Ane Brun - Oh Love
(May 16, 2013 - 13:00) | d-don wrote: This seems like the kind of song Cynaera would love and offer good commentary for. I'll vote it a 10 in her honor.
She's still among us, ain't she?
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Neil Young - Natural Beauty
(May 03, 2013 - 08:10) | dew34 wrote:I'm making a collection of Neil Young albums and I recently transferred the cassette copy to cd. I was amazed at how excellent this recording really is. neil is a major influence in my musical tastes and this is a fine example of his greatness. Just got Sleeps with Angels and i think that may be his best.  
Excellent choice.
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Eric Clapton - River of Tears
(Mar 18, 2013 - 05:56) | boober wrote: Sandy Hook elementary School!
That's all I can think about when I hear this song.
How so?
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Johnny Cash - Ghost Riders In The Sky
(Jan 08, 2013 - 05:51) | shellbella wrote: I know people just love Johnny Cash... I don't like his music, his voice, nadda... Doesn't do anything for me.....
Can´t see anybody around here denying you the right.
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Bob Dylan - Slow Train
(Dec 22, 2012 - 03:14) | Poacher wrote: I am in shock. . . a Dylan song I actually like. OK, mostly because of the guitar and the beat, but I am here to stand up and say - from a long term and committed anti-Dylan-ite - this is pretty good.
8.
I have similar feelings about Mark Knopfler, who usually bores me to death. Here, he seems to have found something to really unty his talent.
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The Who - Pinball Wizard
(Dec 01, 2012 - 03:03) | mandolin wrote: ...call me a skeptic, but i really don't think it's possible to play pinball by sense of smell...
Of course not. But let me recommend you a very funny movie: The blind Swordsman: Zatoichi (Takeshi Kitano, 2004). It could easily be titled Katana Wizard.
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Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire
(Nov 21, 2012 - 14:20) | unclehud wrote: Serious lyrics, man. Very serious. I mean it.
Does not look like you agree with Zappa.
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Levon Helm - The Weight (live)
(Nov 14, 2012 - 01:25) | hippiechick wrote: Can anyone please tell me what this song is about?
KurtfromLaQuinta wrote:
It's a heavy subject.
So to say.
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King Crimson - Epitaph
(Nov 13, 2012 - 12:42) | ScottishWillie wrote:King Crimson the acceptable face of Prog Rock
Sounds about right.
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Leonard Cohen - So Long, Marianne (live)
(Oct 30, 2012 - 13:19) | jhorton wrote: Lady in the trailer across from me says, " That's just orrible!"
She's from one of those places near England. Like, Wales or Denmark or something.
So?
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John Martyn - Bless The Weather
(Oct 18, 2012 - 12:14) | frank-peter wrote: Bill G. is searching in the elevator for the old piano!
But I love this song!
It could come from me! (Music and lyrcis)
Hä?
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The Clash - London Calling
(Oct 16, 2012 - 13:19) | Nadine wrote: meh. the tv stations here use it as opening music for their doping'lympics-broadcasts. that's quite dull and not creative and sooooo inappropriate.
the clash were punks, right? imho 15-billion-euro-olympics and punks don't match. at all.
Oh, just let the punks become famous and make real good money, and we'll see....
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Rubén González - Mandinga
(Oct 16, 2012 - 13:10) | Never been to Cuba, but when I hear those guys playing, it feels like I would share the same room with them. Unexplainable. It's like they'd always lived just around the corner.
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Incubus - Aqueous Transmission
(Sep 30, 2012 - 03:31) | Tana wrote: This song prompted the compilation I'm working on - "Vaguely Japanese." Any other ideas for songs to include? Not Japanese, but Western artists employing Japanese instruments, pentatonic scale, or general sound. I've got some interesting ones in mind but would love to get your ideas. No J-pop! Post here or email me at tanager41@comcast.net. Thanks!
Tana's Music Picks: https://sites.google.com/site/tanamusicpicks/
What do pentatonic scales have to do with Eastern music? Just asking.
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The Cure - Burn
(Aug 21, 2012 - 03:18) | ozzie1313 wrote: Grateful to be a Dead Head that can still expand enough to not miss the absolute excellence of the Cure.
Bill: we need a Like-button for the comments, like on Facebook.
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Beck - Jack-Ass
(Jul 13, 2012 - 06:19) | An already covered song sampled into another one. How should such a proceeding be designated? Meta-sampling? Meta-covering? Meta-plagiarism? Not that it was'nt enjoyable.
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Crosby Stills & Nash - Long Time Gone
(Jun 11, 2012 - 10:20) | johnjconn wrote: Like most CSN songs, this hasn't aged well.
Time to retire this one Bill
d-don wrote:
Couldn't disagree with this more.
Nicely coated with patina. Now how about that?
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Santana Brothers - Luz Amor Y Vida
(Jun 09, 2012 - 06:33) | Xstar wrote:Maybe you should help George's career out a little, and move across the border. 
You don't have a problem with Spanish-speaking immigrants, do you, pal?
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Jethro Tull - Reasons For Waiting
(Jun 01, 2012 - 13:21) | Don't ask me why. But this song sounds just like it fits into the season of the year (in the northern hemisphere, I mean). And BTW: a few songs ago we had Monsters of Folk, and the sleeve image reminded me so much of this one.
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Los Lobos - La Bamba
(May 22, 2012 - 08:01) | romeotuma wrote:
Esta canción es buena para los oídos...
Eso es: ¡sorpréndeme!
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John Coltrane - Naima
(May 10, 2012 - 12:56) | Believe it or not, but this is the first time in my life a saxo actually strikes me.
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The Band - The Weight (With The Staples)
(May 07, 2012 - 06:16) | hippiechick wrote: I have listened to this song at least 1000 times and still don't get what it's about.
In a certain way, you do: it's about a guy coming to some place where he just doesn't get it.
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Eagles - The Last Resort
(Apr 26, 2012 - 15:00) | cvandoren wrote: Interesting seqway after John Prine's Paradise. References to paradise here, plus the obvious connection to ruining the land. Still don't like the long though, a Ho-Hum for me.
Maybe what you don't get is the bitter irony hidden beneath the Ho-Hum?
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The Decemberists - Down By The Water
(Apr 26, 2012 - 13:25) | Byronape wrote:
"Main Drag" is an old expression for the main street through a small town. It has also been used to refer to any straight stretch of road that is away from populated areas and is a quarter mile or longer, like in drag racing.
However, from my childhood, I've always heard it as referring to a main thoroughfare through a small town.
Interesting, thanks for that. I would rather have thought about a canal, or something. Anyway, what made me ask the question was the Pogues' song The Old Main Drag, and a certain kind of Celtic feeling in the present one.
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Leonard Cohen - Amen
(Apr 26, 2012 - 12:01) | Sasha2001 wrote: Fantastic poet. Passable music. If you're listening to Mr. Cohen as a musician you're most likely going to be disappointed. But if you're listening to him as a poet who uses music to convey his verse, he's infinitely more satisfying.
Byronape wrote:
Dylan, Tom Waits, Neil Young, and Leonard Cohen all have that in common.
Each of these four is so different for me that I'd hardly dare name them in a row.
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The Who - Quadrophenia
(Mar 26, 2012 - 03:06) | If you played the shit out of it, it would still not be overplayed.
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The Doors - Strange Days
(Mar 25, 2012 - 10:42) | unclehud wrote: This is rock and roll? Why, of course it is!
I love how the 'rock and roll' label embraces so much — Rolling Stones and King Crimson and Elvis Presley and Elvis Costello and Clapton and Doors and Scorpions and Captain Beyond and Led Zeppelin and Ozzie and Humble Pie and Little Feat and Frank Zappa and Abba and Wishbone Ash and They Might Be Giants and ....
Ok, maybe not TMBG.
I'd probably have left ABBA out (apart from the Scorpions). But maybe I'm too old school on that one.
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Beck - Beautiful Way
(Mar 10, 2012 - 11:05) | Stingray wrote: BEWARE - SCIENTOLOGIST!
Yeah. Hope you recall this advise each time you're going to see a movie starring Tom Cruise, John Fucking Travolta or.... Dustin Hofmann, wasn't he also?
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Booker T & The M.G.s - Green Onions (Live)
(Mar 08, 2012 - 12:40) | Jelani wrote: This version sounds a bit more "aggressive" than the studio version.
Less bippy-boppy.
I like it.
More like roller derby than roller rink. :)
See, kid: songs like this, played by musicians like them, are great already and can only grow better. Dig it at once.
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Leonard Cohen - Darkness
(Feb 27, 2012 - 13:02) | TimeWaster wrote:
Look at the orange in his hand. Announcing death. Now I believe it.
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Peter Gabriel - Feeling Begins
(Feb 26, 2012 - 03:54) | Otomi wrote:
Basically, it's great story, well told, with meticulous attention to all the intricacies of the cinematographer's craft, including breathtaking visuals and audio.
Makes me think. Because, all these qualities are precisely the ones I missed. I even liked Gibsons hardcore catholic approach better.
Maybe it got me in the wrong mood when I watched it, and I should give it another opportunity.....  ?
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Rachid Taha - Barra Barra
(Feb 24, 2012 - 02:50) | tutakea wrote: I really hate the narrowmindedness which comes through in the low average rating for this song, as with a lot of "not-so-european" music played here. some of the comments here are even worse than narrowminded, they are straightforward racism. RP is my favorite radio station BECAUSE those kind of music is palyed here!
<....>
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Nick Drake - Place To Be
(Feb 24, 2012 - 01:54) | calypsus_1 wrote: Nick Drake by Meloearth.comCris Melo http://www.flickr.com/photos/meloearth/Place To Be When I was young, younger than before
I never saw the truth hanging from the door
And now I'm older see it face to face
And now I'm older gotta get up, clean the place And I was green, greener than the hill
Where flowers grew and sun shone still
Now I'm darker than the deepest sea
Just hand me down, give me a place to be And I was strong, strong in the sun
I thought I'd see when day was done
Now I'm weaker than the palest blue
Oh, so weak in this need for you  All rights reserved
That's what breaks my heart, cc_rider. Beside the voice, of course.Greetings to Texas.
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The Cars - Moving In Stereo
(Feb 18, 2012 - 02:04) | coloradojohn wrote: Ahh, the Moving In Stereo multiple-flashback syndrome, I know it well...
Just about every time I was in my car with some gal and this came on the radio or tape-deck, no matter how much I dug her, she'd almost invariably shock me into sense (with her eyes of porcelain and of blue, mind you!) by saying, "HEY — you're not even listening to me, are you? Your mind is taken up by THIS SONG, isn't it?..." and I'd have no choice but to admit it: busted.
I like how this hinted at their well-bent and darker FutureWorld mood, and Ben's wild singing on the Panorama album was mind-blowingly good; it's a stunning work, way ahead of its time — and it sounds absolutely incredible now...
ya know, i just came in here to comment on how retro this sounded to me; then i saw the release date and thought, wow, how deeply must these guys have been into the future back then. outstanding, indeed.
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Emancipator - Nevergreen
(Feb 06, 2012 - 11:55) | SinisterDexter wrote:That's the first thing I noticed when I saw the cover: a lioness laying on its side - can clearly see eyes, nose and mouth. Once I see it, it can't be "unseen". 
Defintely not. Whatever one sees.
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Santana Brothers - Luz Amor Y Vida
(Feb 03, 2012 - 10:01) | Kokoloco53 wrote:Bueno gente, tienes que tener un poco de sangre latino para distinguir lo bueno de la musica de Carlos Santana! Nunca antes habia yo escuchado este album, y pense que sabia de todo sus canciones. Que magnifico esta coleccion porque incluye sus hermano Gorge Santana que me han dicho era realmente el lider original de su familia Santana musical cuando todavia vivian en Mexico. El cuento es que Gorge, el lider, estovo para tomar su banda que incluyo su hermanito Carlos a Los Angeles para una entrevista y audicion con una compania de discos. Gorge tenia problemas con la policia y no pudo entrar a Los Estados Unidos y por eso Gorge quedo in Mexico mientras que Carlos se fue con su banda y el resto ya es historia, Carlos llego en los Estados Unidos y logro el exito que ya tiene toadavia. Que curioso!! No!
Ok people, you have to have a little bit of latin blood in order to judge the quality of Carlos Santana's music! I had never heard of this album and I thought that I knew them all. What a magnificent album because it includes his brother George Santana that I have heard was really the original leader of the Santana family of musicians when they grew up in Mexico. The story goes that George, the leader, was about to take the group, that included his little brother Carlos, to Los Angeles to audition for a record company. George had problems with the police and couldn't enter the United States, so George stayed home in Mexico while Carlos went with the band and the rest is history, Carlos arrived in the USA and achieved huge success that enjoys to this day. How funny! Not.
Lo siento, hermano, pero este mensaje suena bastante etnocéntrico. Hazme caso: la autoafirmación es otra cosa.
I'm sorry, brother, but the above statement sounds quite ethnocentric. Believe me: self-affirmation does not work like this.
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Miles Davis - It Ain't Necessarily So
(Jan 31, 2012 - 03:01) | Canlistener wrote: Like others here I'm not a jazz fan, but I really enjoy this. The big band sound is nice and it's not 'too jazzy' if that even makes sense?
Not very much so, if you ask me.
Edit:
Well, yes, it does, etymologically, if you understand jazzy as a synonym of wild; because a Big Band usually sounds rather smooth. Yeah, I can see what you mean.
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Bob Dylan - Tonight I'll Be Staying Here with You
(Jan 23, 2012 - 03:07) | ozzie1313 wrote: I saw Bob a couple of time during this period and with the affected voice change was a little worried he had multiple personalities going on.
Well. He was not there, ya know.
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The Black Crowes - Good Morning Captain
(Jan 12, 2012 - 02:16) | RParadise wrote:
Funny, I heard Little Feat. Lead singer even had overtones of Lowell George.
There's a cover of Willin' they did, methinks, out there on Youtube.
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Massive Attack - Everywhen
(Jan 12, 2012 - 01:54) | robertomiller wrote: Still feels fresh today. Cool vibe.
Curious. I think the same each time I hear the first recordings of, say, John Lee Hooker. That was more than half a century ago, this is less than a decade.
This being said, I'm still a big MA fan.
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Neko Case - Deep Red Bells
(Dec 17, 2011 - 01:30) | TerryS wrote: Best heard going south on Highway 97 into California, with storm clouds gathering in your mirrors..
I´m from Europe. But I get the image, mate.
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Van Morrison - Cleaning Windows
(Dec 13, 2011 - 01:59) | DaveInVA wrote: This song came out in 1982 not 1964 and was on the Beautiful Vision LP. Here is the artwork
I rather dig the album. Though I always felt somewhat uneasy about that aryan mist stuff....
