Santana - Black Magic Woman-Gypsy Queen
(Mar 16, 2005 - 18:54) | One of the great guitar intros of all time. It's hip to get on Carlos for being sloppy or trite. I love his tone, one of my favorites.
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Nirvana - Polly
(Mar 16, 2005 - 16:04) | Always loved Grohl's harmony on this track.
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Stevie Ray Vaughan - Pipeline
(Mar 09, 2005 - 14:48) | Sometimes surf rock is necessary. Now is one of those times. I never noticed how much the bridge of this sounds like China Girl, which SRV also played on.
Do Los Straightjackets ever make it on here? They were an insane live show.
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Beck - Qué Onda Guero
(Mar 09, 2005 - 14:35) | If someone asked me if I said "Would you like a Beck song where he raps in Spanglish?" I would most likely say no, but this is cool.
I just don't know if I like it better than Hollywood Freaks, which might be the funniest song released in the last decade, precisely because I think Beck meant it to be serious.
-M
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William Shatner - Common People
(Mar 09, 2005 - 08:48) | ashbyman wrote:
Yup, still brilliant. More brilliant than it was before. I love this.
I can't express how much I love this song right now. When Joe Jackson comes in the first time it sounds like he's looking for someone to slamdance with.
*I* am looking for someone to slamdance with. Brilliant.
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Meat Puppets - Shine
(Mar 09, 2005 - 08:45) | I *know* I've heard this before, in a movie or TV show maybe? I can't place it.
Anyway, I really like it, the vaguely boom-chick groove with the acoustic solo, its really nice.
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The Cure - The Love Cats
(Mar 09, 2005 - 08:41) | The synthesized horns are killing me...They are causing me physical pain.
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Quetzal - Planta De Los Pies
(Mar 09, 2005 - 08:40) | hcaudill wrote:
...Also: This song is in 11/4 time (towards the end, the lyrics say "cinco y seis son once, no se asuste señor", or "five and six are eleven, don't be frightened, sir".
I'm digging the over the barness of the end section. I'm surprised there aren't more songs written in compound time like 11/4 or 7/4 (Right Hand Man by Joan Osborne, Spoonman by Soundgarden). Cool.
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Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated
(Mar 08, 2005 - 17:33) | psycholynx wrote:
I think you meant:  YYYYYYYEEESSSSSSSSS!!!
Huhhuh, shut up Beavis. 
No good can come of me knowing that Beavis and Butthead gifs exist...none.
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Stevie Wonder - As
(Mar 08, 2005 - 17:28) | I'm working late, and cannot even express how much this has picked me up. I will never forget the first time I heard Songs in the Key of Life.
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Youngbloods - Get Together
(Mar 08, 2005 - 16:34) | rah wrote: i can't ever hear this without thinking of Spinal Tap and (Listen to the) Flower People...
Before reading this I could only think of a somewhat altered Kris Novoselic grabbing the mic and shreiking the famed chorus of this song immediately before Nirvana launched into "Territorial Pissings" on MTV.
Now its two things.
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Pulp - Common People
(Mar 07, 2005 - 14:09) | BGGA wrote: Never thought I'd admit this out loud, but I prefer the Shatner version.
Its not even a contest. It's a question of tempo. It isn't like the Pulp version has no energy at all, it builds through the song, but even at its most energetic it doesn't have the drive and the pulse that the Shatner version does. The drums and the guitar are straining at the front of the beat, pushing it. When Joe Jackson comes in the first time it sounds like he's looking for someone to slamdance with. There's so much energy.
It's a great song either way. But the Shatner version "rocks" (in the throw up the devil horns "WOOOOOOOOOOO!!" sense). The original just doesn't.
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Chet Atkins - Jam Man
(Mar 07, 2005 - 10:31) | I missed Chet??? Damn you lunch meeting!!
Allllllll the Chet Atkins you want to play is just fine by me. I have this album and listen to it often. I don't have Neck and Neck which he did with Knopfler. Considering the predilection RP seems to have for Mark that seems like a natural thing to play. I've always wanted to hear it.
