Some songs just sound like a parody of themselves, or a band. This one sounds like a parody of the 60's. Not like it represents the time, but as if it is actually calling out some of the strange and silly approaches being tried out in the new rock music of the time. It only has seconds left to play and yet I am STILL tempted to hit the PSD button.

You know what I like about older music? It simple, elegant, and doesn't need drama in it to be appreciated. Thanks to television, kids today don' t think they have an exciting, or even normal, life if there isn't drama in it. Too bad...

Man, this just HAD to have been used in some bad mid-80's crap movie. I envision a car being driven down some city street at night with a female in the passenger seat and outstretched arms.

BLECH!!!! 

There is no respect for professional killers!

The lyrics could be Swedish income tax regulations for all I care—I just like how it sounds and I love her voice.

I always feel like I should put a seatbelt on when I hear this, even though I am not in a vehicle.
Who says acid has no lingering long term effects.

I gave it an 8 too, when I wasn't listening to it. Then when it was playing I remembered how it made me feel. Few songs make me just stop and stare into space. How can it not be a 10. 

"....da da da .....pick your hatred up ..... da da ..... pick your hatred of Neil Young uuuppppp... da dum da dum ....'

A virtual cacaphony of loud, senseless blather by the king of "I can't get past 1969"......

Bill, for the love of good music.. Please stop playing this song.

Nick Cave by ~p0m
©2009-2010 ~p0m

Nick Cave @ Norwegian Wood 09.

HEAD PHONES........HEAD PHONES...........MUST FIND HEAD PHONES ....................

Yep.  I think it actually bypasses the ears and goes straight to the dance centres of the brain, submachine-guns the guards, and seizes control.  Resistance is futile.

Another great guitar player who just doesn't do it for me musically.  There is just something missing.

What can I say? I am odd. I like the repetitive nature of this very danceable tune. I enjoy the Arabic feel of the melody which I especially relish in these days where all things Arabic seem to be diminished as coming from an inferior culture. Let us not forget all the great things Islamic culture has given us, such mundane things as the concept of the number "zero," and the scholarly tradition that made the European "Renaissance" possible. A good "World Beat" tune. PLEASE keep this and more like it coming.

I like this band.  Reminds me a bit of the old Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush stuff.

Annoying, scratching disharmony at the end takes it from ho-hum to sucko-barfo.

I prefer their old stuff, back when they were Lawn & Garden, then the guitarist left to join Automotive, which became Stationery and we know what happened then...

Agreed.  What sort of need for love, affection, caring, and understanding would a robot have?  I thought these needs were particular to complex carbon-based life forms. 

Unless of course the robot was carbon-based somehow, then I'd have to throw out my entire theory.

I was living in Ireland when this album came out - one of their best.  Why so much U2 hatred out there?

Ian Hunter called. He wants his song back.

There are great "river" songs, which evoke the water's passage as much as its role in the lyrical ideas. This is one. So are "One Tree Hill" (U2), "The River" (Bruce), "Green River" (Creedence) and Smetana's "Die Moldau." There are many, many more.

Native Americans like animals lived in harmony with this planet................then the white man and civilization as we know it came along

Ok, I have been officially ZOMBIEIZED from listening to this song so much! Pressure Drop Pressure DropPressure DropPressure DropPressure DropPressure DropPressure DropPressure DropPressure DropPressure DropPressure Drop  Pleeeeeez make it stop!

You're not misunderstanding. There is a real vein of revisionist history that runs through the South. If you drive around down there, you'll see numerous Confederate Battle Flags on display. It's quite surreal, actually. We don't treat the "Stars and Bars" as a symbol of hatred and tyranny the way we should.

The reason these points are relevant to the current discussion is this: the Mexican govt. didn't really care if U.S. citizens moved across the Sabine river and farmed, or even logged to build houses. What they wouldn't allow was Westward expansion involving slavery. Don't trust me, read it for yourself. Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States" is a good place to start.

And, yes, I was born and raised in the South. I won't live there (partially) because of cultural idiocy. And then there's that whole hurricanes and mosquitoes thing...

Overdue for inflamatory comments?

Did he just threaten to lick my butthole?