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Tinariwen - Tenere Taqqim Tossam
(Dec 09, 2011 - 11:36) | yodasan_magoo wrote: Nope, just not growing on me. My dog is not diggin it either, and he is a pretty good judge of music. Dog says give it a 1.
Let your dog dig bones.
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!Deladap - Lautlos
(Dec 04, 2011 - 03:42) | salzburg4321 wrote:Ich kann dieses Lied nicht aushalten!  (I can't bear this song! For so many reasons!)
Wer in Dreiteufelsnamen ist das blosz?
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Taj Mahal - The Calypsonians
(Dec 03, 2011 - 03:51) | kysmet wrote: not diggin' this at all
I thought it was Dr. John recovering from pneumonia.
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Roy Buchanan - Sweet Dreams
(Nov 30, 2011 - 13:43) | HazzeSwede wrote: That's a talkin guitar,if I ever heard one ! #9.
Nicely said from your side and wholeheartedly agreed from mine.
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Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit
(Nov 19, 2011 - 10:38) | Stingray wrote:
<...>
It's a paradox that Jefferson Airplane - and all they stood and stand for -
are a product of the very country that bred shady characters like
BUSH, CHENEY, WOLFOWITZ and the likes...!
The gap can be even wider, as my provenance proves: for I come from the country that brought forth Goebbels, Mengele, Goering etc., regardless of Beethoven, Einstein or Mann, to name just a few.
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Tom Waits - Hold On
(Oct 15, 2011 - 05:43) | Decoy wrote:
I love me some Tom Waits in the morning...
BKardon wrote:
Good late in the evening too!
Kinda depends on where you live...
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Tori Amos - Battle Of Trees
(Oct 04, 2011 - 11:22) | andjones wrote: That's eerie to hear tori amos singing on top of eric satie's gnossienne #1
I call it the advantage of having a classical formation in music.
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Cream - I Feel Free
(Oct 04, 2011 - 11:09) | johnjconn wrote: I feel board, turn it off
A board. That's what you got on your forehead.
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Feist - A Commotion
(Oct 04, 2011 - 10:48) | mandolin wrote: ...interesting!..
...my coworker hears "barbara bush"...
I hear what you hear: an interesting tune.
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Ennio Morricone - The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
(Sep 30, 2011 - 10:25) | linzie wrote:Such a great flick! Clint was as good as ever, but EW stole this one....
Wallach totally outplays him. Eastwood does what he would until today: he plays Clint Eastwood.
And on this, he does a pretty good job.
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Beck - Stormbringer
(Sep 26, 2011 - 13:58) | Had to have a look because it reminded me of Nick Drake (the Bryter Layter period, to be more precise). Than I saw the artist's name. And the title, which evokes Michael Moorcock to me, and of course BÖC.
And then I saw it's all meant as a tribute to John Martyn.
Man!
Edit: Long live RP!
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The Animals - When I Was Young
(Sep 25, 2011 - 03:17) | Shesdifferent wrote: Nowadays, I can so relate to what he was singing about.....such an excellent set of musicians-hey, what ever happened to those?
Saw them live this summer, in Germany. Nice.
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Red Hot Chili Peppers - Breaking The Girl
(Sep 10, 2011 - 03:54) | lmic wrote: Sounds Yes-ish and Tull-ish.
socalhol wrote:must be the flute sounds in the background.... like medieval traveling minstrels, or something 
Wow.
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David Bowie - Panic In Detroit
(Sep 07, 2011 - 12:28) | Randomax wrote: so much Quicksilver Messenger Service guitar sound/beat in here....anyone else hear that?
It´s the Bo Diddley what I hear.
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Rolling Stones - Parachute Woman
(Sep 07, 2011 - 09:51) | No track from this album can go wrong for me. We already had Salt of the Earth, earlier today (on my side of the globe, I mean).
Now, Prodigal Son or Factory Girl would actually crown the experience.
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Rolling Stones - Salt of the Earth
(Sep 07, 2011 - 03:13) | Stingray wrote:
no idea! But certainly not the "German" cover!
It certainly WAS this sleeve image I bought it with back in the 80s. Guess where.
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Led Zeppelin - The Battle of Evermore
(Sep 06, 2011 - 09:19) | Cynaera wrote:
Total 10. I remember when my parents would take off for good fishing territory, leaving the house to me. I'd put this album on and sit at the end of the hallway where the stereo was, and just close my eyes and dream... It was before I'd ever read Lord of the Rings, but it moved me in ways I didn't understand until much later... Say what you want about this song, or this album - it kicked my creativity and made me realize that I wanted to be a writer. <...>
And have you become one?
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Rachid Taha - Barra Barra
(Sep 06, 2011 - 02:28) | BobbyCat wrote: Ouch, this really hurts. Bill, how can you play that crap? I mean, being open minded doesn't necessarily imply you have to play anything, just because it sounds exotic.
On any station you'd just run away, but we're in Paradise here, aren't we?
This is as dumb as it gets. And obviously, I don't mean the song.
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The Band - Up On Cripple Creek
(Aug 26, 2011 - 05:31) | sirdroseph wrote:A great song if I ever did see ooooonnnnnneeeee! 
Man, where did you buy that stuff?!
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The Band - Up On Cripple Creek
(Aug 26, 2011 - 05:27) | Poacher wrote: Shouldn't it be 'Physically Challenged Creek' nowadays?
....since even Handicapped Creek would be prone to be offending.
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Neko Case - Dirty Knife
(May 27, 2011 - 01:34) | Papernapkin wrote:
I'm haunted too, but not in a good way. The woman's trapped in an echo chamber. Can someone please get her out?
Don't you think she does a much better job there than My Morning Jacket?
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Simon & Garfunkel - The Boxer
(May 21, 2011 - 07:15) | imklammer wrote: Was this meant as a theme for the film Midnight Cowboy (both released in 1969?)
....where the city winters are'nt bleeding me, that's what you mean, isn't it?
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U2 - Bad (Live)
(May 09, 2011 - 14:29) | ziakut wrote: I'm so done with U2!
RP almost brought me back to them.
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Razia Said - Omama
(May 08, 2011 - 03:13) | a_genuine_find wrote: mama obama JPEG
Weirdest joke in a while, I have to say.
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Booker T. & The M.G.s - Green Onions
(Mar 27, 2011 - 23:09) | PA1749 wrote:There are overplayed songs and there are timeless songs. This one falls into the timeless catagory for me...Great Tune!
You forgot the third category.
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Basia Bulat - Heart Of My Own
(Mar 26, 2011 - 05:27) | Weird! When googeling the lyrics I found myself directed to a site which then was linked to Scientology.... Not pleasant at all.
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The Smashing Pumpkins - Drown
(Mar 16, 2011 - 01:15) | hippiechick wrote: I liked him back then, but now his voice is really annoying. And I am obligated to like him, because he is a homie.
boober wrote:
Hippie-
Grew up right in between Bruce Springsteen and Bon Jovi(Freehold and Sayreville NJ respectively)....I don't have one album from either one.
I respect both of them....they are my "Homies"...but I'm not obligated to like them.
Just saying.
Jeeze, if I felt obligated to like any homie of mine....
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Steely Dan - Rikki Don't Lose That Number
(Mar 06, 2011 - 10:39) | redeyespy wrote:Nice syncopated opening, sometimes missing, depending on what disc you have. Piano is a nice nod to Horace Silver. PRETZEL LOGIC has so many stellar tracks- Parker's Band Monkey in Your Soul Pretzel Logic With a Gun let's hear 'em!!! But thanks for playing the Dan in the first place, Bill! 
Just ONE comment in more than seven years?? I wonder, does this reveal that it hasn't been aired since then? Or are RP listeners not touched at all by hearing it?
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Leonard Cohen - Boogie Street
(Feb 17, 2011 - 12:14) | Dinges,_the_Dude wrote: Never heard this song before, but like it instantly!
So did I the first time I heard it.
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Taj Mahal - Queen Bee
(Feb 17, 2011 - 11:51) | DaMoGan wrote:
Strange — there are two comment pages for this song.
And where is the second one?
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Anouar Brahem - Stopover at Djibouti
(Feb 16, 2011 - 13:16) | hippiechick wrote: Very nice and mellow, perfect for a snowy day.
Or for a fine glass of tea in the cold desert night, there by the fire.
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Beck - Loser
(Jan 31, 2011 - 10:57) | Hostia: soy un perdedor! Y he tenido que googlear la letra para descubrirlo. Vaya acento!
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Grateful Dead - Jack-A-Roe
(Jan 29, 2011 - 01:42) | What a loss to the world since he is gone: Jerry Garcia. At least, he had been among us.
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The Church - Under The Milky Way
(Jan 23, 2011 - 12:32) | dogturd21 wrote:
oh no, the bagpipes fit perfectly !!
....well, I have to admit I had not read carefully enough j7's comment below. He seems somewhat despaired about having to insist.
Edit: not j7's comment, but ick's, of course!
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It's A Beautiful Day - Hot Summer Day
(Jan 15, 2011 - 02:41) | DaveInVA wrote: This is the alternate artwork for a Holland pressing of this album..
Couldn't imagine a picture that failed to express the mood of the album more than this one.
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The Who - I Can See For Miles
(Jan 14, 2011 - 03:07) | Great!!! Another on-board when I drive homewards (or the opposite way) on those roads of France!
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Ayub Ogada - Kothbiro
(Dec 19, 2010 - 11:08) | RedTopFireBelow wrote:PLEASE............... STOP THE MUSIC! I like the beat but yikes, it's NEVER ENDING....! My ears hurt now!!!! 
Do it yourself, buddy! Many of us are here to enjoy what causes you so much pain.
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The Who - Behind Blue Eyes
(Dec 18, 2010 - 09:48) | Doogie wrote: Good memories, dancing at a frat party many moons ago
Above all, one certain Moon. May your tortured soul rest in peace, Keith!
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Bob Marley - Sun Is Shining
(Dec 18, 2010 - 08:21) | Mugro wrote:
What I'm not sure about how can a song reiterating sunshine and sweet weather invoke such melancholy? Am I alone with this?
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Elvis Presley - Blue Suede Shoes
(Dec 17, 2010 - 03:24) | romeotuma wrote:
This cover is one of my father's best... he had a lot of great songs... I love you, dad, and I miss you...
Your father? Are you serious, dude?
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Sonny Landreth - Howlin' Moon
(Dec 17, 2010 - 03:21) | dklmoore wrote: I hear a Little Feat Connection in there somewhere???
I hear the Doctor, well: "singing" background.
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Mavis Staples - I Belong to the Band
(Dec 17, 2010 - 01:54) | dmax wrote:Bob D wanted to marry Mavis. Don't believe that one source? Here's Slate magazine:
In the beginning, there was the mighty Mavis Staples, whose vocal on a Staples Singers record inspired the teenage Dylan to "stay up for about a week, and who, in turn, made a gospel anthem out of "Blowin' in the Wind" after she learned that this white boy had been her fan since childhood. (The white boy had also blown harmonica on a Victoria Spivey record in 1962 and said that he was first inspired to play folk music after hearing an Odetta record.) But despite Dylan's efforts, they were not to be the next Johnny Cash and June Carter. A couple of years ago, Staples revealed that Dylan had been the lost love of her life. "We courted for about seven years, and it was my fault that we didn't go on and get married," recalled Staples, who would later regret turning down his marriage proposal because she thought Dr. King wanted her to "stay black."
Good story. As for Mavis: if her voice was a sculpture, I would bow down before it.
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The Stills - In The Beginning
(Dec 16, 2010 - 13:49) | Danimal174 wrote: Thought this was Cake...and I mean that as a compliment. Pretty catchy tune.
Hearing the intro chords I thought of the Beatles (Get back), then suddenly the singer's voice reminded me, well, of Cake....
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Beethoven - Symphony No.5 - Allegro Con Brio
(Dec 16, 2010 - 13:05) | olesonb wrote:
the way he laid done the bass work on his pieces always made me feel he was the first rock and roller.
some related him to ultraviolence
(Edit: ...you'd probably stick to Chuck: Roll over, Ludwig Van! Am I right?)
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Jamie Stillway - Poison in the Drapes
(Dec 12, 2010 - 10:37) | spaceman wrote: Bleyfusz wrote:Some Bert Jansch in there? Or what am I hearing?
It's not just the guitar - the percussion and the whole arrangement sound a lot like Pentangle.
(as in "Bells", for example)
Absolutely right. And if, as it is said (and sung), "you can't judge a book by the cover": neither an album should be jugdged this way, seems to be the lesson of the "artwork" above.
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Warren Zevon - Werewolves Of London
(Dec 12, 2010 - 01:48) | Cynaera wrote:
Thirded. Zevon did this song as a commercial sell-out, but he hated performing it. <...>
What do I care as long as the songs brightens up my mind? It's just so much fun to me!
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The Pogues - Lullaby Of London
(Dec 12, 2010 - 01:42) | peacockangel wrote: I know it's early ~ but hearing the Pogues always makes me wanna have a drink ~ love it
Rest assured, my friend: there's MUCH MORE to the Pogues than only this.
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Peter Gabriel - Feeling Begins
(Dec 11, 2010 - 14:14) | Otomi wrote:
The other way around here, man; this is the only PG on my CD shelf. I recently bought Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ masterpiece on DVD so I could see the incredible images this astounding music was made to accompany. Bliss!
Frankly, I don't get it: what do guys like you and Roger Ebert see in this movie? Had also bought it on DVD and resold it on the first occasion.
And, man, I LOVE movies!
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B-52's - Planet Claire
(Dec 09, 2010 - 11:59) | It already had a retro touch when it came up, so let alone today. Still likeable, somehow, evoking old style sci-fi pulp.
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Django Reinhardt - Beyond the Sea
(Dec 07, 2010 - 02:20) | crockydile wrote: Cartoon music. Nothing more. Can't get past it. Child in the late 60's. {#Jump} WonderLizard wrote:
I'm in an unforgiving mood tonight...
Child, you have so very much to learn about music and music making. There are so many places and ways you could learn, but none of them start or end with hanging around an internet site and throwing grenades for the adolescent fun of it. Okay, I've wasted enough time on you.
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Van Morrison - Tupelo Honey
(Dec 05, 2010 - 06:25) | mamradpivo wrote: I'm so sorry to say this, but I like this song a little less every time I hear it. This is the only Van Morrison song I can say that about...
So it must be overplayed where you live....
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The Police - Bring On The Night
(Nov 27, 2010 - 14:54) | nicolewe wrote:Sick of The Police in general, but this song endures! 
THEY endure. Sting is the one who does not.
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Nena - 99 Luftballons
(Nov 27, 2010 - 06:00) |      
Man!
