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Waltzing Along was the third single to be released from the Whiplash album.
CD JIMDD 18 – Waltzing Along / Homeboy (live) / How Was It For You? (live) / Greenpeace (live)
CD JIMCD 18 – Waltzing Along / Your Story / Where You Gonna Run? / Long To Be Right
CD JIMED 18 – Waltzing Along / Waltzing Along (Disco Socks Mix) / Waltzing Along (Flytronix Mix)
Release Name: | Waltzing Along |
Artist Name: | James |
Release Date: | 23rd June 1997 |
Format: | Video Single |
Directed: |
The song was remixed for the single and there are several versions of this video, the main difference being one has rabbits having sex and therefore a clean version was needed for daytime TV.
The song was remixed for the single and there are several versions of this video, the main difference being one has rabbits having sex and therefore a clean version was needed for daytime TV.
One-track VHS video promo
Waltzing Along (radio edit)
Release Name: | Waltzing Along (VHS) |
Artist Name: | James |
Release Date: | 23rd June 1997 |
Format: | Promo VHS |
Catalogue: | |
Related Release(s): |
One-track VHS video promo
A track donated to an album to raise awareness and funds for the Dala Lama in Tibet. The song was later used as a b-side on Runaground.
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Release Name: | Long Live Tibet |
Artist Name: | James |
Release Date: | June 1997 |
Format: | Compilation (non James) Album |
Catalogue: | 2438 33140 2 |
Related Release(s): |
A track donated to an album to raise awareness and funds for the Dala Lama in Tibet. The song was later used as a b-side on Runaground.
Where You Gonna Run? is a b-side of the 1997 James single Waltzing Along. It also features on the 2001 B-Sides Ultra compilation.
Song: | Where You Gonna Run? |
Released: | 23rd June 1997 |
Main Associated Album (or Single): | Waltzing Along |
First Heard Live: |
Your Story is a b-side of the 1997 James single Waltzing Along.
Song: | Your Story |
Released: | 23rd June 1997 |
Main Associated Album (or Single): | Waltzing Along |
First Heard Live: |
Waltzing Along was the third single released from the Whiplash album. It reached 23 in the UK Singles Charts.
CD JIMDD 18 – Waltzing Along / Homeboy (live) / How Was It For You? (live) / Greenpeace (live)
CD JIMCD 18 – Waltzing Along / Your Story / Where You Gonna Run? / Long To Be Right
CD JIMED 18 – Waltzing Along / Waltzing Along (Disco Socks Mix) / Waltzing Along (Flytronix Mix)
Release Name: | Waltzing Along |
Artist Name: | James |
Release Date: | 23rd June 1997 |
Format: | Studio Single |
Catalogue: | CD JIMDD 18; CD JIMCD 18; CD JIMED 18 |
Related Release(s): |
The release of Waltzing Along was originally timed to coincide with the end of the band’s US tour and their Glastonbury appearance. Tim’s injury which meant the curtailment of the US tour and the band joining the Lollapolooza travelling festival meant that the band would be out of the country for the single’s release.
The single was rerecorded to give the song a much harder and more commercial edge than the album version. As with the previous two singles there were 3 CDs released. The first featured live tracks recorded by the BBC at the band’s Shepherds Bush Empire in March including a rousing version of Homeboy with its extended opening section. The second CD featured three new tracks, the strident rude-lyriced Your Story, an instrumental Where You Gonna Run? and a falsetto-driven Long To Be Right. The third single once again featured remixes, this time a little more successful, by Flytronix and Midfield General. Artwork was once again designed by Blue Source with photography by Davies and Davies.
The video featured James in the Spanish desert, one by one hitchhiking and being picked up by a woman in an open top car. Mark plays an escaped convict chained to another prisoner who is the long lost brother of the policeman trying to recapture them.
With absolutely no promotion at all, the single, again given a £1.99 release, exceeded most expectations by entering the charts at number 23 and the song became a live favourite in James sets with crowds chanting along to the intro.
Time was when these merry Mancunian misfits could lay claim to being one of the most forward-looking groups in this country, with their weird take on rock music and an ascetic outlook that stuck out a while in times of much frippery. These days, James are more like Simple Minds than the Scottish stadium rockers themselves, if the hackneyed and plodding backing track here is to be taken seriously. Which is a pity as Tim Booth still sings like he’s got something of importance to impart – in the case a prayer for the dying. Oh well, there’s always the solo career.
