Low - California
(Apr 06, 2013 - 09:12) | great guitar. reminds me of some of failure's tunes.
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Boy - Drive Darling
(Mar 08, 2013 - 11:49) | right now they're live on santa monica based KCRW playing the "morning becomes eclectic"-HD showcase. and tonight: live @ the troubadour. lucky girls.
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Boy - Drive Darling
(Feb 18, 2013 - 13:34) | in case of interest: they're touring the United States (and Montreal, CAN) throughout march '13. (the new york date is sold out already).
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Massive Attack - Protection
(Jan 26, 2013 - 06:10) | posworld wrote: This is the tune that got me into Massive Attack.
yeah. THE SHIT in 94.
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Foo Fighters - Times Like These
(Jan 04, 2013 - 03:43) | joelbb wrote:
Because contributors like me ask "WTF is Husker Du?" Even a geezer like me has heard of/occasionally listens to Nirvana and Foo fighters, but Husker Du? Gimme a break!
I don't understand your posting.
My guess is Husker Du will not be played here, because it's not "easy listening" enough (and not because YOU don't know them...?!?). I miss a lot of post punk bands here... especially from the early 90s ...but, oh well...
And I like the Foo Fighters. I simply love what Dave Grohl is doing (though I don't own any of his records...). I don't care if they are a mega-band.
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Johnny Cash - Hurt
(Dec 31, 2012 - 14:20) | sirdroseph wrote:One of the most powerful music videos you will ever see. 
definitely.
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Rachael Yamagata - Starlight
(Dec 02, 2012 - 12:53) | aspicer wrote: I think I'm liking this, only I get distracted b/c her voice sounds a bit "over affected" and therefore a bit inauthentic. Know what I'm saying?
yep. she wants to sound rrrrreally sensual... I'm not buying it... But guys usually dig it.
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Nina Simone - Feeling Good
(Nov 28, 2012 - 08:14) | beeblebrocks40 wrote: Whenever I hear this song, I think about all the other songs I gave "10s" to, and realize I need to move them all down a notch. This is as good as it gets.
I concur. This is indeed as good as it gets. (Laziness and being too busy with other more important stuff keeps me from down-rating / reorganizing my other ratings...but I should...)
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Bjork - Oh So Quiet
(Nov 28, 2012 - 08:03) | years ago I thought this song is so enervating. and really appreciated it when it was over and the following track "enjoy" on her album "post" started...
today I liked it, it's a real fun song with listening kids around...all the "shhh!" and screaming...the orchestral parts...the quiet and loud segments...it's such a silly song...which we really enjoyed today at lunch! :o)
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Longwave - Wake Me When Its Over
(Nov 28, 2012 - 07:51) | listening to this I thought: "pretty commercial!" (I mean songwriting-wise). but pretty good-irresistable nonetheless.
an instant "like!"
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The XX - Angels
(Nov 26, 2012 - 05:23) | didn't know how big they are in germany...currently they're already playing 7000 people venues here. wow.
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Matisyahu - Sunshine
(Nov 26, 2012 - 02:47) | richlister wrote: Chav FM, there's no place for this sh1t in Paradise, Bill.
oh my. how vicious can comments go.
i think the song is funny...bubblegum pop galore. I'll survive it...with a smile.
if I were Bill I'd keep playing and playing and playing this song just for its effect on the commenting section...
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Tracy Chapman - For My Lover
(Nov 23, 2012 - 15:23) | mrmojorisin wrote: Haven't liked her songs much after this album.... this album was outstanding...
ditto.
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Coldplay - Clocks
(Nov 23, 2012 - 12:23) | 84MacGuy wrote: I must say Coldplay puts out some very fine music. Complex, yet very smooth. I wonder if being married to Gwyneth Paltrow helps the creative process.
well, this song was written BEFORE they got married...
And I - personally - don't care much for their post 2004 musical efforts. He lost his edge after getting married (& rich)...imho. (Most do).
Keeping an artist broke and in solitude: then they might stay at their zenith concerning creativity & significance. Oh, how I loooove "early" Coldplay.
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Amy Macdonald - Across the Nile
(Nov 17, 2012 - 09:16) | helgigermany wrote: I am not a fan of Amy, but this is not bad. Here in Germany you can hear her in radio 2 times in one hour.
yeah. and only because she gets airplay on RP I started to take her seriously. now I'm growing fond of her. i really appreciate her unpretentiousness in music. a nice gal.
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Tori Amos - Father Lucifer
(Nov 17, 2012 - 00:53) | ycb661 wrote: This song makes want to attack the embassy of whichever country Tori Amos is from.
Oh, the total opposite here. The (very brilliant) album this song is from was on my earphones in heavy rotation while flying over the atlantic ocean to her homeland. I was so looking forward spending a year and a bit there.
I think she resides in the UK for over a decade now? Maybe you want to attack the other embassy now?
Silly act. Nonetheless.
