BLUE AEROPLANES


Here We Are


SHORT BIOGRAPHY:

The Blue Aeroplanes are an English band formed in Bristol in the early 1980's They released their first album "Bop Art" in 1984 on their own Party Records. They released two albums on the Fire label, before they in 1989 signed with the major label Ensign on which they released their two most critical acclaimed album "Swagger" (1990) and "Beatsongs" (1991). Since then they have released further nine albums on various labels.There have been numerous line-up changes over the years, but core members are lead singer Gerald Langley, drummer John Langley and dancer Wojter Dmochowski

Key Band Members:

Gerald Langley: Vocals and songwriter. Founder member

Angelo Bruschini: Guitars and backing vocals. Joined in 1983, and has been in and out of the group a couple of time. Left in 2012 so far for the last time.

Rodney Allen: Guitars and backing vocals.Joined in 1988 and were in the group until 1998. He joined again from 2002-2005.

Bruce Palmer: Born 1946 in Canada, bass. Original member. Palmer was in and out of the group before finally leaving in early 1968.

Alex Lee: Guitars, piano and organ. 1989-91

John Langley: Drums, percussion and backing vocals. Founder member. Was out of the group from 1990-2004

Wojtek Dmochowski: Dancer. Founder member and still in.

Ian Kearey: Guitar, bass, mandolin, banjo, organ, epinette de Vosges etc (1981 – 1983 and to present as auxiliary member)



Discography:



1. Bop Art - Party 1984

Tracks:
1. Control of Embassies / 2. Pinkies Hit the Union / 3. Gunning the Works / 4. Owls / 5. Outback Jazz / 5. Chelsea Wallpaper / 6. Bagpipe Music / 7. Built in a Day
Rating :


2. Tolerance - Fire 1986

Tracks:
1. Arriving / 2. Journal of an Airman / 3. Rare Flowers / 4. Warhol's Fifteen / 5. 30-Love / 6. Lover & Confidante / 7. Tolerance / 8. Ups / 9. When the Wave Comes / 10. Soul (Seen and Unseen)
Rating :


3. Spitting Out Miracles - Fire 1987

Tracks:
1. Coats / 2. Cowardice and Caprice / 3. Julie / 4. Spitting Out Miracles / 5. Ceiling Roses / 6. In the Mystery / 7. Season Ticket to a Bad Place / 8. Bury Your Love Like Treasure / 9. Days of 49 / 9. Teaching English Through Sex and Death / 10. Winter Sun / 11. What Do You Mean (What I Said) / 12. Do the Dead Know What Time It Is?

Rating :
7


4. Friendloverplane - Fire 1988 - comp.

Tracks:
1. Veils Of Colour / 2. Complete Blessing / 3. Weird Heart / 4. Le petit cadeau de don juan / 5. Severn Beach / 6. Police 38 Divinity / 7. Action Painting / 8. Who Built This Station In The Midwest / 9. Old Men Sleeping On The Bowery / 10. 88 Out / 11. Ashtrays From Mt. Etna / 12. Gunning The Works / 13. King Of The Soap Box / 14. Tolerance / 15. Etiquette! / 16. Continually Torn Apart / 17. Days Of 49 / 18. I Wanna Be Your Lover / 19. Warhol's Fifteen / 20. Shame / 21. The Couple In The Next Room / 22. Stripped
Rating : 6
7


5. Swagger - Ensign 1990

Tracks:
1. Jacket Hangs / 2. World View Blue / 3. Weightless / 4. ...And Stones / 5. Love Come Round / 6. Your Ages / 7. The Applicant / 8. What It Is / 9. Anti-Pretty / 10. Careful Boy / 11. Picture Framed / 12. Cat-Scan Hist'ry / 13. STRANGE* / 14. Love Come Round* / 15. Razorwalk* / 16. Different Now* / 17. Big Sky* / 18. 88 Out* / 19. I Wanna Be Your Lover* / 20. careful Boy* / 21. What it is* / 22. .. and Stones* / 23. You Are Love* / 24. You're Going to Need Somebody* / 25. Sweet Jane* / 26. World View Blue*
Rating : 8


6.Beatsongs - Ensign 1991

Tracks:
1. Huh! / 2. Yr Own World / 3. Angelwords / 4. Fun / 5. Cardboard Box / 6. My Hurricane / 7. Aeroplane Blues / 8. Jack Leaves & Back Spring / 9. Colour Me / 10. Streamers / 11. The Boy in the Bubble / 12. Sixth Continent
Rating : 8


