Grateful Dead - Scarlet Begonias
(Jul 03, 2009 - 20:58) | pope183 wrote:
I have been looking at your posts in the song comments.
Why is it that you have to piss all over everything and call people names ?
Are you really that insecure ? or You just enjoy being the turd in the punchbowl ?
Perhaps you should put the bottle down... instead of the people on RP.
First of all, your characterization of my posts isn't accurate. Second, when someone tells me they're grateful they don't know me personally just because I comment that I dislike the Grateful Dead — well, the rules of polite discourse sort of go by the wayside at that point.
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Antonio Vivaldi - The 4 Seasons - Summer - Allegro Non Molto
(May 13, 2009 - 15:42) | Oscar_the_Grouch wrote:
The fact that you must resort to name calling proves my point in it's entire. Ha ha, I win.
So, what does it prove that you apparently don't know the difference between "it's" and "its"?
And what is an "entire"?
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Indigo Girls - Closer To Fine
(May 13, 2009 - 15:37) | vit wrote:
Well seriously think about it. The line talks about college right? College ain't mandatory. So if you really feel like you spent four years ass-in-the air to the man, then you didn't get sh*t from all that time and money you wasted there. That means you're a spoiled brat who was too much of a pin-brained limpet to drop out.
Now if the line's about high school where it's a lot tougher to drop out then it makes more sense — especially when you consider how repressive that is. But college? Repressive? Only a spoiled brat would think so.
vit hits the nail on the head here.
Yep, the Indigo Girls were two genuine philosophers who saw the whole sham for what it was worth but, even though they were adults, stayed and got the degree anyway.
A couple of real rebels, these two. Kicked the bourgeoisie square in the balls, uh HUH. Give me a break.
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Antonio Vivaldi - The 4 Seasons - Summer - Allegro Non Molto
(May 13, 2009 - 15:31) | Oscar_the_Grouch wrote:
We'll try to be less sarcastic if you'll try to be smarter. I'm not sure you're up to the challenge though.
Dearie me, I'm so crushed that some asshole who's so clever as to call himself "Oscar the Grouch" insults my intelligence. Oh my YES.
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Grateful Dead - Scarlet Begonias
(May 08, 2009 - 21:21) | jedley wrote:
I'm very grateful I don't know you personally.
Feeling is mutual, sweetums. I don't have much use for Deadheads — most of them aren't terribly bright and you appear to be no exception.
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Rachel Podger - Vivaldi - Allegro, Concerto in G Major, Op 4 No 3
(May 06, 2009 - 14:21) | djblitz wrote:
Funny this Tool has twice as many songs rated as a "1" as he does a "10".
{ } suprising
{ } respects Pink Floyd & The Doors for their contributions to the musical landscape
{x} is a trolling douche
Sigh. It's so hard to talk to people with no critical thinking skills.
So let's start today's lesson here: I have twice as many songs rated "8" as I do "1." I also have almost twice as many 7s as 1s, and almost twice as many 9s as 1s. Got that? Good. Sort of renders your point — well, pointless. Sort of like your existence, no doubt.
Now let's continue with Sturgeon's Law and the Radio Paradise Corollary: Anyone who has more 10s than 1s probably isn't thinking very hard. This is especially true, I'll venture, when that someone is 30 or so and his favorite music is apparently dinosaur acts like Pink Floyd and Simon and Garfunkel (Simon and Garfunkel!!). You're already such a bore that I almost hate to think what you're going to be at 40 — you'll undoubtedly already be waving the cane around telling the kids to turn down that damn noise.
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Fleetwood Mac - Landslide
(May 03, 2009 - 15:46) | Yay! And thank you for playing the original version, instead of the inferior live version that was getting a ton of airplay more recently!!
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Joni Mitchell - Shades Of Scarlett Conquering
(May 03, 2009 - 09:26) | On_The_Beach wrote:
Wow, that was truly sad. If a pop song or someone else's opinion of it can fill you with that much anger and hatred, then I honestly feel sorry for you. Hope you get over what's really bothering you, someday. It's obviously not me or Joni Mitchell.
Ok, so let me see if I get the rules here. First you get to say that I'm a whiner and imply that I'm not as smart or evolved as you are. Then you get to liken me to swine. Then, after you're finished insulting me and anyone else who doesn't have the same musical taste you do, you tell me to get over it and tell me you pity me.
Uh, right. But anyway, thanks for confirming my opinion of you as a condescending prick.
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Red Hot Chili Peppers - Snow (Hey Oh)
(May 03, 2009 - 09:24) | LorraineV1 wrote: Firstly, I love this song. Love the Peppers new and old. I also love that it followed Higher Ground by Stevie Wonder.
Second—- holborne.... you need to lighten up. You know exactly what tomeck meant by "kinda gay".
No, I guess I don't. Why don't you explain it?
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Red Hot Chili Peppers - Snow (Hey Oh)
(May 01, 2009 - 14:12) | tomeck wrote:Yea! The more I listen to it, the more I like it. At first I thought it's kinda gay, but now i turn speakers louder, when I hear it. Strong 8.
Oh, cute! Do you teach your kids to refer to unworthy things by referring to them as "black" or "Jewish" too, by any chance?
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Bonnie Raitt - When the Spell Is Broken
(May 01, 2009 - 12:10) | katyb wrote: I know this comes from a tribute album but this version is way too anemic; try Richard Thompson's version to hear how this tune should rightly sound.
Agree. This is pretty meh, to put it kindly.
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The Doors - Cars Hiss By My Window
(May 01, 2009 - 09:43) | On_The_Beach wrote: I agree. You can't help but wonder how great the next album might have been. Alas.
Dying in a drunken/high stupor in a Parisian bathtub was Jim's fate.
Better than what would have been his fate had he lived: gyrating around on the stage in Vegas singing "Love Me Two Times" for the 634rd time that week, while a bunch of bored tourists yawned and rolled their eyes, impatiently waiting for the main act to come on.
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Al Stewart - Year Of The Cat
(May 01, 2009 - 08:34) | Pommie wrote: Not as good as some of his other stuff, but the only hit he ever had I think.
Still sounds good all those years later
There was actually one more: "Time Passages." Although this one was certainly more well known.
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Neil Young - Throw Your Hatred Down
(Apr 30, 2009 - 13:32) | Gryn wrote: Seriously? "Throw your weapons down?"
Sure, if you don't mind boarding a one-way train to a Nazi concentration camp.
Seriously, Neil, are you really asking a populace to become easily controlled?
Wow. Does your knee hurt when you jerk it that hard?
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English Beat - Save It for Later
(Apr 28, 2009 - 09:36) | Ndugu wrote:A very insightful song about understanding how little you actually know when you're young. And yes, there's a little joke in the title: listen to the phrase Save It For Later and see if you hear it. The brilliant Dave Wakeling explains it here: Dave Wakeling Interview
Yes, thanks for posting that! V interesting.
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Joni Mitchell - Shades Of Scarlett Conquering
(Apr 28, 2009 - 08:32) | On_The_Beach wrote:
Yes, I would say it was her best. Too bad all these whiners don't understand it. Ah well, pearls before swine
The best of a pile of shit is still a piece of shit.
And don't even get me started on the bone-stick-stone stupid assertion, oft seen hereabouts, that disliking something is the same as not understanding it. That's right up there in the pantheon of genius with "Go back to listening to Britney Spears" when another Radio Paradise listener (for Christ's sake) doesn't like the same song you like. As is calling someone who posts an opinion with which you disagree a "whiner," for that matter.
Now then, clown, let me try to explain this in terms you might understand: The fact that I don't like Joni Mitchell doesn't mean that I "don't understand" Joni Mitchell. It means that I've listened to her music over a course of years, thought about it, and come to the conclusion that in my opinion, she's a self-important, undertalented, overrated, pompous blowhard whose lyrics display approximately the level of wisdom and complexity found in babies' board books and whose shrieky, nails-on-blackboard voice would be better put to use as a dog whistle than as an instrument.
Put that in your bong and smoke it, you condescending Boomer prick.
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Conor Oberst - Sausalito
(Apr 23, 2009 - 13:13) | ScottFromWyoming wrote:
I thought about taking a run at it but decided to listen to Ramones instead.
Probably the best reaction, I agree.
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AC/DC - War Machine
(Apr 22, 2009 - 12:08) | tg3k wrote:And as an aside, I guess I'm not cosmopolitan enough, since I know a girly boy when I see one, and it has nothing to do with sexism or homophobia. Maybe if I'd pull my panties into a tighter twist I'd understand the "correct" viewpoint. 
Maybe you'd like to tell me precisely how you can refer to someone as "girly boy" without using a sexist frame of reference, since the term "girly boy" is sexist by definition. It's like saying, "I know a jigaboo when I see one, but it has nothing to do with racism." Seriously, I'm really curious to hear you explain.
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AC/DC - War Machine
(Apr 22, 2009 - 12:07) | stewliscious wrote:
Is Boy George your grandpa?
Why? Are you needing a date?
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AC/DC - War Machine
(Apr 20, 2009 - 11:17) | stewliscious wrote:
And be prepared to get all kinds of hate for calling girly boys "girly boys". There are some hyper-sensitive folks around here that think that means you hate gay people, drive a pickup, chew tobacco and want George W. to be your grandpa.
It might not mean you drive a pickup and chew tobacco, I guess. But it does mean you're a sexist prick, and very likely a homophobe too. So take your pick, I guess.
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Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street
(Apr 15, 2009 - 11:22) | alph wrote:
But then, did anything from the mid-to-late seventies ever sound timeless?
Well, of course it did — for example, any of the stuff that The Clash, Patti Smith, Television, or Richard Thompson were doing in that time period. It's just not the stuff you heard on the radio, is all.
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The Box Tops - The Letter
(Apr 15, 2009 - 08:24) | RobRyan wrote: SO much better than the Joe Cocker abomination!
Goes without saying, really.
But this really is a great song, compared with Joe Cocker or not. Just wish it were longer.
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The New Pornographers - The Bleeding Heart Show
(Apr 10, 2009 - 09:52) | Smoove_D wrote: What would you do if your manager told you one day, "I just got a call from some ad agency. They want to pay you a bunch of money to use your song in a commercial"? Would you say, "No, I'd rather keep my music a secret than pay my bills"?
Seriously. The whole "Sell-out!" accusation has always been puzzling to me. Why aren't artists entitled to profit from their work, in the same way anyone else is entitled to make a living? I could see people's objections if a band sold their music, say, to the White Aryan Resistance for use as that group's theme song. But I don't understand the objections otherwise.
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Red Hot Chili Peppers - Breaking The Girl
(Apr 08, 2009 - 09:51) | lemmoth wrote: Once again all of you fools who think rock and roll singers ought all to be opera singers don't really have a clue about rock and roll.
Anthony is an expressive, emotive and forceful ROCK AND ROLL Singer and front man.
Please stop your anti-singer nonsense which diminishes your appreciation of rock and roll royalty like Dyaln, Neil, Elvis C., Pearl Jam and anyone else you disparage, It's F(&^(*&ing rock and roll people. Not everyone can be Freddy Mercury.
Applause for lemmoth, again. He's absolutely right. If you guys actually think Kiedis can't sing, maybe you'd better stick to Placido Domingo and Queen, dudes. Seriously.
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Rolling Stones - Miss You
(Apr 07, 2009 - 13:49) | esweazey73 wrote: I'm the only one on the planet that could care less about the Stones — I just don't get it.
No, you aren't. I like some of their work — I like this album, actually — but I'm generally indifferent to them.
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Grateful Dead - Not Fade Away / Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad
(Apr 05, 2009 - 11:58) | joshfm wrote:
Wow. Do us all a favor and either pull the stick out of your ass or don't post here.
Good idea! Maybe I'll give the stick to one of the drummers. They couldn't sound any worse using a shit-covered stick to bang away than they do with a drumstick. Probably would be an improvement, actually.
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Grateful Dead - Not Fade Away / Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad
(Apr 05, 2009 - 10:02) | Yeccch. Just play the Buddy Holly version, which is of course ten times better than any POS the Dead ever recorded.
Then again, Holly had more talent in his smallest fart than the Grateful Dead had all put together, including the four drummers or whatever the fuck they had.
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Bruce Springsteen - Highway Patrolman
(Apr 05, 2009 - 09:50) | wrangler wrote: nope - it's the same set today, quite a few months later. this is really my only hangup with radio paradise.
Pretty silly hangup. Surely you don't think that Bill can stay awake 24/7?
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Jenny Lewis - Next Messiah
(Apr 03, 2009 - 10:45) | Oh, good — time for my afternoon ten-minute mute as we have to hear this stupid song. Again.
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Wilco - Jesus, Etc.
(Mar 30, 2009 - 09:15) | rdo wrote:
I'm not sure what you mean by changing the station (I like Wilco). I don't want that, really. I only meant to point out what I see as an irony. That being that this is more or less a rock station, but many of the highest rated songs here are classical pieces.
I was just responding to this comment in your original post: "Makes one wonder why they don't just turn this into a classical/jazz station."
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Dido - The Day Before The Day
(Mar 23, 2009 - 12:10) | Dido is one whose commercial success is utterly, completely inexplicable to me. Every single song is the same monotonous, droning, faux-ambient mess as the last. The woman sounds like she downed a couple fistfuls of Ativan chased with a tumbler of tequila, woke up, and started to sing (or rather, "sing"). And if you see her live, it's actually shocking — she can't carry a tune in a catcher's mitt, and wanders around the stage looking confused. She is AWFUL AWFUL AWFUL.
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Wilco - Jesus, Etc.
(Mar 22, 2009 - 18:20) | rdo wrote: Look at the list of the highest rated RP songs. A lot of classical music there. Why not have more on RP then if people rate it so high? I like classical too, but I have a different station for that. It seems futile to rate those piece low, and I imagine a lot of people don't bother giving a low rating to a classical piece even if they don't really like it. I can also imagine people just doling out 10s simply based on the fact they are classical pieces. Why not? So, I was being a little sarcastic I guess. I think that Bill is taking the eclectic thing too far though with respect to Vivaldi et al.. I'd really like to see a "don't play" rating for songs that we don't want to denigrate, but don't really want to hear, especially for rock classics we love but that we may have already heard too many times before.
I 100% agree with you that symphonic and chamber music doesn't belong here — especially the way it's played here, in tiny excerpts ripped out of the whole piece — and have said so many a time on these boards. (For the record, btw, I love "classical" music and trained pretty rigorously to be an opera singer a long time ago, so please, some of you, spare me the comments about what a philistine I am and just don't understand classical music like you do and all the other crap comments I've received along those lines.) But saying that a playing of Wilco means they should just go ahead and change this station to a classical and jazz station — well, I think perhaps that goes a bit far. It's not as though those things form the bulk of the playlist here.
I also think the "don't play" rating option is a good idea, and if I were you I'd suggest it to Bill.
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AC/DC - War Machine
(Mar 20, 2009 - 13:29) | ghcollins86 wrote:
Yes, well, unless you get crushed to death, of course.
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Aimee Mann - The Scientist (Live)
(Mar 20, 2009 - 13:03) | floydoftherocks wrote: ....i think he plays coldplay and joni mitchell to shake off some listeners and keep the bills down.. kinda like how in germany they play frank zappa when the bars & clubs are closing to encourage people to leave..
A-hahahahaha! Best. Comment. EVER!!
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Aimee Mann - The Scientist (Live)
(Mar 20, 2009 - 13:02) | jjbix wrote: remakes and covers generally say, "I've got nothing new to offer."
Sure. Like Jimi Hendrix's cover of "All Along the Watchtower," right?
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Wilco - Jesus, Etc.
(Mar 20, 2009 - 12:20) | rdo wrote:Sacred cows always get high ratings. Makes one wonder why they don't just turn this into a classical/jazz station. Membership would go through the roof then, right?
Uh...what? You are aware that this doesn't make the slightest amount of sense, right?
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Blondie - Heart Of Glass
(Mar 20, 2009 - 11:44) | mgkiwi wrote:Agreed - she gave me many a sore wrist!!!!  
Dude. Way, way oversharing. Seriously.
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Carla Bruni - Quelqu'un m'a dit
(Mar 19, 2009 - 16:38) | I've been listening to RP for years and never heard this song once. Now I've heard it twice since yesterday. YAY!!
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The Who - Going Mobile
(Mar 19, 2009 - 16:26) | I like The Who when they're subdued like this and just show what they can do without all the bombast and crap. Stuff like "Who Are You" or "Eminence Front" — forget it.
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The Beatles - Revolution 1
(Mar 19, 2009 - 10:50) | The White Album. It's like, how much more white could it be? And the answer is none. None more white.
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The Doors - L.A. Woman
(Mar 18, 2009 - 12:06) | It's pretty hilarious that anyone takes the deeply talentless fuck that is Jim Morrison seriously at this late date, much less think it's appropriate to bestow laughable titles like "one of the greatest poets of rock n roll." The best thing I can say to that is that you should probably start reading some actual poetry.
Move on, people. The 60s have been over for quite a while now.
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Roxy Music - Avalon
(Mar 18, 2009 - 07:34) | fredriley wrote: Archetypal Yuppie music from the 80s - just hearing RM, or similar Yup bands like Spandau Ballet, evokes images of stripey shirts, red braces, loud barrowboys, flat-top hairstyles, mobile phones like housebricks, Docklands Light Railway, Porsches, and all the other attributes of unbridled Thatcherite redistribution of public assets to private pockets at quite astonishing profit margins. An era long gone, and gladly so, yet the damage caused by these power-dressing 'ok, yah' and 'loadsamoney' types will last for generations. I can't hear RM or Spandau Ballet or Heaven 17 without thinking of gated apartments in the London Docklands and Class War activists giving the yups gyp on the street. An accursed time.
I'm not even from the UK, and I love this post.
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Conor Oberst - Sausalito
(Mar 18, 2009 - 07:17) | Pharlap wrote: docked 1.5 points (by listeners) because he had the nerve to be born in the 80's.
Hahaha. Exactly.
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Conor Oberst - Sausalito
(Mar 17, 2009 - 12:59) | Lyndra_Ski wrote: Wait, people, punk wasn't even invented until 1975, when Sid Vicious (not his real name of course) walked into a clothing store on Kings Road owned by Malcom McCleran (spelling is wrong,) wearing a Pink Floyed t-shirt, with the name crossed out with a black magic marker. They got to talking, Malcom and the pre-Sid Vicious, and agreed corporate rock sucked and something must be done about it so they formed the Sex Pistols.
That little precis is wrong on so many levels it's hard to know where to begin, really.
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TV On The Radio - Family Tree
(Mar 17, 2009 - 12:12) | chyk5 wrote:
This is one of the best CD's of 2008. As for your comments, has anyone ever accused you of having an outsized ego? If not, let me be the first!
Christ, seriously. Hey parrothead — I'm wondering how many of your albums have hit the charts, been on any Ten Best lists, or even been released?
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Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond
(Mar 17, 2009 - 06:49) | Smoove_D wrote: From a 6 to a 4 today. Wrap it up already, Floyd.
Roger that. Although I think 4 is waaaaaaay too high a rating for any Floyd song.
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Pink Floyd - Welcome To The Machine
(Mar 16, 2009 - 18:23) | veegez wrote:
Ok, you're right. Labeling you with those artists crossed the line completely as they are obviously beneath your musical tastes. Let's try to nail it down though. Let's see. A Bay City Rollers fan? There it is. I have the chills. C'mon, just admit it and then we can all move forward. You'll feel better. I'll feel better. It's a win-win situation. You've heard of those, right? Ball is in your court.
