Wah! Heat - Better Scream video free download


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The first release by the first Wah! incarnation by Pete Wylie (member of the Crucial Three with Julian Cope and Ian McCulloch). It was praised in it's time of release (1979) and the band was immediatly championed by John Peel.

Equally inspired by The Doors and The Clash the result was less darker than what would be heard on the debut of the second incarnation of Pete Wylie's project (Wah! Nah = Poo-The Art of Bluff, unfortunately out of print) but at the same level of the Bunnymen and The Teardrop Explodes and it surprises me how Wah! was never recognized as much as these two groups did!

Lyrics (thanks to @rooneyda):

You better run,

cos' this is the day,

someone remembers what you said

so you better pray

you're running but you won't get far

now howard hughe's hitmen are here

You better pray

You better repent

Here come the trumpets sounding out,

That never relent

The bay of pigs is babylon

You better choose which side your on

Cos' here come the saints,

You better scream and run and pray

Here come the saints

With seven angels from the C.I.A

Are you ready?

This is judgement day.

Comments

8 years ago

battistina crasto

Yes the voice make a little Bowie

9 years ago

BigH0b0

Utterly great song. Brilliantly packaged too. Lyrics on the picture sleeve/bag. Great theme and probably true too. If Wylie, Cope and Mac could have stayed together, perhaps brought in Will Sergeant and Les Pattinson, Liverpool would have had a band that could have been bigger than the Beatles. 

9 years ago

InnerCityGirl1

we need songs like this -now more than ever. Keep playing......

9 years ago

Kirby Wright

This song was linked to my book THE END, MY FRIEND: Prelude to the Apocalypse

10 years ago

skezbag

pete wylie- king of Liverpool

10 years ago

Alex Rammo

20,000th viewer!

10 years ago

kayzee70

A great blast from the past! One of my favourite all time songs and I still have the 45. 

10 years ago

RBIKO5

Always thought it was Sgt Majors from the CIA

10 years ago

Hugo Lane

I remember buying it in a little boutique in Braunschweig the fall of 1980, and played it a lot, but it has languished in my singles pile for ages. Glad to be reminded just how good it is. I'm going to replay it right away.

11 years ago

Simon Spedding

I know excatly where i bought it...i can still visualize it.

11 years ago

rurimino

Good call my friend. You know this is such a hidden gem...Discovered it late despite my (reasonably good) knowledge of this music scene growing up in Liverpool at the time . Wylie's first attempt which went through some ad hoc revision. Still sounds increble; maybe his best? Those riffs..........

11 years ago

rurimino

You are so right my friend....a no win showdown with at least three huge egos in the fray! It's much better to listen to their music than meet them in person!

11 years ago

Sid Fletcher

Classic........

11 years ago

Sharon

Farry I remember you playing this!

11 years ago

BigH0b0

one of the all time great vinyl singles. b/w Hey Joe another great song. Had this, in a picture bag version. Got nicked from my collection with a picture cover version of 7 mins to midnight. The b-side of that was an absolutely gobsmacking track 'Dont Step on the Cracks'. Lovely memories. Wish I could find the priceless (to me) vinyl again. Enough talent in the Crucial 3 for an even better band than the Beatles. If only they could have stayed together. But cope, mac and wylie. 3 big egos.

11 years ago

Simon Spedding

the best 7" ever released this side of Jupiter

11 years ago

mojitoholocaust

Really cool song. I like this version better than the Teardrop Explodes one, which has this awful ender Make That Move

11 years ago

jezrourke

Thanks for this, my vinyl copy is scratched to f###! cheers

11 years ago

WhitstableWilliams

Sounds like Joy Division deciding to rip off the Byrds- fantastic!!

12 years ago

modsheff1

Family trees mersey !!!

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