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Indigo Girls - Galileo
(Mar 04, 2005 - 15:51) | This worked with the Sinister Minister so I'll try again. If Bob were to see fit to play "Ghost" off this album, in my opinion maybe the most beautiful song ever written, it would wrest another hard to receive 10 from me.
Rites of Passage is an unbelievable album front to back, far and away the IG's best. I've always loved the drums on this tune, hitting the offbeats and still holding a groove.
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Isaac Hayes - Theme From 'Shaft'
(Mar 04, 2005 - 15:48) | I was in a meeting I missed such unbelievable RP, I was robbed, ROBBED I tell you.
This song, is the fount of all wokka chicka. The song that launched a thousand wah wah pedals. Lesser wokka chicka, must bow down. PLEASE play this again soon.
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William Shatner - Common People
(Mar 04, 2005 - 11:31) | ashbyman wrote:
That could be, I can't comment because its the first time I have ever heard it, and its *BRILLIANT*
That's good Shatner right there.
Yup, still brilliant. More brilliant than it was before. I love this.
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Albert King - Born Under a Bad Sign
(Mar 04, 2005 - 11:25) | Sinister Minister and this in the same block, Bob's killing me.
Albert is the man, Albert begat SRV, EC etc. His Rhino 2 disc set was in my stereo a LOT in college.
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Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
(Mar 04, 2005 - 11:13) | jberko wrote:
And what about "When the Levy Breaks?"
Good call, the drum intro to end all drum intros.
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Béla Fleck & The Flecktones - The Sinister Minister
(Mar 04, 2005 - 11:07) | On the thread for "Big Country" I wrote
The multiple comparisons of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones to Kenny G on this thread confirm once and for all that Kenny G has utterly murdered the soprano sax as a viable instrument. That is, no matter how excellent and musical a given player and song may be, the great majority of people who hear ANYTHING on the Soprano are going to go "This sounds like Kenny G *CLICK*"
Tack this on to Kenny G's long list of crimes, for which he will hopefully someday be punished.
Bob, you can play ALL the Bela and Victor that you want. The Sinister Minister would wrangle a 10 out of me, and I'm stingy with them.
Done and done. Thanks Bob. I absolutely love this song. The way the bass and the banjo wind around each other, the simple almost bluesy banjo solo, the reeeeeeeeediculous bass solo (Hail Victor) and especially the almost klezmer-like the way the progression turns around.
A definite and deserved 10, for the bass solo alone.
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The Proclaimers - I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)
(Mar 04, 2005 - 09:30) | e_bryant wrote: This song has to make you smile.
Less than Jake does a mighty fine punk cover of this song.
Check it out if you're ever in a punk mood.
I heard Down by Law do it. and if I haver...whatever the FUCK that means
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Tom Waits - The Heart of Saturday Night
(Mar 03, 2005 - 17:29) | I was going to wait for Tom Traubert's Blues, but I'll tell my favorite Waits related story here because I feel like taking a break from work for a sec.
When my friend was a freshman in college, it was his practice to get up reasonably early (before noon) on Sundays and play music. One such Sunday he was playing Tom Waits, he forgets which song. A knock came on his door. He opened it to find another freshman who lives on his hall, half asleep, very hung over, and looking very very confused.
My Friend: "What's up?"
Hung over guy: "Are...are you listening to Cookie Monster?"
God I love that story.
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Beck - E-Pro
(Mar 03, 2005 - 12:13) | I've heard very few repeats on RP, with the exception of this which I think I've heard at least 6 times in the past week. I didn't like it at first, but its growing on me.
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The American Analog Set - Hard to Find
(Mar 03, 2005 - 11:38) | Steelhead wrote: Very sharp guitar sound laying down the quasi-bass beat in this one, nice!!!!!
I'd say its a bass with a pick, due to the register, but that is very sharp is not in question. Great hook.
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Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
(Mar 03, 2005 - 11:32) | Al_Koholic wrote:
Always makes me play air drums whenever this or any Zep song comes on. 
