''Falling'' was the second
full-length album by the
Toronto
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-based
new wave band
Blue Peter
''Blue Peter'' is a British children's television entertainment programme created by John Hunter Blair. It is the longest-running children's TV show in the world, having been broadcast since October 1958. It was broadcast primarily from BBC Tel ...
. Coming on the heels of ''
Up To You'', their successful 1982
EP,
Steve Nye
Steve Nye is an English music producer for several artists.
Career
Nye started out as a tape op at AIR Studios in London in 1971, where producer Rupert Hine discovered him.
There he got into engineering (and later producing) many well-known a ...
was selected to produce their next album, which included
the hit song, "Don't Walk Past".
Nye's production emphasized keyboards over guitars, and drew comparisons with his work with
Roxy Music
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and
Japan
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.
Reception
Released in the spring of 1983 on
Ready Records, ''Falling'' peaked nationally at 64 (where it stayed for three weeks) on the
Canadian Albums Chart
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,
and was ranked 25th on Toronto radio station
CFNY
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's Top 83 of 1983 chart.
The biggest Single (music), single from ''Falling'' was "Don't Walk Past", known for its jangly guitar riff,
and CFNY ranked the song at 92 in its Best 102 of the Decade in January 1990.
The Music video, video for "Don't Walk Past", directed by Rob Quartly, was inspired by the then-recent film ''Blade Runner''
and became the first from a Canadian Independent record label, indie label to get played on MTV in the United States.
The video also won awards including "Best Video of 1983" from the Canadian Film and Television Association,
and was ranked at 85 on MuchMusic's Top Videos of The Century list.
Personnel
Blue Peter:
* Paul Humphrey (Canadian musician), Paul Humphrey - vocals
* Ric Joudrey - Bass (instrument), bass
* Jason Sniderman - Keyboard instrument, keyboards, percussion, programming
* Owen Tennyson - drums
* Chris Wardman - guitars, keyboards, programming
Additional personnel:
* Leslie Howitt - backing vocals on "Don't Walk Past"
* Matt Zimball - congas on "Unchained Heart"
Track listing
All songs written by Chris Wardman, except where noted:
Side 1:
1. "Falling" (4:30)
2. "Don't Walk Past" (4:27)
3. "Red Filters" (4:05)
4. "All Your Time" (4:32)
5. "Unchained Heart" (4:00) (Sniderman)
Side 2:
6. "Head Over Heels" (3:57)
7. "Pendulum" (4:02)
8. "Burning Bridges" (3:55)
9. "Right Stuff" (3:55) (Wardman, Joudrey and Kevin Doyle)
10. "Newsreel" (4:42)
Re-issue
In 2007, ''Falling'' was re-issued by Universal Music Canada, combined with ''Vertigo'', a collection of previously unreleased material.
The additional eight songs were recorded as Demo (music), demos in 1984, and, in some cases, completed with additional parts added in 1996 by Humphrey and Joudrey.
The ''Vertigo'' tracks were produced by Blue Peter and Kevin Doyle. Songs were written by Chris Wardman, except where noted:
Additional tracks
11. "Water Off the Moon" (4:54)
12. "Night Duty" (4:33) (Wardman, Sniderman)
13. "Throw It Down" (4:33)
14. "Lap of Luxury" (4:45)
15. "Equalizer" (4:26) (Wardman, Sniderman)
16. "Vertigo" (4:35)
17. "Steal Away" (3:33) (Wardman, Sniderman)
18. "Into the Parade" (4:45) (Wardman, Sniderman)
References
External links
''Falling'' on Discogs''Falling'' reissue on DiscogsFalling on Blue Peter's website*
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Blue Peter (band) albums
1983 albums