Bat For Lashes - Sleep Alone
(Nov 20, 2012 - 02:01) | Hi! I can't sing, but I'm going to force this pretentious drivel into your ears!
Have a nice day!
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Beck - Golden Age
(Jun 19, 2012 - 01:05) | tdelora wrote: Too many plays for me....
You know, I feel the same way. He's changed so much from the "Mellow Gold" record to this, I'm not sure its the same person.
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Supertramp - School
(Sep 19, 2011 - 08:49) | I like Supertramp. But take this hackneyed schlock with its poisonous rhymes (school, golden rule) out back and shoot it.
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Alpha Yaya Diallo - N'Dare
(Aug 11, 2011 - 02:51) | Carl wrote: There's a subset of the world's citizens who could probably get along quite well together with a common (pretty laid back) government and I think most RP listeners would be among them, particularly the ones who enjoy this (as do I). Radio Paradise Members Unite! :-)
Problem is they are not geographically distributed where they could concentrate their vote to actually elect someone.
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Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out)
(Jul 05, 2011 - 01:20) | grant wrote: This album, Ok Computer, and In Rainbows are there three most "accessible" albums.
Don't forget "Pablo Honey" which is also pretty nice. A little uneven perhaps.
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Santana - Jingo
(Jun 04, 2011 - 13:34) | I can't understand what people see in Santana. He is so frickin' boring and repetitive.
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Prince - When Doves Cry
(Apr 21, 2011 - 02:06) | I'm surprised this is rated so low. Maybe all the indie alt rock types think Prince is too commercial. Whatever, this song rocks.
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The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night
(Mar 28, 2011 - 08:29) | cohifi wrote: Most Excellent! I don't recall hearing Ringo play cowbell before. Another fine set of music, too!
Yeah, that's George on the cowbell.
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Traffic - John Barleycorn
(Mar 24, 2011 - 06:26) | spigolli wrote: Methinks the lore of the performers hath caused the citizenry to bequeath an unduly high rating to such a mediocre performance.
Forsooth! Thine satirical utterings hath forced mead through my nose!
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Traffic - John Barleycorn
(Mar 24, 2011 - 06:25) | And the tinker rode his mule and the sun hath shone upon the field and something about a barley corn and noodle noodle noodle.
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Lou Reed - What's Good
(Mar 24, 2011 - 06:13) | What's Good? Certainly not you Mr. Reed. If that is your real name.
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Bob Dylan - I Shall Be Released
(Mar 21, 2011 - 15:24) | Such simplicity, such yearning. Hard to imagine that an ordinary human can get such a plain instrument, as Dylan's voice surely is, to be so plaintive. And the guitar, it weeps with him. Amazing.
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Bonobo - The Fever
(Mar 07, 2011 - 04:01) | o_unico wrote: I can't stand Bonobo anymore. Is just me or are they being played 3 times a day?
Funny, this song has grown more hideous to me too.
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John Williams - Recuerdos de la Alhambra
(Feb 21, 2011 - 06:49) | Forsooth!
For I am weary of thy plucking.
Should thou smasheth thine infernal instrument
Lords and Ladies shall exclaim;
"Thank god that crap is over."
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Little Feat - Kokomo
(Dec 16, 2010 - 12:41) | shutter wrote: This is such a good album. One of their best, IMO. Some really good cuts, esp. Off To The Races, et al. Great band.
Well said. :-)
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Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - The Trip To Pirate's Cove
(Sep 27, 2010 - 12:31) | This whole record makes me nauseous.
Laconic and so arch, as if he believes that being insincere is the same thing as irony. The guitar bits are hackneyed, the phrasing slack, just a myopic re-hashing of Rock and Roll that has been rehashed so many times before by so many better performers.
It is truly time for Petty to either get himself a heroin addiction, or become a sappy A & R man which is what he really is.
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Elliot Easton - Walk On Walden
(Jul 26, 2010 - 03:01) | Bone wrote:
I'm trying to figure out if Mr. Easton's work is played over the preview of Ken Burns' new "National Parks" PBS documentary. Any confirmations or deniers out there? Thanks in advance. Beautiful work.
I will neither confirm or deny.
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Te Vaka - Te Namo
(May 25, 2010 - 02:48) | Misterfixit wrote: So, Dear Sharkey, thus ends my response to your response. I'll go ahead and scroll upwards to see if any more responses are necessary to illuminate the Illuminati, so to speak. As for my various marriages: Well Sir or Madame, I finally settled on a good ole Oregon Farm Cowgirl who can shoot a .44 magnum better than I can.
Dear sir,
You scare me.
Sincerely,
A. Person
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Monsoon - Ever So Lonely (Hindi Version)
(May 13, 2010 - 02:19) | Tippster wrote:
...back before they went corporate. I miss the 'HFS of the 70's and 80's. When they were still on FM102.3, broadcasting from Cordell Ave. in Bethesda, and had Damien getting stoned on the air nightly they were the best radio station on the planet.
I used to listen to HFS in college (I went to college on the Eastern Shore.) It was fantastic; great music and real DJs. The only thing that comes close that I can tolerate is RadioParadise.
