Cathal Coughlin RIP. At the very peak of his powers, he was a fabulous frontman both with Microdisney and the brilliant Fatima Mansions. This is how I will always remember him.
@@mojomartha1249 I saw The Fatima Mansions at the Camden Falcon in 1991. They were utterly fantastic. Cathal was a mixture of Scott Walker meets Mark E Smith, a brilliant and confrontational performer. He was a class act. Gone, but not forgotten.
I grew up watching the news. I graduated high school in 1989. I thought this was the coolest fucking song EVER but like none of my friends watched the news so they didn't get it. I'm glad I got to relay to the man my love for this song. R.I.P. hopefully hanging with Scott and Seany.
@@mileshedgehog Check out "Stigmata" and "Chemical Cosh", they are even more intense! Hopefully, Cathal is making a (un)holy racket with MES and Scott wherever they are now.
He once sent me an email and his first solo album. 😢 The best in every way. It was a true high point of my life. Thank you Cathal and wherever you may be now keep their bloody feet to the fire.
When i was 18 a co worker at a restaurant made me a mixed tape with this song on it. That taped changed and opened up so much music to me. SMASHING PUMPKINS, BLUR, THROWING MUSES, NIN, MINISTRY, SOUNDGARDEN, AND MORE.
When you have songs about killing cops etc., its going to be an uphill battle to get air time and press attention in 1990. Immensely talented band nonetheless.
Wow so many people do not understand what this song is about. He's comparing Charles to Ceausescu, because of his public stated relation to Vlad Tepes (Charles not Nicolae's), at least that is what part of the song is about. The advent of neocon thought in the UK and Thatcher-ism is the main point I always thought, especially if you date the Mountbatten inclusion, late 70's.
Just incredible. All these years later, Cathal's righteous fury still sends shivers down the spine & blows any contender right out of the water. Viva was the record that turned my head back in 1990, livid yet controlled lyrical genius with the Mansions effortlessly bettering anything out of the States. Oh god, I wish I'd met you, Cathal: you actually changed my life
I got the chance to shake Cathal's hand after the Barbican M'disney gig in London in June of 2018. He and Sean and the rest of the band had been kind enough to sit at a table in the Barbican lobby to sign stuff, accept kudos and thanks &cetera. I had flown over from Canada (Toronto) just to see the gig - and I'm so glad now that I did. Anyway, so I'd had a few Peronis so I was probably a bit annoying. As I'm from Belfast originally, the topic came up in passing - I said to Cathal "I'm on the other side of it, brother" (meaning Protestant vs Catholic). He quietly said to me, "There is no other side." I left it on that note. I didn't want to bother the man. And I had to keep going with the line - get my concert program signed by Sean and the others in the band. Anyway...little story.
Absolutely fuckin' MONSTROUS record [even though it's the edited version here for this video, it's no less potent]. The full 6+ minute version fucking blows the rest of the insipid gutless indie schmindie shite that so many people hyped up around that time and thereafter into oblivion. This should have been number 1 for 16 weeks.....but then as we Mansions fanatics know all too well, Cathal had the last laugh and actually got into the top ten (sneakily on the back of the Manics' cover of Theme From M*A*S*H) with his inspired desecration/disembowelment of the aforesaid 16-week number 1 hogging Robin Hood snorefest by Pizzaface Adams..... The lyrics on this bilefest are just awesome in their sheer vitriol! Play this fucker every day for the rest of your life and feel thoroughly exorcised and cleansed of all the fucking shit that modern life deals you - I promise you it will be the best thing you could ever do!
Greatest vocalist and lyricist in rock n roll history period full stop. And now dead. Dammit dammit dammit. He wouldn't have wanted to live to see what a sorry pass we've come to is literally the only positive spin I can put on it.
The Dickie Mountbatten verse is a reference to the alleged activity of him abusing kids in the orphan homes of Northern Ireland, like Kincora, and the fact being covered up by MI5.
@@iangelling Cathal knew the score - Go to England, baby-raper, false economist. Call yourself King Charles III. Nobody will notice. Nobody will be alarmed. There is no constitution. Go. Goodbye. Goodbye.
Just heard here about Cathal's sad passing. I loved Microdisney and Fatima Mansions also Sean O'Hagan - I now follow Brian Jonestown Massacre ........................................ try 'Wisdom'...........................you won't be disappointed!
CC had a unwavering lens on the horror that was emerging giving it such dark poetic life. "One for the rich and one for the poor, the only distinctions is the thickness of the front door."
