Andrew Bird - Fitz & Dizzyspells
(May 23, 2013 - 20:25) | Damn, that trill in the middle had me groping for my phone......then I listened to the rest, play it again Sam/Bill?
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Dar Williams - I Am the One Who Will Remember Everything
(May 22, 2013 - 20:18) | bhallmark wrote: Wow, heard this song many times, lyrics never made it into my head. Heard them tonight and almost started crying. Holy cow, what an evocative and sad sad song. Count me as a fan.
Hello, we may have found the one who carries the torch onward for Cynaera. This would be a very good thing
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Yello - The Rhythm Divine
(May 22, 2013 - 20:05) | janpers wrote: Sounds like Shirley Bassey ("Goldfinger " James Bond theme). So-so song=a 5.
Hey, that's me old mate Dame Shirl yer talking about. She could belt it out when needed, even in later years.
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Blind Pilot - Half Moon
(May 21, 2013 - 19:39) | yuel wrote:i don't want to travel with a blind pilot...   6
Just feel the force Yuel..
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Eels - Peach Blossom
(May 21, 2013 - 18:15) | First time hearing this and I think I got the words down after 1 chorus/verse.
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Mark Knopfler - What It Is
(May 17, 2013 - 17:55) | rdo wrote: There is not one daring element to this music. It's about as uninteresting as it gets. Lacks any imagination. Suffocating. In a word - stuffy.
If these lyrics don't work for you, it's probably because you prefer Amy Winehouse' song with the same title - go for it.
 The drinking dens are spilling out There's staggering in the square There's lads and lasses falling about And a crackling in the air Down around the dungeon doors The shelters and the queues Everybody's looking for Somebody's arms to fall into It's what it is That's what it is now There's frost on the graves and the monuments But the taverns are warm in town People curse the government And shovel hot food down The lights are out in the city hall The castle and the keep The moon shines down upon it all The legless and the sleepless Cold on the tollgate With the wagons creeping through Cold on the tollgate God knows what I could do with you It's what it is That's what it is now The garrison sleeps in the citadel With the ghosts and the ancient stones High on the parapet A Scottish piper stands alone And high on the wind The highland drums begin to roll And something from the past just comes And stares into my soul Cold on the tollgate With the Caledonian blues Cold on the tollgate God knows what I could do with you It's what it is That's what it is now What it is That's what it is now There's a chink of light, there's a burning wick There's a lantern in the tower Wee Willie Winkie with a candlestick Still writing songs in the wee wee hours On Charlotte Street, I take a walking stick from my hotel The ghost of Dirty Dick is still in search of Little Nell It's what it is It's what it is now And it's what it is What it is now
Condensed to save paper.
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Jill Barber - Oh My My
(May 15, 2013 - 19:35) | endoboy wrote:
As a production artist, I can't tell you how many times I've wanted to say the same thing to the clueless commenters of visual art. Just because you don't like something, don't discount the skill and planning that went into it. My favorite example is the photographer Joel Peter Witkin (Whitkin?). Some of the most disturbing, grotesque stuff Ive ever seen, and very grunge, before there really was grunge, but the man had mad photography skills, before the days of Photoshop, and no mater how sick the material, it was made just the way he wanted it to be, and with great skill.
So, say you dislike it, even hate it, but don't say it sucks if you don't know the history or skills it takes to make it.
For those who have any interest in exploring the World of Joel Peter Witkin, here is a portal
http://www.edelmangallery.com/witkin33.htm
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John Lee Hooker - Boogie Chillen
(May 15, 2013 - 19:25) | This was circa '48 if I'm not mistaken and JLH hasn't budged an inch from that formula in 60 years. Some will say yea, others nay.
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Chambers Brothers - Time Has Come Today
(May 14, 2013 - 19:36) | Cynaera wrote:I like this song when I'm feeling really honked off at the way the government is raping the people. I like it when I'm recovering from a hellacious argument with my older brother. I like it when I need to psyche myself up for a confrontation that under other circumstances, I'd avoid. To just sit and listen to, when nothing's wrong? I need a lot of rum for that. Still - this will never be less than a seven for me, simply because it's pulled me through some pretty ugly confrontations. And their passion and dedication - even back then, it was pretty dangerous for a bunch of non-white (I don't know what the politically-correct term is anymore) singers and musicians to protest anything - never fails to make me sit up straighter in my chair, think a little harder, get a little more angry, and finally resolve to DO something. And I've talked too much. Again. 
Never!
And unfortunately, never again.
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Pink Floyd - A Pillow of Winds
(May 14, 2013 - 18:45) | I'm so blissed out I think it's time for another viewing of Heavy Metal tonight to right the Universe.
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David Bromberg - Sharon
(May 12, 2013 - 17:44) | Several klicks past the tall grass where Eric Burdon laid himself down to rest.
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Patti Smith - Nine
(May 11, 2013 - 21:16) | Sloggydog wrote: After seeing her two years running at the Hop Farm Festival I am a total convert. She proper kicks arse live.
"It is with great sadness that Hop Farm 2013 has been cancelled."
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Yoshida Brothers - Storm
(May 11, 2013 - 21:08) | Aural_not_Oral wrote: Be interesting to hear Yoshida Brothers collaboration with the Shook Twins.
Yes, indeed.
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Shook Twins - Growing Things
(May 11, 2013 - 20:59) | BillG wrote:
Listened a little closer, and I do believe that I was wrong. A theremin (or something very similar) it is.
Golden egg?
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Lucinda Williams - Are You Down
(May 11, 2013 - 20:35) | fredriley wrote:I'm 'down' with this dirgefest, right enough. She sounds like she's singing drunkenly in a bar at 2am having been on the sauce since lunchtime 
Hit the nail on the noggin, Senor Frederico.
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Built To Spill - Wherever You Go
(May 10, 2013 - 20:06) | Scientist79 wrote: Good Song, when i first heard it I thought it was Neil Young's guitar
OK, I can hear some Old Black, the album cover says Miro's Farm to me.
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Beach Boys - Good Vibrations
(May 10, 2013 - 20:02) | Saw Brian 2 years ago and his backing band actually got this sound right. Sorry, but Brian was standing there clicking his fingers and miming, although this actually didn't matter to me, just closed my eyes and all was good.
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Beth Orton - Magpie
(May 10, 2013 - 17:35) | h8rhater wrote:
I always preferred Bournemouth to Brighton anyway.
When Bournemouth grows up and becomes a city, it'll still be 1/3rd the size of Brighton, but have twice as many wrinklies.
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Thievery Corporation - Lebanese Blonde
(May 09, 2013 - 21:32) | plaid wrote: I just think the scansion and rhythm of the vocals work a little better in the english version. I admit it could be because that's the version I've heard first and most.
Still looking for the scansion marks.......
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Syntax - Bliss
(May 09, 2013 - 21:21) | To Hell with Sin Taxes! Oh wait, perhaps I misread that....
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Joni Mitchell - California
(May 09, 2013 - 21:11) | She was indeed a groundbreaker, but I always want to reach for the WD40 when she goes for that high register.
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Gotye - Smoke And Mirrors
(May 06, 2013 - 18:16) | oldsaxon wrote:
Glee? Seriously? sigh.
What? You prefer Coronation Street? really?
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Orchestra Baobab - On Verra Ca
(May 06, 2013 - 18:13) | Listened to this entire album last month sitting in a hospital car park in Inhambane (Mozambique) in an arrested truck awaiting the outcome of the medical examination of a motorcyclist we had hit. Took 2 days, but he was fine and so was the music. So was the amount of the err Police assessment..
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Patty Griffin - Love Throw A Line
(May 01, 2013 - 21:21) | misterbearbaby wrote:She has much the same feeling as James McMurtry. He's a bit more offbeat but they'd make a duo...
Choctaw lifebelt, it is then.
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The Kinks - Apeman (live)
(May 01, 2013 - 21:16) | Easyrider wrote: What was he on when he wrote this song!
You've got the right idea, Donovan used bananas (mellow yellow), why not Ray?
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The Police - Roxanne
(Apr 29, 2013 - 18:52) | Stingray wrote:
And why not? If I could, I would sing about the 69 prostitutes I have visited in my lifetime!
You need to turn your life around.
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The Cars - Blue Tip
(Apr 26, 2013 - 17:38) | The world is full of quackers And belly button rings
Trying to visualise a duck with a belly button ring, especially since they don't have inies or outies either for that matter.
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Bob Dylan - Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
(Apr 24, 2013 - 18:28) | spigolli wrote:
LOL - I should have said how remarkable it is that so many notes can be flubbed without diminishing the greatness of the tune. If he'd hired a studio guitarist to do the work I doubt the tune would have been as good. Maybe they were intentionally flubbed, who can question Dylan?
That must be the answer, he intentionally flubbed the picking, the tonal qualities, the use of bad English, (I ever knowed) sucking harmonica, did I miss anything?
BTW Must be time for Diamonds and Rust now.
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Grateful Dead - Me & My Uncle
(Apr 23, 2013 - 17:18) | joelbb wrote:
Alberta is the most boring Province of all time. And full of BC-envy.
That's it? That's the best you've got?
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Harry Manx - Further Shore
(Apr 22, 2013 - 18:04) | I've seen him on 3 continents, so cannot but agree. The only quibble I have is that I do wish he would lose the ayeeayeeayee suffixes (happily not present on this track)
PS He does love the punning titles, does he not?
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Ween - The Argus
(Apr 21, 2013 - 17:45) | rdo wrote:
Romeotuma was a longtime and frequent commenter here. He was known for his original and repetitive antics. He was banned from the board for reasons of which I am ignorant.
Start believing in reincarnation.
Should do this in large, green font, but I can't be bothered .
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The Kinks - You Really Got Me (live)
(Apr 19, 2013 - 20:08) | Lazarus wrote:The Burden I carry this weight
like two trollops dangling from a cord
wrapped around my waist,
two sloe-eyed gamblers
pulling me to the races,
reckless, breathless, demanding
release from their cloth cage. We three are ultimately alone
with our arguments, this tag-team of hoodlums
versus my concentration.
The distractions are clockwork—
the second hand sweeps the soft terrain
while only five fingers remain free to type,
each hand separate yet in constant exploration,
one by touch
the other by temperament.
(My sangfroid here is feigned.
Touch me now I tremble.) Might my tumescence ever become an ethereal expansion,
elevate to a plane beyond mere biological mechanisms,
mere animal husbandry?
Not in the presence of this effervescent duo,
I doubt.
They always drag me back.
I am 2/3 horse, one part man.
Two against one.
My essence distilled fills my hands.
Try googling "like two trollops dangling from a cord "
This new fangled googlie thang is amazing.
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The Kinks - You Really Got Me (live)
(Apr 19, 2013 - 20:05) | Posted: Feb 03, 2012 - 13:00
Misterfixit wrote:I was there. It was sweaty, hot, very loud and there were two girls with no bras and enormous tits jumping up and down directly behind me slapping their insouciant mammary glands on my back. The air was thick with the haze of various herbs being smoked, with pipes and splibs being passed hand to hand with absolutely no regard to the anonymous spittle dripping from the ends. And the Enormous Tits kept slapping my back. If you close your eyes like this, you can hear me harmonizing ... Enormous Titties Slapping My Back ... Heaven...
Nope, that lies a little further south.
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Leahy - B Minor
(Apr 19, 2013 - 18:26) | oldsaxon wrote: I heard a celtic version of golden brown at the intro and got all excited for a minute....Still love this (was a Rogue Folk member for years)
Still am and saw this group a couple of times there over the years.
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Glen Hansard - Love Don't Leave Me Waiting
(Apr 17, 2013 - 20:52) | fredriley wrote:
Double blah from my perspective, I'm afraid. What's with all the face fungus these days? Is it obligatory for male artistes even outwith the 'folk' and 'alt.folk' scenes?
His expression may have more to do with overly tight underwear than his unshorn facial hair.
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Jethro Tull - Living In The Past
(Apr 15, 2013 - 20:19) | All this was done whilst standing on one leg......imagine what he might have accomplished if he'd stood on both.
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Radiohead - Staircase
(Apr 15, 2013 - 20:05) | Lazarus wrote:
Noooo... I have not been saved from anything— I have just been saved...
love this song... we be dancing...
If not saved from, then saved for what? To be honest, I did hope it was from the curse of the green ink, but alas.....
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Roxy Music - More Than This
(Apr 13, 2013 - 18:47) | slackpacker wrote:I guess this falls into one of those songs where you had to be there when it was popular to appreciate. If this was released today, it would fade into obscurity.
dputlak wrote:A truly great tune. Sounds as good today as it did in '82.
Somewhat like Beethoven's 5th, then?
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Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
(Apr 12, 2013 - 18:07) | Whale oil beef hooked, she really did sing that.
He left no time to regret, kept his dick wet
With his same old safe bet
Me and my head high and my tears dry
Get on without my guy
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Mogwai - Hound of Winter
(Apr 12, 2013 - 17:56) | hayduke2 wrote: does not inspire the image of a lion in the headlights...
Oh I don't know, I saw one just last week and he looked pretty doped out to me.
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Gustavo Santaolalla - Deportation/Iguazu
(Apr 10, 2013 - 17:56) | Stingray wrote:
Just wonder what the athmosphere has to do with Morocco (where the film is playing).
Perhaps an HHG2TG Babel fish would help.
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Blind Pilot - The Story I Heard
(Feb 27, 2013 - 18:38) | Marley wrote: Yay! Finally some Blind Pilot on RP! One of the best bands out of Portland. This is a great album! Would love to hear The Bitter End added.
Yes, they do have good bitter in Portland don't they?
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Sarah Harmer - Lodestar
(Feb 27, 2013 - 18:19) | christopherwoods wrote: Had to double take and see if this wasn't actually my superduperfave KT Tunstall singing in an English accent. It wasn't, but nonetheless because of this Ms. Harmer gets One Free Pass to Tentown. (And it's a lovely little song to boot)
My ears also want to say that they like this song!
'sfar as I know, Sarah Harmer is a Canadian, and the accent hmmmm, Oi tork loik that orlreddy, so Oi w'nt notice.
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Vetiver - You May Be Blue
(Feb 24, 2013 - 22:42) | GawgaBoy wrote: “In the south there's a difference between 'Naked' and 'Nekkid.' 'Naked' means you don't have any clothes on. Nekkid' means you don't have any clothes on ... and you're up to somethin!” -Lewis Grizzard Also (correct me if I'm wrong—I sometimes get it confused) I believe that you can wear socks and still be considered nekkid. Unless you're nekkid as a jaybird of course...
True, true, but early pornographic actors always kept their socks on, the men did, anyway.
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Kasabian - Thick As Thieves
(Feb 23, 2013 - 20:32) | vandal wrote:
Is he really singing, "fick as feeves" ???
Yes, but only in the vernacular.
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Jack White - On And On And On
(Feb 23, 2013 - 20:30) | I understand that although she shared her bonnet with him, Florence Nightingale had a deeper voice than our Jack.
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Stars - Changes
(Feb 17, 2013 - 17:28) | Proclivities wrote:
There are at least four of the larger (transparent) "ghosts" - child-ghosts sitting on the laps of the adult ghosts - and I guess the girl with the flowers is the fifth ghost. Cool cover, nice tune.
Guessing you went to the Amazon 'big album pic." page to glean that info.................?
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Gare Du Nord - Exquis-it, Baby
(Feb 16, 2013 - 20:32) | lemmoth wrote:I've been to the Gare Du Nord —- and it didn't sound like this.
Looking at the wired Zombies there last Autumn, apparently it did.
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Trace Bundy - Bristlecone
(Feb 15, 2013 - 19:35) | The oldest living music on earth...........no, wait, that's the bristlecone pine.
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Queen - Somebody To Love
(Feb 14, 2013 - 21:33) | On_The_Beach wrote:
I knew eventually we'd agree on something.
I like some of Queen's stuff, but this is just bombastic schmaltz.
Sure is, reminds me of Gregor Robertson in a red Chinese jacket.
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The Fixx - Beautiful Friction
(Feb 13, 2013 - 22:37) | The mental association from their name to the dead runner is inescapable for me.
Still like the track, though.
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Morphine - The Night
(Feb 13, 2013 - 21:23) | Hmmm, they listened to too much Leonard Cohen before writing this one.
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Joe Cocker - Delta Lady
(Feb 12, 2013 - 19:45) | misterbearbaby wrote: In 1970 (IIRC) my best friend's goofy f*ing brother-in-law just disappeared from the face of the earth. Came home early from work one day, gave away his truck and all his carpenter's tools and does a Judge Crater. Somehow he ends up on an lonely road in the Nevada desert hitch-hiking and is picked up by Cocker's Mad Dogs and Englishmen tour bus. This is better than an alien abduction story! He is totally off his rocker at this point, gets adopted by the roadies and finishes the tour working as a roustabout. He wanders back home about 2 years later with his hair down to his belt, acting like nothing happened. It all seemed to be pretty normal, just folded into the cosmic muffin dough of the time...
Had to look up what a Judge Crater is:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Force_Crater
Fascinating.
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Wye Oak - Civilian
(Feb 08, 2013 - 21:35) | Just him 'n 'er.
Impressive.
Or 'er 'n 'im if you prefer.
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The Decemberists - Don't Carry It All
(Feb 08, 2013 - 20:12) |
Just finished a marathon washing up session (haven't joined the dish-washer era yet) and everything from Vince G to this number has had us grooving. Well done Bill.
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Porcupine Tree - Piano Lessons
(Feb 06, 2013 - 19:41) | SinisterDexter wrote: Are they channeling Strawberry Alarm Clock?
Most people might call it segueing.
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Talking Heads - Life During Wartime
(Feb 06, 2013 - 19:28) | Misterfixit wrote:
Dearest Ann, I hope you have found what you wanted to find. I know, we talked about everything there was to find in Elko, NV and had a great laugh, but I know that now you are One with the Universe you have your answers.
Love,
Dave
Thank you for that, she really did have an effect beyond the norm.
T.
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Joe Bonamassa - Slow Train
(Feb 06, 2013 - 19:24) | jagdriver wrote:
Like Sonny Landreth to my ears. I like a couple of Joe's tracks, but this one is way too bombastic for my taste. As for blues originality, virtually all blues is 100% derivative. What's the beef... you either like the blues or you don't.
Best guitar player ever? Ha. He very well may be hot and terrific to see live, but in the same league as Hendrix and Jeff Beck? Not hardly.
Maybe Sonny waybackwhen, but last week he was a reeeefined slide guitar God.
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Sonny Landreth - Broken Hearted Road
(Feb 05, 2013 - 21:38) | Saw Sonny last week, guitarist sans pareille, not overly mannered but pushing the techniques to the limit. We were also 10 feet away from his fingers - amazing indeed.
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Willie and Lobo - Lost Caravan
(Feb 05, 2013 - 18:40) | I keep saying I have to go to their New year's bash, but it looks like somebody's gonna croak before I have the chance. Could be me.
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Beck - Beautiful Way
(Feb 04, 2013 - 19:47) | Sneaky segue, Rod-less Faces to Rod-less Beck, so to speak.
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Iguanas - 9 Volt Heart
(Feb 02, 2013 - 18:50) | Cynaera wrote:I think a little nostalgia is a good thing - it brings back memories of life-experiences we might otherwise forget or let get buried under the responsibilities of survival. And everyone, I think, needs a happy memory to help in the staying-alive process. (A recipe for vegetable stew to feed a hundred people is pretty handy, too.) Bumping this up a couple of notches. I'm getting my flower head-garland out, and my fringed knee-high moccasins. The sun's bright and hot, my plants are growing, most of the cats are pretty healthy, and I have a turkey in the oven. If nothing goes wrong today, I'll count it platinum. 
Somebody needs to gather these pieces and put them into a self-help book...........it would sell millions!
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R.E.M. - Electrolite
(Feb 02, 2013 - 18:43) | The green ink man is everywhere, he's everywhere!
Oh wait, that was Chicken Man.
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Hem - Half Acre
(Feb 01, 2013 - 20:28) | jameshay wrote:
One of the things I like about RP forums is the contributors' sense of humour. (Or not, as the case might be!)
Thanks, James..........or not, whichever might be the case here.
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Flaming Lips - In The Morning Of The Magician
(Feb 01, 2013 - 20:25) | I don't normally like voices of this timbre, but Flaming Lips and Cloud Cult have me rethinking this notion. All of which is article 7 (b) on Bill's agenda.
Thanks, Bill.
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Neko Case - Lady Pilot
(Jan 30, 2013 - 20:31) | jimys wrote: I'm liking Neko Case quite a bit lately.
There's quite a bit there to like.
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The Slow Show - God Only Knows
(Jan 29, 2013 - 18:35) | Jim_Messenger wrote: Amazing. I live 90 miles from Manchester and this band is virtually invisible on the UK airwaves. Thanks yet again Bill / Rebecca for being first to another band to my attention. We eventually 'got' Gotye over here too. And if I hear another so called Brit music lover ask me who Porcupine Tree are I'll spit.
Call Fred, you and he have much in common.
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Robbie Robertson & The Red Road Ensemble - Coyote Dance
(Jan 29, 2013 - 18:17) | westslope wrote:Ambiance, ambient, noun, adjective. This is very pleasant, and I enjoy it. But please, this is not traditional native North American music. Let's keep the historical revisionism to a minimum.
True, you have to listen to Idle no More for that.
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Chris Isaak - Wicked Game
(Jan 23, 2013 - 19:44) | JHZ wrote: Great song ... a very different cover version of it by Les Reines Prochaines here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0p4uUAoRzs
OK, just spent 15 mins going through all the various versions by da futur queens. Exceedingly odd.
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Roxy Music - Avalon
(Jan 19, 2013 - 19:58) | creekgirl wrote: perfect for plies
probably some other things too
Not much else one can do when at the barre doing plies.
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Bob Dylan - I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
(Jan 19, 2013 - 19:45) | Whew! Bill cut the cheese*.................................................. and went to Beck.
Thank you.
*aka early fade-out.
OK, just saw the post a few down. All is explained.
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Carlos Núñez - Bolero
(Jan 14, 2013 - 22:47) | msymmes wrote:I can't help but think of Bo Derek 
No doubt you rated this as a '10".
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Donovan - Season Of The Witch
(Jan 13, 2013 - 17:57) | Art_Carnage wrote: Let's see. I've got "witch" rhyming with "stich". That should be enough for a song, right?
Yep, he's gone and written a song to rhyme with my motorcycle suit - it's called an "Aerostich".
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Efterklang - Hollow Mountain
(Jan 09, 2013 - 21:27) | mikeyj wrote:
It followed Fanfare today (Dec 21) too. Bill, tell me you don't have this on some month-long repeat cycle!
Evidently not.
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Little Feat - Spanish Moon
(Jan 07, 2013 - 21:28) | Thought it was a twisted version of Tusk when it ramped up.........like'n it better.
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Jeff Healey Band - Stop Breakin Down
(Jan 07, 2013 - 20:31) | Cynaera wrote:Way back when, there was this television show called "Booker" with Richard Grieco (it was a spinoff of "21 Jump Street.") Healey's music was used in an episode about skiing. Imagine a couple of hot-dog skiiers slaloming down a mountain at breakneck speed to the sound of "Confidence Man" - what a great memory. It was the first time I'd ever heard the Jeff Healey Band, and I was hooked right away. That song even made me forget to ogle Grieco! 
Cy, the inimitable one.
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R.L. Burnside - Glory Be
(Jan 07, 2013 - 20:29) | flyboy wrote: For some reason, this song makes me think of the music on the Kate Hudson movie Skeleton Key, which I thought was a freaky, disturbing movie. This leads me to have an unfair bias against this song, and I only gave it a 2.
Aww, c'mon, you don't have to follow no stereotype.
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Creedence Clearwater Revival - I Heard It Through The Grapevine
(Jan 06, 2013 - 22:39) | Misterfixit wrote: This song is perfect for smoking Cannibus Sativia and having lengthy, diverse sexual activities. I was going to say that it was great doping and screwing music, but figured that might be thought too crude by our August Body at RP.
For the January crowd, however, it's just fine.
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The Doors - L.A. Woman
(Jan 06, 2013 - 18:50) | Misterfixit wrote: The drums are hypnotizing with the beat. The voice of Jim Morrison is rough and agonizingly spot on awesome. The whole track enervates me as if I had just consumed a pint of vodka, taken a 1963 Chateu l'Fitte Burgandy enema, Smoked a one-ounce bowl of the finest Tennessee Mountain Crack, and had a rusty barbed wire fence placed telescopically into my nether regions and quickly extracted, stopping at every single beat of the "Mojo Rising" Shout-out.
Beads man, try the beads.
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Calexico - Splitter
(Dec 25, 2012 - 11:14) | Interesting.....PSD plays both track simultaneously. Back in a bit.
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Other Lives - Tamer Animals
(Dec 25, 2012 - 11:09) | Kaisersosay wrote: da da da da ,,dat dat ,da da da da dat dat.....all I'm hearing,, too much alcohol last night,
and so say all of us.
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Sarah Blasko - I Awake
(Dec 23, 2012 - 17:29) | The cover is one of those "look at it with your head tilted to the right and there's another face inside the main face" pictures. Or maybe it's the Boulevardier I've just finished.
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The Pretenders - My City Was Gone
(Dec 17, 2012 - 17:40) | ``The US is so, so far off to the Right that anyone left of Mitt Romney is considered to be a leftist. You guys really do not live in the real world. Though you'll have to do so soon when China calls in all the markers it holds on you...``
An alternative view:
Ummm, China has a small problem, if it shakes the ratlle too violently, it will cause the U.S. dollar to leak value, thus diminishing it's own dollar holdings. China actually needs a strong U.S. by my reckoning anyway - until it has bought what it wants, stolen the rest and no longer has those immense dollar reserves.
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Elliott Brood - The Valley Town
(Dec 17, 2012 - 17:31) | fredriley wrote: The ukulele background made me immediately think of George Formby. I'm leaning on a lamppost at the corner of the street....
Nice to see you're still around, Fred.
Which, if you heard George Formby in his heyday, is remarkable, now I come to think of it.
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Air - Photograph
(Dec 17, 2012 - 17:22) | Looking at the album cover, I'd say that it should have been called Pocket Billiards.
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RJD2 - Ghostwriter
(Dec 17, 2012 - 17:18) | ScottFromWyoming wrote:
Trout, no salmon. Ranch= 3 cats and a dog. But you're welcome to come visit! You can go to the rodeo on your own though. Tourists eat that up.
You're a brave man, Scott.
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The Shadows - Apache
(Dec 14, 2012 - 19:47) | Just checked and "Yes" still have Rhythm and Greens" in the mono (stereo cost more) Shadows 45 e p.
Hmm, that does make me really old.
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Robert Plant - Central Two O Nine
(Dec 14, 2012 - 18:21) | joelbb wrote: I saw Plant and the Band of Joy at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in early May 2010. The band members were an extraordinary collection of musicians. Everyone but the drummer played multiple instruments (he was a percussionist vs. a mere drummer). They had 4 high quality vocalists including Plant, who can still sing but not at the ultra-high end like he did back w/ Zeppelin. This cut doesn't come anywhere near doing them justice. One one number Plant was the 4th voice, if you can imagine 3 people singing ahead of him. On another song they had a fifth band member singing as well. It was an extraordinary act.
Of course they had to cover some old LZ numbers. The woman in the group covered the high vocals for RP. You could tell those were the numbers he was least comfortable doing, but hey, you gotta pay the rent. The best stuff was all new. It was beyond just country, approaching Appalachian on several tunes. An excellent act. I'm not sure they needed RP, other than for name recognition. He was into the genre for real. Quite a big move from heavy-rock blues.
That puts the drummer one step above Daltrey, who was just a singer, I suppose.
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Stevie Wonder - Superstition
(Dec 14, 2012 - 18:12) | "He did "Superstition" that night, "for Johnny," and I'll never forget it."
Only the best can do that.
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Paolo Nutini - High Hopes
(Dec 14, 2012 - 17:58) | I had forgotten what third generation Scots sounded like.........thanks for that Bill.
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Gin Wigmore - Hallelujah
(Dec 13, 2012 - 17:58) | Jelani wrote: Is this the female version of Paolo Nuttini?
Or a geriatric Ani DiFranco?
Gin Nuttini, yes I could do with one of those after this.
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Doves - Compulsion
(Dec 13, 2012 - 16:45) | Normally like th BBC, but: Little gaspy intakes of breath and reptitious "like this, like this, like this" are not enough for me.
