Track Listing

1. Broken Wings
2. Round And Round
3. I Will
4. Summer Rain
5. Discovery
6. Brazil
7. In A Country Churchyard (Let Your Love Shine On)
8. Rainy Night In Paris
9. If You Really Love Her Let Her Go
10. Perfect Day

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #24436 in Music
• Released on: 1991-03-14
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Pub Quiz
If ever anyone thinks CdB is "Irish": think again - oh, and I want share!

The Tasty Meat In The Epic Sandwich
The Spanish Train and Crusader albums are packed with great, sweeping epics, full of big ideas and bold stories. They are easy to love if you like that sort of thing, which I did then and still do now. At the time of release this album seemed out of place, lightweight, lacking the long track of biblical theme. Sort of the filler between the bread of those other albums.

Yet, yet...

Listening to it now I hear lovely, memorable songs, truly touching lyrics and great feeling. I would struggle to give up Crusader and Spanish Train as tracks, but as a whole album, this is probably better.

Perfection.
"At the end of a Perfect Day" is a sparkling little jewel of an album. Of all Chris de Burgh's output his first four albums pack an emotional punch and have a depth of production that was sadly absent from much of his 1980s output. You know you are of a certain age in Ireland if your vinyl collection includes this record - if your past life in pre-Celtic Tiger Ireland involved being a member of Church folk groups, inhabiting bedsitters in Rathmines, being grossly overeducated for your Clerical Assistant job in the Civil Service and simply keeping your head above the water financially in the days before Dublin was hip then you will remember this record.

Chris de Burgh at this stage presented himself as a troubadour, a teller of stories - summed up on the Crusader album's final track "You and Me" with "And I'll lead you through the ancient halls/and stories of the past/and the many ways of loving". A slow burn success even in his native Ireland, he generated a passionate audience for these songs, touring first as a solo performer and then with his band. The story/songs on this album fit within this ethos. "Around and around" tells of the circle of life and death within a light acoustic guitar, saxophone and harmony arrangement. "The Island" tells of a dream of leading a simple life raising your children with your lover in the countryside. "Discovery" brings Christopher Columbus to life, "Summer Rain" evokes a long vanished middle class life in a seaside town, "A rainy night in Paris" with piano and saxophone paints a picture of a lost romance, "If you really love her, let her go" tells of a lover facing his girlfriend's sceptical parents, and finally "Perfect Day" melds a summer outing with friends to the sea with The Beatles and Silent Night without ever going over the top.

There is freshness and heart in this music. In a relatively dreary time in Ireland it was a little dash of colour. I wholeheartedly recommend this album to you all.