Yes!!!! I saw this ages ago on a vhs recording of MTV's 120 minutes that my host brother had when I was an exchange student in Hungary in the early 90s. Loved it, but I couldn't remember the group's name. I think I've googled it almost once a year since the advent of google but couldn't ever find out who sang it. Reading about the government collapse in Romania today made me start humming/looking for it immediately, and here it is. Thanks for posting!
At the time this song was recorded it was assumed that Charles would not call himself “King Charles 3” because most people hated 1 and 2. It was commonly assumed he would call himself King George 7. I was surprised myself when I heard he chose KC3.
I play this each morning in my bathroom while I'm brushing my teeth and taking a shit (in the shower, of course). My 28 year old son loves it as well (who is into screamo). The only thing just as good is some Sex Pistols at a public place on the beach, played very loud until the cops come and ask you what the Hell is wrong with you.
The Dickie Mountbatten line is an ode to a royal who was sacrificed on the alter of false flag warfare to prop up England's Gladio enterprise in Ireland, LOL. I bet we was pissed when those SAS guys blew his ass into the ocean.
@@Jungleland33 it was a guess and not a bad guess since they're the equivalent in some respects to the Teams over here in the US, where they're obviously given covert or black-bag DA operational status. Please tell me how you know for certain it wasn't them. I'm not saying I know for certain but you seem pretty pretty secure in your knowledge that it wasn't them. And besides who gives a fuck? I isn't like I know. Peoe commenting on this is pretty ridiculous but then all these half wot scrubs coming on here telling me I'm wrong is more of the same. Yeah sounds like scrub trolling to me.
Goodbye Cathal Coughlan, we loved living in this world with you. R. I. P.
RIP bud, you were the greatest out of Ireland.
Cathal Coughlin RIP.
At the very peak of his powers, he was a fabulous frontman both with Microdisney and the brilliant Fatima Mansions. This is how I will always remember him.
I'm ridiculously sad today Rob.
@@mojomartha1249 I saw The Fatima Mansions at the Camden Falcon in 1991. They were utterly fantastic. Cathal was a mixture of Scott Walker meets Mark E Smith,
a brilliant and confrontational performer. He was a class act. Gone, but not forgotten.
I grew up watching the news. I graduated high school in 1989. I thought this was the coolest fucking song EVER but like none of my friends watched the news so they didn't get it. I'm glad I got to relay to the man my love for this song. R.I.P. hopefully hanging with Scott and Seany.
@@mileshedgehog Check out "Stigmata" and "Chemical Cosh", they are even more intense! Hopefully, Cathal is making a (un)holy racket with MES and Scott wherever
they are now.
@@robjones2408 oh I am beyond aware. Always loved the covers.
Sean Hughes is in the mix in that afterworld jam as well. Bubonique reunion 😭
Rest in righteous anger Cathal, an amazing and unique talent.
RIP Cathal Coughlin
This track always brings back memories of indie clubbing in 90/91 and beyond in London.
He once sent me an email and his first solo album. 😢 The best in every way. It was a true high point of my life. Thank you Cathal and wherever you may be now keep their bloody feet to the fire.
RIP Cathal, your beautiful voice lives on.
20 years later and it's still one of the angriest songs I've ever heard, and as the old saying goes "The more things change..."
Hello from ten years in the future. The song is even more relevant now.
Dude and his wife got it on TV. Live!
When i was 18 a co worker at a restaurant made me a mixed tape with this song on it. That taped changed and opened up so much music to me. SMASHING PUMPKINS, BLUR, THROWING MUSES, NIN, MINISTRY, SOUNDGARDEN, AND MORE.
Hasn't aged.
R.i.P Cathal...the Light of Heaven to You !
Absolutely stunning. One of my favourite songs of the entire 90s. Saw this band live in 1990 or 1991, totally mindblowing.
Matt Brooks they gave me tinnitus at the London Astoria in 92. They were magnificent
@@markofsaltburn I was always surprised Cathal didn't give himself an aneurysm you could see the veins on his head bulging
@@scottmckie7569 I thought he was going to spontaneously combust when I saw them. He was like something out of the film "Scanners".
The lead singer looks like he had huge stage presence-- Do you know if they are the originators of this song?
No- I really don't know-
@@bold810 Yeah, sure they are. Cathal was a gifted poet.
One of my favorite things to listen to 20 years ago. Oddly relevant now.
the most criminally overlooked band of all time. utterly brilliant.
When you have songs about killing cops etc., its going to be an uphill battle to get air time and press attention in 1990.
Immensely talented band nonetheless.
There will never be another song released like this. Tour de force. Delightful
Fuck yeah. That's my considered comment. One of my favourite songs ever. Still.