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David Bowie - TVC 15
(Apr 15, 2010 - 04:16) | cosmiclint wrote:A clip of the performance you are referring to is here. It also features Boys Keep Swinging, with the marionette effect. Pretty cool.
Genius.
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Moby Grape - 8:05
(Mar 14, 2010 - 09:44) | This is so, so bad. They can't sing, the song is slow as molasses. Utter fail.
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John Prine - Living In The Future
(Feb 26, 2010 - 08:32) | themotion wrote:
Drop your panties, Sir William; I cannot wait until lunchtime!
My nipples explode with delight!
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Basement Jaxx - Scars
(Jan 25, 2010 - 13:36) | Guyeeno wrote: Man, I guess this Basement Jaxx song has made it to the "regular" playlist. Too bad, I can't stand it. For laughs, can anyone tell me/us what redeeming musical qualities about this song make you want to hear it again?
It's not the Decembrists?
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Radiohead - Thinking About You
(Jan 19, 2010 - 08:23) | Sloggydog wrote: OK so where are all the weirdo Radiohead freaks now. Here is the evidence that they started a brilliant band and lasted 2 albums before degenerating into the rubbish that their fans seem to back on this site. Pablo Honey + The Bends(including the my iron lung ep) are awesome. I wonder what happened in the meeting where they veered away. "I know lets forget the cool music and lyrics and just put crappy and irritating computer noises in"
What about OK Computer? That rocks!
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Elliott Smith - Baby Britain
(Jul 14, 2009 - 08:17) | nate917 wrote:
Note to self: don't play any Coldplay for Atlantis. Or Counting Crows, Canned Heat, Van Morrison, Neil Young, or Gotye. Especially Gotye.
Or Okkerville River
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Kent - Den Döda Vinkeln
(Jul 13, 2009 - 03:44) | kimacho wrote: Speaking of musicians in Gothenburg, how about some Jens Lekman?!!!
1. Gothenburg rocks.
2. Kent is from Eskilstuna
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Kent - Den Döda Vinkeln
(Jul 13, 2009 - 03:39) | umeswede wrote: Since I am from Sweden, but have lived in the US for a long time, I thought about the title "Den döda vinkeln". Am I the only one who would translate it "the blind spot"?
I think that is an accurate colloquial translation, it gets used that way a lot. One hears the term "döda vinkeln" when you are in driving class for example. But I wonder what that the literal translation might be different, more like "death's view" and that seems to be how Jocke is using it in this song.
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Wilco - Bull Black Nova
(May 19, 2009 - 11:20) | This song I like the least on the record. Overall I think people will really like this, lots of good songs on this one, like Wilco (The song) and the duet with Feist.
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XTC - Grass
(May 15, 2009 - 05:44) | Thanks Bill! The transition now works!
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Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
(Mar 10, 2009 - 09:24) | diazo wrote:
It's a '67. And I'd say the hood ornament more than makes up for the busted headlight covers...
Barefoot and holding a saber. That's how I like 'em.
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The Pretenders - Kid
(Mar 07, 2009 - 16:48) | Tim_in_N_FL wrote:
Amen...hail to Chrissie! Love early Pretenders work, especially. So sad re: the guitar player losses in this band, however. Wasn't she married (or seriously involved with) one of these fellows?
She had a relationship with Pete Farndon, the bass player. He died of a heroin overdose in the bathtub. One year before his death, the guitarist James Honeyman Scott died of a heart attack due to cocaine intolerance.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Farndon
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Morphine - Cure For Pain
(Feb 19, 2009 - 07:22) | "I propose a toast!
To my self control.
See it crawl helpless on the floor."
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Crosby Stills & Nash - Long Time Gone
(Jan 09, 2009 - 14:53) | Sorry, but this song sounds dated. It seems like a paen to the hippies, a sop to those who would grow their hair long. In the sixties, you did not have to do anything to change the world, just put on a record like this, smoke pot and talk about it. Well I for one am sick of that sound track.
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Show of Hands - Roots
(Dec 19, 2008 - 05:23) | canoeist wrote:A better example of what it feels like to be English you will never find. This song brings a lump to my throat everytime I here it - absolutely fantastic  Also to all those who feel the need to bring up the Imperial past of Britain I would like to point out that it was just that - BRITISH. For all their bleating, the Scots, Welsh and Irish were just as culpable - in the Scots case possibly more since many of the most prominent colonialists were Scottish. The British Empire was a system based on trade not conquest. When trade was threatened then the army went in, an army that very often consisted of local troops (as was the case during the American Independance War - A war that could be better described as the first American Civil War). This in no way is meant to justify, but to put into context for all who seem to think that everyone who is English should atone for something that happened 200 years ago. I for one know that my family were poor ropemakers eaking out an existance in the poorest parts of Lincilnshire and probably had no more concept of the Empire and it's activities than a flea does of the dog it is sitting on. Before you blame every Englishman for the ills of the world, examine the history and cut us some slack.
It most certainly could not be described as the first civil war. There were very few who identified with the Royalist cause and even fewer who were willing to be taxed by King George. "Taxation without representation", that should ring a bell for everyone who had a week of American history in school.