Who are the Bay City Rollers?
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R.E.M. - Nightswimming
(Mar 16, 2009 - 15:12) | kaybee wrote: I know a lot of listeners here don't like Michael Stipe. I happen to like his voice and especially like the way it rasps in some parts.
He's a very, very fine musician, but, by all accounts, a real prick. Word has it he arrived at one of Mario Batali's restaurants five minutes before closing, forced the kitchen to say open until 3 AM for him and his entourage, ran up a $2000 tab, and didn't tip. Like, completely stiffed the staff. People who do that shit belong in the 9th circle of Hell, having their heads gnawed off by Jeremy Piven.
(I still give this song a 9, btw, but I have to admit that story makes me like it less.)
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Pink Floyd - Welcome To The Machine
(Mar 16, 2009 - 14:06) | pvcnote wrote: Good for you must be Madonna or Michael Jackson...
Oh yes, you're absolutely right! I don't like Pink Floyd, so I must like . . . Madonna! or Michael Jackson!!! Oh my YES!!! Good job figuring that one out, you fucking Nimrod!! But you forgot the real zinger you hear all the time hereabouts: I MUST LIKE . . . BRITNEY SPEARS!!! Oh yes, you're absolutely right, Numbnuts!!!!
Did you think that one up all by yourself, huh???? I MEAN, THAT ONE'S PRETTY CLEVER, SCHMUCKFACE!!!! I HAVEN'T HEARD THAT ONE BEFORE!!!
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Pink Floyd - Welcome To The Machine
(Mar 16, 2009 - 14:01) | GOD, PINK FLOYD SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCKKKKKKSSSSSS!!!!!! HAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE THEEEEMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!
RATING: MINUS SIX MILLION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Phish - Heavy Things
(Mar 13, 2009 - 12:58) | The studio version of this song is un-awful, but man, does this live version SUCK HARD.
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Rick Wakeman - Tigger The Bounce
(Mar 13, 2009 - 11:40) | My brother said that he once went to a Yes concert, and the guy sitting right in front of him got up from his seat every five minutes or so, held his arms up in a V over his head, and yelled out, "RICK. WAKEMAN!" Every five minutes. Until people people started throwing beer cups (not always empty ones) at the guy and security had to intervene. A-hahahahahaha.
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Joni Mitchell - Shades Of Scarlett Conquering
(Mar 13, 2009 - 07:29) | avidfan wrote:I know I'm committing blasphemy here and I do respect her writing abilities, but I CAN'T STAND JONI MITCHELL and I don't understand her resurgence at all. She reminds me of that Friends episode where Phoebe sang her 'Smelly Cat' song at the cafe. In fact, I'd like to place a request for the 'Smelly Cat' song to follow all plays of Joni Mitchell.
Completely agree, up to and including "Smelly Cat" replacing Joni Mitchell. In fact, I think actual cat yowling would be preferable to listening to Joni Mitchell.
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Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl
(Mar 12, 2009 - 15:37) | David_Murray wrote: Interesting that RP would decide to play the PC version of this song, vs the original that contains the lyrics," Making love in the green grass, behind the stadium:" Guess it is just part of living in a PC world.....
Yeah, sheesh. Like "making love" is too racy or something?
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Johnny Cash - The Man Comes Around
(Mar 12, 2009 - 15:03) | MrGreg wrote:
It might be worth then for you to re-read the Ten Commandments to make sure they are as bizarre and evil as you remember them. At it's heart, Christianity teaches love and respect.
Lovely sentiment, except that the Ten Commandments weren't Christian tenets. So your comment about Christianity is a bit of a non-sequitur.
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The Beatles - Across The Universe
(Mar 12, 2009 - 13:22) | colt4x5 wrote:
troll.
Oh for chrisssake. That has to be one of the stupidest things I've ever read on these boards. How is someone who says "I don't get the Beatles" a troll? I mean, you're kidding, right?
Get out more, dude. Or maybe just spend a little more time reading people whose opinions you disagree with occasionally.
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Stevie Wonder - I Wish
(Mar 12, 2009 - 12:43) | jagdriver wrote: While his stuff is OK, Stevie's getting a little too heavy of a rotation on RP for my taste. Granted, there's some good qualities here, but I don't need to hear him every day. Once every couple of months would suit me just fine.
There are PLENTY of groups and tracks from the 60s forward that don't get enough play on RP, Traffic being but one, Joe Cocker being another. These are just a couple of examples. RARELY do we ever hear any Steve Miller Band (albeit I don't need to hear anything from his Joker days going forward; I'm talking about tracks from Number 5, Sailor, Children of the Future, et al.).
So let me get this straight. You'd rather hear Traffic, Joe Cocker, and *Steve Fucking Miller* than hear Stevie Wonder?
Well, as the saying goes: no accounting for taste.
And all I can add to this statement:
>RARELY do we ever hear any Steve Miller Band
is a hearty THANK GOD.
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Cracker - The Golden Age
(Mar 12, 2009 - 10:07) | Yeesh. I usually like Cracker, but this sounds to me like the sort of Lite Country stuff I'd hear on the local easy-listening station. Is it supposed to be ironic or something?
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The Doors - Spanish Caravan
(Mar 11, 2009 - 20:24) | Pyro wrote:
since their very first recording
(I'm a definitive minority.)
Maybe here, but not among the majority of the world, which isn't blinded by nostalgia viewed through clouds of pot smoke.
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Joni Mitchell - Free Man In Paris
(Mar 11, 2009 - 20:07) | philbertr wrote:
I bet that response took longer to think of than it took for your original post. Such insightful criticism.
Oh, how clever. Right up there with "I know you are, but what am I???"
My original post wasn't meant to be "insightful criticism," and at least I wasn't calling anyone names like "whiner" for giving their opinion on, you know, a comment board, where people are supposed to post their opinions. Now maybe you'd like to run along and contemplate your depleted 401k along with the rest of the superannuated hippies.
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Jenny Lewis - Next Messiah
(Mar 11, 2009 - 15:23) | unbracketed wrote: I was just thinking 10 mins. ago that I hadn' t heard this song on RP lately.
I was too a few hours ago, and it made me SO HAPPY. Oh well!
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Paul Simon - She Moves On
(Mar 11, 2009 - 11:25) | toterola wrote:Ahhh, the times I've had listening to Paul Simon!  I just saw the film "Watchmen" today, and "Sounds of Silence" was used, to great effect, in the soundtrack. As were Dylan, Leonard Cohen, My Chemical Romance, Hendrix, Billie Holliday, Nina Simone, Nat "King" Cole, and Janis Joplin. I can strongly recommend the film, but go to the bathroom before it starts. It's a very intricate story, and the film is nearly 3 hours long! 
Agree on the fact that the soundtrack was great. Disagree, I'm afraid, on the recommendation of the film (and I was a big fan of the graphic novel). But let a thousand flowers bloom!
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Willie Nelson & Calexico - Señor (Tales Of Yankee Power)
(Mar 10, 2009 - 11:30) | See, now, here's what I don't get: how is it that a lot of the very same people who complain about David Byrne, Neil Young, and Bob Dylan, seem to fall all over themselves prostrate with adulation when Willie Nelson sings? Willie can't sing or carry a tune any better than the other three. Me, I don't get Willie Nelson. Never have.
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Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
(Mar 10, 2009 - 10:14) | peter_james_bond wrote:Sorry holborne, she said in a recent interview that she will never get married  Apparently she's seen too many marriages in her family go under. On the bright side she didn't rule out living with someone.
DAMMIT!!!
Well, at least I know it's not just me.
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Van Morrison - Moondance
(Mar 10, 2009 - 09:33) | two2fly wrote:
If you ditch the Clear Channel crap and stick with Radio Paradise, you only hear it every-so-often which keeps it supremely enjoyable! Hasn't lost its shine for me.
Not really. It gets a lot of play here, too. Way too much, actually. Van's been working for many, many years now, so there's really no reason to keep overplaying this one.
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Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
(Mar 10, 2009 - 09:22) | I cannot believe that she still has not responded to my marriage proposal. What's she waiting for, already?
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Son Volt - Drown
(Mar 09, 2009 - 13:14) | So happy every time this song comes on...
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Gang Of Four - Shrinkwrapped
(Mar 09, 2009 - 09:49) | MM_Prague wrote:
I know what you mean, but I've tried to get older Gang of Four and Buzzcocks stuff onto here that's not very blistering punk at all, in fact pretty darn poppy, really, and still no luck.
The whole late 70s/early 80s punk/alternative era is woefully under-represented on RP. The closest we get is The Pretenders and Elvis Costello :-/
That being said, I did almost get some Minutemen on last year...!
Agree with this — would love to hear more of Minutemen, Gang of Four, Buzzcocks, and less of Pink Floyd, Grateful Dead, etc. Especially since you can hear the latter every second on any Clear Channel radio station.
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Neko Case - I'm An Animal
(Mar 08, 2009 - 09:56) | RadioDoc wrote:
For the most part she sings off key and shrieks rather than sings anyway. Rolling Stone and AMG are controlled by hacks who think they dictate pop culture. Sorry, but their so-called critical acclaim doesn't mean squat. My ears are just fine, and I hear the artists she is trying to imitate laughing at her.
If you don't like her, you don't like her, and that's fine. But saying she sings "off key" is not a matter of opinion, and it's just plain wrong. Not liking the timbre of someone's voice doesn't mean she sings off key.
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Blue Oyster Cult - Burnin For You
(Mar 07, 2009 - 12:00) | drife wrote: BOC. Nothing but wife beater music for the idiot masses listening to commercial radio. A bunch of nobodys making singularly terrrible so-called
music. Buck Darma is an idiot guitar player.
I HATE BOC!
Flame on, boys and girls....
"Wife beater music"? Do you mean cock rock?
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Animals - House of the Rising Sun
(Mar 07, 2009 - 10:50) | Echinoderme wrote: Le meilleur moment c'est quand cela s'arrête.
Have to agree. If you really want to hear this song, listen to Odetta sing it and skip the fake white boy blues.
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Eddie Vedder - Society
(Mar 07, 2009 - 10:41) | Huh — did not even realize this was Eddie Vedder at all until I looked to see who was singing. I like this more mature version of him a lot.
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Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
(Mar 07, 2009 - 08:48) | xs9095 wrote:
way over played,,, thats why i listen here and i cant stand my local radio stations..souless corporate crap!!!! great song but overplayed sorry my 2 cents :)
Agree 100 percent.
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Timbuk 3 - Just Another Movie
(Mar 07, 2009 - 08:43) | These lyrics sound like they were written by a teenager who fancies himself very intelligent because he just discovered the writings of Allen Ginsberg.
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Neko Case - I'm An Animal
(Mar 06, 2009 - 08:08) | peter_james_bond wrote:
Thank you Bill and Rebecca for jumping on this release. The majority of RP listeners look forward to hearing this song and others from this cd.
Totally agree.
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Mudcrutch - Shady Grove
(Mar 02, 2009 - 18:47) | jeepstir wrote:calebstewart, you're probably right, it's the only way he can get any attention.
Yes, well, good thing you're giving it to him then, isn't it?
I'm really shocked, genuinely shocked, that at this late date in Web 2.0 there are still people who don't know enough not to respond to trolls. Especially someone who's been around here long enough to know who physicsgenius is.
btw, Excelsior is gone and reincarnated as fluffybum. I guess you'll get busy responding to every stupid post by fluffybum now, so that you can make sure he stays around.
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Frank Zappa - I'm the Slime
(Mar 02, 2009 - 10:01) | horstman wrote:
You're still taking this personally. You have to understand that Frank picked on everyone equally. I'm sure he had just as much bad things to say about caucasian men like me as he did about Jewish American Princesses, Blacks, whomever.
And like several others have said, he will remain famous long after his death. Your take on the Zappa spin machine is such a load. His music was so underground and still is. He has many loyal fans after his death and his music is truly brilliant.
Well, your dazzling rhetorical jabs, such as "such a load" and "his music was so underground" sure have me convinced!
And no, I'm not taking it personally at all, although it does irk me when people insist on worshipping a tin god like Zappa even though there are lots of decent musicians they could be paying attention to instead. Sorry, but since Zappa died, his stock has done nothing but fall, for good reason. It will continue to fall, and soon enough he'll be on the scrap heap with all the other overrated, self-proclaimed geniuses. Lucky for him he had a family who continue to pimp his reputation, because otherwise no one would remember him as anything other than the guy whose weirdly-named daughter sang the novelty song "Valley Girl."
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Lucinda Williams - 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
(Feb 28, 2009 - 10:16) | The_Enemy wrote: I'm not sure that's an insult. Wreck is an easy 10. Sure, it was overplayed in its day and it's sappy but it has a visceral truthiness to it that's hard to resist. 2 Kool isn't bad. I give it a 7.
Uh...do you know what "truthiness" is supposed to connote?
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Frank Zappa - I'm the Slime
(Feb 21, 2009 - 09:47) | dangoebel wrote: Bill
You mentioned how you'd like FZ's take on what has happened in the past 15 years since his passing. I'm very certain that he'd say something to the effect of "Same sh*t, different flies".
Of course he would have — he was such a fucking narcissist that he obviously would have taken the position that anyone who criticized him was necessarily a lesser human than he was.
There's a reason you don't hear his music all that often anymore: once he died, there was no one to engage in the great self-promotion machine that was Frank Zappa, and no one cares anymore.
And horstmann, when your comments aren't simply proving my point (uh, the fact that he's talking about so-called "Jewish American Princesses" means that that song *isn't* anti-semitic? Buh?), they're so full of straw men that they're not worth responding to.
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Jethro Tull - A New Day Yesterday
(Feb 19, 2009 - 15:00) | stkman wrote:
Actually it has nothing to do with age , people can get stuck in a rut and like only what was popular from their"generation" but they are limiting themselves but if thats what they want to do thats fine. If ya like only one genre of music like Jazz, Classical ,Blues or hell if ya just like polka music then knock yourself out and have the best damn polka collection around.
Actually, some polka music is quite decent — check out Brave Combo, for example. They even make The Doors sound good.
As for not understanding how people can rate something as a 1 or 2 when it was a number one hit record — well, the Jonas Brothers have had lots of hit records. Nuff said.
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Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond
(Feb 19, 2009 - 09:07) | mgkiwi wrote:
Too late, obzidian has come round to my way of thinking - you need saving next my boy!
I'm not a boy, and I don't need saving, but thanks anyway!
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Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond
(Feb 19, 2009 - 08:28) | obzidian wrote: I will never understand the attraction to the plodding dullness that is Pink Floyd. *Yawn*
obzidian, my comrade! Maybe we should get married or something.
Please join me in a nice glass of brandy as I press the mute button for the next 232 hours, as this POS grinds on and on and on and...
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The Smiths - Bigmouth Strikes Again
(Feb 18, 2009 - 13:18) | adroc wrote: Anyway, it definitely makes the Comments boards much more interesting than comments on The Beatles, where it's a unanimous love-in.
Don't know which Beatles comments you've been reading, but it's hardly a "unanimous love-in" on all of them. In fact, I can't think of any bands or artists that RP plays where the comments are unanimous one way or the other. (Ok, there was one — seven years ago or so when Bill played "Justify My Love" by Madonna, the comments were unanimously that she sucked and so did the song. I think it got an average rating of 2 or something. Anyway, that's the only one I've ever seen.)
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The Doors - The Spy
(Feb 18, 2009 - 12:50) | Jim Morrison is the most prominent of the rock stars who got where he got by having two things: a big dick and the good sense to die early.
Ah, the folly of biology.
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Radiohead - Black Star
(Feb 18, 2009 - 11:45) | catnip wrote: OK Computer was voted the best album ever made by Q Magazine in about 2000. I stopped my subscription shortly after, when I realised that the CD-buying public had the memory of an amnesiac goldfish and were no longer interested in music but lists about music which could then be ticked off imaginary boxes.
As far as I am concerned, Shayborg is right, this is their best album. And they are a more than decent band. But hold off the accolades, let's chew on this one for a while. Good albums mature like wine, stick in the mind and bring you back for more, and then again, and again...
Can we not have a 5 year moratorium before we decide an albums greatness? Maybe more?
Totally agree.
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Pink Floyd - Us & Them -> Eclipse
(Feb 18, 2009 - 07:24) | superflyLD wrote: how in the WORLD could someone rate this a '1'??????
Someone could think it's sucko-barfo, maybe?
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Frank Zappa - I'm the Slime
(Feb 17, 2009 - 13:56) | parrothead wrote:Your so full of it! Zappa was a musical genius and was doing stuff way before many people like you were ready for it. He was playing Eddie Van Halen guitar when Eddie was in primary school! Thank you RP for playing some Zappa. I will say that there is alot of Zappa stuff out there that is unlistenable, but that should take nothing away from the man's talent. 
I'd pay a lot more attention to what you had to say if you didn't have a fourth-grade level error in the very first word of your (not you're) post. Thanks anyway, though!
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Rachel Podger - Vivaldi - Allegro, Concerto in G Major, Op 4 No 3
(Feb 17, 2009 - 11:40) | Oscar_the_Grouch dithered:
I'm sorry I missed something here. The part where you're the judge of what Bill decided to play on his "radio" station. You don't like it make your own damn station. In the meantime quit bitching.
You also apparently missed the part where I said "IMO." But I'm guessing the problem is that you don't know what "IMO" means.
And as a matter of fact, I am the judge of what Bill decides to play — as are you, and as are all the other registered users. I mean, I realize this may be a bit hard for someone of your limited mental capacities to fathom, but, you know: that's why Bill put a rating and comments system on his website.
But I am flattered that you've apparently made it your personal mission to gainsay everything I post. Thanks for the attention!
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Rachel Podger - Vivaldi - Allegro, Concerto in G Major, Op 4 No 3
(Feb 17, 2009 - 11:26) | This doesn't belong on a rock/jazz station, IMO, especially when you're only playing a tiny snippet of it. If you're going to play three minutes or so from a 20-minute long Baroque piece, don't bother.
(Please spare me the lectures on the meaning of "eclectic," ok? I understand that this is an eclectic station. That doesn't mean that every type of music is appropriate. I don't think anybody would be too excited, say, about hearing Raffi or someone on this station, either.)
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Josh Ritter - Man Burning
(Feb 17, 2009 - 11:16) | Xeric wrote: Okay, I've finally figured out that the cause of my initial dislike of this guy is that I've been confusing him with Jack Ritter—that fictional fuckhead from "Three's Company," some of the worst pap ever televised. With that now clear, I'll listen more open-earedly.
I almost hate to be the one to tell you this, but you're still confused. The actor was "John Ritter," and the character was "Jack Tripper," not "Jack Ritter."
So does this still mean you can listen to Josh Ritter now?
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Frank Zappa - I'm the Slime
(Feb 13, 2009 - 21:24) | westslope wrote:holborne, Too bad the man was brilliant and innovative. "Bigot"? Care to explain? A snob, sure. An elitist? Definitely. Pretentious, probably. But where does this bigot stuff come from?
Check out the lyrics to "Jewish Princess."
And just to spare us both a lot of pointless arguing: I don't accept that the lyrics were just satire, and I don't know that Zappa himself ever said they were. If he wrote a similar song about black people, he would have been ostracized from the music industry and people would have publicly burned his albums.
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Pink Floyd - The Great Gig In The Sky
(Feb 13, 2009 - 21:13) | oscar_driver wrote:
OMG you said "fucking" ??? LOLOLOL
Sorry i couldn't resist! LOLO
Forgot to take your lithium today, did you?