Havin' a hard time getting any work done (a common problem when listening to RP)!

Some people just don't get real surf music.  Too bad for them.

Now that you say it, I can picture it as well. Starring George Clooney, a few black Chevrolet Suburbans or Tahoes, an underhanded mid to high-level State Department employee affiliated with Haliburton, a Jordanian protaganist looking to rid his community of corruptive radical groups flush with state department cash, and the young and beautiful school teacher with a little brother with one good eye...and she's secretly with the radical groups.   Queue the music!

It sounds to me like he is holding polly hostage.

Bill, for the love of good music.. Please stop playing this song.

Sounds like a cartoon soundtrack

Joseph Campbell was really good at wild unsubstantiated theoretical leaps. Mexico didn't need the Old World to learn how to build pyramids. Don't believe the hype.

...cLASSIC  mARTY rOBBINS STYLE........(STREETS OF LARADO)  BE YOU TEE FULL!!!

Gimme a break, O Imperialist One. First off, who's "we"? Were you involved in NATO negotiations? Did you build the missiles? I doubt it. As for what 'you' get in return, the US gets an imperial outpost in its major economic and political rival, the EU. If you think NATO is about military 'defence' or the 'security of the free world' you're even more stupid than your posting indicates, and that's pretty feckin' stupid, on a par with George Dubya imbecility. NATO is led by the US, mostly funded by the US, and is a tool of US foreign policy.

Still, I agree with your last line. By all means get the feck out of Europe - 'we' need US imperialism like 'we' need a dose of cholera. Take your troops, air bases, and corporations with you. Oh, and feck off out of Iraq, Afghanistan and all those other countries the US has 'liberated' at the cost of 00s of 000s of lives. Bye now, and dinnae haste ye ba'.

A lot of people get it - I just don't - sorry.  And I have tried - I like the guitar, but I like lyrics beyond mumbling yeah, yeah, huh, uh huh huh huh.  Same reason I don't get Little John.

weak

what is the point of singing about this?

If I had a singing cat, this might be how it sounded.

 Jeremy_Cherfas wrote: 

Turn down the volume and Enjoy the Silence?

Just one more reason why I support RP with a monthly contribution - I never would have been exposed to/heard this amazing song.  THanks Bill for continuing to expand my musical horizons.  So much great music, so little time...

     If commercial FM rockers only knew-but they're all deaf or drunk-imagine if this band got some solid airplay. Most excellent musicians, lotsa excellent originals, even the fillers reflect serious musicianship, And they've maintained like, the music matters, not the sellout. RP!! It's become essential! Funds,You Lazys1 Where else wouldja gotten a shot like that whiile ya gear up for workin'? I'm takin' up pluggin', well, doin' all that beggin' between sets, Bill's goin for exasperation.and maybe put the Dandy Warhols on shuffle while he goes on a staycation until we get up off it. What then, Lost FM?

This is one of Elton's "greatest hits"?  Must have been in another market...

In a survey on NPR, this was the #1 album for the year

if i hear another bitch moaning for 5mins im gonna have puncha her face!

Indeed, but Jackson deserves special mention for his excellent stewardship of the precious source material.

Ultra sick of seeing reposts of Excelsior's crap. ENOUGH ALREADY. STOP REPOSTING HIM. He's gone, and every time you repost you feed the troll.

Yeah, that is well put.

"Nationalize your 401K?" 'Cuz yeah, giving my Social Security money to the guys that just caused the greatest depression in US history is a far, far better idea.

Idiot.

Someone's going to end up paying more, because yo, champ, you can't go on borrowing forever with no intent of ever y'know, PAYING IT BACK. Oh but that's not OUR problem, let our great-grandkids deal with it, right?

Douchebag.

 

I guess it's my day to be a fly in the ointment but this is the first song of theirs I can recall putting me to sleep.  Honestly, I've loved so much of their music for so long it amazes me that this one is a complete snooze.  I didn't even recognize the band when I first heard it.  Please play any other song but this one.

They were the warm-up act for Blind Faith in a time long, long ago in another universe.

