Missing the reference, I'm afraid...

More Joe Jackson, less Bill Shatner. Please. The guy is more annoying than a subway drunk.

This is weird June 5th 2005: "Dug the segue from John Lee Hooker's In the Mood For Love. BUT...how about some Savoy Brown and/or Canned Heat?"
Why is the same segue happening again in April of 2008? Is radio parasise recycling?

Same for me upped it to 8

Much prefer the Tom Jones version!

If it's Abigail Washburn & the Sparrow Quartet, why are there only 3 names listed under hers?

I bet Wikipedia knows.

Is that the one at Yonge and Eg?

Can't help but think of Marty McFly when I hear this song.

Why did Constantinople get the works?
That's nobody's business but the Turks'!

Stereo HiFi was a relatively new concept back when this was released, and as such it fell victim to many gimmicky mixes designed to take advantage of both channels. Not that it's bad thing, but you'll find this on a lot of tunes released in the 60's...the Beatles and George Martin are just good examples.

Just thinking yesterday I hadn't heard this in a while. Thanks, BilL!

Everytime, I crank this. A 9

Wow, these guys sure sound like Tom Petty (d'oh!)

bill has been on a radiohead kick lately.

I would prefer "Johnny Come Home" from their first album.

...the voice sort of resembles michael stipe from a fuzzy distance...

I thought she had mouthwash in her mouth

These guys need to get together with Calexico and do a CD.

See edited post below.

Thank goodness he's more talented than his dad.

is this guy also in postal service?

love those horns

Someone, please let me know where I can find this song. I don't care what format.

Is it just me, or is trad-rad R&B only made in the UK any more? Sharon Jones, Amy W(h)inehouse, and so on. Fabulous sound.

I have a friend who loves this band. I said they sound like watered down Tom Petty...He was pissed at that assessment....

I was very suprised to see that The Battle of Evermore is the only track that RP plays off this album. What with Rock and Roll, When the Levee Breaks and dare I say it Stairway to Heaven. I know this album has been a victim of overexposure but i'd love to hear other song from this " Classic"

For a second I thought RP had discovered the BoDeans.

It seems it is not a rare thing to feel dizzy listening to this song. Look at what I found here:
http://www.solsburyhill.org/essays/car.htm#solsbury

Did he say hypnotizing chickens?

I think REM peaked with Lifes Rich Pageant.

The did some good and some interesting (like this song) since, but Lifes Rich Pageant was their best, most solid (every song is great) effort. That album is to REM as Moving Pictures is to Rush.

I like it ... Johnny's is the voice I hear when the U2 version starts up ...

(read in bad falsetto)

This version actually makes this song bearable. If only Coldplay could continue to work with other artists for the rest of their careers, maybe they'd actually become interesting.

Love the organ! How come we don't hear organ in many songs today?

A good Hammond organ was the cornerstone of 1960s rock. No more I guess...

Yeah, well, half the Beatles are dead, so we should only listen to what they played? Like we should only dig up dead composers from the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries and say " Ah Mozart, could you play that one one more time?" "Pretty please?"

Give me an %^&ng break. If your going to be that narrow minded, go watch the Grammys and give your vote to Amy Winehouse!

I just wish the recording quality were better!

I thought he was saying "electric coaster" -- :(

Yup. I grew up listening to Colin singing this, and probably enjoyed it more than I was ever willing to admit in public. It's on his very first CD released in '88.

What you said, The Poose!

I keep hearing Shaft

This is why we listen to RP.

I heard mad world in a video game TV spot a few years back.

What a big ball of cheese. And the album cover looks like a Harlequin romance.

Until I clicked on it, I thought this was Bruce Cockburn!


EDIT AFTER BACKSCROLLING: Lou Reed?!?

i hear this perhaps more than i want to.. was a novelty the first 10 times i heard it in a month, but after that it lost it's special-ness.. ah well. 7 -> 6

damm big companies..

This CD is 14.99 USD!, i cannot afford to buy music at that price!

This song is much better in the context of the album. It's really the only way to end The Crane Wife without causing massive suicide.

Thank God it's not that unspeakably horrid Sinead version.
This doesn't sound like it's squeezed out of a music processor.

GAAAH. I normally really dig Patty Griffin, but what in hell is with the Bryan Adams intro???

something, something..."Wherever you go, whatever you do. I will be right here waiting for you. Whatever it takes or how my heart breaks. I will be right here waiting for you"

Exactly! My first thought when I heard this.

A day without PT is like a day without sunshine. Love these guys.

wait! i just saw these dudes on the platform of the uptown D train!

...doesn't this totally sound interchangable with any given deathcab/postalservice song, vocalists' genders notwithstanding?..

Exactly!!! thats what i always think of when i see this cover. i wonder if that was the intent?

Perhaps they should write sound tracks for made-for tv movies.

I actually thought it was Neil at 1st.

The all time best Tanyas song!

...without feeling trite.