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Pink Floyd - The Great Gig In The Sky
(Feb 13, 2009 - 14:05) | big_gare wrote:
You must have Celine Dion somewhere dude!
Oh, yes, how clever of you! Because he doesn't like Pink Floyd, he must like...CELINE DION! Yes, that's why he listens to Radio Paradise, because of the many many Celine Dion tracks they play. Good job figuring that out.
As I've said, that line is not only overused, it's incredibly fucking stupid to boot.
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Pink Floyd - The Great Gig In The Sky
(Feb 13, 2009 - 14:02) | Smoove_D wrote: Two Pink Floyd songs in a row. I'm guessing Bill will play a third one after this. No offense to you Pink Floyd fans (which seems to include nearly every RP listener), but I'm putting in a CD.
Smoove_D, my brother. If anyone was caterwauling like this on anything other than a Pink Floyd track, everyone would be falling over themselves posting "MUTE!"
The lady sounds like she's being drawn and quartered. Unbearable.
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The New Pornographers - The Bones Of An Idol
(Feb 12, 2009 - 12:15) | gandalfbmg wrote:You're very brave to speak ill of her around here. Now where did I put my pitchfork and torch... 
Huh? Yeah, really brave to echo the dozens of people who post stuff like "She's screeching! Shut up!" every time RP plays one of her tracks.
Give me a break. The chorus of Neko haters hereabouts is hardly what I'd call reticent.
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Elvis Costello - Accidents Will Happen
(Feb 12, 2009 - 12:13) | sharkey wrote:
No. I agree with Frenchie. Just never got this guy. It's pure crap.
You realize the second and third sentences pretty much contradict each other, right?
And something you don't get != "pure crap."
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Grateful Dead - Scarlet Begonias
(Feb 12, 2009 - 11:34) | Oscar_the_Grouch wrote: holborne wrote:
Hahaha, penis jokes! You aging hippies are just so funny! Ha! "Male sex organ!" Man, I can't stop laughing here!
NO U You fail it...again. Neither aged nor a hippy. GTFO sodomite
You seem to be pretty obsessed with the male sex organ. Would you like to talk about it, Hon?
Btw, the term you're trying to use is "fail," not "fail it." Sorry, Grandpa.
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Joe Jackson - It's Different For Girls
(Feb 11, 2009 - 15:21) | bobcat1963 wrote:
this tone deaf excelsior shout have been left in the 60's where he belongs.
And people who aren't smart enough by now to ignore trolls should stay off the internet.
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Sam & Dave - Soul Man
(Feb 11, 2009 - 13:38) | ThirdRail_33 wrote: One of the rare cases where a cover (i.e. The Blues Brothers), is better than the original.
Is this meant to be funny? I sure hope so.
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The Doors - You're Lost Little Girl
(Feb 10, 2009 - 13:12) | stkman wrote:
actually the band was good, Morrison got all the attention but you obviously don't care for them which is fine, to each their own, but then again you never saw them did ya
Why on earth would it make a difference if I had seen them? I can hear them. They're supposed to be musicians, not pin-ups (though I agree that Morrison was nothing but). I guess I don't understand your comment.
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Grateful Dead - Scarlet Begonias
(Feb 10, 2009 - 13:07) | Oscar_the_Grouch wrote: holborne wrote:Grateful Dead: automatic 1 or 2, the latter only if I'm feeling generous.
My dear boy, because I'm feeling generous I deem thee to be a male sex organ, and a rather small, wrinkly, and diseased one at that. Have a nice day, somewhere else.
Hahaha, penis jokes! You aging hippies are just so funny! Ha! "Male sex organ!" Man, I can't stop laughing here!
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Aimee Mann - Save Me
(Feb 05, 2009 - 15:49) | fuh2 wrote: Getting very weary of this STALE one.
You're welcome to be weary, of course, but this song, like all great music, will never be stale.
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The Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You
(Feb 05, 2009 - 12:39) | I always thought it was pretty funny that Mitsubishi used this song for an ad, but they cut out the lyric after "You've got a great car" — namely, "Yeah, what's wrong with it today." A-hahahaha.
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David Byrne - U B Jesus
(Feb 05, 2009 - 11:50) | Bill, I really hope you carry on playing David Byrne and The Talking Heads despite the very loud contingent of people whose day doesn't seem to be complete without posting that stupid barf icon whenever they hear him, or making comments along the same lines. The David Byrne gems are one of the big reasons I listen to RP!
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John Prine - Please Don't Bury Me
(Feb 05, 2009 - 09:32) | denmom wrote:
Yes, yes, dear. We're all very impressed with your little graphic. Now put it away and play with other toys for a while. Your arrogance is becoming dreary.
Yes, well, thank you for reposting the five-month old graphic so we could all enjoy it again!
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John Prine - Please Don't Bury Me
(Feb 05, 2009 - 09:21) | tkosh wrote:
No need to apologive for any music you don't like. Music, like all art, isn't about professional perfectionism or universal appeal. It's about the emotional impact it has on individuals.
And there's also mounting evidence that music we like or dislike has a neurological basis, connected to the music and sounds we heard as infants. Which is not to say that there's no such things as objectively good or bad music (or art), but when we're talking strictly about what we want to listen to or don't, we may have less control over that than we think.
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John Prine - Please Don't Bury Me
(Feb 05, 2009 - 09:18) | So great to hear this song! We used to sing it at summer camp, years ago, and I never realized until right this second that it was John Prine. Thanks for playing it, Bill!
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The Kinks - Shangri-La
(Feb 04, 2009 - 13:47) | Jesus, people are still paying attention to Excelsior? Unreal.
STOP REPLYING TO HIM. (I think he just reincarnated under the name "fluffybum," btw.)
Let me try to make this clear: Excelsior, or fluffybum, or whatever the fuck he's now calling himself, is a troll. Period. The more you respond, the more he loves it, and the more he posts. The way to get rid of trolls is really simple: ignore them. That's it. Nothing more than that. It's 2009 — haven't people learned how to deal with internet trolls by now? Christ.
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Richard Thompson - Outside of The Inside
(Feb 03, 2009 - 10:47) | bindi wrote: I am sad for all the people that don't get Richard Thompson.
I've seen him three times live and will see him any chance I get. Fabulous musician.
Completely agree, bindi, in every respect.
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The La's - There She Goes
(Feb 03, 2009 - 10:45) | Thistle wrote: smilestoomuch wrote:I was completely pissed off when Sixpence None the Richer recorded this song, slapped it on to the end of their album and re-released it within months and then passed it off as the first (or second) single of the album. This version is MUCH better! Does it really make sense when a (straight) chick sings it?
Couldn't have put it better myself if I tried. Yet another example of how the market is pandering to the female component — to the detriment of integrity and male musicians in general.
So. How is it living in Bizarro World?
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Aimee Mann - Wise Up
(Feb 02, 2009 - 16:08) | Not quite as divine as "Save Me," but what is? Still an 8.
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The La's - There She Goes
(Feb 02, 2009 - 10:09) | smilestoomuch wrote: I was completely pissed off when Sixpence None the Richer recorded this song, slapped it on to the end of their album and re-released it within months and then passed it off as the first (or second) single of the album. This version is MUCH better! Does it really make sense when a (straight) chick sings it?
Totally agreed. And I'd love to hear more stuff from this album too.
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Indigo Girls - Land Of Canaan
(Feb 02, 2009 - 09:36) | greyfin10 wrote: I'm cool with that opinion. I don't agree, but I dig. I was talking about the fellow who knew they were lebians by how they played their guitars... admittedly funny, but totally the kind if dismissal I'm talking about.
Well, yeah, that's just silly.
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Indigo Girls - Land Of Canaan
(Feb 02, 2009 - 09:09) | greyfin10 wrote: Indigo Girls are great. Its a great disservice to niche them as "those gay folkies". I don't see anyone "saying" that here, but its so common in the larger world, I suspect it has alot to do with the disrespect they seem to get. Like most artists, they have both strong and weak periods, but when they are "on" they are awesome. Strong melodies, strong lyrics, and they consistently take the effort to do the "harmony" thing. Get past their labels and you'll find they are the whole package.
Edit: Wait... just as I was typing this, someone actually applied the label... in a cartoonish way no less. Thanks for making my point.
My criticism of them isn't that they're gay or that they're a folk-rock act. My criticism of them is that they're phony and cheap, with musical talents that are slight at best.
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Indigo Girls - Land Of Canaan
(Feb 02, 2009 - 09:01) | I was sitting here at the computer, listening to RP with the browser on another window, and all of a sudden, this song penetrated my consciousness — not a pleasant sensation, I assure you. "Ew," I said to myself, "what he hell is this awful thing?" I clicked over the RP, to find that it was the indescribably vile Indigo Girls, whose phony, cheap, smug, faux-dispossessed, fuck-the-middle-class-oh-I-forgot-I'm-one-of-them-never-mind epater le bourgeoisie act had already gotten old, oh, sometime around the end of the first Bush Administration.
Can whoever is responsible for unleashing these two self-satisfied assholes please atone for the sin she has committed against the world by immediately joining a convent that has taken a vow of silence, but not before throwing Emily and whatever-the-fuck-the-other-one's-name-is into a soundproof cell in a supermax prison somewhere in Montana or North Dakota. Thank you.
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Calexico - Two Silver Trees
(Jan 30, 2009 - 13:04) | I started out thinking Calexico was kind of meh, but the more I heard them the more I liked them, and now I like them a lot.
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Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
(Jan 29, 2009 - 15:23) | GeoCat wrote:
You should do the same. Go away, don't come back, and take your negativity with you.
Hi, GeoCat! Welcome to Radio Paradise.
I've been here for seven years. How long have you been here?
Peace!
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Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
(Jan 29, 2009 - 15:18) | shayde wrote:
Do you honestly think this is one of the worst things you've ever listened to? Something so horrible you wish it had never been recorded, and if you had the capability, you'd completly expunge it from the historical audio record?
Is it really that bad?
Yes. Yes, it really is. Thanks for asking!
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Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
(Jan 29, 2009 - 15:15) | donnyballgame wrote:Ok. If Waterboarding doesn't work...this song will. It's in the CIA manual. I swear. 
It's a fact. They used this shit on Saddam Hussein and look how he turned out.
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Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
(Jan 29, 2009 - 15:09) | Chumbawamba-1984 wrote:Nice to have had this 23-minute musical intermission. When else do you guys go poo, read the newspaper, and wash hands if not when a JT is airing? 
Exactly. If you could poo on the album itself, that would be even better (and more apt).
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Pink Floyd - Us & Them -> Eclipse
(Jan 27, 2009 - 16:11) | pope183 wrote:
i must say i agree not all opinions are equal
sometimes the more you express them - the less value they have
that would be especially true in your case
Shorter pope183: You're absolutely right, but I don't care. Stop harshing my mellow, man.
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RPWL - Masters Of War
(Jan 23, 2009 - 11:34) | bugleboy624 wrote: I honestly thought this was new Pink Floyd.
Me too, which is why I'm rating it a 2.
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When In Rome - The Promise
(Jan 22, 2009 - 10:06) | "Too bad, she says you have to go because you're ruining everybody's lives and eating all our steak."
(Sorry, couldn't resist.)
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Led Zeppelin - Over The Hills And Far Away
(Jan 21, 2009 - 10:00) | Curry wrote: a very well composed and arranged song, expertly delivered. almost a little too perfect. beautiful 12-string work, nice tension in the bridge between the bass and lead and drums. plus the outro is magic.
it's easy to dismiss this as pop zeppelin which it is kinda, but its really good stuff
Wait, what's wrong with pop?
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Counting Crows - Mr. Jones
(Jan 21, 2009 - 09:19) | From Dylan's Mr. Jones to the Counting Crows.' Talk about going from the sublime to the ridiculous...
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The Magic Numbers - Forever Lost
(Jan 19, 2009 - 11:29) | renegade_X wrote: LOL they changed the album pic in here. Musta creeped some peeps out.
What was the old one?
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Interpol - Pioneer To The Falls
(Jan 19, 2009 - 11:19) | The only reason anybody likes Interpol is that they sound like Joy Division, and the only reason anybody liked Joy Division is that Ian Curtis killed himself.
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Stevie Wonder - You Haven't Done Nothin'
(Jan 19, 2009 - 11:17) | Phlegmaticman wrote: Written for Nixon, and still a very timely song to hear on the current occupant's last day.
Huh, didn't know that it was written for Nixon. Cool.
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Ramones - Do You Remember Rock N Roll Radio
(Jan 15, 2009 - 15:16) | Hannio wrote:
Why? Because at the time the Ramones burst on the scene, we had endured the horrible miasma of 70's disco and prog-rock. If you were around at the time you know what an incredible breath of fresh air they were after years of being tortured with the pretentious and gaudy feculence of Yes on album-rock FM radio.
Applause!!
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Jethro Tull - A New Day Yesterday
(Jan 13, 2009 - 12:51) | hotjohnnie wrote: Ahh….. …..you pretentious young pricks – you have no idea what it is like to actually hear new music – something there never was before. Everything – and I mean EVERYTHING you hear now was done before by guitarists, keyboardists, drummers, singers who were just figuring out what their instruments were capable of and then testing them and pushing them to the limits of the time to make a new sound. Every ball-twisting Strat lick and every anus-squenching drum sequence. And all done with a mere fraction of the technology that is available today that can make a deaf mute monkey sound like a genius if he punches the right keys. Go do some major bongs and eat some purple microdot and learn something. Just ask yourself – can you play a freeform flute, crystal clean acoustic guitar, and still dream up a character like Aqualung? I didn’t think so. You just don’t get it.
Um, ew.
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The Who - Who Are You
(Jan 12, 2009 - 14:16) | inindian wrote:
Again? Arrogant twat! Why should anybody need to justify why they like any song? You like it or not. That's enough.
Uh, I was asking a sincere question about why people might like a song in which I myself hear nothing of value, not asking them to "justify" why they liked it. See, unlike you, I'm curious about the world around me and in this case, am interested in hearing about why people might like something I don't. And I was obviously addressing people with a brain — a set that doesn't seem to include you. So, you know, fuck off, bitch..
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Van Morrison - Moondance
(Jan 12, 2009 - 14:14) | djengs wrote: Not sure about anyone else, but that "L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L in the moonlight..." part has a very nice effect on my wife, so always welcome in my opinion.
Oversharing, dude.
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David Byrne - Make Believe Mambo
(Jan 12, 2009 - 14:01) | You know, I have a sneaking suspicion that if RP, just for laughs, had labeled this track with the name of some Brazilian musician instead of David Byrne's, the very same people running around saying how badly this sucks would be falling all over themselves to post what an amazing groove it is.
The reflexive anti-Byrne stuff is getting kind of old, guys.
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Bob Dylan - Simple Twist Of Fate
(Jan 12, 2009 - 13:11) | evergreener wrote: No matter how much you hate on Bob Dylan, Bill still plays him. Thank you Bill and thank you Bob!
Yep. That's one of the great things about this station, IMO — Bill pays due attention to the listeners, but still programs by his own lights, which are pretty damn good. (Except for all the Pink Floyd — ha ha, JK.)
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Pink Floyd - Us & Them -> Eclipse
(Jan 12, 2009 - 13:08) | kaybee wrote: Thanks RP, for the long pause after this piece finished.
Now maybe if next time, they just play the long pause in lieu of the song itself, they'll really be onto something.
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Miriam Makeba - Pata Pata
(Jan 12, 2009 - 13:04) | ArbiterOfGoodTaste wrote: Yay, suddenly swept away with summer camp memories!
Jeez, you went to a really cool summer camp. At my stupid camp, all we sang was stuff like "Mountain Dew" and "Summer Nights."
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John Lennon - Mind Games
(Jan 12, 2009 - 07:47) | keller1 wrote: Call me a Philistine ... Lennon's solo stuff drives me batshit.
Totally agree, so they can call us both Philistines.
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Elvis Costello - Veronica
(Jan 10, 2009 - 16:43) | In my opinion, this is one of his weaker albums, but I think this is a great pop song.
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k.d. lang - Coming Home
(Jan 10, 2009 - 16:42) | Rotterdam wrote: I like kd lang's natural voice and her beautiful musical phrasing, as well. She is an artist. This is an '8' for me.
Agreed on all counts.
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The Doors - Light My Fire
(Jan 10, 2009 - 11:05) | kaybee wrote:All you Doors naysayers pay close attention to the instrumental middle section; Densmore on drums; Manzarek on organ and Kreiger on guiter: pure genius. And the rest of this album lives up to it. Even though Jimbo never lived to wear the white sweaty jumpsuit, the influence he's had on modern rock is seminal. I know someone's going to make an ironic comment on that last word! 
What influence has he had on modern rock? Serious question.
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Neil Young - Rockin' In The Free World
(Jan 09, 2009 - 19:40) | The_Enemy wrote:I'm glad you're standing up for the oft-forgotten sacrifices and contributions that junkies and their offspring have made to society.
Somebody's got to.
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Bob Dylan - Simple Twist Of Fate
(Jan 09, 2009 - 10:39) | bachbeet wrote: Dylan lost it there for a while but really got it back with this album. This is a song that will last forever just like many of his others. Simple, straightforward great lyrics.
Wait, was this before or after that Christian album he did? Agree, though, that this is one of his greatest albums.
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Pink Floyd - Us & Them -> Eclipse
(Jan 09, 2009 - 10:38) | ChrisL wrote:may I point you to your own comment in a wonderfully reflexive fashion? 
You may, but it wouldn't make any sense.
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Bob Marley - So Much Trouble In The World
(Jan 09, 2009 - 09:25) | jlind wrote: yuck, Floyd had to be followed by this crap? :( My morning just got ruined.
Christ, Marley is one of the only things that can get the foul taste of Floyd out of my mouth.
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Pink Floyd - Us & Them -> Eclipse
(Jan 09, 2009 - 09:19) | rdo wrote:
idiot.
Yes, I agree that it's an idiotic idea. Too bad so maybe people cling to it like they would to relics of the True Cross.
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Jethro Tull - Sweet Dream
(Jan 09, 2009 - 09:18) | bitbanger wrote: Yeah, I know, I know.
Case in point: When Reagan and Gorby signed the INF Treaty there were "anti-this and that" hippie activists running around my neighborhood breaking their arms patting themselves on the back about how this achievement was somehow all their doing. These were some of the same folks that not that much earlier that year were out on Broadway "activisting" for unilateral disarmament as viable strategy to getting the Soviets to give up their nukes. It still makes me chuckle.
Well, you seem to have turned out pretty level-headed. Maybe it's living in Manhattan, I dunno.
Anyway, I apolgize for any comments that make it seem like all Boomers hold such dumb ideas. Of course, that's not so. But the ones who do really need their brains vacuumed out and replaced with something that actually sees reality.
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Michael Franti & Spearhead - Say Hey
(Jan 08, 2009 - 18:43) | drife wrote:
Well said. I absolutely abhor this song, down to the fabric of my being.
Wow. Have you considered taking up yoga or something?
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Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone
(Jan 08, 2009 - 15:05) | stkman wrote: OK goin' out on a limb here, first am a Dylan fan and he did write some really great songs but this isn't the best song ever written don't care what Rolling Stone mag said, they were really kind of a commercial rag not like the real underground newspapers, loved Dr Hooks "gonna get my picture on the cover of Rolling Stone" Dylan did give credit to his idol 'Woody Guthrie" early on but not enuff and kinda turned his back on Ramblin Jack Elliot tho he did acknowledge him later, Jack felt that Bob hadn't given him much credit, something he said publicly, interesting story is my dad when 15 worked his way to west coast during the depression with his best friend named Woody and told story bout later when he was getting drunk with Woody in bar, turned out it was Woody Guthry not his friend I had just assumed wrong Woody and I had heard story dozens of times, years later I was at party and Jack Elliot was there I sat and talked to him for hours and he pretty much made it clear who showed Bob the ropes on guitar a night I'll never forget but back to Dylan he was the main social voice of our era with his folk songs , a great one was "With God On Our Side" which I heard is in the movie "W" lol tho he was accused of stealing melody on that one ok start throwing rocks at me lol
Uh...say that again?
