Tom Waits - Step Right Up
(May 08, 2013 - 06:44) | dwlangham wrote: I tried sitting with the cool kids last time this song was on. Today, I'm a square. PSD, here I come.
yeah.. not working for me, either...
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Low Strung - Fix You
(Apr 02, 2013 - 07:47) | GuiltyFeat wrote:Inessential, but the song does seem to lend itself to this kind of arrangement. I prefer the cover version from the amazing documentary Young at Heart.
That was my first introduction to this song. Powerful..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_n0zvoHlVk
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Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata
(Mar 21, 2013 - 11:20) | Shame on me for thinking "it's too slow."
Shame!
The world moves too fast. We need to slow down once in a while. Just... take a breath.
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Simon & Garfunkel - America
(Feb 13, 2013 - 05:57) | Average rating 9.. . I think that's the highest average rating I've seen on RP.
A timeless classic. Written by a kid. A kid who also gave us Sounds of Silence and Bridge Over Troubled Water.
Is Justin Bieber going to hold up after 40 years like this? I'm thinking no.
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Crosby Stills Nash & Young - Country Girl
(Jan 28, 2013 - 08:42) | nagsheadlocal wrote: Oh, gosh, this was the first Neil Young song I really listened to. I can remember sitting in the front room, watching a thunderstorm move in from the west as I tried to decipher the lyrics.
One of the all-time great albums of that period - yet is seems forgotten. I'm glad to hear it's getting more airplay.
Is this a re-mix/remaster? The vocal mix is very different on my old vinyl.
I agree about it sounding different. I listened to that album a bazillion times back in the day. It's burned into my memory banks, and this sounds weird for some reason.
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Crosby Stills Nash & Young - Deja Vu
(Jan 16, 2013 - 07:19) | I must have played that album a bazillion times "back in the day."
This sounds somehow different...
It's not deja vu I'm experiencing, but presque vu.
There's just something that's "off."
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The Moody Blues - Tuesday Afternoon
(Jan 04, 2013 - 06:31) | Is it the song — or the wonderful memories it evokes of a time long gone? Dunno. But a 9, nonetheless. Nights in White Satin is, of course — the 10.
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Mumford & Sons - The Boxer (w/ Jerry Douglas)
(Dec 27, 2012 - 07:02) | zair99 wrote: If the original wasn't so amazing, this cover might sound better. I do have to agree that Jerry Douglas is very good on this one, though.
Yep. You can't improve on the original.
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Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade Of Pale
(Sep 13, 2012 - 05:56) | ThePoose wrote: I remember more than one sweet young girl melting—figuratively and literally—as I held her and swayed to this tune at the end of the dance.
So... that was YOU I was dancing with????
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Hans-Erik Phillip - Fiskerne
(Aug 22, 2012 - 10:37) | Straight to the iTunes wish list...
Thanks, RP for adding this wonderful little slice of lovely to my afternoon. 
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Other Lives - For 12
(Aug 10, 2012 - 09:51) | I wonder if whoever rated this one as a 1 hears anything on RP that they like.
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J.S. Bach - Toccata in D minor
(Jul 25, 2012 - 10:59) | I had the wonderful fortune to hear this played live in Notre Dame Cathedral years ago. Very cool, indeed!
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Crosby Stills & Nash - Wooden Ships
(Jul 25, 2012 - 07:33) | I listened to this album for a long time on just a crappy old record player — no stereo. I didn't hear the "conversation" for years. First time I did was a big "WOW" moment for me!
Not unlike when the Wizard of Oz goes from black and white to color!
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Steely Dan - Do It Again
(Jul 24, 2012 - 10:57) | I don't know how much of my rating is because I like the song, and how much of it stems from the very warm memories of my senior year in high school that come flooding back when I hear it.
I suspect the latter weighs more heavily.
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Crowded House - Into Temptation
(Jul 11, 2012 - 10:35) | That_SOB wrote: This feels like swinging in a hammock, slight breeze, sunbeams off the water, easy living.
Add a glass of wine, and I'm with you.....
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Simon and Garfunkel - I Am A Rock
(Jun 27, 2012 - 08:37) | skibbenr wrote: I bought the album "Sounds of Silence" second hand from my cousin when he came to visit us in Chicago (probably to escape his folks in Ohio for a while). This song in particular sure appealed to my teen-aged angst or (since teens probably can't actually feel angst??!) at least my sullen attitude toward life at 13-14. I'm over it now.
I remember being in a similar junior high funk and writing "I am a Rock, I am an Island" over and over and over on a piece of paper.
