Seahorses - Blinded by the Sun

[Laurence]

TUNE or WHAT!!!

Whatever happened to them - in fact all of their singles were good. Especially 'You can talk to Me'?

[Smurfie]

This was a great track, it was definitely the stand out track from the album. Wasn't keen on the Love Me Or Leave Me single, but You Can Talk Me was great.

I believe John Squire went solo after this and released a coupld of albums. I haven't heard any of his solo music, and can't remember it troubling the charts much either.

[Robin]

This song is FANTASTIC!!!! Great album as well, must dig it out sometime

[space]

yeah , great tune.its my favorite seahorses tune.a 90s classic for me.
its so emotional the way he sings

"don't mean to sound unkind to you
You'll just have to go and find something
else to do
And don't ask me what went wrong,
the list goes on and on "

great melody.

[wonderwall]

listened to the album the other day great singles but mos tof the album sounds pretty weak now

[Earl Purple]

Oh, played that and others in my britpop special a few years ago...

I didn't buy their album, I do have all the Shine series though.

[marcus]

Loved their album "Do It Yourself". They were recording a second, but the lead singer Chris Helme wanted a solo career alongside The Seahorses. This clearly upset Squire and left the band while the sessions were still in progress.

Second album FAQ from www.john-squire.com/seahorses/bio.html

The Seahorses 2nd studio album was never official released. It was scheduled for Summer 1999 release. The songs were apparently all written but the band split before the album was mastered and the tracklisting decided. The most common reason for the band splitting was that Chris Helme wanted to run a solo project alongside The Seahorses, as he has done with his current project, The Yards.
It was never fully mastered.

The album had a working title of either 'Minus Blue' or 'Motorcade'

John Squire had completed the artwork for the album and singles. But as far as I'm aware it has never been seen, I don't believe it was at the recent ICA exhibition.

The tracklisting of the bootleg release - 2nd Album Records was as follows:
01 - Night Train
02 - Anamorphosis
03 - 700 Horses
04 - Dolphin
05 - Something Tells Me
06 - What Can You See?
07 - Cocksucker Blue
08 - I Want You
09 - Tomb Raid
10 - Reach Out

It is highly unlikely that this would've been the final tracklisting. For one reason it includes both 'Night Train' and 'Tomb Raid'. 'Night Train' is a re-working of 'Tomb Raid' which the Seahorses played in the summer of 1998 at various live venues.

The actual track names for 'Something Tells Me' and 'What Can You See?' are actually 'Pi' and 'Into The Light' respectively. John Squire name-checked the tracks in an interview with Select from 1999.

'Moth' is not the same track as 'Anamorphosis', it sounds entirely different.

Other possible songs for the 2nd studio album are 'Feel Like A God', 'Moth', 'Petroleum', 'Pacific Blue', 'City In The Sky', 'Won't Let You Fall'.

After the Seahorses split, John Squire started work on his new project, putting an advert in the NME, listed as John Squire's Skunk Works Project. He later worked with and helped form The Shining before deciding to go solo and take the mic for the first time.

Chris Helme went off and did a bit of solo work soon after the split, while Stuart Fletcher took some time out before putting together The Rising with ex-Shed Seven Paul Banks, Audioweb's Maxi (now with Ian Brown) and new boy David McKellar, they performed a fair few gigs and produced a couple of promo-only EPs but finally split, singer David McKellar went on to form The 88s. Stuart Fletcher and Paul Banks met back up with Chris Helme and they went on to form The Yards. Paul Banks has now parted company, replaced by guitarist Chris Farrell and the band have finished their debut album 'The Yards', which is due for release April '05.

Andy Watts (who left the Seahorses around the time of the release of 'Love Me And Leave Me') went on to form Mozer and even after two very well-produced promo EPs the band split before they had a proper release. Andy Watts made his return to the music scene in 2004 in the form of a solo project and is currently playing gigs around London and putting the finishing touches to his debut LP, 'The World Of Hearts Right Here'.

The interview can be found at:-

www.john-squire.com/seahorses/media/select_feb-99.html

The album of what we got is brilliant, "Dolphin" is my fave.

"City In The Sky" and "Won't Let You Fall" in the zip are live tracks from bootlegs, "Moth" and "Feel Like A God" are both on live bootlegs with the tracks not uploaded on the site. "Feel Like a God" has some of it's lyrics missing on the site as the "T In The Park" recording is not very good.

The first 3 songs on here are rough recordings at Olympic studios, the others were just rough cuts in their own session before they went to the studio, but as you can see they never did .

[wonderwall]

they were hyped to hell but were a big letdown they were terrible at Glastonbury

[marcus]

I remember John Squire's solo debut making #17 and the follow-up failed to chart.

He had 2 top 50 singles, one each from the two albums and were all released on his own label. So in a way you could say he was the first unsigned atist to have a top 20 album.

[wonderwall]

marcus said:

I remember John Squire's solo debut making #17 and the follow-up failed to chart.

He had 2 top 50 singles, one each from the two albums and were all released on his own label. So in a way you could say he was the first unsigned atist to have a top 20 album.

hi ssolo stuff was woeful .