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Elton John - Border Song
(Dec 07, 2012 - 19:51) | fredriley wrote: Good old Reg Dwight from Pinner, great singer/songwriter and legendary Watford FC fan. Come on you 'Orns! :o)
Must be missing something, they were the 'Ornets when I worked there. The Hairnets if you were rooting for the other side.
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Gregory Alan Isakov - That Moon Song
(Dec 07, 2012 - 19:47) | fredriley wrote:Droa-oh-ah-oh-ah-oan . The sixth Ho-Hum on the trot - thank feck for dub to keep me awake.
Where you be, Fred? Feckless?
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Nena Anderson - Daggers
(Dec 07, 2012 - 19:41) | WonderLizard wrote: Looks like I'm not the only one logging in to comment on the guitar solo. Very tasty. Liner notes credit Mike Butler.
In agreement; liking Ms Cherry's namesakes's vocals too.
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Ryuichi Sakamoto - Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
(Dec 05, 2012 - 19:51) |
As the girl in the deep red coat and long skirt bicycles along the strand under grey skies and wind-whipped seas, a man with a craggy jaw, clothed in a fisherman's knit sweater, sits repairing his nets. Meanwhile, a curtain is switched back into place in the fine house above.
Alright, I haven't seen the movie, but this is what I heard in the music. Laugh if you will.
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Simon & Garfunkel - The Sound of Silence
(Dec 01, 2012 - 21:07) | I got completely sick of this piece until I heard it (under protest) from a bamboo flute walking down from the Warmiwanuska Pass in Peru near Cusco.
5*
100%
FcknA
Really excellent.
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Thievery Corporation - The Supreme Illusion (Feat Gunjan)
(Nov 30, 2012 - 20:29) | ziggytrix wrote:
So when you guys saw them the bass guitar wasn't turned up so !@#$ing loud it drowned out everything else? I mean, I get it, bass is cool, but when Massive Attack took the stage next the levels were PERFECT, so I have a hard time blaming the venue.
Have to confess this is why I carry 2 sets of earplugs to concerts, 1 set is just decibel lightening, the other is bass blocking. The 3rd option is - none.
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Trace Bundy - Bristlecone
(Nov 24, 2012 - 14:32) | Dyn0hub wrote: This I like. A fine pulse, artistry, skill and aesthetics blend well.
Trace Bundy and Don Ross, twins separated at birth.
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The Dandy Warhols - And Then I Dreamt of Yes
(Nov 21, 2012 - 17:48) | sronis wrote: That's the thing with the dandy warhols - nothing they ever do is original. It sounds good only because they know who to steal from, and how to do it well...
It's only plagiarism if you don't acknowledge it.
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Broken Bells - Citizen
(Nov 20, 2012 - 17:43) | westslope wrote:fred: Agreed on all accounts except I think you are dialing into the Scandinavian psyche more than you realize. We thoroughly enjoyed the Lisabeth Sander trilogy. Seems like we should get a hold of the Wallander originals.
Have to agree with Fred on this one, even the new Wallander shows bleak, austere, minimalist, endless grey landscapes with just a lone tree, stolid house, muddy track or windwhipped sea. The original is, perhaps, more so.
BTW,
You still there, Fred?
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Morphine - Empty Box
(Nov 18, 2012 - 20:01) | Stefen wrote: Have you ever been in a place so dark that you didn't know if your eyes were open?
Yes, when I put on my head with wings, backwards.
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The Beatles - Because
(Nov 12, 2012 - 18:27) | (former member) wrote:We be dancing... love this song...
Yer codpiece is off-center.
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Sade - Bring Me Home
(Nov 12, 2012 - 18:26) | TJS wrote:
Not unless he was from Nicaragua
and he pronounced his name Marquis de Sharday whilst in the bath.
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Hot Tuna - 99 Year Blues
(Nov 09, 2012 - 18:16) | Time to haul the Hot Tuna Tshirt out of the depths of the storage closet.
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KT Tunstall - Lost
(Nov 08, 2012 - 18:23) | ansugon wrote:fredriley wrote:Maybe she'll write a song titled, "From hell's heart I stab at thee".
We can only hope.
KHAAAAAAAAN!
And here was me thinking it was Captain Ahab, albeit looking a lot like Gregory Peck.
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Passenger - Night Vision Binoculars
(Nov 06, 2012 - 20:50) | jools wrote: lkovathana wrote:
Although, "I Think I'm Turning Japanese" is not necessarily creepy, albeit a stoner's anthem.
Turning Japanese is about masturbating actually. Just look in the mirror next time.
"No sex, no drugs, no wine, no women
No fun, no sin, no you, no wonder it's dark
Everyone around me is a total stranger
Everyone avoids me like a cyclone range
That's why I'm turning Japanese I think I'm turning Japanese I really think so"
Read more at http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/12616/#kV46P3DWjaRezkm3.99
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Tom Waits - Step Right Up
(Nov 05, 2012 - 20:59) | The perfect night to listen to this. "Gives you an erection which wins the election"
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Andrew Bird - Tenuousness
(Nov 03, 2012 - 18:22) | "Tenuousness"
< start of lyrics >Tenuous at best was all he had to say
When pressed about the rest of it, the world that is
From proto-Sanskrit Minoans to Porto-centric Lisboans
Greek Cypriots and harbor sorts who hang around in ports a lot uh huh
Here's where things start getting weird
While chinless men will scratch their beards
And to their minds a sharpened axe
Is brushed upon the Uralic syntaxes
Love of hate acts as an axis
Love of hate acts as an axis
First it wanes and then it waxes
So procreate and pay your taxes
Tenuousness, less seven comes to three
Them, you, us plus eleven
Thank the heavens for their elasticity
And as for those who live and die for astronomy
When coprophagia was writ
Know when to stand or when to sit
Can't stand to stand, can't stand to sit
And who would want to know this?
Click, click, click
Who wants to look upon this?
Who wants to look upon this pray tell?
Who wants to look upon this?
Who wants to look upon this pray tell, pray tell?
Tenuousness, less seven comes to three
Them, you, us plus eleven comes just shy of infinity
And as for those who live and die from numerology< end of lyrics >
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Dave Edmunds - From Small Things Big Things Come
(Nov 03, 2012 - 18:16) | Cynaera wrote:
"Crawlin' From the Wreckage" was played a few days ago, but I'm always up for it! I love this song, too - in fact, Dave Edmunds is becoming a favorite of mine these days. Dancingdancingdancing....
Since you are dancing in my imagination, dancingdancingdancing it is.
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Boy & Bear - Feeding Line
(Oct 30, 2012 - 19:37) | vandal wrote:
These guys are 5000 times more talented than FF. . .
Or, as my m/c buddies might say:- FYYFF.
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Hem - Half Acre
(Oct 30, 2012 - 19:19) | leafmold wrote: wish I could lower than a 1
Could lower a what lower?
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John Mayall - California
(Oct 27, 2012 - 19:05) | Being neither supercilious nor Dennis Leary in 'The Thomas Crown Affair', I like it.
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Matisyahu - Sunshine
(Oct 25, 2012 - 18:01) | bachbeet wrote: This song is on its "last legs" and needs to be "euthanized."
As do inverted commas.
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Sinead Lohan - To Ramona
(Sep 21, 2012 - 20:26) | joelbb wrote: Damn Dylan knew how to write songs back in the day! Sad to see today's caricature. Even worse to hear it.
What were you expecting? Marty Robbins?
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Sebadoh - Ocean
(Sep 21, 2012 - 20:10) | Excelsior wrote: this is really annoying.
Hmmm.
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Eagles - Hotel California (live acoustic)
(Sep 21, 2012 - 19:38) | Jimmy Page's sunburst 1959 Gibson Les Paul, better known as his "Number 1" was originally owned by Joe Walsh and was sold to Page in 1969
Aside from that, I've had drinks at the original "Hotel California". One of the seven which claim to be the inspiration for the Album name, that is.
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Pink Floyd - Us And Them -> Eclipse (live)
(Sep 17, 2012 - 17:50) | westslope wrote:Party choice no. 1 circa mid-70s. It was, how shall I say, an introspective period. I strongly suspect that more people had more sex to this song, this album than any other in the period. Just a hunch.
That's why there are so many people with hunches walking around.
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Greg Laswell - Your Ghost
(Sep 16, 2012 - 19:47) | fredriley wrote: The late, great DJ John Peel once said that all good music should scare you, and this one gives me goosepimples and butterflies in Spades. No disrespect to REM, but this cover is the absolute dog's bollocks. 9 from the spooked and disturbed Nottingham jury.
For those needing a translation service, here you go:-
Bollocks" /ˈbɒləks/ is a word of Anglo-Saxon origin, meaning "testicles". The word is often used figuratively in British English and Hiberno-English, as a noun to mean "nonsense", an expletive following a minor accident or misfortune, or an adjective to mean "poor quality" or "useless". Similarly, the common phrases "Bollocks to this!" or "That's a load of old bollocks" generally indicate contempt for a certain task, subject or opinion. Conversely, the word also figures in idiomatic phrases such as "the dog's bollocks", "top bollock(s)", or more simply "the bollocks" (as opposed to just "bollocks"), which will refer to something which is admired, approved of or well-respected.
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Bob Dylan - Visions of Johanna
(Sep 12, 2012 - 19:33) | marklar wrote: One of the best songs of one of the best singer/writers or all time. He does hit perfect notes like an opera singer maybe but his singing is just dripping with authenticity.
He does hit perfect notes like an opera singer? Pardon my diffidence, but WTF?
Ok, to give you the benefit of the doubt, perhaps there's a "NOT" missing there.
At best, his singing can be described as eccentric and contrived. As for his writing, no argument there, he is one of the best songwriters of all time.
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John Hiatt - Cry Love
(Sep 11, 2012 - 18:29) | Stingray wrote: HIATT can make another 25 albums,
he will NEVER make it!
Not enough talent!
Is it possible that Stingray has enough grey matter to be having us on (or as Fred might put it - pulling our pissers)?
Nah.
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Miles Davis - Nature Boy
(Sep 10, 2012 - 18:23) | On_The_Beach wrote:
Miles was very image-conscious from the beginning, and he did not like to be photographed smiling. He didn't like the "happy-go-lucky" image portrayed by Louis Armstrong and others, which he felt catered to the safe post-minstrel image of blacks that white society felt comfortable with ("Song of the South" anyone?). Of course when one is almost never seen smiling, it's such a pleasant change to see them when they are. That's what's great about this photo; Miles actually let his guard down for a second and showed his warmer side.
In his later years, Miles should his back side to the audience.
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Cowboy Junkies - I'm So Open
(Sep 06, 2012 - 21:18) | Sorry to break the world record for Rtuma; but this is a sneaky toon that creeps up on one.
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Sam Phillips - How to Dream
(Sep 05, 2012 - 22:30) | Poacher wrote: This was one of the first tracks that hooked me here at RP back when the site started. . . ten years on and up it pops again. Sweet... 10 for nostalgia.
I miss the eagle cam.
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!Deladap - Lautlos
(Sep 05, 2012 - 20:31) | catsoup wrote: So this is what happens when Caro Emerald and Yello are in adjacent studios and the engineers are messing around? I like it.
Yup, that pretty well describes it.....
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Gillian Welch - Scarlet Town
(Sep 01, 2012 - 19:40) | theralph wrote:
I heard it, too. Ringing that iron bell? With the duck gravy? :-)
She's making a start by pronouncing her first name with a hard G
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Pink Floyd - The Great Gig In The Sky
(Sep 01, 2012 - 19:37) | Zep wrote:
There was a settlement with undisclosed terms. That was in 2005, 30+ years after release, so I suspect they back-calculated royalties and arrived at an attractive figure.
True and I am sure she would have volunteered to help pay the shortfall had this record failed miserably and left the band with debts.
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Beth Orton - Magpie
(Sep 01, 2012 - 18:13) | Only adding a comment to prevent Stingray from being first.
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Kashtin - Akua Tuta
(Sep 01, 2012 - 18:04) | Grammarcop wrote: The loon is cool, but how about equal time for the Kirtland's Warbler?
Whereas others prefer the penduline tit.
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Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Nothin'
(Sep 01, 2012 - 17:54) | I have this theory that BillG likes a little Plant/Zep -Pink Floyd with his supper, but here he is conversing with us. Good on yer mate.
Oh wait, that was this morning.
Shot down again.
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PJ Harvey - On Battleship Hill
(Aug 31, 2012 - 17:44) | GarageDragon wrote:
"The moon belongs to America and anxiously awaits the arrival of our Astro-men."
NBC reported yesterday that astronaut Neil Young died at the age 82.
Yes, they really did.
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Ka'au Crater Boys - On Fire
(Aug 28, 2012 - 19:50) | Stingray wrote: Into the crater with this pseudo-Bavarian alm-doodlers!
HOW TERRIBLE!
Doesn't really deserve a response, but here goes.....FYYFF.
That's an anti-troll personnel explosive device.
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Morphine - I Know You (Part III)
(Aug 28, 2012 - 18:17) | brighthue wrote:
Sandman and Morphine took existing musical elements and made something incredibly stark, deliciously smoky and new. Not to put too fine a point on it but, Sandman played electric bass guitars that were strung and played in unconventional ways. From a Wikipedia entry:
In Morphine, he played primarily a two-string slide bass guitar usually tuned to a fifth, but he also was known to play a unitar (named after the one-stringed instrument in American blues tradition), and three-string slide bass with one bass string and two unison strings tuned an octave higher (usually A). He sometimes paired bass strings with one or two guitar strings, creating the "basitar" "tri-tar" and "guitbass".
(2) See also Seasick Steve.
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Beth Orton - Best Bit
(Aug 27, 2012 - 21:04) | Ahat my Behest puhlease dehelete thihiss wahun.
The sod of it is that this is not such a bad ditty.
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Zoe Keating - Escape Artist
(Aug 27, 2012 - 19:33) | She's been listening to Apocalyptica methinks ............ most excellent Oh, I now see that ThePoose had the very same notion already.
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David Lindley - Bon Ton Roulie
(Aug 22, 2012 - 20:21) | Aha, first time I've heard this since seeing him at the Rime. He's a master at holding the audience through lengthy solos.
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Ramona Falls - Proof
(Aug 22, 2012 - 19:37) | mostling wrote: This is one of the 3 geniuses from Menomena - a dope band in it's own right.
Check the Romona Falls videos on youtube - impressive
The plural of genius is Guinesses.
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My Morning Jacket - I'm Amazed
(Aug 22, 2012 - 17:05) |
ajlept wrote:I can't stop my leg! "Quick! Run after it! No, wait. . ." |
Perhaps he could apply for a job as Tarzan.
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John Fogerty - River is Waiting
(Aug 22, 2012 - 17:04) | ajlept wrote:
Maybe there is still hope for Van Morrison.
What, he'll not be short fat bald and repetitive no more no more?
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Jake Shimabukuro - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
(Aug 21, 2012 - 19:33) | Stingray wrote:HAHAHAHA - Joke of the year! I prefer the spanish-guitar version of "MY GENERATION". Unbelievable, what some folks play and others listen to. Ninty (90!!!!!) 10-votes for this "crime-of-a-song" confirm that RP-music is made for the wrong crowd! No wonder that Floyd, Queen and other retirement-boppers are so popular here.
Look up crass in your Funk and Wagnell's, or if you prefer: Dictionary.com:
adjective, crass·er, crass·est. 1. without refinement, delicacy, or sensitivity; gross; obtuse; stupid: crass commercialism; a crass misrepresentation of the facts. 2. Archaic . thick; coarse.
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Dengue Fever - Uku
(Aug 18, 2012 - 22:19) | To the mind which is closed, nothing is possible.
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Oliver Mtukudzi - Ndauvara
(Aug 15, 2012 - 17:59) | Missed the chance to see him and a full dance troupe when they blew through town last year......Ndammit.
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Blind Faith - Can't Find My Way Home
(Aug 13, 2012 - 19:42) | iTuner wrote:
Give me a break. Let's go back and change history. I went to Florence Italy and asked them to cover up the statue of David.
Don't like the cover, close your eyes and listen to the great song.
As for David, he'd only need an itty bitty little cover-up.
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Leonard Cohen - Darkness
(Aug 06, 2012 - 21:46) | Resource not found............ah, it's back and a jarring segue from the growler to the warbler.
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Perez Prado - Mambo No.5
(Aug 02, 2012 - 20:12) | Had this in CD-4 format back in the 70's. Who knows what the hell that is today?
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R.E.M. - It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
(Aug 02, 2012 - 19:29) | That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane
And Lenny Bruce is not afraid
Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn
World serves its own needs, dummy serve your own needs.
Feed it off an aux speak, grunt
No strength the ladder starts to clatter with the fear, fight down height.
Wire in a fire, representing seven games with a government for hire and a combat site.
Left of West and coming in a hurry with the furies breathing down your neck.
Team by team reporters baffled, trump, tethered crop.
Look at that low playing! Fine then.
Uh oh, overflow, population, common food, but it'll do.
Save yourself, serve yourself.
World serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed.
Dummy with the rapture and the reverent in the right - right.
You vitriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright light,
Feeling pretty psyched.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.
< Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/r/rem/its+the+end+of+the+world+as+we+know+it_10240320.html >
Six o'clock - TV hour.
Don't get caught in foreign towers.
Slash and burn, return, listen to yourself churn.
Locking in uniforming, book burning, blood letting.
Every motive escalate. Automotive incinerate.
Light a candle, light a votive.
Step down, step down.
Watch your heel crush, crush. Uh oh,
This means no fear - cavalier.
Renegade, steer clear!
A tournament, a tournament, a tournament of lies.
Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives
And I decline.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.
The other night I dreamt of knives, continental drift divide.
Mountains sit in a line
Leonard Bernstein.
Leonid Breshnev, Lester Bangs and Lenny Bruce.
Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom!
You symbiotic, patriotic, slam book neck, right?
Right.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine... fine...
(It's time I had some time alone,
It's time I had some time alone,
It's time I had some time alone
I feel fine...) < BEGIN STANDARD TAG - 160 x 600 - LyricsFreak: Lyric Pages - DO NOT MODIFY >
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Gomez - Shot Shot
(Aug 02, 2012 - 18:43) | madebytim wrote: a sax can destroy everything
One can dream of a sax destroying a banjo, followed by an accordian, on it's way down into the dumpster.
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Doc Watson - Shady Grove
(Aug 01, 2012 - 21:23) | jagdriver wrote: After listening to a part of Terry Gross' interview with him this AM, this is not the Doc Watson track I would have selected.
Which, then?
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The Stills - Halo The Harpoons
(Jul 31, 2012 - 19:37) | Baby_M wrote:First he plays "Sometimes in This Country" by Crooked Still, then The Stills. What's next: "Still the One" by Orleans? Cole Porter's "In the Still of the Night"? "Still" by the Commodores?
Stephen Stills, methinks.
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Van Morrison - Some Peace of Mind
(Jul 30, 2012 - 21:56) | "
I find so many of this genre sound like Natalie Merchant - not a bad thing, just an observation..." |
Oh sorry, that was the last song.
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Gorillaz - Tomorrow Comes Today
(Jul 30, 2012 - 21:41) | fredriley wrote: "The digital won't let me go" - I can identify with that, right enough. Or am I having a 'Mondegreen moment'?
Not unless you're the one
Who got laid on the green.
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Norah Jones - Even Though
(Jul 30, 2012 - 21:37) | chichick wrote: Great voice, beautiful woman, but I always want to hear more expression out of her singing.
Listen to her latest iteration.
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Pogues - White City
(Jul 30, 2012 - 21:35) | Phlegmaticman wrote: People complain that modern music is all based on looks.
People make fun of the way musicians look.
Are these the same people?
I don't know, do they also play music?
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801 - Tomorrow Never Knows
(Jul 30, 2012 - 21:22) | There was the trade of a suckling pig, a huge baggie of stuff, a deep clear stream, supercharging, barebreasting, clearsinging early morning birds, and careless love involved.
Beyond that, I'm not sure.
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Willie and Lobo - Salome
(Jul 30, 2012 - 19:25) | Heard these guys perform this on their penultimate farewell tour.
Just needs a little patience which is soon rewarded.
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Augie March - Stranger Strange
(Jul 29, 2012 - 21:11) | coloradojohn wrote:
To me, the lyrics, cryptic as any Augie March likes them and serves them well, represent a soldier walking through the strange and stranger landscape of modern life meanwhile feelings and truths haven't and won't change no matter what the trappings are, and, from this perplexing yet inescapable perspective, since one never knows what joy or calamity is coming next, perhaps it is just as well not to sit around waiting for it, and maybe that is the strangest thing of all but probably truest nonetheless...
Elegant interpretation indeed
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Greg Brown - No Place Away
(Jul 29, 2012 - 16:43) | Beastie wrote: OK, it is my opinion that this guys blows, big time. Thank you very little for that music piece.
In the world of musical criticism
what is the difference between 'sucks' and 'blows'
Just need a straight answer.
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Danny Michel - Feather, Fur & Fin
(Jul 27, 2012 - 20:43) | westslope wrote: Did he just sing about salmon in the Fraser River?
Which kind of salmon have feathers and fur? Surely that would be the kind found near 3mile Island.
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Vieux Farka Touré - Dounia
(Jul 26, 2012 - 21:05) | Best heard laying in a tent in Malawi with something tasting like rum inside my stomach.
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Thelonious Monk - Criss-Cross
(Jul 25, 2012 - 19:34) | DaveInVA wrote: Cool, some good ol' Phelonious Ponk
Possibly, but never Felonius Fonk, 'cos he never stole nottink from others.
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Crooked Still - Sometimes In This Country
(Jul 25, 2012 - 19:26) |
Just spent the weekend at a Festival celebrating ethnic diversity (isn't that redundant?) and would that the general standard had been this good. |
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Ben Ottewell - Lightbulbs
(Jul 25, 2012 - 18:17) | haretic wrote:
I'm with you on this one. If at first I don't get a lyric that sounds like it means something, I will try harder. I too looked up the terms, and still find no significance. Unless Ben Ottewell is seriously challenged as regards his gender, (I say this in reference to an interesting study on the corpus callosum), then I think he is simply pretentious, and writing about nothing at all in such an elaborate way as to leave the listener uncertain that he is really full of it.
Perhaps it's a variation on the "write a line, fold the paper, pass it on, stop when the page is full, unfold and see what was writ" game.
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The Walkabouts - The Dustlands
(Jul 23, 2012 - 19:43) | TerryS wrote: No dustlands near the river Thames today. More like mudlands.
Allow me to recant: now the river Thames is the haunt of security forces - always assuming that the so-called recent hires, show up for work.
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Razia Said - Omama
(Jul 23, 2012 - 19:39) | I sat in a truck cafe in Namibia and listened to this......never could track it down before now. Thanks, Bill.
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Kirsty MacColl - Libertango
(Jul 23, 2012 - 19:36) | It seems to me that I owned a copy of this track, albeit by another, before KMacC, in the early 80's. I've been wrong before, however.
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Greg Laswell - Days Go On
(Jul 23, 2012 - 18:33) | Byronape wrote: Ya know, I've heard this song many times and I like it. But tonight it is just reminding me that I have not spent more than a couple hours with my wife in the last several days, and I'm not going to see her much for the next 4 or 5 either. I so sick of working nights.
Man, that's old-fashioned.
Me too.
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Son Volt - Windfall
(Jul 23, 2012 - 18:27) | Stingray wrote:
This is "Country Music" to you?
Care to classify?
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Yo-Yo Ma & Friends - Attaboy
(Jul 23, 2012 - 18:08) | I just spent the weekend listening to myriad Folkies, Nowegians, Spaniards, Icelanders, Backwoodians, Mountaineers, Bluegrassites and assorted Irish baladeers, but few compared to the sheer skill levels demonstrated here.
However, this is a blast of fresh air.
Oh, I missed out the Tabla quintet, the Aussie trekker, the sensitive Femmes and assorted scarf twirlers.
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Ohbijou - Niagara
(Jul 23, 2012 - 18:00) | Stingray wrote: SIMPLY BAD!
And a nightmare "voice"...
"1"
Mr S.
I find myself agreeing with you.
Huh.
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Christians and Lions - Skinny Fists
(Jul 23, 2012 - 17:59) | fredriley wrote:RIP?? Has something happened to her? Please don't say it's so... :(( Edit: I've just seen the Sayonara Cynaera thread on the main forum. This is just so, so sad. She was a distinctive personality, made great comments, wore her heart on her sleeve, and an integral part of the RP community.
Fred, agreed in spades.
She was worth 10 of the self-proclaimed voices of authority. I, too, will miss her.
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The Strokes - Machu Picchu
(Jul 23, 2012 - 17:56) | | M. C. Escher |
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Agree with Bill, nothing to do with Peruvian holy spots, mystical places or visionary blokes
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Emancipator - Nevergreen
(Jul 19, 2012 - 19:54) | Rode my bike down Highway 1 through Oregon with this as a soundtrack 2 months ago. Thans for the reprise.
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Johnny Clegg & Savuka - Scatterlings of Africa
(Jul 19, 2012 - 19:42) | First saw him on morning-TV in a Palm Desert motel. Of course.
Went right out and bought this CD, though this wasn't one of my favorite tracks. I hear he was performing in Vancouver last weekend.
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Beck - Beautiful Way
(Jul 19, 2012 - 19:35) | Besides, I have it on good authority that today's 12-22 audience see Beck as an Elder Statesman.
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Peter Gabriel - I Grieve
(Jul 18, 2012 - 21:55) | Sloggydog wrote: For me Peter Gabriel is like a broken pencil...
I didn't know he is ambidextrous.
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Tom Russell - Out In California
(Jul 18, 2012 - 21:26) | If you have yet to see a live show this year - go to see this man, he's that good.
Edit: perhaps best seen in person, then.
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R.E.M. - Driver 8
(Jul 17, 2012 - 18:35) | Misterfixit wrote:
It's an allegoric and ironical poem. See, "train leaving the station" can mean many things: fleeing from bad things; the feeling of total evacuation after a healthy bowel movement; and so on and so forth. Now, when the song includes your mean old momma on board, wearing a cowboy hat, with a mullet, going across the Texas plains towards the Atcheson, Topeka and Santa Fe depot in Gainesville, TX, with you standing in front of the on-rushing train, holding your hands out in plaintive supplication, discovering you are naked as the day you entered this Veil of Tears from between your Crack-Addled Skank Mother's tattooed, pierced, and pendulous labia, hearing the sounds of the Grim Reaper fast approving you from behind using a diamond hard steel sharpening tool as Seen on TV on his razor sharp sickle, you finally realize that you have either reached the Coda of your Life and you are doomed to repeat this primal horror for all eternity ... OR you realize that you are actually at the Segue of a part of your life, whereupon you will reach out to destroy said demons and find True Peace in the Arms of Our Loving and Most Holy Baby Jeeeesus. Amen.
Where can I buy some of that?
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Elvis Costello - Green Shirt
(Jul 17, 2012 - 18:09) | ThePoose wrote:
And to add to those above-mentioned talents, he also popped a set of twin boys into jazz pianist-singer Diana Krall.
Is there anything the man can't do?
3 sperm in a row?
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Crowded House - Into Temptation
(Jul 17, 2012 - 18:08) | oldsaxon wrote:
I approve of the subtle scent of hay in the string section and the strong oaking of the 12 string guitar. The subtle tannins in the mix add a slightly astringent taste to the vocals but with a bit of grilled lamb it could be a lovely song to listen to if boiled new potatoes and a salad were served next to it.
Sorry...couldn't resist. Seriously, you seem to have a very deep knowledge of the "bizness" end of these things. I struggle, though, to understand some of these specific technical issues, panning and space, for instance...can you expand?
Mucho giggles.
It's easy really, panning is dissing something and/or steel drums as produced in Jamaica. Space is limited here, as in Vancouver parking spaces. I agree, let's stay with the grilled lamb, espcially if you can find it at Save-on-Meats.
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Habib Koité & Bamada - Takamba
(Jul 17, 2012 - 18:04) | TerryS wrote: Need to go to Mali, sooon.
Now I've been and by the sound of recent news, not a minute too soon. Anyway, the music is good, but this is better.
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Van Morrison - It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
(Jul 17, 2012 - 18:01) | Tarquin wrote:
Same here. So now I have a link between Beck and Bob Dylan via Van Morrison.
There's precious little which is genuinely new. Doc Pomus wrote the intro chording( save the last dance for me- truly an interesting story), Dylan, the words, Jagger the vocal styling. Still, one of Van M's better pieces.