Wouldn't have missed those times for anything, but there isn't enough money in the world to pay me to do it again.
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The Levellers - Four Winds
(Jun 22, 2012 - 08:01) | My iTunes account would have gone dormant years ago were it not for RP.
This one goes straight to the "wish list"
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Fleet Foxes - Sim Sala Bim
(Jun 22, 2012 - 07:17) | casey1024 wrote: Oh well. I enjoy this song very much and like this guy's voice and I am old enough to remember America. Fleet Foxes. Nice.
Me, too! I don't hear America at all.... like this very much. (Like America, too)
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Shook Twins - Window
(Jun 12, 2012 - 11:32) | Very different. By the end of the song, it was beginning to grow on me...
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Joan Baez - Stones In The Road
(Jun 12, 2012 - 07:16) | lazylistener wrote: I like Mary Chapin Carpenter's version better.
Me, too. This one seems "too happy"...
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Sinéad O'Connor - Downpressor Man
(Jun 05, 2012 - 08:44) | Byronape wrote:
Ya know, it wasn't until he actually did some acting in a nearly serious way (Funny People for example) that I gained any appreciation for Sandler. I know a lot of people find him really funny, but the "swearing retard" shtick only goes so far with me. You get 3 jokes, after that I better see a sign of intelligence beyond "I have really hairy balls!"
I thought Adam Sandler was remarkable in Spanglish.
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Nick Drake - River Man
(Apr 18, 2012 - 10:42) | I think if I could only listen to one song forever.... this would be it.
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Natalie Merchant - The Dancing Bear
(Mar 12, 2012 - 06:58) | I refreshed three times to make sure the song title was right. I sorta like it. Not sure I'd buy it, but it's a bit of a toe-tapper...
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Ednaswap - Torn
(Feb 24, 2012 - 06:15) | ziggytrix wrote:So this is the original, eh? @ ginger Natalie Imbruglia made it famous, but she didn't write it.
That's the one I like, too.
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Cult with No Name - You Know Me Better Than I Know Myself
(Feb 17, 2012 - 10:57) | bailey_comus wrote: I'm metastatic and one of the things I amuse myself with at work is creating a soundtrack to my death. When my mom was in hospice, no one told us the signs of impending death and instead of hearing calm, she heard us freaking out. I'm thinking that her last thought was that my sister and I had to stop being such ninnies - that being a favorite comment made to us and especially to me.
This song is on the top of my list. I don't want sad b/c I when the time comes, I don't want to delay my passage by thinking about sad things - I want music that feels calm and 'pretty' and which might be reassuring to my husband, sister and cousin.
I don't mean this to be morbid. I have a concurrent list called 'Things to play during Remission Periods'. Lots of dance tracks on that one!
Beautiful thoughts! I wish you peace.
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Cult With No Name - Golden Brown
(Feb 13, 2012 - 05:39) | soulcollision wrote: never heard the original... i like this.
I'm with you — either never heard the other one, or they are so different I don't compare them.
I like it, too.
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Vienna Teng - Feather Moon
(Jan 17, 2012 - 06:41) | It is really true that when you need something... it will appear.
Thanks for this one this morning, RP.
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Ludovico Einaudi - Andare
(Dec 21, 2011 - 08:48) | 84MacGuy wrote: When I hear a song like this mixed in with Big Head Todd and The Chemical Bros and everything else RP plays, it reminds me why I love listening to Radio Paradise.
Time for a $20 donation.
I'll see your $20 and counter with $25.
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Carolina Chocolate Drops - Snowden's Jig
(Nov 28, 2011 - 10:14) | Cynaera wrote: I can't help it - this song makes me sway a little in my chair, grin a little, and imagine myself in a long, flowing skirt, dancing by the light of the full moon with some finger-cymbals and some incense. I just love it...
I'll go with this.... :)
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The Who - Getting in Tune
(Nov 23, 2011 - 06:40) | I'm not sure whether my positive response to a song like this — from my college years — is a response to the song itself, or to the pleasant memories evoked from hearing it again.
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Neko Case - Hold On, Hold On
(Nov 16, 2011 - 10:33) | I bought her album The Tigers Have Spoken and really didn't like it at all.
Either she's mellowed, or I have.
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Nick Drake - Pink Moon
(Nov 15, 2011 - 11:50) | I wish I could figure out what's going on in the chorus.. 2 against 3? 3 against 4?
Drives me crazy — LOVE IT!