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Sea + Air - Take Me for A Ride
(Nov 12, 2012 - 02:58) | ziakut wrote: This is beautiful. Combo of Blackfield, Turin Brakes and Band of Horses. Love the chorus strings and harmonies. Really a beaut! The lyrics are not the best though...
it's a young greek-german couple. that might explain-excuse their (alleged) French
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The Black Keys - Little Black Submarines
(Nov 10, 2012 - 08:19) | Umberdog wrote: Most excellent in the beginning, but the fugue-ish part knocked it back to pretty good..
Quite likable in the beginning, and the fugue-ish part let it rise up to most excellent...
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Sivert Høyem - Give It a Whirl
(Nov 07, 2012 - 02:25) | I like this.
and I thought this is dave wyndorf's new side project...
exact same voice, but usually sorrounded by a lot more RnR
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Younger Brother - Spinning into Place
(Nov 01, 2012 - 09:37) | nagsheadlocal wrote:
Wow, really? I noticed his entries were all now marked as "former member"
I never found him objectionable, but then again I didn't follow him closely. Well, it's Bill's house, so it's Bill's rules.
Yeah, me neither. I was surprised when I read: "former member". Judging from his song comments I thought he's an "it's all sunshine and lollipops" kinda guy. All the dancing must relax ya and bring all the frustrations out! ;o) Don't you think? Well, after a hint from another commenter I did some skim-reading through the forum... I think, now, I understand a little better what caused the ban.
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U2 - Until The End Of The World (live)
(Nov 01, 2012 - 01:59) | great live version, but the upfront screaming women are stellarly annoying. why can't they just rock out and dance and maybe...sing along? I'll never get this "screaming-through-a-complete-concert" thing. why don't they scream down their stereo and stay...at home?
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Radiohead - Lotus Flower
(Oct 30, 2012 - 14:51) | karljonasson wrote: Don't you wish Thom would save the electronica for solo albums?
nope.
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Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
(Oct 30, 2012 - 12:10) | midreaming wrote: ..oh look, it's a corporate turd in the punch bowl. how very nice. honey can we go now?
from what I've read, Brian Burton is not as corporate as listening to this song might let you think. only because it was a "smash hit", doesn't make it corporate imho.
you might wanna check on the following link. i find the list of the people -he collaborated with / worked for so far- pretty impressive. even some "indie"-veterans amongst them! ;o)
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/danger-mouse-mn0000674440
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The National - Ada
(Oct 28, 2012 - 12:24) | blotto wrote: Not as dull and dreary as their other song played here, but still pretty damn boring.
I'd like to take away your "dull", "dreary" and "boring" and chip in "sparse", "shortened" and "cathartic". It's a matter of taste & (proclivity). I find the National verrrrrry interesting in a chord striking sense.
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Alice In Chains - Don't Follow
(Oct 27, 2012 - 07:29) | sirdroseph wrote:Oh yes, these guys and STP are by far the most talented to come out of the movement.
movement? if I remember right from the interviews I heard and read in the early 90s, every single band (that got labeled "grunge!") hated the label "grunge". and the label was just set up by the music industry to give this a name under which to sell it. the only thing they had in common is, that most of them originated from seattle/washington state and most of them knew each other / were friends?
grunge was more a fashion (concerning clothes). i copied eddie vedder's and jeff ament's clothing style back then *ahem* ;o))
I liked most of those bands, but never compared them. How? They were all so distinctive.
(Ok, no, almost true: I always thought STP (San Diego, not(!) Seattle!) were id*ots & tried to copy PJ and jump on the "grunge" train. (Now I like some of their songs). And I didn't like Mudhoney, too indie).
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Temple Of The Dog - Hunger Strike
(Oct 26, 2012 - 11:11) | Euskadita wrote: It's more the historical value of this band than its quality...
totally. "Temple of the Dog was started by Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell, who had been a roommate of Andrew Wood, the lead singer of Malfunkshun and Mother Love Bone. Wood died on March 19, 1990 of a heroin overdose, the day Cornell got back from a tour. As he went on to tour Europe a few days later, he started writing songs in tribute to his late friend. The result was two songs, "Reach Down" and "Say Hello 2 Heaven," which he recorded as soon as he got back from touring." "Temple of the Dog was an American rock band that formed in Seattle, Washington in 1990. It was conceived by vocalist Chris Cornell of Soundgarden as a tribute to his friend, the late Andrew Wood, lead singer of Malfunkshun and Mother Love Bone. The line-up included Stone Gossard on rhythm guitar, Jeff Ament on bass guitar (both ex-members of Mother Love Bone), Mike McCready on lead guitar, Matt Cameron on drums and Eddie Vedder providing lead and backing vocals."
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_the_Dog
I'd love to hear -every now and then- "say hello to heaven" here & the "hits" mother love bone had. not only because of the "historical"/"tribute" value (I like some of mother love bone's songs a big deal...still). unfortunately the aforementioned songs didn't make it on rp's playlist.