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Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal
(Nov 07, 2008 - 06:57) | andiman wrote: Is it a Pieter Brueghel painting on the cd cover?
Now one can say definitively: Yes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlandish_Proverbs
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Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal
(Nov 07, 2008 - 06:54) | andiman wrote: Is it a Pieter Brueghel painting on the cd cover?
Certainly looks like it - one might have to ask Google specifically which one though.
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Jayhawks - Settled Down Like Rain
(Nov 06, 2008 - 06:20) | horstman wrote: Jayhawks, Uncle Tupelo, Son Volt, Wilco . . . middle american roots rock n roll at its best!
Those are almost the same band! (You forgot to mention Golden Smog though).
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David Byrne and Brian Eno - Strange Overtones
(Oct 17, 2008 - 01:24) | KevinM wrote:You can download this song from Amazon FREE
Only if you are in the contiguous lower 48 states, and if you accept the ridiculous terms of big brother, I mean Amazon.
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Gomez - Miles End
(Aug 27, 2008 - 08:21) | Hannio wrote: If you want it to be, I suppose. But since this album came out in 2002, I would say no.
Yeah, because George Bush wasn't President then.
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The Pogues - Lullaby Of London
(Jul 09, 2008 - 04:15) | sans wrote:
I like my artists ugly. Dylan, McGowan, Waits, Bukowski, Henry Miller. Unforgiving creativity comes from years behind a not so pretty mug.
Utter nonsense. Perhaps the greatest American poets, Wallace Stevens and TS Eliot were not fugly, nor did they drink particularly much. It is a great tragedy to romanticize Shane's drinking which is what caused that "mug" in the first place.
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Cream - Badge
(Jul 09, 2008 - 01:42) | I think on one of Clapton's later records there is a version of this that is updated and just sweet.
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The Sundays - Goodbye
(Jul 09, 2008 - 01:41) | I think their first record was their best (that is a cliche I know, but that is what I think.)
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Jose Gonzalez - Teardrop
(Jun 10, 2008 - 10:11) | JohnBauer wrote: Between his name and the album cover, you'd expect this artist to be from El Paso or Albuquerque. But he's born in Sweden, to Argentinean parents. And sings in English!
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Lou Barlow - Holding Back the Year
(Mar 11, 2008 - 09:21) | ktnsb wrote:
. . .but don't bother getting your chones in wad about someone else's opinion.
If you are going to mix your metaphors properly, it is cojones. And they tend not to wad as much as shrivel.
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Travis - Eyes Wide Open
(Feb 27, 2008 - 09:25) | Jelani wrote: Why does this remind me of U2? :(
Because you mom used to hit with a warped copy of Unforgettable Fire when you were a child?
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Andrew Bird - Case in Point
(Feb 20, 2008 - 04:13) | Jacksonstat wrote: Saw Mr. Bird last night with Wilco. He's a quirky dude no doubt, but very talented. Played the hell out of a violin and can whistle like nobody's business!!
That is a double bill I would love to see.
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Little Feat - Easy To Slip
(Jan 28, 2008 - 01:53) | daveesh wrote: i always thought that cover image looked familiar...
Well, of course, any Fragonard Rococo masterpiece is familiar.
daveesh wrote:
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Camera Obscura - Tears for Affairs
(Jan 04, 2008 - 05:19) | rascal420 wrote: the wallpaper speaks to me and it says:
"casino bathroom"
The wallpaper doesn't like being anthropomorphized.
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Cat Power - Could We
(Jan 04, 2008 - 05:14) | dundidit wrote: cAT pOWER....i CANNEE GET eNuF OF tHIS........PRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
You can't spell either.
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Belle & Sebastian - Your Cover's Blown
(Nov 28, 2007 - 08:04) | OmegaConcern wrote: I think I taste a little Roxy Music...
Wha? No way. Must be the copy of Avalon you just ate. Because it certainly is not these cretins, they sound cheap and sleazy.
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Andrew Bird - Fiery Crash
(Nov 26, 2007 - 06:43) | brownbrown wrote: he is an AMAZING performer, go see him immediately!
Saw him in a small club in Sweden, he was amazing.
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Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
(Nov 23, 2007 - 06:06) | rascal420 wrote: She has a great voice but I don't know if I would buy this - I mean it is like a series of re-makes. Maybe I'm missing something.
Yes, you are missing something. This is a great original record with a Motown sound. Her phrasing is distinct, more like Billie Holiday than Diana Ross. She wrote all the lyrics and they are tart and honest. Simply one of the best records made last year.
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The Clash - Lost in the Supermarket
(Nov 19, 2007 - 07:22) | You would almost think they were a pop band based on hearing this song. You can hear a little Big Audio Dynamite already as well.
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Toni Childs - Zimbabwe
(Nov 15, 2007 - 05:53) | This is a great song. I remember listening to this a lot when I worked at the Knitting Factory when it was still on Houston street.
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The Decemberists - We Both Go Down Together
(Nov 14, 2007 - 06:21) | I don't get the faux Victorian thing. Pretentiousness isn't ironic when you pose as a Victorian dandy, its just pretentious.
