Time Thief - Pale Saints [1990]
The first Pale Saints song I heard. I managed to tape the video off Rage in 1990. I liked that they were peculiar compared to the other upstart shoegazers Ride and Lush. The impeccable arrangement of Time Thief had alluring hints of menace deployed amongst the exhilarating tension and release dynamics and then those choirboy vocals added more spice to the unnerving vibe.
Time Thief - Pale Saints [1990]
This was the video that interspersed clips from the creepy 1961 psychological horror film The Innocents with live footage of the band... er, the sound's a bit dodgy but well worth a look though, as it's an extravaganza of sound and vision synchronicity.
One of the best things about The Pale Saints debut LP was the finale one two punch of Sight Of You and Time Thief. The two songs run into each other and need to be heard together as the drama builds at the end of Sight Of You leading up to the exciting Time Thief intro. In the great tradition of other tunes that are connected with no gap and run into each other (which I wrote about here) like I'm Your Boogie Man/Keep It Comin' Love from KC & The Sunshine Band, Donna Summer's I Need You/Working The Midnight Shift, INXS' Face The Change/Burn For You and Palace Of Brine/Letter From Memphis by The Pixies. I'm sure there's many more examples... Anyway I can't find a clip of Sight Of You with Time Thief so...
Sight Of You - Pale Saints [1990]
Dreamy pop noise goes ecstatic! Anthem for the teenage shoegazers I was.
Sight Of You - Ride [1990]
Speaking of Ride they did a cover of Sight Of You for a John Peel session. It's passable but I kinda wish they didn't do the fade out because that racket they were whipping up at the end was the most interesting bit...
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