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The Sisters of Mercy - More
(Oct 25, 2012 - 09:31) | though I'd never spin this record at home or would ever buy it, I always felt secretly delighted when this song got played at the disco (the rocking kind). it's an inspiring (guilty pleasure) song when you're out dancing... (though I wouldn't dance to it...just watch the others dancing)
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The Knack - My Sharona
(Oct 25, 2012 - 08:50) | will always make my ears bleed and disturb me. does '79 excuse the weak production? this song is joke, right? bass, guitar and drums so weak and sooo weak in sound... nah.
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Weezer - Island In The Sun
(Oct 22, 2012 - 05:22) | SinisterDexter wrote:RP has only two Weezer songs? Somebody's gotta upload more!
well, I just checked...a lot of uploaded weezer songs didn't make it in the rp library, because they got rejected. I don't know if they got rejected because of a poor bitrate / wrong encoding etc. or because of the songs themselves?
i'd love to hear "say it ain't so". i remember spending a complete day with this song on "single repeat" ;o) but maybe other weezer songs aren't "even-tempered" enough for RP?
Someone could try and upload "My Name is Jonas" - that song hasn't been uploaded (and rejected) so far...as far as I can see...
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Rea Garvey - Take Your Best Shot
(Oct 22, 2012 - 03:43) | yeah, his band (Reamonn) was pretty big in germany (they split up in 2010). I don't care a lot for their music, but I don't hate it either. Everyone who can hold & handle a guitar is cool in my book music-wise. ;o) Apart from that I think the singer is a "nice" guy (& he's an expat from Ireland. He speaks german with a pretty heavy Irish accent).
Concerning his solo effort here: I think it's pretty decent and adds to RP's mix quite nicely...I was surprised when I read "Rea Garvey" on the playlist...
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Morphine - Top Floor, Bottom Buzzer
(Oct 22, 2012 - 02:27) | hencini wrote:
If you don't like Cure for Pain, you don't like music.
That's right. It is an absolute wonderful album - from the first note to the last.
I never thought about morphine's songs sounding similar. I like almost every song of them...I think I just can't get enough of it & Mark Sandman's way of singing: he had an attitude in it I liked a lot. he sounded like a (likable) bon vivant.
And I'll always be grateful for having had the pleasure to seeing them live in '95. It was a marvellous gig, in a -literally- tiny shoebox, with a marvellous (sax) sound. They were such a great and fun live band. They're one of the bands I miss A LOT. There's only one band I miss more: E.S.T. (Esbjörn Svensson Trio).
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The Lumineers - Stubborn Love
(Oct 20, 2012 - 03:43) | lily34 wrote: it's getting played daily...
yep. helped me rating it up from 7 —> 9. I like the Lumineers.
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Aaron Copland - Fanfare for the Common Man
(Oct 20, 2012 - 03:22) | aelfheld wrote:
Then don't listen.
And leave (or, if you're not in the U.S., stay out).
Wouldn't want to offend your tender sensibilities.
oh, how i hate the dull "if you don't like it here - then leave" automatic responses. leave to where? every single country is ruled by idiots.
i absolutely loooove the "cool" people in EVERY country. unfortunately they're not in power. anywhere.
considering the song: I don't detest it. But I do have a brass (and fanfare) allergy. i only can take brass in really very tiny doses. full blast brass sounds: I collapse. My ears quit. Maybe americans dig it more, because it lets them dream of european castles and middle ages stuff? Weren't fanfares common in that age?
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Anna Ternheim - Walking Aimlessly
(Oct 11, 2012 - 10:24) | peter_james_bond wrote: Here she is doing a beautiful solo acoustic verison of the song.
wow. thanks. she's that gifted. i love it.
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Greg Laswell - Farewell
(Oct 09, 2012 - 15:46) | Jacksonstat wrote:I used to love this guy until we saw him in concert. He called out people who were singing along w/ him. He actually stopped mid-song & asked the audience who they wanted to hear- him or his Fans. Seriously? It was a dick thing to do & totally changed my feelings about him.
a narcissist thing to do. i think greg laswell even looks (I just checked :oP) like he's in love with himself too much. he's good-looking, yeah - sometimes that corrupts oneself, the personality, etc. over time. all the admirers, girls that keep crossing your path. he doesn't need to be friendly, does he?
or maybe he was just a substance abuser that night? one of those substances that inflate egos pretty bad?
still: pretty good song!
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Big Head Todd & The Monsters - Drought of 2013
(Oct 08, 2012 - 16:14) | eeke wrote:
well under-rated live band... A MUST SEE!!
see, that's why it's such a bummer I didn't even manage to see this band at least ONCE while I lived in colorado. the opportunities were of sheer abundance! i read their band's name everywhere there, it felt like they were playing on a weekly basis...but I thought they're just an uninteresting & talentfree local combo...and drove down to denver to see nation-wide, overpaid acts...oh, silly me.
I like this song. an instant 8.