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The Doors - Light My Fire
(Jan 08, 2009 - 12:14) | scraig wrote:
He would be doing the things he loved...staying out of the public eye, partying with a small group of friends, writing poetry and performing as little as possible.
Oh yes — lord knows that Jim was such a shy and retiring person who shunned the limelight and cared little for fame. Oh my yes.
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The Doors - Light My Fire
(Jan 08, 2009 - 12:06) | lingchih wrote: Anyone ever contemplate, if Jim Morrison had lived, what he would be doing now?
He would be waving his dick around a lot, just as he did in real life. He was no dope — he knew that was his only real asset.
He'd also be performing "Touch Me" in Vegas, where he'd be opening for the guy who won the last season of "America's Got Talent."
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Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
(Jan 08, 2009 - 07:33) | Haven't heard this is literally 20 years or so. It's weird.
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Jethro Tull - Sweet Dream
(Jan 08, 2009 - 07:22) | bitbanger wrote:
Oh dude, you ruined it. Now who is taking themselves WAY too seriously.
I don't take anything I post here especially seriously, actually — it's all just recreational typing. But when some aging hippie starts dithering about how his Great Generation was responsible for Nixon's resignation — I mean, come on.
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Jenny Lewis - Next Messiah
(Jan 07, 2009 - 10:47) | lathyris wrote:
Actually, I hadn't heard it in awhile and was waiting for Bill to play it again.
If you haven't heard it in awhile, you haven't been paying attention to RP very hard.
Seriously, I really generally don't complain about how often songs are played on this station, because there's really very little annoying repeat. But the constant play of this song really does stick out like a sore thumb. Its rating isn't anywhere near high enough to feature it so prominently and so continuously. I don't get it.
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Jenny Lewis - Next Messiah
(Jan 07, 2009 - 09:51) | Whew, thank god — I thought that we might actually get through a day without hearing this one and then the world would end.
MUTE!!!
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R.E.M. - Driver 8
(Jan 07, 2009 - 08:29) | redeyespy wrote:
Or, maybe some Neutral Milk Hotel? British Sea Power? Crack the Sky?
Did it occur to you knuckleheads that even though he doesn't like this song, or R.E.M. or general, he may actually like something other than the FM staple artists you so predictably trot out?
THANK YOU. This stupid response you see all over this system, of "Oh, you don't care for Radiohead ? I guess you'd better go back to listening to BRITNEY SPEARS! ZING!" is just incredibly stupid and lame. Yes, that's right — because someone doesn't care for REM, it necessarily leads to the conclusion that he must like crappy Clear Channel music. Oh my yes. In addition to being over-used, it doesn't even make sense.
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R.E.M. - Driver 8
(Jan 07, 2009 - 08:26) | Love this whole album, even though "Greatest Hits" type albums usually don't do it for me.
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Thelonious Monk - Criss-Cross
(Jan 07, 2009 - 07:28) | Dog_Ear wrote:
Perhaps you should lookup "eclectic". Or just send them YOUR preferred playlist.
Perhaps if someone expressing a mild preference about music is so distasteful to you, you should lock yourself in a room alone and talk to yourself.
And perhaps you should also learn that look up is two words, not one. Now run along while the grownups speak, there's a good boy.
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Antonio Vivaldi - The 4 Seasons - Summer - Allegro Non Molto
(Jan 07, 2009 - 07:27) | frolic4rp wrote: hmm. love this stuff — on Otto's Baroque or other classical stations. Just not an RP kind of piece, IMHO.
Totally agreed. Eclecticism is fine, but this doesn't belong on a station playing mostly rock, any more than Bob Dylan would belong on a classical station. It's also really not cool to play little excerpts of pieces meant to be heard as a whole. People would have fits if RP played, say, only one-third of Jenny Lewis's "Last Messiah."
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Jethro Tull - Sweet Dream
(Jan 05, 2009 - 16:34) | fourwindsbar wrote:holborne wrote:
The only difference is that Tull fans are trying desperately to relive their Boomer glory days, when they could sustain the illusion that their generation actually mattered,
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Wow, yeah. Like when we actually took to the streets to stop a war, and kicked our lame-ass Nixon to the curb. Good times. How's your record there, Ace?
Your taking to the streets didn't stop the war, sweets — it was the Tet Offensive and the Viet Cong that did that, and they didn't need a bunch of pampered middle-class radical-wannabes marching through the streets in tie-dyed shirts to do it. And do you seriously contend that Nixon fell because the hippies didn't like him? You've got to be kidding. You might want to read the history books again — this time try doing it when you're not stoned.
I don't know why I continue to be so stunned by the the Baby Boomer's wildly-inflated self-regard and sheer obnoxiousness, but it never ceases to amaze me. Just never does. When you guys start taking credit for your real legacy — the greed and arrogance that got this county into the mess it is right now as you did whatever you had to do to keep on buying your McMansions and SUVs — then we can talk.
Oh, and you guys did a great job with the Iraq War there, too, dude. Nice work on that one. Thanks very much for that, too.
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Elvis Costello - Inch By Inch
(Jan 05, 2009 - 16:26) | alux wrote:
Dude. Do you have any idea how full of yourself this makes you seem?
As opposed to someone who claims that he posts from "atop the pyramid"?
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Pink Floyd - Us & Them -> Eclipse
(Jan 05, 2009 - 16:24) | mfassett wrote:I love this idea. We should then trust "knowledgeable people" to tell us what albums are the best? Funny... all this time I'm doing it wrong, and using my own opinion. What was I thinking? Greatness is opinion. His is just as valid as yours, since what makes a great album is subjective and quite debatable. I would bet money you and I might have a couple of the same albums on our top ten list. I'm sure I would have some you would not agree with (and maybe some you wouldn't have heard of). What does it mean? Well, quite simply... NOTHING. 
Oh, goody. Another proponent of the peculiarly postmodern idea that all opinions are equal. Too bad it's not actually so, or someone might actually care what you think.
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Tori Amos - Pancake
(Dec 17, 2008 - 12:10) | This woman seems to have some sort of goddamned fetish with breakfast foods.
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Ben Folds - Not The Same
(Dec 17, 2008 - 12:08) | TampaPurple wrote:
He hasn't disappeared. He's touring his ass off and has put out multiple albums and EPs since this one, plus produced a number of other projects. The best way to stay up with him is to subscribe to his mailing list.
His new album "Way to Normal" is a great listen.
If he's touring his ass off, how do his legs stay attached so he can work the pedals on the piano?
Ha ha, I slay me.
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Elton John - Border Song
(Dec 17, 2008 - 11:41) | mread wrote:
Wrong. It's pretty hard to find EJ of this vintage in any of the locations you specify. The arc of his career is long enough that you should separate early from late work. I agree with you on his late stuff, but early 70's? Delish.
Entirely agree.
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David Bowie - Space Oddity
(Dec 17, 2008 - 10:14) | EssexTex wrote:
Look within "horstman" you need a rest....have you ever thought of starting a tribute act?...you could call yourself David Blowmie!
A-hahahahahahaha!
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Pink Floyd - Us & Them -> Eclipse
(Dec 17, 2008 - 08:51) | Baum74 wrote: and holborne - keep on flaming!
Don't you think that Beethoven is overrated? Miles Davies a jerk?
Hendrix should better have sticked to the triangle?
Uh...no. (Well, actually, Miles Davis was a "jerk," by all accounts, but that doesn't have anything to do with his music.)
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Joni Mitchell - Free Man In Paris
(Dec 12, 2008 - 19:52) | superfido wrote: Can't understand, and never could understand, why people actually like this artist. She sounds like a "schoolhouse rock" thing. you know, nouns, interjections, figure 8. yes...that's what this is like.
Except for the fact that the Schoolhouse Rock songs were actually good.
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Tracy Chapman - Mountain O' Things
(Dec 10, 2008 - 16:00) | juliecb wrote:
I like the use of '!=' are you by chance a software developer?
Anyway...I agree. How can anyone say "no talent"? I could see if maybe she isn't your cup of tea...but no talent? I just don't get it.
Nope, not a software developer, but I hang around with a lot of them.
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The Hot Puppies - Clarinet Town
(Dec 10, 2008 - 15:59) | qwertz wrote:
Am I the only one who is hearing John Carpenter (I think from Assault on Precinct 13) in this?
I think most people aren't hearing anything, as they muted this thing fifteen seconds in.
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Radiohead - Nude
(Dec 10, 2008 - 15:56) | keller1 wrote:
I suggest you save comments like that for "Smugfest", which as I understand it is a regular event where Radiohead fans get together and high five each other to celebrate their obviously superior musical taste.
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Pink Floyd - Have A Cigar
(Dec 10, 2008 - 15:54) | coffee-eyes wrote:
Wow. Is that what you hear when you're brain dead?
Funny question coming from someone who apparently thinks "Massa2shits" is really clever.
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Pink Floyd - Us & Them -> Eclipse
(Dec 10, 2008 - 13:35) | pope183 wrote:
buzzkill - killjoy - debbie downer - of all time
" well actually in fact i believe your statement that it is the greatest of all time to be unpossible sir , further (removes glasses ) if we gather knowledgeable people and ask them if it were in fact the greatest offff aaaaall tiiime ... ( puts on his lab coat ) "
/get out of the classroom much do you ?
it is the greatest of all time just like Ali my freind
Oh, you've pegged me exactly. Oh my YES.
But hell, I'll say it in language maybe more on your level: I think this album sucks really, really hard, and anyone who likes it needs to put down the goddamned bong and listen to some decent music for a change.
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Carbon Leaf - The Boxer
(Dec 08, 2008 - 09:48) | Wow, I really like this a lot — interrupted my work just to come and give it a 9.
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Neil Young - Rockin' In The Free World
(Dec 07, 2008 - 15:20) | Great song, but I hate this live version with all the crowd noise. If I want to hear a bunch of drunk people singing, I'll go to a karaoke bar.
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Harry Manx - Bring That Thing (live)
(Dec 07, 2008 - 15:02) | rtrudeau wrote:I have spent countless hours minutes trying to decipher calypsus_1's song comments with limited success. Why post "no comment" when not posting a comment is essentially the same thing? What on earth does "no comment" mean to say "everything" mean, anyway? (The more I read that the more it sounds like nonsense). I am utterly confused.  In order to maintain my limited grasp on sanity, I have decided to simply skip over and not read any comments I see that are made in a dark blue, bold typeface. 
I think that is a very fine plan of action, which I will adopt.
Of course, now he'll probably just change the color of the typeface. But I am adaptable.
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Emmylou Harris - Red Dirt Girl
(Dec 07, 2008 - 14:19) | Feghoot wrote: Beautiful women but limited range & limited talent. If she wasn't attractive you'd never have heard of her. And actually I do know something about her: She recognizes & supports real talent while simultaneously insinuating herself into their music/lives to keep herself in public view. Dolly Parton she ain't!
Good christ, but that is a stunningly, jaw-droppingly ignorant post.
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Pink Floyd - Us & Them -> Eclipse
(Dec 07, 2008 - 13:47) | HarrO wrote: Quite simply the finest rock album of all time.
Well, no, it isn't, actually. And I doubt you could find that many knowledgable people who would say that it was, so I have no idea why you say "quite simply" as though the fact is unassailable.
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The Proclaimers - I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)
(Dec 07, 2008 - 12:40) | ercasul wrote: heh. If anyone had told me 20 years ago that I'd still love this song in the year 2008, I'd have laughed at them. But I do. I really do. Impossible to hear without grinning.
Agreed.
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Diana Krall - Temptation
(Dec 07, 2008 - 11:21) | All I can say is this woman must be a tiger in bed, because I sure can't figure out what Elvis Costello sees in her musically. Bleeeehhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
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Horse Feathers - Finch On Sunday
(Dec 07, 2008 - 10:20) | deadmessengers wrote: I don't know why, but the violin in this song just grates on me.
I could kind of see that, but for me, it's the best part of the song.
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Cannonball Adderley & Miles Davis - Somethin' Else
(Dec 06, 2008 - 14:07) | Ew, do we have to hear jazz on this station? (Yes, that's a rhetorical question.) I realize I'm probably in the minority here, but I detest jazz. What a great thundering, thumping bore. And goes on FUCKING. FOREVER. Shut up Shup Up SHUT UP!!!
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The Decemberists - Leslie Anne Levine
(Dec 06, 2008 - 13:52) | Jelani wrote: Whiiiiney, whiiiiiiney, whiiiiiiiiine.
Whiney Whine, whine.
Claiming that a song is "whiny" or that the singer is "whining" is the surest sign that the critic making the claim has absolutely nothing interesting to say (probably about anything). But then again, I've come to expect no less from Jelani, this community's second-rate Excelsior, who was in turn a third-rate version Physicsgenius. I guess this makes Jelani a fifth-rate version of...something.
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Ebba Forsberg - Daybreak
(Dec 06, 2008 - 13:34) | shmuelman wrote: I see what you mean. But not as obnoxious - how could it be?
Well, that is true.
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The Smiths - Handsome Devil
(Dec 06, 2008 - 12:16) | rcurrier wrote: I really do prefer the (non?)production on the early Smiths cuts. I guess because Morrissey is kept down in the mix and Marr and the rhythm section are prominent.
Not that I don't like Morrissey, but his vocal abilities are not why people listen to the Smiths.
Uh. Speak for yourself. Marr is a brilliant guitarist, but in fact, Morrissey is the main reason I like The Smiths, and I would be folding money I'm not the only one holding that view.
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Hooverphonic - We All Float
(Dec 06, 2008 - 11:54) | secretsauce wrote:
Quiz: What is more ironic?
A) That we Americans are so willing to live up to the stereotype of demanding that other nationalities live up to their stereotype.
or
B) The failure to recognize that Americans speak *English* and yet are not English.
Er, I do believe lathyris was making zee leetle joke.
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Tom Waits - Hold On
(Dec 06, 2008 - 11:34) | makadar wrote:
I'm with dogpound on this one. Tom Waits is an acquired taste I just haven't acquired. This one makes me cringe less than some others, though (I can even go to 7). And, contrary to what some might say, liking Tom Waits is not a litmus test for musical taste. I'm happy so many people get so much pleasure from Waits. I'm just not one of them.
Totally agree with this entire post.
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The Smiths - Handsome Devil
(Dec 06, 2008 - 10:56) | MusicRookie wrote: Hard to say anything bad about Morrissey without having all the hard core "Smiths" fans mount an attack.
For the record: I love Morrissey and consider myself a "hard core fan," but think it's stupid to "attack" anyone who doesn't care for him, as I can totally understand why people hold that view. So please don't act as though we're some sort of monolithic bunch. (I do think that comments like "this song blows oats" are sort of silly, but hey, let a thousand flowers bloom. This is an internet comment board, not a university symposium on post-punk music.)
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English Beat - Save It for Later
(Dec 05, 2008 - 14:25) | Skorokoro wrote:
ultra sick of ultras
Ultra sick of seeing reposts of Excelsior's crap. ENOUGH ALREADY. STOP REPOSTING HIM. He's gone, and every time you repost you feed the troll.
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Van Morrison - Moondance
(Dec 05, 2008 - 14:21) | Oh come on. Even Van Morrison can't stand this stupid quasi-easy-listening POS anymore. It's really not necessary to ever play it again. Enough already.
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Crosby Stills & Nash - Suite- Judy Blue Eyes
(Dec 05, 2008 - 13:21) | Rocking-M wrote:
Stills is at the top of the ladder for sure, vocals and guitar.
Which ladder would that be — the one leading from the bottom of the ruler all the way up to the second millimeter?
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The Clash - London Calling
(Dec 05, 2008 - 12:06) | westslope wrote:Love this song. Came out the year I hitched a ride on a Greek freighter from Buenos Aires to Barcelona and then headed to Africa. Am I permitted a dumbass question? Is this 'punk' or 'New Wave'?
Not a dumbass question. Punk, not New Wave. Though some people might argue it's more post-punk than punk.
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Radiohead - Nude
(Dec 03, 2008 - 20:11) | citizenmike wrote: This song is pure genius!
Everyone's entitled to their own opinion I guess, but people on here taking cheap shots just to get a rise out of genuine fans...GET A LIFE!! Feel free to go watch Youtube ands make witty observations about Britney. You'll find a more obliging peer group there!
Have fun...
And...I rest my case.
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The Smiths - I Know Its Over
(Dec 03, 2008 - 20:09) | Frater_Kork wrote:
I don't know... for me Americkan Fucking Idol feels more like the Invasion of the Barbarians eagerly goaded by the Ignorant Village Idiots. In essence it has lowered the common expectations of music to what can be expected in the shower. That impact works against all artists, no matter who we dig.
My gripe with morrisey and his brood is the self indulging emo attitude. The basic poetic points (life sucks, I'm a human) have been made over and over again by people with an awful lot more dignity, like Cash, Waits and Cohen for instance. This "oh waily waily the world is impacting on my ego - lets end it all preferrably with my equally neurotic gf in a crashing car" business rubs me all the wrong way and probably quite a few others.
In morrisseys case his quavery atonal voice is the main instrument in the waily waily drama orchestra, so maybe that is the first thing listeners lash out at instead of delving into the deeper sticky stuff.
Still, he is a poet and and artist daring to put forward his stuff and is successful, I respect him for that. But I do not like him.
See, that's actually an interesting reaction, though, as opposed to "Oh, this singer doesn't sound like Mariah Carey" or whoever. I don't agree with it, but it's well thought-out and not just the same old mindless knee-jerk reaction to someone who doesn't sing like Freddie Mercury. And I think "quavery atonal voice" is an almost perfect way to describe the way Morrissey sings (and I love Morrissey).
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Elvis Costello - Inch By Inch
(Dec 03, 2008 - 16:55) | velvetglove wrote:
I'd like to direct the following to any Elvis Costello fans out there. Especially those that may be suffering from the same confusion I am (and based upon some of the comments below, more than a few of you are...)
Costello is incredibly prolific. Has anyone else noticed that the song choices made here from among his work are, well, downright peculiar? Jeebus knows that I love the Radio Paradise, but only a few of these choices can be realistically chalked up to sentiment. 38 Costello tracks in the library, with a high percentage of clunkers. Oh yes, and number of the brilliant ones remain unplayed. Not once.
It begs the question I'm about to ask: Bill — are you an Elvis Costello hater?
Huh, interesting. I hadn't actually thought of it, but now that you mention it...
I don't think Bill hates Elvis, though (just a guess). Elvis-likers (for lack of a better term) are a rather varied lot — for example, I know one who claims her favorite Elvis album is Spike. Um, what?
