Tracks: The Rising Tide One Of These Days Standing Still A Touch Of Strange Be Kind Weeping Yesterday Night Where Would I Go Rock The Boat Musicians: Tom Fox: guitar, vocals Ian Cohen: bass, vocals Peter Cohen: drums, backing vocals Dan Heymann: keyboards Basil Coetzee: sax on 'Weeping' McCoy Mrubata: sax on 'Yesterday Night' Release information: 1988, EMI, EMCJ (L) 4063771 Comments: The single release of 'Weeping' is 5:35 while the album version is only 4:51. Review: Bright Blue's first album was the training ground for this brilliant album. While the first album is somewhat raw and loose, this is tight, refined and smooth. Obviously 'Weeping' is the highlight of the album (voted the number 1 song of the previous century ). It still amazes me that the SABC did not ban it for it's blatant musical reference to N'Kosi Sikelel' iAfrica, let alone for it's political charged lyrics, yet this powerful track reached number 1 on the Radio 5 charts. This is a big song in the same way that Bohemian Rhapsody is big, but without the obscure lyrics. Despite the high praise I have just given to 'Weeping', it is not my personal favourite on the album. I opt for the title track. This song of solidarity with a young man who had refused to to National Military Service and was sentenced to a jail. The words are powerful and the music ebbs and flows on this sublime track. It is similar in feel to 'Weeping', but to my mind just that little bit better. But what of the rest of the album?