Never has a drummer driven a song like John Bonham drove this one. There are maybe 5 Led Zep songs that are 10s in my book, this is one of em. Never, ever get tired of it.
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Bob Marley - Could You Be Loved
(Mar 03, 2005 - 10:58) | Why remix this? I guess I'm one of those who thinks Legend can't be improved upon. The tribal noises in the background just sound jarring
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Spirit of the West - And If Venice is Sinking
(Mar 03, 2005 - 07:25) | MikeWC wrote: I just saw a free Spirit of the West concert in a downtown park - and it was free. God bless Canada Day celebrations.
Their newer matireal isn't as much fun as their old stuff, but when the concert closed with Home for a Rest, it was pure adrenaline. The entire audience danced like maniacs and belted out the lyrics.
Home for a Rest would be great to hear on RP.
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Ben Taylor Band - Time of the Season
(Mar 03, 2005 - 07:12) | radiojunkie wrote: Hadn't heard this before...I like it! Imagine, James's little boy does the Zombies!
But seriously, it's one of the few updates/covers I've heard that actually sounds good -- if not better than -- the original (think: Heroes, I'm a Believer...yeccchhh).
I don't know, I love the original and I don't think this is an improvement, that distorted guitar/synth/harmonica/whatever the hell it was break in the middle was supremely annoying. Had no idea it was James' kid though, interesting.
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Dr. Didg - Devon
(Mar 02, 2005 - 17:09) | I enjoy that there is a man out there calling himself "Dr Didg." and rocking out on the didgeriedoo for our enjoyment. This is the sort of thing I think that will only, ever, be played on RP, and in Australia.
I tried to play the Didg once...its hard.
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Moby - The Great Escape
(Mar 02, 2005 - 16:50) | auraveda wrote: ... the synth strings kind of grate on me a bit...
Right. ON.
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Stevie Ray Vaughan - Tell Me
(Mar 02, 2005 - 07:07) | I didn't hear this one, but I don't think SRV ever recorded a song called "Tell Me" It's not on the greatest hits.
If it starts "Well now tell me/what in the world can be wrong" it's called "Empty Arms" and its the first track on "The Sky is Crying"
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Béla Fleck - Big Country
(Mar 01, 2005 - 15:04) | The multiple comparisons of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones to Kenny G on this thread confirm once and for all that Kenny G has utterly murdered the soprano sax as a viable instrument. That is, no matter how excellent and musical a given player and song may be, the great majority of people who hear ANYTHING on the Soprano are going to go "This sounds like Kenny G *CLICK*"
Tack this on to Kenny G's long list of crimes, for which he will hopefully someday be punished.
Bob, you can play ALL the Bela and Victor that you want. The Sinister Minister would wrangle a 10 out of me, and I'm stingy with them.
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Johnny Cash - Rusty Cage
(Mar 01, 2005 - 14:19) | Darkmatter wrote: I am burning gasoline, burning dinosaur bones
Though it is a Soundgarden song originally, it belongs to Johnny Cash now. It is almost like it was written for him.
Exactly, the orignal sounded weird to me after the first time I heard this. Much like hearing Dylan play All Along the Watchtower post-hendrix.
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Jeremy Kittel - Oisin's Tune
(Mar 01, 2005 - 14:09) | Really nice guitar here. Fiddle plays nice breaks, makes a noble attempt to comp under the guitar, but the fiddle is not really a comp instrument. Very cool.
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Why Store - Lack of Water
(Mar 01, 2005 - 13:48) | missjanuary wrote: Tom Jones anybody? Maybe it's just me. Like the guitar though. :)
My thought was Tom Jones with Knopfleresque guitar, nice guitar breaks all the way through, catchy song.
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Jeff Beck - Going Down
(Mar 01, 2005 - 12:31) | I don't love this. I feel like this is a good example of why Beck never hit it big like Page or Clapton. Something about his sound just isn't there. I don't know if its the singer or what.
The Gene Vincent stuff he did was killer, does that ever get played on RP?
