‘The Boy With The Gun’ is a song from David Sylvian’s album ‘The Secrets Of The Beehive’ which was released in 1987 and is without exception my favourite album of all time. Nothing better has some along in the twenty odd years since it first heard it to change my mind.
The album is a rare example of a record being ‘one work’ with each song so perfectly crafted as to create a whole work of such beauty that sometimes it is impossible to listen to or try to understand any of the songs on their own without listening to the whole album.
I first came across this album when we were living in Hackney in the early 1990s
when it was played to me by my best friend. Although I had been a great fan of Japan and loved their work, I had somehow lost touch with David Sylvian’s solo work following ‘Brilliant Trees’ and this record had somehow passed me by.
Once I had heard it, it became a CD that we had on the stereo most nights and like the Missa Luba (Song 102 – ‘Sanctus’ – from ‘Missa Luba’) it was one that we often played time and time again repeatedly.
On the basis that the album is a ‘complete work’ it is hard to choose one song to sum it up, however this is one of the songs from the album which captures some of the essence of the work and I would heartily recommend to anyone that if they like this song they will love the whole album and should listen to immediately.
Now listen to the song….
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