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Toumani Diabate - Cantelowes
(Jul 13, 2012 - 21:54) | fredriley wrote: Yer man's playing the Kora, for which he's a famous virtuoso, so I'm reliably told.
If yer teller's reliable, yer can't be banking at Barclays.
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Jack White - Missing Pieces
(Jul 13, 2012 - 20:13) | Byronape wrote:
"Can he bake a cake from scratch?" - Likely, with a recipe and the right tools, it isn't that hard.
"Can he shoot 98% from the line?" - I don't know, you'll have to ask him.
"Can he predict the price of cheese in Iowa?" - Can anyone in Iowa predict the price of cheese in Iowa?
"Can he make good music?" - I think that there are millions of White Stripes fans, as well as fans of his other projects, that would say yes. I count myself part of that list.
One last thing... the expression "that guy can do anything" was not meant literally. At least I'd say it's a fair assumption. Since you appear to be proficient in English, I think you should have been aware that it was simply an expression stating that White is very good at any musical task he attempts. While you have every right to disagree, nagging about semantics is petty shows a distinct lack of maturity.
Or do you think that when people say something is "tighter than a gnat's ass over a rain barrel" or "slower than a snail on a salt block" they are actually referring to a real gnat or snail? If that's the case, then you are either an idiot or need to google the word "metaphor."
So,
But her real discovery is that Stein and Toklas—two elderly Jewish women—survived the German occupation of France because of their close friendship with the wealthy, anti-Semitic Frenchman Bernard Faÿ, a collaborator responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Freemasons.
is fair game?
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Doves - Jetstream
(Jul 13, 2012 - 19:34) | Well shite. That link's gone, Cynaera. Sure sounded good, though. OK, take it back, just saw the patch. Agreed, brilliant.
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The Beatles - I'm Only Sleeping
(Jul 13, 2012 - 19:30) | Put it in it's context and it's got very high production values wrapped around a simple tune. Mind you, I did buy the original UK (extra tracks) LP in the day.
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Norah Jones - Little Broken Hearts
(Jul 11, 2012 - 21:27) | Does this mean she is through her Country phase?
Came back to add that the album cover reminds me of an auburn Debbie Harry.
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AfroCubism - Al Vaivén de Mi Carreta
(Jul 11, 2012 - 21:11) | Poacher wrote:
Words fall me.
Salsa is exciting, but subject to professionalism. The sheer joy of watching an old couple do their thing in the shadows outside a club is oddly captivating..
Did you miss the "salsa" part? Salsa is what their thing was. Salsa.
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Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill
(Jul 11, 2012 - 19:49) | coccyx wrote:
Yes, a lovely moment... but why were you filling your ears with PG when you could have been listening to the African night sounds (which may have included a sneaking hyena...)... ???
That's the trouble with sneaky hyenas, they make no sound, unless they are heavy with cubs.
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Joseph Arthur - Mother of Exiles
(Jul 11, 2012 - 18:32) | Just got back from a day on the water and heavy traffic - this set is exactly what was needed, that and a Gin + Campari.
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Florence + The Machine - Leave My Body
(Jul 06, 2012 - 19:26) | Flo and Mac cannot win, if she lets it out, people criticise, if she reins it in, people criticise.
A bit o' both is nae bad thing.
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Neko Case - Behind The House
(Jul 05, 2012 - 19:52) | Cynaera wrote: She's got such a clear, powerful voice - it really doesn't belong in the country music genré. She'd be a force to be reckoned with in the rock world. And, if she could dial it down a bit, she'd fit wonderfully in the Celtic realm, because of her conviction and nuance.
I like her, but I can't really get into her music. She's too much vocal and not enough subtlety. Sorry to those who love her music...
Agreed, but I can take more of Neko than Florence, who suffers from the same distal occlusion. At least, that my conclusion.
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Pink Floyd - Sheep
(Jul 03, 2012 - 19:31) | Stingray wrote:
Tzzzzz...!!!!
4 million flies can't be wrong: Eat shit people!
Yes they can, 200,000,000 million people though? Not likely.
PS that's the number of albums PF have sold. Roughly. 2 years ago.
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Emmylou Harris - Goin Back To Harlan
(Jul 03, 2012 - 19:17) | This is the only country album I own........and it all started out with this piece. That's good, I suppose?
Harlan is a city in Harlan County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 1745 at the 2010 census and was estimated at 1880 in 2007. It is the county seat ...
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Paul Simon - Homeless
(Jul 03, 2012 - 17:51) | This was really good on the speaker of my new (to me)1965 Austin A55. That car is now history - not a bad place to leave PS.
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17 Hippies - Singapore
(Jul 03, 2012 - 17:47) | When I glanced over to see the name of the track, a smudge on my glasses led me to think that it was 17 nipples - thought I was in the land of RomeoT.
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Alison Krauss & Union Station - Lie Awake
(Jun 30, 2012 - 19:53) |
Cynaera wrote:I've pinpointed the art that should go with this song: Wulfing ArtShe was a child of the Holocaust - she witnessed all manner of atrocity around her, yet she was able to produce the beautiful, ethereal works that survived that horrific time. Someone found one of her drawings, trampled in the mud, and rescued it. How someone so oppressed and persecuted could produce such beautiful, calming images is not so much a mystery as a testimony to ourselves.
"Just can't imagine why this was said."Because the song evoked these images.......some people are drawn to think that way. Me too.
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Django Reinhardt - Minor Swing
(Jun 30, 2012 - 18:38) | AdyMiles wrote: really annoying, predictable old-fashioned music
This is the well-spring whence comes nearly all in the genre, including, unfortunately, the crap you no doubt like.
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Tom Waits - Little Drop of Poison
(Jun 30, 2012 - 18:36) | martinc wrote: How did he ever get a recording contract?
Same way B Dylan, L Cohen, L Armstrong and numerous others did, pure genius. OK Poetry, if you disagree.
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PJ Harvey - On Battleship Hill
(Jun 29, 2012 - 21:27) | Well, after that, someone has to say-...................................................This song is soooo good for the ears...
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Crosby Stills Nash & Young - Carry On
(Jun 29, 2012 - 18:05) | This must be that new-fangled music I've been hearing about, that, or senility has set in and everything is new again. Nah, it`s still ole Shakey.
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Temptations - My Girl
(Jun 25, 2012 - 19:29) | Saw these guys in London - no not that one, the one 2 hours drive from Detroit in the early 70's. Just them and a backing tape, but somehow they made it work. Those suits too.
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Escape Club - God's Own Radio
(Jun 24, 2012 - 17:58) | Relayer wrote:Sounds great, how can this be by the same "wild wild west" pop group?
A trend seems to be happening here.
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Vienna Teng - Augustine
(Jun 18, 2012 - 21:22) | fredriley wrote:This song might be related to Augustine of Hippo, a Christian saint who famously declared, in his youth, " Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.", on account of his wrestling with the 'sin' of lust. Which goes to show that even saints can be horndogs :)
Some people want lust, but incontinence?
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Elvis Costello - Pump It Up
(Jun 16, 2012 - 20:53) | impediguy wrote:
One of the first songs my college band played (i.e. I pre-date y'all, but I'm still young at heart). Elvis turned out also to be one of the preeminant wordsmiths of our day ("What's so Funny About Peace, Love, and Understanding?"), such as Dylan was. Tom Waits is another example, who is also a master at delivery.
Every time I hear about someone being old, I am reminded about my ex-neighbour Gertie Peters who was born in 1899 and died in 2001. Lived in 3 Centuries, from horsedrawn buses to the atom bomb. Most of human history in that statement.
That's a real wealth of experience. And yes, she did like Elvis "that young man who is upsetting everybody".
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Iguanas - Para Donde Vas
(Jun 16, 2012 - 20:45) | unclehud wrote: So ... is that timbales and cowbell in the background, or the clicking sound of Iguana claws on saxophone keys?
Yup, sure is.
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Afro Celt Sound System - Onwards
(Jun 15, 2012 - 19:47) | Applying the dimo
Before playing, you got to put on a dimo (membrane). The dimo goes over the mokong hole (membrane hole). Other flutes around the world do not have a mokong hole, which is one of the unique parts about the chinese flute - you can choose the sound that it makes by changing the dimo.
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Warren Zevon - Werewolves Of London
(Jun 14, 2012 - 18:23) | romeotuma wrote:
Oh, yes, we be wantonly dancing... love it...
hope you are having a great time right this minute...
Wouldn't that be wontonly dancing?
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Kate Bush - Cloudbusting
(Jun 14, 2012 - 17:13) | Me favorite Munchkin and Caol Ila 12, something good is gonna happen....
Edit: Heh, I've just been told it's Spot Prawns and a ficelle for supper - told you.
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Florence and The Machine - Cosmic Love
(Jun 14, 2012 - 16:52) | Florence probably listened to too much Fritz Wunderlich singing Granada:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLxe14bA8og&feature=related
If operatic tenors aren't your thing, listen to 3:50 onwards, you'll get the idea.
The irony is that he was normally beautifully controlled, but he sure let it all hang out there. Too bad he fell down some stairs and died at only 36 years old - Pavarotti would have had a much higher hill to climb had Fritz lived a normal life span.
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The Beatles - A Day In The Life
(Jun 14, 2012 - 16:30) | Agreed, my old English Prof at the U of G promulgated the notion that this was certainly the finest contemporary song in the English Language - had to be contemporary, he was very fond of Beowolf.
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David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
(Jun 13, 2012 - 21:41) | jademon wrote: Love this song, but always hear "making love with his eagle"... disturbing.
Actually, it was a thin white duck.
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Israel Nash Gripka - Bricks
(Jun 13, 2012 - 19:22) | The diametrically opposed Israel Gripka to Israel Kamakawiwo'ole. Pressed the Pretty Shitty Ditty button for the first time.
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John Mayall - Sensitive Kind
(Jun 13, 2012 - 19:19) | boober wrote: I've got an album "Live from Klooks Kleek" or something like that....from 1962
John Mayall with Mick Fleetwood and John MacVie.
John's been doing some fine music for a VERY long time.
And I had one of the first incarnation of the Bluesbreakers too - JM had a revolving door of people paying their dues before becoming much better known
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Amelia Curran - Scattered & Small
(Jun 13, 2012 - 18:24) | terrapin52 wrote: Guy at soundboard: "I think I'll ramp up the volume on the accordian to make people's head throb so they realize we're crazy enough to use an accordian in a song."
Must be time for Bill to play "Where do you go to my lovely?"
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Thievery Corporation - Lebanese Blonde
(Jun 13, 2012 - 17:41) | kcar wrote: Wow—harsh segue from Peter Gabriel's "Of These, Hope."
RP is usually a lot smoother than that.
Approximate distance as the crow flies in miles from Beirut Lebanon to Jerusalem Israel is 147 miles or 236.52 Kilometers
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Peter Gabriel - Of These, Hope
(Jun 13, 2012 - 17:37) | This album is one of the very few which are not even considered when purging the collection is underway.
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Bon Iver - Minnesota, WI
(Jun 11, 2012 - 19:32) | You're not supposed to hang the hips of your underwear on your shoulders, boys.
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Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeroes - Man On Fire
(Jun 11, 2012 - 19:28) | Baby_M wrote: I despise "Home" with the white-hot fury of a moonshiner's still fire, but at least it's musically catchy. This track is about as lively as a dead salmon in a fish market.
Speaking as someone who is currently involved in the elimination of 560,000 dead salmon, you've got a ways to go.
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Bob Dylan - Not Dark Yet
(Jun 11, 2012 - 19:21) | Much as I like Bob Dylan, his voice does remind me of a 1970 Honda Dream 79cc motorcycle exhaust.
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Erin McKeown - A Better Wife
(Jun 07, 2012 - 20:13) | pixalman wrote:Hey Bill, I'm pretty sure McKeown rhymes with hewn, but you are the Master so I'll defer to your superior research into all things musical if you know better on this one. I've met Erin a couple of times, and we all (her West Coast fans) say McKeown like it rhymes with strewn (June, moon, spoon, etc.) 
Quote:
Pronunciation: Well, there seems to be a constant confusion about how the name 'McKeown' is properly pronounced - even amongst the people whose name actually is McKeown (see also the McKeown Family Genealogy Forum). And there are certainly several variants in use in different parts of the world. However, as the name has its origins in Ireland, one would consider the Irish pronunciation to be the 'proper' one, right? On the forum mentioned above a description is as follows: "The first part of the name, the "Mc" and the "K" sounds kind of melt into one sound - "mick", which ryhmes with "lick" but is slightly shorter. Then, the second part of the surname, I suppose the "eown" part, is pronounced "yone", rhyming with "lone", so the whole pronunciation could be written as "mick yone". " As words certainly are pronounced differently in the Swiss-German speaking part of Switzerland compared to English speaking countries we tend to use sort of a 'localised' pronunciation here - to avoid part of the confusion (but leaving enough room for some more, that's for sure...). It could be described as: "Me-ke-oun" (not to be pronounced in English but rather in Swiss-German). But then, this is also exactly the way an Irish guy once told me they would pronounce McKeown in Ireland, so maybe it is not just the Swiss way but the right way? Well, the confusion remains... | | | |
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Luka Bloom - Diamond Mountain
(Jun 06, 2012 - 20:46) | Had I only known Bill was going to play this, I would have remonstrated with him as I passed by Paradise 3 days ago.
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KT Tunstall - White Bird
(Jun 06, 2012 - 18:36) | Zeito wrote: And just like that I am craving a whopper.
That would be food.....right?
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SuperHeavy - Common Ground
(Jun 05, 2012 - 19:21) | MiracleDrug wrote: PSD.
"What is PSD?" I asked her,
'Pretty Shitty Ditty', I was told.
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Younger Brother - Happy Pills
(May 29, 2012 - 19:48) | TerryS wrote:
3 days later and it's still playing.............good innit?
Sloggydog: "No"
Well, each to his own.
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The Decemberists - Prelude -> The Queen's Approach
(May 29, 2012 - 19:28) | lemmoth wrote:
"Just give me your hands......'Cause you're wonderful."
There's been an epidemic of severed feet lately , but hands shouldn't be that difficult for a resourceful person.
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Mukta - Bindi
(May 28, 2012 - 18:43) | As Bill says: "Radio Paradise dot calm"
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The Black Keys - Little Black Submarines
(May 28, 2012 - 18:21) | fredriley wrote: Starts off relatively dull and I'm thinking that this is the first BK number under 7, then the git-tars kick in and this feckin' rocks! These guys have such a tight, back-to-basics sound that just gets me every time, yet their minimalism has a lot of variation that you never get bored with a song. 7 from the rockin' Nottingham jury.
And on stage, they don't come off like 'I'ma gitar Gawd or skin pounder supreme' either.
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Los Incas - El Cóndor Pasa
(May 26, 2012 - 19:21) | Me too,but not this version. Some years ago, I was on the Inca Trail just above Warmi Wañuska Pass (dead woman Pass) when a guide pulled out his flute and played this. Fitting, especially since a bespectacled bear made an appearance not 10 minutes later.
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The Black Keys - Run Right Back
(May 25, 2012 - 18:33) | The backing group left the stage, leaving just 2 guys on stage to do...............what? This tune!
Damn it was good, loud, sweaty, surrounded by air guitarists - all the things R & R is supposed to be.
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Los Lobos - Good Morning Aztlan
(May 25, 2012 - 18:11) | Now this is going onto my ipod for a ride down to California next week. Love the dirty guitar riffs.
LL do not disappoint.
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Kali - Me Ki Sa Oule
(May 25, 2012 - 18:05) | Turned on RP, the sun is shining, the shorts are out and Kali is playing.
Simply perfect.
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Jack White - Blunderbuss
(May 24, 2012 - 19:33) | lily34 wrote: sounds really close to one off of elephant...can't recall the name of it. it's about him wanting a girl's mom to like him...you know the one.
or the one...leave her in your pocket, or something...
one or the other.
Silvia's Mother?
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The Stone Roses - Love Spreads
(May 24, 2012 - 19:30) | Hannio wrote:
Careful with the headphones, Eugene. Tinnitus is no fun.
Ah, you need to hang out with his brother - Biggus Diccus.
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The Who - I'm Free
(May 22, 2012 - 20:40) | fredriley wrote: TFFT! A nice solid 1, so I can turn off my machine and go home. I was concerned that, with the fantastic run over the last hour, I'd just keep hearing great number after great number and never be able to mute the speakers. Luckily The Who come up trumps with the overblown sucko-barfo every time, so thanks Pete "just curious, me" Townsend and mates. Oh, and parkas were bloody awful to wear in the rain as they soaked it all up and tripled in weight, so that you felt like you were walking along with a sack of cement on your back. The passing of the Mod is not mourned by me.
Being a rocker, leather only doubled in weight. The mighty Cagoule was the answer.
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Norah Jones - Stuck
(May 22, 2012 - 19:47) | rabbi_phil wrote: "you can leave your hat on" (yeah right,like i really got a chance)
Try a Yarmulke - they stay stuck like a sticky kipper.
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Madness - One Step Beyond
(May 19, 2012 - 20:12) | Poacher wrote: As always. . . this has me dancing like a loon. Utter madness through and through. Loved it when it came out, love it now. You know what? I think I want this played at my funeral. . . *makes note in will*
Poach, I often disagree with you, but I'm completely in tune with you here!
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Patty Griffin - You'll Remember
(May 19, 2012 - 20:05) | johnjconn wrote: Patty reminds me of Bonnie Raitt, minus the guitar
Not for me, more like Norah Jones listened, learned and made millions.
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Aimee Mann - Great Beyond
(May 17, 2012 - 18:15) | Meh.
Think that may be first time I ever used that word, but it's appropriate.
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Afro Celt Sound System - Big Cat
(May 16, 2012 - 20:32) | MaryAndrea wrote:My little Frida doesn't like so much this song! For me is a good 7 vote!!! 
Sounds pretty good in my Carlo.
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Talking Heads - Stay Hungry
(May 16, 2012 - 20:31) | Yes indeedy, before the days he felt compelled to sing one octave above his natural register.
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Talvin Singh - Butterfly
(May 16, 2012 - 20:29) | Poacher wrote: For me, seeing someone play tabla really well is a joy to behold. A good player can do things with two drums, palms and fingers that you would not have thought possible. Talvin has to be one of the most accomplished players there has ever been. Not only has he mastered traditional playing, he has taken it through to fit into other styles and pushed the limits.
I can totally understand not everyone 'getting it' but it certainly has a place here on RP to let people hear something they would normally never listen to.
Agreed, Usually people get slammed for not 'getting' The Grateful Dead or some such untouchable, but this piece demonstrates more expertise than most can apprehend. Not being elitist, just applauding your note.
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Depeche Mode - Precious
(May 15, 2012 - 20:51) | vit wrote: Whenever Depeche Mode comes on Radio Paradise I get a feeling akin to walking in on a good friend molesting a ferret.
Hmm, perhaps that's why I feel the same way when I see a good friend ferreting a mole?
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Noir Désir - Le Vent Nous Portera
(May 15, 2012 - 20:44) | The world is full of people who judge the worth of a song by the affiliation, predilection or politics of the singer/writer of the song. Ask Sinead o'Connor, Dixie Chicks, , Leonard Bernstein, Von Karajan, Cat Stephens et al.
I am of the camp which says, unless the music is specifically of that bent, let the music speak for itself.
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Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - Mondo Bongo
(May 15, 2012 - 20:30) |
I was patrolling a Pachinko
Nude noodle model parlor in the Nefarious zone
Hanging out with insects under ducting
The C.I.A was on the phone
Well, such is life
Latino caribo, mondo bongo
The flower looks good in your hair
Latino caribo, mondo bongo
Nobody said it was fair, oh
Latino caribo, mondo bongo
The flower looks good in your hair
Latino caribo, mondo bongo
Nobody said it was fair
Latino caribo, mondo bongo
The flower looks good in your hair
Latino caribo, mondo bongo
Nobody said it was fair
For the Zapatistas I'll rob my sisters
Of all the curtain and lace
Down at the bauxite mine
You get your own uniform
Have lunchtimes off
Take a monorail to your home
Checkmate, baby
God bless us and our home
Where ever we roam
Now take us home, flaquito
Latino caribo, mondo bongo
The flower looks good in your hair
Latino caribo, mondo bongo
Nobody said it was fair
Latino caribo, mondo bongo
The flower looks good in your hair
Latino caribo, mondo bongo
Nobody said it was fair
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Joe Henry - Trampoline
(May 15, 2012 - 20:26) | Damn, but this song has held up well.
Tramp-o-lean.
`Course, it helps if you`ve just heard it this morning whilst carving.
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Abaji - Valse Arabe
(May 14, 2012 - 18:37) | My connection just dropped out - am I missing anything?
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The Durutti Column - Gun
(May 10, 2012 - 21:24) | Toke wrote:
Safety or 'Cut Throat' ??? and don't make a mess on the carpet.
Electric, now go sit in the bath.
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Alison Brown Quartet - Mambo Banjo
(May 10, 2012 - 19:47) | Limpopoking wrote: Wow!... and there I was, thinking Bela Fleck & Chick Corea had got together again (behind my back) and made something new.
WOW!
(Ok, I'm just a slut for good banjo)
Limpo, I could probably arrange a date for you with Rabbi_Phil, based on your last sentence. Just sayin'
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!Deladap - Lautlos
(May 10, 2012 - 19:39) | Get up and dance - That'll sharpen the lead in yer pencil, lad.
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Jon Redfern - I Love The Sun
(May 10, 2012 - 18:28) | I seem to recall reading a Victorian murder story by this man? There must 2 Jon Redferns out there.
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Autamata - Out of This
(May 10, 2012 - 18:14) | GarageDragon wrote:If you listen carefully, it sounds like they're using a clock radio alarm as an instrument.
If you were astride a monocycle, you might sound a bit OW -ish too.
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Carbon Leaf - Toy Soldiers
(May 10, 2012 - 17:54) | romeotuma wrote:
Great holy ears this song is fantastic!
Holey bat's ears tumaman, you be right!
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Bat For Lashes - Glass
(May 10, 2012 - 17:51) | This song is not only loved by those who inhabit hotel rooms............ :>
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Mazzy Star - Fade Into You
(May 09, 2012 - 18:45) | Had this track on the earphones in San Pedro Sula (allegedly the murder capital of the world) last week. It didn't help.
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Laura Marling - Ghosts
(May 09, 2012 - 18:28) | fredriley wrote: Yep, I got that mondegreen too, and it made me wonder if you can get a little bit too close to goats :o) Mind you, the last goat I got physically close to peed all over my leg whilst I was stroking it, and goat pee is rank, believe me. I keep them at arm's length these days.
Not to one-up you, but I once bought a car which had previously been stolen and then recovered from a farmer's paddock with one window left open next to the barn. In short, a billy goat had been inside the car while randy and left his persona all over. Nothing could remove the smell, although an Ozonator got rid of it, so long as it wasn't raining. Had to sell the car on a dry day.
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Bob Marley - Stir it Up
(May 09, 2012 - 17:50) | fredriley wrote:Expensive tastes, dude! But good :o). I had some Highland Park 12yo last night which soothed my mouth and my mood. Orkney's finest :*) . I sure would like to get my tongue around an 18yo, though (ahem!). 
We've got a whisky club goin' here, I'm sipping on a glass of Caol Ila 12 as we speak, so to errr speak. Bought in the Nicaraguan "Duty Free" (don't get me started on what that actually means) last week and just opened - Ahhh yes Spirit UP indeed.
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Sivert Høyem - Give It a Whirl
(May 08, 2012 - 19:25) | fredriley wrote: Sivert, that's "if I were to expire". Otherwise another good song from you, though I prefer the ones where your voice is near-subsonic and scary.
That was a message from the Society for the Preservation of the Subjunctive in English. We now return you to your usual sucks/blows/rocks comments :o)
Would that I could get scrod as they say in the pluperfect subjunctive.
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Neil Young - Goin' Back
(May 07, 2012 - 19:37) | cohifi wrote:
I think maybe he means Indianamericans
They lived with Nature. Good Concept, too.
Hmm, not too familiar with Indiana 'Mericans.
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Uncle Tupelo - New Madrid
(May 07, 2012 - 19:34) |
daveshel4 wrote:Can someone PLEASE convince Tweedy and Farrar to get back together for a reunion tour?
Tweedy is doing just fine, thank you. Wilco just put out their best album ever. Leave him alone."
RKeaton wrote:
Jay Farrar is doing just fine, thank you. Son Volt continues to put out great albums. Leave him alone.
Is this one of those South vs North things? Or a Kali thing perhaps?
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Silversun Pickups - Three Seed
(May 07, 2012 - 18:32) | Byronape wrote:
1: lacking taste or savor : tasteless
2: lacking in qualities that interest, stimulate, or challenge : dull, flat
This, in my opinion, is not insipid.
Yes, definitely sipid.
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Joseph Arthur - Travel As Equals
(Apr 07, 2012 - 19:44) |
onelittlemoose wrote:Starts to grown on you. Initially a 6. Now a 7. Might be an 8 before the end. Starts to groan on me, too.
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Amadou & Mariam - Compagnon De La Vie
(Apr 07, 2012 - 19:42) | pianocomposer wrote: Saw these guys open for Coldplay in St. Louis. Just like this song...all their stuff is repetitive. all their stuff is repetitive. . all their stuff is repetitive. 5=ok.
Just like John Lee Hooker?
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Arcade Fire - Ready To Start
(Apr 05, 2012 - 22:48) | fredriley wrote:
"If I was scared"? Wot, no subjunctive? Ah well, it's a dying tense in English, right enough.
Ah, if only you were to be wrong.
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Bob Dylan - Desolation Row
(Apr 05, 2012 - 22:29) | It`s all in the delivery, or not.
I want to hear this performed by Rambling Syd Rumpo.
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The Waifs - Crazy Train
(Apr 02, 2012 - 21:53) | CoYoT51 wrote: This one just sounds like a parody...
Uuuhhh, one of the waifs needs to be shaved, no?
A waif (from the Old French guaif, stray beast)<1> is a living creature removed, by hardship, loss or other helpless circumstance, from his original surroundings. The most common usage of the word is to designate a homeless, forsaken or orphaned child, or someone whose appearance is evocative of the same.
As noted, describes Josh well.
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Amy LaVere - Washing Machine
(Apr 02, 2012 - 18:58) | Huey wrote:Aaahhhh Bills archilles heel. I like it
Not many people have had the opportunity to admire Bill's heel or arches, just his tendoncies.
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Younger Brother - Happy Pills
(Mar 31, 2012 - 22:49) | smackiepipe wrote: Well, back from lunch....What? This song is still on? Wow.
3 days later and it's still playing.............good innit?
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Mark Knopfler - Get Lucky
(Mar 30, 2012 - 19:45) | I wants me a truffle dog. Met a truffle pig once, but that doesn't really count.
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Ry Cooder - The Very Thing That Makes You Rich
(Mar 30, 2012 - 19:36) |
Poacher wrote:I'd give my right arm to play guitar like this. No, wait. . . that won't work.
Fred Riley:- Arf! I'd give me right arm to be ambidextrous :o)
Oh you two......
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Fotheringay - The Way I Feel
(Mar 30, 2012 - 19:23) | Poacher wrote:
. . . with a two bob piece on the head to stop it skipping. . .
25 cents in my case.
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Thievery Corporation - Forgotten People
(Mar 30, 2012 - 18:12) | To really enjoy this, you need 4 feet of dense soap foam, people doing unmentionable things out of sight in it plus a DJ with white tracks under his nose and the Ibizan sun rising, un-noticed, outside the double-airlocked doors
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Iggy Pop - The Passenger
(Mar 30, 2012 - 17:44) | We're moving ahead - this one's only 35 years old. And it's still all good.
Is he still in the running for the "Thinnest man in Pop?"?
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U2 - Mysterious Ways
(Mar 27, 2012 - 19:50) | fredriley wrote:
Leaderships usually installed and supported by Western imperialist powers, who continue their exploitation of resources at the expense of the ordinary stiffs in those countries who really get the rough end of the imperialist pineapple.
That said, St Bonio and the Tax Dodgers aren't much use in ameliorating the situation. At best, St Bonio had a highly marginal impact on 'world leaders' at Gleneagles, a fleabite on an elephant. Enough to make it scratch, nowhere near enough to stop it stomping on everything in its path. Real change, as the 'Arab Spring' has shown us quite graphically, comes about from popular revolutionary action. Action that imperialist powers pay corrupt dictatorships and kleptocracies handsomely to suppress so that profits can continue to flow to capitalists and corporations in the developing world.