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Radiohead - Reckoner
(Oct 08, 2012 - 13:07) | Poacher wrote:
Fact is, most people here just put up with your inane repetative comments and 'standout' green text
oh noooooo. for the record: i for example, am not your "most people".
did you do a survey (the scientific kind, of course) for that bold statement?
i love romeotumas comments. in fact, as soon as I read that a song is okay in his book, I'll check it out "more seriously" for myself . and I looooooooooooove the "standout" green text. so I can find his comments quicker. :o)
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Manic Street Preachers - To Repel Ghosts
(Oct 06, 2012 - 01:31) | justsomeone wrote:
My exact thought - the guitar is very "edgy"...
yes. ireland came to mind here, as well. I like this song. usually I don't listen to the manic street preachers. last time I listened to them they were still hoping the guitarist would return. that was about ca. '98
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Placebo - This Picture
(Oct 02, 2012 - 14:25) | had a short (& enthusiastic) affair with their "without you I'm nothing" release in '98. i opted OUT really quick...
nowadays I simply can't get over his voice...it touches the bad nerves in my temporal lobe...or however that brainarea is called responsible for hearing...
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The Cinematic Orchestra - To Build A Home
(Sep 29, 2012 - 10:38) | Poacher wrote:Lovely lyrics. . .
There is a house built out of stone
Wooden floors, walls and window sills...
Tables and chairs worn by all of the dust...
This is a place where I don't feel alone
This is a place where I feel at home...
Cause, I built a home
for you
for me
Until it disappeared
from me
from you
And now, it's time to leave and turn to dust...
Out in the garden where we planted the seeds
There is a tree as old as me
Branches were sewn by the color of green
Ground had arose and passed it's knees
By the cracks of the skin I climbed to the top
I climbed the tree to see the world
When the gusts came around to blow me down
I held on as tightly as you held onto me
I held on as tightly as you held onto me...
Cause, I built a home
for you
for me
Until it disappeared
from me
from you
And now, it's time to leave and turn to dust...
lovely lyrics, yes. makes me want to live in the countryside, in the middle of nowhere.
the song is fairy tale. a tale of one marriage & a love that lasts a lifetime. never relocating, no commuting, enough time and energy and space to do gardening. and no living in a box in suburbia. here, suburbia is "where they cut down all the trees and name the streets after them"... sucks.
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thenewno2 - Hanging On
(Sep 29, 2012 - 06:46) | growing on me. turns from 7 to 8. or maybe to 9?
really great track.
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Neko Case - Red Tide
(Sep 29, 2012 - 05:13) | always makes me think her music would be a perfect melancholia soundtrack for a road trip through the great plains...I always thought she was born and raised there (I'm surprised she isn't)...her music is so country...
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PJ Harvey - We Float
(Sep 29, 2012 - 03:24) | substantial, elegant, urban.
i think I'd name my third child Polly as an hommage to PJ Harvey.
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Arcade Fire - Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)
(Sep 25, 2012 - 10:54) | i always think: scissor sisters? abba? and then I remember: ah, no, this is this the one strange song by arcade fire, that doesn't quite fit into their musical catalogue.
song doesn't hurt (me) though...so I'd never vote it a 1, or so. I'd rather go with not rating it at all...
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Kent - Den Döda Vinkeln
(Sep 24, 2012 - 11:02) | leathepea wrote: Um...English please?
why? it's so great in swedish (is it in swedish?)...my ears think, it sounds so funny...
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Mazzy Star - Fade Into You
(Sep 23, 2012 - 02:39) | mtv's 120 minutes used to play their video in '93.
i still remember the singer and her tambourine in it...i thought she was pretty cool.
this song is an evergreen...
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Peter Malick Group - Strange Transmissions (w/ Norah Jones)
(Sep 16, 2012 - 04:23) | Byronape wrote: JGM wrote:Norah's best stuff is with this group, IMO. I agree. This is a fantastic album, I enjoy it much more then the Norah solo stuff. Much more depth musically and not nearly as repetitive.
i think i agree. norahs solo stuff is oh so sweet & b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l & niiiiice, but a tad boring & uneventless to me. i like the "big-voice-well-almost-amazon-style" (...I'm exaggerating...) she's sporting in this song, much better...
here, in this song, I hear character/personality. she actually USES her fantastic voice. I miss that in her solo stuff...
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The National - Anyone's Ghost
(Sep 16, 2012 - 02:46) | FlatCat wrote: What a completely lifeless sound. No pun intended. This is just dead flat boring.
I'd exchange the expression "dead flat boring" into "laconic". I think the sound is artistically intended. Not a lack of (drum, singing, texting, etc.)-talent/skills... :o)
but that's just mho.
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Patti Smith - Nine
(Sep 04, 2012 - 11:30) | Nadine wrote: not at all familiar with her work. but this tune caught my attention :o)
and again. really great track.
goes from 8 > 9 now.
i remember I had to work at her concert in 2007 here. i knew she was legend and I like the aura of this woman. but the concert didn't do it for me at all. (well, of course, it didn't hurt either ;o))
unlike this song. this is so my taste. NICE!
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Muse - Supermassive Black Hole
(Sep 02, 2012 - 02:10) | Proclivities wrote:
It's not a bad groove, but "heavy" doesn't seem like the right word. If anything, it's a little on the "light-weight" side to me.
right on. if they'd loosen the handbreak this would be a rock n roll song.
great song, none the less. but it's just an appetizer for tunes that really r-o-c-k...like Jawbox's Savory for example...