A literal interpretation isn't quite right. Many a theory goes that the song is about shooting heroin; "river" is a common metaphor for heroin and the imagery in the lyrics are suggestive. However, in his authorized biography, "Shakey", Neil claimed the song was about the end of a relationship. Personally, I like to think it was about having to put a lame horse to sleep.

Even I agree and I'm American.  Get out and see the world people, open your minds.

man, I hate this song. And it's so fucking long............

This is the most uninspired, unoriginal, uninteresting song I've heard on RP. I'm on here to avoid hearing music like this.

i can't believe i've never heard this version. neilicious is right!!

I think that how Dubya managed to get "elected" not once but twice will be one of the great political debates of the next fifty years.

During Dubya's first term I saw a great bumper sticker in Bayfield, Ontario on a car with Michigan plates.  It said:

"Redefeat Bush."

Wish this guy could carry a tune.  If this song doesn't end shortly.........

Whenever Depeche Mode comes on Radio Paradise I get a feeling akin to walking in on a good friend molesting a ferret.

Leonard Nimoy?

Alan Parsons  with wah-wah!!!    nice

It's comments like this that make me think that "Alpine" is a code name for backwoods redneck doofus.

Worst President ever. The damage he has done to our economy, environment, national psyche, and credibility world-wide will take years to repair.

Speaking as a member of the generation that graduated high school when Reagan was in power, let me clear a few things up for ya:

1. I've been paying taxes for quite a while, and the Republicans aren't doing me any favors. Not only are my taxes not low, but I'll be paying for dubya's fiscal irresponsibility for years (and the Democrats will get blamed for trying to fix dubya's fiscal mess). Saying that Obama wants to triple taxes shows that you're either completely ignorant of the facts, or just shilling for the right wing. Either way, you're being their tool. Stop being a tool, ok?

2. If/when another president fabricates evidence to enter a war of choice against a country that is no threat to us, I'll call for their removal as well. And don't tell me about what a bad man Hussein was. I know. He was just as bad when the Reagan administration was enabling his use of chemical weapons. I don't bring that up because Reagan was a Republican. I bring that up because all the pseudo-cons conveniently forget who put Hussein in his position of power.

3. If/when another president shits all over the constitution as this one has done, I will call for their removal as well. This idiot and his puppet master Cheney make Nixon look like a harmless little schoolgirl. And Nixon's lawyer, who did time for his actions, will tell you that, too.

4. Your holier-than-thou because you're older-than-thou attitude makes you look silly, and shows that you have no idea what you're talking about when it comes to other people. I work very hard, and I don't like taxes, especially the ones that are spent wastefully (like wars of choice, for example). I'm surrounded by 20 and 30-somethings who share my values.  Incidentally, I also don't like Starbucks. I don't even like coffee.  But since your generation has let us down and my generation has let us down by allowing the idiot in chief to remain in power, perhaps the Starbucks-Sipping, iPod-Stroking generation will get off its collective ass and force a change from business as usual.  That's better than your generation or my generation did.

5. I love this song and this band. I loved this song before the idiot got into power. And I love the fact that it brings the small-minded out to attack Clinton or Obama because they wrongly think dubya's being attacked. Since they can't say anything in defense of the idiot in charge because there IS no defense for the idiot in charge, the only alternative left for them is to go on the Fox "News" style defense, which is to distract from the issue by attacking Clinton or Obama on some unrelated issue. That, or just outright lying.

6. I'm not a Democrat. I vote for whoever the best (or in most cases the least pathetic) candidate is. In 2000, McCain was my choice, but he was swift-boated (before the term was even coined) by the handlers of the current jackass in power. Unfortunately, the McCain of 2000 is dead. The zombie that possesses his body bears only a physical resemblance to the John McCain of 2000.

7. 

William Shatner is the only guy I can think of who is one of the best actors around; a smart ass, playing an innocent "who ME" playing a smart ass. Watch Boston Legal sometime.

Good version but I'll take the original by Blind Faith.

I agree. Breathy and not very good.

 rtwingo wrote: 

Missionary Monkey?

Yecccccch. Ian should stick to salmon farming.