Not bad track from a 'uuhg' band.

VERY COOL.
A local band up in these parts, cold Canada.

Dear More Cowbell,

...

Irregardless of my personal shortcomings as a writer, I greatly enjoyed your letter and hope to receive another in due course.
With kind regards and apparently unavoidable irony, I remain your servant,

Odyzzeuz

the Cistine Chapel of music! forgive my ignorance, but what is the translation in Sun King...is it Portugese and what does it mean?? anyone???

Sweet! I kept wanting to hear this, but I thought it didn't have a chance in hell of being on here. I guess I was wrong.

Love this song!! Sounds kind of Chris Isaak-ish!!! Nice choice, Bill! Thanks!

no, there are other things out there. but this album is amazing, see?

I think it is awesome that when a great new album like this comes out and despite all the hype, where are you going to hear it and multiple tracks except on Radio Paradise? I really dig this song and salute the band on their groundbreaking manner of release.

I renewed my plates here in Indiana a few months ago and the total time was just under 6 minutes. Of course, they've re-vamped the system and it now takes about an hour.

Kinda Mazzy Star for me...likeable enough, methinks. Very nice voice.

Start at the start. Mellow Gold is a great freshman effort, although crazy raw and pretty hardcore. Mutations is a totally beautiful album, as is Sea Change. One Foot in the Grave is a great quirky collection of devotional & bluegrass style. Midnite Vultures is pure re-invention of Sly & Family Stone meets a latex-clad dominatrix.

Have fun!..Beck is super talented.

Say what you will about pretension, but there aren't a lot of pop bands that would casually drop the word 'dirigible' into a song... and rhyme it.

The plural should read CDs. No apostrophe. (AP Style)

Until just now, I thought this was on the Road to Rouen album by Supergrass. And I own that album.

I like this. Grows on you.

One song, four words. over and overandover.

The sound isn't bad, but I just can't get past the repetition. At least it's not 'Do the Hustle' (hey! that's only three words!)

Is that a ukulele playing in the background???

If this song was a new release today, would it have the same appeal?
Most definately I think ;)

I seem to always agree with Trekhead! perhaps all geeks think alike?

2:49 pm - John Lennon - #9 Dream
2:42 pm - Javier Paxariño - Temurá
2:38 pm - Pearl Jam - Daughter
2:34 pm - Cake - You Turn the Screws
2:30 pm - Miles Davis - It Ain't Necessarily So
2:24 pm - Philip Glass - Anthem Part 1
2:21 pm - Ashley MacIsaac - Brenda Stubbert
2:16 pm - Mark Knopfler - Don't You Get It
2:11 pm - Tracy Chapman - Heaven's Here on Earth


its deja vu all over again :)

I'd love to hear this song. Too bad Bill doesn't take requests.

I had a serious case of the Mondays, but this cured it:

8:34 am - Midnight Oil - Blue Sky Mine
8:29 am - Social Distortion - Ball And Chain
8:24 am - REM - Crush with Eyeliner
8:20 am - Stone Temple Pilots - Sour Girl

Thanks Bill!

No, no.... the pleasure's all MINE....

Wickedawesome says davin

My FAAAAVORITE Dread Zeppelin song!

That is so funny, and interesting, because even though I didn't pick up on Stipe's voice, I did think this sounded like REM, with a girl singing. Hmmmm.

and here....

Still no way to rate a song higher than 10. So frustrating.

WAAAAAAAAAAA, WAAAA, WAAAA, WA, WA, WAAAAAA, WAAAAAA

I logged in just to ask/say the same thing - make sure I wasn't jsut hearing things there...

All RP has to do now is play some Northern Pikes.

"The Roof, The Roof is on FIRE, We dont need no water let the Mutha F#vker Burn".

I'm lovin' this money sequence... what about some Dire Straits Money for Nothing... or Beatles version of Money (That's What I Want!)

Haven't heard this one in about 6 years, since my days of SKA band fanaticism. Toad's Place, New Haven, CT, first concert ever - Spring Heeled Jack opening for The Bosstones, amazingly enough a great concert.

Actually it was more around 2000. I do consider them a one-hit band as well.
Haven't heard it ever since (it was overplayed at the time on TV music channels at the time). Shows how unprejudicist RP is!

where'd this guy get to?

(currently residing in the "Where Are They Now" file...)?

That was probably the most jarring transition (from Aretha's "Think" to this) I have ever heard on RP

Glad I wasn't the only one to hear Steve....

God, I LOVE these guys!

OK, you can stop this one now...

it was cute and all the first time... but...

sigh.

Odd Question: is this a remix ?
I hear a horn on the left speaker, I never remember that.

could be that I spun the vinyl so many times I wore the horns off

I always thought it was "She's so popular".

Pet peeve: people who rhyme 'school' with 'golden rule'.

Man, that is SOME funky drum solo. uh huh. Dig it.

This is one great tune. Check out the cover of this by the Holly Cole Trio.

