So Be That

The Silencers - So Be It

Ripped from a compact disc album released on RCA Records (74321 252312) in 1995 to high quality lossless flac audio. My final post from The Silencers. If anything a welcome return to form with a less formulaic style and significant folk influences. Pick a favourite, there could well be a few, including the credible cover of Wild Mountain Thyme which found recognition worldwide as the theme used on a Scottish Tourism Board TV advert in the mid-late nineties.

1 Something Worth Fighting For

2 Killing For God

3 27

4 I Woke Up

5 Number One Friend

6 Flying

7 Hello Stranger

8 Henry's Black Shadow

9 Wild Mountain Thyme

10 Listen

11 About The Sea

12 I Believe In You

Can You Feel It?

The Silencers - Seconds Of Pleasure

Ripped from a compact disc album released on RCA Records (74321 141132) in 1993 to high quality lossless flac audio. The fourth album hinges on just one track, you'll notice it very quickly if you don't know the record. It should have been a huge hit worldwide but it wasn't ... and The Silencers just couldn't keep the remainder of the album to the same high standard.

1 I Can Feel It
2 Sylvie
3 Cellar Of Dreams
4 Small Mercy
5 It's Only Love
6 Misunderstood
7 Life Can Be Fatal
8 The Unhappiest Man
9 Walkmans And Magnums
10 Streetwalker Song
11 My Prayer
12 Unconscious

Five Inches Of Silver Heaven

The Silencers - Dance To The Holy Man

Ripped from a compact disc album released on RCA Records (PD 74924) in 1991 to high quality lossless flac audio. I will happily sing to the rafters in praise of Dance To The Holy Man. The bulk of the album is a zillion miles from their first two - this is a much more grown up and crafted body of work, laden with a multitude of influences and heaps of style. This album is  full of surprises among the fifteen very different tracks. It such a pity that The Silencers' third never received the critical acclaim it deserves, because then everybody would have discovered the delights of the gorgeous One Inch Of Heaven and the subtle irony of The Art Of Self Deception. Easily one of the best albums from the difficult musical decade that was the nineties.

1 Singing Ginger
2 Robinson Crusoe In New York
3 Bulletproof Heart
4 The Art Of Self Deception
5 I Want You
6 Just Can't Be Bothered
7 Cameras And Coliseums
8 One Inch Of Heaven
9 Hey Mister Bank Manager
10 This Is Serious / John The Revelator
11 Afraid To Love
12 Rosanne
13 Electric Storm
14 When The Night Comes Down
15 Robinson Rap

Rain, Waves, Sand And Stars

The Silencers - A Blues For Buddha

Ripped from a compact disc album released on RCA Records (PD 71859) in 1988 to high quality lossless flac audio. Difficult second album syndrome for our Scottish popsters but there are enough good bits to help it stand the test of time, You will also notice that the tracks were much longer and more intricate than those on the debut. Better was to come.

1 Answer Me
2 Scottish Rain
3 The Real McCoy
4 A Blues For Buddha
5 Walk With The Night
6 Razor Blades Of Love
7 Skin Game
8 Wayfaring Stranger
9 Sacred Child
10 My Love Is Like A Wave / Razor Blade Reprise
11 Sand And Stars

Bullets From Blue Eyes

The Silencers - A Letter From St. Paul

Ripped from a compact disc album released on RCA Records (PD 71336) in 1987 to high quality lossless flac audio. You don't need to be a Celt (I am)  to love The Silencers, though sales of their records always seemed to concentrate north of the border. If you are English (or American), then you likely missed out on one the eighties best guitar bands. Time now to sit up and pay attention, and yes, it is okay to put I Can't Cry on repeat play over and over ...and over. It is that good.

1 Painted Moon
2 I Can't Cry
3 Bullets And Blue Eyes
4 God's Gift
5 I See Red
6 I Ought To Know
7 A Letter From St. Paul
8 Blue Desire
9 Possessed
10 Painted Moon (Blues Mix)

Big In Bellshill

The Silencers - I Want You

Ripped from a compact disc single released on RCA Records (PD 4418) in 1991 to high quality lossless flac audio. They claim they were massive North of The Border, and that chart success was only denied by dismal sales in England. Everybody loved The Silencers, didn't they? Here's one of their later major label singles which also featured the massive debut Painted Moon (complete with that borrowed Simple Minds bassline) to help boost sales. I have the first four albums, so if interest is expressed, they will feature here at some point in the future.

1 I Want You
2 Rosanne
3 Painted Moon (Blues Mix)
4 Guitar Atmosphere