LENNON DIED FOR OUR SALVATION

THIS IS ONE OF THE WORST SONGS OF CAKE

I hate sand      and vaseline

For such a young 'un, you seem to have a real handle on the Insufferable Crumudgeon persona. 

A read through of your Song Comments is an amusing, if, uh, rather one-dimensional experience.  I know you like some of the songs played here.  I mean, you did hand out some 10s and all.....

What the hell do people see/hear in this band, anyway? 

Oh damnit. I am so sick of turning on RP and hearing the first few sour notes of that fiddle, because it means that the next 5 minutes will be completely bereft of anything resembling a passable melody. This song is like an orchestra of nails on chalkboards, and it's played WAY TOO MUCH.

I can't keep the vision of Don Ho out of my head when I hear this song.

spieler wrote:

As if macho guys never get their hearts broken.

Of course they do, they just don't like to show it. Or they subvert their hurt into workaholism or fun activities like car crashes, serious illnesses, broken legs, fist fights and other stupidities. Wow, it's really absurd how afraid some guys are to have feelings. You know what, macho guys in places like Italy aren't afraid to cry. And like Michael Stipe said, everybody hurts, and he wasn't kidding, even though he was whining (actually I don't like that song much, but he was right.) Macho guys, it's ok if you pretend you never experienced this song— and it's ok if you cry in secret, we won't think you're any less masculine. It's really ok, really.

This is a joke, right?

One of the most annoying, sanctimonious, and humorless bands ever to make it to the big time. I am only familiar with their radio hits - I couldn't stand to listen to a whole album - but their fundamentalist political correctness and straightforward earnestness is what turns many people off to folk music. Whenever you go to bluegrass or folk festival you run into a band that emulates them, usually fronted by a woman in Guatemalan peasant costume. This is the time that most people go to get their meals.

And gets the dittoheads' shorts in a wad... so to speak.

Who are these "Beatles"?  They sound like they are trying to copy Queen.  or Oasis.

Always such weird headphone balance in these Beatles songs...

Does anyone know if this is Ozzie Osborne's daughter?

I agree, music has the power to shift the Zeitgeist which then shifts the popular consensus of what is plausible or acceptable. Remember there was a time when it was thought that for governments to abandon the slave trade would be economically disastrous. Now, no government could openly endorse such a policy. Any act of consciousness is a political act!

noodling guitar masturbation at its worst. . .

NorthernLad wrote: Well worth pointing out. Too many folk in the West are so brainwashed by the War on Terror (TM) that they think that anyone from the Middle East is automatically a wild-eyed Taliban. This song reminds me of my other fave Internet radio station, Iranianradio.com (click here), which is full of fantastic toe-tapping stuff and gives the lie to those who think Iran is full of miserable mullahs. A shame it's one of those stations that put their music on loop, rather than live as with RP. 7 from the Nottingham jury for this one, perhaps more if I knew what the words mean.

Edit: Azam Ali has a page on Wikipedia which is instructive, not least the info that she's lived in America since 1985.

listening to this song is like sitting next to someone in an airplane who is WAY to big for their seat

...and the flight goes on and on

 
  I don't remember this being popular in the realm of the frat boys and dive bars....  It was popular among the late 90s swing set.  Dave Matthews and Bob Marley, they are for the frat boys. 

Possibly the worst song (of very few) on RP. Oh, and incidentally, The Blues Brothers is one of the most annoying movies ever. Go figure.

Agreed.

so so bad… some people should not make music…

Not getting any wood from this at all......

Paging Dr. Freud! Dr. Freud to Emergency! Paging Dr. Freud!

I wouldn't say Tom Jones version SOUNDS like the original. Tom's voice is wayy  different than Otis'. It's just got the same R&B-revue non-stop tempo...and the...sweat...the sex...the soul that the Crowes version does not.

¡Cumbia! ¡Aye Aye!

His version of Hallelujah on this album is sublime. But this song doesn't seem to ring the bell of very many listeners.

Are there any Christian gospel songs that don't mention Jesus, the Lord, heaven, salvation/savior/saving....? 

I feel as if I am far from lonely when listening to this...Nice! Anyone else on this trip?