I guess I am saying this sucks.
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Wilco - Monday
(Oct 15, 2007 - 06:34) | Just a great rock and roll record, thats all.
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Radiohead - Black Star
(Oct 03, 2007 - 05:25) | Why don't they make music like this anymore? Thom Yorke has to be so damn precious and obscure these days, its really tiresome.
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Andrew Bird - Scythian Empires
(Sep 27, 2007 - 14:10) | Kierkegaard, Kierkegaard, Kierkegaard, Kierkegaard, Kierkegaard, Kierkegaard, Kierkegaard, Kierkegaard, Kierkegaard, Kierkegaard.
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Idiot Prayer
(Sep 24, 2007 - 09:32) | This might be Nick Cave's best record.
Henry's Dream is brilliant as well, and so is Tender Prey which has "Mercy Seat" on it.
But this record is pretty complete, with some great Bad Seeds playing and excellent lyrics. The religious themes abound, coated in Cave's darkness, but some of the pretense is gone. The images are simpler, the sadness more palpable, the plainness of every day misery is clear.
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XTC - Grass
(Sep 24, 2007 - 09:19) | You simply _have_ to play these songs back to back! Thanks Bill!
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Andrew Bird - Scythian Empires
(Sep 24, 2007 - 06:41) | ndad47 wrote: i must have been sick the day my ancient history teacher covered the scythian empires.
The Scythian empires are roughly the "Huns" who overtook the Roman Empire with Atilla at the helm. I think Mr. Bird is trying to draw a parallel with the US and the fall of Rome.
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Belly - White Belly
(Sep 14, 2007 - 05:21) | This is a really unusual and beautiful record. I can highly recommend it.
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Oasis - Wonderwall
(Sep 13, 2007 - 02:04) | robco1 wrote: Like the song. Hate these arrogant pricks.
robco1++
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Swati - Blackjack
(Sep 12, 2007 - 12:26) | FeydBaron wrote: First time I've heard this...
My first ranking of this shall be "spiffy".
Great. I'll go tell Wally and Beaver.
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Talking Heads - What A Day That Was
(Aug 09, 2007 - 23:01) | What happened to them, they used to be good. "More Songs About Buildings and Food", "Remain in Light", those were good records. This stuff is pap.
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PJ Harvey - We Float
(Aug 08, 2007 - 03:37) | auburntigerrich wrote: Wow.... I enjoy PJ Harvey more and more each time I hear them on RP. Most excellent mood music.
Keep em coming, Bill!
PJ Harvey is Polly Jean Harvey. And she is wonderful.
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Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Steady State
(Aug 08, 2007 - 02:50) | wedgetable wrote: This is a cool song... but the oboe player could use a few lessons. Specifically he/she needs to work on embouchure to keep the pitch steady. This is where the oboe gets that bad rep of sounding like a dying duck. :(
I agree. And the guy in the photo needs some penguin-head wearing lessons. Specifically he/it needs to work on tetature to keep the head steady. This is where penguin-head wearing gets that bad rap of looking like a dying penguin.
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Eisley - Invasion
(Aug 06, 2007 - 14:20) | Hmmm. Never heard of these people. Quite like it.
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Kings Of Leon - Knocked Up
(Aug 01, 2007 - 04:30) | stevo_b wrote: This sucks and is really annoying.
Oh yeah? Well _you_ suck and are really annoying! How about them apples?!
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Patty Griffin - Tony
(Jul 03, 2007 - 04:10) | mikecrawler77 wrote: Just because YOU cry doesn't make it good music. It certainly isn't intrinsic to human nature to weap along with you. However, I'm pretty sure I'd cry too if I had to sit through a whole performance of this crap.
Its 'weep' you dumbass.
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Talking Heads - The Big Country
(May 28, 2007 - 02:13) | Yet these days, the music is childish in its arrangement, with insipid lyrics. His voice, which used to stand out as the warbling nerd now just sounds untrained and dull. They used to have something to say, these talking heads. Now they just talk.
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Morrissey - Everyday Is Like Sunday
(May 10, 2007 - 04:21) | Arthur_Two_Sheds wrote: Time to go home everyone. The tone deaf talentless one is here again throwing his flowers. :puke:
Philistine.
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Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
(May 07, 2007 - 10:02) | About time you got around to a little Amy Winehouse on RP Bill! She is a major talent and one of the few new artists I discovered not through Radio Paradise.
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Mich Gerber - Zumurud
(May 04, 2007 - 06:04) | reedifus wrote: Can't wait 'til we're out of this musical Middle East. Don't have any taste for it.
Well we should at least have a fixed date for withdrawal!
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Andrew Bird - Case in Point
(Mar 27, 2007 - 04:43) | I saw Andrew Bird the other night at Pustervik, he was great. The airline had lost all his luggage and equipment but he still managed to generate loops and make beautiful music.
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Counting Crows - Omaha
(Mar 27, 2007 - 01:54) | joshfm wrote: Aaaah. The early '90s. You gotta love 'em. 1993. No wars, no idiot presidents, lots of microbrews.