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Paul Schwartz Project - Dark Of The Night
(Mar 01, 2005 - 11:55) | Meh. This might have been more palatable if it didn't follow a bunch of really excellent, organic acoustic guitar playing. The switch to Casio synth pad noodling and a Loreena/Sarah Maclachlan impersonator is jarring.
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Don Ross - Afraid to Dance
(Mar 01, 2005 - 11:43) | Bad ass, never heard of Mr. Ross, but I'm predisposed to like anything that comes in with that percussive Hedges/Ani D. slap the acoustic guitar technique.
What will make me like an instrumental is if the player as any sense of groove. This is all about groove, excellent.
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Phish - Theme From The Bottom
(Mar 01, 2005 - 11:32) | Mugro wrote:
Untuned piano and nursery rhyme lyrics. Great mix. They must be mocking us, all the way to the bank.
There is a difference between "untuned" and dissonant. The dissonance does set up the vocal harmonies, at least in my opinion. I'm never been the biggest Phish fan, but "Free" off this album is an undeniably excellent piece of harmony rock, and I like this tune as well.
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Iron & Wine - Each Coming Night
(Mar 01, 2005 - 09:18) | This is the second song from this album I've heard on RP, both beautiful, nice folky simple music. Really nice.
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Medeski, Martin & Wood - Mami Gato
(Mar 01, 2005 - 07:05) | I was wondering if MMW ever made it on here. Glad to see they do. If you think this is worth a spin I urge you to check out Charlie Hunter, particularly Bing Bing Bing.
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Echo & The Bunnymen - Evergreen
(Mar 01, 2005 - 06:40) | Angloray wrote: so glad you uploaded this. I was desperate to get some songs other than "Lips like Sugar" on RP, esp. after most of the "Heaven Up Here" songs were rejected. :( Anyway, thanks for this! The Bunnymen are so good and have been for so long.
I've always liked "Make Me Shine" with its backwards guitar. Never heard this one, its cool.
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Stone Temple Pilots - Interstate Love Song
(Feb 28, 2005 - 16:05) | drH wrote: This rocks.
I'd like to hear the first hit of theirs... damn, what was it called?
edit: Plush!
Their first hit was called "Sex Type Thing" was an anti-date rape song, much much heavier than anything they put out afterwards. Plush was second, and much bigger.
I don't know if STP ever did a CD version of their MTV unplugged but they closed with Sex Type Thing done in a sort of snarky pseudolounge-style (complete with Wieland going "Hey there, how's your steak?") I'd love to hear that again.
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Ween - The Argus
(Feb 28, 2005 - 14:35) | When did Ween become the Moody Blues?
Fascinating. I wonder if they ever follow this with "Push the Little Daisies and Make em Come Up" in concert.
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Monte Montgomery - When Will I
(Feb 28, 2005 - 14:07) | Another first time listen for me.
Really interesting player, and its refreshing to hear someone do a long break on an acoustic guitar for a change, thin and trebly tone notwithstanding. Nice phrasing, not just running scales up and down and fast as he can.
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Robert Plant - Ship of Fools
(Feb 28, 2005 - 13:49) | My first time hearing this, this is a perfect example of a tone/content problem. What the guitar is doing is lovely and Knopfler-esque, but the tone is overprocessed and reeks of the 80s. It's some producer using the "Mark Knopfler" preset on his BOSS guitar effects processor vs. an actual old amp.
Still, nice. Better than the Honeydrippers at any rate.
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Porno for Pyros - Pets
(Feb 28, 2005 - 13:38) | Man, Stephen Perkins is a great drummer. And Perry Farrell is just... Perry Farrell, I suppose. icon_wink.gif
That's about right, the drums are what gets me about this song. You don't hear a lot of beats that can immediately tell you what song you're listening to anymore, this was one of those.
That said, Perry Farrell never really did it for me.