Never mind on that.. they are trying to sound like someone else... I guess that someone else is them self... I still stand its just ok.

5 of 10

This would go well with the Divynils' I Touch Myself.

I hear it!

Well, it's a complex and highly ritualized procedure. I'm probably not supposed to tell as such knowledge can be dangerous, but since you asked.

Take the 5th Sunday of a month when there's a black hole in the sun. BillG rises early and does a camel walk down the road to rouen to a red house in the octopus's garden. He makes an offering of black coffee and string cheese to the great talking head Zard-Oz and the four strong winds. A copy of the play list is placed on a the head of a radio. He then rolls over stones looking for a bad sign. When he finds one, the offending song is stuck to a tree of porcupine quills, the pronouncement "Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga" is made, and a bonobo is turned loose. The song is then shredded with with a dirty knife made of iron while he drinks wine and does the huron beltane fire dance. At the end of the day he rides wild horses back home while singing Godless (the massive attack mix).

And that is how songs are eliminated from the play list.

Really.

What I love about Pearl Jam - angry, edgy, aggressive at times, but sensitive and sympathetic at the same time...

Does this band play any songs that AREN'T repetitive, jarring and strident?

Not trying to rip off Madeline Payroux at all though is she...

Melody Gardot - Madeline Payroux.
Jazzy soul - Jazzy soul.

No similarity there at all is there!

The original contention in this ongoing argument had nothing to do with which languages are taking over as the language of commerce. It was argued that one of our American friends didn't want to have to listen to music sung in Spanish. The retort was that this attitude was closed-minded and (I'm paraphrasing) ignorant. I have to agree - but that's only my perspective.

Languages are a representative of culture and any lost language can be seen as a lost culture. What a terrible thing to lose a culture if only for its contribution to the value of our world and to the understanding that it can create for those who are open to experiencing something new, different, or challenging.

There will always be those who don't appreciate the value of being open to something outside their own belief system (sound familiar Texas?). Sadly, these days, it appears that our neighbours to the south are suffering from exactly that ignorance. Like the Romans, the Spanish, the British . . . you've had your chance to lead. It appears to me, sitting on the outside and watching, that Rome is burning.

I concur

Great song. I wasn't a U2 fan growing up, but it fits now somehow.

Sounds like Gordon Lightfoot ???

Agree

Does this guy have any original music?

You have a point ... may surprise you but my disgust is indeed merely superficially warranted, firstly by the repetitiously howled word hallelujah, which reminds me of my christian youth secondly by the sucking melody.

So, any clown who Bush bashes is automatically cool and profound. What will these clowns do when Bush is gone? I suppose the democrat, if in power, will be great and beyond reproach, even if they kill thousands of Serbs, helping out KLA terrorists, as Clinton did. Or bomb Iraq, citing weapons of mass destruction as the casus belli, as Clinton did. Clinton Lied, Nobody died, just ask the Serbs. Democrat war good, Republican war bad.

I can't wait until Bush is gone myself, all for a different set of reasons, mainly to see these people suddenly become dead silent when their leader of choice makes equally blundering decisions and exhibits poor leadership as Duh'byue.

Tough to rate this song a 10 at work with that cover art!

Brainwashed by GWB & C Rice.

This is the absolute worst attempt at incorporating Zydeco into an Adult Contemporary song with a Country/Western feel that I have ever heard.

Someone needs to be shot.

That is one HILARIOUS album cover!!

This songs somehow reminds me of my lost virginity.
Another random thought:
U2 will be like Mozart in the future.
~innerninja

There was a thing on CNN last week about the best pies in faces of all time. The best near miss was somebody who missed Ann Coulter by inches. Too bad...

I am getting so sick of Dengue Fever. Eclectic is great... but the same artist over and over doesn't qualify as eclectic in my book. This and all of the didjeridu songs have to stop. In the name eclecticism.

i see myself on a mesa in the desert playing a flute listening to this song. i just have a light cloth around my waist. the wind is slightly blowing against the cloth.-excuse me i need to go take my medication and return to the real world

Born and raised here. Can't imagine living anywhere else. Beach, Mountains, Desert, Forest, Dodgers, Lakers, Disney Land, Weekend trips to San Francisco, San Deigo. Going to concerts at the Hoolywood Bowl. Snowboarding in the morning and getting home in time to play 18 (Yes I did it once). Star sightings, saw Danny Devito, Larry David, Larry King at the ball park. Stood in line for a movie with Tracy Gold. Waited in line for food with David Faustino. Passed Neil Patrick Harris (duggie) and his boy on the stairs at the Malibu Getty Museum. Man I love California.

