Song · This Mortal Coil
“Another Day” by This Mortal Coil
From the album It’ll End in Tears (1984)
“Another Day” by This Mortal Coil appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1984. It was first released in 1984 on the album It’ll End in Tears. Its best result is #33 on the John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1984. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #134 alternative song of 1984.
Roy Harper wrote "Another Day" for his 1970 album Flat Baroque and Berserk, and his admirers rate it among his very best. In 1984 the collective This Mortal Coil gave it a second life on It'll End in Tears, with Elizabeth Fraser and Robin Guthrie of the Cocteau Twins taking it on and Fraser singing.
Ivo Watts-Russell produced, with John Fryer co-producing and engineering, and the credits lean toward the chamber: Gini Ball on violin and viola, Martin McCarrick on cello, and McCarrick's arrangement shaping the whole. Fraser's voice over those strings turns Harper's song into something spectral, hanging in the air like breath on a cold window.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 33 | John Peel (BBC Radio 1) | John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1984 | 48 |
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