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Johnny Cash - Personal Jesus
(Dec 02, 2008 - 15:53) | bitbanger wrote:
How do I put this so that non-Americans can visualize the frame of reference? Mr. Cashs point of view is of someone who truly believes in the efficacy of a personal Jesus. It is filled with pathos and a tragedy borne of desperation. The Depeche Mode version was indeed satirical, more educated, and sarcastic, and in comparison a bit trite. I dont know enough about Germany to opine but Ive never seen the kind of raw simple religious fervor in the UK that is demonstrated occasionally here in the USA. With all due respect, I suspect that it may be difficult for contemporary Europeans to understand the context from which Cash is coming. The performance is about simple and humble faith driven by deep desperation and as such is quite an insightful expression. Depeche Mode sees the subject of the song as an object of ridicule whereas Cash empathizes and exposes a rich sense of human tragedy through that empathy. This song might be about simple people who speak in tongues, are duped by TV preachers, and grasp their Bibles like shields to ward off the unknown; they are usually displayed as ignorant clowns buy mainstream culture but Cash is seeing the human nobility in their innocence and meekness.
Johnny Cash is not one of my favorite artists but this tune is truly great.
Really like this mini-essay — thanks, bitbanger.
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Santana - Jingo
(Dec 02, 2008 - 15:39) | If this is one of "The Best of Santana," god help us if Bill ever decides to play the worst.
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Michael Franti & Spearhead - Say Hey
(Dec 02, 2008 - 15:37) | Had no idea about his political messages until I read all this. Now I get it, and I agree — it's too bad that people's knees are jerking at the mere mention of his name. This just seems to me like a fun song.
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Conor Oberst - Sausalito
(Dec 02, 2008 - 10:11) | KurtfromLaQuinta wrote:Oh no. That sounds like a Neko slam. 
Could be referring to a lot of people, like that Rachel Yamagata chick, too. (For the record, I LURVE Neko, and not because she's hot, though she is.)
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The Doors - You're Lost Little Girl
(Dec 02, 2008 - 09:43) | Papernapkin wrote:
I wouldn't go that far, but obviously in the top two.
Ok, I'll ask: who's the most? (I agree with the previous posted that it's The Doors.)
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The Who - Who Are You
(Dec 01, 2008 - 11:58) | Again, here's a song where I just can't get my head around why anyone likes it. It's just beyond my ken — it's got a dreadful vocal; a stupid, annoying chorus that sounds like a bunch of loons during the late mating season; and some phoned-in instrumental solos. Could someone point out anything worthy about it? I'm interested to hear why this song has received such a hearty chorus of hosannas since 1979 or so, and I sure can't figure it out just by listening.
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Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
(Nov 28, 2008 - 11:19) | thewiseking wrote: OK, so can we now bury this tedious, droning, soulless act?
I second that motion.
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José González - Heartbeats
(Nov 25, 2008 - 16:59) | Another beautiful song from Gonzales. I think he's the only person who's ever actually made me cry at a Sony ad. (Cry in a good way, wiseass.)
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Patty Griffin - Long Ride Home
(Nov 25, 2008 - 16:58) | Jelani wrote:
Without the power, substance, or grace.
As cited by someone elsewhere: if Jelani denigrates it, you know it must be good
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Michael Franti & Spearhead - Say Hey
(Nov 25, 2008 - 15:58) | Most music that people dislike strongly, I can understand why, even if I disagree (e.g., Elvis Costello, whom I love). But this song? I truly don't understand why the blistering negativity. I could understand being indifferent, or thinking it was just ok, but some of these comments are pretty much beyond the pale. Could someone explain?
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Yoshida Brothers - Overland Blues
(Nov 25, 2008 - 09:06) | Plunk plunk plunk plunk plunk plunk plunk plunk plunk plunk plunk plunk plunk plunk plunk plunk plunk plunk plunk plunk plunk plunk plunk plunk.
Oy.
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Neil Young - Throw Your Hatred Down
(Nov 25, 2008 - 08:02) | Ag3nt0rang3 wrote:
Though I agree with you at most points, I think you've swung too far in the other direction, seeing Young's work as purely the result of business decisions. Why? Well for one thing, if he were making music according to pure business decisions, his newer works would be more popular than they are, and sound very different than they do. He did record a very anti-war album just recently, remember, and released it into a market that had just pilloried the The Dixie Chicks and Steve Earle for making the same sort of statements. Even this song, though not a direct attack on Bush, is a peace song in a time when war sells. Further, he's gone back to the electric guitar sound that I love so much, but has never been his biggest selling style.
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This is an interesting discussion, you guys. Thanks for it.
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The Hot Puppies - Clarinet Town
(Nov 25, 2008 - 07:41) | My god, not only is this awful, but it's been playing for around 45 minutes already. BASTA, BABY, BASTA!
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Tracy Chapman - Mountain O' Things
(Nov 24, 2008 - 12:03) | lowelltr wrote: God, I absolutely HATE Tracy Chapman - a no talent hack.......
Hardly. "Music you don't like != "no talent." But thanks for playing, anyway!
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The Smiths - Cemetry Gates
(Nov 24, 2008 - 10:12) | Catalytic wrote:
Which speaks volumes about your pathetic existence. Every bully I've every known has been a miserable excuse for humanity, badly overcompensating for their blatant inadequacies by inflicting physical violence on their betters. Kind of like the chimps at the zoo who's only recourse to their pathetic state is fling their poo around.
Go back to daydreaming about your glory days of high school football, Roverfish, and let the rest of us with IQs above room temperature enjoy our music in peace.
This is basically my favorite post on RP, ever.
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The Smiths - Cemetry Gates
(Nov 24, 2008 - 10:12) | daedalus wrote: The Smiths were musically great and vocally embarrassing.
That's just stupid.
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Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
(Nov 24, 2008 - 08:05) | tiggers wrote:
Simple, I doubt most of them are able to put a reasoned argument together in favour of this dreck. If it wasn't Dylan it would be rated a heck of a lot lower. Sheep, the lot of them. I rated it a 2 as it isn't as bad as most of his other output.
Ah, Tiggers. Trotting out the "sheep" line again? Not very original. You're not only a philistine, but a bore, as well.
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Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds - Two Step (alternate version)
(Nov 21, 2008 - 20:07) | walchenbach wrote:
Well, how about sharing the reasons why you dislike the track? Do you find the lyrics offensive? Is the music overly repetitive? Is Dave's vocal range unimpressive? Is Tim's guitar work technically flawed?
I'll respect your opinion, I just don't know what it is other than "I don't like it".
Unsupported opinions (like all the negative comments about the DMB) remind me of Hostess Twinkies, easy to like, but leaves you hungry for something nutritious.
Well, if you want something more substantial, maybe you'd like to start a salon where you can play your LPs, smoke Gauloises, and quote Wallace Stevens while you pontificate on your opinions about the state of popular music in the 21st Century. In the meantime, I think the rest of us philistines will carry on leaving suitably short comments here.
I mean, give me a break. This is an internet message board, and it's a Dave Fucking Matthews song. It's received all the attention from me, and probably anyone else, that it deserves.
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Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds - Two Step (alternate version)
(Nov 21, 2008 - 16:04) | walchenbach wrote: What's up with all the name calling? Do you not like the song because it is 'long'? I like it! It has emotion, variety, and is musically interesting. Merely attacking the song because you don't like DMB don't show much depth.
Really? How would you propose that I register my opinion for something I think lacks worth, O Wise One?
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John Hiatt - Lift Up Every Stone
(Nov 21, 2008 - 13:32) | federico wrote:I find it enjoyable AND I am oit of my mind AND I know where you live ... 
Once again:
PLEASE STOP RE-POSTING EXCELSIOR'S COMMENTS. I don't know why this is hard to understand. He's been gone from the comments threads for a few weeks now, either because he got bored or got kicked off, and the only way he lives on is through people's reposts. If it weren't for those, we wouldn't have to see him at all. At this point, the people re-posting are way more annoying than the guy himself.
Please. Stop. Thanks.
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Ani DiFranco - Smiling Underneath
(Nov 21, 2008 - 11:14) | Alafia wrote: Don't get me wrong; I LOVE Ani. I think she is one of the best singer/songwriters to come out in the past decade. But this song is not up to her usual standard. The music is weak, the lyrics feel awkward and strained. I hope the rest of the disk is better than this.
Agreed. I gave this track a 6, but that was sort of on principle.
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Wilco - What Light
(Nov 21, 2008 - 07:27) | fredriley wrote:
But enough about you - what about the song? Have you ever posted a positive comment, or do you just like a good old trolling whinge?
Let's try it again, folks. I'll type S-L-O-W-L-Y.
PLEASE STOP RE-POSTING EXCELSIOR'S COMMENTS. I don't know why this is hard to understand. He's been gone from the comments threads for a few weeks now, either because he got bored or got kicked off, and the only way he lives on is through people's reposts. If it weren't for those, we wouldn't have to see him at all. At this point, the people re-posting are way more annoying than the guy himself.
Please. Stop. Thanks.
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Wilco - What Light
(Nov 21, 2008 - 06:40) | venus_df wrote:
i really like the song... but it's just that one off-pitch note that feels like nails on a chalkboard to me. was the producer taking a bio break when that note happened? believe me, tweedy, i feel it... but not in a good way. :(
Could people PLEASE STOP POSTING EXCELSIOR'S TROLLING. I don't know why this is hard to understand.
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Jenny Lewis - Pretty Bird
(Nov 21, 2008 - 06:35) | I'm getting really fucking sick of the Jenny Lewis obsession on RP. Why not just post nude photos of her and have done with it?
I figure it's around five hours until the daily playing of "Next Messiah," so with any luck, we'll get a break until then.
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Temptations - Papa Was a Rolling Stone
(Nov 20, 2008 - 10:45) | Just such a damned brilliant song, on every level — it's one I'd like to give more than 10. I'd love to hear it more often on RP.
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Emerson Lake & Palmer - Stones Of Years
(Nov 20, 2008 - 08:47) | Awful, as is all of their output. I mean, Tarkus? WTF is Tarkus? Seriously, WTF is that? A tank armadillo? WHAT? Looks like the stuff some of my friends used to doodle on their notebooks in around grade four or so, when they were bored in Social Studies class.
2 — avoids a 1, well, just for not being quite as bad as the rest of the stuff from Tarkus, really.
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The Band - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
(Nov 20, 2008 - 07:54) | jazzface78 wrote:
Uh, I know this ... they're are still American Rock Nobility ... like Neil Young ... and Dana Carvey
No... they're Canadian. They may be "Rock Nobility," but they're not fucking American, and your calling them American doesn't make them American just because you like them. Americans don't get to appropriate everything they like — better learn that now, as US influence in the world continues to drop like a stone.
P.S. Dana Carvey? Wha?
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Bob Dylan - Tangled Up In Blue
(Nov 19, 2008 - 12:22) | Love this so much.
Ok, let's see how long it takes for someone to come along going, "Too repetitive! He can't sing!"
Starting...now!
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Frank Zappa - I'm the Slime
(Nov 18, 2008 - 11:34) | God, how I detest Frank Zappa. Self-satisfied, dull, pretentious, and a bigot. (And if you think his music was bad, have a look at a couple of his interviews — you'll find them on YouTube.) I can't wait until he's recognized to be the minor figure he was.
I do have to give him credit for writing an accurate song title, though.
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Jenny Lewis - Next Messiah
(Nov 18, 2008 - 10:37) | Well, at least we got through almost a week without hearing this. That's something to be happy about, I guess.
Perfect time to leave the computer for my lunch hour. When I get back, this song should be just about finishing up.
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Natalie Merchant - Motherland
(Nov 18, 2008 - 08:24) | I cannot understand how this woman even sings without clearing the room, much less how she got a record deal. I think she's completely talentless.
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The Beatles - For No One
(Nov 17, 2008 - 14:50) | Odyzzeuz wrote: You can play the most obscure outtake from the absolute dregs of the Beatles catalogue and everyone falls all over each other to give it a 10. Honestly, people, this is only a so-so track. If all of the Beatles stuff were of this caliber they'd be no more famous today than the Eels will be in 10 years.
Actually, no. If I give a song a 10 — and I did give this one a 10 — it's because I think it's a brilliant song, not because my knee is jerking. I'm a pretty big Beatles fan, but I've rated at least a couple of Beatles songs here 5 or lower.
So spare us your condescending pronouncements, ok? Believe it or not, Hon, you're not the only one here with ears and a brain.
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Roy Orbison - She's A Mystery To Me
(Nov 17, 2008 - 12:04) | copymonkey wrote:
Hoping not to jinx it but....
Write it down in your calendars folks! It appears that Sept. 30th 2008 was the last day we had to put up with the bone-headedly wrong and constant negativity of Excelsior! It should become an RP National Holiday.
Wait, how do you know? I mean, if it's true, I'm thrilled, but are we sure?
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Chicago - I'm A Man
(Nov 14, 2008 - 08:36) | Whoa. I haven't heard any Chicago for years, thankfully, and had forgotten how badly they sucked. Yecch.
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The Doors - Moonlight Drive
(Nov 13, 2008 - 11:08) | Doors = automatic 1 or 2, except for one song of theirs, which I won't mention for fear RP will play it.
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Jenny Lewis - Next Messiah
(Nov 12, 2008 - 15:53) | Ok, now this is getting a bit absurd, I'd say. I'm not usually one to complain that a song is getting too much airplay on RP, but we just heard this one yesterday at almost the very same time of day. And the rating isn't all that high, really, that it needs to be in heavy rotation (heavy for RP, I realize, but still). I mean, enough is enough.
Moving it down to a 1 from a 2.
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The Band - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
(Nov 12, 2008 - 14:37) | Misterfixit wrote: Sad and tragic story of the War of Northern Aggression.
Hahahahahahahahahaha! Still fighting that battle, huh? Keep it up, dude, for all the good it'll do you!
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Jenny Lewis - Next Messiah
(Nov 10, 2008 - 16:06) | Have to say, I don't understand why most listeners seem so ecstatic over this one — I really dislike it. It never fucking ends and is incoherently put together. It also seems like I hear it every single day on RP. (And I also can't stand that she says "Moosiah," although that's the least of the problems here.) Oh well, let a thousand flowers bloom, I guess.
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BoDeans - Fadeaway
(Nov 07, 2008 - 09:00) | treatment_bound wrote:
I'm pretty sure you're thinking of BoDeans' cut "Closer to Free", which was the theme song for the show Party of Five. It's on the RP playlist, but it hasn't been played here in almost 7 years.
If you get the urge to hear it the next time you start flipping channels and run across Jennifer Love Hewitt whispering to ghosts, you'll just have hum a few bars yourself.
Absolutely right — I was thinking of "Closer to Free."
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Buddy Holly - Well All Right
(Nov 06, 2008 - 08:55) | It's funny — everyone is saying they never knew this was a Buddy Holly song. Well, though it's always been one of my favorite Buddy Holly songs, I never knew anyone covered it.
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Rob Zombie - Living Dead Girl
(Oct 31, 2008 - 14:46) | I really, really hope we only have to hear this once a year. A 1 is too high a rating for this POS.
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Jethro Tull - Sweet Dream
(Oct 29, 2008 - 07:58) | Aegean wrote:
These guys were a wild, freaky collection of oddballs who managed to keep rock'n'roll both fun ("Sweet Dream", "Bungle In The Jungle") and profound ("Aqualung", "A Christmas Song") while icons like Joplin and Morrison and Hendrix were busy dying. They helped to immunize us against the dark days of Disco, which soon followed. They were frequent visitors to the Northwest, because they knew they were appreciated there. Of course, that was long ago, before we learned it was cool to dismiss talent far exceeding our own with brilliant comments like "Ewwww" and "Yuck"!
Certain Jethro Tull fans on RP are second only to Rush fans in their kneejerk reactions to negative comments — with both groups of fans, your breath is taken away by the alacrity with which they run to post personal insults toward those who would dare to blaspheme against their idols. The only difference is that Tull fans are trying desperately to relive their Boomer glory days, when they could sustain the illusion that their generation actually mattered, and Rush fans have somehow latched onto the notion that Rush actually had something to say. Both reactions are pretty sad. I mean, really, what do you say to someone who believes that "Aqualung" is profound? Sort of a lost cause, I'd say.
And you know, I'm not a musician, and I'm not recording albums and giving concerts. So your little "Oh, snap!" at the end doesn't really speak to, well, anything, really.
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Spoon - The Book I Write
(Oct 28, 2008 - 13:06) | With respect to the Billy Joel conversation:
Here is one of the things I love most about RP: No. Fucking. Billy. Joel.
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Buddy Holly - That'll Be The Day
(Oct 28, 2008 - 07:34) | Pyro wrote: I hold total reverence for what Buddy did and it would have been interesting to see how he would have grown, musically.
However, I guess I'm just a tad too young to really LIKE this. And how many times I've heard it!!
*Pyro dons flame suit*
Well, that's a totally legitimate response, in my opinion. If you don't care for it, you just don't — can't really criticize that. And you're not running around going, "Man, this sucks! Buddy Holly is overrated!" like a lot of others here.
But I'm (no offense) quite a bit younger than you and I adore Buddy Holly — have since I was in my 20s. So I don't think it really has anything to do with being too young to like it.
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Duke Special - Portrait
(Oct 27, 2008 - 11:01) | Well, I think it's kind of cute, in a good way. Not great, but pleasant.
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Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone
(Oct 27, 2008 - 09:52) | meloman wrote: Thank you, holborne, I feel chastised. You wouldn't happen to be a nun, would you? Somehow I got a whiff of elementary school when reading your post. You like wagging that finger, don't you?
You're welcome, Hon — any time, and I'm glad to learn that you're taking some time to think about how stupid your original comment was. Though I guess I won't hold out too much hope for your growing up.
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BoDeans - Fadeaway
(Oct 24, 2008 - 13:44) | bronorb wrote:
Uh? The Rembrandts?
Aw, man. I stand corrected. Sorry about that.
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Nickel Creek - When in Rome
(Oct 24, 2008 - 12:43) | I was just thinking this morning that RP didn't play too much Nickel Creek. Nice to hear them today!
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Elvis Costello - Deep Dark Truthful Mirror
(Oct 24, 2008 - 07:19) | I love EC madly, but I think this is one of his weaker albums. Though I think this is one of the stronger songs on the album, at least lyrically.
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Grateful Dead - Franklin's Tower
(Oct 23, 2008 - 13:53) | hippiechick wrote: imo, Jerry Garcia, on his own, is one of the great American folk singers, a la Pete Seeger.
A-hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!
You're funny!
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Dave Matthews Band - Bartender
(Oct 23, 2008 - 13:52) | diazo wrote: This song is truly timeless.
Timeless in the sense that it seems like it's been playing forever, and that it may never stop.
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Dave Matthews Band - Bartender
(Oct 23, 2008 - 13:40) | Dull, dull, dull, as usual from these guys. Has Dave Matthews ever done anything interesting in his life? (It's a rhetorical question, folks.)
And my god, it goes on FOREVER. Moving it down to a 1 for never shutting up.
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Belly - Feed The Tree
(Oct 23, 2008 - 12:34) | Love this song — haven't heard it in years. Thanks for playing it!
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Okkervil River - Lost Coastlines
(Oct 23, 2008 - 09:20) | vandal wrote:Ahh Excelsior. . . what would a song comment section be without your keen insight? Your flair for clever wording? Your musical acumen? I plugged your last 25 comments into a linguistic analysis model and the output indicates that your commentary could just as easily be written by a brain damaged wildebeest. . . 
As I've asked before, could people please stop reposting Excelsior's stuff? Seriously, please? It's bad enough to have to read it the first time, but you're just giving his stupidity more exposure when you repost, and you're just feeding the troll by giving him any attention. It would be awfully nice to have an Excelsior-free board, so could we try to make it so, at least for reposts? Thanks. (And yes, I'm aware I've been guilty of it myself in the past, but honestly, I've seen the light.)