Well said Fred.
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Catherine Wheel - Black Metallic
(Mar 27, 2012 - 19:44) | leap wrote:This song is very cool, ist's like to be into a big orange pool swiming with pink dolphins 
Done that in the Apure River Venezuela, but the big orange pool never did occur to me - damn.
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Catherine Wheel - Black Metallic
(Mar 27, 2012 - 19:40) | Poacher wrote:
It that why you have tissues sticking out of your ears?
There once was a young man from Brighton,
Who remarked to his woman, 'My, you're a tight one.'
She said, 'Upon my soul,
You're in the wrong hole,
There's plenty of room in the right one
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John Lee Hooker - Crawlin' Kingsnake
(Mar 27, 2012 - 19:38) | drews wrote:
Check out cousin Earl Hooker's blues, you'd never guess the two were related. Earl Hooker played like the devil (way before Hendrix), before dying prematurely from tuberculosis in 1970. What a massive loss of talent. Go watch a blistering performance here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqYHbuustug
Thanks, that's superb. No histrionics, no over the top hair, no posing, just blistering guitar.
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Great Lake Swimmers - Passenger Song
(Mar 26, 2012 - 19:40) | One man can only change so much, every so often; just not constantly.
Anyway, I like it that way.
Now see what you've gone and done?
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Johnny Cash - Hurt
(Mar 26, 2012 - 19:36) | suesblues wrote: well I just got fired from my job today, my ex-boyfriend emailed that he is posting back all my old things to me from London, and a guy I've had this massive crush on for the last 5 years today told me he is happily going out with someone else.
So, Johnny Cash, I like the fact that you sound more miserable than me at the moment, thanks for putting it into words!!
Suze?
Things looking up yet? Rooting for ya.
T.
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Lana Del Rey - Born to Die
(Mar 26, 2012 - 19:34) | toomanyollys wrote:
I was about to say the same thing! I much prefer her voice to Adele's - I'm afraid I can't bear any of the current crop of female singers who sing so loudly their voices constantly break and squeak.
Undersinging is equally irksome.
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Melody Gardot - Worrisome Heart
(Mar 26, 2012 - 19:32) | Well, BA, if there's no reason for the word to have negative connatations, since the original word "chick" is not sexual, it follows that you'd have no problem being called a Chick.
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Nick Drake - Place To Be
(Mar 26, 2012 - 18:11) | Proclivities wrote:
Not to be nit-picky, but that's not really logical. For one thing - he is now heralded - though he was not as much during his lifetime. Also, if there are greater unherald artists out there, there would be little way of finding out about them. Personally, of artists unheralded during their lifetimes, I consider Van Gogh the greatest.
Not a bad choice, but I have to go with Obadiah Bind-your-kings-in chains-and your-nobles-in-fetters-of-iron Barebones.
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Elbow - Mirrorball
(Mar 26, 2012 - 18:04) | lshinkawa wrote: Love this band. (hate their name, though. Elbow? Am I missing something there?)
You just need to practice kissing it to get the point.
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Supergrass - Tales Of Endurance
(Mar 26, 2012 - 18:02) | dpvest wrote: reminds me of machu pichu
Not so much for me- I only heard the sound of cameras clicking and llamas munching.
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Silversun Pickups - Rusted Wheel
(Mar 25, 2012 - 18:23) | Cynaera wrote:Please tell me you were just being humorous, because if you're serious, I'm afraid I shall be forced to call you an ignorant jerk. "Big-boned" does NOT mean "fat." I have a friend who's almost six feet tall, and she's "big-boned," meaning she could probably arm-wrestle your sorry ass into the dirt. She's slender, but she has a hard time finding women's watch bands that will fit around her wrist, although there's not an ounce of fat on her. She has big bones, not skinny, brittle little bird-bones. And when the world's about to end, I want her on MY team. You? Um, not so much.
Can't we just call her "well-built"?
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Portishead - Sour Times
(Mar 25, 2012 - 18:22) | Proclivities wrote:I believe it's a cimbalom - which is a 'concert' hammered dulcimer. (Oh, someone mentioned that several posts below.)
Sounds like a Cinnabon with planks to me.....
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Portishead - Sour Times
(Mar 25, 2012 - 18:20) | Misterfixit wrote: Sounds a lot like Blossom Dearie from the 1970's ..... Just sayin'
Damn, I thought that was my little guilty secret......
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Jerry Douglas - Route Irish
(Mar 24, 2012 - 20:00) | Stingray wrote: How many non-rock songs have we heard now in a row?
I am out for today!
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
Oh, you think RP is a Rock station?
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Emmylou Harris - Where Will I Be
(Mar 24, 2012 - 19:45) | Randomax wrote: I have always loved ELH but her voice has really aged....which makes sense....but this is the 1st recording where I noticed it....I do not like this song...it grates on me.
Have to disagree, this album is 16 years old and, although it is my favorite ELH album, I prefer her later 'voice' as she has aged more.
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Imogen Heap - Xizi She Knows
(Mar 23, 2012 - 20:21) | 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 OUT>
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Erik Satie - Gnossienne No1
(Mar 23, 2012 - 19:40) | Listened to this (just came up on my shuffle) sitting by the Water Lillies lake in Monet's garden in Giverny last August. Heaven.
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Emmylou Harris - Red Dirt Girl
(Mar 22, 2012 - 18:58) | Sjaaks wrote:Saw Emmylou perform this one together with Mark Knopfler in 2006 in Ahoy Rotterdam.
 
Beautiful, BEAUTIFUL performance, especially with the addition of Knopfler's phenomenal guitar work, perfectly suited for a song like this... I still feel the goosebumps running up and down... A truely magical night that was...
Lucky lucky you!
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Abigail Washburn - Bring Me My Queen
(Mar 21, 2012 - 21:54) | Sparrow Quartet proved her worth (had some guy called Bela Fleck sitting in on banjo) and played a lot of Mandarin oriented melodies.
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David Gilmour - No Way
(Mar 21, 2012 - 19:41) | meinthecorner wrote: Okay, Bill, this one's just for you. I hope you read this:
"Dogs begin to bark
All over my neighbourhood..." Jeff Beck w/Rod Stewart
Just caught the sounds of your dogs, I guess, in the background there!
That, to me is precious!
Yep, they're still barking :)
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Passion Pit - Moth's Wings
(Mar 21, 2012 - 19:40) | Passion Pit is an electronic band which formed in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States in 2007. They consist of Michael Angelakos (vocals, keyboards), Ian Hultquist (keyboards, guitar), Ayad Al Adhamy (synth, samples), Jeff Apruzzese (bass, keyboard) and Nate Donmoyer (drums). Passion Pit was a vocabulary word used in a class Mike took in school. It’s a slang word for a drive-in movie theatre where kids used to go to make out.
where I grew up it was also a euphemism for the focal point of all teenage boys.
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Alanis Morissette - Thank U
(Mar 21, 2012 - 19:31) | Canlistener wrote:
Well.. I don't claim to be a song writer or a singer. She does and is horrible as I clearly stated. Hell I probably have a better voice...
Bring it on......................
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Nina Simone - Feeling Good
(Mar 20, 2012 - 19:28) | Thanks, that explains the 'feel' - they were contemporaries. As was Shirley Bassey.
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The Ventures - Walk Don't Run
(Mar 19, 2012 - 20:38) | sirdroseph wrote:Standing on desk; doing monkey. Is that a Haiku? 
depends what you're doing with your monkey.
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The Ventures - Walk Don't Run
(Mar 19, 2012 - 20:37) | I went to a Battle of the Bands in Lewisham, South London in the early 60's and half of the 10 bands played this track and the other half played "Wipeout".
Interminable.
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Elbow - Asleep in the Back
(Mar 19, 2012 - 19:22) | fredriley wrote: "Only hats rash stick in the shoe" - wtf?? I must get my ears washed out :(
Damnit Fred, nice earworm you've inplanted. Heh.
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The Derek Trucks Band - This Sky
(Mar 13, 2012 - 17:50) | Now this is a strong set, a matching martini in my hand, four feet on the fireplace fender - all's well with the world.
Yes, this is from a netbook.
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Bonobo - Nitelight
(Mar 13, 2012 - 17:48) | Patrick wrote: OED definition of Bonobo: The pygmy chimpanzee, Pan paniscus, found south of the Congo river.
they are also the only other mammal which does it face to face. Frequently, too.
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Hevia - Busindre Reel
(Mar 10, 2012 - 21:13) |
xouba wrote:
In fact, it's an electronic bagpipe. It's operated by a bagpipe-like MIDI controller, and the sound created by a MIDI module. Or that's what I understood when the guy explained it on TV.
By the way, the guy is from a land called Asturias, next to my own (Galicia). Just to impart a tiny lesson of spanish geography :-)
How odd. Looks like an iPod compatible walking cane. |
Somewhat less glamorous than the lone piper standing on the battlements of Edinburgh Castle.
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Paul Simon - The Obvious Child
(Mar 10, 2012 - 21:06) | MiracleDrug wrote:
one hell of a rebound on the long rolls for a brush...
Olodum really 'live' their music. Neither they, nor their audience, can stand still.
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John Lennon - Imagine
(Mar 10, 2012 - 20:41) | romeotuma wrote:
This is the single best song in the history of infinity... thank you for this...
Agreed, but for 4,000 holes in Blackburn Lancs. aka "Day in the life".
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The Dandy Warhols - Godless
(Mar 10, 2012 - 20:34) | aspicer wrote: I so wish they could get themselves inspired enough to do another album even just close to the level of this one!?!
Yep, with you there.
2. oldsaxon wrote:It's been said a million times for a million other amazing segues but bloody hell...this last move from Elton John, Sixty years on, to this was just effin brilliant.
Bill...you are the master.
Although I agree with the sentiment, Reggie was in still in shorts, or perhaps nappies, 60 years before the DWs recorded this.
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Eels - Novocaine for the Soul
(Mar 10, 2012 - 20:32) | unclehud wrote: Bought a lot of Eels a few months ago, thanks to and purchased through RP. Here's my take on their/his body of work: Weird; cute little melodies and sugary, witty lyrics, but ... weird concepts, man.
I like almost all the music, though, and understand why his tunes gets into a lot of movie soundtracks.
I quite like Mr Eels.
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Elephant Revival - Drop
(Mar 08, 2012 - 21:13) | Well, I saw once a five-legged elephant and the love interest was a recumbent log. Why bother reviving him?
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Emmylou Harris - The Road
(Mar 05, 2012 - 19:24) | cohifi wrote:Dude....the woman is a LEGEND...... 
Yep, that's why I have 3 of her CD's, Wrecking Ball being my favorite. Still, I prefer 'this' voice over the 'other'
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Neko Case - The Needle Has Landed
(Mar 05, 2012 - 17:50) |
MusicRookie wrote:I don't have anything against Canada.... It is America's hat! "That makes the United Snakes of America Canada's arse." |
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What does that make Florida?
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Tom McRae - Hidden Camera Show
(Mar 05, 2012 - 17:42) | Pipes wrote: Tom needs testosterone injections! :D
He does come from Chemsford, so you may have a point.
BTW, I like the cello.
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New Model Army - Vagabonds
(Mar 04, 2012 - 19:41) | fredriley wrote:This is very likely about what the media called, disparagingly, ' new age travellers' back in the 80s. The cops actively repressed traveller convoys in the late 80s, the apotheosis being the brutal ' battle of the beanfield' where peaceful travellers had seven shades of sh1t beaten out of them by the cops. The Thatcher regime shortly afterwards passed laws effectively banning travelling convoys.
Having lived with Gypsy encampment 500 yards from my front door for years, there were certain reasons for the police not to want them around. Not that anything excuses the excesses, but they did spring from that reality.
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Joe Cocker - With a Little Help from My Friends
(Mar 03, 2012 - 20:57) | thais wrote:
well said.
it is a rotund, scenic, and (IMHO) totally insincere cover ever has done.
fake and made to "shock" (as everything this guy has made on entire life).
What do you expect from an ex-gas-fitter?
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Greg Brown - Real Good Friend
(Mar 03, 2012 - 20:55) | Thought it was Billy-Joe Phelps for a second, then I realised I could understand the lyrics and the voice was deeper Hence GB.
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Air - Alone In Kyoto
(Mar 03, 2012 - 18:09) | mcYammer wrote: I am an Air convert. Thought it was all pretension at first. Now just relieves my tension.
There are better ways.
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Peter Gabriel - Come Talk To Me
(Mar 03, 2012 - 18:01) | fingerpin wrote:
Yes, Bill never leaves his fucking studio.
Oh I don't know, when he had the camera in there I distinctly recall an occasion when Bill was gone for all of an hour. Probably at the direction of SWMBO.
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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - All You Do Is Talk
(Mar 03, 2012 - 17:52) | fredriley wrote: RP sure is on a roll today - the last hour's been pretty much 7+ songs. Which is not good for my increasingly aching bladder. Have mercy and play a Sucko-Barfo so's I can escape to the loo before there's an 'accident' at my desk
Fred,
Tamsulosin (San) is your friend.
T.
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Travis - Sing
(Mar 03, 2012 - 16:24) | Not knowing who was playing, I kept waiting for the bellow of Florence, glad it never came.
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Bird York - In The Deep
(Mar 02, 2012 - 19:20) | lemmoth wrote: Okay - Beautiful voice - for all those RP posters constantly complaining about the rock and roll voices of some of the world's greatest songwriters from Springsteen to Costello to Vedder to of course Young, Dylan and Waits.
So what we get is a pretty voice, pretty song, nice lyrics but all in all - pretty pedestrian music - that will fade away eventually while the great work of those listed above and who supposedly can't sing - lives on forever.
Could be true, but she's been around a very long time.
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Jesse Cook - Mario Takes a Walk
(Mar 02, 2012 - 18:19) | tununiq wrote: Loved this! If you like Jesse, you might like James Keelaghan & Oscar Lopez (aka The Compadres) and their brand of Celtino music (Celtic-Latino). Oscar's guitar is great, although sublte.
Seen them twice and it doesn't tire.
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Yo-Yo Ma & Friends - Here and Heaven
(Mar 02, 2012 - 18:18) | Hey, if you're YoYo, you can even stick your fiddle-bow in the ear of another player to see if it bothers him (it didn't) without getting a swift kick in the goolies.
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Nick Drake - Road
(Feb 28, 2012 - 19:32) | sirdroseph wrote:Yummmay! Nom nom!  That is gonna be my song comment catch phrase for songs that I love; hey if RT can have one, so can I!
Then: Birdy Num Nums! will be mine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ov5fvCHmxo
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Cracker - Euro-Trash Girl
(Feb 25, 2012 - 21:11) |
fredriley wrote: Crackers singing about euro-trash? Hmm. Cracker have done some excellent rockin' numbers, but this one isn't one of them. Bloody goes on a long time, too.
Stingray wrote:
Bloody...?
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Bloody: bloody,
Sod: Sod
Bugger off: bugger off
Bugger off you bloody sod: bugger off you bloody sod.
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Peter Gabriel - Growing Up
(Feb 25, 2012 - 17:42) | walk wrote:
really?
"three dot, a trinity, a way to map the universe"
"four dot, is what will make a square, a bed to build on, it's all there"
self-explanitory.
Now that's just nit-picking.
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Kathleen Edwards - Goodnight, California
(Feb 25, 2012 - 17:38) | vandal wrote:
You forgot the part about where it temporarily weakens the gravitational field of the Earth, causes Van der Waals forces to diminish, and reverses Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. . .
Whereas you forgot that Heisenberg's uncertainty principle requires the re-scaling h/(2π) of the Planck constant.
My icecube just rolled over in the glass of Tanq 10.
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The Who - The Song Is Over
(Feb 25, 2012 - 14:30) | kurtster wrote:Only your body is old if you still like this song ... 
Yes, that's why all the marks are on the slab, no-one has any bladder control any more.
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Medeski, Martin & Wood - Mami Gato
(Feb 24, 2012 - 19:41) | terryp17 wrote: This is not jazz, it's a couple of blokes pretending to be cool.
Whitegate elementary school has the following motto-
'Enjoy Achieving Together'
That's wot these blokes are doing.
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Radiohead - Codex
(Feb 24, 2012 - 19:27) | rdo wrote:
I think you and I have already covered this territoy, and I am sure other members are bored with this arguing. I make no apologies for the USA - there simply is no call to do so. You are entitled to your opinion, misguided as they are.
You, too, are entitled to be wrong.
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Nada Surf - See These Bones
(Feb 24, 2012 - 18:14) | fredriley wrote:
Thanks for this. The practice of individual burials is very much a recent thing, in archaeological timespans. This reminds me of neolithic chambered cairns I saw on Shetland and Orkney, which were communal interment chambers where the bodies of all the community were stored. The tombs in their age were open and very likely the community would regularly come and commune with their ancestors, and would have a very clear idea of the inevitability of death. I can see why such places would be "uplifting" rather than morbid. The close presence of death can act as a spur to live life while you've got it.
And Kutna Hora near Prague, the Peruvian skeletons, Capadoccia, Sagada in the Philippines, all still easy to see and walk away from, feeling alive.
Here's your bucket list: http://www.superstock.com/stock-photography/Skeleton+Cave
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Fleetwood Mac - Oh Well
(Feb 24, 2012 - 17:35) | There's weak rock and then there's strong rock. This is very definitely the latter category. All driven by that guitar line.
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Tom Waits - Little Drop of Poison
(Feb 24, 2012 - 17:14) | I'm with you, a theremin and Tom Waits, it'll be a while before anyone uses that again with gypsy jazz.
Hate it   Love it
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Indigo Girls - Sugar Tongue
(Feb 18, 2012 - 23:05) | Notwithstanding the cheap shots flying aboot the hoose, I shall relax and just enjoy this track.
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Leonard Cohen - Suzanne
(Feb 18, 2012 - 19:43) | Most songwriters would give their eyeteeth to write lines like this:-
"And she feeds you tea and oranges
That come all the way from china"
Let alone the balance of the lyrics
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Sivert Høyem - Blown Away
(Feb 17, 2012 - 21:22) | iTuner wrote:
Nationalism aside, please let him stay the little secret he has been for years, that way the rest of us won't have to endure him any more. Between him and Leonard Cohen I'd rather hit mute and listen to the hum of my computers.
Is there any comparison to be made between this and Cohen's current disc? LC sounds like Johnny Cash at the end of his life.
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Inxs - Original Sin
(Feb 17, 2012 - 21:19) | David Bowie's ''Let's Dance' shares the same intro, to my mind.
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Apocalyptica - Drive
(Feb 17, 2012 - 19:39) | leftcoast wrote:I gotta go get some esresso.
Maybe you just need a pee.
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Donovan - Sunshine Superman
(Feb 17, 2012 - 19:26) | Byronape wrote:
You got your license picture taken shirtless and looking like you swallowed a handful of 'ludes while oogling underage girls?
Oogling? Sounds interesting; I've ogled, canoodled shoogled and boogied sometimes, but even when CCR was at it's peak and everybody kept on shoogling, I must have missed oogling.
Serious research is indicated.
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Dead Reckoners - Rocky Road
(Feb 15, 2012 - 20:20) | nagsheadlocal wrote: Heh - the ol' David Lindley trick of sneaking scales into a solo. Excellent!
Excellent observation.
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Dead Reckoners - Rocky Road
(Feb 15, 2012 - 20:19) | davin wrote: ZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
I gather you sit in the legislature.
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Apocalyptica - Unforgiven
(Feb 15, 2012 - 19:45) | Listened to this a week ago over a half doz. of oysters, eaten as a reward to me for doing 100 miles on a m/cycle in below freezing temps.
Made perverted sense at the time.
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Hot Tuna - Keep on Truckin'
(Feb 15, 2012 - 19:33) | Years ago I was given a rather tasty grey Hot Tuna T-shirt and wore it from time to time, never guessing that it had provenance.
Still got it. come to think of it.
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Los Lobos - Kiko and the Lavender Moon
(Feb 15, 2012 - 18:33) | Stingray wrote: Gorgeous cover - good song!
LL are not my band - still, they are good without doubt!
Good heavens! I find myself agreeing with Stingray.
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The Cure - A Forest (tree mix)
(Feb 15, 2012 - 18:25) | redmachine wrote: Another great rack ruined by some geek with a computer. Oh look at me i can programme a computer.
no talent hacks.
All photos in Playboy are airbrushed, everybody knows that.
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Beth Orton - She Cries Your Name
(Feb 15, 2012 - 18:10) | Jelani wrote: vowels according to Orton:
Ay-hey, Ee-hee, Eye-hi, Oh-ho, You-hoo
Perhaps that's why Bill placed it after Ray (breathy intake) La(breathy intake) Montagne.
I'm just here for the bridge.
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Gomez - Lost Track
(Feb 14, 2012 - 18:39) | The instrumental break isn`t all that bad (seeking the best in everything tonight).
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Ben Harper - Alone
(Feb 14, 2012 - 18:31) | unclehud wrote: Romans would do this math ...
L I X = 59
Today, Feb 14th, you need to add an X to that sum.
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James McMurtry - Off And Running
(Feb 14, 2012 - 17:52) | now with this track, I won't have the relentless melody of Choctaw Bingo off and running through my mind for days
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Tracy Chapman - Heaven's Here on Earth
(Feb 13, 2012 - 19:19) | jagdriver wrote:
It's her voice I find grating. And I've never been all that crazy about "message" music, preferring to think of the voice as another instrument. The words always get little to no consideration when determining whether or not I like any given song, although they can be a definite turnoff if they're disagreeable. For me, music is something to enjoy and not have to devote my thinking to; that's what reading, lectures, and conversation is for.
Some prefer pablum, some, granola.
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Tinariwen - Tenere Taqqim Tossam
(Feb 13, 2012 - 18:28) | MiracleDrug wrote: when do they scream the "lalalalalalalalalalalalalala" part?
That's known as ululation and it's best done in your bedroom.
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Nancy Sinatra - Bang Bang
(Feb 13, 2012 - 18:20) | Haven't heard this in a coon's age.
(14 to 17 years in captivity, if you're guessing).
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Pink Floyd - Us And Them -> Eclipse (live)
(Feb 11, 2012 - 20:03) | Anyone know who the female soloist is? (stunningly beautiful wailing)
johnjconn wrote:
Carol Channing
That was cruel :)
Clare Torry is the answer.
"The Great Gig in the Sky" In 2004, she sued Pink Floyd and EMI for songwriting royalties on the basis that her contribution to "The Great Gig in the Sky" constituted co-authorship with keyboardist Richard Wright. Originally, she was paid the standard flat fee of £30 for Sunday studio work. In 2005, an out-of-court settlement was reached in Torry's favour, although the terms of the settlement were not disclosed.<5> All releases after 2005 credit 'Richard Wright/Clare Torry' for the "Great Gig in the Sky" segment.
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Pink Floyd - Money (live)
(Feb 11, 2012 - 19:48) | Just this minute overheard in the living room.........."I like this group a lot better than the last group".........
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Tom Waits - Come On Up To The House
(Feb 10, 2012 - 20:51) | One of the few discs from the 90's I still listen to, but for the Covenant unbelievers in the crowd............try "Bad as Me".
PS Thanks Fred, I hadn't thought of Wallace and Grommit until you mentioned Stinking Bishop cheese.
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Kosheen - Avalanche
(Feb 10, 2012 - 20:41) | vandal wrote:
Damn, I like this better than my Kokopelli flute player sculture, now I've got to go hunting.
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U2 - Bad
(Feb 10, 2012 - 19:36) | kcar wrote:Certainly Not! (Hastily hiding secret handshake and ritual paraphernalia)
Perish the thought! (untying sacrificial goat)
No dark oaths here, no sacred pot!
"...and I solemnly swear to not tell fredriley, on pain of death..."
"Fred's not listening this weekend—we can openly mock the unwashed heathens among us!"
The art of the riposte is not dead.
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The Who - Love, Reign O'er Me
(Feb 10, 2012 - 19:33) | luca77 wrote: Dunno why.....but as a Zep fan I never felt like I had any need for The Who.... but at least this song left some kind of impression on me.
Magnanimous of you; Zep did stand on the shoulders of Who in one sense, y'know. "The article, written by Jay Cocks, said The Who had "outpaced, outlasted, outlived and outclassed" all of their rock band contemporaries.<10>"
Nevertheless, LZ gets more of my listening time than Who.
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Simon & Garfunkel - Fakin' It
(Feb 08, 2012 - 19:30) | "Funny how Paul's hairstyle eventually came back into style 30+ years later."
"Unfortunately."
I say it used to be called a tonsure, but I could be fakin' it.
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Turin Brakes - Mirror
(Feb 08, 2012 - 19:26) | Well, for my money, calico is a cloth, a cat colour and a butterfly.
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Wintersleep - Drunk on Aluminium
(Feb 08, 2012 - 18:33) | kingart wrote: I'd iPod it for the music. The lyrics and meaning — huh? The title says 'aluminum', he sings 'aluminum.' Perhaps it's a poor-spelling exra-syllable result of too many university college alumni parties, or a close encounter with a peyote-peddling aluminum siding salesman, or that the band has been experimenting with an alchemist's aluminium as some new element that can induce better song craft.
England calls this stuff "aluminium". Nothing sinister there at all, but since I seem to recall it was first made in the US of NA, perhaps they err there. In England that is.
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Apocalyptica - Ruska
(Feb 08, 2012 - 16:18) | westslope wrote:So gorgeous and uplifting! Must be my Norse background.
Try playing this at volume going up the 99 to Whistler with a 'hare' to chase infront of you.
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Madrugada - This Old House
(Feb 08, 2012 - 16:17) | I think I prefer Hoyem Sivert's older voice, but a few more listens to this might change my mind.
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Bon Iver - Holocene
(Feb 08, 2012 - 16:00) | I've had a Christmas card with that cover illustration.
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The Beatles - Come Together
(Feb 06, 2012 - 19:44) | fredriley wrote:
This could be the standard theme song for bukkake...
Udon noodles usually come together.
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G-Love - Ma Mere
(Feb 06, 2012 - 19:27) | fredriley wrote:
Funny, my immediate thought on seeing the name was the G-Spot, and that G-Love is the art of finding said magical location. Or maybe I've just got sex on the brain :o)
Y'know Fred, my personal take on 'sex on the brain' is that is where it indeed lives. The old 90/10 rule. Although, a warm questing hand of the requisite sex can detour all of that in a hurry.
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David Gilmour - Short and Sweet
(Feb 04, 2012 - 20:21) | OK, I give up, what's an encouter?
"Imagine your girlfriend visits you for a first encouter, and you let this sound play!"
Does it involve vivisection, or lip suction, or.......well I dunno
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Doves - Compulsion
(Feb 04, 2012 - 20:17) | actusreus wrote:
Really?! I grew up in the disco sarah and I don't hear it at all. like the listener below who compared this to blondie I get a lot of new wave influence
trying to figure out if that is before the soft rock Bob era.
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Ane Brun - Oh Love
(Feb 02, 2012 - 17:39) | The la la la la is distracting, but there's enough of the solo quavering, vibrato Ms Brun to satisfy.
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Tom Waits - Long Way Home
(Feb 02, 2012 - 16:49) | Cynaera wrote:You have such a lyrical way of cutting through the bullshit. I agree, though - his voice, these days, is definitely an acquired taste. I happen to love it and hate it. I love it because he's still singing. I hate it because he's done immeasurable harm to his vocal cords, and he won't stop. He'll probably die gritting out his incredible lyrics on a voice that gave up the ghost a decade ago. Still, I love his music, and I'll sit through his near-monotone growling, because to me, he's just that good.
Give the new album a listen and see if you like the 'new' voice he uses (on the tracks I've heard, anyway). It'll take some getting used to, for me anyway.
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Rolling Stones - Child of the Moon
(Jan 31, 2012 - 20:22) | romeotuma wrote:
Right now, 14, counting me... we be dancing... love this song...
hope you are having a great time right this minute...
Wow, a baker's dozen, what are the other 2 doing anyway?
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Count Basie - Jumpin' at the Woodside
(Jan 31, 2012 - 18:28) |
I know everybody loves this, but I grew up on it and it gives me HIVES.
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S'okay, I think it's the bee's knees.........
Still jumpin'
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Namaste - Havana Blues
(Jan 30, 2012 - 21:18) | christo wrote: Love it, wish I could find it!
choffman2001 wrote: You can download the mp3 at mp3fiesta dot com. Apparently it's also on a compilation called Smooth Jazz Cafe, Vol 5., which I didn't find on Amazon but didn't check iTunes or elsewhere...