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TV On The Radio - Killer Crane
(Aug 04, 2012 - 04:47) | i love those guys, but radio paradise unfortunately holds none of my favorite tvotr-tunes in their archive... :o(
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Tanita Tikaram - Twist In My Sobriety
(Aug 04, 2012 - 04:34) | On_The_Beach wrote:
. . . my cup of tea
yes. mine too. so simple this song and still so outstanding. and even after 20+ years having passed.
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Supergrass - Road To Rouen
(Aug 01, 2012 - 05:10) | Fine music. And a rhythm section that knows what it's doing. Even instantly makes my 2 year old dance and smile to it :o)
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The Clash - London Calling
(Aug 01, 2012 - 02:37) | meh. the tv stations here use it as opening music for their doping'lympics-broadcasts. that's quite dull and not creative and sooooo inappropriate.
the clash were punks, right? imho 15-billion-euro-olympics and punks don't match. at all.
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Patti Smith - Nine
(Jul 21, 2012 - 02:56) | not at all familiar with her work. but this tune caught my attention :o)
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Pink Floyd - High Hopes
(Jul 20, 2012 - 03:02) | Euskadita wrote:
That Divison Bell record passed as a steamroller over all mainstream music of the mid-90's
maybe...but there was a lot of excellent non-mainstream-music in the mid-90s. pink floyd would have been too soft for me back then.
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Garbage - Special
(Jun 26, 2012 - 12:10) | 80poundsOfFury wrote: marginal song from a marginal group.
your middlename MUST be "chutzpah"!
I think, a band Butch Vig attends, could never be called anything like: "marginal". ever.
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Garbage - Special
(Jun 26, 2012 - 11:42) | ahh, nice! 90s nostalgia at its best. loved her voice, attitude and everything...
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Hindugrass - Appalachistan
(Jun 15, 2012 - 13:08) | rabbi_phil wrote: I kinda liked that. Wouldn't mind hearing more from them.
me too. i really like the tabla sounds, because my sister used to play it quite wonderfully.
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Elbow - Bones of You
(Jun 13, 2012 - 03:41) | kingart wrote: Are you suggesting that non-baby males don't have a legitimate interest in boobs?
yeah ;o)
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Fleetwood Mac - Green Manalishi
(Jun 12, 2012 - 23:50) | way cool this song!
sounds very monster magnet-ish... (even the singer sounds a bit like dave wyndorf...) did they ever name fleetwood mac as an influence??!!??
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Sinéad O'Connor - You Made Me The Thief Of Your Heart
(Jun 12, 2012 - 10:44) | Egrey wrote: I hope she can keep her personal life together and keep making good music.
oh I hope so, too! so very much. i hate to hear about extraordinary artists catastrophic, deranged and emotionally-tsunami-like personal lifes/matters...
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The Cure - Burn
(Jun 09, 2012 - 04:15) | Danimal174 wrote:
Killer song
period.
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Radiohead - Codex
(Jun 03, 2012 - 09:17) | RoaringGirl wrote:
About right
totally wrong.
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U2 - Pride (In The Name Of Love) (live)
(Jun 02, 2012 - 07:30) | SaintPeter wrote: It is not the song, it is the band. Enough already. There is plenty of music that has not been played to death. Most of us are here to avoid commercial radio.
i disagree with the "enough already"!
to me, u2 comes back to life in an rp environment. i start to really LISTEN again to overplayed songs and the appreciation comes back.
especially delicious when such a gorgeous life version comes your ear's way :o) I love its energy.
actually, I'm starting to become a (first time) U2 fan here... ;o) when I was younger U2 weren't LOoouuuUD enough for me... :o)
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Vast - Thrown Away
(Jun 01, 2012 - 11:32) | VAST has a very predictable and extremely recognizable sound —- but I love what he does.
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Pearl Jam - Alive
(May 22, 2012 - 11:09) | 9 —> 10
such a nice sing-a-long song...and memories...first concert...first (cool/decent) record...
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Depeche Mode - I Feel Loved
(May 08, 2012 - 13:20) | aspicer wrote: What happened during the 7 year gap between the 2005 comments and 2012??!!! Hmm.......? ....the song got lost?
...simply did not get played? so... ...no commenting?
I LOVE(d) the video to the song (in 2001). makes you want to go out, visit a big, fat rock concert, drink, laugh, dance all night & get lost in a metropolis till dawn... ;o)
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Kings Of Leon - The End
(Apr 27, 2012 - 12:48) | coding_to_music wrote:
agreed. a wonderful song.
not really surprising some of them having a substance-abuse-career going.
there was always something EXCESS-ive about those guys. it just took a look at their early videos...imho.
hope the singer get his act together (though I guess, that's not very likely...guess he'll be taking the amy-route)
must be pretty horrible, watching one's sibling f****g up so bad... :o/ and the arts going down the drain...
i'm not really a fan of the kings of leon, but I like some of their tunes...a lot...