They should join with ZZ Top !!

Racists rants nothwithstanding, you have it completely backwards. Female circumcision is specifically prohibited ("haram") in Islam. Males are also rarely circumcised in most traditional cultures. In the cultures where this occurs, practices of this sort are found almost exclusively among the non-Muslims, rather than Muslims. And in areas where Shar'ia becomes dominant, these abhorrent practices cease. And yes, Muslims do consider women to be humans--they often elect them to be senators, parliamentarians, and heads of state, as well as regional governors and federal judges. So take your ignorance elsewhere, it doesn't belong among the great music and community of Radio Paradise.

Though I wonder wich Sexy French Canadian they are referring to?

I was just reading about Bush's acknowledgement that he approved torture, that he agrees the next attack will be from Afghanistan but will not send support there and I thought... this particular music has been around a LONG time and has seen it's share of catastrophes, so I am hoping it will make its way throught this one, too. Long live music!!!

Thanks for this song.

This song is 100% north of the Frontera, but that's okay. All part of what my amigos call Mega-Mexico.

You Minutemen can stuff it. We stole the land 150 years ago, Mexico is fully entitled to colonize it back. And the tribes have every right to kick us all off someday too.

Takes me back to being a kid in Memphis, and remembering my mom taking us to our first ever rock concert -- the Moody Blues at the Mid-South Coliseum. I guess I was 10 or so.

I've never been much of a Who fan (please keep your flames to yourself) but I reeeally dig this song.

i would respond that an ass from NY would sound more iritating than an ass from TX because of their god aweful accent. TX talk may sound slow and cut apart otherwise perfectly good words, but NY talk is an assault to the ears.

1960's shades of The Kingston Trio.

This prehistoric piece of equipment has played this recording till the tape finally broke.

:puke:

Only Bowie does better.

You didn't miss a lot when it comes to barricades. Believe me, I was there. You DID miss out on some great...umm... other things, though. It was us that coined that "sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll" thing, ya know.

But, Hey! If you want barricades, there's lotsa old hippies trying to re-live their Vietnam glory days. Pretty easy to hook up with 'em, too, from what I see.

Senility

A bit Amos and Andy.

Fashion is a cruel mistress. Er, master. Whatever.

I must agree with those who want to hear, if only occasionally, the full version. Sure it is a piece from a period in time and space (especially in space), but the rawness and life of the performance are captured so well. About 4 decades later, it stands up well.

Never heard of them before and I definitely dislike what I'm hearing.

Enough already! This is the worst piece of droning crap that I have heard....

Radio static is more musically interesting than this tripe. Educated privileged white people eat it right up, though. Makes 'em feel all global, I guess.

why are Rastafarians always asking Zsa Zsa to protect them? i mean, she's over 90 years old fer cryin' out loud! she needs someone to protect her! unless they need someone to slap a cop? i dunno, man...

Keep your eyes off the package. I dare you.

CAN THIS MUSIC GET ANY WHITER?

Reminds me of Peter Gabriel's Pasion.

Alvaro

Hate to rain on the "boomer" parade but I'm 54 and too young to be a boomer.I don't know how we got sucked into that demographic, but they are a few years beyond us, guys. We're the odd bunch that fell in the middle, and IMHO a pretty interesting (if small) group of folks. From younger people related to others of my age group I have learned that one of our characteristics is we somehow never grew up. In fact, most people tell me they have a hard time figuring out how old I am.

My son is 30 and our tastes in music are pretty much the same. After a rebellious period in his late teenage years he settled in to a wide-ranging enjoyment of eclectic music. He's just as happy listening to RP as I am, tho he does tend to spend more time making his own mixes and seeking out new artists. I am lazy... I just send Bill money so he can continue to take care of that part for me.