7. Friendloverplane 2 - Ensign 1992 - comp.

Tracks:
1 You (Are Loved) / 2. Pony Boy / 3. Different Now / 4. World View Blue (Acoustic) / 5. ...And Stones (Lovers All Around Mix) / 6. Razor Walk / 7. Growing Up, Growing Down / 8. Autumn Journal XV / 9. Here It Comes / 10. For Tim Collins / 11. Talkin' On The Otherphone / 12. You're Going To Need Somebody / 13. Missy Lane / 14. Stranger / 15. Trouble, Tell Me I'm Alive / 16. Big Sky / 17. Mis-Firing / 18. Disney Head
Rating : 8


8. Life Model - Beggars Banquet 1994

Tracks:
1. Broken & Mended / 2. (I'm A) Smart Drug / 3. Ghost-Nets / 4. Frightened at Night / 5. Daughter Movie / 6. Open / 7. Honey I / 8. Vade Mecum Gunslinger / 9. Mercury (Hold/Protect/Love) / 10. Fragile
Rating : 7


9. Rough Music - Beggars Banquet 1995

Tracks:
1. Detective Song / 2. Sugared Almond / 3. Scared / 4. Worry Beads / 5. Contact High! / 6. A Map Below / 7. James / 8. Whatever Happened to Our Golden Birds / 9. Wond'ring Wild / 10. Saint Me and the Devil / 11. Dark / 12. Secret Destination / 13. Dear, Though the Night Is Gone
Rating : 7


10 Cavaliers - Swarf Finger - 2001

Tracks:
1. Here We Are 7 2. And The Winner Is… / 3. The Echo Chamber / 4. Cavalier Mien / 5. An Exaltation Of Larks / 6. Comedian / 7. We Kill The King / 8. Where Do All The Good People Go? / 9. The Act Of Indemnity And Oblivion / 10. …And Love Takes Care Of Most Things / 11. Cavalier Mien 2 / 12. Here We Go Again // 1. Jazz Baby / 2. Get Out / 3. Top Of The Pops / 4. Star-Cross’d / 5. Ghosts / 6. Here Comes The Queen / 7. Smiler With The Knyf / 8. Roundheads
Rating : 6


11 Altitude - Harvest 2006

Tracks:
1. Bristol Byzantine / 2. Raise The Roof hugh / 3. Tree Full Of Starlings / 4. Surreal Thing / 5. Hexanal / 6. Star Below / 7. Up In A Down World / 8. Adulthood / 9. Bright Star Catalogue / 10. Multinational / 11. Beautiful Is (As Beautiful Does) / 12. Bristol Byzantine 2
Rating : 7


12. Harvester - Harvest 2007

Tracks:
1. Fireball / 2. Hotel Room / 3. Stagger Lee / 4. Taking Some Time On / 5. Outdoor Miner / 6. Stop This Train (Again Doing It) / 7. It Didn't Work Out / 8. Free Four / 9. (I'm) Stranded / 10. Maisie
Rating : 6


13. Anti-Gravity - Albino - 2011

Tracks:
1. Sulphur / 2. Angela Carter / 3. 25 Kinds of Love / 4. Oak Apple Day / 5. My Old Haunts (Laughing With a Mouth of Blood) / 6. Nothing / 7. Go Along With Me on This One / 8. Great Movie Cliches / 9. Pretty Head (Raising Cain and Pulses) / 10. One World Passport / 11. Born Again, Again / 12. Cancer Song
Rating : 7



14. Welcome, Stranger! - Art Star 2017

Tracks:
1. Looking for X’s on a Map / 2. Sweet, Like Chocolate / 3. Retro Moon / 4. Dead Tree! Dead Tree! / 5. Walking Under Ladders for a Living / 6. Elvis Festival / 7. Nothing Will Ever Happen in the Future / 8. Skin / 9. Here is the Heart of All Wild Things / 10. Poetland
Rating : 8



14. Culture Gun - Art Star 2023

Tracks:
1.Hips like Cigarettes / 2. Waking up in the Ghost Removal Van / 3. Building an Ark for the Anthropocene / 4. Apostle Spoons / 5. Someone in the Arms of No One / 6. Half a Crown / 7. 20/20 / 8. Adoration / 9. Bulletproof Coffee & a Snake-Oil Shot / 10. Lapdogs in the Wild
Rating :


Essential Albums!