There you go.
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Steve Earle - Telephone Road
(Jan 30, 2012 - 19:24) | Stingray wrote: Nobody dancing in my guesthouse!
Not at all special for the ears!
Perhaps you need lessons from Romeo?
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Steve Earle - Telephone Road
(Jan 30, 2012 - 19:23) | kingart wrote: No doubt about it, Earle's a great songwriter. Further to RP's penchant for linking tunes by theme, music, lyrics, or title, it seems logical that this should be followed by Dire Strait's Telegraph Road.
Except we ain't got 14mins 18 seconds.........do we?
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Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
(Jan 30, 2012 - 18:36) | AhhHaa, good with meat sauce with bucantini and a bottle of The Show..
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Hooverphonic - Mad About You
(Jan 30, 2012 - 18:24) | Jelani wrote: OK does anyone else hear strange sounds during this tune,or do I have gremlins in my computer?
Yes.
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Melody Gardot - Who Will Comfort Me
(Jan 30, 2012 - 17:41) | Toke wrote: If you think you are having a bad day go and read her Biography on AMG ...it kind of puts it into perspective. Such courage and such a beautiful voice, I can hear a sort of French lilt in other tracks of the Album that adds an extra feel to her voice, and yes she is not dissimilar to the great Joni Mitchell .
Well that's the first time I've tried that bouton, well worth the read indeed.
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Grateful Dead - Ripple
(Jan 30, 2012 - 17:34) | One song that is not on the "Wake the Dead" album I listened to this morning.
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Sinéad O'Connor - Black Boys On Mopeds
(Jan 26, 2012 - 21:53) | fredriley wrote: DriftingDave wrote:Hateful? Clearly you don't know the meaning of the word, i was just airing my disgust for the vulgar and ignorant lyrics; not surprisingly your comment is in the same spirit. Sinead is comparing an accident during a police chase to the massacre on Tiananmen and that the death of the boy was more or less ordered by Thatcher, Even IF this is meant more as a symbolic picture to depict England during that time, she still equals Thatcher to the dictatorship of the communist party in China.
No, she compares the methods of the authoritarian and violent Thatcher regime to that of the Chinese totalitarian State which Thatcher so condemned at the time. The hypocrisy of Thatcher condemning the Tianenmen repression whilst her State killed folk on UK streets was plain then, and is still plain. Similarly her praising of the Polish trade unionists whilst actively carrying out a class war against UK trades unions, a war that still resonates today. I remember the 80s well, bitterly and angrily. The Thatcher regime was highly destructive and corrupt, and she personally has the blood of over 3000 men on her hands from the Falklands/Malvinas War. Yes, many in the UK, mainly in the bourgeois and petit-bourgeois, supported her as she was a warrior for her class, and a successful one (albeit with very substantial US backing which she couldn't have done without), and they mourn her passing. I for one will be celebrating on the streets when she finally croaks, and major parts of the UK, especially ex-mining areas in Yorkshire, Wales, Northumbria and Scotland will be doing the same.
My mother shuddered every time anyone mentioned Thatcher.
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Richard Thompson - Beeswing
(Jan 24, 2012 - 19:40) | Richard Thompson: A taste well-worth acquiring.
ARTIST: Richard Thompson
TITLE: Bee's Wing
Lyrics and Chords
I was nineteen when I came to town
They called it the Summer of Love
They were burning babies, burning flags
The hawks against the doves
I took a job in the steamie
Down on Cauldrum Street
And I fell in love with a laundry girl
Who was working next to me
/ D Bm D - / / / A - G - /:
{Refrain}
Oh she was a rare thing, fine as a bee's wing
So fine a breath of wind might blow her away
She was a lost child, oh she was running wild
She said "As long as there's no price on love, I'll stay
And you wouldn't want me any other way"
/ Bm - - - D - - - / Bm A G A G - - - / 1st /
/ Bm A G A G - D - / Em D G A G - D - /
Brown hair zig-zag around her face
And a look of half-surprise
Like a fox caught in the headlights
There was animal in her eyes
She said "Young man, oh can't you see
I'm not the factory kind
If you don't take me out of here
I'll surely lose my mind"
{Refrain}
...So fine that I might crush her where she lay...
We busked around the market towns
And picked fruit down in Kent
And we could tinker lamps and pots and knives
Wherever we went
And I said that we might settle down
Get a few acres dug
Fire burning in the hearth
And babies on the rug
She said "Oh man, you foolish man
It surely sounds like hell.
You might be lord of half the world
You'll not own me as well"
{Refrain}
...So fine a breath of wind might blow her away...
We was camping down the Gower one time
The work was pretty good
She thought we shouldn't wait for the frost
And I thought maybe we should
We was drinking more in those days
And tempers reached a pitch
And like a fool I let her run
With the rambling itch
Oh the last I heard she's sleeping rough
Back on the Derby beat
White Horse in her hip pocket
And a wolfhound at her feet
And they say she even married once
A man named Romany Brown
But even a gypsy caravan
Was too much settling down
And they say her flower is faded now
Hard weather and hard booze
But maybe that's just the price you pay
For the chains you refuse
{As Refrain}
Oh she was a rare thing, fine as a bee's wing
And I miss her more than ever words could say
If I could just taste all of her wildness now
If I could hold her in my arms today
Well I wouldn't want her any other way
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Widespread Panic - This Part of Town
(Jan 24, 2012 - 18:25) |
Lead singer's voice reminds me of Eeyore.
1wolfy wrote:  wingfinger wrote: Lead singer's voice reminds me of Tom Petty.
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Oh well, never mind.....
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Rachael Yamagata - Starlight
(Jan 23, 2012 - 18:15) | nevar23 wrote:
Agreed. I do like what I've heard from her (here on RP, mostly), but part of me keeps waiting for her to cut loose vocally.
MMhmm, I suspect she could give Florence a run for her money.
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Jill Barber - Measures & Scales
(Jan 21, 2012 - 22:21) | Jill's man actually plays in her band, but not a piano. Not when I've seen 'em anyway, but who knows what they do after curtain close?
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Jimi Hendrix - Rainy Day, Dream Away
(Jan 21, 2012 - 17:38) | RedGuitar wrote:
Mishandling by ambulance attendants! He accidentally took an overdose of a European sleeping pill.
The attendants strapped him on the gurney in such a way that he could not clear his throat and hence suffocated
on his own vomit. He may have done drugs in his lifetime, but it ain't what killed him (directly).
That's David Henderson's version anyway, not sure he was in the ambulance at the time, though.
"Instead of laying him down in the ambulance, they sat him in a chair and strapped him upright. He tried to bend over so he could vomit, but one of the attendants quickly pushed his head back and strapped him in tighter. Jimi's head lolled back as the ambulance driver took off. The speeding ambulance pressed his body back in the chair and made it even more difficult for him to get his head down. He felt bile and vomit near his Adam's apple. Jimi was unable to speak. Even if he could, the ball of vomit in his throat prevented him. The vomit massed in his vocal chords. His lungs became congested. His heart began to pump harder, and the right ventricle dilated. Fluid began to seep into his lungs. He was rushed from the ambulance into St. Mary Abbots Hospital. The doctors work on him for over an hour, to no avail."
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Agnes Obel - Philharmonics
(Jan 17, 2012 - 18:25) | Carl wrote:
Agree. I think Scandinavians have a 'thing' about making good music that appeals to our tastes. Good for them, I say!
Yes, their Government has long supported the arts and helped their music get out to the world in general. We might all learn from this fine example.
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Tom Waits - Clap Hands
(Jan 14, 2012 - 22:54) | Phototrekker wrote:
Just what you thought huh?
You are just what I think of when I think of South Carolina -
Given the original comment, I was thinking that SC was an acronym for something quite different.
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Calexico - Bend To The Road
(Jan 14, 2012 - 15:34) | terrapin52 wrote:Why's this guy whispering? I'm thinking it's probably because he can't sing.
He actually has a light tenor voice with some power, but never seems to use it other than at live gigs.
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Paco De Lucia - A Pesar De Todo
(Jan 13, 2012 - 21:36) | romeotuma wrote:
Everybody in my hotel room loves this virtuoso stuff... if I could play like that, I would not have to be a go-go dancer anymore...
And there was me thinking you were the National Secretary of Justice, in Brazil.
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Rolling Stones - Miss You
(Jan 13, 2012 - 21:07) | ScottFromWyoming wrote:
One way to get the Stones to retire would be if everyone referred to their songs as "ditties."
Yup, I ll mention that to Keith at the next school reunion dinner.
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Joan Osborne - Shake Your Hips
(Jan 13, 2012 - 20:38) | Joan is turning into a very capable tunesmith. More than a touch of hawhawhawhaw in the bridges, though.
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Goldfrapp - Cologne Cerrone Houdini
(Jan 13, 2012 - 19:57) | Cynaera wrote:I can't help it - I LOVE the album cover - that wash of sunlight, the look over-the-shoulder, those wide eyes... It's just pure art. Don't get me started on the music. I resolve to buy a few Goldfrapp CDs, because the music is so compelling and has grown on me... 
Yep, got a touch of Goldie Hawn as a young girl, borrowing Napoleons headgear.
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Feist - Caught A Long Wind
(Jan 13, 2012 - 19:20) | Not my favorite by her, but why do so many people feel the need to crap all over music others do like?
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Mark Knopfler - What It Is
(Jan 12, 2012 - 18:27) | allabout wrote: Bill! this love affair with Mark has to stop, too much Dire!!!!
Never.
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Faithless - Evergreen
(Jan 12, 2012 - 18:24) | fredriley wrote:Have a look at the extraordinary artwork on the Faithless website - Escher meets Dr Phibes :o)
Thanks Fred, saw several Eschers this year and your pointer brought back the experiences nicely. Now I have to go look up Dotore Phibes.
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Fleetwood Mac - Albatross
(Jan 12, 2012 - 18:19) | Does this record win the official RomeoT most comments award?
High praise indeed.
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Big Head Todd & The Monsters - Hysteria
(Jan 11, 2012 - 19:52) | Sasha2001 wrote: Awesome tune. They capture a lot of nice flavors in their music. Strong addition to their canon.
Agreed, they remain interesting.
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Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes
(Jan 09, 2012 - 19:54) | Saw him perform this 20 years on - in 2006. Voice gone, but the intensity and effort was there and it worked. The audience gave him a S.O.
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Kate Bush - Cloudbusting
(Jan 02, 2012 - 16:37) | The men in coats have got Donald but Kate is sprinting up the hill to get that umphaloso machine powered up and...........it works!
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Basia Bulat - Heart Of My Own
(Jan 01, 2012 - 18:32) | juul wrote: Saw her in a small old church in Guelph - has a great presence in a small venue - what you hear here is exactly what you get live Never noticed the old straight backed pew I was sitting in as the show flew by.
I got married in that church many many years ago.
Wish Basia had been singing for us. Our congregation could not sing at all!
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MGMT - Kids
(Jan 01, 2012 - 17:40) | If I was sitting in a grungy bar, with Tom Waits leaning on the wall, the ZZ guys looking at me derisively and Keith Richards stumbling back from the washroom, this'd be the barband.
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All India Radio - Fall
(Jan 01, 2012 - 17:19) | westslope wrote:Hi wolfy! Do you think the DJ had Air India follow Porucpine Tree on purpose?
Nah, Bill just bumbles along........
I'm joking of course! Best segues in the biz.
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Leonard Cohen - Everybody Knows
(Jan 01, 2012 - 16:58) | Some are singers, some are songwriters. Monsieur Cohen is the latter for some, it seems. The former for others; and for some neither.
As it should be, or we'd all be listening to the same one song for ever.
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Verve Pipe - Colorful
(Dec 31, 2011 - 19:32) | Nice set Bill; hey Cynaera, my Gerbil is looking seriously drab and in need of a polish.
That was polish and not Polish, right?
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Spencer Davis Group - Gimme Some Lovin
(Dec 30, 2011 - 19:38) | Steve played the organ on this and my recollection is that he asked, quite seriously, that the fans treat him as a keyboard player, rather than the vocalist.
And Stingray, Spenser Davis was promoted as a rock musician who had a (gasp) B.A.
Imagine.
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Tame Impala - It Is Not Meant To Be
(Dec 30, 2011 - 18:23) | unclehud wrote:
No kidding! I was thinking to myself, "Self? Is this some long lost Beatles tune that's recently come to light? Or is this a cut from Rubber Soul that you used to recite verbatim until your memory started rotting away?"
Whew! Thank goodness! It's a singing African deer from the zoo! Or maybe a Chevrolet sedan from the 60's with an underpowered slant six!
Nah, that's a Dodge Dart slant 226 you're thinking of - Chev had a 250 straight 6 which was indeed underpowered. Unless you're thinking of Slantibartfast, which would be an animal of a very different kind.
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Peter Gabriel - Ngankarrparni
(Dec 29, 2011 - 19:45) | If you haven't seen the film, a gentle suggestion: put it on your list. Then the music will resonate.
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Opium Jukebox - Iron Man
(Dec 28, 2011 - 17:21) | Not recognising the original, for me, this version doesn't suck, it doesn't blow, it doesn't stink, it doesn't - oh sod it, I quite like it.
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Florence and The Machine - What the Water Gave Me
(Dec 20, 2011 - 19:48) |
"Overly earnest" is a clumsy and overused phrase. "Earnest", by its primary definition, means "sincere" or "serious". Think of Oscar Wilde's play. True, secondary synonyms are "zealous" or "eager", but to use the phrase to indicate some sort of pretense or affectation is essentially the opposite of "earnest". I have noticed that some of this artist's songs can be said to be somewhat overproduced or flamboyant.
Sophistry is tedious.
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Massive Attack - Safe From Harm
(Dec 18, 2011 - 18:20) | "It is a great banquet, and paying for it if you're able is a great way to show appreciation - but this plate of shrimp is a bit off."
Avoid the green ones - they're not ripe.
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Solomon Burke - None Of Us Are Free
(Dec 18, 2011 - 18:17) | Heard the Sojourners do this song better, until the 15th chorus at the end. There may have been more, but I was gone - free, as you might say.
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Boy & Bear - Lordy May
(Dec 18, 2011 - 18:10) | Had the volume way up and that drum intro made the table I'm typing on vibrate under my hands - it's good solid old Russian wood too, reclaimed from demolished houses. Impressive fidelity.
Song? Not bad.
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Kent - 400 Slag
(Dec 14, 2011 - 21:55) | "There was a young fellow from Kent, whose **** was exceedingly bent......"
While I was born there, I must be atypical.
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The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony
(Dec 13, 2011 - 18:27) | One of those songs where you think you know the lyrics, but you don't, because you never could be bothered to take the time and effort to learn them.
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Imogen Heap - 2-1
(Dec 12, 2011 - 19:30) | Did not recognise the sound, but liking what I'm hearing.
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Neko Case - Deep Red Bells
(Dec 11, 2011 - 15:46) | Best heard going south on Highway 97 into California, with storm clouds gathering in your mirrors..
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Natalie Merchant - Motherland
(Dec 05, 2011 - 19:44) | Her voice is no more peculiar than many of the male songwriters and singers played here..........but, as has been pointed out ad nauseum, she has boobs. SFW?
Enjoy the song.
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Feist - A Commotion
(Dec 05, 2011 - 18:13) | I'm receiving mixed messages - need some more listening to see whether this is better than Kate (my favourite Munchkin) or not.
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John Martyn - Solid Air
(Dec 02, 2011 - 19:43) | It's contagious.......the Billy-Joe Phelps school of enunciation/pronunciation.
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Emmylou Harris - Every Grain of Sand
(Dec 02, 2011 - 18:44) | Her voice is not my favorite, just like Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, John Prine, John Hiatt and many others, but damnit, I just have to listen to her and them.
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Rodrigo y Gabriela - Logos -> Santo Domingo
(Dec 01, 2011 - 17:43) | jr2571 wrote: Nice Strumming- very enjoyable- do not hear the Zep tune
Not one strum until the percussive section - unless you are thinking of opposable strums.
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Joe Cocker - Delta Lady
(Nov 28, 2011 - 19:49) | This was on an endless loop of tracks at a particularly pot riddled party I attended in a farmer's field just after the album was released. Indelibly imprinted on my cortex.
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The Pogues - Dirty Old Town
(Nov 28, 2011 - 19:42) | Wonder what Ewan MacColl would have made of the various versions of his Salford rant.
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Noir Désir - L' Enfant Roi
(Nov 26, 2011 - 22:31) | fredriley wrote:
I used to work in a language centre, with various French colleagues, including a wonderfully brassy young woman from near the Jura mountains. She revelled in her 'frogness', and I get the impression that the French are quite perversely proud of being 'les grenouilles' :o)
I attend a Fete du Bois Festival near here and the hat de rigueur is a beret complete with froggy eyes. Mine however says "Arrogant Frog", not that I am even French, but I like their wines.
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Noir Désir - L' Enfant Roi
(Nov 26, 2011 - 22:26) | bendame wrote:Bill, there are other songs on that album... Try "Le vent nous portera".
Indeed, it was Bill who introduced me to that track.
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Third World - 96 Degrees In The Shade
(Nov 26, 2011 - 22:24) | Cracks the Auchentoshan single malt, pours a healthy measure, kicks off shoes and sighs with pure pleasure.............aaaaaaaaaaaaaah.
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Natalie Merchant - This House Is On Fire
(Nov 26, 2011 - 22:19) | perryandcaro wrote: Natalie MUTE ant.
That voice has my finger springing for the mute button like Usain Bolt responds to the gun.
Sorry folks, I just don't get her. No matter what she tries to sing. Believe me, I've tried.
'spose you're jumping the gun too?
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Leo Kottke - Watermelon
(Nov 14, 2011 - 19:21) | Cynaera wrote: This guy drives me crazy! Just when I have all his fingers counted, he grows MORE and then plays songs like this one. I love his music, craziness notwithstanding.
nah, he's triple tracking....
OK. I bought this LP back in that day and never did tire of it. He's the real armadeallo.
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Cake - Friend Is a Four Letter Word
(Nov 13, 2011 - 20:01) | Damn is a four letter word - the 128 aac stream just blooped out, there's a huge difference when you listen to this track on a lesser stream.
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Willie and Lobo - Tribute To Manolo
(Nov 09, 2011 - 19:36) | Bosami wrote: Fantastic. I love these guys. From what I've read here in the comments from those lucky enough to have seen them - they put on quite a show. I have no doubt. Aces!
Yep, saw them on what I'm sure was their first retirement tour. Played this one too.
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Imogen Heap - Canvas
(Nov 09, 2011 - 18:36) | Limpopoking wrote:
Woulda given the smaller of my 2 goolies (can't remember whether it's the left or the right one... and there's people watching me so I can't check right now) to have been at Ronnie Scotts for that performance... 2nd best option, I bought the DVD. Simply awesome. Tal Wilkenfeld's performance inspired my daughter to take up the bass... Go bunny go!!! You make your old dad proud.
Agreed, an amazing performance.
Haven't thought of Ronnie Scott much since he died, but there was a time when I saw him, if not regularly, several times with his quartet in Gerrard Street - first saw him in Frith Street too. And that was half a century ago.
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Adele - Painting Pictures
(Nov 08, 2011 - 19:32) | Here's hoping she doesn't need another bad boyfriend to make a second record this good.
As an aside, who's the hard-working drummer?
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Norah Jones - Chasing Pirates
(Nov 08, 2011 - 19:28) | haresfur wrote: A little too "doo, doo, doo" for me. Nice dog though!
And he's still just a pup.
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Pete Yorn - I Feel Good Again
(Nov 08, 2011 - 19:27) |
Those whom the Gods would mock, they make think that the intro is for Choctaw Bingo.
Mocking is good when this music is better.
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Shawn Colvin - (Looking For) The Heart of Saturday Night
(Nov 05, 2011 - 19:29) | | Posted: May 17, 2010 - 09:28 | < Reply > |
jackie0 wrote: An insipid cover that ads nothing to the original except to render it void of meaning.
As big a fan as I am of Norah's work, I have to agree with you. Now, when it comes to women covering Tom Waits' work, nothing holds a candle to Shawn Colvin's efforts, IMHO. |
Ahaa, sneaky Bill at work. 2 Tom Waits covers followed by the real thing. Thanks, Bill.
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Peter Gabriel - Sky Blue
(Nov 05, 2011 - 18:05) |
apd wrote: Am i the last one to notice (just now) his face on the cd cover?
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No, no - if you hold it really close, it's the Nazca lines.
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The Waterboys - The Raggle Taggle Gypsy (Live)
(Oct 30, 2011 - 17:55) | Stingray wrote: hate this irish bull
True, but it was much better when it was English and before that, Scottish.
"The Gypsy Laddie" (Roud 1, Child 200), also known as "Black Jack Davy" and "The Raggle Taggle Gypsies" among many other titles, is a Border ballad <1>, possibly written about 1720 on the Scottish side of the border. The ballad has often been used and recorded in many different variations in Scotland and England from the 18th century, the United States, Canada from the 19th century, and more recently Ireland from the 1970s.
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Wintersleep - Drunk on Aluminium
(Oct 30, 2011 - 17:48) | Byronape wrote:
"aluminium" is a very small piece of aluminum.
Also, it's considered toxic to all river inhabitants.
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The Smashing Pumpkins - Drown
(Oct 28, 2011 - 18:16) | Actual quote heard in a local Den of Iniquity:
"Billy C, you'se so full ot it and don't gots the voice for it neither"
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Spirit of the West - And If Venice is Sinking
(Oct 28, 2011 - 18:14) | Cynaera wrote:
Well, I love Vancouver BC, too - except for the airport (long story...) I'm still partial to Victoria BC and Montréal, as far as Canadian cities go. I miss the days of record stores, live performances, and beverages. The last small-venue performance I saw was at a Borders book store in Salem, Oregon. I don't even remember who was performing - it was a trio with acoustic guitars and an upright bass. I ended up buying a couple of very funky CD-storage containers that changed colors when I squished them (plastic, with colored gel. And I still have them.) Good times, long gone these days...
the airport is now one of the best in the world, mind you, you'll pay for priviledge, but compared to Charles De Gaulle, heh, it's the schitz.
still lots of good music to be heard, check out Rogue Folk for details.
Having said that, this be the station to listen to.
TS
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Adele - Someone Like You
(Oct 26, 2011 - 19:28) | Someone who articulates well, breathes beautifully, hits the notes with meat on the bones. Oh yes.
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The Kinks - Days
(Oct 19, 2011 - 19:50) | sirdroseph wrote:I usually cannot stand the Kinks, but you know what, this is a nice little ditty! 
aka: damning by faint praise?
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Aimee Mann - Save Me
(Oct 17, 2011 - 19:21) | Well, I guess I don't have anything good to say, so..............
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SuperHeavy - Energy
(Oct 17, 2011 - 18:18) | From She's so heavy to Superheavy hmmm.
Mick met Keef 50 years ago today, trudat.
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Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take Five
(Oct 15, 2011 - 18:36) | Learn something every time I hear this track.
As an aside, does any other tune have more pages of commentary?
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Notting Hillbillies - Your Own Sweet Way
(Oct 15, 2011 - 17:55) | Crystal glass of Bourbon, water back, in my hand and this music.
Ahhhh.
PS broke the matching glass so I'm being very careful, honest dear.
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Little Willie John - My Love Is
(Oct 15, 2011 - 17:30) | dyharenas wrote: Amazing similarity in the tone and delivery with Nina Simone...well at least for me
True, true.
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Feist - Caught A Long Wind
(Oct 12, 2011 - 19:36) | iTuner wrote: Certainly an artist helped by Apple.
Probably meant the original sin.
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Gary Jules - Mad World
(Oct 12, 2011 - 19:35) | Are you in a time warp? It's been 2 months since Satie preceeded Mad world and now bookended by Feist.
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The Be Good Tanyas - Ootischenia
(Oct 11, 2011 - 16:30) | Liking the vibrato, even the banjo, seen them twice and they haven't played this track. Have to see 'em again!
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The Who - The Real Me
(Oct 08, 2011 - 20:12) | One mixed-up youth.
Yes I did have a parka/cagoule/donkey jacket and ride a Lambretta Li 150. Unfortunately for my equilibrium, I preferred the Stones over the Beatles, perhaps because I went to school with Keef, never really knew him though.
Mainly liked Folk and Jazz for live events (cheaper) and classical (free)
The Who, however, were right up my street when it became time to put a 45 on the record player stack..
.Still mixed-up today, but I still like the Who.
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David Gray - Let The Good Things Come
(Oct 08, 2011 - 18:33) | BillG wrote: Sorry about that. A system glitch kept this one from playing. Won't happen again.
Never say never, Bill. Stuttered, but then did carry on.
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Mumford & Sons - Roll Away Your Stone
(Oct 08, 2011 - 18:27) | sieversfam wrote: AAAAIIIIIYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!
Part of Hell's(TM) official soundtrack. Sheeeoooot. Starting my pathway to the golden afterlife: no more lusting after the neighbor's wife, no more drugs, and no more Fox News.
It's just not worth it.
Well, 2 out 3 ain't so bad.
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The Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
(Oct 06, 2011 - 18:24) | romeotuma wrote:
George Harrison Documentary Will Premiere on HBO
A new documentary about the life of George Harrison featuring home movies, interviews and unseen footage of the late Beatle will premiere on HBO in October. George Harrison: Living in the Material World, a film produced by Martin Scorcese along with Harrison's widow Olivia, is set to air in two parts on October 5th and 6th.
Last night's episode was excellent, a fresh look at George, tonight promises to be equally good.
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Sarah Harmer - Pendulums
(Oct 06, 2011 - 17:57) | SinisterDexter wrote:
It's pendulums - and don't call her Shirley!
Pendulae
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The Church - Under The Milky Way
(Sep 29, 2011 - 19:37) | There's something in the opening and pacing, phrasing and voice that makes me think Sivert Hoyem, until the other hemisphere asserts itself.
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John Williams - Recuerdos de la Alhambra
(Sep 29, 2011 - 17:04) | ArrayMac wrote: I'm hearing Mike Oldfield's _Etude_ from _The Killing Fields_. Am I correct?
You might be, were it not that this piece was written in 1896.
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Radiohead - Lotus Flower
(Sep 28, 2011 - 19:27) | Time to lose the tighty whities, Thom. Get y'self a pair of manly boxers.
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The Waifs - Crazy Train
(Sep 25, 2011 - 18:22) | Saw these guys/gals perform this at a festival accompanied by two other groups jamming with them. The newcomers had never heard the track but they all had such fun together the other stages had to stop because people were streaming over to see what the fuss was all about after 20 minutes. Yep, 30 minute marathon.
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!!! - Myth Takes
(Sep 25, 2011 - 18:14) |
TerryS wrote:
Chk is check to most people, as in chk ur fly.
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"Except in this case, where you really pronounce it like "chick" "
Cool! Iike "chick your fly" much better.
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Tom Petty - It's Good To Be King
(Sep 25, 2011 - 11:37) | Forest267 wrote: Yeah...that instrumental piece at the end. Bump to 8.
Yep, very Led Zep/Pink Floyd goodness
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Dengue Fever - Uku
(Sep 24, 2011 - 17:22) | MJdub wrote:
Check page 2 of the comments
MJdub wrote:
Wait let me dash upstairs to get my Khmer Rouge scarf, haven't worn it for a while.
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Bob Dylan - Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
(Sep 21, 2011 - 19:16) | "Now: Is there anything we can do to adjust the minds of the folks who constantly complain about Bob's (and Neil's) voices?"
It's not those folk who need their minds adjusted, tuneful singing in time with the music is otherwise unversally appreciated. Much as I am amazed by the wordsmithing, the vocals are aberrant and distracting.
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Ry Cooder - It's All Over Now
(Sep 21, 2011 - 19:03) | Leslie wrote: This is pretty good but I still like the Dead's version the best.
The 40 minute version?
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Van Morrison - Moondance
(Sep 21, 2011 - 18:15) |
Take some pretty fancy footwork Romeo
(pinched the quote from the Cowboy Junkies comment)
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Beck - Golden Age
(Sep 20, 2011 - 19:27) | Stingray wrote: How can you be a genius and a member of
the very religolous SCIENTOLOGIE CULT?
Explain this!
Aaahh, I was going to explain it, but you'll have to figure it out for yourself.