What about some Nina Hagen instead? From the first two albums? (As I know that my proposal about Can the other day turns out to be a hopeless one....)
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Nick Drake - Hazey Jane
(Nov 23, 2010 - 23:55) | ick wrote:
You're kidding right?... hehe the part of the album cover that is covered up with the album title shows his hand full of "what were believed to be psilosibin mushrooms".
Nope. These are no psilos. Look more like Amanita muscaria.
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Pearl Jam - Off He Goes
(Nov 22, 2010 - 07:36) | Maybe I'm not the world's greatest Pearl Jam fan. But this one always makes me listen.
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Beck - Jack-Ass
(Nov 21, 2010 - 03:35) | I'd find it astonishing if no law suit at all would have ever been brought about by this tune.
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2Raumwohnung - 2 von Millionen von Sternen
(Nov 21, 2010 - 02:34) | sirdroseph wrote:NIEN NIEN NIEN!!!!!!!
Okay, I have not come in to correct spelling, so I get to the point: I'm totally with you!
I mean, this is maybe not as horrible as Nena; but folks, if you actually want to listen to some decent German music, why not Can? This was one of the few bands ever from the country that also raised men like Stockhausen or good old Ludwig Van which did not embarrass me. And please, don't call it Krautrock, which would classify them together with all that horrible stuff, not to mention the fact that their vocalists were successively an american and a japanese.
Sure enough, they won't meet anyones's taste. But they are History, and I think they deserve some airplay once in a while. And I can't see any reason why not on RP.
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Stephen Marley - Fed Up
(Nov 20, 2010 - 13:17) | Randomax wrote: Thought it was a cover of Thirty Thousand Headmen
Absolutely!
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Neil Young - The Needle And The Damage Done
(Nov 18, 2010 - 10:30) | Zep wrote:Really weird, and entirely inappropriate, to clap in time and to yell and whoop, to this song. "Yeehaw, every junkie, right on Neil!" 
I'm with ya, brother!
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Calexico - Two Silver Trees
(Nov 15, 2010 - 12:23) | There is this brief moment at the beginning, which always reminds me of Summer in Siam.
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Neil Young - The Old Laughing Lady
(Nov 15, 2010 - 12:19) | martinc wrote: Some things are best when simple and acoustic
....naked, so to say.
(Edit: and not "unplugged", which is a VERY different thing.)
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Low - On The Edge Of
(Nov 12, 2010 - 13:13) | On_The_Beach wrote: Hey hey, my my.
Cortez was what came to my mind.
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Nick Drake - Pink Moon
(Nov 10, 2010 - 10:44) | Alafia wrote: I'm becoming a very-belated Nick Drake fan.
It's never too late!
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Bo Diddley - Who Do You Love
(Nov 05, 2010 - 02:34) | WonderLizard wrote:Probably invented half of rock'n'roll. Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis, and Willie Mae Thornton got a half each. Never got his due. My favorite cover is QSM's on Happy Trails.
I would say: one half for Diddley and Berry, and the other half for the rest of those guys. If at all.
Amen to the QMS statement!
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Van Morrison - The Way Young Lovers Do
(Nov 04, 2010 - 13:47) | TriskyJen wrote:
And that in itself is pretty amazing. Even a "least-appreciated" song is this amazing. I don't have this album... maybe I should get it.
Believe me: you have to!
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Big Head Todd & The Monsters - Broken Hearted Savior
(Oct 31, 2010 - 11:37) | 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.
If you're serious about NOT being kidding, you might find it interesting to have a look on this: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=fuck&searchmode=none
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Bob Dylan - Shelter From The Storm
(Oct 28, 2010 - 12:20) | oldviolin wrote: I just can't fully explain what this song means to me...
....but what really matters: is it a good thing?
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Alabama 3 - Woke Up This Morning
(Oct 27, 2010 - 00:20) | listen_n_sf wrote: Why do I get the feeling someone's about to get wacked?
The treacherous subconscious, maybe?
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David Bowie - Helden
(Oct 24, 2010 - 06:05) | oldman wrote: Personally, I never really thought of German as a language that lends it's self to great vocal melodies.
lmic wrote:
Curious, given that German is rhythmically so close to English.
On the other hand, perhaps those of the Latinate persuasion find English unmelodious, as well. I will admit that French (far from my favorite language) is awesomely mellifluous.
After all, English is THE language for modern popular music.
And Bowie's Helden is one of the few songs I'm able to enjoy in my native tongue.
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King Crimson - Epitaph
(Oct 15, 2010 - 15:37) | mona_hoysa wrote: Nothing takes me back there more than this.
Back where?
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Bob Dylan - Jokerman
(Sep 24, 2010 - 13:25) | vit wrote: So the world flipped out when Dylen "went electric." What about when he added fake drums, a synthesizer and patent overproduction? Too bad too 'cause I hear the lyrics to this song are really good and I don't mind his voice.
Overproduction?
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Gazpacho - Winter Is Never
(Sep 18, 2010 - 11:04) | RedGuitar wrote: Who would name their band after a cold soup?
That's what I just asked myself....
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Waterboys - Sweet Thing
(Sep 15, 2010 - 12:22) | etcarroll wrote: Good - but I prefer Van the Man's version.
this one does perfectly justice!
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The Box Tops - The Letter
(Sep 03, 2010 - 12:48) | hcaudill wrote: I take it this is the original? If so, I'm embarrassed to say this is the first time I've ever heard it - always thought this was Joe Cocker's song. Hairfarmer wrote:
Yes.
No.
When I was a kid, I had a commercial tape sampling hits from the sixties (the actual time being the late seventies) and I think I must have been growing into my twens already, when I was surprised to recognise a song from that tape interpreted by Joe Cocker. And actually liked it.
Also much to my surprise: this was a pleasant rehearsal.
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Morphine - In Spite Of Me
(Sep 02, 2010 - 11:14) | vandal wrote:blasphemer. . . when the tribunal of music gods judge you, and rest assured you will be judged, they will condemn you to a room where Kenny G wails from their octophonic sound system 24/7 at 120 dB. . . "annoying sax" indeed. . . 
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Jethro Tull - Bouree
(Aug 29, 2010 - 02:13) | polkadude wrote:It's absurd to say any device that produces a sound is incompatible with rock & roll.
<...>
My words, brother! Anyway, never mind the shortsighted.
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Neil Young - After The Garden
(Jul 27, 2010 - 02:02) | HazzeSwede wrote:Living with war should be an easy task, since mankind has, since the begining ! 
Wer hub es an?
Hölderlin
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Pentangle - Waltz
(Jul 20, 2010 - 11:20) | stewliscious wrote: Satanic jazz?
They play like the devil, don't they?
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Shriekback - The Underwaterboys
(Jun 26, 2010 - 05:29) | DaveInVA wrote: This sounds like something Leonard Cohen would do...
In collaboration with Dieter Meier, mayhap?
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Jethro Tull - Bouree
(Jun 26, 2010 - 05:20) | Bosami wrote:
There is no instrument that is not compatible with rock n roll. That's what makes rock n roll so cool. Name me an instrument - and I'll name you a rock n roll song that utilizes it.
Open your mind and your ears may follow.
No instrument should be incompatible with any music.
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Mothers of Invention - Trouble Every Day
(Jun 24, 2010 - 04:47) | maximinimalist wrote: frank said what he thought and he said it well. i miss him.
Wonder how he would have managed BP, Afghanistan etc.
Edit July 26th:
In the hypothetical case of occupying Obama's seat, I mean.
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ZZ Top - La Grange
(Jun 21, 2010 - 11:41) | I always knew, I'd been waiting for something on RP.
Now this was it.
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Gustavo Santaolalla - De Ushuaia a La Quiaca
(May 22, 2010 - 11:01) | twitterpated wrote: I don't believe I've heard this song before. It is very pretty.
So is the movie. (And you don't have to be a supporter of the Cuban Revolution in order to like it.)
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Fever Ray - Keep The Streets Empty For Me
(May 17, 2010 - 12:29) | derekd wrote: Not a bad little ditty. Phil Collins, anybody? "I can feel it...Coming in the air at night...Oh lord."
Association is a wonderous thing indeed.
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Enya - Orinoco Flow
(May 13, 2010 - 13:25) | Ando wrote:
Can't listen to this without thinking of South Park.
What?
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The Waifs - Crazy Train
(May 08, 2010 - 01:20) | ziggytrix wrote: The bass is all right, but what this song really needs is a jug player.
Seriously.
What about more cowbell?
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Eastmountainsouth - Rain Come Down
(Apr 22, 2010 - 05:19) | whitebuffalo wrote: I bought this CD after I heard them on Morning Becomes Eclectic and then Goodwilled it when I listened more more closely and realized that it was stealth Christian rock. I felt like the church organist who accidentally ordered the Frank Zappa songbook online. There should be some kind of a PMRC sticker on stuff like this. With a picture of the dude from Creed.
Well..... after all, what would life be without surprises?
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David Bowie - Helden
(Apr 16, 2010 - 03:45) | a_genuine_find wrote:Corn Alert I like it, guess I will rate it a 'nein'
Meintest du "neun"?
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Eva Cassidy - Ain't No Sunshine
(Apr 14, 2010 - 12:15) | Walrus_Gumbo wrote: Great voice, but did she sing anything original? It seems she relied only on covers. I think she could have made the big time if she could have put her own signature on it.
She preferred to turn into gold what she touched with her blessed voice. Go figure.
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Traveling Wilburys - Tweeter And The Monkey Man
(Feb 25, 2010 - 11:28) | HazzeSwede wrote:Side project,,??,,this is what this guys made,, for you kids to wonder and reflect upon,,please do that ! 
Who did you mean: this guy or these guys? 
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Spirit - Animal Zoo
(Feb 24, 2010 - 03:29) | window wrote: Funny, I hear Grateful Dead.
That's because of what a Palaeontologist might call a "mising link": it's the classical Bo-Diddley-groove.
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Audience - Raviole
(Feb 16, 2010 - 02:51) | Might it just be that the orchestra arrangements are done by the same guy who worked with Nick Drake?
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The Who - The Rock
(Feb 13, 2010 - 05:22) | michaelgmitchell wrote: Okay. We get it. They were good. About a hundred years ago.
Check out Endless Wire and you'll have to admit that they still are miles above so many others.
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Apollo Four Forty - The Man with the Harmonica
(Feb 08, 2010 - 02:52) | dmax wrote:
I can see you in the morning on your way to schooooooooool....
fingerpin wrote:Haaaaaaaaaaaa! My thought exactly! 
Which reminds me of my second trip to Morocco, way back in summer of '89. Me and my friends were sitting outside a café in the blistering heat, dust clouds rolling by and all, and made comments on each other's faces which where clearly based on certain cinematographic references. And eventually, the owner of the, well: saloon, had nothing better to do than putting on a Supertramp tape.During the intro, we sat there almost petrified. And then ordered another coffee.
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Ane Brun - Balloon Ranger
(Jan 30, 2010 - 11:07) | a_genuine_find wrote:
ARe there any musicians out there who can identify the key of this song?
TobyRush wrote:Seems to be B minor to me.
My guitar just agreed.
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The Waterboys - The Raggle Taggle Gypsy (Live)
(Jan 20, 2010 - 13:43) | There are countless versions of this song and the story it tells, handed down to american music as Blackjack Davye, which Bob Dylan picked up on Good as I been to you.
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Bob Dylan - Desolation Row
(Jan 12, 2010 - 05:47) | shutter wrote: ...be right back. Need to get some fingernails pulled...
Brilliant! Though you'd probably deny the "honour" of it: your comment meets the song in such a surrealistic way that it could be taken right out of it.
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Leonard Cohen - Who By Fire (live)
(Dec 18, 2009 - 11:02) | That's great: I have just - today - bought me a beautiful old edition (Macmillan Company, 1930) of Frazer's Myths of the Origin of Fire.
I ain't supersticious. But I take it as a good omen.
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Pink Floyd - Time
(Dec 13, 2009 - 04:14) | Fredrikson wrote:Dark Side Of The Moon released 1992?   edit: oh, "30th Anniversary Edition"
30th ???
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Sinéad O'Connor - Black Boys On Mopeds
(Dec 13, 2009 - 03:34) | dboseman wrote: Talk about feeling ambivalent. I love this song but am appalled that she equates Margarette Thatcher with the Chinese who gunned downed demonstrators. What a bonehead.
Yeah. But on the other hand, wenn Pinochet finally got pinned down in London by request of Spanish judges, she had nothing better to do than closing ranks with the fucking prick.
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Bruce Cockburn - The End of All Rivers
(Dec 12, 2009 - 11:55) | jazzface78 wrote:= a dash of Pink Floyd, a touch of Jerry Garcia, and a hint of Emerson Lake and Palmer
If you ask me: neither of them. Just totally original, to whatever extend possible.
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McCoy Tyner - Greensleeves (With Derek Trucks)
(Dec 01, 2009 - 12:05) | Hannio wrote: I wanna hear the bluegrass version. Or even the heavy metal version. Anything but this, and I usually like jazz.
The limited edition of Henry VIII.'s original recording ist no longer available. So I've heard.
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Bob Dylan - Visions of Johanna
(Dec 01, 2009 - 11:21) | peyotecoyote wrote: Weird I tell ya....I clicked on this song in the Now Playing box and got this pop up window: Signalflare.ca. "The server students.signalflare.ca at Ask your instructor requires a username and password. Warning: This server is requesting that your username and password be sent in an insecure manner (basic authentication without a secure connection). it only happens with this song...I tried a bunch of others already.
flyboy wrote:I had the same thing happen to me.
I havn't actually read the message....but something like this happened to me also.
Spooky, ain't it?
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Neil Young - Powderfinger
(Nov 28, 2009 - 03:19) | HazzeSwede wrote: IMHO,,,Neil has done 23 best songs !,,or maybe 24,,
And this is no doubt one of them!
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PJ Harvey - Down by the Water
(Nov 28, 2009 - 01:20) | unclelonghair wrote: This song gives me the creeps. P.J. Harvey gives me the creeps. I love it! She is channeling some kind of primal female spirit.
rosedraws wrote:
creepy for sure!
If you like this, check out the Incredible String Band's Invocation!
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Pogues - White City
(Nov 23, 2009 - 10:40) | Bleyfusz wrote:
Way underplayed on RP: The Pogues.
iscoot4peace wrote:
I completely agree with you!
....on such a great station, I forgot to add.
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Neil Young - Down By The River
(Nov 16, 2009 - 13:06) | RParadise wrote:
I respectfully nominate Cinnamon Girl, with the best one-note solo ever played . . . ever.
Hannio wrote:
I was thinking the same thing, actually...
Naw. This one's so much better!