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Massive Attack - Inertia Creeps
(Apr 27, 2012 - 12:20) | TerryS wrote: I was in a VERY expensive car recently and the owner (properties seller) had this on the bazillion watt speakers. Oh yes.
don't like properties sellers...but would like to listen to this on a bazillion watt speakers stereo in a VERY expensive car ;o)
this song is so...
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John Butler Trio - Zebra
(Apr 23, 2012 - 02:53) | saw them live in 2005 in a small venue (200 people) with a pleasantly laid-back crowd & band (that was jamming a lot). really good memories! :o) I cherish this band.
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Radiohead - Black Star
(Apr 01, 2012 - 08:33) | perfect album for a teen-age-drifter in soletary & quiet full moon nights in 95......this album will always have a special place in my heart. :o)
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Talk Talk - The Rainbow
(Mar 30, 2012 - 10:59) | definetely not elevator music. what a depressing song this is.
still...a 9.
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Lana Del Rey - Video Games
(Mar 28, 2012 - 07:16) | kaleb wrote:
That's the joy of only listening to RP (and NPR), it's all new and good to me. Can't stand other radio stations for exactly that reason - they kill great music and my ears with poor music. So very glad to have good music here even if it's popular elsewhere.
definetely: yes! love the song. but hate the mainstreamer's ubiquitous hype around this song. even on tv here, you won't escape from it.
(and I try to suppress the thought she might only be an artificial music industry project and not a multi-talented do-it-your-self-er like beck or vast and alikes)
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Elbow - Bones of You
(Mar 28, 2012 - 02:48) | Hannio wrote:
Yes, how dare you suggest that males are interested in boobs.
well. babies are more interested in boobs! AND THERE...a legitimate interest. :oP
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The Burned - Listen
(Mar 23, 2012 - 06:55) | love the guitar. reminds me of the guitar sound pj harvey used in "you came through". like the rest of the burned's listen as well. :o)
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Dolores O'Riordan - Black Widow
(Mar 10, 2012 - 02:42) | MannAudioltd wrote: somebody please shoot me or this woman
okay. i'll shoot you?! ;o)
i really don't like the song (it's so bombastic and cliché when the harrrrrrrd guitars come in). but i really like the woman.
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Junip - Off Point
(Mar 06, 2012 - 10:57) | caught my attention...
verrrrry nice sound & vibe. :o)
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The National - Conversation 16
(Mar 04, 2012 - 04:56) | this is nice :o) his voice "reminds" me of a mixture between matt johnson and colin vearncombe and another guy I can't recall right now...
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A Perfect Circle - Gravity
(Feb 18, 2012 - 02:54) | scrubbrush wrote:
agreed. i like some songs by A Perfect Circle, some by Tool and some by Porcupine Tree (let's not forget Pucifer!). They can sound similar but all have their moments of greatness
i like pt much better these days. they're less artificial and there's less posing involved. i like steven wilson's attitude a lot. he's like the typical nerd type of guy next door, doesn't put on much of a show. it's just him and his mic. or guitar. or whatever. it's so nicely low key :o) and though it's not really "happy" music, it's indeed feel good music, lifts (me) up. i feel like it does not depress like tool & apc. theirs is "commit-suicide-with-your-whole-family"-music :o) pussy fur is too vulgar and sexual topic obsessed (only?) artwork-wise for my taste ... it's icky ... but I'm a sissy anyway.
concerning tool - i think tool lost a lot since opiate and undertow. they just should have stopped after that ;oP it never got rawer and more crispy after that. garage sound aesthetics and an unagitated attitude are hard to preserve as soon as you get financially pampered, I guess. it just got more and more bombastically produced und stadion-rock-type-thingy imho. though it was really really innovative, it got really tiring over the years...and b o r i n g. i can't bear listening to the latter records anymore...they are just TOO MUCH to digest. :oI i'd love if they'd do "simple & straight & forward" songs again.
it's interesting to see how many avid fans and followers there still are for the glorified lead singer - i always thought that's a teen age thing.
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Amy Winehouse - You Know I'm No Good
(Feb 11, 2012 - 02:18) | in an rp context she starts working for me. i could never really appreciate her on commercial crap-radio. really, really nice track and voice. volume: up! ;o)
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Florence and The Machine - What the Water Gave Me
(Dec 10, 2011 - 03:42) | timmus wrote: I'm looking at the playlist and RP is playing Florence & The Machine roughly every 7 hours. I think they're pretty good, but this kind of rotation is a little out of hand, considering all the other good music out there.
i disagree! the heavy rotation is totally appropriate ;oP
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Ludovico Einaudi - Primavera
(Oct 26, 2011 - 11:18) | dpvest wrote: makes me want to go broke buying jewelry...
funny. ;o)
makes me want to live in paris...
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Pixies - Where Is My Mind
(Oct 13, 2011 - 01:54) | yodasan_magoo wrote: Drums sound like s#%t.
yeah, I think that's on purpose... ;o) snotty garage sound.