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Elvis Costello - 45
(Oct 22, 2008 - 07:51) | lemmoth wrote:
Another fool thinkin' every rock singer needs to be Freddie Mercury. It ain't opera friend. Let's ban all rock sung by folks without converntionally good voices.
Bye Bye to Dylan, Neil Young, Tom Waits, Elvis C.(best vocalist of the bunch by the way), Lou Reed, Bruce Springsteen.
Send them and their considerable song-writng skills to some sort of modern day tin-pan alley to just write songs to be interepreted by the Linda Ronstadts of the world.
How incredibly dull and boring. No all you Dylan, Neil, Waits, Lou and Bruce fans get behind me on this one.
Applause!
As I've said before, this "Shut him up, he can't sing" crap that's been flying around is thanks to the American Idol-ization of America — if he doesn't sound like Clay or Kelly, his mouth should be duct taped shut. It's bullshit. Rock is not all about the technique, people. Listen to The Clash and then tell me that only people with mellifluous voices should be able to sing.
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Elvis Costello - Beyond Belief
(Oct 21, 2008 - 14:46) | lemmoth wrote: The best song on the best album by one of the two or three best singer/songwiters in the history of popular music.
Agree with the latter part of the sentence ("one of the two or three best singer/songwiters in the history of popular music") but disagree with the former part ("The best song on the best album"). I think the best song on this album is "Human Hands," and I although it's hard to pick a best album, I think I'd have to go with This Year's Model or Trust.
But these are quibbles. Rock on!
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Squirrel Nut Zippers - Ghost of Stephen Foster
(Oct 21, 2008 - 14:05) | copymonkey wrote:
His screen name should give you an idea of what kind of douche-bag yer dealin' with. Might as well save the intelligent rebuttal—it's sailing right over his empty head.
You know what, you're absolutely right. My mistake, and my apologies. I usually don't feed trolls, but I have the flu today.
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Squirrel Nut Zippers - Ghost of Stephen Foster
(Oct 21, 2008 - 13:55) | splooge wrote: Some of the worst music I have ever heard. Please take it out of rotation now and never play it again.
Well, that's it, folks — splooge (Jesus, what are you 12?) thinks that it should be taken out of rotation, so no more Ghost of Stephen Foster! (Edit: actually, if your profile is accurate, you're actually 47. Unreal. I bet you like shit and piss jokes too, right?)
I really don't get people who decide that because they don't like a song, it should just be yanked from the rotation. There are other people in the world aside from you, dude.
Also, have you ever heard of a mute button? Learn, and use it.
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Elvis Costello - The Beat
(Oct 21, 2008 - 11:04) | mwsteele79 wrote:
Putting lipstick on a pig doesn't make it Marilyn Monroe.
Congratulations! You have managed to make a comment that has nothing to do with what anyone here said, and makes NO SENSE WHATSOEVER! Please let us know where we can sent your Rice-a-Roni consolations prize, and again, thanks for playing!
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Elvis Costello - The Beat
(Oct 21, 2008 - 09:11) | superfido wrote:He just sucks 
Well, no, he doesn't, actually. You don't care for his music, which is quite a different matter. But thanks for playing!
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Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone
(Oct 20, 2008 - 11:37) | tiggers wrote:The Emperor's New Clothes comes to mind  You carry on enjoying getting sheared and chewing the grass, Baaa Baaa Baaa Thanks! And you enjoy continuing to bang your head against the wall, OW! OW! OW!
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Everclear - Wonderful
(Oct 19, 2008 - 15:06) | horstman wrote: I wish this guy would take a clue from Elliot Smith or Nick Drake.
Oh, hilarious. We'll see how hard you're laughing if someone close to you takes his own life someday, schmuck.
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Peter Gabriel - Lovetown
(Oct 19, 2008 - 12:41) | exeter wrote: I can't think of a Peter Gabriel song that deserves less than an 8. When one of an artist's stinkers still deserves an 8, that says something about his talent, doesn't it? :-)
Or something about his fans, perhaps.
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Amy Winehouse - You Know I'm No Good
(Oct 19, 2008 - 12:12) | horstman wrote: Amy seems to be going down the same road that a lot of popular artists have since becoming popular and having shitloads of money and lots of free time thrust at them. Jim Morrison comes to mind. Now Jim may be much more talented than this woman but the path is the same and it is one of ultimate destruction. Let's hope she gets off before the last station because if I didn't know this was Amy Winehouse (and given her history) my opinion of this song might actually be quite favorable.
"Jim may be much more talented than" Amy Winehouse? You're joking, right?
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Richard Shindell - Transit
(Oct 19, 2008 - 12:00) | jyoull wrote: hahaha it's kind of literal but yeah, i'm cheering "you go!" over here anyway
... and now i'm probably in some database of potential insurgents and nonconformists...
If you live in Cambridge, you probably were anyway. 
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Richard Shindell - Transit
(Oct 19, 2008 - 09:09) | Wow, I really don't care for this. Overwrought and too pleased with itself by half. Sort of sounds like he's trying to do Bruce Cockburn combined with REM.
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Verve Pipe - Colorful
(Oct 18, 2008 - 13:58) | Ellehcim wrote:Actually, 'The Freshmen' was done by the Verve Pipe. I think you are thinking of Bitter-Sweet Symphony by the Verve. At least, that's the song I always associate with them 
Ummmm....this is Verve Pipe.
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Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
(Oct 18, 2008 - 13:44) | Papernapkin wrote: I never see these guys tour or on Larry King or nothin'.
Could you imagine the questions Larry would ask them? "You know, some people say your lyrics are hard to understand. Why don't you enunciate more clearly?"
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Okkervil River - Singer Songwriter
(Oct 18, 2008 - 12:38) | Vandy005 wrote: Sounds a little Old '97ish you might say...
I was thinking precisely the same. In fact, before I looked to see what was playing, I assumed it was Old '97s.
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Kenny Rogers - The Gambler
(Oct 18, 2008 - 11:27) | Uh, could we maybe get the Cake cover of this song, too, please?
In all fairness, it's not a terrible song. It's a hell of a lot better than his later easy-listening output. Pretty funny coming after the Cake cover of "Ruby Don't Take Your Love to Town," though. When it came on just now, I thought, "Oh, whose cover is this?"
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Midnight Oil - The Dead Heart
(Oct 17, 2008 - 10:52) | Ulises wrote:
Understand this fully. For me and my own I will stop at nothing.
If you want to wrap yourself in some kind of of moral superiority go ahead. But remeber what I wrote above.
Ooooooh, really SKEERY! Look out for big he-man ULISES!
Give me a break. What are you going to do for an encore — break walnuts between your balls?
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Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone
(Oct 17, 2008 - 09:34) | tiggers wrote:
Oooo sarcasm. LOL! Face it, Dylan is overrated, get over it!!!!
Uh, get over what? Dylan's been around for over 40 years, his songs are still played and covered over and over, and he's not going away, either here on RP or anywhere else, for probably at least another 40 years. That going to be true no matter how much you try to shout out the truth as you see it to the unwashed masses. So it rather looks like I'm not the one who needs to get over it, doesn't it? Enjoy!
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The Police - Message in a Bottle
(Oct 17, 2008 - 08:40) | ulibcn wrote:
Ideed you are.
To me it's just the other way round. On his own I find Sting often pedantic, boring, selfsufficient, pretentious bus shallow after all (btw unlike his other companions).
With police he's (they are) great
Yep, agree with ulibcn: I think Sting's solo work is less than worthless, but The Police were a great, tight band.
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Ben Harper - Gather 'Round The Stone
(Oct 17, 2008 - 07:26) | Could people please stop reposting Excelsior's stuff? Seriously, please? It's bad enough to have to read it the first time, but you're just giving his stupidity more exposure when you repost, and you're just feeding the troll by giving him any attention. It would be awfully nice to have an Excelsior-free board, and he's actually been gone for the past week or thereabouts, so could we try to make it so? Thanks. (And yes, I'm aware I'm guilty of it myself, but honestly, I've seen the light.)
As for this song, it's the first time I've ever heard it, and I love it.
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AC/DC - It's A Long Way To The Top
(Oct 16, 2008 - 11:58) | Gotta admit, I really don't get AC/DC at all. To me, it just sounds like noise. I don't understand all the admiration that goes their way.
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Beethoven - Symphony No.5 - Allegro Con Brio
(Oct 16, 2008 - 11:49) | ssg wrote:Songs that are only numbered rather than given explicit names feel like they are mass produced. Like the composer didn't have time to lose. Apparently classical era was like that. Composers mass producing songs for king's own delight.
So here you go, your best classy taste in music is actually result of nights long prostitution.
Wha?
Well, I will admit that post is sort of a nice example of the finest minds on the Internets blathering on about whatever pops into their heads, whether they know anything about the topic or not. (In this case, not.)
In any event: Bill, while I heart you madly, and admire your willingness to mix in a little orchestral music, pulling one movement out of a symphony, especially a masterpiece like Beethoven No. 5, kinda isn't cool. Symphonies are meant to be heard in their entirety, not in bits. It's kind of like playing a minute or so of Eleanor Rigby and then cutting off the rest.
It's even worse when you don't even play the entire movement, as you did here. Again, I heart you and this station, but ouch. That's just wrong, and way worse than the alternative of not playing it at all.
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Coldplay - White Shadows
(Oct 16, 2008 - 11:23) | Wow, who ever would have thought that Coldplay would write a song about that show the 1970s with the basketball coach in South Central LA?
Ha ha, I slay me.
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The Clash - Rock the Casbah
(Oct 16, 2008 - 10:18) | fredriley wrote: The best ever Clash single, by a country mile. A glorious and deserved 10 from the Nottingham jury. I've never tired of listening and bopping to this, even after twenty years and what must be hundreds of listens. An absolute minted classic.
By "single," I trust you mean a song actually released as a single (as opposed to the common use of the term to mean simply "song from one of their albums")?
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XTC - Senses Working Overtime
(Oct 16, 2008 - 08:35) | greyfin10 wrote: I sort of care when people mindlessly slag some artist because they don't get them. But not in the sense that I'm going "Hey, good one there". More like a slow shake of the head as I wonder at the evil fuel that keeps some people going. Ok, not evil... just negative. There's music i don't get... and if pressed, I guess I might eventually admit I see no value to it, but these sweeping "everything they've done is crap" statements are really sort of silly to a thinking person.
Which brings me to why I like XTC... despite the lyrics to "Mayor of Simpleton" I appreciate the intellectual content of alot of their lyrics. Well, some of their melodies are heart-breakingly beautiful too, but I think the "intellectualism" turns some people off. Also, some people will never forgive them for daring to suggest they don't buy the whole "god thing". Anyway, to summarize, I have no problem with people not getting something, as in "I don't understand why you listen to this...". But the "it's all crap" crowd could just lose their train of thought and wander away from these boards and I'd never miss them.
Adding my applause to the above comment. Really well done.
Oh, and I give this song a 10, partially to counter all the negative ratings.
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Elvis Costello - Tear Off Your Own Head
(Oct 16, 2008 - 06:39) | mwsteele79 wrote:
No accounting for taste, is there? Doesn't make sense to me how someone like Elvis Costello could be so successful. His voice is annoying, his lyrics are stupid (that's right I said stupid), and his overall style is uninspiring. Just because some people like his music doesn't mean it's brilliant. Let's see what the test of time does for him.
Uh, hate to break the news, to you, hon, but in Elvis's case, the test of time has been taken and passed with flying colors — he's been around since 1977 or so.
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Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime
(Oct 15, 2008 - 14:48) | mastertown wrote: Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...
Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...
Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...
Now, what on earth is the point of a post like this? Do you think we can't hear this lyrics unless you write it down for us?
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Porcupine Tree - Start of Something Beautiful
(Oct 15, 2008 - 12:51) | lemmoth wrote:
I am with you on this - Floyd and Zep had their bombastic/pretentious moments but there was so many other good qualities to their compositions and playing that I put the bad aside. Not so with Rush, Yes and Porcupine Tree - for me anyway.
Well, I certainly agree that Rush and Yes didn't have "their bombastic/pretentious moments," largely because their entire output is one huge mass of pretentious bombast. I mean, if you don't notice a single bombastic or pretentious moment in the oeuvre of Yes and Rush, the best thing I can suggest to you is that maybe you were actually listening to different bands and didn't realize it.
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Porcupine Tree - Start of Something Beautiful
(Oct 15, 2008 - 12:29) | steve_san_carlos wrote: Sounds like a bad high school band practicing in their garage in an affluent neighborhood. You walk by the house, shake your head and mutter to yourself, "Spoiled little shits, and that music sucks too."
Man, do I agree with that. And after that beautiful Low song, too. Talk about going from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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Low - California
(Oct 15, 2008 - 12:27) | What a gorgeous song, with some stunning cord progressions. I'm going to download this one when I get home.
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Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone
(Oct 14, 2008 - 08:38) | tiggers wrote:
You are all being conned, the song maybe historically significant, may even be the best song ever written although I doubt it, but it is destroyed by the whining Dylan calls singing.
Wow, I certainly glad that we have a True Seer like you to tell us we're all being "conned"! Thank god someone so wise, who's the only one to know the truth, has deigned to come to Radio Paradise and show us what blind fools we've all been.
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Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone
(Oct 14, 2008 - 08:19) | meloman wrote: You didn't post your birthday, but I can just bet you're a young snot.
I'm sorry, but comments like this are just silly and pointless, and say a lot more about the poster than anything else. Someone posts his or her opinion — "I don't care for Dylan and don't understand why people like him." Fine. So what do you care? You have to insult the person and call him names for having a different opinion from yours? Why?
Maybe you're older that some of us here, but take this advice to heart anyway: grow the fuck up.
p.s. I love this song and gave it a ten, and love Dylan in general. So you can spare me the dunderheaded "You're too young to appreciate his genius, so go back to listening to Justin Timberlake" remarks.
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The Who - I Can See For Miles
(Oct 13, 2008 - 15:12) | PeaceInIraq wrote:
I take it you never experienced the joy of swimming in baked beans. It will put the magic in your eyes.
Hualp. 
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Pink Floyd - Empty Spaces - Young Lust
(Oct 13, 2008 - 14:59) | ad4tise wrote: They could be singing they need a dirty anything and I will always give Pink Floyd a 10!
Isn't that funny — they could be singing about how Jesus Christ was elected president of the world and I will always give Pink Floyd a 1.
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Belle and Sebastian - Another Sunny Day
(Oct 13, 2008 - 13:22) | I wasn't looking at the RP page, but heard this playing and said, "Huh, this is nice, I really like it." Imagine my surprise to find that it was Belle and Sebastian, a band I don't usually care for. I give it a solid 7.
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The Cure - Just Like Heaven
(Oct 13, 2008 - 13:15) | FunToBeHad wrote: ya know, I am not going to bad mouth this song or low rate it because it is a classic! But, I think I have heard it 10,000 times and I guess I am just getting sick of it.
Pretty much agree, but still, I give it an 8 because it's not the song's fault people play it too much.
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Gram Parsons - In My Hour Of Darkness
(Oct 13, 2008 - 10:30) | hippiechick wrote: He is the father of country rock. Way before JD.
Uh, yes, I'm aware of that, thanks. My comment was a simile of sorts, see.
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Patty Griffin - Blue Sky
(Oct 13, 2008 - 10:22) | LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE HEERRRRRRRRRRR!!
Ahem. Sorry, I think I've gotten ahold of myself now.
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Jethro Tull - A New Day Yesterday
(Oct 10, 2008 - 13:09) | lwilkinson wrote:
Ah Me Oh My...............what a difference in musical taste a few decades creates!
Once upon a time "The Tull" was a supergroup and having seen them on stage as the openers for Led Zep (Have I posted this info before?) they rocked the house and people began walking out when Led Zep began to play.
Anyone who is too young to have listened to Tull when it was new simply is incapable of understanding quality (however dated it might be).
Yes, that's right — if I don't like it, it must be because I JUST DON'T GET IT. It has nothing to do with the fact that Ian Anderson and his tagalong bunch of no-talents couldn't put together a competent piece of music if Mozart himself had pre-fabricated for them. No, it must be because I'm too young to UNDERSTAND. In fact, I'm apparently too young to even understand quality at all! Right.
Give me a break. Such typical condescending aging hippie bullshit. I'm always amused, yet not surprised, when this supercilious crap starts spouting out of the mouths of the "We are the Greatest Generation" crowd.
"Quality" and "Jethro Tull" constitute such a contradiction in terms that the two barely belong in the same paragraph together, much less as equivalents.
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Madness - Our House
(Oct 10, 2008 - 08:56) | This song set in motion the chain of events leading to my divorce. Yay!!! For that, I give it a 9, even though I hate the song.
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Porcupine Tree - Dark Matter
(Oct 10, 2008 - 08:09) | renegade_X wrote: YAY!!!!! This is one of theirs that is very close to the style of Pink Floyd.
Ah — finally I'm able to put my finger on why I detest Porcupine Tree. Yucko.
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Gordon Lightfoot - The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald
(Oct 08, 2008 - 13:57) | This song is pure Gordon Lightfoot. And that's not a compliment.
I think pretty much the best take on him, ever, was the old SCTV sketch: K-Tel presents "Gordon Lightfoot Sings Every Song Ever Written."
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XTC - Making Plans for Nigel
(Oct 08, 2008 - 13:29) | isayhoomhom wrote: You realize, of course, "Nigel" is slang for penis. The song is about how men frequently let the "little head" do the thinking.
Interesting interpretation. Do you have any authority for it?
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Bob Dylan - You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
(Oct 07, 2008 - 10:46) | catsoup wrote: Wow. Badly sung and repetitive. And somehow I had missed this song all these years; now I know why.
Bingo! Took only two posts!! I win a T-shirt!!!
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Bob Dylan - You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
(Oct 07, 2008 - 10:37) | Love this!
(But waiting tremulously for the inevitable comment about how Dylan has a terrible voice and should never be allowed near the microphone, or words to that effect. Wonder how many posts after this it will take...)
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Yes - I've Seen All Good People
(Oct 07, 2008 - 10:28) | veegez wrote:
So, Yes fans are worshipping a false god, or something like that? Ok. That would assume your low opinion of Yes is the "correct" opinion. Which is stupid.
BZZZZZT!!! Sorry, good try, but no. Your consolation prize is a free course: Logic and Critical Thinking 101. Good luck!
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Calexico - Alone Again Or
(Oct 07, 2008 - 10:10) | Ok, so how does this group pronounce its name? Is it ka-LECKS-i-koh, or ka-LEH-hee-koh, as in the Spanish way of pronouncing "Mexico"?
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The Smiths - I Know Its Over
(Oct 06, 2008 - 14:55) | I love The Smiths. And frankly, I'm getting really sick of people putting up the same comment over and over, not just about Morrissey, but a lot of artists we hear on RP, like Neil Young and David Byrne: "Who told this guy he could sing? He has a terrible voice!"
This is what American Fucking Idol has done to music in this country: everyone expects a lot of soulless melismatic wailing and emoting, but no one cares about lyrics, musicianship, production, phrasing, or anything else. If the singer doesn't sound like another Simon Cowell-approved clone: "Make him stop singing! He doesn't sound like Kelly or Clay!" It's ludicrous. It's like saying about Picasso, "Ew, what's this shit? The skin of the guy in the painting is blue and his head is square! Who ever told this guy he could paint?" The technique is not always the point, people.
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Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
(Oct 06, 2008 - 12:25) | smehan55 wrote: Overblown, hystrionic drivel. Barf barf barf-o-rama. 0
Totally agree. Shut up Shut Up SHUT UP!!! 
