#WorldParty

"Well it's got nothing to do with anything that is real
You just believe in it and it's true
You can sooth like an angel or sigh like a saint
You can dream it and see it through
You will live to see a sea of lights
Sparking on the face of a pearl
Climb your own peak
Find a new streak

Get yourself along to the world party (party!)

Now you've been building for yourself a cool place in the sand
You're thinking that it's mighty fine
You've got dust in your eyeballs, you got mud in your mouth
But it's your head, it ain't mine
I've got a madman of my own to contend with
Cursing in the cave of my skull
Turn the other cheek
Find a new streak

Get yourself along to the world party (party!)

Well I heard a rumour of a golden age
Somewhere back along the line
Maybe I dreamed it in a whisper or
Heard it in a spell
It was something to do with the sign of the times
And the only thing that I remember
Is a summer like a pretty girl
Who shimmers and shines
Moving in time
Shaking to the beat of the heart of the world

Party (party! party! party! party! party! party! party! party! party!) "

- #TheWaterboys, 1988 (#MikeScott, #KarlWallinger )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqbytLQwMTE

#AnotherWorldIsPossible

"He got the means, he make the harvest high
But you can count those hungry people die
We're all at the mercy
Of the greedy man within"

- From "The Ballad of the Little Man, by #KarlWallinger, #WorldParty, 1986


The families going hungry because of #Trump’s #FoodStamp cuts

Under President Donald Trump’s “#BigBeautifulBill,” food stamp applicants are fighting to prove eligibility and facing questions about birthday gifts sent over Zelle. A crisis in Arizona offers a warning for America.

by Shannon Pettipiece, May 11, 2026

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-food-stamp-cuts-children-arizona-hungry-big-beautiful-bill-rcna343922

#USPol #TrumpSucks #FascismInTheUSA
#Oligarchy #Oiligarchy #Fascism #Authoritarianism
#Autocracy #Greed #BigUglyBill #BigUglyPresident

Appropriate for today for many reasons.

"Ship of Fools" -- World Party

#WorldParty #KarlWallinger #RIP

https://youtu.be/B2nCugGQZO0

Some of my heroes are ghosts... (Word play on Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here").

#KarlWallinger #SineadOConnor #KleeBenally #TheRevolutionLivesOn

"Well it's got nothing to do with anything that is real you just believe and it's true
It can soothe like an angel or sigh like a saint you can dream it and make it true
But you're gonna have to put away your illusions burn all your beads and your pearls
Turn the other cheek, stay straight a few weeks and get yourself into the world party"

Original lyrics from #WorldParty by #TheWaterboys (#MikeScott, #KarlWallinger).

"Now he's sitting in the gardens
As the acid rain comes in
He got it covered full of rhino heads
And boots of leopard skin

He got the means, he make the harvest high
But you can count those hungry people die
We're all at the mercy
Of the greedy man within"
- From "The Ballad of the Little Man, by #KarlWallinger, #WorldParty, 1986

http://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/3/great_gatsby

#TrumpSucks #FascismInTheUSA #Oligarchy #Oiligarchy #Fascism #Authoritarianism #Autocracy #Greed

The Waterboys, This is the Sea, 1985 on Ensign / Chrysalis

This was the third studio album from The Waterboys, produced by Mike Scott and Karl Wallinger with John Brand and Mick Glossop. Includes one of my favorite Waterboys songs “The Whole of the Moon” but the entire album is wonderful.

It’s a bit hard to see in the photos but the Waterboys emblem / logo is imprinted on the cover as kind of glossy mask.

My copy is a 1986 reissue on Chrysalis labels – in the UK it came out on Ensign, which was sold to Chrysalis in 1984 – but it was also released in 1985 in the US on Island Records labels. Via Slipped Disc at a Mill No. 5 record fair.

#1980s #1985 #Chrysalis #Ensign #IslandRecords #KarlWallinger #LowellMA #MikeScott #MillNo5 #Reissue #SlippedDisc #TheWaterboys #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds

"He sold love away from his children's hearts
And told them it was sin
Now we're all at the mercy, we're all at the mercy
Of that little man within..."
- #KarlWallinger, #WorldParty, 1986

Can #empathy lead to sin? Some #ConservativeChristians argue it can

By TIFFANY STANLEY
Updated 5:20 PM EDT, August 21, 2025

WASHINGTON (AP) — "Empathy is usually regarded as a virtue, a key to #HumanDecency and #kindness. And yet, with increasing momentum, voices on the #ChristianRight are preaching that it has become a vice.

"For them, empathy is a cudgel for the left: It can manipulate caring people into accepting all manner of sins according to a conservative Christian perspective, including #abortion access, #LGBTQ+ rights, illegal immigration and certain views on #social and #racial justice."

https://apnews.com/article/conservative-christians-sin-of-toxic-empathy-c9ab96faf99605e010f487df61d92d8f

#WWJD #WWRWJD #WhatWouldJesusDo #ChristianCoalition #ChristianNationalists #Racists #Hatemongers #ProBirth

So, I don't know how long this will stay up on YT, but here's the "unrestricted" video for the alternate version of #WorldParty's #TheBalladOfTheLittleMan! (CW - Contains some graphic b/w imagery of Nazis and people starving.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU3M2anr6Dk&feature=youtu.be

#RestInPowerKarlWallinger #KarlWallinger #FridayNightMusicVideos #FridayNightJukebox #FridayNightMusic #PrivateRevolution #80sMusic #ResistFascism #Resistance #TrumpIsANazi