Umm, what about George Bush the elder, Gulf War 1, and Meisterbrau?
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The Kinks - Celluloid Heroes
(Mar 16, 2007 - 03:34) | This song is Schlock of the first rank. Lifeless dreck better suited for having gall bladder surgery than presence on the Inter-tubes.
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Kent - Den Döda Vinkeln
(Feb 12, 2007 - 06:04) | Hmm. I am no native speaker, however I would have done some things a little differently.
dissolved_girl wrote:
The Angle of Death
I was always the lonely, only child
A monster beneath a homemade bunkbed.
From a distance I saw the light die in the fog
Exactly when the darkness ignites again.
And I saw you run over the rocks
In hunt of your fantastic view
And you taught me to disappear completely
Inside your imagination, in your head I'm free
Give me a winterdrug
Give me everything you've got
Come on, I am chronically down
Only darkness is heard
In your eyes I saw a storm as summersnow
From death's angle I see everything you do
There they go, I see them between trees
Please can you help me flee
Their eyes are seafire over world
I crawl through the ashes, a Phoenix reborn
Give me a winterdrug
Give me everything you've got
Come on, I'm chronically down
Only darkness is heard
Blowing summersnow
From death's angle I see everything you do
Give me a winterdrug
Give me everything you've got
Come on, I am chronically down
Only darkness is heard
Small storms dance in your eye
But it is you that drives them
From death's angle I see everything you do
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Kent - Den Döda Vinkeln
(Feb 12, 2007 - 05:33) | Great band. I saw them live here in Gothenburg a couple of years ago, they put on a great show. This record is good even if you do not talar svenska.
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Dire Straits - Tunnel of Love
(Feb 11, 2007 - 13:08) | Wolfette wrote: I grew up listening to my dad's copy of 'Brothers In Arms', so my Dire Straits knowledge was SO limited until last year. (I'm only 24 1/2!)
Check out their first record, it is amazing.
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Cat Power - The Greatest
(Feb 11, 2007 - 13:06) | spacemoose wrote: As long as she has less than 30% body fat, I want to sleep with the singer... I might even go as high as 35% if she sings during sex...
Dude, she is totally hot.
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Joanna Newsom - Emily
(Feb 11, 2007 - 12:56) | JohnErle wrote: Prithee, good minstrels. Why dost thine warbling songstress dress in the manner of a swan?
Hath thee lost all taste in thine noggin? Hast thou gone agog? Yither swan is a wench of artistic character wraught, full of contemporary emotions!
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Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye
(Jan 31, 2007 - 05:55) | mrrmt wrote:
We can love the artists who die young - at the peak of their brilliance - because they can't let us down. They won't become fat or old or beat their wives or kids. They won't sell out and record songs for Free Willy 2 or wear flashy suits or do infomercials. They are eternal and while we may change they remain constant.
While you seem to have read A.E. Houseman's poem I think it has become a bit hackneyed to claim an early death affects critical appraisal positively in every case. It surely feeds the rock and roll lifestyle myth, but that is something Buckley tried to eschew. Furthermore his stature grew posthumously so there is no before and after image to compare.
I think it is wrong to insist that Buckley is famous only because he died young. Don't we lose something valuable when we focus on the person and not the music?
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The Beatles - Get Back
(Dec 05, 2006 - 07:19) | I love the Beatles. I thought I would hate this remix stuff. It is surprisingly good.
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Pink Floyd - If
(Nov 28, 2006 - 07:19) | I am glad you like it.
As for me, it is treacly, phlegm-inducing bilge.
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Radiohead - Thinking About You
(Nov 03, 2006 - 03:11) | milehighYinzer wrote: Seems like we need to keep it more simple for the 75% of the people who can't get the Kid A through Hail to the Theif stuff. Play more stuff from Hail to the Theif and Kid A.
Äshc. Radiohead is a great band, but they try to damn hard to obfuscate their message in an attempt to avoid "selling out." The early records through OK Computer were fantastic, after that they descend into a self-righteous set of electronic doodles, a pastiche of contemporary music. I welcome the alternative to corporate pop fascism but I wish they would leaven their righteous seriousness with a little melody once in a while.
Oh, and George Bush is evil.
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Neko Case - The Needle Has Landed
(Oct 19, 2006 - 01:37) | Dear Bill, don't "slack off" and stop playing this record! This definitely is one of the best records of the year!
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Toots & The Maytals - Pressure Drop
(Oct 13, 2006 - 06:08) | Robolink wrote: Anybody know the original record date of this and of the Clash Sandinista "ska" thing just played? Both source albums look to be reissues or am I in a time warp?
"The Harder They Come" released 1972
"Sandinista!" released 1980
The Harder They Come is a soundtrack to the Movie of the same name. Great film, unbelievable record. If you had to have one Reggae record this would be it.
Sandinista! was a three record set, forced to be sold at a two record set price by the Clash, that was banned in England because it used a banned word for its title.
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Joni Mitchell - Carey
(Oct 12, 2006 - 06:04) | Let's not talk about faretheewells now
the night is a starry dome and they're playing
that old scratchy rock and roll
beneath the mantle of the moon.