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Paco De Lucia - Concierto de Aranjuez
(Sep 17, 2011 - 19:23) | fredriley wrote: I remember hearing a version by the British guitarist John Williams many years ago which knocked my socks off and really pulled at the heart strings. IIRC this is the second movement of the Concerto, the other two movements being, for me at least, disappointing.
Fred,
The Virtuoso Music for guitar by JW was the first record I ever bought and the 2nd one a few years later. IIRC, John W is from Australia originally but naturalised himself in Britain later (probably spent the whole of his life explaining that "No, I didn't write the Star wars music".
In any event, Bill's timing was astonishing, we had just sat down to a romantic supper (well, the candles were lit) fresh made pasta, Spanish wine following a couple of Negronis. Where's my monocle? Spot on, I say.
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Dead Can Dance - Radharc
(Sep 16, 2011 - 17:02) | shutter wrote: What an abject waste of a Hieronymous Bosch painting
I went a bit of Bosch pilgrimage last year..........wish I'd had this song along. Especially for the tryptich.
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Django Reinhardt - You Rascal You
(Sep 15, 2011 - 20:21) | cc_rider wrote: DJANGO DJANGO DJANGO!
Jerry Jeff Walker named his son 'Django'. Can't imagine why...
Django Walker plays around town sometimes.
c.
Ande there's a group out of Vancouver B.C called VanDjango who play in this vein too.
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John Fogerty - River is Waiting
(Sep 15, 2011 - 20:07) | I normally don't ever criticize songs but the tone of his voice in this song makes me want to go on a killing spree.
Get help.
It's a song, like it or leave it, that's all folks.
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The Civil Wars - 20 Years
(Sep 15, 2011 - 20:01) | thedirtyvicar wrote: This is a song about anal sex. The "note underneath your front door" is a thinly-veiled allusion to menses and use of a pad, and 20 years ago is when it started, so this is a 35 year old woman who is conflicted about satisfying her lover. There's no reasons, no excuses, she just has to do it, thus the downtempo arrangement and minor key. But she hopes the relationship will continue into her 50s, 60s, and 70s, even if it means this sort of compromise for whatever reason.
Codswallop.
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Eels - Packing Blankets
(Sep 09, 2011 - 19:10) | fredriley wrote: That little haiku puts me in mind of jellied eels, possibly the most disgusting of the traditional 'delicacies' available in London's East End. Just looking at a pot of chopped-up eels in slime is enough to make you hurl, and I'm reliably informed that they taste as 'good' as they look. Bleucch!
I likes 'em jellied
I likes 'em bellied up in unagi
I likes 'em thrashing in puddle
or in a full ball muddle
Eats 'em I does.
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Erin McKeown - Blackbirds
(Sep 08, 2011 - 19:12) | Had this on my music player yesterday though a series of sweeping bends down an empty mountain road. Simply outstanding.
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Neko Case - Things That Scare Me
(Sep 05, 2011 - 20:08) | fredriley wrote:Hell, she could stand on me any day 
I saw her interviewed on the topic of the cover and she said that the intent was to inflame the passions of a young men in their mid-teens. Now why would she have limited her audience to such wet-behind -the-ears guys?
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Stevie Wonder - Higher Ground
(Sep 05, 2011 - 17:16) | Romeo, you must wear out a ton of shoe leather, or perhaps it's barefeet and rotating glitterball?
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Focus - Hocus Pocus
(Sep 05, 2011 - 17:12) | This song is like everything on it pizza, deep crust, with extra anchovies, custard and whipped blackbird gizzards.
Oh yes, indeedy.
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Men At Work - Down By The Sea
(Sep 04, 2011 - 20:27) | fredriley wrote: Five Ho-Hums, a Marginal and a Sucko-barfo on the trot. It's worrying when I'm muting more often than I'm listening. RP has been a big, big influence on my musical tastes over the last few years for which I'm very grateful and I've been happy to cough up my monthly donation, but it surely does hit some real doldrums at times. This number is the aural equivalent of a Marmite sandwich.
Cheese, Fred, add cheese.
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U2 - Bad (Live)
(Sep 04, 2011 - 20:13) | Take the WOO HOO from the Waterboys and the ringing guitar sounds of the Sundays and you have?
U2.
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John Prine - Fish and Whistle
(Sep 04, 2011 - 20:06) | fredriley wrote:
1. I couldn't give a monkey's about Brit folk singers.
2. I couldn't give a monkey's about awards.
3. I'm only half-Brit (and definitely don't identify myself as such).
4. This guy's got a voice even worse than his barnet* and moustache.
He may be the dog's bollox as a folk singer, but he makes my ears hurt in this number. Impressive barnet, though.
* Barnet Heir = hair
Fred,
Don't often feel the need to contradict you, but in my world, "barnet" is shorthand for Barnet Fair.
I do believe there's been a market there from the Dark Ages, he said as an aside.
Other than that, agreed.
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Younger Brother - Train
(Sep 04, 2011 - 18:53) | jools wrote:
Pear-lime??? Yuk
Agreed, but have you tried a Lillet Martini? Surprisingly good, invented by me in Paris last week. (You use what you have)
Meanwhile, back to our program.........
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Vienna Teng - Feather Moon
(Sep 04, 2011 - 18:38) | Quote: " t00lur wrote: i hate vienna tang, i rated 1 all her fucking songs hahahah!"
"Boy, you were really on a roll on July 21, 2010, weren't you? Just went right down the line and posted the same vulgar comment on ALL the Vienna Teng songs. I think you need to get a life. Preferably one far, far away from here.  "
Agreed.
Where is Gertrude Stein when you need her?
A troll is a troll is a troll.
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U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday
(Sep 02, 2011 - 20:11) | redmachine wrote: You're all mad.
Awful middle of the road over-worthy fake rock, perfect for the shallow consumerist western cultures that feed the bloated corporations Bono and his like suckle at the teat of.
He is an utter prick.
Do try to avoid splitting your infinitives.
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Massive Attack - Inertia Creeps
(Sep 02, 2011 - 20:09) | I was in a VERY expensive car recently and the owner (properties seller) had this on the bazillion watt speakers. Oh yes.
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The Bad Plus - Flim
(Sep 02, 2011 - 19:57) | Flim Flam, yet oddly appealing.......like some politicians.
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Josh Rouse - Sunshine
(Sep 02, 2011 - 18:44) | Gonna post again, that was a neat transition from JN to JR, thanks Bill.
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Annie Lennox - Waiting In Vain
(Sep 01, 2011 - 15:03) | Hear her talk and you know she's from the Outer Hebrides (she isn't); hear her sing and she's from mid-Atlantic (perhaps).
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Bob Dylan - I Shall Be Released
(Aug 26, 2011 - 06:35) | Eccentricity of delivery is still just that , even when the populace's collective ear is finally attuned to it.
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The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony
(Aug 26, 2011 - 06:23) | phlattop wrote:
from AMG:
The Verve's manager even contacted Mick Jagger and Keith Richards personally to see if they'd help out, but both refused to get involved in a dispute with ABKCO (run by their former manager, Allen Klein).
That's the same Allen Klein who screwed the Beatles out of a fair chunk of change. Can't say I blame Mick and Keith.
Yep, that's my recollection of the self-aggradising Allen Klein. In the era where nobody got sued for telling the truth, he would have been called a greedy vulturous thief.
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Clara Luzia - All I Wish For
(Aug 25, 2011 - 09:22) | Watching two old women harangue each other across the courtyard this evening, the soundtrack is this.
18th arondissement, Paris. I'm probably not making much sense after too much anisette.
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Radiohead - Codex
(Aug 25, 2011 - 09:19) | I don't like radiohead...................make that "didn't".
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The Who - Eminence Front
(Aug 16, 2011 - 19:25) | And now its Roger's turn to say:- "Pete? Ahh, he's just the number 2 singer"
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James McMurtry - Choctaw Bingo
(Aug 15, 2011 - 20:02) | Proclivities wrote:
...for which John Lennon was sued for infringing upon the work of Chuck Berry. It's a pretty standard rock 'n' roll shuffle, but this does go on a bit long.
Then you really don't want to listen to the live version, just sayin' you may not have y'self a time.
26 pages of comments...........really!
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Ween - The Argus
(Aug 15, 2011 - 18:11) | fredriley wrote:WEED!!  (Ok, a bit off-topic, but more interesting and entertaining than this soporific song. )
Good grief man! That was the first thing I can remember seeing on television, back in the days of steam radio.
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Cream - Tales of Brave Ulysses
(Aug 03, 2011 - 21:03) | eltom wrote: IMHO too much overrated. Just decent.
If ye weren't there it might be too hard a stretch.
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Morphine - Empty Box
(Aug 02, 2011 - 21:05) | Stingray is like ChickenMan, he's everywhere, he's everywhere. Unfortunately.
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Doves - Lifelines
(Aug 02, 2011 - 21:03) | I've got a head with wings, a head with wings..........
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Bob Dylan - It Takes a Lot to Laugh...
(Aug 01, 2011 - 19:43) | Back in the day when Bob didn't feel he had to hang back a note and a half and maximise his schnozz- sinus effect.
Like'n this, even if it does have pre-curser echoes of Quinn the Eskimo.
PS: Not so great harmonica playing RomeoT, don't mind it though.
TOP-10 ALL-TIME:
Little Walter (Jacobs)
Big Walter (Horton)
James Cotton
John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson (aka, Sonny Boy I)
Rice Miller (aka Sonny Boy Williamson, Sonny Boy II)
Sonny Terry
Junior Wells
Howlin' Wolf
Paul Butterfield
George "Harmonica" Smith
SECOND-10 ALL-TIME:
Sugar Blue
Kim Wilson
Jimmy Reed
Carey Bell
Magic Dick
Paul deLay
DeFord Bailey
Charlie Musselwhite
Rev. Dan Smith
Billy Branch
Not my list, cribbed.
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Skatalites - Freedom Sounds
(Aug 01, 2011 - 17:21) | The only way to improve on this would be to play The Guns of Navarone next...............................please?
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Euphoria - Fire In The Hole
(Jul 29, 2011 - 21:13) | Cynaera wrote:Thought it was Leo Kottke. Then I thought it was Blackstrat Blues. EUPHORIA? Put me in a wind-tunnel and call me fluff-dried.
Don't be so hard on yourself :) I did too. (not the bit about the wind-tunnel).
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Iron & Wine - Love and Some Verses
(Jul 29, 2011 - 21:11) | fredriley wrote:Yup, there's never a hammock when you want one. This soporific number is a nice lullaby, and has the effect of half a spliff of decent hash
Fred, your technique must be different than mine. Spaceman Spliff perhaps, but rolling hash in a card filter cigarette is not righteous.
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Pink Floyd - Mother
(Jul 29, 2011 - 20:32) | run4more wrote:7:11 pm Pink Floyd - Mother 7:08 pm Gary Jules - Mad World 7:04 pm Erik Satie - Gnossienne No1 Maybe one of the most amazing sets of seamless transitions I've ever heard. Or maybe I was slightly soused. 4 hours later I still want to go back and try to replicate it to see if it still works like I imagined it did..
Well, I just heard it while sober (under 0.8 anyway * ) and yes, it was that good.
*Not a condition which will last - I just passed 50 years working and they haven't found me out yet.
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Adrian Legg - Kinvarra's Child
(Jul 25, 2011 - 20:14) | chadlymn wrote: I am going to see him play live here in Minneapolis on April 7th. Amazing what he can do with a guitar!
And it was good?
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The Band - Up On Cripple Creek
(Jul 25, 2011 - 20:12) | Watched 2 Hillbillies play 7 songs close to this yesterday, or perhaps between this and jugband (since one was playing suitcase percussion) and both had fanciful beads. Good stuff.
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Conor Oberst - Sausalito
(Jul 25, 2011 - 20:04) | h8rhater wrote:
H8rhater never told you to f*ck off, Fred. He did not use profanity as you did either. Nor did he troll the music as you did.
With a name like H8rhater... of course it's mostly flames. Those flames are directed at music haters (i.e. crybabies who can't just wait for the next song without spewing unnecessary bile in a song's thread) not the music itself.
Also, we're not on a pirate ship so you can drop the "matey". Arrrrggg!!!
This song goes from 9 to 10 with your impetus.
Hey Bill, give us more Oberst, Bright Eyes, Mystic Valley Band, and Monsters of Folk please.
He did refer to himself in the third person though, which I find obnoxious. Similarly, I never could stand Auntie Vickie telling me in the first person plural that "We are not amused".
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Suzanne Vega - Gypsy
(Jul 25, 2011 - 19:58) | Wisecrowe wrote: I love her voice but am not sure how I feel about the song....on the horn's of a dilemma.
I've always wondered what a dilema looked like; horned Siamese lama? A lemming crossed with a dulangdulangduolang?
Just wondering.
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The Weepies - Can't Go Back Now
(Jul 25, 2011 - 19:50) | pinnyrat wrote: Kinda lame.
Yep, Paul Simon's brother -in-law. Sorry Cynaera, hoping times are better now.
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The Byrds - Turn! Turn! Turn!
(Jul 22, 2011 - 20:24) | Oh Bill!
That was sneaky, a tune attibutable to William Byrd followed by (what else?) The Byrds.
Liking the mix.
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Rodrigo Y Gabriela - Diablo Rojo
(Jul 20, 2011 - 21:48) | coyotexxx2 wrote:
You probably know that Gabriela "drums" on the guitar as she plays. Check out youtube, it is incredible to watch.
And ended up with carpal tunnel syndrome, I believe?
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Blur - Beetlebum
(Jul 20, 2011 - 21:06) | The_Enemy wrote: Cynaera wrote:Ohhh, it's true - Spike Jones and his City Slickers totally warped my mind - that's the first thing I thought of when I heard this song! Glad I'm not alone, although I'm in the minority here... Who else has heard of Spike Jones?
I remember the song and the name "Spike Jones" but didn't know he did the song and at first, I thought you were talking about Spike Milligan (who else has heard of him?).
Well, I did see him in "the Bedsitting Room" in the middle of the 6th decade of the last Century.
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Joni Mitchell - Coyote
(Jul 20, 2011 - 20:58) | calypsus_1 wrote: Joni Mitchell by ~JSaurer
©2008-2010 ~ JSaurerJoni Mitchell Airbrush, water colours, coloured pencils, 2000 my favourite female singer-songwriter!
Is she related to the singer on the Spider and the Fly?
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Dr. John - Witchy Red
(Jul 13, 2011 - 19:35) | Saw Dr John do this on Bourbon Street on Saint Patrick's Day in the late 90's with my wife and son. Oh yeah.
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Metric - Collect Call
(Jul 11, 2011 - 19:41) |
Poacher wrote:Have they released any 12 inch vinyl? Would they have to call it 30.48cm vinyl?
Nope, it'd be 3048mm vinyl......
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Pink Floyd - On The Turning Away
(Jul 11, 2011 - 19:39) | As a respite from the overblown egocentric Waters, this is a little treat.
mandolin wrote:
...i think this is the weakest song from momentary lapse of reason, which as an album i quite like...it's telling that i find RPWL's masters of war cover to be a far stronger song than this original which clearly inspired it; perhaps gilmour and mason should have recruited bob dylan to fill roger waters' shoes...
...i think roger waters' solo work is an outstanding high-water mark of music-as-art, and certainly he didn't hesitate to bring in some of the very best to fill his former bandmates' shoes, including eric clapton, michael kamen, andy brown, and jeff beck among a host of guests, but music-as-art doesn't neccessarily function well as sonic decor, which is where gilmour's new-floyd clearly outpaced roger waters in popular reception...
...which resonates more strongly?..it depends entirely upon which creative vision one embraces, but while i find both efforts eminently savory in their respective contexts, roger waters' augmented albums still achieve a masterwork status which new-floyd's unaugmented outings don't quite attain, timeless though both may be...
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U2 - Where the Streets Have No Name
(Jul 08, 2011 - 20:17) | fredriley wrote:
They're just another rock group with a mouthy opinionated singer, not saints. Oh, and they're tax avoiders too. Their business affairs are hosted offshore so as to avoid paying tax in their native Ireland. So much for St Bonio's much-vaunted ethics ;-|
I usually find myself agreeing with FR, but ethics and taxes are like fish on bicycles. Choosing to (legally) minimise taxes is merely a personal choice.
Of course, had he chosen to live in the US of A, the rich are legally permitted to avoid taxes.
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Wilco - Box Full of Letters
(Jul 08, 2011 - 20:07) | pauleywalnuts wrote:"Last Played: Never" It should be illegal not to play this great tune loud and often! Come on Bill!
The frequency curve is steepening........
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Buddy Holly - Heartbeat
(Jul 08, 2011 - 20:04) | Tony Perkins introduced me to Buddy Holly's music (another Tony Perkins of course) and it stuck. Ironic that his class mate would have been Keith Richards, had he (TP) not been held back a year or two for failing to pass exams.
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Nirvana - All Apologies
(Jul 08, 2011 - 19:15) | On_The_Beach wrote:
For the record, Rush is easily the most overrated band of all time.
Right up there with the guy in the cowboy hat who strums his harmonica on Granville?
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Dar Williams - Empire
(Jul 07, 2011 - 19:27) | I like this version of Dar better than her live performances ( which are usually small backing, if any) in my neck o' the woods.
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Yo La Tengo - Winter-A-Go-Go
(Jul 07, 2011 - 19:23) | barbaraporto wrote: Love to hear YLT in the middle of this warm, windy afternoon in Northeast Brazil. :)
OK. You're uncanny, I actually did that in Recife in 2004.
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Neil Finn - Twisty Bass
(Jul 07, 2011 - 19:20) | Mari wrote:do what bill does, whist it, not whistle it!!!
peter_james_bond wrote: I tried whistling this tune, and it's not easy. Another fine one from Mr Finn.
What? Play cards to it? Or play cards whilst it plays? Sorry, missing the point, I don't have the program, clearly.
Liking the music, though.
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Snow Patrol - Lifeboats
(Jul 07, 2011 - 19:08) | Stingray wrote: Next to boring - as usual!
Nothing for the specialist I am!
Still - I give it a 5.
The soft version of Porcupine Tree?
Must be so hard to be an Eclecticist.
By the way, I agree with your comment otherwise.
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The National - Bloodbuzz Ohio
(Jul 06, 2011 - 18:32) | Grammarcop wrote: I cannot think of a single nice thing to say about Ohio.
More thinking required, less saying. Unless you're emulating a troll.
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Roxy Music - Avalon
(Jul 01, 2011 - 18:29) | dougmbrown wrote: Still plays well from end-to-end, not that anyone does that anymore.
That gal can sure hold a note.
__________________________
You two must be discussing a certain mademoiselle I used to know in Hong Kong in the mid 70's.
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Miles Davis - The Pan Piper
(Jun 25, 2011 - 18:42) | jbjnr wrote:
I soon will move into my new house... and I will be able to set up my record player... and bust out all the Miles D Vinyl...
Thank god you won't be living next door to me. Imagine having this over the garden fence every day - there ought to be some kind of injunction against it
You're right, there's no accounting for taste - or the lack of it.
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Peter Gabriel - I Have The Touch
(Jun 25, 2011 - 16:53) | yodasan_magoo wrote:
On_The_Beach wrote:
Is that a uvula? ; )
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Don't think so, I used to watch Star Trek all the time. Doesn't look anything like her.
Have to disagree, they blow vuvuselas in South Africa.
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Calexico - House Of Valparaiso
(Jun 18, 2011 - 20:21) | james_of_tucson wrote:  Another famous Valparaiso house, precariously perched. I doubt either of these structures survived Feb 2010. I believe that this is the Brighton Hostal and if so, yes it did survive the earthquake. Amazing!
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Greg Kihn - Remember
(Jun 17, 2011 - 19:34) | Great set Bill.
Had a heap of dishes from an early dinner-party and got through them in no time with the energy of the set following Joan Armatrading's track which was accompanied by a very nice German off-sweet white.
MMM.hmmm.
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Oliver Mtukudzi - Ndima Ndapedza
(Jun 15, 2011 - 19:27) | Elephant jokes aside, (and I've looked out of my tent at the scratching tree to see a big tusker rubbing his arse on a particularly suitable forked branch) Oliver brings back Africa nicely. Paul Simon does not.
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Morcheeba - Enjoy the Ride
(Jun 15, 2011 - 17:52) | midreaming wrote: transition from Afro Celt S.S. to this is frickin genius.. amazing.
Terry S said: Ahh now, we went from camels to kiss them for me.......
And now it's:- Enjoy the ride
Evil!
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Radar - Sirocco
(Jun 15, 2011 - 17:45) | jcide wrote:Thanks for playing this. It reminded me that I still need to go out and feed my camels today.
I need to water my camels - where did I leave those two bricks?
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Spirit - Fresh Garbage
(Jun 12, 2011 - 20:26) | Propayne wrote: John Locke on keyboards.
Lower right hand corner of the album sleeve.
Inspiration for intro piano licks courtesy of Osibisa?
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Coldplay - Spies
(Jun 12, 2011 - 20:24) | Poacher wrote:
OK, you made me giggle........
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Michael Franti and Spearhead - Yell Fire!
(Jun 12, 2011 - 20:16) | sedentaryz wrote:
Wow. Imagine that. A song with explicitly political lyrics leads to a discussion on political beliefs.
I wonder if Mr Franti would LOVE to know that listeners don't bother to pay attention to the message in the song.
Lighten up chaps, most people who listen to music, do just that - listen to the music/beat/melody, syncopation, chordings, uplift/down beat etc. Then there are those who only listen to the lyrics, or the voice, quality, resonance, grating, or sweetness quotient. Or some particular instrument. Some listen to complain.
Occasionally, there is a song which makes everybody happy.
This song reminds me, too, of the Macarena. Happy now?
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Bob Dylan - Mozambique
(Jun 12, 2011 - 18:14) | I wonder if Bob listened to Jimmy Buffett just before he made this recording?
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The Plimsouls - A Million Miles Away
(Jun 08, 2011 - 19:26) | tpa29970 wrote: This is in my top-5 songs of the '80s. This song helped me realize that there's still great music to be made, even after Mozart, Beethoven, and The Beatles.
Mozart, Beethoven, Beatles and Plimsouls. Really?
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Eddie Vedder - Can't Keep
(Jun 08, 2011 - 18:40) | The definition of Heaven:
The sound of a ukelele thrown into a dumpster, hitting an accordian on the way down.
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Whiskeytown - Choked Up
(Jun 08, 2011 - 18:24) | Would be Kurt from LaQuinta and Sammy Hagar to whom you were referring? Not sure I agree then.
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The Smiths - How Soon Is Now
(Jun 06, 2011 - 19:10) | enkay wrote: My fave Smiths song.
As usual I'm split between my love of the music and my dislike of Morrisey.
I always reckoned that if The Smiths ever brought out an album of instrumentals I'd be first in line waving my cash around.
the judge in the case described Morrissey as "devious, truculent and unreliable,"
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Neko Case - The Next Time You Say Forever
(Jun 06, 2011 - 18:14) | GT66 wrote:Well she's a woman so for sure her narcissism will surpass anything a man could imagine. Also, why is she on a Mercury Cougar instead of on a Mercury Cyclone? 
Because it's hard to stand on the hood of a Unimog? Attached Images
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Elton John - Rocket Man
(Jun 06, 2011 - 17:42) | cc_rider wrote:
I thought he did a good job. The 'queen' jokes got a tad old after awhile, but hey. Leon Russell was great too, despite looking more like a statue than human.
On sad note, we now know that Leon is suffering a great deal of pain (bone cancer, I think?) so he was being a real trouper that night.
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Trace Bundy - Bristlecone
(Jun 03, 2011 - 19:26) | If you like this, try Mr "Heavy Wood" Don Ross - his latest is very much in this vein, Breakfast for Dogs.
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Creedence Clearwater Revival - Born On The Bayou
(Jun 03, 2011 - 18:34) | Bought this LP for a party in 1969, it never left the record player that night, just flipped and needle dropped.
The album still holds its own 42 years later.
And if Romeotuna wants to dance to these tracks, he'd better be in good shape :)
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Pink Floyd - Hey You
(Jun 03, 2011 - 17:15) | thewiseking wrote: no artistry or poetry in anything these guys ever did. just alot of puffery, bombast, pretense and a big floating pig.
Don't feed the troll - leave him for a billygoat (or maybe a big floating pig) to settle his hash.
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Loch Lomond - Wax & Wire
(Jun 01, 2011 - 19:25) | Shouldn't that be "Modesty forbid me naming the photographer?
fredriley wrote:Perhaps folk here might be interested in a scenic pic of Loch Lomond, taken before a Spring storm. Modesty forbids my naming the photographer. 
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Rodrigo Y Gabriela - Hanuman
(Jun 01, 2011 - 18:34) | sailorgirl wrote:
What happens if it's played at 4:20 on the West Coast??.... just sayin'.... ;)
That woould mean the second period is almost halfway through. I dedicate this to those inebriated souls watching the hockey series - it's June, you know, watch a summer sport!
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David Bowie - Lady Grinning Soul
(May 26, 2011 - 19:39) | kcar wrote:
Yesh. Sean Connery approvesh of thish shegue.
No lisping slur today, more like a skipitty skipitty.
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Calexico - Tres Avisos
(May 24, 2011 - 20:35) | coolpeople_rule wrote:
I dont always drink beer, but when I do, I drink draft.
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Booker T. & The M.G.s - Green Onions
(May 22, 2011 - 20:05) | DaveInVA wrote: I still have the 45 rpm record of this, damn I'm old...
Ahhh, I feel better now, there's a hi-tech EP in our house.
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!!! - Myth Takes
(May 22, 2011 - 20:00) | vandal wrote:
It's pronounced "chk chk chk." Marketing fail is an attribute this band, I'm pretty sure, will wear with pride.
Chk is check to most people, as in chk ur fly.
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Fluke - Mosh
(May 22, 2011 - 18:08) | sailorgirl wrote: Rave Much?
Yes, at Vancouver drivers in particular.
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Paul Simon - Love Is Eternal Sacred Light
(May 19, 2011 - 22:53) | fredriley wrote:
Plainly yer man Simon doesn't, because a good chunk of them are bollox. For a start, someone should tell him that "light year" is a measure of distance, not of time.
Right you are, but it is hard to say
1 light year = 9.4605284 × 1015 meters
therefore we measure the distance light can travel in a year. In that sense, it is distance over time.
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The Audreys - Long Ride
(May 19, 2011 - 20:56) | Fred,
Your opinions count too. Keep 'em coming.......please.
No affiiation to Nottingham, nor Fred, just appreciate diversity of opinion and dislike trolls.
ps: my $.10c don't feed 'em by giving them a target - there's enough idiots who will register under different aliases just to get you/anybody who opposes them out.
So, Fred. You now have to weigh the positives votes against the negatives.............should balance the scales somewhat?
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Bob Dylan - Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
(May 18, 2011 - 18:31) | Dinges,_the_Dude wrote: I think Dylan is overrated... Not my cup of tea.
Then you'd better go back to from where you came............sez Mr Dylan.
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M. Ward - Chinese Translation
(May 16, 2011 - 20:53) | China Forbes: singer in last song,
Chinese Translation here......the secret glue is Hunt's tomato ketchup
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Adele - Rolling In The Deep
(May 16, 2011 - 18:58) | Adele's ex-boyfriend is seeking a cut of the money she's making from putting all the angst he caused her into this album.
Huh?
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R.E.M. - Discoverer
(May 16, 2011 - 18:20) | Would we like this better if it was by some group called Pete and the Blowtorches?
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Paul Simon - The Obvious Child
(May 15, 2011 - 18:31) | Geecheeboy wrote: cc, I second the motion on the drumline. Best part of this song.
It's Olodum who hail from Salvador de Bahia in Brazil, saw them doing a dance class there by pure chance.
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The Who - Quadrophenia
(May 14, 2011 - 23:53) | Poacher wrote: They showed it on the beach between a few years ago and I took my kids. There was a great crowd, a decent sound system and lots of cheering when anything 'Brighton' came on . . . especially the fights between the mods and rockers.
It is an outstanding film if you lived through the era and really captures the feel of the times.
Interesting times indeed, I owned a duffle coat and rode a Lambretta 150, but had changed to leathers and a 500cc Triumph before I went to Brighton. Didn't know WTF I was supposed to do.
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Over The Rhine - The Laugh of Recognition
(May 14, 2011 - 23:40) | bam23 wrote:
Yeah, but I will bet real money that your accent has aspects that annoy the hell out of those who don't pronounce things the right way, yours. Lots of Americans think that residents of the South are stupid because of their way of pronouncing words (I have heard this expressed too many times to doubt that this is a prevalent attitude). I would suggest that y'all keep your blinkered perspective in check. Van Morrison must also annoy you, with his idiosyncratic ways of pronouncing English words, right?
