Does it say something about us as a culture that a song about lost youth has become a touchstone of sorts? I mean, you don't have Leonard Cohen crooning, "We're off in search of Canada..."

Trouble for the youth of today is sorting out the sh**e from the good stuff, there's just so much mediocre tat that gets pedalled to distract them.  I've tried with my two children but they are lured away by the nonsense that their friends listen to.  Am working on them subliminally, playing them RP whilst they sleep!!  Any suggestions from other parents welcomed!

I was there (1968)!  

(Note that Iggy was on the same bill for the Sunday no age limit performance I attended.)

Yikes,,,tough out there for the people who like Steely. oh well, can't please em all.
Love this song , for all the memories it brings back.

Reminds me of Monty Python.

I find it distasteful that there are so many images of Cuba on the slideshow.    Are you guys trying to say something here?

She walks, she talks, she crawls on her belly like a reptile.  I use this phrase as often as possible.  Very seldom does anyone get it.  Oh well.

There was a time when rock music was allowed to be epic. Albums were vinyl and there was an intermission and sometimes a double. Listening was an immersive experience that required your attention to be focused. Stories were told, you might, laugh, cry, think. They echoed symphonies and that was normal.
Why does everything these days have to be so short, and say so little? Something to do with ever decreasing attention spans?

Love Niko, indifferent to Hunger Games.  I may Netflix it at some point if I run out of bad zombie movies to watch.

Funny, I was expecting the Spanish Inquisition....

Takes me back to cruising around Holland, MI in the summertime with no particular place to go, just looking for some action.

This is not punk rock, this is classical music. Or classy music. Or The Clash.

Did someone make that assertion to you within a private communication or are you just hearing voices making such claims?

The IRS monitors this site regularly. Congrats on outing yerself. Oops, I mean yourself.

Maybe, but he did it poorly. For someone called "'grammarcop" I'd have expected a clearer sentence :)
Oh! and by the way. Ontario is not in America.

Its 10:38 and Meeechagin still sucks ...



I keed ...

This song is on Station to Station, not Lodger. Just sayin'.

Because of your comment I find myself laughing every time I hear this song.  

We be dancing wantonly...  love this song...

 

Do we really need this song? Or am I missing something..

Red Sox 1975 - I was there!

This song is soooo good my nipples get hard when I hear it...



 

One of my favorite REM songs.  Like so many others Stpie sings, I wish I could understand more of the incomprehensibly sung lyrics.

This is a great example of why I disdain live versions most of the time. The studio version of this song is magical. But live it sounds like a noisy mess - all the subtle sonic texture is obliterated.

We had a Japanese/African American receptionist who brought suit against my firm for alleged harassment based on race. I was deposed and was questioned about the fact that she heard this song played by RP which I usually have on at my desk.

I love the American Civil Justice system.

Not. 

Pretty good cover but not as good as the original. Dylan's phrasing gives a deeper feel to the song, IMO.

Was that Mr. Spock opening up?

I love how in the lyrics he compares the CEO of General Motors as the epiphany of success ... what a difference a few decades make !

I'm with ya....I wonder if it makes dogs howl like they do when an ambulance goes by.

For a transcendant experience get Les Paul's and Mary Ford's version of this.

THAT WAS FUNNY!!!

Not a lot to say about this song, except that whenever it pops up on my MP3 player, I have to crank the volume and dance. Probably will always have that reaction. I love Canada.

Your eyes must have been closed when you were there. Idiotic statement.

1. Mohican State Park.
2. Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area.
3. Autumn.
4. Summer Corn
5. Athens

Your eyes must have been closed when you were there. Idiotic statement.

1. Mohican State Park.
2. Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area.
3. Autumn.
4. Summer Corn
5. Athens

Metal dildos and vibrators have long been replaced by acrylic versions which are, I'm told, far more comfortable and effective, with far more features. At the risk of offending SD fans, I think it's time SD was similarly 'deprecated'. Fine in its time, but way dated now. Why use a steely dan when you can use a rampant rabbit?

I think it is a great song. I was poking fun of those among us that get bound up over things like this. I pride myself in being able to speak in legalese or gutter trash speak depending on the situation.

overplayed yes... but that doesn't take away how much she puts into this song.  Pure emotion
also, awesome choice for Hockey Night in Canada's SCF Game 1 Intro Montage

The R&R Hall of Fame?

Cedar Point?

Cincinnati Chili?

...other than that I got nothin'.