Microdisney brought me here. First time listen. Thumbs way up, thanks.
Wow so many people do not understand what this song is about. He's comparing Charles to Ceausescu, because of his public stated relation to Vlad Tepes (Charles not Nicolae's), at least that is what part of the song is about. The advent of neocon thought in the UK and Thatcher-ism is the main point I always thought, especially if you date the Mountbatten inclusion, late 70's.
Just incredible. All these years later, Cathal's righteous fury still sends shivers down the spine & blows any contender right out of the water. Viva was the record that turned my head back in 1990, livid yet controlled lyrical genius with the Mansions effortlessly bettering anything out of the States. Oh god, I wish I'd met you, Cathal: you actually changed my life
I got the chance to shake Cathal's hand after the Barbican M'disney gig in London in June of 2018. He and Sean and the rest of the band had been kind enough to sit at a table in the Barbican lobby to sign stuff, accept kudos and thanks &cetera. I had flown over from Canada (Toronto) just to see the gig - and I'm so glad now that I did.
Anyway, so I'd had a few Peronis so I was probably a bit annoying. As I'm from Belfast originally, the topic came up in passing - I said to Cathal "I'm on the other side of it, brother" (meaning Protestant vs Catholic). He quietly said to me, "There is no other side." I left it on that note. I didn't want to bother the man. And I had to keep going with the line - get my concert program signed by Sean and the others in the band.
Anyway...little story.
@@jonathanlegthigh8264 great story, thank you. He was quite something, wasn't he?
@@jonathanlegthigh8264 absolute truth ! God Bless from Cork !!
first song I listen to on Boxing Day every year
I played it on Inauguration Day 2021 (thank feck). Timisoara 💖
I think I'll carry on your tradition, but on my favourite day of the year, Feb. 1 (Lá fhéile Bríde).
Saw this band loads in London. Cathal is from my home town (village). Most energetic gigs I have ever enjoyed!
Absolutely fuckin' MONSTROUS record [even though it's the edited version here for this video, it's no less potent]. The full 6+ minute version fucking blows the rest of the insipid gutless indie schmindie shite that so many people hyped up around that time and thereafter into oblivion. This should have been number 1 for 16 weeks.....but then as we Mansions fanatics know all too well, Cathal had the last laugh and actually got into the top ten (sneakily on the back of the Manics' cover of Theme From M*A*S*H) with his inspired desecration/disembowelment of the aforesaid 16-week number 1 hogging Robin Hood snorefest by Pizzaface Adams..... The lyrics on this bilefest are just awesome in their sheer vitriol! Play this fucker every day for the rest of your life and feel thoroughly exorcised and cleansed of all the fucking shit that modern life deals you - I promise you it will be the best thing you could ever do!
ferocious , feral and fucking brilliant.
Agreed - See me above - try the Brian Jonestown Massacre
...and they'd send a limousine anyway.
Christ this rocks!!!!!
Greatest vocalist and lyricist in rock n roll history period full stop. And now dead. Dammit dammit dammit. He wouldn't have wanted to live to see what a sorry pass we've come to is literally the only positive spin I can put on it.
bought this cuz of the cover, what a great band. why is it that this type of music isn't played on the radio in the US....great great guitar work
RIP Cathal, ...I still can't believe it.
bought this cuz of the cover, what a great band. why is it that this type of music isn't played on the radioin the US....great great guitar work
The Dickie Mountbatten verse is a reference to the alleged activity of him abusing kids in the orphan homes of Northern Ireland, like Kincora, and the fact being covered up by MI5.
Pointed out a few decades before MSM
"allegeged"
@@iangelling
Cathal knew the score -
Go to England, baby-raper, false economist.
Call yourself King Charles III.
Nobody will notice.
Nobody will be alarmed.
There is no constitution.
Go. Goodbye. Goodbye.
So powerful. RIP Cathal.
RIP. I remember a less than flattering review of a gig by Pablo Honey era Radiohead with the line ' Cathal Coughlan he aint'
In 2024 Radiohead sold out Coughlan never did
Just heard here about Cathal's sad passing. I loved Microdisney and Fatima Mansions also Sean O'Hagan - I now follow Brian Jonestown Massacre ........................................ try 'Wisdom'...........................you won't be disappointed!
Holy fuck - this is 20 years old already?! This still sounds AMAZING
Holy fuck this is 30 years old already?! And still a monster tune. Those guitars and Cathal's voice. Unique
Now it's 30. Still good
Now it 31 and shit hot 🔥
32 years now, and still fresh
On January 20, 2021, at 12:01 p.m. ET, I will be blaring this song on a loop.