Nope, he does have a point. Barthelona is a good example of the vocal equivalent of bound feet. An inherited lisp or a regional lisp is stil a lisp..
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Isaac Albéniz - Leyenda (From Suite Espanola)
(May 11, 2011 - 19:38) | Zoinks wrote:
When this song first started, I was sure it was Spanish Caravan by the Doors!
Well, this Suite was written by Albeniz in 1887, so technically, perhaps he was before the Doors?
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Nina Simone - Feeling Good
(May 09, 2011 - 19:26) | DanO-1 wrote: Does anyone know when this song was recorded?
No, but it has a very John Barry feel about it.
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AfroCubism - Al Vaivén de Mi Carreta
(May 08, 2011 - 22:17) | fredriley wrote:
I take precisely the opposite view. Salsa Celtica are vibrant and exciting, this is dullsville. This is a view not entirely uninfluenced by my having seen Salsa Celtica live a few times, and having experienced their gioia della vita first hand. Afrocubism no doubt appeals to jazzophiles, but it doesn't have the sheer brio of Cuban salsa. Some fusions work and generate something greater than the sum of their parts, others don't, and this is in the latter category, as are the other Afrocubism numbers played on RP. IMHO, as ever.
Usually I find myself agreeing with Fred, but this time there is a schism. Having spent a month travelling around Cuba listening to the local music at every stop (the govt. makes a space available for musicians in every town), there is room for different slants on popular and not so popular within the framework. Live music will always work better than that which is confined and recorded, provided you are lucky enough to be there when the magic happens.....
Salsa is exciting, but subject to professionalism. The sheer joy of watching an old couple do their thing in the shadows outside a club is oddly captivating..
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Jethro Tull - Bouree
(May 08, 2011 - 18:26) | CoYoT51 wrote: Does anyone here know Blues Saraceno's version?
Nice one too...
Blueees, a new album, pleeeaaaAAAaaase!!!
Thanks for that, nice take from the right field. Already had "Lighter shade of plaid" in the stable.
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Shannon McNally - Down and Dirty
(May 08, 2011 - 17:45) | mfcrowe wrote:very sultry voice, she can sing to me anytime...background guitar riffs aren't bad either 
That reminds me, Mother's Day........time to leave the studio, Bill!
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The Wailin' Jennys - Take it Down
(May 07, 2011 - 20:12) | ziggytrix wrote: I have the same problem with this cover as I do with Patty's cover. It's too pretty. Doesn't convey the anguish of the lyrics.
That's being nit-picky, I know. It's still a very lovely melody.
Listen to it live, they carry it off very nicely.
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Josh Ritter - Good Man
(May 07, 2011 - 19:46) | Proclivities wrote:
I do too, especially when I read the name in the "Now Playing" box. Good song, despite that.
I think your on to something here.........."she's now playing while I'm down here praying, parlaying a run into a straight"
Oh yeah.
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Hot Tuna - 99 Year Blues
(May 07, 2011 - 19:39) | MojoJojo wrote: Makes me want a spicy tuna roll! 
response: Is that what the kids are callin' it these days?
Could be, could be.................woss'it like then eh eh?
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Mississippi John Hurt - Salty Dog Blues
(May 07, 2011 - 19:37) | nagsheadlocal wrote:
Yep. Comes from "sea dog" which was a term for a sailor on shore leave looking for a little loving.
As well as:- salty dog has an older sexual meaning. For example, in the traditional song "Salty Dog Blues", the lyric "Honey, let me be your salty dog" translates to "Let me be your sexual partner."
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Peter Gabriel - A Different Drum
(May 01, 2011 - 21:32) | It is a tradition in our house that this cd is played every Easter Friday. And maybe once every other season too.
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Basia Bulat - Heart Of My Own
(Apr 26, 2011 - 19:15) | hippiechick wrote: I have real mixed feelings about her voice. Sometimes I really like it, sometimes the trill is annoying.
Yes, vibrato can be a pita; I had to leave (escape) a concert with Buffy Saint-Marie performing, just 2 years ago. This is a cut above, though imho.
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Widespread Panic - Little Lilly
(Apr 25, 2011 - 17:58) | old_shep wrote: Nice segue from Knopfler's Coyote, same key, same bass line, and in time !
What he said.
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New Model Army - Vagabonds
(Apr 23, 2011 - 19:51) | Hannio wrote: Thunder and Constipation. Reminds me of the old graffito about paying a nickel and only farting.
Broken hearted, are you?
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Guster - Ruby Falls
(Apr 23, 2011 - 19:48) | Caught my interest right around the muted trumpet and kept it through the blatted final note..
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Tom Waits - Downtown Train
(Apr 23, 2011 - 19:41) | evansdad wrote: An icon in the music business, but he really can't sing...
Neither could Louis Armstrong, Leonard Cohen, Carla Bruni, Milli Vanilli and me. and your point is....?
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Caro Emerald - That Man
(Apr 20, 2011 - 19:15) | Shades of the Squirrel Nut Zippers........bring it on Bill, this is good stuff.
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Jill Barber - Oh My My
(Apr 19, 2011 - 19:47) | Now that JB has decided that the money likes her lower register, she's doing much more of it. I do approve FWIW.
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John Lee Hooker - Boogie Chillen
(Apr 19, 2011 - 19:42) | macbags wrote: Have I grown old, or has paradise?
Yup, you've grown old, as has your oft repeated comment.
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Traffic - Glad
(Apr 19, 2011 - 18:43) | k_trout wrote:
You wouldn't know it and you don't
Hey Kilgore Trout, that was a little harsh and not much value added.
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Medeski, Martin & Wood - Reflector
(Apr 19, 2011 - 18:41) | fredriley wrote: F*ckin' long, innit? 5 at the start, down to 3 several minutes later, further to fall if it goes on much longer. On the plus side, the longer it goes on the more my pleasure will be when it finally stops.
Yes, I miss Joe Strummer too.
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Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabeté - Gomni
(Apr 15, 2011 - 18:37) | Wiki:
As the first African bluesman to achieve widespread popularity on his home continent, Touré was often known as "the African John Lee Hooker"<5>. Musically, the many superpositions of guitars and rhythms in his music were similar to John Lee Hooker's hypnotic blues style.
hence the nice segue........
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Medeski, Martin & Wood - Ice
(Apr 15, 2011 - 18:12) | socalhol wrote:
totally........... I was just thinking a vodka martini would be nice about now!
Negroni, and make it a dry one, please. That would be the second one tonight.
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Emiliana Torrini - White Rabbit
(Apr 15, 2011 - 17:45) | Good, but not great pipes. Grace owns this song, although the backing here is better.
Edit: Cynaera says it better.
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Long John Baldry - Don't Try To Lay No Boogie Woogie
(Feb 16, 2011 - 18:39) | Baby_M wrote: Well, beggin' yer Lordships' pardon, it wor true in me own carefully considered opinion that this, ah, "boo-jee woo-jee" is rather right good stuff, it is, if ye don't mind me sayin' so usin' me faux-Cockney turn o' phrase 'ere.
That would be "Mockney" to which you are referring, squire.
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Suzanne Vega - Widow's Walk
(Feb 15, 2011 - 18:08) | Really nice and her approval rating is about double that of Carla Bruni (the French public were polled today and Carla received 35% approval only).
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Tom Waits - Get Behind The Mule
(Feb 14, 2011 - 19:16) | Bought this cd in 1999 and it's one of the few from that era's stash which still sees daylight regularly. Kathleen Brennan deserves a lot of the credit for this album, IMO.
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Kelly Joe Phelps - Beggar's Oil
(Feb 12, 2011 - 22:52) | Seen him play twice, but unless I knew the words, his diction (or lack of it) made the lyrics unintelligeable. His recorded output is therefore better for me.
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Some Say Leland - The Hunchback
(Feb 02, 2011 - 19:36) | fredriley wrote:
It's got a whopping vocabulary, right enough, but the structure is a mess. There's a minority view in linguistic circles that English is a creole language, as those are characterised by the loss of complex structures from the parent languages. I subscribe to this view, not as a linguist, but because it really pisses off English nationalists.
Up with which, we shall not put.
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Broken Social Scene - World Sick
(Jan 29, 2011 - 19:04) | Stingray wrote:
SWEET LITTLE LIAR!
the song is undancable!!
Wrong yet again, even with my bad back, this needs little ingenuity to dance.
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George Harrison - What Is Life
(Jan 27, 2011 - 21:11) | A friend of my brother-in -law is a plumber and was called to a huge house to fix a drainage problem. Up to his ankles in mud and shite, when a voice from above says: "I've put the kettle on - do you fancy a cup of tea?"
The voice above was G H, of course and that story tells me that he was the only one of the four who never lost his roots.
The point? Not sure, but I do love his music and am willing to rate it the higher for his humanity.
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Steeleye Span - Cam Ye O'er Frae France
(Jan 24, 2011 - 21:04) | What we really need is a romantic song like "Sir James the Rose" from Rocket Cottage - or perhaps Bill is saving that for Valentine's Day?
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Portishead - Glory Box
(Jan 24, 2011 - 18:54) | vandal wrote:Glory Box - Australia/NZ noun (Plural glory boxes) - A lady's storage box containing items saved for her wedding or married life.
In south London slang, a Glory Box is almost the same...........just much much smaller.
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Yello - The Rhythm Divine
(Jan 22, 2011 - 17:25) | Krispian wrote:
Is that Shirley whistling in this song as well?
Dame Shirley Bassey would never stoop so low as to give a little whistle.
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Calexico - Close Behind
(Jan 21, 2011 - 19:29) | The_Enemy wrote:Hawaii Five-O had one of the all-time great theme songs. One of those shows that, even if you didn't like it, you had to watch until the theme was over. Someone should upload it. I wonder if any bands like Shadowy Men or Man of the Atom have covered it? Seems like a natural for either band.
Jack Lord turned down the part of Captain Kirk in Star Trek to play Hawaii 00000. Curious and curiouser.
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J.J. Cale - Fancy Dancer
(Jan 21, 2011 - 18:27) | JJC is one of those singer/songwriters whose material seems best served by others' interpretations. That is not to say that this is bad, just that somebody else will do a killer version.
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Loreena McKennitt - As I Roved Out
(Jan 21, 2011 - 18:23) | I've heard many a bar-singer put more emotion and vocal range into this song (excepting the one nasal tenor who performed it like dirge).
Way past her "best by" date.
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Broken Social Scene - World Sick
(Jan 04, 2011 - 17:14) | grungepuppy wrote:
Or Kings of Leon as someone else pointed out. I can't tell any of them apart. Add Arcade Fire, Doves, Trail of Dead, Elbow.... This just doesn't do it for me. I'm not a fan of the oversimplified rhythm and bombastic orchestral noises, with the high pitched whiny vocals with no range.
But still better than Sigur Ros, no?
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Neil Young - Powderfinger
(Dec 29, 2010 - 00:24) | Does any other song here have more comments? (except anything reviewed by Romeotuna) ahem.
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Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man
(Dec 29, 2010 - 00:16) | None better than Leonard for singing Leonard, sez I. Unextinguishable.
The second 'old groaner' and he's made a very good living at it, too.
Chosing simpatico musicians really helps, tho'.
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Patsy Cline - Crazy
(Dec 21, 2010 - 20:16) | calypsus_1 wrote:
Hopefully we're in the sequence right now
Well, before I could post we segued into The New Pornographers........must have been the eclipse last night altering the warp.
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KT Tunstall - The Golden Age
(Dec 21, 2010 - 20:09) | kctomato wrote: if youre going to play a fretless please make an attempt to match pitch
Perhaps I'm missing something, but aren't all double basses fretless?
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Bertie Blackman - Sky is Falling
(Dec 21, 2010 - 19:54) | jagdriver wrote: File under (a less heavy) Kate Bush.
Agreed, Kate Bush lite.
but this is not such a bad thing, when all's said and done
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Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
(Dec 15, 2010 - 17:34) | Proclivities wrote:
Well, you can only really see one entire foot, and it looks proportionate to me.
Proportionately, most guys might have a higher purpose in mind than her foot.
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Rodrigo y Gabriela - Tamacun
(Nov 07, 2010 - 18:19) | fredriley wrote:
If R&G were played in elevators I wouldn't get off at any floor, and I and the other lift occupants would be dancing like crazy. Say what you like about this pair, but their music sure has zip and energy and could no way be considered to be background muzak. I'd love to see this pair live, I really would. The musicianship and brio is just extraordinary. 9 from the Nottingham jury.
It sounds to me a bit more 'con' than 'brio' to me, but if thy're your cup of rioja, they used to live in Ireland (may still do so) but they are on an extended break due to injuries to Gabriela caused by her percussion on the guitar.
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Nik Kershaw - Wounded
(Nov 07, 2010 - 17:57) | The opening is all Edward Bear..... "down in Mexico, .feeling free as the air" etc
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Elliott Smith - Waltz #2
(Nov 04, 2010 - 18:41) | Now why did I start singing "House of the Rising Sun" at the beginning of this song? Mental regression methinks.
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Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
(Nov 04, 2010 - 18:30) | Saw "We will rock you" in London recently and they used this as the encore song.
Seeing it done on stage, with dancers, acrobats and musicians performing made it what it needed to be, over the top.......decidedly and deliciously.
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Philip Glass - Opening
(Nov 02, 2010 - 18:27) | Perhaps this should have followed Gustavo Santaolalla, nope, on second thoughts, that'd be a surfeit of lampreys.
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U2 - All I Want Is You
(Nov 02, 2010 - 18:20) | Saw them perform this live, after the Pixies had opened for them. Hell of a concert.
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Turin Brakes - Underdog (Save Me)
(Nov 02, 2010 - 17:48) | That_SOB wrote:
Kippers ? Kippers ? What, is that some kind of domestic pet ?
Yep. Probably named Rudyard, too.
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Laura Marling - Ghosts
(Oct 28, 2010 - 18:25) | g-rod wrote:It all fell apart when I got to the page, but I was thinking, " What?? 'The goats, the goats, the goats that broke my heart,' you must be kidding."
That's a neat Mondegreen.......Bill thinks so, too!
PS Mondegreen is named after the song where "they laid him on the green" was commonly heard as Lady Mondegreen.
I prefer "There's a bathroom on the right" myself....
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Rolling Stones - The Last Time
(Oct 27, 2010 - 19:35) | Hah! Got you beat.......Went to school with Keith R. Mind you, although he's only 2 years older than me in metric years, I like to think he now looks 20 years older. In Neptune years.
At least.
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Guess Who - No Time
(Oct 27, 2010 - 19:21) | George_Tirebiter wrote: A lot of my friends didn't like this stuff because it was in heavy rotation on the AM dial. I always liked these guys though - would liked to have seen them all those years ago ~
I did see them in Toronto in the early 70's, then Burton by himself playing a baby-grand piano, also in Toronto, but 30 years later and 100 pounds heavier. Still had the voice, though.
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Aimee Mann - The Scientist (Live)
(Oct 26, 2010 - 19:29) | Must be something to do with the sunglasses pinching the bridge of her schnozzle.
vesta0424 wrote:Why does she sing through her nose?
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Harry Manx - Reubens Train
(Oct 15, 2010 - 18:17) | Dragonfly_Launch wrote: Damn this guy sounds like Kelly Joe Phelps. What is up with that?
Perhaps, although he plays an incredbly difficult machine (Mohan Veena), doesn't have a spastic rocking movement going on, has good diction and was born on the Isle of Man.......oh well, you get my drift.
Seen them both live several times, prefer Harry by far. Quote:The instrument is actually a modified Archtop guitar and consists of 20 strings viz. three melody strings, five drone strings strung to the peghead, and twelve sympathetic strings strung to the tuners mounted on the side of the neck.<1> A gourd (or the tumba) is screwed into the back of the neck for improved sound quality and vibration. It is held in the lap like a slide guitar. The Mohan Veena is under tremendous tension; the total strings pull to be in excess of 500 pounds.<2> Some of the popular performers include its inventor Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, the fusion artist Harry Manx and Pandit Satish Khanwalkar.
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Ray LaMontagne - Be Here Now
(Oct 12, 2010 - 19:18) | dannyboy57 wrote: My God, this is beautiful. It's a worthy tribute to Nick Drake.
Agreed.
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Ben E. King - Stand By Me
(Oct 08, 2010 - 19:36) | Excellent segue from Medeski Martin and Woods, except the Segway guy just ran his biwheel device over a cliff..
Don't mind me, just free association happening on a rainy Thanksgiving weekend night.
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Devics - Siren Song
(Oct 07, 2010 - 20:42) | Laptopdog wrote: This is a nice song to play on your car radio as you drive at a high speed over a cliff.
Better be a high cliff.
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Jill Barber - Measures & Scales
(Oct 03, 2010 - 17:41) | Saw JB this summer at Mission Festival with her band and like her lower register voice a lot, upper register - not so much.
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PJ Harvey - The Wind
(Oct 02, 2010 - 20:45) | Soundtrack for a movie set in Marseilles, starring Leo di Caprio.
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Tom Waits - Chocolate Jesus
(Sep 29, 2010 - 19:48) | segueman wrote:
As a performer he's mesmerizing!
I like TW more than most, but couldn't stand his drunken maudlin ramblings the only time I saw him live.
Still listen to the cds tho'
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Big Head Todd & The Monsters - Broken Hearted Savior
(Sep 29, 2010 - 19:40) | Cynaera wrote:
Y'know, I think "fucked up" is a relative term. Your "fucked up" might be far more tolerable than MY "fucked up." And my "fucked up" might be far more bearable than someone else's life. (And I just used the F-bomb four times in three sentences.) Where else but RP could we get away with this? And when will the Word-Police come winging in to ban this place because we use a word that has legitimate origins? (Not kidding - FUCK stands for "Fornication Under Consent of the King." I'm foggy on the research, but some deity or other wanted virgin wives, so he hired someone to "test" the virgins to make sure that they were, in fact, virgins. Hence, the F.U.C.K. )
Shutting up now.
Or more likely: For unlawful carnal knowlege
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Les Paul - Tico Tico
(Sep 29, 2010 - 19:38) | mauguima wrote: Actually, this is a brazilian song, whose complete title is "Tico-tico no fuba". Originally it's a "chorinho" song.
And all these years here was me thinking that it was "Tico tico no fubar" 
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Nitin Sawhney - Mausam
(Sep 22, 2010 - 15:12) | Eh Johnny.........
I really must make an effort to remember the actual name of this tune
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The Stone Roses - Love Spreads
(Sep 21, 2010 - 19:31) | stewliscious wrote:
Yeah, what he said! Except that part about kipper's knickers, what is that? Pants for a fish?
Yep, that's so the fish can ride his bicycle.
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Calexico - Crystal Frontier (Widescreen)
(Sep 18, 2010 - 17:54) | These guys did this song on the beach at our festival this summer......perfect night, mountains sharp against the setting sun and the horns punctuating the surprisingly strong vocals.
Only perfect.
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Spirit of the West - And If Venice is Sinking
(Sep 13, 2010 - 19:35) | cosmiclint wrote:
Yes, Marini's little man has an erection, and he is on a horse. I don't know how SOTW could have made it more clear to you.
Oh, all these years, I thought Marini's little man was on a whore.......oops.
Saw these guys last year, still as good as ever.
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The Pogues - Tuesday Morning
(Sep 13, 2010 - 19:31) | CamLwalk wrote: I've never heard a bad or boring song by the Pogues. Póg mo thóin!
Set yer barre hoigher me son and no, I won't pog yo thoin!
PS Pogues are up there, but this one is 2.5* ( 'tho I rarely participate in rating )
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Abaji - Valse Arabe
(Sep 12, 2010 - 19:52) | papaman wrote: Sounds similar to Don Ross.
Methinks Don Ross has a striking sound (heavy wood as he calls it) and this is more reflective, not so percussive.
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Bob Dylan - Tangled Up In Blue
(Aug 31, 2010 - 19:33) | k_trout wrote:
i can hear your arteries crusting up all the way over here
What? You think that Dylan had a great voice which only the young can appreciate?
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Uncle Tupelo - Moonshiner
(Aug 30, 2010 - 19:30) | dyharenas wrote:
1)I spent mine on booze and women - the rest I just wasted
2)Are you Georgie Best? Or are you stealing my boy?
Saw Georgie play just once and have an incredible 20 second run of such brilliance even he could not believe it, watching the replay later.
Now he's just an airport; what a waste of talent.
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Buena Vista Social Club - Chan Chan
(Aug 28, 2010 - 18:12) | Spent a month in Cuba recently, heard great music everywhere and heard this at every place every hour. Still like it.
Having said that, my mind started to hear "parrot my caddy" and that damned earworm won't go away. Visions of a golfer's assistant being bludgeoned with a dead parrot wielded by John Cleese.
There! Now it's in your head too...
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Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
(Aug 20, 2010 - 20:57) | Offhand, I can't think of another song which could stand this amount of overplaying over this many years and still warrant a listen.
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Kate Bush - Cloudbusting
(Aug 20, 2010 - 18:56) | calypsus_1 wrote:Kate Bush - "Cloudbusting" videoclip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRHA9W-zExQ
"Kate Bush and Donald Sutherland"
"I love this song and this video, but I can't help chuckling at the fact that Kate looks like Peter Pan in overalls..."
Agreed, but she is still my favorite Munchkin.
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Lucinda Williams - Rescue
(Aug 20, 2010 - 16:35) | Tippster wrote: Thanks, Richard.
Richard, Rich, Dick?............nope, not ringing a bell.
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Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
(Aug 10, 2010 - 18:44) | This song was played as I walked my daughter down the lawn to her beachside wedding last Sunday.
For her, a new beginning.
Thanks, Bill
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Yo La Tengo - Here To Fall
(Aug 10, 2010 - 18:19) | Dave_Mack wrote:
I think you're thinking of the Fish Schlapping Dance — a common mistake.
It's all Palin' into insignificance.
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Jesse Cook - That's Right
(Aug 09, 2010 - 18:13) | Toke wrote: Amazing.. just love it,, a bit like 'Le Boutine Souriante' ,,, gonna have to buy this Album
Is that like Poutine souriante?
Cheesy?
Not for me - this one is hitting all the right notes indeed.
PS Perhaps you meant La Bottine Souriante? As in: Smiling Boot?
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Sarah McLachlan - Awakenings
(Jul 31, 2010 - 19:22) | kaybee wrote: What a segue from "I Feel Possessed"! Way to go, Bill!
Nice piece except for the yodel in Sarah's voice. Love the album cover.
You are hereby condemned to listen to "Hocus Pocus" by Focus, alongside Sisyphus and Prometheus 
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Cesaria Évora - Sangue de Beirona
(Jul 29, 2010 - 19:35) | Much as I love the song, Cesaria in concert brings no emotive power, cigarette in hand, barefoot, unmoving no linking of songs with talk (in any language).
Actually wished I had bought the cd and 3 more, rather sit through a rather wooden concert. Perhaps it was just an off night for her.
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Hot Tuna - Candy Man
(Jul 27, 2010 - 20:13) | black321 wrote: Why'd it take so long to dust off this gem?
Where has the Candy Man gone?
Ask Guy Davis
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Cat Stevens - Miles from Nowhere
(Jul 27, 2010 - 19:41) | Is he rehabilitated yet?
His music has withstood the test of time better than many of his political critics` carping.
Just listen to the music.
Is he rehabilitated yet?
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Stereophonics - Pick a Part That's New
(Jul 22, 2010 - 22:36) | Huey wrote: Whiney
isn't that the sound that horses make?
Whinney is the sound horses make, unless you are referring to Winnifred Atwell, who played the piano in a honky tonk style.
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Natalie Merchant - Nursery Rhyme Of Innocence And Experience
(Jul 22, 2010 - 22:26) | Seahunt wrote: Sunday she played at Strathmore hall in Bethesday, MD. I won tickets from a local radio station (WRNR) to see a private artist showcase. We met in a small restaurant (Addies). The emptied a room and it was Natalie, guitarist, steel guitarist, violin, and banjo and 20 people. They opened with this song. It was like hanging in a living room with a family while they jam. So cool. There were 8 kids sitting on the floor and she was talking with them throughout. She kept borrowing my copy of her new cd to show pictures to the kids of the authors of the songs. It was so cool to be handing a CD back in forth to Natalie Merchant who I saw 20 years ago in a theater with about 7,000 people. Another thing I noticed was how much culture we have lost. She did a song that was an old jump rope song in the south. She asked the girls if they new any jump rope songs....nope. She played a song you square dance to. The kids were clueless but she made them stand up and showed them a little. While we were filing in the kids were already on the floor and they were singing this "This Land is Our Land," the kids didn't know the words. It was Sunday so they played a church hymn, which fell on deaf ears. Because the CD is based on poetry and childrens stories she named a few and they had never heard of them. It just made me realize how cool it was to probably hang at her house to sing songs, dance,, jump rope, ect. Something that is totally lost on our culture nowadays...which is sad.
second comment from me, but I did like the ethos this engenders.
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Nick Drake - Things Behind The Sun
(Jul 22, 2010 - 20:40) | Shaker wrote: For any struggling talent out there- DON'T GIVE UP- because someone doesn't dig your stuff, or you might not be able to fully support yourself from your art. Art is a form of expression and doesn't have to be loved by all. CREATE TO CREATE!
In the end someone, somewhere probably will be wowed by that which may of been easily pasted by another.
Mr/s Shaker:
Couldn't agree more.
TS
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Robbie Robertson - Somewhere Down The Crazy River
(Jul 18, 2010 - 18:01) | This man can paint a picture with words, set the mood, ambiance and temperature, humidity and smell; damn!
Them who like it, like it a lot and as for the rest Frankly, my Dear...............
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Calexico - Quattro (World drifts in)
(Jul 17, 2010 - 19:36) | Saw these guys last night under the stars in the Vancouver Folk Fest, superb, but the sound was thinner, it's better balanced here.
Having said that, the pedal steel (photo below) was amazing.
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Isaac Hayes - Walk On By
(Jul 07, 2010 - 21:51) | First 3 mins is fine, then it's all self-indulgent musicians getting paid by the minute.
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Natalie Merchant - Carnival (Live)
(Jun 29, 2010 - 18:25) | Don't like Natalie's voice? Give a listen to "Leave your sleep" - a superb concept album with Andre Levin arrangements which make her voice shine. It accompanied me 3 hours to Seattle (double album, played twice).
Not too many artists are on that list.
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Mumford & Sons - Dust Bowl Dance
(Jun 28, 2010 - 19:46) | ladyj wrote: after having heard awake my soul here, I downloaded it and checked out the other songs on the album at amazon.com and decided on this one based on 30 seconds. still gravitate more to this song the most.
Dust Bowl Dance not moving you then? Bill played that one or two days ago and it was suitable indeed for the moment.
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The Pharos - Pintor
(Jun 25, 2010 - 21:03) | rulebritannia wrote: Gnarly, dude. Far freakin' out!
Hey, dude, how did you know I would be back today from the Gnarles, a group of islands far out off Prince Rupert?...........could have used this music when the freakin' 3 to 5 metre swells were coming through under the boat.
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Apollo Four Forty - The Man with the Harmonica
(Jun 14, 2010 - 19:04) | Nah, gotta think back.................waaaaay back to the "Strand" cigarettes adverts in the early 60's for that intro.
And yes, they were discontinued, attributed to the 'too lonely' advertising music.
There is such a thing as irony.
NB I did like this after the intro however, plus the Harlem Nocturne following.
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Doves - Kingdom of Rust
(Apr 15, 2010 - 17:52) | For me, it needs a walking base line; other than that I agree with the Calexico parallels - a good thing.
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Paul Simon - The Obvious Child
(Apr 14, 2010 - 19:32) | AuralSects wrote:
Actually, the drum track was recorded on 8 track, live on a Brazillian street. It was a performance by a drum troupe called OLODUM. He wrote the song and fitted it to the drums later.
Paul explains the process here
http://www.thedreamerofmusic.com/how%20was/h1/h1.htm
Saw Olodum drumming for a dance class in a studio, then perform live in a procession in the streets of Salvador do Bahia, Brazil. That was an experience, made all the better by two mid-teen girls from an 'all-dressed in white' school dance troupe goofing about in the back row doing double steps and swivel hip moves long before Madonna even thought of them. Spectacular!