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Detektivbyrån - E18
(Nov 16, 2009 - 12:27) | Pieter wrote:darrenwwwa wrote:I would have sworn this was Yann Tiersen. Great song.  No, that's like comparing a Citroën with a Volvo.
Could be me: my Old Man would have rather been killed than trying anything else but the shark brand. For the sake of rebellion I switched to the stockfish as soon as I got my driver's licence.
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Sarah Jarosz - Come On Up To The House
(Nov 16, 2009 - 10:17) | skyguy wrote: I like this version, but I miss the sarcasm of the Waits version. Tom Waits writes some great tunes.
Wouldn't have thought this was a Waits tune, frankly.
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Bob Dylan - Desolation Row
(Nov 10, 2009 - 11:17) | This song, exhausting as it is, is immense. It contains images capable of scaring the shit out of me, which they did the very first time I became aware of them. Each time I rehear the song, they seem to mysteriously unfold like long-time acquaintances. But what makes them real creepy is the contrast of the cynically lighthearted melody, sustained by crystal clear guitar notes sparkling around and dancing along.
It definitely nails that hell of an album.
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Super Furry Animals - Moped Eyes
(Nov 08, 2009 - 02:59) | cupajoe wrote: Clipped from a website called SongFacts.
Frontman Gruff Rhys told The London Times March 20, 2009 that there is no such thing as an ambiguous Super Furry Animals lyric. He said: "I don't like leaving songs open to people's interpretation because I think it's a cop-out. It takes the p—s out of the listener if you don't know what you're singing about." As a consequence Rhys has been forced to superimpose a meaning on to this song. He said uncertainly: "I think we decided that moped eyes were bloodshot eyes."
This is one great example of unintended self exposure. Thanks for making me laugh by butt off!
Oh: good tune, by the way. Crispy sound.
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Yes - Starship Trooper
(Nov 08, 2009 - 02:45) | jtarp wrote:
The genre is very dated. I was a HUGE Yes fan in the early 70's. I would have given this, and almost all Yes tunes, a 10+. Yes, Genisis, King Crimson (Robert Fripp), et al., were taking Rock music somewhere it had never been and so at the time was very interesting. It has great nostalgic value for me, but music has progressed so far in 40 years that listening now is not very satisfying. But I'm still happy to see (hear) it's on the playlist.
kaybee wrote:
I disagree. I think opera sounds dated as hell, but a lot of people still enjoy it and it still has its niche. I think the same will hold true for the best of "prog rock".
I dunno.....the "you had to be there to appreciate it" argument.... Either it was good, or it wasn't, and if it actually was, why should it not be anymore?
Amen to your statement on operas!
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Patty Griffin - Getting Ready
(Nov 04, 2009 - 11:23) | ortallcowgirl wrote: I have to head out and do field work. Come on Bill play something I dont like so I can leave the office. All this good music makes getting work done hard!!
Shit! I want a job like yours!!
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The Band - The Weight (With The Staples)
(Nov 02, 2009 - 12:34) | DDB61 wrote: Recorded on a Thanksgiving weekend at the Fillmore West, wasn't it? Although this sounds like a studio cut.
It is. For some reason, the Staple Singers were not able to turn up at the Filmore that day, so they played the gig apart from the concert just to get it into the movie.
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Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit
(Nov 02, 2009 - 11:33) | pinklife wrote:I always see the bathtub scene in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas when I hear this song... 
Yeah, talking about bathrooms: The Sopranos, chapter 7, season 1. Good filmmakers know which songs can't ever get dated.
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Nick Drake - Road
(Oct 28, 2009 - 13:19) | DoctorHooey wrote: This guy was an understated monster on the guitar!
Eres hispanoparlante?
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Yes - Roundabout
(Oct 25, 2009 - 14:04) | fredriley wrote: If the answer to the question is Yes, then perhaps the wrong question's being asked. Other than maybe "what was the most egregiously pompous, baroque and gnomic band of the 70s?", or "name one of the major provocations that brought about the punk era". Yes, like ELP, Genesis, Amon Dull <....>
 That's a good one!
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Strawbs - Witchwood
(Oct 25, 2009 - 13:04) | Always reminds me a bit of the Incredible String Band. Nice!
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Fleet Foxes - Your Protector
(Oct 23, 2009 - 13:07) | flatpicker wrote: Good song.
Kinda reminds me of My Morning Jacket.
That's because of the weird echo in the recording.
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Johnny Cash - Get Rhythm
(Oct 23, 2009 - 12:17) | demfrosch wrote: there is no school like old school!!!
Nothing's as up-to-date as timelessness!
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Django Reinhardt - Beyond the Sea
(Oct 21, 2009 - 11:31) | Mugro wrote:
I like this!  Anyone have any good background on the tune/artist?
donnyballgame wrote:
Missing a finger on his left hand. Talented?...seems so.
Model guitarist for Tony Iommi from Black Sabbath. Guess why.
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Supergrass - Road To Rouen
(Oct 21, 2009 - 10:14) | ihategrapejuice wrote: does the beginning remind anyone else of Tombstone Blues?
There's something restless and feverish about both songs.
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Mari Boine - Vuoi Vuoi Mu
(Oct 20, 2009 - 11:35) | Mandible wrote: are you sure? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_music Some musicians and curators of music have come to dislike the term "World Music". To these critics, "World Music" is a parochial, catchall marketing term for non-western music of all genres. On October 3, 1999, David Byrne, the founder of the Luaka Bop music label, wrote an editorial in The New York Times entitled I Hate World Music<10> explaining his objections to the term. Byrne argued that the labeling and categorization of other cultures as "exotic" serves to attract an insincere consumership and deter other potential consumers. perhaps you are one of those who dislikes the term? I guess you may be right that it is all "world music"? Not sure on this one. Now I'm confusing myself. Felix_The_Cat wrote:
I concur with Mr. Byrne, Mandible, I detest the term, it is such an hypocrisy.. They should call it , to be honest with themselves, "rest of the World" music. It's a marketing term, in fact, and anthropologically speaking, it's totally ethnocentric .. Cheers
AMEN!
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Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under The Bridge
(Oct 18, 2009 - 12:03) | romeotuma wrote:
Just my opinion... this song be berry berry good...
And do you have any other way to express it than that ever repeating sentence?
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Nena - 99 Luftballons
(Oct 11, 2009 - 13:29) | This song is hereby nominated for the Instant Mute Button Award.
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Robert Palmer - Sailing Shoes / Hey Julia / Sneakin' Sally
(Oct 07, 2009 - 10:55) | mystercy wrote: I hated this (these) songs in the 70's and I still do. Redundant, psuedo white boy blues.
And what is that supposed to mean? Psuedo white? Pseudo boy? Pseudo blues?
Anyway, I stick to what Ray once stated: ain't no black music or white music, there's just music.
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The Who - The Real Me
(Oct 05, 2009 - 13:25) | Otomi wrote:
Mande usted?
The Who precursaron a los Manowar como "loudest band of the world", si no me equivoco. Aquí se tratará de un intento de reproducción con medios domésticos.
No sé, digo yo.
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Tinariwen - Cler Achel
(Oct 05, 2009 - 11:45) | The dude on the album sleeve looks like he was heading straight for a Sheik Yerbouti casting.
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Miles Davis - Blue In Green
(Oct 05, 2009 - 11:31) | romeotuma wrote:
Miles Davis is so good for the ears...
THE running sentence among RP's listeners.
Is it like this how creativity is honoured?
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Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone
(Sep 27, 2009 - 04:56) | bobcat1963 wrote:
'it's like it was made up as he went along'
thats just the power of this & other dylan material,
rough diamonds....
& rough diamonds get a 10
Rough diamonds....could a Dylan original be possibly defined better?
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Neil Young - Four Strong Winds
(Sep 27, 2009 - 03:58) | Dave_Mack wrote: A very Harrisonian 12-string guitar part, wouldn't ya say? But more importantly, who's playing the autoharp?
Can't tell you this....but thanks for sharpening my ears, dude!
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Steven Wilson - Harmony Korine
(Sep 15, 2009 - 08:45) | Heard Bill's voice "Porcupine Tree<'s guitarist>" and automatically my hand went to the mute button....tore it back in the last moment....now it's going spastically back and forth.
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Barcelona - Please Don't Go
(Sep 15, 2009 - 08:24) | tro_73 wrote: Where are they from ? Barcelona ? I'm from Barcelona and I didn't know them .
Iba a escribir algo como: "What has this to do with the town I'm living in? Alright, the sleeve image on a winter day...."
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Simon and Garfunkel - I Am A Rock
(Sep 12, 2009 - 11:08) | Right from the start of the song I remembered the two closing verses to come, an image that had impressed me deeply when I was younger. What impresses me now, hearing the tune again after years, is the harsh bitterness that speaks out of each single line.
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Chantays - Pipeline
(Sep 12, 2009 - 02:39) | Sounds like the B52s had stolen something from this....
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Led Zeppelin - The Rain Song
(Sep 10, 2009 - 15:26) | shawshank wrote:I love songs that take you back to memories you cherish the most. Man, now those were the days. Beautiful! Thanks for the trip RP!!! 
I just came in to comment how I'm surprised about the intensity certain feelings and memories can be gripped with by music. As if your life had its own soundtrack.
Well, it most probably does.
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Morcheeba - Trigger Hippie (remix)
(Sep 09, 2009 - 12:23) | ick wrote: this song always seemed to define the term "Trip Hop" for me...
The first times I heard hear, I could have sworn I had heard her before on Massive Attack's Protection.....
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The Police - Message in a Bottle
(Sep 09, 2009 - 11:59) | daigoro wrote: Always been a big Police fan. But I can't stand Sting as a solo artist. Is that wrong?
It's your statement, and I share it with conviction. If that makes you feel less unsure.
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Masaladosa - Amma
(Sep 08, 2009 - 13:05) | namp wrote: Dear God,
If you exist please make this STOP!
Get a bit blasphemic and do it yourself, mate.
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Talking Heads - (Nothing But) Flowers
(Sep 06, 2009 - 02:05) | Late Sunday morning here in Spain, I've just winced my way outa bed, settled coffee in hand at my PC desk....and have to here this grating voice. Mute button instantly!
And others complain about Dylan.
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Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
(Sep 02, 2009 - 12:17) | westslope wrote: Bleyfusz wrote:
What's so funny about it?
In response to my earlier comment: Somewhat appropriate for the beginning of the worst global economic crisis since the Great Depression.
hehe ============================== Belyfusz: There were some gold rush-like aspects to the conditions that lead to the current recession: the most highy synchronized global recession in the post-war period. Think of gold rush as a metaphor for unbridled enthusiasm and typically first-come, first-serve rules of allocation.
Okay, I get it. Perfectly. But what still chokes off my laughter is the simple fact that the bill is not paid by those gold diggers. You know who does, don't you?
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Ry Cooder & Vishwa Mohan Bhatt - Isa Lei
(Aug 29, 2009 - 16:32) | NeilBlanchard wrote: Hi,
This song is even more amazing because it (and the entire recording) is an improvisation! Recorded very late at night (so it was very quiet), live to stereo analog tape.
Neil
sounds like you have been there....
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Ray LaMontagne - Be Here Now
(Aug 25, 2009 - 13:27) | the_bink wrote: Love this song.
Makes me think of the Moody Blues. Don't know why.
Nor do I.
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Cornershop - Sleep On The Left Side
(Aug 24, 2009 - 14:33) | This radio station is a bloody surprise box....just the other day I wondered what might have become of that kharma loaden band whose name I did not even remember.
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Ramasutra - Magma Mama
(Jul 28, 2009 - 12:17) | cochlear wrote:A challenging Tango. 
Maybe change tango for bandoneon, or how the device is called? Apart from this, what I hear rather sounds like dub and stuff like that....
Slight echoe of some occassional Grace Jones tune also?
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Bob Dylan - Visions of Johanna
(Jul 28, 2009 - 11:07) | jagdriver wrote: I like some Dylan from this era, but this track is just plain BOR-ing.
Inside the museums, Infinity goes up on trial
Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while
But Mona Lisa musta had the highway blues
You can tell by the way she smiles
How can a song containing verses like these be BORING ?
I mean, wow!
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Chemical Brothers - Surface to Air
(Jul 25, 2009 - 02:20) | 34bogas wrote: Futurista, suena bien, un poco a aquella música de la película warriors
Qué curioso....yo estaba pensando en los helicópteros de Apocalypse Now.
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Neil Young - Powderfinger
(Jul 25, 2009 - 02:05) | aurora1957 wrote:
Me too. Plus goosebumps. Ecstasy & grief. Life & death. Doesn't get more real than this.
Last night I saw Apocalypse Now again, Redux version. Your words could'nt describe more accurately my feelings about that movie. Which does not prevent them from getting pretty close to the heart of this song also.
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Mike Scott - Bring 'em all in
(Jul 23, 2009 - 12:24) | Cannot screwing believe it! An eternity ago I heard this song on Radio every now and then.....never knew what became of it, nor could I find the album anywhere.
Two thumps up!!!
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Alpha Blondy - Jerusalem
(Jul 20, 2009 - 13:13) | Get it: the previous song faded away into a reggae, and was from Blondie.
Bill rides again.
(And by the way: what about some Ennio Morricone as a follow up? The Dollar Trilogy, I mean.)
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Sonny Landreth - Port Of Calling
(Jul 14, 2009 - 12:55) | Wizzuvv_oz wrote: this is outstanding. heavily digging
Only thing I wonder: how can it be followed by......Manu Chao  ??
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The Real Tuesday Weld - I Believe
(Jul 14, 2009 - 11:55) | Steinbeck wrote: Does this song remind anyone "I Believe in You" by Todd Snider? Some of the lyrics:
I believe in Karma
I believe in Soul
I believe in Heaven
I believe in Rock n' Roll
I believe in wrestling
I believe in sleep
I know I ought to quit now
But I believe I'm in too deep
I believe in gangster rap
Gays and geeks and ghosts
I believe that we die
Of all the things that we hate the most
I believe that we all learn
To love before we get through
I believe in letting people
Do what people do
I believe in everything
(I Believe You)
Yes I do
I believe in everything
I believe in everything, everyone, everybody hey, hey, hey
(I Believe You)
I believe that all my friends
Really are my friends
I believe that Jesus Christ
Died for all of my sins
. . .
Sampled lyrics, so. Would make sense.
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Mott the Hoople - All the Young Dudes
(Jul 07, 2009 - 12:49) | Proclivities wrote:
Well, Bowie wrote, produced, and sang backing vocals on this tune - I guess that could make it a sort of "offspring" of his. Dylan had nothing to do with it, however.
Except the fact that Bowie had once been circumscribed as kind of a Dylan from a a Parallel Universe.... go figure!
Ah, and how was that song called: Ode to Mr. Zimmerman or something like this?
