Stick Around a Laugh a While
Who remembers the Hothouse Flowers? Not many people would be my guess. But if you were to play this song to them, they’d be singing along like crazy. The flowers hail from Ireland, and have influence throughout folk, rock, blues and gospel. Their first album, which was actually a Bono sponsored outing, was propelled to International fame across Europe in the most unusual way… Eurovision (duh duh durrr). How many people make it out of that alive?
“Don’t Go”, the song featured here, was played in between entries, and during the voting of Eurovision 1988. The public saw sense, realised they were watching complete rubbish, but the breaks were complete quality. This propelled “Don’t Go” to number 11 in the UK chart. The highest they position they would ever achieve. Following this success, and in the ten years that followed the band would drift apart, releasing records sporadically and collaborating on recordings only rarely. Whilst they achieved huge success in the Irish charts during several comeback albums and best of releases–the band would never have the world singing like they did for “Don’t Go”.
Turn it up, it’s brilliant.
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