CC had a unwavering lens on the horror that was emerging giving it such dark poetic life. "One for the rich and one for the poor, the only distinctions is the thickness of the front door."
LOL- sooo much more freedom and prosperity since then!
@@boblob2003 keen observation that
Yes!!!! I saw this ages ago on a vhs recording of MTV's 120 minutes that my host brother had when I was an exchange student in Hungary in the early 90s. Loved it, but I couldn't remember the group's name. I think I've googled it almost once a year since the advent of google but couldn't ever find out who sang it. Reading about the government collapse in Romania today made me start humming/looking for it immediately, and here it is. Thanks for posting!
Thanks. Now I know where I must have found it.
Unleashed The Beast Touch Sensitive Netayahu and Trumpettes roaring
love it
Hi there. :) In all courteousness, I was SOOOOO happy to find this. Excellent this is. Thx! 🤣
Great!
RIP Cathal Coughlan
I have a 12" promo of this, that gets played very often. Actually had to buy the "Come Back, My Children" CD to avoid it being worn out
Cathal Coughlan, frontman with Irish indie bands Microdisney and Fatima Mansions, dies aged 61
"King Charles the third" Am I hearing that right? Was it known back in 1990? I think I need to examine this song some more.
At the time this song was recorded it was assumed that Charles would not call himself “King Charles 3” because most people hated 1 and 2. It was commonly assumed he would call himself King George 7. I was surprised myself when I heard he chose KC3.
The more things change...
incredible.
so underrated
Just heard the sad news. RIP.
Awesome with a capital A!!
RiP Cathal💔
Kitchenware records! I am the StainlessSteel GinsuWarrior Extra-Ordinaire. Winner by DeFault , Sinner by NAME HERE.
RIP Cathal.
Song has been censored:
“Regina, Regina rubs her thighs together ….”
Rest in peace Cathal.
Way better singer-songwriter than Bono.
Bono's good but he's no Coughlan.
Irish music to be really fucking proud about unlike the drivel the usual Irish bands pump out to make them popular and profitable..
CRANK IT!!! CRANK IT LOUD!!!
I play this each morning in my bathroom while I'm brushing my teeth and taking a shit (in the shower, of course). My 28 year old son loves it as well (who is into screamo). The only thing just as good is some Sex Pistols at a public place on the beach, played very loud until the cops come and ask you what the Hell is wrong with you.
Cathal Coughlan RIP
Are you listening, Putin?
Cathal could do with writing songs with more feeling, honestly
blues for Mubarak.......GOODBYE!!!!!!
Is there something technical that prevents indie classic tracks from being posted in HD on yt? There's all manner of 1080 thingies for trance tracks.
Blues for Gaddafi...COMING SOON!
@elAntxoa1 It's well written...it's Ceausescu :)
The untenable must be maintained.
Is this song related to the version done by Othello Khanh?
Why am I seeing comparisons to Scott Walker on this man's work?
Listen to songs like Behind The Moon, Bertie's Brochures, or even the Mansions cover of Long About Now.
He's said that Walker was a major influence, he even covers the Walker song Nite Flights on Lost in the Former West.
And besides this, his voice can be very like Walker's. Scott also wrote about dictators, though not with the same tone. Scarier, actually.
To be replaced by the next loser. It's all a game.
Yeah, that standard didn't exist at the time :)
King Charles the Third. Fuck me. Not literally, please.
What's the song's link with Ceaușescu?
RomaniaOverpowered you...
¿¿ kill a crop ¿9-
I'm here for U2
The Dickie Mountbatten line is an ode to a royal who was sacrificed on the alter of false flag warfare to prop up England's Gladio enterprise in Ireland, LOL. I bet we was pissed when those SAS guys blew his ass into the ocean.
MalaklypsetheElder Ehhh......SAS? I don't think so.
Probably the biggest load of nonsense I've read on CZcams.
@@Idol2Idol is it because you have no idea what I'm talking about?
@@Jungleland33 it was a guess and not a bad guess since they're the equivalent in some respects to the Teams over here in the US, where they're obviously given covert or black-bag DA operational status. Please tell me how you know for certain it wasn't them. I'm not saying I know for certain but you seem pretty pretty secure in your knowledge that it wasn't them.
And besides who gives a fuck? I isn't like I know. Peoe commenting on this is pretty ridiculous but then all these half wot scrubs coming on here telling me I'm wrong is more of the same. Yeah sounds like scrub trolling to me.
@@MalaklypsetheElder no it's because I know that you are completely insane and have no knowledge of Ireland.
WTF?!
9 people don't know shit.