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Del Amitri - Roll To Me
(Oct 06, 2006 - 08:00) | Maybe Radio Paradise is really a Mormon radio station, pulling all your old favorite songs into Paradise with you.
Ack. I must be outta my mind.
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Ben Folds Five - Magic
(Oct 06, 2006 - 07:48) | shell wrote: His new (Aussie) line up is very schmick.
Come again?
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Yat-Kha - Come Along
(Oct 05, 2006 - 06:59) | Not good. Not that funny either, especially once you start to recognize the lyrics. Generally a rather hideous example of electric spew.
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Beck - Think I'm In Love
(Sep 26, 2006 - 08:28) | Not sure how I feel about this really. I have been really disappointed to hear that the Beckster is a Scientologist. I thought he was too cool to be affected by that sort of thing. But I should tread lightly here, we all have the right to our own beliefs.
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Wilco - Jesus, Etc.
(Sep 26, 2006 - 05:41) | "You were right about the stars,
each one is a setting sun."
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Wilco - Kamera
(Sep 18, 2006 - 23:57) | Duluoz wrote:
Yeah! You said it... And more good = more gooder!
duh! Its gooderer. Sheesh.
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Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye
(Sep 08, 2006 - 03:05) | MinMan wrote:
We yanks prefer our philosophy lite, our culture lite and lite pre-digested content: I'm thinking "evil do-ers" - "We're fightn' 'em over there so we don't have to fight 'em here". But now I digress...
Be glad that there remain a few exquisitly tasty tid bits like this Jeff Buckley tune to make up for the team USA domination of mass media content. So very sorry.
No need to apologize, Europe is the same way, despite their claims to the contrary. When the CIA flies into Sweden in private jets to whisk away alleged terrorists to be tortured in Egypt, all the Swedish government says is; "How much fuel do you want?"
But I suppose I am cynical. Not really my fault, I was born in Boston and lived in the States for more than 35 years, I am as Yankee as they get.
And if you don't agree, you are wicked retahded.
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Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye
(Sep 08, 2006 - 02:59) | Lkw wrote:
I don't deny any talent, I simply don't notice it. That's my opinion and no crap at all.
This is what I think is crap;
Lkw wrote:
If the man was still alive, he got a 6 or so for this song.
Lkw wrote:
Besides that, people disagreeing with your taste of music is not equal to people "contentious without insight". I find that a pretty arrogant thing to say.
I am not disagreeing with your taste in music, just in your willingness to try to denigrate Jeff Buckley by claiming his reputation is based on early death.
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José González - Sensing Owls
(Aug 15, 2006 - 08:34) | This fellow's music is sweet. I think he comes from my hometown; Gothenburg Sweden, or at least lives there now.
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Ane Brun - Sleeping By the Fyris River
(Jul 03, 2006 - 07:13) | inindian wrote:That Scandinavian area air must do something to people's voices up thar...Bjork... 
Well, Iceland is really not a Scandinavian country technically speaking, though it is a Nordic country. Iceland is an island far off the coast of Norway, about halfway between the US and Norway.
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Neko Case - Hold On, Hold On
(Jun 21, 2006 - 01:41) | I met Neko when she stopped to talk to people after her show here in Gothenburg, Sweden. She was really nice and smart, totally unpretentious. What a show she played; lots of interaction with the audience, songs brilliantly performed. She was out on the floor dancing after the show.
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Mazzy Star - Still Cold
(Jun 15, 2006 - 02:02) | Saw these guys in New York in the mid nineties. Hope Sandoval radiated sexuality and ennui. They opened for The Jesus and Mary Chain but they blew them away.
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Wilco - War On War
(Jun 13, 2006 - 08:24) | grant wrote: Brilliant tune!!
The next album is supposed to sound a lot like "Being There."
What next album?
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Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye
(Jun 12, 2006 - 01:49) | Lkw wrote:
If the man was still alive, he got a 6 or so for this song. I'm quite sure about that. It's all psychology. If you're a more or less well-known musician and die young, there's a big chance you'll be overrated after death.
That is crap. He is an extraordinary musician, iconoclast, and brilliant singer. The fact that he died young does not change his abilities as demonstrated in his music. You may not like him, but to deny his incredible talent is merely to be contentious without insight.
People love Jeff Buckley because he wrote amazing songs, not because he died young.
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Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye
(Jun 12, 2006 - 01:46) | MinMan wrote: In 1967, Marshall McLuhan wrote (I paraphrase) given the pending elimination of regional identity; individuals will identify themselves with (brands) products accumulated, services received & experiences available through mass culture.
How do you differentiate yourself? Scary prophecy isn't it.
McLuhan's argument is specious, it is built on a tautology. That tautology says we are defined by our culture.
But we always, already define our culture.
In other words, the notion that we define ourselves by liking a certain type of music is obvious, that brands are included in the mix of who we are is also obvious. But then McLuhan was always philosophy lite.
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Paul Simon - How Can You Live In The Northeast
(May 26, 2006 - 07:32) | MikeCloud wrote: . Is there anyone who can say that with hits coming out now? Santana is close. The rolling stones certainly aren't breaking musical ground anymore. Nor Dylan. Anybody? Roy rogers maybe?