In the top 5 of the live bands I've seen. You should give them a chance. I would go to every show when they came through Atlanta (5 or 6 concerts there?) and was blown away every time.

Ms. Reeves is now a member of the Detroit City Council and has been since 2005.  Wonder if they are still Dancing in the Streets there?

Perhaps the lock was manufactured in Fucking, Austria?

And here's the originally intended cover that was banned by Virgin Records:

Want to worship at the church of women

Breathe ’em in until my head goes spinning around

Want to worship at the church

Let me worship at the church of women

Lyrics from XTC's Church of Women 

Thanks! Wally is 140 (by 7x human years reckoning), blind and deaf - but try making a sandwich without his help.

We were both young pups once upon a time.

You'd prefer some ranting w@nker to this bit of fun? You miserable bar steward, you. This is my favourite ELO number, and never fails to cheer me up, particularly during dark dank dismal days in winter 

I still think she sounds like Bob Dylan with a bad sinus infection

So where is all the outrage seen over Metric's use of the f-bomb when Martha sings
"These are not my people, I should never have come here. The chick with a dick and the gift for the gab"?
Or is that a metaphorical dick and thus different?

It's true: in Canada, morning comes in freight ships while you're sleeping. This has some downsides. In 1993 there was a horrible Nautical Disaster in which it seems a morning freighter was, indeed, Built to Spill. Off the British Columbia coast, morning spilt from the damaged vessel across the country, reversing the natural order in which those in the east wake up first. Many of us in the west were traumatized by having been woken up much too early, during deep REM sleep.  Greenpeace members, who would have been the first to point out the inherit dangers of shipping morning, were too dazed to organize themselves. The morning industry has only grown since then, controlled by a few Japanese exporters whose red-sun flags remind us who controls whom. And while there have been no other incidents, many Canadians go to bed nervous each night, not knowing which would be worse: if morning never came, or if it came too soon.

Rust Never Sleeps.

Once in your life you could party in Reykjavik!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reykjav%C3%ADk#Nightlife

Cultural imperlialism alert:  3/4 of the last songs are by Canadian bands.

He got some serious Botox. Saw an interview with him a few weeks ago and his face didn't move the whole time. Love the tune. 9

Well, if it can't be Doris Day....

Least favorite Heads album. This is simplistic, slick and superficial.

Play more Fear of Music. 

And now they're in trouble for stealing the riff from the children's song "Kookaburra Sits In The Old Gum Tree."

I love how in the lyrics he compares the CEO of General Motors as the epiphany of success ... what a difference a few decades make !

This song always makes me a little weepy for lost youth, chasing a good time, and whatever wisdom can be found in booze and vaginas.

I'll always remember Bobby Troup (note spelling) for his cameo in M*A*S*H (the movie) as the sargeant who drove Hawkeye and Trapper around Tokyo, muttering, "Goddam army!"

I've been to 29 Palms. I don't know why Robert wrote a song about this place. It's a crummy place...

Smart.  Very Smart.  We quit for a couple of years.  Picked it up again.  It's still bad.  It's like cigarettes or any other bad habit.  Must quit again.  TV that is.

It is a panic here.

Excelsior, you're such a whiner. Every last one of your comments that I've seen take on an air of feigned insight and superiority. NNOT!!!! You just can't figure out that this is all subjective, and like bung-holes, everyone has one; yours just seems to be pimplier and farts much louder than most others. I just can't help myself here, but I came across something that fits you way too well:

Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) -

ex·cel·si·or /ɪkˈsɛlsiər, ɛk-/ Pronunciation Key - -noun
1. fine wood shavings, used for stuffing, packing, etc.
2. Printing. a 3-point type: a size smaller than brilliant. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.

So what are you today besides pissy? Are you wood shavings? Stuffing? Or maybe 3-point, which by the way is extremely tiny, verging on illegible without an aid?

We think you're a masochist because you continue to listen to RP, which after reading your many negative comments and the tilted distribution of your ratings, clearly shows that you hold most all that you hear on this station in the highest disdain (a.k.a., your favorite ratings are 1's and 2's). Come on smart-mouth, go start your own station or find something else to listen to, but for the greater good, GO AWAY or figure out that your comments appeal to you and you only and might be better if left unposted! I suppose we could just ask Bill to automatically make your comments what they are, excelsior as in 3-point.

Good for you. But if you will come to more industrious regions you will see for sure that there... IT IS NOT WHITE.
grey, yellow, dirty whatever, but not damned white.

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Perhaps the lock was manufactured in Fucking, Austria?