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Sufjan Stevens - Chicago
(Oct 06, 2008 - 11:24) | Kittee wrote:So do I. This is good music. I have this problem of ranking most that I hear an (8.) I have to blame RP though for generally playing music I find exceptional. Or maybe I'm just a music lover to the 10x, who knows.
I do the same. My ratings distribution is weirdly skewed toward 8. Probably it's that I'm more likely to rate something I like.
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Neko Case - Dirty Knife
(Oct 06, 2008 - 09:09) | SmackDaddy wrote: Damn, I was fearful again that I would go more that 6 hours without hearing Neko again and again and again. She has to be the most played artist on this here station.
No, that would be Joni Mitchell.
I LURVE Neko, and to all you who are flirting with her: back off, I saw her first!!
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Vienna Teng - Shasta (Carrie's Song)
(Oct 06, 2008 - 08:53) | Vienna Teng is sort of a funny name. But anyway, I like this song, so I give it an 8 — 7 for the song and 1 for the funny name.
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Radiohead - Nude
(Oct 06, 2008 - 08:40) | UltraNurd wrote: Is there ever any middle ground of opinion between awful and awesome? Can't people "kinda like it" or find it to be "not really my thing"? The more we use extremes in our discourse, the less meaning those extremes have when we actually need them.
I think it's fine for people to have strong opinions. What I find a lot more objectionable is people saying that if you don't something you "just don't get it" or saying "Oh, I guess you must prefer music like Britney Spears" and so forth. If I don't like something, it might well be that I don't get it, but it's just as likely that I've thought about it and have well-considered reasons for not liking it. For example, I run into the "you poor dear, you just don't get it — go run along and listen to Kelly Clarkson" a lot when I say I hate Pink Floyd or Joni Mitchell, both of whom I have quite articulable reasons for detesting, thanks. It really seems awfully condescending to tell someone that the only reason they don't care for a particular band is that they're too stupid to appreciate it.
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Radiohead - Nude
(Oct 06, 2008 - 08:32) | sporkster wrote:I, for the record, will never understand people who don't like Radiohead. It takes a while to get into them, but once you see the light, it's blinding! 
I understand it pretty well, and can see not caring for them, but I love them. You may be right that it takes a bunch of listens before they get interesting.
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Joni Mitchell - Shades Of Scarlett Conquering
(Oct 06, 2008 - 08:31) | Otomi wrote:
Still feeling down, Holborne? Perhaps getting out into nature and soaking in its beauty would turn things around for you. Peace.
Nope, as I said before, I feel just fine, thanks.
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Gomez - Me, You And Everybody
(Oct 06, 2008 - 08:30) | Huh, I wonder why this one has such a low rating. I like it a lot, and will tweak my rating upward to compensate.
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Joni Mitchell - Shades Of Scarlett Conquering
(Oct 06, 2008 - 08:28) | God, how I LOATHE Joni Mitchell in every way. I wish RP would stop playing so much of her crap. It's like there are a dozen of her songs on here every day. Thank god for the mute button.
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Santana - Incident At Neshabur
(Oct 06, 2008 - 07:58) | Otomi wrote:
Hope you're feeling better soon, Holborne. Have a good day.
Um, what? I feel fine, thanks.
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BoDeans - Fadeaway
(Oct 06, 2008 - 07:36) | I really like BoDeans, and I've actually always thought it was too bad that the song they're best known for (the theme to Friends) isn't nearly their best work. Oh well.
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Vast - Loneliness Is Fine
(Oct 06, 2008 - 07:23) | Kittee wrote:OK so I'm working along, this song comes on and I'm like....WOW this is a GOOD song. Who is this...
Then I click over to RP and BAM! It's Vast...one of my all time favorite bans. God is good, for he gives us music such as this. lol 
Agree it's a great song. But it's really hard to read comments in orange, and I really like reading your comments.
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Harry Manx - Bring That Thing (live)
(Oct 06, 2008 - 06:31) | calypsus_1 wrote:can you understand that situations exist where to say "no comment" mean to say "everything"?: or, if you want, "silence is gold", ty. - 9.
holborne wrote:
Uh, dude, just so you know: it's kind of annoying to keep reading your comments saying "No comment." If you don't want to make a comment, how about not posting that you're not making a comment?
I suppose this will be lost on you, but again, posting the words "no comment" is not the same as actually, you know, not making a comment. But I don't get the impression you're thinking about it very hard, so I won't bother to discuss it further with you.
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The Kinks - Sunny Afternoon (live)
(Oct 06, 2008 - 06:14) | This is a great song, but man does this live version suck.
In fact, I don't ever get the point of playing recorded live versions of songs. They always sound awful, you have to deal with listening to the stupid crowd sing and make noise (and who the hell wants to hear a recording of a bunch of drunk fans singing along?), and the point of being at a live concert is totally lost unless you're actually there anyway. Like I said, don't get the point.
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Badly Drawn Boy - Logic Of A Friend
(Oct 05, 2008 - 12:27) | fredriley wrote: A nice number, and well worth a 7. What's always intrigued me is: does BDB ever take off his woolly hat? He must sweat buckets at gigs.
Maybe it's really cotton.
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Joni Mitchell - All I Want
(Oct 05, 2008 - 12:26) | Yuck, Joni Mitchell. Giving it a 2 because it's sunny out and I'm feeling generous.
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Conor Oberst - Sausalito
(Oct 05, 2008 - 12:25) | ch83575 wrote:
I dated a girl in High School with pink hair. One day she stuck a safety-pin through her ear without even warning me or anything... kinda freaked me out. Its 11 years later and we are married now. She let that hole grow closed, and her hair is just brown now but she still freaks me out from time to time.
I myself had blue hair once, but I was in college, and that's not as daring as pink anyway.
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Harry Manx - Bring That Thing (live)
(Oct 05, 2008 - 12:21) | calypsus_1 wrote: no comment - 9.
Uh, dude, just so you know: it's kind of annoying to keep reading your comments saying "No comment." If you don't want to make a comment, how about not posting that you're not making a comment?
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Show of Hands - Roots
(Oct 04, 2008 - 11:53) | AphidA wrote: From 3 to a 1. How could I possibly have put this at a 3?! God, this one sucks.
Agree. Bang-your-head-against-the-wall stuff.
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Neko Case - Deep Red Bells (Live)
(Oct 04, 2008 - 11:11) | I am slightly miffed that Neko has not responded to my public proposal of marriage yet. However, I guess I understand since I'm assuming she gets about half a dozen of those a week. I'm willing to wait.
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Aretha Franklin - Respect
(Oct 04, 2008 - 09:44) | Uh, what on earth would compel someone to rate this song a 1? I mean, I don't care if you don't like this sort of music or whatever, but if you rate this song a 1 you really should just pack it in.
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Sarah McLachlan - Building a Mystery
(Oct 03, 2008 - 13:06) | pevend wrote: If not for people like George Bush fighting against Islamic fascism, it might not be too long before we all are reduced to wearing sandals in the snow and are forced to adhere to a faith from before Jesus.
Very good song, too.
I almost hate to break this news to you, pevend, but your ignorance is showing. Islam is a way, way younger religion than Christianity, by about 600 years.
No surprise, somehow, that you don't have any idea what you're talking about.
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The Clash - London Calling
(Oct 03, 2008 - 09:23) | I love this song, but I have to agree, it's overplayed, here on RP and elsewhere. How about some other songs from this album, which is one of the most brilliant of the past 30 years?
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Dave Matthews Band - Seek Up
(Oct 03, 2008 - 08:25) | Kittee wrote:OK you seriously have to be kidding me, this song will not end. Please take it out of the rotation. 
I second that motion.
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Dave Matthews Band - Seek Up
(Oct 03, 2008 - 08:18) | Ok, I had just given this song a 2, because I was feeling sort of generous today. However, I just moved it down to a one because it JUST. WON'T. END. Shut up Shut Up SHUT UP!!!
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John Lennon - Mind Games
(Oct 02, 2008 - 15:50) | robco1 wrote: I wish he was; he would have had a lot to say in 2002-03. Maybe he would have woken this country up . . .
Oh, yes, I'm so sure that a superannuated rock star would have woken up the masses to The Truth and stopped that war dead in its tracks, yessiree. Give me a break.
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Okkervil River - Lost Coastlines
(Oct 02, 2008 - 13:50) | smehan55 wrote: Okkervil River ... one of those bands that RP introduced me to (Thanks Bill!) and when I hear them I think, hey this is pretty good stuff. Always makes me wonder how anyone could not like them? What's not to like? Long live diversity.
Yeah, was also wondering why everyone seemed to dislike them so much. I heard them for the first time here, and really liked them immediately. A lot of stuff I like, I can understand why people seem to hate it, but these guys? I don't get it. Why all the negative reaction?
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Okkervil River - Lost Coastlines
(Oct 02, 2008 - 13:36) | BillG wrote:
A relentlessly negative RP member has discovered how to spot new tracks that have been added to the library, and has been passing out 1s to songs he hasn't even heard yet, based on his wide-ranging predjudices.
If I see that happen even once more I'll probably start removing his ratings from the displays & calculations.
Gosh, I wonder who the "relentlessly negative RP member" is.
Frankly, I'd love to see filtering software installed on the site so I wouldn't have to read his inane, knee-jerk trolling anymore.
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Joni Mitchell - Free Man In Paris
(Oct 02, 2008 - 11:40) | Hannio wrote:
Whiner.
Yes, that's right, folks — any criticism must be "whining."
Wow, what an intelligent response. Did it take you a long time to think of it?
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David Bowie - Modern Love
(Oct 01, 2008 - 12:04) | Panama_Floyd wrote: Who replaced my RP with "Easy 102.1"?
Seriously. I would rather not hear stuff like this on RP, frankly.
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Conor Oberst - Sausalito
(Sep 30, 2008 - 09:32) | RadioDoc wrote: If you were indeed born in 1973, you're not "punk". You may be a punk though.
Uh...yeah. If you were actually born in 1973, you were hardly punk before it was cool, unless your parents gave you a mohawk and pierced your little nose with a clothespin while you were in diapers.
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Patti Smith - Because The Night
(Sep 30, 2008 - 09:27) | THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for playing this, a good version, instead of the crap Natalie Merchant version, which she should be drawn and quartered for releasing.
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The Script - We Cry
(Sep 30, 2008 - 09:24) | sirrus wrote: Maroon Timberlake Mraz
Hahahahahahah! It's true.
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Conor Oberst - Sausalito
(Sep 30, 2008 - 09:23) | OldFrenchie wrote:
Whatever. If it sucks it sucks. I call 'em like I hear 'em.
Wow, you're so punk rock!
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Conor Oberst - Sausalito
(Sep 30, 2008 - 09:19) | Oh, come on, guys. Rate the song that you actually hear, not the person singing it. It doesn't make you a big rebel just because you see Conor Oberst and go, "Ew, give him a low rating!"
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Neko Case - Lady Pilot
(Sep 30, 2008 - 09:04) | I would like to publicly ask Neko Case to marry me.
Thank you in advance.
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Elvis Costello - Pump It Up
(Sep 29, 2008 - 08:05) | saltysanford wrote: Totally agree. For me though, there are really only a very few of his albums (Kronos Quartet, Juliett Letters and the thing with Burt Bacharach) that I don't find really good. Even his low points are still better than alot of the crap that gets put out. I am way to biased in regards to EC though for any one to take my opion of him at face value. As a lyricist EC ranks way up at the top. His use of language is very evocative and usually wickedly funny/sarcatistic/insightful. There are so many perfectly crafted lines in his songs that I couldn't even begin to start naming them.
Oh my god, I'd blocked that Burt Bacharach thing out of my mind! Yeah, I think that's pretty much the low point for EC. Also I agree with saltysanford that EC is one of the best lyricists of the past 30 years or so.
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Peter Gabriel - Sky Blue
(Sep 24, 2008 - 08:57) | That_SOB wrote:
Oh not so fast there Limey, it doesn't take Peter
to give your nation a bad name. Blair Brown and the Wicked Witch of the West Thatcher did a bloody good job of showing their "pompous self reverential guff..."
Blair Brown? You mean the lady who starred in The Days and Night of Molly Dodd? I didn't know she was Prime Minister. Cool!
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The Clash - Clampdown
(Sep 22, 2008 - 12:46) | CamLwalk wrote: Can you rate a song 11? Really diggin RP this afternoon.
Roger that!
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Richard Thompson - 1985
(Sep 22, 2008 - 12:26) | mongoose01ca wrote: What the...
Did this need a cover? I kinda don't think so.
Sure it did. The songs that don't need covers are the ones that are flawless to begin with. This one sure wasn't.
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Queen Ida - Jambalaya
(Sep 22, 2008 - 12:17) | Sort of fun. Haven't heard it in around a zillion years, either.
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Indigo Girls - Closer To Fine
(Sep 20, 2008 - 13:28) | The worst song lyric ever, in the history of the world:
I spent four years prostrate to the higher mind,
got my paper and I was free.
Only a couple of obnoxious, spoiled, upper-middle class brats could come up with that lyric.
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The Dandy Warhols - Talk Radio
(Sep 20, 2008 - 12:19) | Excellent song from an excellent album. I was so happy to see The Dandy Warhols actually hit it fairly big — I thought they were destined for indie niche-dom.
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Mosquitos - Preguica
(Sep 20, 2008 - 12:14) | Seeing a group calling "Mosquitos" makes me think I'm about to hear Geddy Lee. Luckily, this is a lot better than Geddy Lee. Which I realize may be damning with faint praise, but anyway.
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Joni Mitchell - Love or Money
(Sep 19, 2008 - 13:56) | outunderstars wrote: Why on Earth are they still playing this song when it so clearly disliked?
Was wondering the same. Maybe they lost their dog whistle.
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R.E.M. - Fall On Me
(Sep 18, 2008 - 16:45) | Probably my favorite song from their entire catalog. Gorgeous.
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Neil Young - The Needle And The Damage Done
(Sep 18, 2008 - 14:13) | Look, not everyone has to be a goddamned opera singer. The point of this song isn't that Neil's voice is like Caruso's — the point is the beautiful, understated quality of both of the guitar and the vocal.
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Elvis Costello - Pump It Up
(Sep 18, 2008 - 11:11) | Like a lot of great artists, Elvis runs hot and cold — he'll have huge peaks (This Year's Model, Trust, King of America) and really low valleys (Mighty Like a Rose, Goodbye Cruel World, The Juliet Letters). But taken over the course of his career, you'd be hard pressed to find a better lyricist and a more courageous, eclectic musician. I think he's a genius along the lines of John Lennon.
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The Shins - Gone for Good
(Sep 18, 2008 - 10:03) | scott4261 wrote: This is a fantastic album! I wish RP would play "Kissing the Lipless" every now and then...
Agreed on both counts.
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John Lennon - Imagine
(Sep 17, 2008 - 13:15) | andrewimft wrote:
This song has nothing to do with goals, it's an imagining. But, gee I guess you're right and that means this song was a secret plot by John Lennon to dupe us all into believing in Karl Marx. I guess John Lennon was secretely a communist (despite his repeated trashing of communism in the song Revolution and in interviews) and his Beatles music took those scary tribal African rythms to corrupt our children so that they would dance and think about sex, and the Russians would be able to take us over.
Hahahahahahaha! Well said.
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Pink Floyd - Us & Them -> Eclipse
(Sep 17, 2008 - 07:40) | leathepea wrote:
Actually I said it to hear what your response would be. Honestly, I could care less if you like PF or not, I was just bored.
You must lead such a rich, full life.
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Pink Floyd - Us & Them -> Eclipse
(Sep 16, 2008 - 14:10) | leathepea wrote:
Well everyone has their own likes and dislikes, and if you don't get PF by now you probably never will. So please listen to what you get and I wish you well. By the way I hear Britney Spears is working on a new album, maybe she can team up with Kenny G and they can do a duet.
You know, it's really odd — I've noticed that on RP, when someone says, "I don't like so and so an artist," you can always count on some chucklehead to come back with, "Well, go back to what you really like to listen to — Britney Spears!!! Oh SNAP!!!" Happens a lot.
Some people really need some lessons in rudimentary logic and critical thinking.
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Pink Floyd - Us & Them -> Eclipse
(Sep 16, 2008 - 12:29) | bronorb wrote:
You're absolutely right.
You don't get it.
Um, yes. I do believe that's what I already said. But I guess you feel good having puffed up your chest now and made sure everyone here knew you're among the ranks of the worthy. Maybe next you can stroke your dick too, so everyone can see that yours is bigger than mine.
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Pink Floyd - Us & Them -> Eclipse
(Sep 16, 2008 - 11:58) | Don't get Pink Floyd, never have. I'd rather listen to almost anything else, with the possible (and I do mean possible) exception of Kenny G.
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The Doors - Riders On The Storm
(Sep 16, 2008 - 10:13) | MiketheKnife and bizon, my comrades! I detest The Doors. The only one who had the vaguest amount of talent was Robbie Krieger, who was a decent guitarist. The other ones — forget it. Don't even get me started on Jim's droning, pseudo-poetic masturbation in every song.
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KT Tunstall - White Bird
(Sep 16, 2008 - 09:48) | Oh, they're playing KT Tunstall again.
You know, it's odd, but suddenly, I feel sort of tirezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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Vince Guaraldi Trio - Linus and Lucy
(Sep 15, 2008 - 10:33) | renegade_X wrote: <— Click their user name to the left
Ah, I thought there was a way to see the names of all 11 people who gave this song a 1. Thanks, though!
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Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley
(Sep 12, 2008 - 14:13) | Whoa, something new! Outstanding song, of course, with amazing production.
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Tom Waits - Get Behind The Mule
(Sep 12, 2008 - 10:36) | MinMan wrote: holborne wrote:Tom Waits: please STFU. Forever, starting RIGHT NOW. Thank you.
No more O'Reilly Factor for you! Um, what? You think anyone who can't stand Waits is a right-winger or something? Better start getting out of the house more, hon.
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Eric Clapton - Reconsider Baby
(Sep 12, 2008 - 09:56) | Fake white boy blues, as usual. This performance sounds like it needs to use a walker to hobble across the stage.
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Neil Young - Long May You Run
(Sep 11, 2008 - 10:47) | Beautiful song — it's almost enough to make me forgive Neil for supporting Reagan back in the 80s. Anyway, thanks for playing it.
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Mark Knopfler - What It Is
(Sep 11, 2008 - 09:42) | KitKat wrote:
I'm going for "curmudgena" as a feminine version of curmudgeon.
Actually, the feminine version of curmudgeon is "curmudgeon." Pretty simple, no?
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Mudcrutch - Shady Grove
(Sep 11, 2008 - 09:30) | Don't forget The Darlings' (really The Dillards') version, from The Andy Griffith Show!
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Joni Mitchell - Carey
(Sep 09, 2008 - 12:20) | Hate Joni Mitchell SO SO SO SO much. Hate. I'm always surprised when pack of dogs don't come running whenever they hear her sing. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
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Vince Guaraldi Trio - Linus and Lucy
(Sep 08, 2008 - 10:15) | sqqqrly wrote: sarahbean26, sass, quatsch, MiMa, manbirdexperiment, Skinwalker, dreadpixie and fjordless each rated this a 1.
Who are these people???
Wait, how do you see who gave what rating to what song?
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Santana - Song Of The Wind
(Sep 08, 2008 - 09:54) | bizon wrote: Pretentious, masturbatory wank.
Seconded. Shut up Shut Up SHUT UP!!!!