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Van Morrison - Moondance
(Feb 25, 2005 - 10:52) | Moondance, the album, started like this:
And It Stoned Me
Moondance
Crazy Love
Caravan
Into the Mystic
As an album side, that's up there with Led Zep IV and Sgt. Peppers as far as I'm concerned. Great stuff.
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Hank Williams - Ramblin Man
(Feb 25, 2005 - 10:34) | Hank Sr. RULES.
Hank Jr. is an abomination on this earth, perhaps one day Al Michaels will snap and attack him in the MNF booth.
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Philip Glass - Opening
(Feb 25, 2005 - 10:07) | Phillip Glass songs should have a hard cap at two minutes and thirty seconds, the reptition starts to grate beyond that.
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Montana Mandolin Society - The January Waltz
(Feb 25, 2005 - 09:58) | How lovely, the mandolin is always a nice change of pace, melody is sort of maudlin though...like a poor man's Loreena McKennit.
Segue into Nickel Creek? Grisman?
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The Beatles - I Am The Walrus
(Feb 24, 2005 - 15:41) | Bill, for what its worth, I think "Where Is My Mind" into this, is a GREAT transition. I am truly impressed with this station.
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Miles Davis - Blue In Green
(Feb 24, 2005 - 15:34) | One of those perfect albums...
Something no one talks about is that this album begat the Allmans, Phish, the Dead, pretty much every jam band in history.
Playing extended modal improv over one opr two chords seems like part of the musical fabric, but no one was really doing it before Miles. One more innovation.
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Moxy Fruvous - Jockey Full Of Bourbon
(Feb 24, 2005 - 13:58) | No disrespect to Tom but I love the Moxy version of this song. The harmony adds something. This is my first time hearing the studio version, the Live Noise version is even better.
Also on live noise, an a capella version of "Gotta Get a Message to You" by the Bee Gees which is absolutely beautiful, and their version of Psycho Killer, which again puts harmony where you don't think it belongs, but it works.
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Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire
(Feb 24, 2005 - 12:21) | not my favorite version of the song, but I still love you Johnny. That voice.
Right on, when this started *I was like "wait a second...it's too fast" I didn't realize he rerecorded it. Still, how many songs would you really notice were 10 bpm faster than the verson you're familiar with? Johnny Cash is a god.
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Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood
(Feb 24, 2005 - 12:08) | Yes sir., god it's been forever since I listened to SRV.
Texas Flood and Couldn't Stand the Weather might be the best pair of albums of the mid 80s, and yes I'm aware of the Police U2 the Talking Heads and anyone else who would be desrving of consideration. From 1983 til 1985 when the 8 pounds of cocaine he was doing every day took the edge off his fastball. Stevie was the baddest man on the planet.
Whats sad is In Step, after he got clean, was almost as good, he was taken way too soon.
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Mark Knopfler - Postcards From Paraguay
(Feb 24, 2005 - 12:00) | His film scores are excellent. He's one of those guitar players that it takes maybe 10 seconds before you know who you are listening to. Unique tone and unique phrasing.
I might upload some tracks from the Wag the Dog score which are the most "Knopfleresque" pieces of music that exist.
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Melissa Etheridge - Bring Me Some Water
(Feb 24, 2005 - 11:02) | In the short lived VH1 "Duets" series, Melissa sang this with Joan Osborne. That's the definitive version of the song for me, largely because I love Joan.
(Apropos of absolutely nothing, my favorite episode of duets was when they put Bryan Adams with the Brian Setzer Orchestra at the height of BSO's popularity. Everyone involved just looked so...confused. Did anyone else see that?)
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Bird York - Haunting You
(Feb 22, 2005 - 15:59) | Sexy, breathy voice in the verses, then it gets sort of Dido-y.
Nice beat.
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Jeff Beck - Ain't Superstitious
(Feb 22, 2005 - 14:42) | Nice segue from Muddy himself to this, now will we follow it up with a rousing rensition of "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?"
Stewart, who used to be so shy he'd hide behind the stacks while he sang. Now, the only way to fend him off is with a nose-hair trimmer.
This is what I like to call a "vivid word picture." Well done.
