Here Went Everybody

 

The Wake - Here Comes Everybody [FACT 130 UK 1985 24-Bit FLAC]

As part of my occasional series of high resolution Factory Records album re-rips, I thought it might be an apt moment to turn to this record. The record is a little worn and the inner lyric sheet is showing its age, however with a little loving care and a lot of cleaning, I am pleased to have been able to coax out a very good re-rip (well to my aging ears). 

To say that I care very much for this album would be an understatement, I for one found the gap between Talk About The Past and this album's release an eternity. The Kid Jensen BBC Radio Session in February 1984 was a delight and hinted at great things to come ...and we had to wait a while. The band were evolving and had previewed many ideas which needed manipulating into an album format. Parts of the magnificent Rise And Shine and Make You Understand from that session had metamorphosed into the Of The Matter single, however that disappointed me as it had none of the punch of the original track. A live version of an unnamed track which was later to be used as part of Sail Through had all the melancholy dubbiness of Something Outside, plus there was a unique interpretation of Stevie Wonder's Living In The City, heard on another bootleg tape had me champing at the bit for more Wake.

Here Comes Everybody eventually snuck out in November 1985, off the back of New Order live support dates and here is a rip of my original Factory vinyl pressing. The Wake had stopped being dreary New Order-ites and created a whole new sound by themselves, which has to be the roots of dreampop.

You must all know this record, I recall the very first time I listened to this ....I was taken aback by how tender the album is, producer Oz McCormick has wrapped Caesar's compositions in cotton wool, pushed the gentle vocals back into the mix, layered a dreamy haze over everything with washes of synths and subtle percussion. O Pamela came out of nowhere, it hadn't been performed live and was a huge surprise. It is funny now how the track has recently become a standard ....likely as a consequence of the cover version by Nouvelle Vague. The rest of Make You Understand from that Jensen Session became World Of Her Own, the remaining parts from Rise And Shine had now become Sail Through, Simon Topping had been drafted into add percussion and now The Calender was Torn. The title track originally appeared on an 1982 Peel Session, the new version was much less solemn, with Topping again adding his percussion. Melancholy Man is The Wake at their dreamiest, it transpires to be Caesar McNulty's tribute to Vincent van Gogh, rather than Vini Reilly as I had first thought back in 1985. 

Here Comes Everybody is truly great indie pop album which deserved a much wider audience at the time. I've also kept my 174.6kHz files for those who have the hearing (and equipment) to fully appreciate them, plus if you know where to look, you may find a lossless version of that very same Kid Jensen BBC session. ....enjoy!

A1  O Pamela

A2  Send Them Away

A3  Sail Through

A4  Melancholy Man

B1  World Of Her Own

B2  Torn Calendar

B3  All I Asked You To Do

B4  Here Comes Everybody