Original albums as listed and rated on “Rate Your Music” - December 24- 2019

178 Swagger - 1990
247 Beatsongs - 1991
880 Spitting Out Miracles - 1987
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December 25 - 2019 - "rateyourmusic.com"



My Suggestion for a Best Of 3 CD's Compilation:


1. Jacket Hangs ( Langley/Bruchini ) Swagger
2. World View Blue ( Langley/Bruchini ) Swagger
3. Love Come Around ( Langley/Bruchini ) Swagger
4. Big Sky ( Davies) Swagger*
5. Weightless ( Langley/Bruchini ) Swagger
6. Careful Boy ( Allen ) Swagger
7. You're Going to Need Somebody ( Thompson ) Swagger*
8. Angelwords ( Langley ) Beatsongs
9. Fun ( Allen ) Beatsongs
10. Colour Me ( Langley ) Beatsongs
11. And Stones ( Langley/Bruchini ) Swagger
12. Your Ages ( Langley/Allen ) Swagger
13. The Applicant ( Langley/Bruchini/Allen ) Swagger
14. Razorwalk ( Langley/Jacobs ) Swagger*
15. Different Now ( Allen ) Swagger*
16. Yr Own World ( Langley ) Beatsongs
17. Streamers ( Langley ) Beatsongs
18. The Boy in the Bubble ( Simon ) Beatsongs
19. Switch Continent ( Langley ) Beatsongs
20. Veils of Colour( Langley/Jacobs/Bell/Cochrane ) Friendloverplane
21. Growing Up, Growing Down ( Langley/Bruschini ) Friendloverplane 2
22. Days of 49 ( Langley/Bell ) Spitting Out Miracles
23. Broken and Mended ( Langley/Allen) Life Model
24. Open ( Langley/Reynolds/Hug) Life Model
25. Mercury Hold ( LangleyLeibowich/Gregson/Bruschini) Life Model
26. Detective Song ( LangleyMulreany) Rough Music
27. Worry Beads ( Allen ) Rough Music
28. A Map Below ( Langley/Allen ) Rough Music
29. Dark ( Langley/Wygens ) Rough Music
29. Dear, Through the Night is Gone ( Auden/Wygens ) Rough Music
30. Pony Boy ( Langley/Prendergast/Bruschini ) Friendloverplane 2
31. World View Blue ( Langley/Lee/Bruschini ) Friendloverplane 2
32. Here it Comes ( Cousins ) Friendloverplane 2
33. Talking on the Phone ( Langley/Bruschini/Allen/MacCreeth ) Friendloverplane 2
34. Missy Lane ( Allen ) Friendloverplane 2
35. Trouble Tell Me I'm Alive ( Langley/MacCreeth ) Friendloverplane 2
36. Mis-Firing ( Langley/Langley) Friendloverplane 2
37. Warhol's Fifteen( Langley/Jacobs ) Friendloverplane
38. Stripped ( Langley/Bell ) Friendloverplane
39. Coats( Langley/Llwellin ) Spitting Out Miracles
40. Julie ( Langley/Llwellin ) Spitting Out Miracles
41. Spitting Out Miracles ( Langley/Llwellin ) Spitting Out Miracles
42. Up in a Down World ( Langley/Newton ) Altitude
43. Beautiful Is ( Langley/Reynolds/Hug ) Altitude
44. Free Four ( Waters ) Harvester
45. Nothing Will Ever Happen ( Langley/Jevons ) Welcome Stranger
46. Here is the Heart of all Wild Things ( Langlie/Starkie ) Welcome Stranger
47. Sweet Like Chocolate ( Meade/Longsman ) Welcome Stranger
48. Hotel Room ( Broughton ) Harvester
49. Cowardice and Caprice ( Langley/Bell ) Spitting Out Miracles
50. Outdoor Mine ( Wire ) Harvester
51. Taking Some Time On ( Barclay James Harvest ) Harvester
52. Sulphur ( Langley/Blue Aeroplanes ) Anti-Gravity
53. One World Passport ( Langley/Blue Aeroplanes ) Anti-Gravity
54. Here Were Are ( Langley/Noble ) Cavaliers
55. Top of the Pops ( Nizio ) Cavaliers

LINKS:

The Official Blue Aeroplanes Pages


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