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Sister Flo - Departure
(Jun 21, 2009 - 10:41) | bseib wrote: Hey Bill, how about a segue into King Crimson from this tune... The Court of the Crimson King...
Goes for the Mellotron, right?
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McCoy Tyner - Greensleeves (With Derek Trucks)
(Jun 15, 2009 - 13:41) | mmckubre wrote: Bill has exquisite musical taste. This song, however, caused me to register just to protest. Twice (at least) in two days? I can hear Henry VIII rolling about in his grave.
Let him roll.
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Yello - Call It Love
(Jun 15, 2009 - 12:01) | ....and to think that we had us some Hooker just two songs ago....any better definition for eclecticism in sight? 
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Donovan - Sunshine Superman
(Jun 13, 2009 - 02:28) | SweTex wrote: Makes me think about something Randy Newman wrote on his homepage about a trip to Amsterdam he did for a concert or something. The female record company representative took him to a coffee house and Randy wasn't gonna let her think he was a no-drugs-softie so he puffed away and got so high he had to be led back to his hotel. He wrote:"I thought I was Donovan, and she was Marianne Faithful"
Just the other day I read about some Italian guy who on his first trip thought he was Mickey Mouse. I don't know if it was then when he decided to become a comic author.
It immediately made me remember that scene in Easy Rider when Peter Fonda alias Wyatt asks the hitch-hiker if he ever wanted to be anybody else than himself.
And rarely I felt so identified with a movie character when Wyatt answers to himself that he never did.
Thanks for the laugh, BTW.
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Dave Alvin - Highway 61
(Jun 13, 2009 - 01:35) | catsoup wrote:
It is so much better than letting Mr. Dylan torture a microphone that I have to give it a 9 in comparison. My only worry is that Bill usually plays a track by the original performer after doing a cover.
What's one man's pain might be another one's pleasure.
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Francis Cabrel - La Corrida
(Jun 10, 2009 - 11:21) | I know this through a friend of mine, who lives in South France, not too far across the border. I dig my friend and the beautiful place where he lives. Still, I don't dig this.
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Dolly Parton - Shine
(Jun 08, 2009 - 12:20) | renegade_X wrote:UGH!!! No matter who sings this song, it stinks
What if you took a shower?
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Neil Young - Cortez The Killer
(Jun 06, 2009 - 02:21) | victoryluna wrote:This song could go on for another 15 minutes as far as I'm concerned. It doesn't match my mood, it makes my mood.
To the naysayers, I say: at the height of his powers, his guitar playing may have been minimalist, but every note was exactly right.
....even the wrong ones.
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Crosby Stills Nash & Young - Almost Cut My Hair
(Jun 02, 2009 - 12:27) | jbtidwell wrote: "letting my freak flag fly" I love that line!!!!
"Wave my freak flag high" is what I've been familiar with, until a few moments ago.
Hendrix, If 6 was 9.
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Tom Petty - Honey Bee
(May 30, 2009 - 13:11) | crazy wrote: aaaaaaggghhhhhhh make them stop!!!!!!!!!!!
Do it yourself, brother.
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Neil Young - The Needle and the Damage Done
(May 28, 2009 - 12:50) | bindi wrote: I can understand people finding fault with Neil's voice, but for some of his work - like this song, it is emotional and honest. This song with a perfect voice would just sound fake.
<....>.
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The Carnivaleros - Dashboard Jesus
(May 28, 2009 - 12:32) | Govi wrote: From the title of this, I thought it might be an entirely different song:
"I don't care if it rains or freezes,
"Long as I got my plastic Jesus
"Sittin' on the dashboard of my car."
Even so, this is pretty good. Thanx, Bill.
The one Paul Newman sings in Cool Hand Luke, right? My thoughts were exactly the same.
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Gordon Lightfoot - The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald
(May 17, 2009 - 13:09) | Lyndra_Ski wrote:I've heard so many people diss this song over the years, and I have really tried to understand why, but I can't. You'lll call me corny - go ahead! It tells a great story and it captures the moment perfectly. I don't like what I call "macho sensitve" songs either, from the '70's, '80's or beyond, but sorry, this is good. And yes, it was played to death, but years later, I still get spooked when I hear it again. I really can't think of a popular song out there like it. 'Course, just my opinion...
If the song is good, what is there to feel sorry about?
As for the story, it seems like the Edmund Fitzgerald became victim of a Rogue Wave.
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Supergrass - Road To Rouen
(May 16, 2009 - 04:21) | sub-arctic wrote:
And for your on-board library I can recommend the short essay L'autoroute la nuit by Philippe Delerm. (It's in the wonderful little book La Première Gorgée de bière et autres plaisirs minuscules.)
Thanks, dude, I sure take notice of that!
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Jethro Tull - Bouree
(May 11, 2009 - 12:54) | Papernapkin wrote: Dreck.
What Universe you were from, again?
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Warren Zevon - Werewolves Of London
(May 08, 2009 - 11:45) | alph wrote: "His hair was perfect." Effing hilarious. How can you dislike this song?
It's not that I didn't like the song; but I don't get it with the piña colada at where was it again and the perfect hair....someone help me out, please?
(Not short of mind, just no native speaker.)
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Rolling Stones - Time Waits For No One
(May 04, 2009 - 12:11) | calebstewart wrote: Actually, this song seems a little dull for the stones.
I would say, less dull than the average Stones stuff.
And of course: the guitar is just awesome!
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Bruce Lash - Lithium
(May 02, 2009 - 12:14) | HarrO wrote: Great Cover!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Unorthodox, at the least.
Which is a commendation by itself.
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Sinéad O'Connor - Black Boys On Mopeds
(Apr 20, 2009 - 12:00) | chathambing wrote:
Pinko has an angry, almost genetic loathing for privilege, greed, social exploitation, racism, sexism, homophobia, pro-lifers, the religious right, environmental degradation, the NRA, US imperialism, multinational corporations, big business, Republicans in general and George Bush in particular. Pinko openly admires ****** Stone, Noam Chomsky and Michael Moore and anyone else who is critical of the US government and bourgeois culture. She ardently believes there is no enormity of which the United States is incapable and regards its entire history as an unbroken legacy of avarice, deceit and injustice. Her extremely predictable and tedious attacks eventually exhaust even those inclined to support her. Joan of Arc.... pffft. Give us a break. So as not to get too far off topic- the song is just OK, the singer drags it down.
stkman wrote:
OK so privilege, greed, social exploitation, racism, sexism, homophobia, pro-lifers, the religious right, environmental degradation, the NRA, US imperialism, multinational corporations, big business, Republicans in general and George Bush in particular are all acceptable? Are you Rush Limbaugh? So anyone critical of the US gov is bad? I was born and raised here and know what we are capable of and what dictators or puppet governments we have installed and supported including Saddam. I don't even follow her views, don't have any of her records, do think she has a great voice but read you comment and you seem to represent everything wrong with this country which is alot. Greed, US imperialism, Corporate irresponsibility, Bush, government(both republican and democrat) all have helped get us into this mess. Quite frankly sir there has not been enough protesting and peacefull demonstrations in the past forty years. We have become a apathetic crowd that has allowed this to happen. Mr Bush gave the opinion that if ya didn't agree with him you were unpatriotic which couldn't be further from the truth. There is allways room for constructive critisism, pointing out any imperfections is a way to grow into a better nation. You know its funny that I'm a "proud" Texan but I didn't have a choice in where I was born or what color or sex I would be but these are things nobody has a choice in but once we are here we not only have the choice but the obligation to try and make this place a better place to live no matter what state or country we are in. Unfortunately we seem to be failing right now.
Cool it down!!!
For Christ's sake, both of you!
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Neil Young - Thrasher
(Apr 16, 2009 - 12:47) | It is beyond any description how great this song is.
Just unreal.
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Neil Young - Cowgirl In The Sand
(Apr 02, 2009 - 13:51) | rarelyzippo wrote: Neil Young quote "This is a song I wrote about the beaches in Spain. I've never been to the beaches in Spain. It's just my idea of what it's like over there." Haha! I love this man!
The last thing that would have occured to me, what the song might be about.
I live in Barcelona.
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Bob Dylan - Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
(Mar 19, 2009 - 13:44) | Captn_Pea wrote: Listening to this album now for 20+ years...
And the best thing is: when you started to do so, it had already been around for about twenty years.
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Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
(Mar 09, 2009 - 14:20) | westslope wrote:Somewhat appropriate for the beginning of the worst global economic crisis since the Great Depression. hehe
What's so funny about it?
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Spirit - So Little Time To Fly
(Mar 06, 2009 - 10:27) | Is this really old or just retro? Love it, anyway, with that slight touch of Quicksilver Messenger Service echoing through the chords.
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Bob Dylan - Black Diamond Bay
(Feb 19, 2009 - 12:37) | deepgaze wrote: <....> Come to think of it, maybe he is also the father of karaoke.
Something he would hardly be proud of. I suppose.
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Django Reinhardt - Limehouse Blues
(Feb 14, 2009 - 00:31) | It makes me feel good to hear Django Reinhardt on RP.
When I was a kid, one day a woman from our village neighbourhood and mother of one of my buddies dropped by and brought us two or three racks with single records someone had sorted out for garbage. And one of them - yes indeed! - turned out to be full of Reinhardt recordings, which by then were legend already!
Sadly, I don't know where they ended up. But I will always esteem that woman for what she did. She was not very cultured, precisely, but obviously felt an impulse to save something she thought could be precious though she would not appreciate it.
Now looking back, I think it was an experience that shaped me in many ways.
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Supergrass - Road To Rouen
(Feb 10, 2009 - 11:31) | This track is growing on me, no joke. Its very title evokes familiar feelings in me, since I cross a great deal of France twice or thrice a year by car. And love to do so. The cover image also fits to it: nocturnal lucidity, raised by streams of black coffee and the will to get way behind....
Maybe I should include this album in my on-board discography.
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Bruce Cockburn - Soul of a Man
(Feb 06, 2009 - 14:00) | Grammarcop wrote: The soul of a man? Well, there's beer, sex and sports. Need I go on?
Leave the sports out.
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Black Sabbath - Paranoid
(Feb 06, 2009 - 11:14) | sfListener wrote: I wonder if Cowboy Junkies have considered covering this. Try to imagine.......
That's a good one.
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Built To Spill - Wherever You Go
(Jan 31, 2009 - 11:12) | steady_steve wrote: Now that's a catchy, jingly, trippy guitar riff if I ever hard one. BTS to me is a cross between Neal Young and early Pink Floyd. Good stuff!
Neal?
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Procol Harum - Conquistador (live)
(Jan 25, 2009 - 02:59) | blades wrote: Think it was Focus
Not quite sure. Did Akkerman and the boys make another version (besides Jeff Beck) of the Sabre Dance?
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Béla Fleck - Katmandu
(Jan 05, 2009 - 11:55) | Something in how it sounds stirrs my appetite for pizza.
Anybody might tell me why?
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The Innocence Mission - When Mac Was Swimming
(Nov 23, 2008 - 12:07) | RobK wrote:I know Karen is religious. I'm not. When I hear her sing, I hope she's right. With a voice like that, she deserves to go to heaven. 
So what about the rest of us  ?
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Johnny Cash - The Man Comes Around
(Nov 22, 2008 - 03:00) | rtrudeau wrote:
Try to ignore the socio-political implications, and enjoy this song as an expression of Johnny Cash's art. The power and expressiveness in his delivery at this late stage in his career are unforgettable. Think of how he came to his spirituality late in life after living self-destructively for so long.
I don't agree at all with the brand of religion expressed in this song. However, the power and conviction expressed in this piece leave me awestruck. Johnny Cash was one of the great artists of our time.
You pretty much nailed it. I have just been wondering what it might be that makes me love a song delivering a message like this.
By the way: wasn't it gorgeously wicked to include it in the opening soundtrack of the Dawn of the Dead remake?
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Dr. John - I Don't Wanna Know
(Nov 20, 2008 - 12:08) | Tayto wrote: Didn't know Dr. John covered this song too....
Didn't even know it was a cover....
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Led Zeppelin - Dazed and Confused
(Nov 15, 2008 - 01:48) | Moormann wrote:
Found this explanation, check it out:
The descending bass line was originally written by Jake Holmes and was played as "I'm Confused" by Jimmy Page and The Yardbirds. When Jake Holmes heard Led Zeppelin's version, he simply shrugged and said (in regard to Page), "..what the hell. Let him have it!"
Good account here as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazed_and_Confused_(song)
Jimmy's guitar solo still sounds amazing.
Anyway, it looks like they stole, at least on their debut album, pretty everything. Good example: Black Mountainside < Black Waterside from Bert Jansch. And who knows where he got it from....
Because, folks, that's why we call it pop.
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Steve Stevens - Run Across Desert Sands
(Nov 12, 2008 - 11:36) | uritsukidoji wrote:
Absolutely. Brilliant artist. Not very grandma-friendly to put on your wall though :)
And I'm pretty sure he never meant it that way.
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Ray LaMontagne - Be Here Now
(Nov 11, 2008 - 11:14) | And there's not only Leonard Cohen in it: I also hear some River Man from Nick Drake now.
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David Bowie - Panic In Detroit
(Nov 11, 2008 - 10:25) | kaybee wrote:I really like the wicked bass riff in this! 
There is such a spirit of catastrophistic B-movie in the song.
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Fleetwood Mac - Oh Well
(Nov 10, 2008 - 12:46) | oscar_driver wrote: YES, good stuff ,, normally TIMELESS stuff is the good stuff ....
this is a great example!
OScar
I absolutely sign this.
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Django Reinhardt - Minor Swing
(Nov 10, 2008 - 12:31) | gopre wrote: Wow, when's the last time you heard Django on a radio??
Some time ago on this very station.
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Manu Chao - Rumba De Barcelona
(Nov 03, 2008 - 12:51) | Sorry to be blunt: but pretty much everything this guy does has turned out to be my personal definition of CRAP!
BTW: I live in BCN.
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Rocky Horror Picture Show - Time Warp
(Oct 31, 2008 - 09:36) | hippiechick wrote: You haven't lived until you've gone to a bar mitzvah and watched a bunch of middle aged Jewish people doing the Time Warp.
I don't know if I ever might get a chance to live then - - but hey, thank you for that HUGE LAUGH you just gave me!
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Kenny Rogers - The Gambler
(Oct 18, 2008 - 11:40) | Holiest shit!!! Right from the innocent, musically virgin edge of childhood.
And what the fuck. It's RP. It's eclectic. Isn't it?
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Nick Drake - Place To Be
(Oct 14, 2008 - 12:01) | bluematrix wrote: wow, killer segue bill, from richard thompson '52 Vincent. you are the master.
Yep!