According to some things I have read, this song (Tangerine) is the foundation for 'Stairway to Heaven'.

Is it on the newest REM CD??

Wasn't this played before now?

This reminds me of Peter Gabriel somehow. Or actually, more like the Blue Nile. Anyway, I think I like it.....

is this rap or is it hip hop(?) or what's the diff???

I wonder how this song would rate with the listeners here if RP hid the fact that it was Billy Idol.

I'll betcha that once people see Billy Idols's name attached, it automatically gets blasted like a Pavlov's dog reaction.

without disputing anything about the original comment (oh no! the gayness might be contagious!), I think you're being needlessly pedantic about his language. many of us in our late 20s and beyond still use "boys" and "girls" to refer to ourselves and our friends and lovers. you can be needlessly pedantic and psychoanalytic about *that* if you wish, but I'm quite certain you're just trolling the original poster, and I'm responding to the troll. :-)

Yes.

The male reminds me a bit of Leonard Cohen. The voices blend together nicely.

This song makes me want to beat a baby seal to death . . . .

Who's your Daddy? :whip: Who's your Daddy? :whip:

Wow - great mix!! I'm surprised at the mixed reactions -- well Anglo pentatonic melodies were never considered mainstream, maybe.

need new copy!...static destroys the otherwise terrific experience 8-<

Although they seem to have borrowed elements from several of the classic rock sounds of the '60s and '70s (does anyone else keep getting sudden flashbacks to BOC songs while listening to WS?), the resultant mix is, I find, pleasing and quite refreshing. The band becomes all the more intriguing when one becomes aware that it consists of a total of two members: some young English dude and his younger sister, who plays the DRUMS, of all things! Now is that original or what???

This is Dolly Parton with another name right???Right?

Tongue in cheek, reminds me of Primus somehow. Isn't this somehow related to Presidents of the United States of America?

Not only are you going to shine, but someday you'll be guarded by monkeys.

WHAT A BAD COVER! WHAT WOULD PETER GABRIEL SAY ABOUT THIS....?

This song should be renamed the official friday song!!!!!

EEEEOOOOoooowwwwhhhh! Tedious.

I had the misfortune of working at a certain company that used this song in their advertizing. Kinda spoiled it for me.

It's a good song, but the recording is so cheesy.

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Mindless drivel. I stepped on my cat's tail once and heard better. Bleh.

Uh-oh. We just traveled the same musical trail on 4/24/03.

Yer busted, Bill.

reminds me of John Fowles' novel "The Collector." same premise.

Driver 8 was originally from 'Fables of the Reconstruction.' 'Eponymous' i.e., (of being, or related to)was their "Greatest Hits Album" , at least thats what Yoda told me, he did. (pimp)

:-k What DOES make the monkey dance??

Did anyone else hear the BillG voiceover there?

This is by far the best song on New Adventures, which is IMO second or third from the bottom of the list of REM albums. This and "Leave" are the only songs on New Adventure that are really make me wanna get up and cheer.

I really don't get how people don't like Monster (re: comments that this was an improvement after Monster). Maybe I'm biased because my tastes are largely a product of the early 90's alt-rock movement and like REM's attempt to fit in, but I never get tired of hearing Monster. Not a lot of "WOW" singles, but a solid, consistent album (unlike New Adventures).

Woah -- she really brings something new to the table on this song. Pretty cool.

Make it stop! The first 500 minutes is good, but after that....

It totally must be a Hoosier thing...this is the first song (Pirate Radio) of John Hiatt's that I've heard...it's a really catchy tune. Good choice!

Coldplay --- Radiohead.....??? .are they in fact two different groups? or is it just one of those acts that put out music under different names....?

they are too much alike for my tastes......

One of the few REM songs I can listen to with any regularity. Reminds me of my drinking days.

Phew, thank God the volume control is right on my keyboard.

Perhaps my ear is getting old, many current female singers have that "almost breathless" sound. What's really weird - I like it no matter who the singer, no matter what the song.

this is my least favourite album of their ENTIRE catalog

Am I the only person in the world that thinks DM can't sing?? Oh well... I'm not a fan of DMB, I've tried to listen to them, but I just don't like 'em.

Ahem.

I HATE COLDPLAY! No fr*gging MÁS!!! Would that Coldplay AND Nora Jones would crawl under their respective rocks and return to obscurity once and for ALL!!! OY!

Isn't that Maryanne Faithful on E-Bow The Letter? Unless you're referring to a different song.

Wow, someone else in the world who knows of Brian Eno , and yes it is -- not a bad thing either

No other band comes to mind that has one song that I adore so much (Mr. Jones) but everything else makes me cringe.

whoa - where did THIS come from?! and how can it miss with two of my favorites.....great choice for Friday afternoon!

At least 'captain kirk' is still the same.

So we get to hear both versions back to back, right... kind of a little german lesson.

Hey remember when REM was a rock band? Those days are long gone.