I find I can talk music with most age groups as long as they aren't into the current crop of whatever equivalent of "bubblegum" is on tap. I think it's important to understand that there's a quality differential in all genres, including rap and country. In other words some of it is crap and some is great art. Like anything else, sometimes you have to educate yourself to know the difference.

throw it in the trash can.

Ditto...

Yeah, she is just terrible. A rare station switch for me too.

The most over played song on RP....after White Stripes of course!!

America ain't a country. It's a continent (or two, depending on where the geography book was written).

Few lyrics. Those that there are are repetitive, paternalistic, and jejeune. The singing is mostly off key, the vocal quality painfully strained.

With those severe marks against it, any adept instrumentation went unnoticed.

Poor ol' Roy "shoulda stood in bed" the day he recorded this.

Pure Prairie League is what this group reminds me of......

Isn't dancing on someone's grave supposed to be a symbol of spite?

God can this damn lame guitar playing go on any longer????

Please make it stop.

LBJ had this saving grace: he hated the segregationists and regarded them with a poison evident in his tone of voice while speaking on the air, even with the dated audio technology available at the time he signed the 14th Amendment.

To all you naysayers re Ryan Adams: F- you. He is a talented singer songwriter. Yah he's a little temperamental , so what, You people are way too negative.

yes. Mr. Cray with dress.

I just got this one myself. In fact, I had it playinh through iTunes when 'One of These Days' came on RP. Great album, good song.

Dylan's voice is "unique" but he is a classic, very original songwriter. I bet if you took a poll you could guess the ages of RP members by whether or not they dig Dylan. He was a huge part of youth culture in the 60's and 70's.

Correction, the Bush administration was the first in American history to ALLOW a terrorist attack on the scale of 9/11 to happen, despite ample warnings. And if what you mean by "pick up the pieces" is "shred the Constitution", well, they did do that.

And while you toss out the usual right-wing references to lattes and tinfoil and laptops (ooh, clever), try and bear in mind that Iraq had NOTHING to do with 9/11, had no WMD's, and that there was no Al Queida there until we blundered in to steal their oil and ignited a civil war.

Yeah.. tell the suicide bombers this. Geez.

I know I should probably get back into therapy and explore why I was so entertained by the cut-and-paste rant that Mysteryplane provided, but I really like U2, and I thought the post was funny because it was so over the top. If more people could find their way to such creative, devoted vents maybe they'd stop walking into crowds with weapons that create more harm than a word processer linked to a comment site... probably not... just a thought.

Yeah, me too. I never dug deep enough to hear their earlier stuff....

Stop, Please stop, please don't stop, please don't stop my right foot from tapping out the beat. tap, tappy, tap, tap.

Really nice. I don't normally like her but this one has some rythum and a story behind the beat.

Used to like this band until this fat asshole back in Columbia MD (who i worked with at a major corportion) said he liked 'em, now I can't listen to 'em without thinking of that fat fuck :puke:

It was the theme for the Showtime(?) series "Queer As Folk"

I bet you weren't as big of an asshole back then, though.

Has anyone else picked up on his cryptic references to anti-government?

Anything specific? Seems that Bush II takes the prize for worst admin to date.

Maybe annoying, but I'm curious how people would feel if Eddie was a Republican/right wing guy and expressed it as such in his lyrics and music. Would all the Eddie fans still feel the same towards him?

I listened to this album after my first child was born 3 1/2 months premature. This song touched me preety hard that cold, snowy day with me sitting at home crying to myself on the couch without my wife, my child, anyone to hold me and let me know things were going to be okay.

And everything is okay now. My son is a tall (albeit thin) teenager who loves listening to music, playing guitar, and dissing all things adult.

But I always think of those dark days whenever I hear this song.

Somehow I do not think it is as simple as a lack of self-discipline either. Probably a lot (was) going on with him that we just don't know about.