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Bob Marley - Sun Is Shining
(Oct 12, 2008 - 02:07) | Whatever one might opinion of either song: it's just the PERFECT follow-up to the previous one, Mondo Bongo.
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Van Morrison - Moondance
(Oct 03, 2008 - 11:28) | laroue wrote:Any chance for something from Astral Weeks? 
The more often you tune in, the bigger's your chance. So I can testify.
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Portishead - The Rip
(Sep 23, 2008 - 13:12) | I would not have thought myself able to improvise, guitar on lap, to any Portishead theme - but I just did, and think I've been fairly successful. E minor key, or what's the same, G major.
Not quite sure whether it is a good sign or a bad one.
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Van Morrison - Sweet Thing
(Sep 17, 2008 - 12:14) | I know, on many people this does not grip. But as far as it concerns me: what an album!
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Steve Earle - Transcendental Blues
(Sep 15, 2008 - 13:40) | As a follow-up I would like to hear Transcendental Express from Can (from their Unlimited Edition album), the only totally underrated group on this channel - for i NEVER hear them on RP.
So why not kick out 2raumwohnung and Nena, and put on some Can instead?
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Neil Young - Thrasher
(Sep 07, 2008 - 10:20) | Antigone wrote:Beautiful song. The strumming guitar, the harmonica, and YES Neil's voice. Perfect.
And still you forgot to mention the words.
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Pogues - The Sunny Side Of the Street
(Sep 05, 2008 - 13:24) | When my mother wept it was then I swore I would take my life like I would a whore - - can it get more goosebumping?
Way underplayed: The Pogues.
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Emory Joseph - Brown Eyed Women
(Aug 26, 2008 - 12:02) | jagdriver wrote: Second time in a couple of days I've heard this. The guy cannot sing. <....>
Can Jerry Garcia?
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Bob Dylan - Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
(Aug 23, 2008 - 08:13) | fishy1 wrote: Somehow I've acquired a cover of this. the file had no labels. I think that it is Nick Drake singing. Can anyone confirm that Nick recorded this song? I haven't seen it listed anyplace.
I definitely can. I have, hum: acquired the same version, I guess. Bootleg-like recording quality, right? But no doubt it's Drake.
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Ray LaMontagne - Be Here Now
(Jul 19, 2008 - 02:05) | mmoyer wrote: Thought it was a Leonard Cohen song right at first -- the first 5 or 10 seconds of guitar. It had to be said.
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Bob Marley - Get Up, Stand Up
(Jul 12, 2008 - 02:13) | thewiseking wrote: what's worse than annoyingly overplayed monotonous reggae?
annoyingly overplayed monotonous reggae with a rushed tempo. What I perceive is: pulse....nerve....extasy....passion....groove....what else do you want?
And it's not that I'm deep into reggae either.
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Chris Isaak - Solitary Man
(Jul 08, 2008 - 13:05) | The follow-up to the previous song suddenly made me realise, that York and Isaac share something of a vocal style. Don't they? Listen carefully if you disagree.
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Ultravox - Vienna
(Jun 24, 2008 - 13:03) | Curious: didn't like it then, come to like it now.
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Neil Young - Cortez The Killer
(Jun 23, 2008 - 13:32) | lwilkinson wrote:I love Neil Young's romantization of everything, well, "NEIL" which is probably why I hate him so much. I offer a quote for this paen to the now dead Aztec's "Accounts on the extent of the practice vary widely. Without doubt the largest number of human sacrificial offerings were made by the Aztecs. Berdan (1982) quotes reports on the dedication of the great dual temple in Tenochtitlán in 1487 that range from 80,400 captives sacrificed over a four day period (according to a Spanish account) to 20,000 in the Codex Telleriano-Remensis (an Aztec manuscript)." Taken from the Encycolpedia Britannica. Good thing Cortez showed up when he did so he could put a stop to Montezuma's revenge  . By now there wouldn't be anyone left in the Americas to sacrifice. 
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The Byrds - My Back Pages
(Jun 21, 2008 - 08:10) | good and bad, I defined these terms
quite clear, no doubt, somehow
A real good way to come of age.
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Lou Reed - Intro/Sweet Jane
(Jun 17, 2008 - 12:50) | Excelsior wrote:
And then the "singing" started, ruining the song completely. :puke: That's what Lou Reed got in common with, for an instance, Neil Young, Bob Dylan or Randy Newman: vocal styles challenging one's taste.
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Chris Smither - The Devil's Real
(Jun 15, 2008 - 02:59) | Have just had a look through the lyrics. And alongside with the man's sharp voice and edgy fingerpicking the message to me was:
Songwriting's not dead.
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Stephen Marley - Inna Di Red (w/ Ben Harper)
(Jun 07, 2008 - 06:58) | Bleyfusz wrote: You're right. The rhythm of this take makes it a curious one for reggae standards. On the other hand, I must deeply agree with Otomi's comment from February 12th.. Oh no no no!!! Don't know if I'd been inna-de-red or something, but as a matter of fact I understood Otomi JUST THE OTHER WAY ROUND! Like mistaking top for bottom.
In other words: I deeply DISAGREE!
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Mike Montiel - After The Gunfight
(Jun 07, 2008 - 02:34) | lwilkinson wrote: Very-very reminiscent of Bob Dylan's album of "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid" which I think was out about 30 years ago.
Always liked this mellow guitar method.
Hey, just what I thought a minute ago!
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Pearl Jam - Masters Of War (Live)
(Jun 05, 2008 - 13:08) | I'll never forget Vedder making the sign of the cross on himself when finishing the song on the Tribute Concert (saw it live, yonder night). I think it says a lot about the odd force which runs in those lines he had just sung.
Besides, I could have sworn I was going to hear exactly that version when the first chords came in a few minutes ago. Which I find a bit disapointing, especially talking about a Dylan song.
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Cracker - Sidi Ifni
(May 15, 2008 - 11:11) | Thanks to RP, I became aware of each a singer who sounds like:
- Mick Jagger
- Jerry Garcia
- Tom Petty
And I just wonder: are they aware themselves?
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Tom Waits - Chocolate Jesus
(May 13, 2008 - 12:34) | Ericac wrote:
I hear they were twins seperated at birth. That's what I've been told about Dr. John and Leon Russell.
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Jethro Tull - Wond'ring Aloud
(May 13, 2008 - 12:17) | Each time I see this cover it brings one line from the title track forth of my memory: "....eying little girls with bad intent...."
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John Lee Hooker - Boogie Chillen
(May 10, 2008 - 11:44) | felam wrote: On his way back from winning the Grammy Lifetime Achievement award in 2000, I had him on my flight. He was one foot out of the grave, blind, and mostly deaf. He was in a great mood flirting with all of the flight attendants (I was one of them) and he blatantly grabbed my butt with the biggest grin on his face. I would have slapped him, but come on...it was John Lee Hooker! I was honored. Personally, I would choose not to meet most of the artist I admire. What you're telling confirms me.
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Smoke City - Underwater Love
(May 02, 2008 - 14:28) | jlind wrote: This really sounds alot like Portishead I just came to have a look if this was their new album.
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Traffic - John Barleycorn
(May 01, 2008 - 10:58) | hippiechick wrote: It took me years to understand what this song was about.
Doh! Took me quite a lot of hearing-sessions, too; and now I've just read what fellow commentator andrewimft wrote on March 30th.
Makes me think.
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The Rivieras - California Sun
(May 01, 2008 - 05:00) | oscar_driver wrote: AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!! Yeppers! Like some inventive young Beach Boys still facing a promisng future.
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Spirit - Fresh Garbage
(May 01, 2008 - 04:48) | The song title oddly connects with this great novel I'm just reading: Underworld, from Don DeLillo....
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Neil Young - Round & Round (It Won't Be Long)
(Apr 20, 2008 - 02:42) | horstman wrote:
WTF is three letters! You can make it whatever you want, like "Who's throwing feces", or "World Trade(center) Falling".
A friend of mine, who really likes Neil Young said of him "Neil is a great song writer, but probably the worst singer and guitar player in the history of rock and roll".
Nuff said. 
Well how did they put it, and who was it saying, about Johnny Cash: "The best singer in the world who can't sing a lick." Think I actually picked it up from some comment here on RP. Defines pretty well Neil Young as a guitar player.
Besides, not exactly my favourite song of Neil's, this one.
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The Who - Love, Reign O'er Me
(Apr 19, 2008 - 00:17) | Just risen up, saturday morning, and for some reason with several Kinks tunes in the rear of my head. Went to the PC, switched on RP, and this came in.
Closely followed by QMS. Could a day begin better?
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Van Morrison - Wild Night
(Apr 11, 2008 - 12:17) | Shesdifferent wrote: While I love Van Morrison, don't get me wrong...but isn't this the most overplayed commercial song ever....out of all the library of his songs you could choose from, with your Radio Paradise originality you couldn't have chosen something else? And what in hell makes THIS song commercial???
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Third World - Satta Massagana
(Apr 08, 2008 - 12:26) | ....makes me redefine my taste for reggae, pretty close to unexistant up to this point....ain't that something?
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Jose Gonzalez - Teardrop
(Apr 08, 2008 - 11:57) | bobringer wrote:
One of the great albums of the last 20 years. Get it... How many times did it take me to realize that this is the version of a Massive Attack theme I had heard a thousand times before??? Jeeze I must be getting old....
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Jeff Healey Band - Angel Eyes
(Apr 06, 2008 - 01:05) | michaelgmitchell wrote: Just signing in to RP today . . . saw the playlist.
I missed this, but I wanted to add my thumbs-up to the comments made.
We have such a short time on this planet. This is a reminder.
Live large, be remarkable . . . that's what I tell my students as much as they'll let me without groaning.
They just don't get it, though.
I'm 53. Hell, I'll be lucky to have 20 more years. Too much to do, too little time to do it.
Jeff, watch over us. Remind us that music is the language of living.
Amen. And I'm not being ironic.
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Stephen Marley - Inna Di Red (w/ Ben Harper)
(Apr 05, 2008 - 08:30) | Pyro wrote: I'm not a reggae fan, but I like this. Another poster asked what made it different, and here's my take. The rhythm is completely different and doesn't overpower the words and music. Most reggae (to MY ears) has that same rhythm (dum cheche, dum cheche sort of sound) ad infinitum. This song is also repetitious, but again, the rhythm doesn't take over the rest of the song parts.
You're right. The rhythm of this take makes it a curious one for reggae standards. On the other hand, I must deeply agree with Otomi's comment from February 12th..
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Pentangle - Waltz
(Apr 04, 2008 - 10:45) | FINALLY, I hear THEM on my favourite radio station ever!!! Took a lot of hours of listening. But it's never too late.
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Pink Floyd - Fearless
(Mar 24, 2008 - 05:04) | xkolibuul wrote: I think you missed the target there. The essence of fascism is more likely to be found in the establishment of oligarchic rule, stifling of public dissent and debate, and a heavy dose of militarism and nationalism.
Gee, fellow Americans, why does that sound familiar?
Seems like Zep had already been with you when putting his comment on June 15th 2007. Anyway, if it be like you say: oligarchic rule, and moreover: stifling of public dissent and debate - - are they not aimed to what I call the brainless mass?
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Nick Drake - One Of These Things First
(Mar 01, 2008 - 03:00) | Coppertop wrote:
Personally I think it's crap.
It doesn't take suffering from some mental disorder to expand your mind and seek " 'the other' ".
Imagine how greater the work if the energy that went into self-destruction was directed to the art.
What if both ways lead alongside each other?
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Nick Drake - One Of These Things First
(Mar 01, 2008 - 02:52) | Brooky wrote:
Is ND's appeal based on the fact that his voice and songs are really that good or is it that he died at such a young age and left behind so many questions?
He's unique. That's why.
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Dave Alvin - Highway 61
(Feb 24, 2008 - 03:51) | Seems to me the best version I heard of this song since the one Johnny Winter did on the Tribute Concert. And that's something.
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Bruce Springsteen - Spirit In The Night
(Feb 23, 2008 - 01:18) | I would never have thought that possible: to mistake Bruce Springsteen for Van Morrison - can anybody believe that?? Of course: it was with the volume turned down to the borders with inaudibility.
Amazing, though.
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Rolling Stones - Paint It Black
(Feb 17, 2008 - 09:58) | nigelr wrote:
So true. The hell instrument is that anyway, bazouki, balalaika? A sitar, if you ask me. Very in vogue back in those times....
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Toots & The Maytals - Pressure Drop (w/ Eric Clapton)
(Feb 17, 2008 - 06:31) | If you like this tune, and still have not seen This is England, go straight to the next theatre where this movie is shown. Great story, phantastic soundtrack, and a curious insight to the skin scene.
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Michael Hedges - Rickover's Dream
(Feb 09, 2008 - 10:50) | Dragonfly_Launch wrote:
Actually, when I saw him live, he had one of those black backed geetars. Damn, if I can remember the name. Ovation
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Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade Of Pale
(Feb 07, 2008 - 11:26) | Now, this was not less brilliant than the previous segue, the one from Debussy to Nathalie Merchant (which, by the way, made me reconsider what I recently stated about playing classical music on RP).
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Natalie Merchant - Life Is Sweet
(Feb 07, 2008 - 11:19) | snakechaser wrote: Sweet transition from Debussy, Bill. Imperceptible, I would call it. A true masterpiece!
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Built To Spill - Gone
(Feb 07, 2008 - 10:30) | 1wolfy wrote: Feels like Neil Young I heard the first chord coming in, and immediately I had to have a look whether it was Crazy Horse or either them guys.
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Detektivbyrån - E18
(Feb 04, 2008 - 11:53) | Mina_the_Boo wrote: Would sound at home in the movie Amelie. ...okay, you've been faster than me.
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Detektivbyrån - E18
(Feb 04, 2008 - 11:51) | Could almost fit into the soundtrack of Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, could'nt it?
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Ennio Morricone - The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
(Jan 27, 2008 - 08:57) | cc_rider wrote: I don't understand how people can never have seen this movie! I understand not everyone digs westerns, or even Clint Eastwood. But this movie runs all the time. It has held up surprisingly well, unlike most 'conventional' westerns. Eli Wallach turns in a masterful performance, and Lee Van Cleef is just plain scary.
c. In fact, I find the whole trilogy delicious.
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The Who - Love, Reign O'er Me
(Jan 15, 2008 - 13:02) | IrishMavi wrote:Es la leche.....
Besitos desde Madrid(España)
Otros tantos desde BCN.
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Leon Russell - Back To The Island
(Jan 15, 2008 - 12:33) | cc_rider wrote:
Yeppers. Mr. Russell is about 65. Willie Nelson turned 70 last year (?). Love 'em both, but Leon isn't Willie.