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Pixies - Where Is My Mind
(Sep 08, 2008 - 07:37) | ercasul wrote:
How many times do you have to comment on this track? We get it: you don't like it. Move on.
Seriously, dude. You don't have a day job or something? I imagine you sitting sweatily in front of your computer, one hand on the keyboard and another reaching for your bag of Bugles, waiting for this song to be played, at which time you go, "YES! YES! I CAN POST ANOTHER MEAN COMMENT! YES!!!!" You have around half a dozen comments on this one song. Find a hobby, for crissakes.
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AfroCelts - Seed
(Oct 13, 2007 - 09:27) | Afro-celt? Come on, you can't actually be serious. Like Celtic rock isn't bad enough? Give me a break.
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KT Tunstall - Other Side of the World
(Oct 12, 2007 - 20:28) | Oh goody, just what the world needs -- another mediocre singer songwriter with a slightly gravelly voice. What's the matter, Sheryl Crow getting too old to be the It Girl anymore? Bleh to K.T. Tunstall. She's a bore.
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Harry Manx - Crazy Love
(May 02, 2004 - 12:01) | GordianKnot wrote: OK maybe I'm just imagining this.....but is Harry Manx this guy's real name? Cuz Manx is a breed of cat that is nearly hairless (as well as tail-less)......perhaps it's supposed to be some sort of cute joke?
Um. Manx cats aren't hairless. They're short-haired, but hardly hairless. (The are tail-less, so if this guys name were "Longtail Manx" I might be inclined to think it was a joke.)
Anyway, nice tune. I see no reason not to cover Van Morrison.
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Lloyd Cole - Shelf Life
(May 02, 2004 - 10:20) | I wasn't familiar with this song, but it's really a gorgeous one. Thanks for playing it.
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Grateful Dead - Scarlet Begonias
(Jan 23, 2003 - 09:21) | Originally Posted by Swain:
Q: What did the GD fan say after the acid wore off?
A: This band sucks.
Hahahahahaha!
Grateful Dead: bunch of overrated hippies. Ew ew ew ew ew ew ew.
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Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
(Jan 22, 2003 - 12:53) | Originally Posted by chieromancer:
Please, please, by everything that is holy, never, ever play that song again!!
Amen to that. ENOUGH already.
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Crosby Stills & Nash - Southern Cross
(Jan 15, 2003 - 10:06) | Gosh, I've only heard this song 1,235 times on the local classic rock station, and that's in the past six months. Good thing RP is playing it too!
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Indigo Girls - Peace Tonight
(Jan 15, 2003 - 09:43) | It's astounding -- just when I thought their lyrics couldn't get any more bland and sophomoric, they outdo themselves. Way to go, Indigo Girls!
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Rush - The Enemy Within
(Jan 13, 2003 - 10:06) | My, my. Seems I hit a nerve.
It's so cute when Rush fans stomp their little feet and throw a hissy fit when they hear criticism of the great artists that are Rush. Sort of the same reaction I get from the Ayn Rand acolytes. It's just precious!
Originally Posted by adbkil:
Glad to see you have progressed so far Holborne. I see that Rush's complex musical arrangements and thought provoking lyrics are beneath your esteemed level of comprehension and taste. How blessed we are to have you here to impart your insight.
As for me, I can't wait until I get to high school like you so that I can ignore quality musicianship and artistic integrity and truly appreciate why Rush is "horrible." Then maybe I will be able to hang out at the mall on Friday and Saturday nights like you and be "cool" while quoting and deconstructing "eloquently conflicted" Elvis Costello lyrics to anyone that will listen. Maybe then you can graduate to the hip books-a-million crowd sipping double lattes and even get an actual job in the mall!
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Rush - The Enemy Within
(Jan 08, 2003 - 12:28) | Rush: the Rod McKuens of rock. Horrible, horrible, horrible band. Bombastic, hyperbolic, overproduced crap for people who think that bigger is always better. No wonder they appeal to adolescent males, or those who never progressed past that stage.
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The Moody Blues - Voices In The Sky
(Dec 11, 2002 - 14:23) | As always, whenever I hear a Moody Blues song I'm set to wondering whether they're the worst band in rock history, or only one of the worst. On more charitable days, I think that no one can match the exquiste ineptitude of Emerson, Lake & Palmer. But then I hear a song as odious as this one, and I'm set to wondering all over again.
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R.E.M. - Nightswimming
(Oct 17, 2002 - 14:39) | Near-perfect song. My only complaint is that they shouldn't have slowed down at the last few chords.
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Ben Folds - Annie Waits
(Oct 16, 2002 - 14:01) | Originally Posted by mlsully7:
Ben Folds is a f**king genius, that's it. End of discussion.
Well, no it isn't, actually. But thanks for playing!
I think Folds comes up with some excellent tunes, but his lyrics are facile, to say the least, and he tends toward bombast. And in concert, he's annoying as all hell--a lot of the old "banging the whole arm down on the piano" trick and a lot of other gimmicky stuff.
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Edwin Starr - War
(Oct 16, 2002 - 10:43) | Originally Posted by mike1g:
Clinton knows what it's good for...
Moving coverage away from impeachment/Ms. Lewinsky.
Really penetrating political analysis, dude. Now maybe you'd like to give the world your views on Bush's relationship to Saddam Hussein, the man who tried to kill his daddy.
Or on the other hand, don't.
Oh, and this song is brilliant--I give it a 10.
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Rush - Subdivisions
(Oct 15, 2002 - 11:50) | Rush: one of the worst bands ever to sully the airwaves. They're the Rod McKuen of rock, and that's giving them too much credit. Geddy Lee sounds like a mosquito, and that's the best one can say of them.
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Nick Lowe - Breaking Glass
(Oct 14, 2002 - 10:11) | It's great to hear Nick Lowe on the radio. And I'd like to second the request for "Rockpile"--their album *Seconds of Pleasure* is brilliant.
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Jethro Tull - Sweet Dream
(Oct 14, 2002 - 10:10) | Jethro Tull is one of the worst groups in musical history. What a load of bombastic, pompous crap.
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Aimee Mann - Save Me
(Oct 10, 2002 - 11:42) | This song should have had the Oscar, instead of whatever dumbass Disney cutout they gave it to that year.
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Paul Simon - Mother And Child Reunion
(Oct 10, 2002 - 10:21) | People seem to have forgotten all about Paul Simon's first solo, self-titled, album, except for a couple of songs, like this one and "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard." It's a brilliant piece of work.
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Elvis Costello - Green Shirt
(Oct 10, 2002 - 07:13) | I love this song. Never could quite figure out the lyrics, but Elvis's vocal here is choice.
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Grateful Dead - Ripple
(Oct 09, 2002 - 15:48) | The Grateful Dead:
EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW. BUNCH OF STINKY HIPPIES.
Ew.
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Sheryl Crow - White Room (w/ Eric Clapton)
(Oct 09, 2002 - 13:08) | Oh, Jesus Whirling Christ with a strap-on. Like this song wasn't overdone and annoying enough, now we have to hear a cover with the execrable Sheryl Crow. Ew.
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Temptations - Papa Was a Rolling Stone
(Oct 09, 2002 - 12:47) | This song is absolutely brilliant, one of the all-time greats. It's rich without being baroque or ostentatious, and it's beautifully produced--not even slightly slick or overblown. Love it.
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Bruce Cockburn - When You Give It Away
(Oct 09, 2002 - 12:23) | Cockburn's work is incredibly static. Does he challenge his listeners at all, ever? He's been doing the same thing for at least the past 15 years. And his brand of derivative, ostentatiously senstive, quasi easy-listening meandering wasn't that interesting to begin with.
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Bruce Cockburn - Indian Wars
(Oct 09, 2002 - 11:38) | Originally Posted by Leslie:
I guess you can make that judgement after listening to all 25 or so of his albums, right? 
Maybe someone should explain the concept of "simple random sample" to you sometime, Leslie.
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Counting Crows - Good Time
(Oct 09, 2002 - 11:19) | As always when I hear Counting Crows latest dreck, I am set to wondering: is Adam Duritz the most repulsive thing in the universe, or just one of the most repulsive?
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Elvis Costello - Spooky Girlfriend
(Oct 09, 2002 - 10:20) | Originally Posted by BC_Night_Heron:
SPIKE and MIGHTY LIKE A ROSE are still the quintessential Elvis. WHEN I WAS CRUEL is his best work since those halcyon days IMHO.
Mighty Like a Rose "quintessential Elvis"? One of two possibilities here, dude: either you hate Elvis Costello, or you'd better start listening to a lot more of him.
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The Doors - Waiting For The Sun
(Oct 08, 2002 - 18:18) | Originally Posted by kelib:
The most overrated group in Rock IMHO
Good lord, yes. A no-talent bunch if there ever was one. Well, to be fair, Robbie Krieger was a quite decent guitarist. But the rest of them? Please.
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Rusted Root - Magenta Radio
(Oct 07, 2002 - 17:37) | Very interesting song ("interesting" in a good way). Not sure why it's received so many negative comments, and such a low rating.
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Moby - Look Back In
(Oct 06, 2002 - 14:13) | I don't understand the wild praise that everyone gives Moby's every piece of work. He's adequate, but that's about it.
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Sam Cooke - A Change is Gonna Come
(Oct 06, 2002 - 13:54) | Originally Posted by stinky:
It's not an everyday thing to pass out a "10". This is one of those rare occurances.
Yep, I agree. Cooke was a consummate musician, really -- a rarity these days.
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Natalie Merchant - Golden Boy
(Oct 06, 2002 - 13:39) | Originally Posted by hibbyduck:
Extremely well put, all of it. Thanks.
Well, Myrrh, since you're interested in deconstruction, let's deconstruct your post, shall we?
I myself am pretty curious to know when "opinion" became synonymous with "music review." I certainly never said my one-line opinion was to be considered any sort of "music review" (either with or without sneer quotes). If you decide to impose standards that I neither meant nor implied, that's your problem, not mine.
And who the f*** brought up Britney Spears or "high volume"? Only you -- certainly not me. I sure as hell am no fan of Britney Spears. My low opinion of Ms. Merchant's voice has nothing to do with its volume or with its lack of resemblance to that of Britney Spears, nor did I say that it did. Careful with that straw man, Myrrh -- it's so big that you're in danger of starting a forest fire.
As for the assertion that Merchant is musical because she writes her own music and plays: the ability to write music or play an instrument doesn't make you musical, any more than the ability to type and spell makes you a writer. (Danielle Steel, anyone?) To be musical, you need an understanding of phrasing and tone -- something Merchant utterly lacks. But hey, if you don't believe me, listen to her butcher "Because the Night."
But if you like: IN MY OPINION, Natalie Merchant is unmusical, with a terrible, droning voice that sounds like nothing so much as an accordian that's been dropped from a sixth-story window. She wouldn't be able to phrase properly if you spotted her the p, h, r, and the s, and then let her buy two vowels. The high esteem in which she seems to be held in some quarters seems to come mostly from people who think anyone with a poor voice must a fortiori be a good musician, as long as she sings with "emotion" (vide Melissa Etheridge). But emoting means jacksh*t. The ability to emote on stage or in a studio doesn't mean you have musical talent; it means that you can emote, nothing more.
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Grey Eye Glances - If I Was
(Oct 05, 2002 - 10:12) | These people seem to be the new more or less randomly chosen It Group of the moment, sort of like the execrable No Doubt was a few years ago. They're not quite as bad as No Doubt, but they're up there. Or should I say down there.
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Grateful Dead - Ripple (live)
(Sep 30, 2002 - 09:27) | Oh, goody--Grateful Dead on a progressive station! Just what we need!
Look, the Grateful Dead isn't a good band. The Greatful Dead was never a good band. They had an impressive grassroots following, but that was because of the people, not the music. Let's face it--if you drop enough acid, anything sounds good, especially a few hours of noodling that passes for "improv." And it doesn't take talented musicians to noodle on for hours and hours with music that goes nowhere.
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Elvis Costello - Spooky Girlfriend
(Sep 30, 2002 - 08:49) | Uh, does RP have some sort of weird obsession with this song? It seems to be in heavy rotation. And it's not even a very good song--there's tons of better stuff on his new album, like "Alibi," for example. Could you cool it with this song, please?
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Cream - White Room
(Sep 25, 2002 - 13:30) | Why are we hearing dinosaur stuff like this on a progressive station? I can turn on a classic rock station on commercial radio for the very same thing.
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Barenaked Ladies - Box Set
(Sep 25, 2002 - 10:15) | This song is nowhere even close to as clever as the group thinks it is. And how long do you think it'll be before they come out with their own boxed set? I give it two more years. Wonder whether they'll include this song.
This group, as someone else has said around here, is an overrated novelty act whose joke wore thin around five years ago.
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The Clash - Lost in the Supermarket
(Sep 22, 2002 - 12:01) | Any song from London Calling automatically gets a ten from me. It's one of the one or two best albums of all time as far as I'm concerned.
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Madonna - Justify My Love
(Sep 19, 2002 - 12:39) | Like someone said earlier, this is exactly the sort of thing I come to RP to escape. Please, take it off the playlist.
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B-52's - Love Shack
(Sep 15, 2002 - 13:12) | I like the B-52s, but I cannot stand this song. And could someone finally epoxy some duct tape over Fred Schneider's mouth?
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Grateful Dead - Me & My Uncle
(Sep 15, 2002 - 12:59) | Please, please, please, please *please* do not play any more effing Grateful Dead. The Grateful Dead are not a good band. The Grateful Dead has never been a good band. Their huge grassroots following is certainly admirable, but their music is dreadful. Just *dreadful*. The fact that they can noodle for a long (long, long long . . .) time doesn't make them talented.
Too bad Deadheads (ew! Deadheads!) don't know how to separate admiration for the personalities from admiration for the music. If you're tripping their work is perhaps adequate--if you're not tripping, there's no reason to listen to them. Please. Enough. Throw it into the circular file with all the other tired, overplayed, overrated classic rock.
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Shawn Mullins - The Gulf of Mexico
(Sep 15, 2002 - 12:52) | I think this is fine. Not spectacular, but fine. Is sure is better than anything by Natalie Merchant (I mention that only because I saw a lot of comparisons between the two). At least he has a good voice and know a thing or two about phrasing, unlike Natalie.
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Dead Can Dance - Yulunga [Spirit Dance]
(Sep 15, 2002 - 12:12) | Originally Posted by bmarti:
one of the reasons we're bombing them.
bmarti, doing his best to promote good international relations.
What a stunningly ignorant, foolish remark.
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David Bowie - Under Pressure (w/ Queen)
(Sep 15, 2002 - 12:10) | Originally Posted by TheLoneIguana:
:???: The song was released in 1982.
Geez, if you think that, you really need to listen to more music, 'cause this is Beethoven compared to what's out there.
Anybody ever see Vanilla Ice defending his rip-off? Now that's funny. He said it was completely different because of ONE NOTE in the bass line! Good riddance to his "career".
Ok, fair enough--got the timeline wrong. It's the one of the worst songs of the past 20 years, then.
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Natalie Merchant - Motherland
(Sep 15, 2002 - 12:05) | I utterly fail to comprehend the respect that Natalie Merchant commands. She has a dreadful voice (she sings through her nose) and as a musician, she's droning and unmusical--she has no sense of phrasing whatsoever. And her choice of material is absolutely abysmal -- in fact, this song is a very nice example of that. Please, no more Natalie Merchant! There are dozens of deserving musicians out there who should be taking her place in the rotation.
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Santana - Put Your Lights On (feat Everlast)
(Sep 13, 2002 - 15:28) | The hosannas that Santana regularly receives are really inexplicable to me. Dull, dull, dull--has he done anything original at all in the last 25 years or so, or does he keep doing the same tired thing over and over, as I suspect? And what he's doing wasn't especially interesting to begin with. He's one of the most overrated musicians in rock.
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David Bowie - Under Pressure (w/ Queen)
(Sep 13, 2002 - 14:12) | Oh GOD. This is possibly the worst song of the last ten years. It's just mind-bogglingly, jaw-droppingly awful. Bombastic lyrics, overblown vocals, muddy production. Just horrible. I can't believe it got any airplay.
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Loreena McKennitt - All Souls Night
(Sep 13, 2002 - 10:56) | Originally Posted by catsoup:
I don't know about y'all, but I think I've had about enough of this song over the last ten years. Can we please give it a rest? And that highwayman track of hers, while we're at it.
Loreena McKennitt - The new ZZ Top: All the tracks sound the same, and the fans don't care!
Roger that.
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The Clash - London Calling
(Sep 13, 2002 - 10:49) | A brilliant song from a brilliant album. I still think this is one of the five greatest rock albums ever recorded.
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Sting - Desert Rose
(Sep 12, 2002 - 20:24) | Forget whether Sting has "sold out" or not--the problem with this song has nothing to do with Sting's product endorsements or anything else. Musically, the song just sucks. The only thing to recommend it is Cheb Mami's vocals, but Sting's dreadful, banal vocal manages to drown it out most of the time. Drop Sting and you'd have a good song.
Go back to car ads, Sting. You're better at them now than you are at writing songs.
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Clinic - Sunlight Bathes Our Home
(Sep 12, 2002 - 19:11) | I thought this was interesting, if nothing else (and I mean that in a positive sense, not as a subtle dig). I'd like to hear other songs by this group.
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Van Morrison - Moondance
(Sep 12, 2002 - 18:11) | Oh, for gods' sake. This song has been overplayed for about 20 years now. And it's not even an especially good song--even Van Morrison calls it "sh*t." Could we dispense with it here, please? If I want to hear overplayed, overrated rubbish like this, I can turn on the classic rock station on the radio.
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Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
(Sep 12, 2002 - 17:30) | Originally Posted by static:
I was already tired of this song when Nixon was still President. Do you have any idea how many years this tired, overplayed old tune is? It's been in heavy rotation for over 30 years. Is there anyone on the planet who doesn't have a copy of this record, tape, CD or 8-track already?
There is no reason, in this day and age, to be playing Led Zeppelin on a "progressive" station. Please put it into the "overplayed" stack, along with "Dark Side Of The Moon".
We don't need to hear it on Radio Paradise.
AMEN! I like Led Zeppelin, but enough is enough.
p.s. Hi, static! Nice to see you off the Well.
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Santana - Song Of The Wind
(Sep 12, 2002 - 17:25) | If I could give this awful song a negative rating, I would. Santana is just so ghastly and overrated--if I knew that no radio station would ever play another song of theirs *ever*, I would be the happiest woman in the universe.
Santana = el barfo sucko supremo!
p.s. does this damned song ever END?
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K's Choice - Live for Real
(Sep 12, 2002 - 17:07) | Never heard this group before, and the song is very nice. Perfect thing for being stuck in the office late at night.
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The Kinks - Victoria
(Sep 11, 2002 - 18:31) | Originally Posted by tonypf:
For the uninitiated: Check out Kinks Kronicles if it exists anywhere. Fabulous entre to the strongest phase of their career. Of course, this song is on it.
The Kinks Kronikle definitely still exists--I have it on CD. It's really a must-have for anyone who likes the Kinks even a little bit.
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Bruce Cockburn - Creation Dream
(Sep 11, 2002 - 18:14) | God, I *cannot stand* Bruce Cockburn. He's such an archetype of the drippy, bland, overrated singer-songwriter (which label alone serves to give him some totally undeserved cachet). Yuck, yuck, yuck. 
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Rusted Root - Send Me On My Way
(Sep 11, 2002 - 18:05) | Until right this second, I thought this was a Talking Heads song. I've never even heard of Rusted Root before. Hmm.
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