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Boy - Drive Darling
(Sep 28, 2011 - 11:58) | Oh great! I'm delighted! I suggested Boy to be added to the RP-mix. Thanks a bunch. I love those girls's record :o) They're pretty good for a german band... Now it just needs to get played ;o) I really thought, if a song would make it on here, first it would be their "This is the beginning"-track. You should really check it out. I -personally - like it even more than this track. Though...this one is a good road trip song... The record is pretty "fresh": release date was September 2nd 2011. Cover Art is to be found here (on Amazon Germany): http://www.amazon.de/Mutual-Friends-Limited-Boy/dp/B005805FSO/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1317235070&sr=1-1
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Elbow - Mirrorball
(Sep 26, 2011 - 11:48) | sirdroseph wrote:I am sooooo done with this guys voice. 
yeah.
i think, to elbow the same thing will happen, as it did to coldplay.
at first, everyone ist thrilled.
after a while, the "up-to-a-newer-thing"-mob will start bashing & say they're boring, uncool, unnerving, the voice sucks, etcetera
i'll try and keep their music close to my heart and not give an eff about trend. they're just too good & there's other (real trash) music better to trample down.
haven't bought elbows record yet - maybe that helps not getting tired of it. ;o)
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Finn Brothers - Won't Give In
(Sep 26, 2011 - 04:17) | no.
maybe I'm not old enough for this.
but the drum (machine?) and the bass-line is really making me...eat backwards.
at first I thought: "savage garden? on rp? please, noooo way!"
btw: this is the very first song on rp that makes me feel unpleasant while listening...and thar's a really straaaaange experience...
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Hole - Malibu
(Jun 07, 2011 - 07:28) | pixidrizzl wrote: I love this album, I think it's fantastic and totally underrated.
i owned this on tape...one of my favourites in 2000. i thought it was a perfect road trip album...
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Adele - Rolling In The Deep
(Apr 24, 2011 - 15:04) | this song is a good clean rocker.
i love it :-)
it's on mainstream radio as well? i don't care.
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Notwist - Pilot
(Apr 23, 2011 - 22:58) | one of the few decent german bands...
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Morphine - In Spite Of Me
(Mar 31, 2011 - 14:29) | ick wrote: Morphine seems to lose something when a mandolin is added... now where is the beloved 2 string subsonic bass and that slutty sax?
well....on the album this track was perfectly making sense imo - it was a nicely calm break AND (sort of) the intro to thursday. which is is with "the beloved 2 string subsonic bass and that slutty sax" :-)
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Allman Brothers - Stormy Monday
(Feb 16, 2011 - 13:27) | i know, this is a legendary band...
but right now this bores me to death...
guess i'm too late born for the allman brothers...?
or just too much in a rock n roll kinda mood this very minute?
hmh.
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Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism
(Sep 11, 2010 - 01:08) | On_The_Beach wrote: Always surprised to see so many negative comments on this song. Not every song has to be 3 minutes long.
well, if I remember right, 2003 it was cool finding them cool...
after a couple of years, it's cool dissing them...
seems to be a "trend-/"lemming-type-of"-thing"...
(same thing happened to coldplay here btw —- just read their older song-posts...)
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Interpol - The Scale
(Aug 18, 2010 - 03:28) | was addicted to them in 2004... totally forgot about them... thanks for playing!
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Soundgarden - Fell On Black Days
(Jul 04, 2010 - 02:10) | sirdroseph wrote:It is funny, Soundgarden IMO was actually hurt by radio success and overplay. They hold up really well when you haven't heard them in awhile, but when they were cramming this album down our throat every.......other........song, it totally ruined some really good songs, this being one of them!
totally agree. i stopped listening to them when this album came out. i couldn't stand this song & video in '94...
today I really enjoy it... (still not the video though)
but I'll always like the badmotorfinger pieces best..they're so nice and rough...
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Roxy Music - Avalon
(May 16, 2010 - 04:46) | 'tis nice to listen to this song far away from "your mundane & 80s local radio station" where it gets played ALL the time—-
i think radio paradise helps me to listen to this song in a completely new way—- like: played to me 10000 times...but never really caught my musical attention...
(i really start liking the softness of this song...)
thanks for that RP!
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Afro Celt Sound System - Mojave
(Feb 04, 2010 - 14:11) | derekd wrote: I normally like this band (Peter Gabriel, Robert Plant have guested with them). But not this track. Too Techno-Celt.
me too.
just can't get over the drumming style...don't like it.
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Led Zeppelin - That's The Way
(Dec 31, 2009 - 09:29) | no memories here (i'm simply too young)...
wonderful song! i thought - before I checked which band it is (well, it sounded a lot like robert plant but also could have been a contemporary/modern british band of these days) —> "how much joy must it be, to create such gems being a singer/musician...!" :-)
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Elbow - Mirrorball
(Oct 28, 2009 - 11:36) | salide wrote: Bill, please add "The Bones of You" to the rotation. I love that song also!
yeah, how nice would that be! ...maybe you could please prefer the phenomenal abbey road version of "bones of you"? so I don't have to leave rp for youtube everytime i feel like needing to listen to "bones of you" ;-)
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Vast - Loneliness Is Fine
(Oct 20, 2009 - 15:47) | countyman wrote: Does anybody know if these guys or any part of them still play in the Austin area?