Dylan has produced some significant records of late, so he is right there with Paul Simon. Plus Dylan started earlier. Santana repeats himself, The Stones stopped making good music in the late eighties, and poor Roy is dead.
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The Doors - Peace Frog/Blue Sunday
(May 22, 2006 - 02:47) | The best Doors song. However "Ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind" is treacle, like much of the rest of Morrisson's maudlin musings. He actually published a book of poetry. What tripe.
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Neko Case - Dirty Knife
(May 16, 2006 - 05:26) | We just saw Neko here in Gothenburg where she was passing through on a European tour. She was excellent, really, really great. I am grateful to RP for introducing her to me.
She said after the show, when she stopped to talk to people and to sign autographs, that "Fox confessor brings the flood" is from a Ukranian folk tale.
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It's A Beautiful Day - Hot Summer Day
(Mar 31, 2006 - 07:05) | This song is the gruesomest bit of treacle I have had the misfortune to hear. Please Bill, crush this LP under the grimy wheels of your Toyota.
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Patty Griffin - Change
(Mar 08, 2006 - 07:20) | This woman is so damn cool. She just belts her tunes at the top of her lungs and always sings with wicked passion. Love her.
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Eddie From Ohio - Number Six Driver
(Mar 07, 2006 - 13:27) | The weird thing is, is that not only does the singer of this song have the same timbre and tone as Ani di Franco, she has similar phrasing as well. The way she stretches out certain notes, things like that. Somewhat bizarre since the lyrics are too sacchrin and trite to be Ani di Franco.
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David Bowie - Helden
(Feb 15, 2006 - 06:55) | Now we're talking, a little Bowie from the Berlin period.
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Mike Doughty - Sunken-Eyed Girl
(Feb 06, 2006 - 07:18) | I used to live on Delancey street, it was very Ghetto then in the early nineties. I lived right by the Williamsburg bridge and the traffic rattled my bones when I slept at night.
There are some fancy restaurants down there now apparently, though I haven't been back in years and years. Still, the Doughty song captures the flavor of the neighborhood somehow, its very essence.
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Aimee Mann - Red Vines
(Feb 03, 2006 - 08:29) | fncll wrote: Thank god, after a string of pretenders, we get the real thing! Aimee is one of the few artists that I just can't get enough of. And this is one of her best.
Martha is not a pretender.
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Martha Wainwright - Don't Forget
(Feb 03, 2006 - 08:25) | I first heard Martha Wainwright on RP and went right out and bought this record. It is really, really good. She is an excellent songwriter.
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Suzanne Vega - It Makes Me Wonder
(Feb 02, 2006 - 01:05) | This guy I know toured with her for a while, he was the opening act. He said she was a bitch on wheels. Whatever, her music is great.
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2raumwohnung - Da Sind Wir
(Jan 26, 2006 - 05:18) | Yeah, um Bill? I was really hoping for something slightly more annoying. If possible.
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Splashdown - I Understand
(Jan 17, 2006 - 02:13) | Snugg wrote: The link below is broken, but I looked in the internet archive and found a very good link. From the site:
"I came across and amazing band which broke up before it could be properly appreciated: Splashdown. Melissa Kaplan's vocals and lyrics are amazing, and Adam Buhler and Kasson Crooker do an amazing job with the music. Unfortunately, Splashdown ceased to be in 2001, when the members went their separate ways. Their second CD was never published, and their first CD and singles are impossible to find. The band however encourages the bootlegging and trading of their music over the Internet, as this is the only way to hear it.
I have managed to collect almost every song they ever made, and they are all here to download, unless they become so popular that users exceed the 30GB/Month traffic quota."
Here are their songs:
http://www.sadena.com/music/splashdown/index.html
Enjoy!
Schweet!
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Garmarna - Euchari
(Jan 02, 2006 - 05:58) | som doften av balsam
(like the smell of balsam)
dina händer söker mig
(your hands search for me)
och bränner av längtan
(burning with longing.)
Or something along those lines.
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The Doors - The Crystal Ship
(Dec 28, 2005 - 08:26) | pp wrote:boring
Djurgården is boring! That is what is boring! Sheesh. I've got two words for you pal - Frölunda!
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Kate Bush - How to Be Invisible
(Nov 25, 2005 - 01:33) | kerr wrote:
Can't help feeling that might be over-stating things slightly.
Perhaps Kate outdoes herself every 12 years or so?
That is precisely the type of understatement that is eating away at the moral fabric of our society.
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Cake - Guitar
(Nov 13, 2005 - 04:13) | Cake are so lame. Stop with the tepid irony already, you're not funny stupid cakeheads.
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Ani Difranco - Buildings and Bridges
(Oct 09, 2005 - 09:01) | Ani does not have a potty mouth. On the contrary, she uses words (like the vernacular term for copulate) purposefully as a poet might. There is nothing gratuitous in her choice of words, and if you are too priggish to appreciate them, perhaps a forum discussing faith-based initatives might be more to your liking.
