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What's Your Party Music?

1) "Ship of Fools"	1 votes
2) "Put the Message in the Box"	0 votes
3) "Way Down Now"	2 votes
4) "Is It Like Today?"	1 votes

AG/DC Sep 30 2008 02:34 PM

World Party is mostly associated stateside with "Way Down Now," and consigned to the "whatever happened to?" bin. That's unfair, because a review or their catalog will produce a lot of "that was them?" moments for Americans. Actually, they weren't a them, so much as a him --- a vehicle for Karl Wallinger, who left the Waterboys and played most of the instruments on World Party albums. (But he left behind the song "World Party," which the Waterboys released after he left.) When we did our "Best Songs Ever" project, Frayed Knot wondered where World Party had come from and where they had gone. Well, Wallinger took time off between WP outings to work with Sinead O'Connor, and then had a long layoff after an aneurysm left him unable to speak. An aneurysm may a good career move for a grunge artist in the 90s, but in 2000 it pretty much knocked Wallinger out of the game. Anyhow, take a World Party song to a desert island, but only one. 1) "Ship of Fools" (1987) 2) "Put the Message in the Box" (1990) 3) "Way Down Now" (1990) 4) "Is It Like Today" (1993)

Willets Point Sep 30 2008 02:41 PM

Looks like a man with a serious Lennon Complex.

AG/DC Sep 30 2008 02:48 PM

Kind of suggests to me Roland Orzabal of Tears for Fears, but that path also leads back to the source that is Lennon.

AG/DC Sep 30 2008 09:36 PM

Two votes.

Gwreck Sep 30 2008 10:07 PM

Three, now. I always liked the World Party stuff. Tough choice between Way Down Now and Ship of Fools (voted for the latter).

Farmer Ted Oct 01 2008 09:51 AM

Taking a pass as I never found World Party enjoyable. At all. Would Rob Gordon from Championship Vinyl play World Party?

AG/DC Oct 01 2008 09:53 AM

Hard to say. Rob was complex. The guy hated on Peter Frampton but considered Fleetwood Mac as a milestone marker in his life. It may be obvious, but I have a soft spot for a lot of stuff that grunge helped bring the curtain down on.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 01 2008 10:02 AM

I can't offhand think of the Beatle song "Way Down" rips off, but I know it does. I voted fer it. In addition to this band not making enough great songs, it had a stupid name which made people want to think they were a pretentious "world music" band.

Farmer Ted Oct 01 2008 10:17 AM

I thought more Lou Reed than Beatles. Perhaps his quirky, I love You, Suzanne number. I can't quite nail it down either.

AG/DC Oct 01 2008 10:24 AM

i always associated it with Love & Rockets "Kundalini Express" with WP's "Tell me!" parallelling L&R's "Woo-Hoo!" There's also some "Werewolves of London" in the initial chord changes.

metirish Oct 01 2008 10:27 AM

I'll play later , I remember World Party were one of the bands to name drop when I was a late teen hitting the festival circuit.