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The B side ''This Jungle'' remained unique to this release until its inclusion in the [[Assembly (compilation album)|Assembly]] compilation album (1992). The title is evocative of a 1980 John Foxx [[B-side]] "This City". The track appeared later on the 2001 and 2008 re-issues of [[The Garden (John Foxx album)|The Garden]] (but not on the 1993 edition). |
The B side ''This Jungle'' remained unique to this release until its inclusion in the [[Assembly (compilation album)|Assembly]] compilation album (1992). The title is evocative of a 1980 John Foxx [[B-side]] "This City". The track appeared later on the 2001 and 2008 re-issues of [[The Garden (John Foxx album)|The Garden]] (but not on the 1993 edition). |
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"You Were There" would later appear in the same version on [[The Garden (John Foxx album)|The Garden]]. |
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Artwork for the 12" version is identical to the 7" except for the wording of the additional track. |
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"Europe After The Rain" is the title of a John Foxx song released as a single in August 1981 and included on The Garden album released later in the year.
The song signalled a drastic departure from Foxx's previous solo work which had focused on a sparse electronic sound whereas Europe After The Rain features a warmer sound, using acoustic and electric guitars, acoustic piano and live drums to produce the music. The bass and string sounds were however produced by a synthesiser. Foxx has several times stated that this change in musical direction was caused by a visit to Italy after the Metamatic period, where he worked with director Michaelangelo Antonioni for the soundtrack of his film Identification of a Woman.
Although the single only reached no. 40 in the UK charts,[1] Foxx performed the song on UK music show Top Of The Pops where Foxx's new more romantic style was presented in the clothes and setting to accompany the performance in stark contrast to that of Underpass on the same show some eighteen months previously. For this performance Foxx was seen playing acoustic guitar, flanked by three other musicians on piano and keyboards. These musicians were namely Eddie and Sunshine and Duncan Bridgeman of the band Shake Shake who had collaborated with Foxx in writing B-side "A Long Time" in 1980.[2]
The Top Of The Pops footage was issued officially for the first time in 2013 on the DVD of the artist's Metadelic collection. No promo video was made for the single.
Track Listing
7"
- Europe After The Rain (3:37)
- This Jungle (4:40)
12"
- Europe After The Rain (3:59)
- This Jungle (4:19)
- You Were There (4:18)
Produced by John Foxx
Engineered by Gareth Jones
No 12" vinyl version was issued, and the album version differs only in the fact that it is slightly longer.
This Jungle
The B side This Jungle remained unique to this release until its inclusion in the Assembly compilation album (1992). The title is evocative of a 1980 John Foxx B-side "This City". The track appeared later on the 2001 and 2008 re-issues of The Garden (but not on the 1993 edition).
"You Were There" would later appear in the same version on The Garden.
Artwork for the 12" version is identical to the 7" except for the wording of the additional track.
Europe After The Rain is also the title of a painting by Max Ernst, who would have been known to Foxx as a former art-student and graphic artist. There is however no reference to the painting or to the artist in the song's lyrics or in the single cover art, designed by Foxx.
Appears on
Europe After The Rain also appears on the following John Foxx issues:
- The Garden (original LP, 1981; subsequent CD re-issues 1993, 2001, 2008)
- Assembly (compilation album, 1992)
- Modern Art (compilation album, 2001)
- Glimmer (compilation album, 2008)
- Metadelic (compilation album, 2008)
- Neuro Video (live album, 2008; live recording of performance by John Foxx and Louis Gordon at The Luminaire in London, on the 24 November, 2007.
also featured on
- Modern Dance - (new-wave compilation album, 1981)[3]
Cover versions
The song was covered in 2012 by Spanish singer and recording artist Miqui Puig, who considered the song as having special significance at this time of the "cyclical decline of Europe". A video recording was published of the singer performing the song with a backing band in a disused button factory which has been located in the Poble Nou district of Barcelona since 1928. The performance of Europe After The Rain therefore "becomes a tribute to the last holdouts of the labor sector of the city".[4]
Notes
- ^ http://www.ultravox.org.uk/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/5585/chart_statistics John Foxx chart stats
- ^ http://www.metamatic.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/46106#Post46106 metamatic.com forum post
- ^ http://www.discogs.com/Various-Modern-Dance/master/253188 Modern Dance at discogs.com
- ^ http://waaau.tv/video/directo/miqui-puig-europe-after-rain-john-foxx-cover?keyword=Miqui%20Puig waaau.tv (in Spanish)