Following their chart-topping single ‘Tomorrow’ and a sell-out UK tour, James release a new single on 23rd June – ‘Waltzing Along’. It is a completely re-recorded version of the song from the band’s gold album ‘Whiplash’.
‘Waltzing Along’ is released on 3 CDs – CD1 contains 3 brand-new songs, ‘Your Story’, ‘Where You Gonna Run’ and ‘Long To Be Right’ as b-sides, whilst CD2 has live versions of ‘Homeboy’, ‘How Was It For You?’ and ‘Greenpeace’ recorded at the band’s sell-out show at the Shepherds Bush Empire in March this year. CD3 is the remix CD with Skint’s Midfield General chopping out the big beats and Flytronix smoothing the edges with mellow drum n bass.
‘Waltzing Along’ is produced by Stephen Hague with additional production and interference from Brian Eno and drummer, David Baynton-Power.
The full details of ‘Waltzing Along’ are:
‘Waltzing Along’ is released on 23rd June through Fontana. The top ten album ‘Whiplash’ is out now.
James tour America as part of the notorious Lollapolooza and return to the UK to play Reading Festival.
Long To Be Right is a b-side from the 1997 James single Waltzing Along.
Song: | Long To Be Right |
Released: | 23rd June 1997 |
Main Associated Album (or Single): | Waltzing Along |
First Heard Live: |
James are the Rodney Dangerfields of Brit-pop, er, make that British pop. They get no respect in America, even though they’ve been around longer than that catchy little nickname for popular music hailing from England. In fact, when the band’s stunning debut, the Village Fire EP, was issued in 1985, they were hailed by Morrissey of the Smiths, who were still together at the time. Since then, the Smiths have broken up; along came Pulp, Blur, and Oasis. Now the Chemical Brothers and Prodigy are all the rave, and most Americans still don’t know James from any other group of Limeys. That’s too bad, because for more than a decade James has been one of the most consistent British bands around, no matter what the fashion of the day.
Although the band’s recordings for Sire Records, Stutter and Strip-Mine, failed to live up to the promise of such early tracks as “Hymn From A Village,” James regained its footing on its 1990 effort, Gold Mother, which featured a new, expanded line-up that was seven members strong. Although the album was a hit in the UK, a U.S. version, simply titled James, merely spawned the modern rock semi-hit “Sit Down.”
The band continued to move in the right direction with 1992’s Seven, which contained another minor modern rock hit, “Born Of Frustration.” However, it wasn’t until its ranks were slimmed to six members and that it teamed with producer Brian Eno that James fully hit its stride. The collaboration with Eno resulted in two albums, 1993’s acoustic-leaning Laid and 1994’s improvisational Wah Wah. After singer Tim Booth’s collaboration with Twin Peaks composer Angelo Badalamenti, “Booth And The Bad Angel,” James resurfaced with Whiplash, another worthy effort.
Following their chart-topping single ‘Tomorrow’ and a sell-out UK tour, James release a new single on 23rd June – ‘Waltzing Along’. It is a completely re-recorded version of the song from the band’s gold album ‘Whiplash’.
‘Waltzing Along’ is released on 3 CDs – CD1 contains 3 brand-new songs, ‘Your Story’, ‘Where You Gonna Run’ and ‘Long To Be Right’ as b-sides, whilst CD2 has live versions of ‘Homeboy’, ‘How Was It For You?’ and ‘Greenpeace’ recorded at the band’s sell-out show at the Shepherds Bush Empire in March this year. CD3 is the remix CD with Skint’s Midfield General chopping out the big beats and Flytronix smoothing the edges with mellow drum n bass.
‘Waltzing Along’ is produced by Stephen Hague with additional production and interference from Brian Eno and drummer, David Baynton-Power.
The full details of ‘Waltzing Along’ are :
CD1 (JIMCD18) – Waltzing Along (Single Version)
Your Story
Where You Gonna Run?
Long To Be Right
CD2 (JIMDD18) – Waltzing Along (Single Version)
Homeboy (Live At Shepherds Bush Empire)
How Was It For You? (Live At Shepherds Bush Empire)
Greenpeace (Live At Shepherds Bush Empire)
CD3 (JIMED 18) – Waltzing Along (Single Version)
Waltzing Along (Disco Socks Remix)
Waltzing Along (Flytronix Remix)
‘Waltzing Along’ is released on 23rd June through Fontana. The top ten album ‘Whiplash’ is out now.
James tour America as part of the notorious Lollapolooza and return to the UK to play Reading Festival.