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Show of Hands - Roots
(Apr 06, 2010 - 19:36) | I used to call myself British, until I noticed that only the English called themselves that.
No Irish, Scot or Welshman does. So now I'm English.
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Flogging Molly - Requiem For A Dying Song
(Apr 06, 2010 - 19:32) | Quote: lawman wrote: I love a girl who drinks pints of Guinness...
Quote: Me, too. So I married her and her friend, too. Long story...
Hmm, I've been married to this Guinness drinking girl for 0.4 centuries - now you tell me I've gotta marry her friend too?
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Yo La Tengo - Here To Fall
(Mar 15, 2010 - 19:22) | Second time today I've heard YLT on two very different stations (yes, this the better by far), but perhaps it bodes well for the group.
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Weather Report - Birdland
(Feb 26, 2010 - 19:12) | Manhattan Transfer didn't have to change a note in their version of this classic.
Belatedly, I see I am echoing another's thought.
Must be true, then.
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Kings Of Leon - I Want You
(Feb 07, 2010 - 12:53) |
I've like a few of their other tracks, but this one err nope. Wait, it just got better with the Smiths doing their Joe Strummer tribute.
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Leo Kottke & Mike Gordon - Living In The Country
(Feb 01, 2010 - 18:44) | throwback wrote:nobody can pick the strings quite like Leo! 
I saw Don Ross last night, he can pick, too.
Heavy wood, he calls it and that's correct.
Having said that, I've liked Leo for ever ( and I'm old).
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The Police - Walking On The Moon
(Feb 01, 2010 - 17:40) | Randomax wrote:
Ah, yes...I remember flipping channels and there was this strange thing called a music video playing on some new station...it was "Video killed the radio star".....ironic title it turned out. Didn't realize then that I was watching the very 1st video on MTv....
Depends where you grew up and which MTV you watched....
...
"Money for Nothing," which was the first video ever to be played on MTV in Britain. It was also the first compact disc to sell a million copies and is largely credited for launching the CD format as it was also one of the first DDD
TS
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The Levellers - Too Real
(Jan 15, 2010 - 18:28) | denbear wrote: Nice. Heard them on RP first. Went right out and bought all of their CDs.
Can't match you, first heard these guys riding in a truck through Zimbabwe, courtesy of burned CDs from a fellow who hailed from Plymouth UK. Still liking them.
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Zero 7 - Pop Art Blue
(Jan 15, 2010 - 17:44) | I'm really REALLY out of sync, I kept waiting for a "girl with one eye" increase in volume.
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Sean Blackman - Yerazner
(Jan 08, 2010 - 19:34) | Wasn't the original........
What is better than tossing a banjo into a dumpster?
Answer: Hearing it hit an accordion on the way down.
Sorry.
TS.
crockydile wrote:Sounds like someone dropped the hammer dulcimer down the stairs...onto the cat. 
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Jay Farrar - Different Eyes
(Jan 07, 2010 - 17:03) | sdn wrote: Jay! What the heck are you saying?
"Raise my hand for the wrongs"?
"Raise my hand for the rolls"?
"Raise my hand for the Rons"?
I guess his diction fell off and he's proud of it.
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Leonard Cohen - Waiting For A Miracle
(May 09, 2009 - 18:01) | Well, this is a '92 song...........his voice is worse (!) now, but I don't begrudge anybody trying to replace their stolen pension.
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Astor Piazzolla - Zita
(Apr 16, 2009 - 12:19) | This music lives......heard this very piece being played by a blind street accordionist last week in Quito, Ecuador. Instantly took me back, thanks Bill.
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Suzen JueL - Scratch
(Apr 12, 2009 - 21:55) | I do agree.
glydev wrote:Every once in awhile a song just grabs me and demands that I pay attention, this is one of those songs.
Hauntingly powerful...
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Hem - Old Adam
(Apr 11, 2009 - 19:43) | Without the beavertail coat?
MichaelCrawford wrote:
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Tom Waits - Hold On
(Apr 11, 2009 - 19:41) | Perhaps the most accessible of the songs on this disc. Only excellent.
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Beth Orton - Pass In Time
(Jan 17, 2009 - 15:13) | I like the "h"s I do , yes I do, got to keep telling myself..............
H' OK, still don't.
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Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
(Dec 27, 2008 - 18:40) | Ditto What she said:
lily34 wrote:i agree completely.
however, i was predisposed to not liking her - i actually avoided listening to anything by her due to the tabloids and rumors...i just figured, "trainwreck", not interested, and didn't want to bother. then, someone played her - this whole cd - for me a little over a month ago, and i was shocked...and hooked immediately, and hooked HARD.
now i'm totally ignoring the hype about her and i'm going to just absorb what she delivers. because, damn...it's good. and i'm usually not into female vocalists (aside from phair, who i love, and chrissie hynde, who i worship, and one or two others) that my reaction to her immediately, stunned me. yeah, she's a talent alright. i hope she lives to produce more of this kind of album.
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Robbie Robertson - Unbound
(Dec 27, 2008 - 18:37) | Maybe why he hired the singer from the Bodeans to do the "I dunno, the wind always seems to blow me there along the levee song"
Still like it, notwithstanding.
steeler wrote:Sounds a tad like a very young Tom Waits here.
Well, maybe not. But the stylings are similar to those of Waits.
I like it.
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The Wailin' Jennys - Take it Down
(Dec 27, 2008 - 18:15) | Seen (heard) these gals on 3 continents and it just keeps getting bettah.
Purely hardworking honesty.
No posin' no struttin'.........well maybe a little and that's all good.
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Sam Bush - Stingray
(Dec 27, 2008 - 18:11) | Hole-Lee-shitznitz!
This man has payed with the "20 people-you'd most like-to-meet afore-yee-die-list".
andrewimft wrote:
Chances are you have heard him in:
New Grass Revival— his famous band
and playing on tour and in studio with/for:
Leon Russell
Garth Brooks
Dixie Chicks
Neil Diamond
Jerry Douglas
Steve Earle
Béla Fleck
Richie Furay
Nanci Griffith
David Grisman
Emmylou Harris
Wynonna Judd
Alison Krauss
Leftover Salmon
Lyle Lovett
Tim O'Brien
Dolly Parton
John Prine
Tony Rice
Butch Robins
Linda Ronstadt
Peter Rowan
Shel Silverstein
Ricky Skaggs
Shania Twain
Doc Watson
Don Williams
Trisha Yearwood
But best of all, he's an originator of the new grass style of bluegrass.
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Gotye - Heart's A Mess
(Dec 27, 2008 - 18:04) | Yessir indeedy,
I do agree.
renegade_X wrote:I will never get tired of this song, or any of his others. Does anyone else think that the chorus sounds like the Police (with the back vocals and all)?
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Tori Amos - Caught A Lite Sneeze
(Dec 07, 2008 - 17:18) |
But still only an 8?
My take: Let's see if she has the staying power of Mr Burke. See you in 35 years.
Shirker.
realsleep wrote:The album cover looks like a Sarah Palin spoof....
As for comparisons to Tori's other albums, I would like to defend Boys for Pele. Although I find Under the Pink haunting, thematically purer, and just a very strong work, Boys for Pele represents Tori's diversity much better. She gets to be playfully serious, seriously playful, full of joy in one song and sorrow in the next. "Not the Red Baron" gives me chills even now. Mr. Zebra still makes me laugh. I think Pele marks a watershed moment for Tori, where she got to make the kind of album she wanted without so much studio input.
"Little Earthquakes" was cloaked with newness— here was a star being showcased for the first time. But it was also cloaked with some amateurness, a newbie's over-earnestness. Refreshing, to be sure, but at times trying too hard.
"Under the Pink" had a lot of stripped down songs, with the studio-inserted string sequences adding some extra substance at times, but at other times distracting from the piano. Mostly, though, here was Tori and a piano—what a pairing! Listening to Under the Pink, I often feel like I am in a giant, empty warehouse, and all I can hear is Tori and a piano somewhere unseen at the other end of the building. This was a mature and beautiful album.
"Boys for Pele" came along, and Tori was showing off. She used a harpsichord and other old-fashioned instruments. She sang about whatever she wants and made 180 degree turns from one song to the next. She had 4 minute ballads and 30 seconds improv pieces. She was having fun, and I was, too. She was experimenting freely, which marks an artist now in full control. And I would say she accomplished a rare trifecta— three strong studio albums to start out a career. (we ignore her true "first album", of course).
After Pele, Tori wandered for a while. She tried to make her works more "rock", and that never really succeeded. "Scarlet's Walk" marked a nice return to form, though, and I would say since then she has been consistent. Of course not as raw and powerful as she was.
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Buena Vista Social Club - De Camino a La Vereda
(Dec 02, 2008 - 19:39) | ad4tise wrote: I don't like Mexican Music. In fact, I don't like Mexico. They should seal the borders!
Every time I think that the phrase 'Ugly American' is passe, I am proven wrong. This particular one 107 years old according to her CV.
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Tori Amos - Crucify
(Nov 05, 2008 - 18:33) | crazy wrote: I wish that she wouldn't take herself so seriously.
"zactly"
Perzactly put.
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Pixies - Here Comes Your Man
(Oct 29, 2008 - 12:01) | Had the good fortune to see these guys open for the Stones in one of their infamous 'thrash' performances. Steel wheels Early 89?
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Los Incas - El Cóndor Pasa
(Oct 22, 2008 - 18:47) | nicolaluna wrote:you can hear this song in subway systems around the world! anywhere you go! but i like this version!
It's really the same group, a universal hive-mind of Peruvians.
But......... I was converted by hearing this played on a single flute near Warmiwaynuska. Right time and right place.
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Billy Bragg - Waiting For The Great Leap Forward
(Oct 11, 2008 - 12:10) | jhorton wrote:
I'll trade couplets with Tom over fermented coconut juice.
" Pasties and a G-String, beer and a shot."
I wish you armchair assholes would show up at open mike night and teach me how wrong I am.
Keep your couplets, I'll trade pasties and Gstring with Norah while listening to Tom on my satellite radio, thank you.
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Neko Case - If You Knew
(Oct 07, 2008 - 16:02) | nuggler wrote:
Shades of Petula Clark.
I was at Pet's wedding in mumble, mumble -ty one. She's been on the hit parade for 50 years...................damn, I feel old 
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Inti-Illimani - Huajra
(Sep 06, 2008 - 20:14) | Wherever I travel I encounter Inti-Illimani look-alikes, S.F., Paris, London, Cusco, Vancouver, Capetown, and moooooooore.
Is there a factory which clones them? If only they sounded as good as these original Chilean guys.
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K.D. Lang - Hallelujah
(Sep 05, 2008 - 19:58) | KD's interests in life only coincide with mine when they include motorcycles, but that she made me listen to this burnt offering says much for her phrasing, breath control, timbre and restraint.
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Neko Case - Behind The House
(Aug 27, 2008 - 10:45) | RadioDoc wrote:So much screeching, so little actual talent.
Not her finest hour, but not your's either.
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U2 - All I Want Is You
(Aug 22, 2008 - 17:09) | aragon wrote: Although U2 has become much larger than themselves, a quasi global phenomenon, mainly due to their inspirational and breathtaking performance in the Live Aid festival back in the day, I have to say that yes I do like this song.
Know what you mean, Bono has become so much larger than himself he's been told to diet.
Still like this, tho.
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Eels - Whatever Happened to Soy Bomb
(Aug 22, 2008 - 16:31) | superfido wrote:Don't use google as a verb for god's sake. don't do it. just don't do it. It's not damn verb. 
If "Go ogle" is a sufficient sentence, why would the lack of a tiny space so infuriate some?
I grew up using a mangle and, bereft of it, I still miss it.
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Don Ross - Afraid to Dance
(Aug 05, 2008 - 11:36) | Don Ross calls his music "Heavy Wood" and the live version is identical.
At the last concert I saw, an intent front row would-be guitarist was so distraught by the DADGAD and other unusual tunings that his request was for "anything in C"
By the way, he's won the American Freestyle Guitar title (twice, I think).
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Massive Attack - Inertia Creeps
(Jun 20, 2008 - 18:12) | Shesdifferent wrote: Love this group, not so keen on this song....maybe a second listen?
There you go.....
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Midge Ure - Dear God
(Jun 20, 2008 - 15:48) | alph wrote:
I also found that line a little troubling.
The potential number of religions is limited only by your imagination.
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Apocalyptica - Ruska
(Jun 18, 2008 - 23:12) | I've worked out to this album more than a few times, this is the stretching out track.
Simply superb.
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The Who - The Real Me
(Mar 22, 2008 - 18:34) | daveesh wrote: i know i said this already but it bears repeating: entwistle's bass in this song is SICK!
It's medicine for me.
Ahhh, well yes, I owned a scooter back then, so this is my soundtrack of that era.
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Israel Kamakawiwo'ole - Ka Huila Wai
(Mar 17, 2008 - 12:56) | slartibart_O wrote:
I'm no doctor but his "biology" (build) probably is what made him sing "like an angel". If he lost 300 or 400 lbs he probably wouldn't sound the same because of less stress on the lungs, diaphragm, throat, etc. Ever heard a huge bull "moo"? It's more of a squeak: witness the puny voice of Mike Tyson. The "evil and greed" of us white dudes that formed him made him what he was, not that it is any happier of a tale.
Steroids in the case of the bull and Mike Tyson?
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Junior Brown - Surf Medley
(Mar 14, 2008 - 18:50) | Much as I like this stuff, I once went to a Beat the Bands competition where 7 out of 8 bands played this and the other one played 'Surfin Safari', or maybe it was the other way around.
It was a long session.
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Morcheeba - The Sea
(Mar 14, 2008 - 17:58) | I used to work out to this track and, before that, even more vigorous activities were involved. Ahhhh, fond memories.
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J.S. Bach - Toccata in D minor
(Feb 25, 2008 - 19:36) | I bought this version 30 years ago in Hong Kong and listened to it for the first time (in quadraphonic, no less! ) as I watched a typhoon move in. Eerie! 
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Harry Manx - Forgive & Remember
(Feb 25, 2008 - 18:07) | Dude wrote: The Indian version of the Stratocaster with the whammy bar... nice picking and bending. Keep up the good work RP!
It's callled a 'Mohan Veena' after it's creator and looks like a regular guitar - only it's got a whack of sympathetic strings which resonate or can be strummed (the silvery sound). The whammy is all Harry's fingers and a tad of talent 
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Susan Tedeschi - You Need to Be With Me
(Feb 24, 2008 - 12:31) | starfishNcoffee wrote:It's alright to be Bonnie Raitt-ish. So ya'll don't be mean! 
Agreed, although I think her guitar licks are more raunchy, rather than classic laid back Bonnie. This is a good thing.
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The Beatles - And Your Bird Can Sing
(Feb 10, 2008 - 21:54) | In the day when this was written, to say that you saw 'John and his bird' down at the pub was not pejorative (an argument could be made against Yoko, but not by me). 'Look at those birds over there!' was definitely appreciative.
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The National - Green Gloves
(Sep 07, 2007 - 19:48) | Raechel wrote: After first listen I give this song a generous 6. Granted, I tend to enjoy songs after the second time round (is there a name for this phenomena?) ... we shall see how I feel next time.
Twoterville.
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Afro Celt Sound System - Mojave
(Sep 05, 2007 - 19:59) | Saw these guys do this track live and thought the sound was abysmal........'til I moved upfront, about 30 feet from the group, stage centre. (Yes, small crowd, relatively speaking.)Then the volume of air moved by the speakers vibrated in my chest and the thang came alive DAMN! so that's how it's supposed to be!
Then the base and pipes came in. Even better.
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The Be Good Tanyas - Scattered Leaves
(Sep 04, 2007 - 17:55) | Odyzzeuz wrote: Don't understand why y'all are hatin' on this so bad. I think it's awesome.
Agreed.
Most people have a narrow spectrum which limits their ability to get past any perceived irritating quality to 'hear' the rewarding parts.
Myself included. 
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S.E. Rogie - Kpindigbee
(Sep 02, 2007 - 19:55) | Odyzzeuz wrote:
Trolls are best ignored. You only encourage them.
He's a persistent little prick - I think I'm gonna call him George......
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Loreena McKennitt - The Gates of Istanbul
(Aug 31, 2007 - 17:59) | jagdriver wrote: Always fabulous. She's got a lovely voice; very haunting...in a GOOD way.
Oh, yeah...pass the hookah.
All good, but I want to hear Neko Case do a full-throated version of this song (rather than breathy -voiced, )
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Sheryl Crow - Redemption Day
(Aug 25, 2007 - 18:39) | Misterfixit wrote: screechy ... sounds like a dump truck load full of orphan babies when a bushel basket of broken razon blades are dumped in on top of them. Sort of ...
Besides Crow is a jerk in person ... her narcissism is very narcissistic ....
:puke:
Mr Fixit needs......fixing.
Yes, in the vetinary sense. Wow, first time anyone got me to respond in kind. 
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John Mayall - Room To Move
(Aug 23, 2007 - 19:05) | RockinBlueVoodoo wrote:This song always cracks me up because they used to play a jazz version of this song during some of those fast motion skits on Benny Hill so every time I hear it that's all I can think about
OK you're beyond all hope  :)
First saw Mayall when he had one hell of a line-up in London (errrr 60's)and haven't been worse than mildly disappointed by anything he's done since.
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The Clash - Straight To Hell
(Aug 19, 2007 - 17:53) | I had the chance to see Joe Strummer the last time he played..............and I did summat else. Eh? stupido!
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Francis Cabrel - La Corrida
(Aug 18, 2007 - 15:54) | bokey wrote:
French people piss me off
Understandable - most of them have a better command of English than you. 
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Calexico - Cruel
(Aug 18, 2007 - 15:48) | Liked their previous albums better, but this still worked heading south on 101 and watching the whales in Depoe Bay.
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Koop - Koop Island Blues (w/ Ane Brun)
(Aug 16, 2007 - 18:31) | canadave wrote: This makes me want to go and see Ratatouille again, and I'm not entirely sure why...
Possibly because Ane Brun is a good Australian name?
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Bob Marley - Get Up, Stand Up
(Aug 16, 2007 - 18:02) | Ag3nt0rang3 wrote:
Oh, come on, in this case it was ironic. the equivalent of Nigel Tufnel saying "you see this string? we play this one a lot."
For those needing a smile........try this:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Tufnel
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Manu Chao - Me Gustas Tu
(Aug 14, 2007 - 19:17) | Marina1 wrote: I love this song but I don't know why.
Je ne c'est pas.
"I am not, it is" ....... A different take on Descartes no doubt. 
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Bonobo - Nitelight
(Aug 12, 2007 - 17:48) | Don't need no hurdy gurdy........bonobos do it face to face. 
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Daniel Lanois - Jolie Louise
(Aug 07, 2007 - 18:27) | hctim_53 wrote: please make it stop!!!!
can I bear the song with half word in french and the other half in english!!!!
Better get used to it - that's pretty well a description of Montreal, Quebec.
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Forest For The Trees - Dream
(Aug 05, 2007 - 18:44) | MCKY wrote: clear cut!
Stumped for a reply.  = the number of people who each contributed 40 seconds to this track.
Comes under the heading of "Guilty pleasures"
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Nick Drake - Northern Sky
(Aug 02, 2007 - 15:56) | squidish wrote: Lurve the platform creepers. You know what they say, big shoes = big...
Well, they used to be called "Brothel Creepers" where I grew up - on the nice side of town, mind you). 
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Michelle Shocked - 33 RPM Soul
(Jul 29, 2007 - 20:31) | cc_rider wrote: Loved the cover art when it came out. This album doesn't have the impact of Short Sharp Shocked but is still quite good nonetheless.
c.
That's because Gilbert and Sullivan didn't write the lyrics/melody this time......... 
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The Wailin' Jennys - Arlington
(Jul 29, 2007 - 19:59) | rbigelo wrote:Beautiful. 
Indeed. I saw two of the ex-Jennies this afternoon in Mission and they're all good.
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Leon Russell - Back To The Island
(Jul 26, 2007 - 18:13) | Shesdifferent wrote: I think Leon sounds a whole lot better than Willie Leon is parallel IMO
Perhaps, but I think Leon is unparalleled meself.
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Inti-Illimani - Huajra
(Jul 25, 2007 - 17:44) | I used to think that there was only one Peruvian group playing one panpipes set and they were following me around the world. Then I saw this group live.......a class apart.
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KiLA - The Hour Before the Dawn
(Jul 25, 2007 - 17:36) | Just found the 128AAC connection and I think I can hear the felt of the hammers hitting the strings of the piano.
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Apocalyptica - Ruska
(Jul 24, 2007 - 19:02) | heyjoe3577 wrote: Wouldn't mind hearing some Enter Sandman about now.
Mmhmm! 
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Strawbs - Lay Down
(Jul 23, 2007 - 19:23) | Dirktooth wrote: The regional accent is a bit strong, but it does add to that "rocking blues" feel that some English musicians manage so well.
Let's have some more patronising comments from the snaggletoothed one, yes let's.
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Barenaked Ladies - Everything Had Changed
(Jul 23, 2007 - 18:51) | Hannio wrote: Everything I have heard from BNL fails to live up to the titillating promise of the band's name.
Your musical tastes need titivating.
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Yello - The Rhythm Divine
(Jul 23, 2007 - 18:16) | lunar1963 wrote:
That's because it IS Shirley Bassey...
Hadn't thought of Burley Chassis in years - not unlikeable.
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Apocalyptica - Unforgiven
(Jul 18, 2007 - 17:21) | Perhaps my favorite tune from the album, when played while travelling at a high rate of knots south from Whistler down the Sea to Sky highway, close to dusk.
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The Derek Trucks Band - This Sky
(Jul 13, 2007 - 18:54) | While I like it, I cannot help wondering what it might sound like with a stronger voice at the helm..........
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Hevia - Son Del Busgosu
(Jul 13, 2007 - 18:44) | Agree with Ms Judi: sounds a lot like Afrocelt.........which means that they are best seen live, but still vibrant and time well wasted, as they say elsewhere.
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James Horner - Sing, Sing, Sing
(Jul 11, 2007 - 19:33) | Now me feet be tappin.
Big band trad jazz (espec. in person) has the power to mooove you and yer feet.
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Supergrass - Tales Of Endurance
(Jul 10, 2007 - 19:23) | Daniel_Pittenger wrote: Damn, such a great set all day. I love RP...the last 10-15 songs have made this tedious computer ork so much more bearable. Thanks Bill...
Awww,
don't be so hard on yourself.
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Wilco - Muzzle of Bees
(Jul 08, 2007 - 19:25) | davin wrote:
I agree. All sorts of dopeness indeed, my Honduran friend. 8 -> 9.
Sick? Dope? Malade? Que?
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Sol Seppy - Enter One
(Jul 08, 2007 - 18:37) | Didn't like Claudine Longet (The Party), this is same same, no different.
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Tom Petty - Learning To Fly
(Jul 07, 2007 - 18:11) | slugore wrote: Not his best song. Perhaps a bit too Wilbury. But I always love to hear TP. Would love to hear "You got lucky babe" for a little zippy taste of the 80's
Perhaps Tom was a much larger part of the TW's than we are led to believe. More likely Jeff Lynne though, since he produced both - if my memory serves.
Still liking it.
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Sting - They Dance Alone (Cueca Solo)
(Jul 07, 2007 - 17:56) | dmax wrote: I saw him do this on the Amnesty International Tour. Was pretty moving. I hate to not enjoy this just because he's a pompous dick, so I enjoy it despite that.
No vibrato either.
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Show of Hands - Roots
(Jul 02, 2007 - 19:25) | ScottishWillie wrote:
Ever wondered why Australians call them whinging poms?
Bet you never own up to living in the United Kingdom.
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Gillian Welch - Tear My Stillhouse Down
(Jun 30, 2007 - 12:46) | I do not like country music therefore I do not like this music, I do not like country music therefore I do not like this music..........damnit it's not working. I don't mind this at all. 
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Blind Faith - Can't Find My Way Home
(Jun 27, 2007 - 18:43) | leathepea wrote:
I do, it's always been there. You're right too, it is irritating.
Yep, I have to lose the treble on this one.....worth it, though.
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Ben Harper - Gather 'Round The Stone
(Jun 03, 2007 - 18:16) | DD closemindedmoron wrote: Oh another save the world and whales hippie. Anyone that is a hippie gets a 1 in my book.
What are the chances you'd listen to "Save the Nuclear Whales Saxophone Orchestra" Monsieur Troll?
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Tom Waits - Chocolate Jesus
(Jun 02, 2007 - 16:16) | BLADERUNNER wrote: i know some people love this music.... maybe he is an acquired taste.
Rather like a chocolate Jesus?
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Neko Case - Stinging Velvet
(May 26, 2007 - 19:27) | Repeat after me....I detest Country..I detest country.......yeah, well, I like Neko anyway
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Rolling Stones - Lady Jane
(May 25, 2007 - 12:33) | tapatia wrote:
My dad told me that back when this album first came out, "Lady Jane" was a reference to gay sex - an indulgence for which Mick Jagger was known, at least in later years. If that's true, then I doubt that this song had any direct connection to the one by Cat Stevens.
More likely to be a reference to Jane Asher, or Jane Seymour (not Henry V's) than queer.
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Massive Attack - Inertia Creeps
(May 24, 2007 - 19:02) | Frater_Kork wrote: I completely fail to see the relation to Gloomy Sunday, especially the happy go lucky Heather nova version...
This is a quite excellent album though. Damn near no filler at all.
Maybe they were really thinking of the Bjork version
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William Shatner - Common People
(May 13, 2007 - 18:46) | mattt wrote: This song always makes me think of Paris Hilton, but maybe not anymore. Going to jail, she can indeed fail like common people.
S'allright, Paris Hilton is really common.
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Sigur Rós - Untitled Track 4
(May 13, 2007 - 18:23) | Just the music for a drive up Highway 127 when the wind is howling and the sun is merciless,
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Gomez - How We Operate
(May 08, 2007 - 17:15) | pugifat wrote:haha! i guessed the average rating exactly; before the page even refreshed. i have an odd knack for that...
Start work tomorrow as a pollster and make your fortune!
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Wall Of Voodoo - Mexican Radio
(May 05, 2007 - 18:07) | Pajama rhymes with Alabama bokey wrote:
Go ahead and insult Alabamy and see what happens.Just ask Neil Young.
It would just have to be.........pajamy then.
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Peter Gabriel - Of These, Hope
(May 02, 2007 - 14:23) | Rousted the neighbours out of bed on Easter Sunday with this piece, played at 9/10ths and not contrite either.
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Paul Simon - Another Galaxy
(May 02, 2007 - 14:22) | skdenfeld wrote: Get's a bit of a groove on at the end, eh?
that IS the best part.......nice that you speak Canadian too.
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Ian Anderson - Panama Freighter
(Apr 30, 2007 - 18:42) | shakylegs wrote: I understand that hearing JT/Anderson is one of the prices you have to pay in order to hear the rest of the great stuff on this station, but sometimes I find the price rather steep.
Sorry, but you haven't got a leg to stand on this time, which makes you more like Anderson than you know.
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Cold War Kids - We Used To Vacation
(Apr 30, 2007 - 18:15) | TimeWaster wrote:Still on the fence about this song, but one thing I do like is how it slows down and speeds up. Keeps it interesting. 
Touch of the ole BS & Tears happening there
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Admiral Freebee - Rags'n'run
(Apr 30, 2007 - 18:10) | shayde wrote: You know, I was fine with this until the falsetto "Waiting on a... miracle!" bit toward the end, and that just throws me totally into 'eye-roll' mode. Ew.
Zwannabee
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The Waterboys - Old England
(Apr 30, 2007 - 13:20) | Harrowing eyes.....heroin eyes........ Munsch's "Scream"
Can't help wondering if different instrumentation might have made this into something much different, perhaps better.
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Nick Lowe - Cracking Up
(Apr 27, 2007 - 18:02) | Paul_in_Australia wrote:
Can an English accent be accidentally humorous?
Moast deafinetly, myte!
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Wilco - Jesus, Etc.
(Apr 21, 2007 - 13:24) | Hedwig wrote:
The Rolling Stones Beggar's Banquant is arguably the first alt country album
Piquant, yet.
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Benise - Carnaval
(Apr 16, 2007 - 19:13) | Listening to a berimbau in Brazil in the evening with a cold drink will silence even the worst critic.
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Even though I only understood about 25% of this, I agree 100% 
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Priceless...
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Praise the Lord.
We want the long version . . . 