Here in Austin there's an old burger joint with a small photo of Willie Nelson from his Nashville days. BARELY recognizable! Short, slick, dark hair, suit and tie. Shocking.
c. Okay. How old is Dr. John?
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Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata
(Jan 13, 2008 - 01:35) | doctec wrote:
Not sure I agree - along with the territory of "eclectic" comes a high degree of unpredictability and no genre restrictions. That said: RP is defined not only by its playlist but also by people to take the time to post info like this, I'm sure that if enough people complain about the sudden shift to "classical music hour" genre tunes slipped into the mix, he'll avoid the detour in the future.
Speaking for myself: I'm not one of those who would complain about the detour into classical music here - provided it doesn't occur too often and sticks with pieces that are well known, not atonal (nix on the Schoenberg please), and are of relatively short duration. Well, that's exactly the point: classical music is not treated respectfully this way. To me, it makes not much sense to just pick out the easily listened to evergreens. They give classical muscic an appearance which does not correspond to what it really is.
Ah, and don't forget: Schönberg is to Beethoven what, say, Eminem is to Elvis Presley - the unavoidable result of an evolution. Whether you like it or not.
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Stephen Marley - Inna Di Red (w/ Ben Harper)
(Jan 12, 2008 - 01:49) | xkolibuul wrote: I agree, Bleyfusz. Only an idiot would consider reggae simply stoner music, but that's the depth of most of the negative comments below. Sorry to be so blunt, but it really is appalling. Learn some history please and then get back to me. Well, to say the truth: I'm not much into reggae. Actually, my comment aimed rather on my particular perception of dzemeiken inglish. (Which might be related to the fact that English is not my first language.)
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Bob Dylan - One More Cup Of Coffee
(Jan 06, 2008 - 04:14) | Paul_in_Australia wrote:
The insistent bass line, soulful violin, latin backing vocals and Bob's affected Spanish intonation all stealthily combine, inducing an amazing sense of place, so you can almost smell the coffee and the open fire!
Agreed. Like a Velazquez painting turned into music.
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Bob Dylan - Visions of Johanna
(Dec 22, 2007 - 02:46) | Would be hard for me to tell which one of Dylan's definietly does it for me - but it would be probably this! Closely followed by Tombstone Blues, Desolation Row and the like.
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David Bowie - I've Been Waiting For You
(Dec 20, 2007 - 12:44) | 1wolfy wrote: COOL PHOTOGRAPHY Cool album title.
And listening to the song done by Bowie, one might always forget he did not write it. Amazing indeed.
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Gotan Project - El Capitalismo Foraneo
(Dec 14, 2007 - 12:18) | It gives me weird thrills each time the fanatic, hatefully agitating voice shouting "The foreign capitalism!" comes in. I think it evokes some of Argentina's 20th Century history. And not only Argentina's.
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The Who - Join Together
(Dec 13, 2007 - 12:24) | ronniegirl wrote:
I always thought Peter Gabriel was the most frequently played, when I am listening!
mattt wrote:
I'd've guessed him or David Byrne/Talking Heads.
Not that I'm complaining.
Me I am. Unless you demonstrate me it's The Who.
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Nick Drake - Day Is Done
(Dec 08, 2007 - 05:51) | babygirl614 wrote: I decided this morning that life is much better with a little Nick Drake, and a little early Van Morrison, every day. Could not agree more.
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Bob Dylan - Slow Train
(Dec 04, 2007 - 12:43) | Surprising how political Dylan sounds in this early stage of his religious foundamentalism. And - which surprises less - how patriotic.
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Velvet Underground - I'm Waiting For The Man
(Dec 01, 2007 - 10:27) | A surprisingly relaxed version of this song, and two quite different versions of Heroin, can be heard on their 1969 Live double album. Which definitely enters my list of records for a deserted island.
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John Fogerty - River is Waiting
(Nov 26, 2007 - 12:21) | Lkw wrote: Somebody heard the Dirty Boulevard riff or is it just me? Nice song btw, not very special but nice. Now that you say it.... anyway, seems a bit odd, the idea of a swamp creature like John Fogerty getting inspired in the canal rat Lou Reed.
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Wilco - Impossible Germany
(Nov 23, 2007 - 10:50) | Frater_Kork wrote: Damn good track from a Great band.
It feels deeply rooted in the rich soil of 70:s rock, I can hear any number of bands in this.
The guitar work alone is first class. Reminds me of Wishbone Ash, and surprises me because it's the first time this band captures my attention.
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The Beatles - Fixing A Hole
(Nov 18, 2007 - 02:59) | drover wrote:
Play it unadulterated for a 17-year-old kid who's never heard it before and tell him it's the latest Chemical Brothers single; he'd probably believe you. Naaaaaaawh!
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Procol Harum - Conquistador (live)
(Nov 18, 2007 - 02:20) | Alafia wrote: a true classic! Your observation has almost a double sense, considering the fact that PH was - among Emerson, Lake & Palmer, King Crimson and one Dutch group whose name I don't remember - one of those symphonic based bands.
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Roy Orbison - She's A Mystery To Me
(Nov 17, 2007 - 10:19) | copymonkey wrote:
Condescending pretension. Arrogant use of foreign words. Severely misguided and incorrect opinion of a a truly gifted singer.
With those marks against it, any sincere attempt to take the above review seriously will not be forthcoming. Poor old frustrated literary critic rKokon should've stayed at home at graded those community college essays. Excuse me, and without any attempt of participating in this discussion: but since when can opinions be incorrect?
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Nena - 99 Luftballons
(Nov 17, 2007 - 06:34) | For Christ's Sake: how can SUCH A CRAP be played on my all time favourite radio station??? 
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The Cure - Jumping Someone Else's Train
(Nov 14, 2007 - 13:01) | Bill, your segues are truly amazing. Who would have thought THAT after Subterranean Homesick Blues?
And what is even more strange: who would have thought that it works???
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Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata
(Nov 11, 2007 - 05:49) | CafeRacer wrote: Beethoven's deafness preceded by "The Sound Of Silence" Nice segue, Bill! I have to admit I was not able to see it THIS way. Makes me think. Anyway I was about to write that, though RP is obviously an eclectic station and I consider myself one of the most tolerant people in the world when it comes to music, classical music just does not fit into here.
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Neil Young - Ordinary People
(Nov 11, 2007 - 01:31) | Fine. If listeners could be confronted with this, we can also bother them with the full length of Who do you love in the version of Quicksilver Messenger Service. So please go ahead at once!
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Masters of Reality - She Got Me
(Nov 09, 2007 - 15:09) | rocco1207 wrote:
how can you hear those drums and not think of Ballroom Blitz?  Indeed: the next song should be from Blue Öyster Cult!
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Newcomers Home - Lowland
(Nov 07, 2007 - 10:53) | drover wrote: I dig Celtic rock, except possibly those that are 100% Pogues ripoffs (Flogging Molly, Dropkick Murphys). Even a fan like myself, however, has to admit the genre is a bit played out. And what about Roaring Jack?
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Mark Knopfler - Camerado
(Nov 02, 2007 - 10:25) | Sr. Knopflerrrrr: camarada: what in the world made you think you spoke Spanish?
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Fairport Convention - Tam Lin
(Oct 31, 2007 - 15:35) | xkolibuul wrote: Must we wait until Hallowe'en to hear Tam Lin again, Bill?
Please ignore the heathen and unwashed grumbling below, and keep this sublime bit of balladry in rotation. Ditto. But: it's precisely this "heathen and unwashed grumbling below" what gives the song its magic.
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Radio Citizen (feat. Bajka) - The Hop
(Oct 20, 2007 - 14:21) | Frater_Kork wrote: Don't know what they are doing with the poor guitar, but I dig it. I'm not even sure it's a guitar, but I'm with you.
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Leon Russell - It's a Hard Rain Gonna Fall
(Oct 16, 2007 - 12:42) | I find it real odd when a clone of Dr. John covers an iconic song of the early Bob Dylan. If it only would be the original. Dr. John, I mean, not version of the song (which i would also pleased to hear, on the other hand).
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It's A Beautiful Day - Hot Summer Day
(Oct 16, 2007 - 03:15) | rtrudeau wrote:
Hear, hear.
I don't understand why this lovely song has to generate discussion about an entire era. Enjoy the song for what it is - a beautiful piece of music. Well.... that's what I actually meant. Thank you for your support.
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Jefferson Airplane - Embryonic Journey
(Oct 12, 2007 - 02:00) | What an awesome piece of music for such a mellow October morning. (From Barcelona, Spain, close to 11:00 a.m. local time.) Each time I hear it, I only wish it would last a bit longer.
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Neko Case & Her Boyfriends - Porchlight
(Oct 08, 2007 - 12:59) | iMacomania wrote:The tune sounds a little bit like "Mother" from Pink Floyd (the Wall).
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Steve Earle - I Feel Alright
(Oct 07, 2007 - 12:21) | Funny: the introducing riff made me think it would be another cover version of Gloria....
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The Waifs - Crazy Train
(Sep 30, 2007 - 09:37) | shakylegs wrote: Sounds like Michelle Shocked. Not that I'm complaining. Should you?
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Bruce Cockburn - Bright Sky
(Sep 28, 2007 - 14:39) | Bleyfusz wrote: Jeeze, I'm groing old: just heard Bruce Coburn and thought it was Joan Armatrading. ....and my subconscious, knowing the correct pronounciation of the surname, changed Cockburn into Coburn.
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Eva Cassidy - Ain't No Sunshine
(Sep 15, 2007 - 15:05) | sfListener wrote: yeah. I heard her do a Sting cover here. Gave me more respect for Sting as a writer. Me not. Only more respect for her voice, able to ennoble even something like Fields of Gold.
So imagine when she sings a real good song like this one.
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Neil Young - Powderfinger
(Sep 15, 2007 - 13:19) | RobK wrote:
Sounds like he lived to tell the tale, no? To me, he's telling his story from Kingdom Come. Seems obvious. Anyway, I'm glad to find so many more people who also wonder what the tale is about. I already feared I was somewhat short of mind. Though I always thought maybe the main attractive of the song is exactly this: its incertitude.
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Geoffrey Oryema - The River
(Sep 11, 2007 - 11:24) | esotericderek wrote:This just followed Robbie Robertson's "Crazy River". What's next, Nick Drake's "River Man", or David Byrne's "Take Me To The River"?
 
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Youngbloods - Get Together
(Sep 11, 2007 - 10:40) | Kristi wrote: Thanks for the message today, Bill, on this 9/11 anniversary....
10:26 am - Youngbloods - Get Together
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10:20 am - Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
10:16 am - Patty Griffin - Heavenly Day
10:11 am - Lisa Lynne - Maiden's Prayer
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10:07 am - Lost at Last - Shalom Asalaam (a call for peace)
10:03 am - Oi Va Voi - Refugee
9:59 am - Harry Manx - Afghani Raga
9:55 am - Toad The Wet Sprocket - Pray Your Gods
9:50 am - Live - Overcome
9:47 am - Tom McRae - End of the World News
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9:42 am - Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
9:38 am - David Gray - Babylon
9:34 am - Martha Wainwright - Don't Forget
9:29 am - REM - She Just Wants to Be
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9:26 am - Suzanne Vega - Angel's Doorway
....what about adding Manowar : Gods of War?
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Eva Cassidy - Fields of Gold
(Sep 08, 2007 - 13:17) | Now that girl achieved the impossible: to make me like this song. Well....actually not. It's still her voice I'm fond of. Her style. Guess I could'nt stand this song if not sung by Eva Cassidy, or maybe it's just my prejudice against Sting and everything he touches since the end of Police.
God bless you up there, Eva.
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Daniel Lanois - Jolie Louise
(Sep 08, 2007 - 04:30) | hctim_53 wrote: please make it stop!!!!
can I bear the song with half word in french and the other half in english!!!! What's wrong with it?
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King Crimson - The Court Of The Crimson King
(Sep 08, 2007 - 03:39) | ThePoose wrote: This would have made a great movie soundtrack. Haven't seen Children of Men? I nearly fell off my seat when this tune came up. Couldn't believe my ears, man.
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Richie Havens - Freedom
(Sep 02, 2007 - 13:37) | It's amazing the beauty this tune keeps irradiating after so many years.
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Califone - Sunday Noises
(Aug 25, 2007 - 00:34) | The very first chords made me think of Traffic, but I have to withdraw. Nothin to do, and not only because of the guy's voice, far from resembling Steve Winwood's.
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Bruce Cockburn - Night Train
(Jul 22, 2007 - 03:37) | It's years and years ago that I first knew this guy. But it's thanks to RP that I became aware how good he is.
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Chambers Brothers - Time Has Come Today
(Jul 20, 2007 - 13:14) | Farquwaar wrote: Has anyone heard Steve Earle and Sheryl Crows version? Not as good as the orginal (few things are) but way cool! I only know the one of Willy de Ville. Not bad either. (Actually, I thought his was the original.)
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Van Morrison - Cleaning Windows
(Jul 17, 2007 - 12:03) | spoko wrote: I hate this song. I like some of his stuff, but nobody over-romanticizes the working class like Van Morrison. Between him and Paul Simon, you'd think the best life in the world was lived by people who barely make it from one paycheck to the next (ow who have no paychecks in the first place).
And yes, I know Van Morrison used to be a window cleaner. That don't mean a thing--he didn't grow old in the working class, and that's where the reality lies. Van always tends to idealize. He does it using his memory. A good example would be Hymns to the silence, as an album, and especially the track On Hyndford Street thereon. Strange enough: Van is often able to idealize in a sincere, quite credible way. Go and have a listen to Hyndford Street.
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Neil Young - Like a Hurricane
(Jul 14, 2007 - 09:12) | runaway wrote:...But it's interesting to note that Horse with No Name can be played on the guitar with just two chords.
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Mark-Almond - The City
(Jul 13, 2007 - 13:56) | The segue from the previous song evidences a characteristic in Nick Drake's music that is usually not recognized: his guitar style sounds quite bossa nova skilled. Though Pink Moon is not precisely the best example, River Man would have done far better.
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The White Stripes - You Don't Know What Love Is
(Jul 10, 2007 - 13:13) | Beanie wrote:
I agree with you -- I would have bet this was a 25 or 30-year old tune. The only thing that sets it off is that you can hear Jack White's signature in the guitar work.
Still a pretty good song, IMHO, but I don't think it's signalling the future of anything but Jack and Meg's bank account.  ....also a way to see it, I have to confess....anyway, the followers of the WS still are a minority, as you can tell from the comments in this very forum, so their money will be earned working hard....and that's also r&r....the real one, I mean. - By the way, Bill: when will we hear some Loretta Lynn tune supported by Jack's guitar?