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Louis Prima - Jump, Jive, An' Wail
(Nov 15, 2011 - 09:12) | jam5ie76 wrote: Dont get that some people aren't moved by this, I was wailing by the end!
Oh yeah... How could you NOT tap a foot at the very least??? 
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Cult with No Name - You Know Me Better Than I Know Myself
(Nov 14, 2011 - 07:24) | I don't expect to like every song RP plays. I continue to listen 4-5 hours a day because I like far more than I dislike.
And the ones that absolutely speak to me (like this one) weigh heavily in that balance.
Listening to RP has given me such incredible exposure to music I would never have found otherwise.
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Tanita Tikaram - Twist In My Sobriety
(Nov 08, 2011 - 08:53) | doriso wrote: There once was a time when I could click on the "Download on iTunes" button and pick up the song I just heard on RP. However, today, again and again, I find that each song I like can only be purchased as part of an album. Very frustrating.
I totally agree. I didn't want the whole album. If I hadn't loved this song so much, I wouldn't have bothered. I buy SO MANY songs because of RP — I couldn't afford to buy albums to get them all.
When I notice that I am buying a lot of individual songs by a single artist — I might take go ahead and get the whole album.. but generally, I'm just buying them one at a time.
And wasn't that the whole POINT of iTunes anyway? Only buy the songs you WANTED??
If I'm going to spend, say $30... I would like 30 songs that I want, rather than 3 albums that contain maybe 6 songs that I was looking for.
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Ray LaMontagne - Empty
(Nov 01, 2011 - 10:40) | I refuse to apologize for my taste in wine — or music.
I love the soaring phrases.
LOVE this... :)
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Ludovico Einaudi - Primavera
(Oct 26, 2011 - 11:13) | nicknt wrote: Highly overrated Italian composer. New age for the masses.
Glad I'm not you inside....
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John Coltrane - Naima
(Oct 06, 2011 - 07:04) | This is the mood I am in today — pondering the passing of Steve Jobs.
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Joe Bonamassa - Dust Bowl
(Sep 30, 2011 - 08:25) | Great book about the Dust Bowl — The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
http://www.amazon.com/Worst-Hard-Time-Survived-American/dp/061834697X
My mother (88 years old) grew up in Kansas during that time and I never really believed her stories.
Truly awful.
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Tori Amos - Shattering Sea
(Sep 29, 2011 - 07:01) | Gotta go with a 5 on first listen. I don't like it, but I don't dislike it. Guess I cared enough to come over and take a peek. Perhaps it will grow on me. (Like mold?)
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Kathleen Edwards - In State
(Sep 29, 2011 - 06:06) | I discoverd this album by taking a random listen on a headset at a Tower Records (remember them?) several years.
This is my favorite cut from this album.
"I know where the cops hang out!" LOVE IT 
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Sleepy Eyed Fox - Wake
(Sep 23, 2011 - 08:13) | Good enough to stop what I'm doing and come over to check out info... and rate...
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The Beatles - Girl
(Sep 23, 2011 - 06:49) | lemmoth wrote:
Not too sure about that. Check out the photo again. Ringo's smile is bigger than the others and look at his open legs, the girl's knee, etc.
Actually, Ringo's ankles are crossed. Start at the left and count feet....
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The Who - Pinball Wizard
(Sep 15, 2011 - 14:01) | It never ceases to amaze me how listening to a song I haven't thought about in DECADES will zap me right back in time, with memories so vivid I could swear I could reach out and touch those people from that time. So many good friends... gone too soon.
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The Wallflowers - God Says Nothing Back
(Aug 31, 2011 - 10:52) | federico wrote: would anyone be paying attention to this guy were he not called dylan?
It's on my personal playlist now — and I didn't know who he was...
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John Coltrane - Naima
(Aug 31, 2011 - 07:42) | If feels like 3 a.m. The bar is empty. I need a cigarette....
(and I don't smoke)
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Gazpacho - Winter Is Never
(Aug 25, 2011 - 06:39) | This one came up yesterday morning as I was running. The tempo matches my stride perfectly. I love when that happens. I get a feeling of running through the woods on a cool night — with nothing but moonlight.
(Not that I've ever done that — it just feels good to imagine doing it!)
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U2 - Running to Stand Still
(Aug 09, 2011 - 10:31) | I missed out on a whole lotta music during the 80's because I was busy with two small children and a husband in law school (which meant I was the sole support of the family, in addition to being chief cook and bottle washer at home).
I love that I now get to "discover" what I missed.