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George Winston - Spanish Caravan
(Feb 22, 2005 - 14:28) | I guess what's ironic about this is that we are listening to a piano cover of a rock & roll cover of a guitar rendition of what was originally....
are you ready for this....
...A PIANO PIECE!!!!
Seriously, Isaac Albeniz composed the Asturias suite for piano, though this song (Leyendas) is most often heard played on classical Spanish guitar.
I love being a part of a community where there are bigger music geeks than me. This is a new experience for me.
Leyenda is the first classical piece I ever learned, off of a Segovia CD. I had never heard the Doors song that co-opted it. I was so confused when people always referred to it as a Doors song.
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Gipsy Kings - Inspiration
(Feb 22, 2005 - 14:24) | Gorgeous, and I'l second the calls for more flamenco (Paco de Lucia, S & F maybe some Segovia?) Makes a nice change of pace.
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William Shatner - Common People
(Feb 22, 2005 - 13:53) | Fun novelty factor, but does not hold up to repeated listenings well...
That could be, I can't comment because its the first time I have ever heard it, and its *BRILLIANT*
That's good Shatner right there.
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Taj Mahal & The Chieftans - Freedom Ride
(Feb 22, 2005 - 13:38) | I'm with the prevailing sentiment of this thread. I love the Cheiftains and I like Taj, but just don't know about the two collaborating.
It pains me to rate this low, so to assuage my guilt let me say very plainly that more Chieftains on RP would be a welcome thing.
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Sneaker Pimps - 6 Underground (Nellee Hooper Edit)
(Feb 22, 2005 - 12:38) | Don't think cause I understand, I care
Don't think cause I'm talking, we're friends
Always loved that. This is a big time "time and place" song for me, freshman year of college to be precise. Lordy I am getting old.
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Cardigans - My Favourite Game
(Feb 22, 2005 - 08:01) | I'm stingy with the 10's, but if RP were to see fit to play the Cardigans' brilliant cover of "Iron Man" by Black Sabbath, that might be 10-worthy.
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Tori Amos - Parasol
(Feb 22, 2005 - 07:47) | This the first I've heard of the new Tori. Pretty harmony and a lot less over the top vocally than I'm used to from her. I like this.
That said, I don't love the programmed drums, or programmed drums in general.
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Cake - Let Me Go
(Feb 18, 2005 - 15:41) | This is my favorite Cake song, by a comfortable margin, not quite godlike, but up there. Cake recorded a version of "Mahna-Mahna" which might actually be better both the well known Sesame Street version and the obscure swedish softcore porn score original (Look it up).
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Sonny Landreth - Broken Hearted Road
(Feb 18, 2005 - 15:29) | Sonny ain't kidding. Along with Ry, Danny Gatton and Roy Buchanan, one of those roots influenced guitar players that almost no one hears of and invariably loves when they do.
Does Danny Gatton ever make it on here?
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Over the Rhine - Show Me
(Feb 18, 2005 - 13:37) | You listen to far too much Cher
I don't know if I could name a Cher song other than Believe, Turn Back Time and I Got You Babe, but I think those three songs in themsleves might well qualify as "too much Cher" So I think he's got me.
THis is my first day here. I can't express how impressed I am with the website this station and the concept in general. Just excellent.
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Over the Rhine - Show Me
(Feb 18, 2005 - 13:09) | Has anyone else noticed that the chorus melody is EXACTLY the same as that Cher song "Believe?"
Not sort of like, not resembling, identical. Weird.
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Nina Simone - I Put a Spell on You
(Feb 18, 2005 - 12:31) | I love Nina, I really do. But certain oft-covered songs have a *definitive* version.
All Along the Watchtower - Hendrix
At Last - Etta James
You get the idea. This is one of those. Any cover is only going to summon forth the Screamin' Jay Hawkins version in my mind.
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Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
(Feb 18, 2005 - 12:02) | The first guitar break of this song, not the bluesy second one in B minor, but the shorter one in D major, with the high arching long notes. One of my favorite breaks of all time. Just perfect.
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