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Staple Singers - Respect Yourself
(Jul 10, 2007 - 12:48) | Hey, that's quite crazy: four songs ago we had Somewhere down the Crazy River, and now this! It reminds me of a tape I compiled more than ten years ago, where both songs follow each other immediately, if my memory doesn't play me tricks....
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Van Morrison - Gypsy
(Jun 30, 2007 - 09:53) | Lord have mercy, what an AWESOME segue from Moody Blues this has been! Real nice one, Bill.
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Cracker - Sidi Ifni
(Jun 30, 2007 - 05:35) | blackdogsailing wrote: Nothing to do with trains, but I can't help thinking how this tune and Soul Asylym's Runaway Train sound so much like something Tom Petty's done ....maybe because of the singer's voice?
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Nick Drake - Three Hours
(Jun 25, 2007 - 12:53) | Awesome, Bill! Just what I needed!! A thousand thanks from round the planet.
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Bob Dylan - Rollin' And Tumblin'
(Jun 24, 2007 - 06:27) | eskles wrote: I try not to question the selections played here too often but.....of all the great versions of this song, it is incomprehensible to me that this get the play it does. Hey, you should have lend your ear, you and the other detractors, to Bill and how he's just put it: "....not exactly a version!" And don't forget what popular music is in the end: a constant transformation of given phrases, a personal participation in a collective creating. Essentially, that's Dylan.
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TV On the Radio - Things You Can Do
(Jun 24, 2007 - 06:07) | rgrace wrote: No, no, no. No resemblance to Zappa whatsoever. Jeesh. What planet are you guys from? :)
Morphine. End of story. That's right! But with some Beckish influence, maybe?
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Pink Floyd - Fearless
(Jun 23, 2007 - 09:16) | About this song, i would like to comment something which I guess most of you will find surprising: it scares me. Not the song itself, of course, but the choirs in the background, which sound so damn hooligangish. If there is something I hate, then it is euphoric crowds of people: gang spirit and tribal instincts which disolve the otherwise thought-gifted individuum in the brainless mass.
Undoubtedly, the essence of fascism is to be found therein. And each time I hear this song, I feel reminded of it.
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The Raconteurs - Store Bought Bones
(Jun 22, 2007 - 15:41) | Frater_Kork wrote: I like it!
It sounds like The Who channeling Yes. ....being distorsioned by the Queens of the Stone Age
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Janis Joplin - Summertime
(Jun 22, 2007 - 13:52) | Awesome! Last night - I am writing from Barcelona, Spain, you know - it would have sounded even more perfect, because it was Summer Solstice.
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Pink Floyd - Us & Them -> Eclipse
(Jun 22, 2007 - 13:11) | kream wrote: Eclipse is my favourite Floyd track, out of all the albums and all their songs. I'll never forget a note.
My father used to listen to Dark Side when I was two years old and one of my earliest memories is of me asking for the "long song with the heartbeats" and him proudly saying "Sure!" and playing it for me
:`)
I miss him... I am not much of a Pink Floyd fan, you know, but your little story affects me and makes me enjoy the track.
It's my Ma whom I miss, and it's also certain songs that remind me of her.
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Stone Temple Pilots - Big Empty
(Jun 18, 2007 - 13:08) | Awesome segue! The intended nexus seems quiet clear: some bluesy acoustic guitar work that picks up Dylan's beat.... Well done!
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Led Zeppelin - Going To California
(Jun 15, 2007 - 11:48) | ZedLeppelin wrote:
Don't you mean the other way around??
Nope. There is certainly some strange kind of poetry in the cover image which is harshly deceived when you get aware of lyrics like "seems like the wrath of the gods got a punch on the nose...." etc.
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Mike Montiel - After The Gunfight
(Jun 12, 2007 - 12:49) | Smoke still waves through the air, but the good one gained victory and peace is restablished in the small frontier town. The defeated pistolero is getting six feet under, and the hero rides off into the evening sun.
By the way: it would be great to hear A Pistol for Paddy Garcia on RP one of these days.
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Blue Oyster Cult - Astronomy
(Jun 10, 2007 - 06:00) | runaway wrote: Someone said 'pretentious' and that pretty much sums it up. In this song they sound just like the German band Scorpions who make me cringe as well. The only good song BOC ever did was Don't fear the Reaper, and that one is just creepy and probably egged on more than a few teen suicides. Two thumbs down. Scorpions do make me vomit as well (afortunately, never heard them on RP) but there's a HUGE ABBYS between them and BÖC, as there is, by the way, between BÖC and most of the bands of this genre they were co-founders of. Nonetheless, I admit that a better song could have been chosen, especially from Secret Treaties.
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Blue Oyster Cult - Astronomy
(Jun 10, 2007 - 05:38) | Great! More BÖC please, if possible from the older stuff (Extraterrestial Live and previous)!!
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Ray LaMontagne - Three More Days
(Jun 10, 2007 - 02:39) | yclept wrote: so evocative of Tim Buckley in his happier/funkier moments What?? I thought I heard Pop Staples singing....
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Björk - Big Time Sensuality
(Jun 09, 2007 - 15:17) | Now that's just incredible: an abridged QMS Who do you love giving way to Björk.... hey, Bill, you alright?
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Luna - Black Postcards
(Jun 08, 2007 - 13:48) | Is it just me, or do they sound like the Stone Roses in some way?
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Kruder & Dorfmeister - Sha
(Jun 08, 2007 - 13:11) | Paul_in_Australia wrote: I cannot believe the same radio station can play so much country music rubbish and then play something like this.
Has some redneck got a gun to your head Bill? Give us a secret signal and someone can burst in and set you free... I know, play three country music tracks in a row and whammo! the liberators of the airwaves will come through the walls and tie up the perp and then you can play him/her some decent music 24/7 as punishment!
Result With a statement like this you prove to be as dull as the rednecks you're referring too. Defining country - or whatever kind of - music as rubbish per se throws a poor light upon you. As if, say, a reggae musician could not be a reactionary asshole as well.
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Nick Drake - Clothes Of Sand
(Jun 06, 2007 - 13:51) | handyrae wrote: There is something about his voice that is so hauntingly beautiful. Maybe because most (all?) of his songs are acoustic, but he sounds so old. Not old as in years, but rather like he's someone singing in the 14th century or something. It gives me chills. I guess that's what I meant just the other day when I wrote, referring to Fly, that he sounds "deliberately old-fashioned".....
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Enya - Orinoco Flow
(Jun 06, 2007 - 13:40) | ....anyway....let's not forget she once was the voice of a good band, at least for those who like the Irish stuff: Clannad.
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Van Morrison - The Way Young Lovers Do
(Jun 06, 2007 - 13:34) | On_The_Beach wrote: His first (Warner Bros.) album remains his best, although this song is atypical of the moody, mystical feel of the rest of the album.
Astral Weeks is a true classic! Yepp! exactly what I meant mate!
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Led Zeppelin - Going To California
(Jun 01, 2007 - 14:11) | I just wish the album was as good as the cover art is...
After all, the song is one of these you keep loving for a sense of loyalty, as someone put it the other day. And that's more than you can affirm talking about a lot of other stuff.
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The Police - Walking On The Moon
(May 31, 2007 - 13:42) | highwindows wrote: Quite extra-ordinararily subtle & complex drumming from Copeland!! Nothing like watching Coppola's Rumble Fish in order to judge Copeland's weight in what was the conception of the group: it was Copeland alone who signed the soundtrack, but it reminds you the Police constantly.
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Portishead - Glory Box
(May 25, 2007 - 13:42) | Great album, from the first note until the last. Creepy somehow. Sugestive headlines, like Western Eyes, for an instance.
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Van Morrison - Come Running
(May 22, 2007 - 14:03) | goo wrote:
I have to agree with Van the Man on this one. The internet has turned ua all into attention deficit idiots. Now we live in a world of immediate gratification where everything including sex is just a click away but it's all a sad empty illusion...no poetry anymore, just noise.
There, end of rant.
01/03/2006 - 12:14:12
Van Morrison has launched a scathing attack on the internet, insisting it is responsible for the dumbing down of society and modern culture.
The Gloria hitmaker is convinced the web has caused more problems than it has solved, and insists Earth would be a better place without it.
He says: "Now, because of the internet, everyone's suddenly a big shot. I'm talking about people who think that because they've looked up a website, they know everything.
"You used to have to study things but now you can just find it on the internet, and everybody feels very important because they have access to this stuff.
"It was a different culture when I was young. Quality, respect - they seem to have vanished."
OK Van - keep on praying to your Higher Self, but let me tell you something: there will always be poetry, according to the great Spanish post-romantic Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, with whom I agree on this point.
Besides, I can perfectly understand your point of view, and confess that I feel tented into agreement: internet is a marketplace of egolatrism. But that's not the fault of the internet itself, instead it is of those who don't know where its real utilities are to be found.
And last not least: I owe it to the internet that I could get deeper into several lyrics of yours which I highly appreciate. Because the way you mumble them out doesn't make it precisely easier for us no-native speakers to capture them.
Long may you run.
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Nick Drake - Fly
(May 21, 2007 - 13:25) | There is something deliberately old fashioned in it. But it's still Nick Drake.
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Sinead Lohan - To Ramona
(May 14, 2007 - 13:53) | chuck_flacks wrote: This is a relatively unknown song by Dylan -- from Desire, if I remember right. But, her version is haunting -- I thought it was Joan Baez at first. She seems to be channeling the old Joan sings Dylan vibe. Nope! By no means from Desire! Must have been Another Side of...., though I'm not sure either.
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Frank Sinatra - That's Life
(May 11, 2007 - 08:19) | sherf wrote: In the late 70's I went to a Frank show at the Universal Ampitheatre, and there was a whole row of spiked-out punkers in front of us who were there early and into the show from start to finish. It was quite a spectacle. actually. Outside of Hendrix, Frank is the only performer I've seen who has the entire hall in his control for the full performance. From the back row of the orchestra to the back row of the hall, the place was HIS.
Sinatra was swinging
all the drunks they were singing
we kissed on a corner
and danced through the night
Shane McGowan
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Violent Femmes - Color Me Once
(May 03, 2007 - 13:14) | Bleyfusz wrote: Love this tune! ....as I do love a great deal of the tunes from this soundtrack, especially, apart from this one, those played by Nine Inch Nails, The Cure, Stone Temple Pilots, Henry Rollins and Rage Angainst The Machine.
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The Pogues - Dirty Old Town
(May 01, 2007 - 09:49) | Lensles wrote: I love this song, although Roger Whitaker sings it sweeter! Roger Whitaker? Lord have mercy. But no kidding: listen to the version the Dubliners once made. Not bad either.
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The Pogues - Dirty Old Town
(May 01, 2007 - 09:38) | drover wrote: I saw the Pogues in concert this week. I didn't expect much, especially since the last time Shane was in Chicago (with the Popes) he was so drunk that he roared all over the stage and would have fallen over if he didn't have the microphone stand to prop him up. But I figured it was probably a last-chance opportunty to see all of the Pogues together, especially here in the States. Besides which, I figured the rest of the gang probably wouldn't have agreed to a tour if Shane was still a complete wasteoid.
What a f*#king show. Shane was at the top of his game. He was (relatively) sober. His voice had as much energy as it did 20 years ago. He bloody nailed every song. He was even dancing around the stage a bit (well, shuffling anyway) during instrumental breaks. The crowd went wild with every song, but Dirty Old Town really brought down the house.
It's an experience I'll never forget... or at least I'll never forget those portions that weren't erased from my brain by a fair dose of alcohol... Boy, how do I envy you!
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Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - Global A Go-Go
(May 01, 2007 - 08:34) | elduderino wrote: Rest in Piece you crazy guy!
i will miss your music!
one of the best songs in my opinion As apparently you don't mean it in an ironic way, keep an eye upon right spelling: rest in pea(!)ce.
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Madeleine Peyroux - California Raining
(May 01, 2007 - 06:30) | Rafter101 wrote: Did Billie Holiday just rise from the dead? First song I consciously heard Madeleine sing was Dance me to the end of Love - on RP, by the way -, and I thought something like: Billie Holiday singing Leonard Cohen?? Time and Space must be totally fucked up!
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Nick Drake - River Man
(Apr 30, 2007 - 14:39) | Snoodle wrote: A painfully beautiful song from a beautiful record probably his "happy" record from the three he recorded. Don'y you think Bryter Layter is the "happy" one?
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Nick Drake - River Man
(Apr 30, 2007 - 14:24) | Ngoziman wrote:Nice video here - River Man - just click the Watch link and choose your media. Ghostly black and white stills - very evocative.
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Nick Drake - River Man
(Apr 30, 2007 - 14:21) | Kokoloco53 wrote: Nice, very nice, reminds a bit of an old Joni Mitchell song's melody, can't place it though. Thanks Radio Paradise for continually upgrading my horizons. Maybe Songs to aging children, which is the one she sings during the funeral scene in the Alice's Restaurant movie?
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Nick Drake - River Man
(Apr 30, 2007 - 14:09) | MtnGoat wrote:
Indeed.
Hope you're still around to get this, thanks for that link.
C. They should have just left out the ambient sounds.
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Kate Bush - How to Be Invisible
(Apr 30, 2007 - 01:04) | rumplestiltskin wrote:
If this were a cookie, there would be raisins in it.
What the hell does this mean? How is this to be understood - as a laud?
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Fairport Convention - Come All Ye
(Apr 29, 2007 - 07:40) | amandamustdance wrote: Is that Jonie Mitchell singing? Or someone perhaps influenced by her? Is that a dumb question!? Without going so far to affirm the latter question: it wouldn't have occured to me. Like Fred, they'd rather remind me of Jefferson Airplane..
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Nick Drake - Place To Be
(Apr 28, 2007 - 09:53) | westsound wrote:Thanks so much for playing Nick Drake once again
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Tim Buckley - Buzzin Fly
(Apr 22, 2007 - 12:53) | I certainly knew Tim before I first heard about Jeff, and about when this happened, I heard this song in a live recorded version on a Spanish radio station, along with several other tunes played on the same concert. Great artist who fathered another one who oviously reached his progenitor, if not outdone him.
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Nick Drake - Which Will
(Apr 15, 2007 - 06:22) | As I read a lot of discussions about whether Nick was a good guitar player or not: just try to figure his style and technique out, if you perform some playing yourself. And then you might judge.
Nick Drake, since I re-discovered him several years ago, is one of the greatest for me and will ever be, I'm sure. No other whom I feel so directly linked to, through music as well as through lyrics, though I couldn't explain properly why. Mysterious, yes, no doubt. But I enjoy it.
Besides: one of my main reasons for listening to Radio Paradise.
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what an awesome segue fr cash!
Bonobo
Mira...lo que que ha hecho.... 
la GUARRA de tu hija 
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