away...
Wild, wild horses, we'll ride them someday
Wild, wild horses, we'll ride them someday
--song written by Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
*Note: [alt: "after love dies"] in later Rolling Stones version. However, the original lyric connotes the same thing; as in: after our relationship/love-affair is over.
