Trevor Horn - Vermillion Sands - The Buggles

[John Vehadija]

The Buggles - Vermillion Sands

My heart is an alligator
Better watch your step - watch your step
This heat is an incubator
Make a diamond sweat - wanna bet
Live life like you're flying solo
Never in the net - in the net

Dancing in silence the orchestra late
In the Essoldo or down by the lake
I don't care

Take me to Vermilion Sands
Hold me in familiar hands
Take me to Vermilion Sands

Sandyacht on a thermal roller
We were never there - never there
Live life like you're flying solo
Never in the air - in the air

Dancing in silence the orchestra late
In the Essoldo or down by the lake
I don't care

Take me to Vermilion Sands
Hold me in familiar hands
Take me to Vermilion Sands

My heart is an alligator
Better watch your step - watch your step
This heat is an incubator
Make a diamond sweat - wanna bet

Take me to Vermilion Sands
Hold me in familiar hands
Take me to Vermilion, take me to Vermilion Sands
Hold me in familiar hands
Take me to Vermilion Sands, sands, sands

[Ceasar’s Palace]

Great song. The synth orchestra at the end sounds dated now, but was impressive back then.

[Ash Armstrong]

I cannot now ever unread those dreadful lyrics...

JG Ballard spinning in his grave!

[Chris2210]

It's hard to see any relation to Ballard in those lyrics - unless you count any disjointed, surreal imagery as Ballardesque.

I think any song that has alligator and incubator as rhymes is asking for trouble...

[Ceasar’s Palace]

It's hard to see any relation to Ballard in those lyrics - unless you count any disjointed, surreal imagery as Ballardesque.

I think any song that has alligator and incubator as rhymes is asking for trouble...

I don’t care if they rhyme it with big generator!

[rabin105]

wish yes woud of done this song

[Gilly Goodness]

The second greatest car honk in a song in history, behind Don't Go!

Swelling, woozy,genre busting electro-pop-prog masterpiece.

Sail the sandyacht across the sweating diamond...

https://youtu.be/8hYzpW6SVdc

[Yorkshire Square]

A great track from a great album. TH honing his talents after having had a close shave with Yes. Laid the foundations for a decade or more of top drawer work, Art of Noise, Pet Shop Boys, Frank ie...

... Oh and, YES!

[Yorkshire Square]

I cannot now ever unread those dreadful lyrics...

JG Ballard spinning in his grave!

Like your Pilp Fiction then?? 🙄

[Ash Armstrong]

Like your Pilp Fiction then?? 🙄

I don't follow?

[Yorkshire Square]

I don't follow?

Well he's hardly Dickens or Shakespeare himself, is he?

That's Entertainment.

[Ash Armstrong]

Well he's hardly Dickens or Shakespeare himself, is he?

That's Entertainment.

Do you mean Ballard? No. Dickens and Shakespeare are Dickens and Shakespeare, so obviously he can't be. I really don't see the point you're trying to make?

[Chris2210]

Well he's hardly Dickens or Shakespeare himself, is he?

That's Entertainment.

I'm guessing you've never read Empire of the Sun [for example]. Ballard is as far away from pulp fiction [I assume that's what you mean] as it gets. The referenced isn't science fiction, but he's one of a handful of writers in that genre that give it literary credentials.

[Ash Armstrong]

I'm guessing you've never read Empire of the Sun [for example]. Ballard is as far away from pulp fiction [I assume that's what you mean] as it gets. The referenced isn't science fiction, but he's one of a handful of writers in that genre that give it literary credentials.

His, and Ray Bradbury's, short stories are wonderful!

[Yorkshire Square]

I'm guessing you've never read Empire of the Sun [for example]. Ballard is as far away from pulp fiction [I assume that's what you mean] as it gets. The referenced isn't science fiction, but he's one of a handful of writers in that genre that give it literary credentials.

Well I've tried. The first couple of chapters are like someone shot him in the head and everything in there just spewed out onto the pages in a random fashion. If that's "literary credentials" you can keep them, I'd rather read my missus' shopping list.