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Nick Drake - Pink Moon
(Jul 28, 2011 - 08:12) | The syncopation in the chorus makes me crazy nuts... wish I could figure out exactly what it is.. 2 against 3? 3 against 4?
Whatever it is... amazing!
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The Moody Blues - Question
(Jul 28, 2011 - 06:57) | I can remember, circa 1971, turning off all the lights in my dorm room and laying with my head between the speakers of my Panasonic stereo speakers (that I was SO proud of buying with MY OWN money), and listening, with candles burning to To Our Children's Children's Children.... and feeling.. oh, SO ... evolved!!
There is just a visceral response to music from your youth.
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Dolly Parton - Shine
(Jul 18, 2011 - 07:00) | It's got a good beat — I could dance to it.... (for those old enough to remember American Bandstand)
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Ray LaMontagne - Empty
(Jul 12, 2011 - 10:26) | Very nice set going...
Jeff Buckley — Hallelujah
Neil Young — Human Highway
I feel very calm... :)
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Agnes Obel - Riverside
(Jul 05, 2011 - 09:53) | Sometimes I wish RP was like my DVR — so I could rewind and listen again....
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Imogen Heap - Canvas
(Jul 01, 2011 - 07:12) | I am grateful to RP for introducing me to so many artists/songs I never would have found on my own. My iPod is filling up. And that's a good thing.
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Beck - Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime
(Jun 30, 2011 - 10:10) | djblitz wrote: I rewatched the movie on Netflix the other day after not seeing it for about five years, it still makes me ball like a 3 year old. For that, I salute Beck for instantly making me think of ESOTSM every time I hear this song which gives me chills along with Kate Winslet and Jim Carey for their steller performances.
I loved the scene where she asks him — knowing that it may not end well if they try again... is he still willing .. and he just says.. "Yes."
Great movie....
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Elbow - Jesus Is A Rochdale Girl
(Jun 30, 2011 - 09:49) | Dave_Mack wrote: Either that or a Jersey girl.
I like that delay effect on the electric piano.
Yes. I couldn't figure out how to describe it... makes trying to tap your toes with the beat a little strange... very refreshing and surprising.
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Mason Williams - Classical Gas
(Jun 29, 2011 - 10:57) | Wouldn't want to hear it every day... but it's nice every once in a while to do a little time-travel in the head...
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Yello - The Rhythm Divine
(Jun 29, 2011 - 06:04) | eswiley2 wrote: I flashing to Shirley Bassey and Goldfinger.....
(no wonder!)
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Joe Bonamassa - Slow Train
(Jun 21, 2011 - 07:03) | goodgroove wrote: Ppl who give this a one or a two, what planet are you from? You guys shouldn't really be on radioparadise. Wrong place for you
I don't apologize for my taste in wine, and I don't apologize for my taste in music.
I don't like head-banging.
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Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to Love
(Jun 20, 2011 - 06:55) | Cynaera wrote: I miss the innocence and optimism of that time. I wish they'd known then what they know now about how free love and do your own thing could be twisted into something completely opposite of love and freedom. This song is a good reminder to me of what life used to be like before things went horribly wrong...
Yes, we thought we could change the world!
We did change the world, and it hasn't all been bad.
Check out the first season of AMC's drama Mad Men. We've come a long way, baby.
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Traveling Wilburys - End Of The Line
(Jun 20, 2011 - 06:24) | This song is on my playlist for when I run. The beat is a perfect match to a comfortable trot for me. It keeps me moving at a very solid pace for 4 minutes. Whenever I hear it, my body wants to get up and run.
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Travis - Sing
(Jun 16, 2011 - 08:37) | kaybee wrote:BigPete wrote:Glen Campbell does a great version of this song. And yes, I'm serious. colt4x5 wrote:
BigPete wrote:Glen Campbell does a great version of this song. And yes, I'm serious. i believe you. he's an excellent musician.  By the way, Bill, can we hear "Wichita Lineman" sometime soon??
Speaking of Wichita Lineman:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL3mvkZ6mVk
This one will change your mind about it..
Johnny A on guitar.
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Missy Higgins - Where I Stood
(Jun 14, 2011 - 10:42) | This is a great album.
My favorite from it is one called STEER.
The music video for Steer has her as a human crash test dummy. 
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Crosby Stills & Nash - Wooden Ships
(Jun 10, 2011 - 05:54) | The stereo system I first played this on didn't have good sound separation. It was years before I heard the "dialog" at the beginning...
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Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated
(Jun 03, 2011 - 07:34) | I like the version Young at Heart did...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2EOuLMqPis&feature=related
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