2009 "Me and you" Tour:
Fri Jun 5 Austin, TX Elysium
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Oasis - Falling Down
(Oct 20, 2009 - 14:46) | NEVER listened to them in the 90s because of the big-huge-fat hype around oasis then
(and because of those front "boys" not exactly looking good & having quite a silly hairdo...but acting up so big mouthy & self-opinionated...)
(and the music beeing just too "soft"...)
...today I like this song...process of getting older...or...so...?
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Jump Little Children - Vertigo
(Jun 08, 2009 - 11:41) | beautifully arranged & beautifully produced I thought...
and a somehow light/airy & positive feel to it...
somehow no blah & not leaving me cold. :-)
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Bruce Lash - Lithium
(May 19, 2009 - 02:14) | Baum74 wrote:
This cover version is even sin in a biblical sense.
Funny.
"Sin in a biblical sense".
I mean, I absolutely LOVE Nirvana's Nevermind - still. It magically stays crisp & fresh up to this very day.
BUT,
I also like this musicians take on Lithium. Must be loads of fun to do this kind of stuff...
taking a song and robbing it of all it's aggressiveness & "rock attitude" & of course saving/keeping the lyrics...then putting it in a "girl from ipanema"-environment.
It made me smile. Imagining this getting played in a stupid-business-men-lounge for example.
And I think it's one of the pretty well done covers.
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Oasis - Falling Down
(May 07, 2009 - 11:33) | Shesdifferent wrote: Never heard this, and I like it!
d'accord...
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Screaming Trees - Sworn and Broken
(May 04, 2009 - 13:03) | salice wrote: saw these lumps at Reading in '89 when I was into the whole grunge thing. guess you'd call them melodic grunge?
good to hear JAMC in the same 5 minutes too
makes me feel young again...
saw these lumps 14th of Feb. 1993 opening for alice in chains in hamburg.
never bought the grunge categorizing bs... ;-)
melodic grunge, hmh - screaming trees music I'd just call "cool music"
for me their music is simply timeless...i still love their records...even more than "back then".
back then - I was just a "baby" (concerning music taste)
feeling young is soooooooooo goooooooood
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Ben Harper - Faded
(May 03, 2009 - 12:07) | this (album) is all i listened to in '98...
...nice...
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PJ Harvey - The Wind
(Aug 03, 2008 - 00:58) | great artist-
really didn't know that there's such a huge "i detest polly so much"-club. crazy-
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Wolfsheim - In Time
(Jul 26, 2008 - 10:58) | ktnsb wrote:
I like it I like it.
So is it "Wolf-sheim" or "Wolfs-heim"?
Or "Voolfs-heim"?
Wolfs-heim
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God is an Astronaut - Remembrance Day
(May 07, 2008 - 23:29) | the piano is so NINish - "Hurt"
every time god is an astronaut comes up, I go "oh cool NIN-hurt!" and again and again the intro of remembrance day just fooled me...
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Porcupine Tree - Sentimental
(Apr 29, 2008 - 23:24) | don't like "superlatives", but this is one of the best bands in the world. they catch me instantly almost every time.
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Johnny Cash - Rusty Cage
(Apr 27, 2008 - 03:24) | creativebones wrote:This is great..but why don't we ever hear the Soundgarden version? 
Maybe Soundgarden's badmotorfinger is too heavy stuff for RP? I think: what a bummer! Once in a while I could use a heavier musical atmosphere here! Oh well, I think I need to give RP a break for minute and let the '91 hard copy spin for a while! Back in the days when Soundgarden was sooooo h o t and to the point. 
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Coldplay - Spies
(Apr 20, 2008 - 04:01) | i don't know about their live quality now-haven't seen them live - I think - for over 5 years...
but back then, their shows were just MIND-BLOWING...
(I also think their "million times" selling live dvd from ca. 2003 makes up for a pretty good evidence)
sarahbean26 wrote: :puke:    These guys are very good!! BUT beware as you head off to see them live in concert WARNING and SIDE AFFECTS: waste of money,coma inducing stage presence, disappointment and disbelief that this "recording studio only" band just can't cut it on stage. STAY HOME!
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Jack Johnson - If I Had Eyes
(Apr 06, 2008 - 03:28) | SuperWeh wrote: man, doesn't this guy ever write music when he's angry/sad/excited/heartbroken/furious etc.? Seems like he's always in the same sort of bubblegum chewing mood...
seems like he's just a - always - relaxed surfer...
...when I need something angry/sad/excited/heartbroken/furious I tend to listen to Meshuggah...those guys never sport bubblegum chewing moods...
but I personally appreciate Mr. Johnson's work A LOT as well...
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VAST - Dead Angels
(Jan 11, 2008 - 16:34) | I don't know, but I don't like this song.
You can really tell (...hear) , that he's creating his music alone (is he still?).
It sounds so arranged, overthought, so without spontaneousness, almost anemic...
Doubt it will grow on me...but will see.
For me it's a 4 = acceptable
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