Q. Would you lie on the ground if a bank robber told you to?
TB. Instantly. If he was just taking money, i would have no problem complying with his demands. If he was injuring somebody, it would be different, although I wouldn’t do anything that would be like committing suicide.
Q. Have you ever come a cropper while showing off in a car?
TB. I don’t know if I was showing off, but when I was 18 I was driving along with two passengers when we skidded on some black ice and ended up in a ditch. My mum’s car was a write-off. I think I’d had a drink beforehand.
Q. Have you ever fired a gun indoors?
TB. Yes. I fired a 2.2 air rifle at some birds outside when i was about eleven. But when i went out and saw the results i was so devastated that i threw them over the wall and hoped next door’s Alsatian would dispose of the evidence.
Q. Could you eat a raw egg?
TB. Yes I’ve had them in drinks. Thats a bit of a spit or swallow question. I don’t have that many odd foods in my diet. I ate crocodile a couple of years ago in America. It was like very chewy chicken – not very pleasant.
Q. Have you ever set yourself on fire when lighting a barbecue?
TB. No, but I have been set on fire. It was a Tibetan purification ritual. I was covered in alcohol and, then set alight for about ten seconds. I got burned, but the shock was the hardest part to deal with.
Q. Have you ever ended up in bed with someone whose name you didn’t know?
TB. No, but sometimes I’ve forgotten names of people I’ve slept with then been phoned up and reminded of the fact. Although I tend to be very conscious when I go to bed with someone, I do have a very bad memory.
Q. Have you ever been bitten by anything poisonous?
TB. About a month ago I was bitten by a spider in Glasgow. I’ve no idea what type it was but I found the spider on my bed in the morning and I had these five bites on my head. One of them still hasn’t gone down.
Q. Would you climb an 80 ft tree to rescue a kitten?
TB. No. I’d call the fire brigade – they get paid for it. I’d probably manage if it was 30 ft but I would get a bit shaky after that and start thinking that my life was more valuable than the kitten’s.
Q. Have you ever been out in the snow wearing just a T-shirt?
TB. No, but I’d do it if I was coming straight out of a sauna, like they do in Sweden. I like those extremes of heat and cold.
Q. Can you remember the last time you were rude to a policeman?
TB. I resisted arrest in Greece once. We’d gone naked on one of the beaches and the locals didn’t like it. The policemen said they were going to take us to prison, then deport us. So we legged it and jumped on a bus out of town.
Tim Booth — vocals
Jim Glennie — bass
David Baynton-Power — drums
Saul Davies — violin
Mark Hunter — keyboards
Adrian Oxaal — guitar
Michael Kulas — guitar
Stoked by the success of 1993’s Laid and convinced that they’d followed it up with one of the best albums of their career in the new Whiplash, the members of James were poised to conquer America this spring when singer Tim Booth was waylaid by some damaged nerves in his neck.
“When the tour fell through, and before we had Lollapalooza, we thought, ‘Oh shit, that’s the end of it on this record. We’ll never be able to come back to the States again!” he says. “And about two days later, Lollapalooza was confirmed. We’ve always been a live band, and now we’ve got a second chance to prove it.”
It’s been 15 years since James formed in Manchester, England, and released its first recordings on the legendary Factory Records. Over the course of eight albums, the group has never stopped changing and evolving; indeed, its last two Brian Eno-produced records, Laid and Wah Wah, opened new creative vistas, introducing elements of ambient music and studio improvisation to the group’s always expansive folk-rock. But Booth believed that in order to move on, his bandmates needed even more freedom. So Jim Glennie, David Baynton-Power, Saul Davies, Mark Hunter, and Adrian Oxaal were left to start Whiplash on their own (aided by producer Stephen Hague and abetted once again by “frequent interferer and occational co-producer” Eno), while their singer toiled on Booth and the Bad Angel, his solo project with Twin Peaks composer Angelo Badalamenti.
“It’s just that I got bogged down with the responsibility of it [all],” Booth says, “I put to much on my shoulders. It just takes a stepping back. When I walked away from James and said, ‘You guys have to run this for a while, I am going to make a record with Angelo’, they found a new way of working through it with each other where they shared it a lot more. That hadn’t happened before, and it was a huge relief.”
Now the group has come together again, stronger than ever and joined by another new member, backing singer and guitarist Michael Kulas.
“The last British tour we did was probably the best we have ever done, ” Booth says. “It was much more aggressive live than what we had been. We had a good break, and when we came back from it we really appreciated the band we were in. It’s very healthy at the moment.” Except, of course, when Booth twists his neck in a certain way. …