Yes, it's true indigenous populations have suffered dramatically as they've been force-fed crap, junkfood introduced by the so-called "developed" world while their native habitats have been converted to sugar plantations, pineapple farms and million-dollar coastal properties for the "white" exploitative class. Biology demonstrates that native peoples' metabolic systems can't cope with the alcohol, sugar, processed food and chemically-laden meat of the industrial food model - and other folks aren't doing too well eating that crap either.

Ergo, this man died young! Despite that he sings with the voice of an angel proving he, at least, was above the evil and greed which helped form him!

First time I've heard this track. Up until RP, Fleetwood Mac for me was RUMORS and TUSK..... early Fleetwood Mac wasn't on the radar - the more I listen to RP, the more early Fleetwood Mac I hear, and the more I like it!

I like opportunities to practice Spanish . . . in conversations. If I wanted to hear Spanish music, I'd be on another station. This is very irritating.

Peter Murphy is one of my favorite artists and Strange Kind of Love is one of my favorite Peter Murphy offerings. I rate it a 10.

I bought this album as the lead singer produced several of Echo and the Bunnymen's albums. This song brings back old times of being happily in love, fresh out of college, riding my mountain bike, driving a 73 superbeetle and having lots of long, blond hair.

Now I have 2 kids, no hair, too many mountain bikes, a smokin subaru wrx, and no time to enjoy life like I did in those carefree days of youth.

Great song just for the nostalgia factor.

My upload
BTW, nice set

9:53 pm - Federico Aubele - Esta Noche
9:50 pm - Calexico - El Picador (live)
9:45 pm - Al DiMeola - Mediterranean Sundance

I'm in a minority here - I really don't like this song. For one thing, it's a fairly trite ballad, and EJ is capable of far better. For another ... it's just a bit too easy listening for me. I'm not presuming to tell Bill and Rebecca how to program, I'm just voicing an opinion about this song ... feh. It's like bad Billy Joel ...

Love this song.

Makes me think of a Senorita wearing a slinky skirt with slits up the side, wearing Floris perfume and black FMP's.

Everybody watching, ang drooling.

give me a break - PLEASE. This is horrible.

MAKE IT STOP! No matter how you look at it, this is bad pop music!

Tony Basil called and she wants her M-I-C-K-E-Y music back.

Not RP worthy

boo this too

Could stand to study Johnny Cash a little more closely, lacks soul for mine.

This is a strange feeling, but for the first time in the 5+ years I have been listening to RP, I feel like I'm listening to a corporate FM station. The past 3 songs have all received considerable airplay on FM stations.

I'm not saying the songs are bad, because I do like them.

c'mon y'all anything from Brother Joe deserves more than a 6.9!! This whole album is awesome.

For the record
1. O'Reilly is full of himself.
2. Sean Hannity is a simpleton.
3. Limbaugh is a broken record.

At 50 I qualify as an "old fuddie" and I can assure you that age (young or old) is not a qualification for musical taste. Some of the young 'uns here are amazingly myopic when it comes to their breadth of appreciation, let alone tolerance, of new or unknown musical styles.

Not that it matters. I'll continue to enjoy it all regardless of what they think.

This is really pop music. I don't see where this fits the typical RP programming. Personally don't like this style of music. Too manstream and just way over produced IMHO.

Too bad I can't get RP in the GTI. This would be perfect for a speed run on a twisty road.

I was keeping quiet, thinking the song list might improve, but between this song and Everything But the Girl played moments ago, I must sadly sign off RP. First time I've unplugged and I feel sad but this music is crap and I've got a life to lead. Here goes, placing PT in the CD. Adios

Something tells me the guy on the album cover is the result of Western influence...

Probably because holy roller music has had a huge impact on the tradition of American music. Even artists who would not call themselves religious are often influenced by it just because it was so pervasive.

You're so wrong in so many things that it would take pages to reply, and life just ain't long enough for that kind of argument on a radio station forum where folk rightly concentrate on the music. Still, you asked Qs, so here you go:



Er, no. a) atheism isn't one philosophy or ideology, and b) it's not dependent on Freudian principles.

"the man" fills us with his poisons and then sells us his expensive cures. Where's the health care? The man manipulates us to become totally dependent on his oil then raises prices and makes us fight his wars to keep their record profits coming in. Yeah, the man. Aint he great?