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My Morning Jacket - Mahgeetah
(Sep 15, 2005 - 12:53) | saturnine wrote: This is excellent summer music, IMHO. It's a beautiful, warm, summer evening, and this song fits the moment perfectly.
You lie! Liar! It is never warm in Finland!
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps
(Aug 01, 2005 - 01:21) | Angloray wrote: is this the best track on the album?
Unfortunately yes. But there are other good songs, just none as good as this one. The others are a little more self-indulgent and repititive. "Rich" is a good song, pretty harsh satire. And they are good live, lots of energy, but I look forward to a new record and to see how they develop.
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The Jam - Town Called Malice
(Jul 27, 2005 - 06:35) | If you like this, and you oughta, there are other Jam gems. This is from The Gift which is a great record. I am pretty sure it was their last LP though they issued an EP later which was also pretty good, Absolute Beginners I think it is called.
Their classic is Setting Sons which captured England as well as any pop band every did, on a par with The Special's Ghostown.
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Oasis - Keep The Dream Alive
(Jun 27, 2005 - 02:11) | Oasis are dull, repetitive, and they have nothing to say. This song is terrible, monotonous, typical of their ouvre. Sadly they are indicative of the British pop scene which has lost its touch.
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Interpol - Evil
(Jun 07, 2005 - 04:58) | Rockage. Interpol is modernity personified. Kick some indie ass Interpol!
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Kent - 400 Slag
(May 10, 2005 - 05:37) | fuh2 wrote: 100% better the second listen! What does "Du Och Jag Döden" und "slag" mean?
"Du och jag döden" means - "You and me death"
"slag" means "hit" or "blow". So "400 slag" means 400 blows.
Oh yeah, "Kent" means "Kent" in English. :D
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Fiona Apple - Red Red Red
(Mar 15, 2005 - 09:22) | ccordova wrote:
Get it here for a short time.
http://www.terminalblue.com/music.htm
Bummer, I only get a "Bandwith exceeded" message. I would run out and buy this record if it were for sale.
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Marshall Crenshaw - Mary Anne
(Feb 17, 2005 - 02:31) | While it is easy to dismiss Marshall Crenshaw, his work is an extension of the fine tradition of American pop. He clearly borrows heavily from Buddy Holly but there are worse things. The songs are written as a counterpoint to life's real difficulties, not as a summation of them, and as such should be seen as an interlude of sweet escape.
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Bonnie Raitt - When the Spell Is Broken
(Feb 11, 2005 - 03:46) | Pyro wrote:
What is GWB?
My guess is GWB is that loathsome troll currently ensconsed in the White House. I'll refrain from political diatribe in these wonderfully polite forums, however I must side with Bonnie Raitt. Not only is she the best female artist of her generation, she is politically active and astute.
Now if you want to know why Conservative Republicanism is a ruinous set of policies for governing . . .
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Adrian Belew - Big Electric Cat
(Feb 10, 2005 - 02:15) | Love this song. This is a good record too. If you like this look at his work with King Crimson - Beat, Discipline, Three of a Perfect Pair.
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Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls
(Jan 24, 2005 - 05:15) | West End barf, East End vomit. Pet Shop Horrors. I am sure they are not bad people but thier music would make a shy, round buddhist reflect and plan a mass murder.
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Wilco - Muzzle of Bees
(Jan 21, 2005 - 01:48) | I'm a big Wilco fan. Though one has to conceed that they do stumble into a bit of self-indulgence with the white noise. They appear so pleased with themselves with their static and prepared pianos but other artists have done this more effectively before and to me it distracts from the simple beauty of their best work.
Nobody has changed more than Jeff Tweedy, nobody challenges his audience more with his music. Look at "Gun" from Uncle Tupelo and compare that to "Muzzle of Bees."
Wilco is one of the few American bands today that push themselves into places they they've not been before. That is exciting to me.
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Son Volt - Medicine Hat
(Dec 14, 2004 - 09:31) | Jay Farrar. You can always tell its him, his baritone is beautiful. Finally he is singing songs about something else than whiskey and poverty.
I would love to know what he thinks about his old bandmate from Uncle Tupelo now; Jeff Tweedy has changed so much.
Son Volt is a cool name and this is a cool song.
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PJ Harvey - The Letter
(Dec 14, 2004 - 08:42) | Love Polly Jean! Saw her this summer in Sweden, second time I have seen her, she is amazing. One of the few great musical talents of our current times.
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Oasis - Champagne Supernova
(Dec 14, 2004 - 08:12) | Oasis are weak. They have sad stupid pop sings which are catchy, but offer about the same satisfaction as Brittany Spears, if that is the way you spell her name.
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Nature Boy
(Dec 14, 2004 - 04:35) | What a brilliant song. As he gets older Cave gets so much better, his work (and it is work) used to be unlistenable. Try listening to something from the legendary Birthday Party which he fronted before he formed the Bad Seeds.
Here is an artist who uses popular music as his medium, peering into the shadows cast by contemporary culture to see something far more important and beautiful, but also necessarily bleak and gruesome.
The world we live in is truly frightening and messed up, but that is beautiful. It is a lot easier to manage too with Nick Cave around.
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