Indeed I do use the mute button whenever I hear David Byrne's music. That doesn't mean I won't hate it the next time I hear it. One thing I don't do is demand that it be dropped from the playlist, like some people.

hey, just because I have the urge to dance the robot in the chorus doesn't necessarily mean I don't like it...7 from me!

See Darkmatter's entry below. It is a curious song/album title.

Only Fleetwood's song I can stand. Probably because Stevie Nicks does not sing much in it.... ; )

But in fact, when Cohen was of a younger age, you would really want to lock up your girlfriend or wife so she doesn't feel 'charmed' and 'tempted'.

If you look up 'mediocre' in the dictionary, Cracker's discography is listed there.

Edit: Ok, the chorus just kicked in and now it's downright vomit-inducing.

Definitely not a fan something about her voice makes me cringe

This may be one of the stupidest things ever written in this forum. Let's face it, any singer/songwriter post 1968 could be called a "Lennon-wannabe". Lennon set the standard. He's who we all wanted to be.(or Paul, maybe!!!) And really wouldn't, even you, like to have written just one of John Lennons songs?

I have come to hate David Byrne.

She's been doing this longer than Alanis could even dream of performing.

Ani is excellent, and having seen her a few times, including a free concert she did with the goo-goo dolls in buffalo NY, I can say she is definitely a true performer. She's one of this generations lesser known musical geniuses.

No.

It doesn't

Blimey. That was an easy one to answer.

If you are aware of it--can it still be considered manipulation?

This is so not country. Southern rock certainly, but not country. Entirely different sensibilities. But to each their own.

Since I wrote this, I've leard about the backstory of Mudcrutch and how Tom Petty is involved. If you care enough to research it, it gives you a completely different perspective! I apologize for my initial reaction!

Never been a fan of classic country stars trying to do modern rock tunes. Mr. Cash's distinctive voice certainly does bring the emotion out in this one, but it still feels awkward to me. Kinda like Dolly Parton doing "Black Hole Sun".

This is the worst thing I've ever heard from Cash, and he's generally been a lousy singer to start with.

Sounds like he's reading it word for word from cue cards. In trying to be slow and serious, he comes off as contrived.

Bands that a group of cool people at RP say we have to hate:

BNL
REM
Coldplay
U2
Talking Heads and David Byrne
David Matthews

and a handful more. Why? They had some hits. How horrible, that means all of their music is to be hated and not listened to on its own merits.
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Gotta bring it down from a 9 to an 8 for her lack of respect towards animals. Get that fur off yourself, Aretha!
Best Aretha album: The First 12 Sides.

Always cared for the WORLDS GREATEST ROCK AND ROLL BAND and I LOVE this one.

Sorry to disagree with those of you that like REM. For me, it's one of the worst groups I've ever heard. Tied with U2 for their simple, boring music and lyrics. Every time I hear REM or U2 I hate it more. Sometimes I have to mute RP until the song is gone.

Fair enough about not saying anything. However, the singer here is is not a "rocker". And I doubt she is shooting for the best woman "rocker" award. How can you compare the lead singer here to those you mention ?

PROLLY

Prolly I'm a cracker...
I know I should PRONOUNCE my words.
I think its verbal slaughter,
But CD sales are a scorch.

Certainly I can't be the only one who hears that chorus and immediately think of Timbuk3's "The Future's So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades."

You got it, Born again Bob Dylan, I remember well when the album was released with much hoopla about Dylan's recent conversion to Born Again Christianity. That's what can happen if you take too many drugs. Like Cheech and Chongs timeless skit where Chong laments,"I used to be all messed up on drugs, now, I'm all messed up on the Lord."
I don't do drugs anymore either, but I don't do Jesus either. Do life. Do good to others.

I wonder how much peoples opinions would change (either for or against) if they judged this song and her performance on it's own, just forgetting for a minute that is originally a Dylan song.

it's a keyboard synth used most prominately by The Moody Blues.

I wonder if DB still holds this opinion of house music... I'm guessing probably not since his collaboration with S-Express. Strange looking back that it was really the received opinon of the day amongst all serious music lovers that house music was evil. I'm glad that most people became more enlightened over the years.

this is wank - sounds like Wakeman whacking one out.

(wiki - "keyboardist Rick Wakeman contributed some uncredited sections")

Wow, sounds like a countrified version of Interpol... and that is all sorts of not good.

Is this new?

I like it. It doesn't suck.

You're a tool - you're simply repeating the mantra of the man: ". . . we're doing good for good's sake, what we say is right, what we do is right. . ." as if repetition will make it the truth.

Then you have the unmitigated gall to cap your nationalist, Amero-centric crap with, "If anything, Americans have shown themselves to be a very patient people."

What a load of shite. The truth is, "If anything, the world has shown themselves to be a very patient people when it comes to Americans."

I know I'll get skewered for this, but I find this guy boring and always have. His style never varies much, whether he's playing solo or guesting on other people's stuff (eg. David Bowie). It's all posing flash and little substance to me.

oh mew oh si so sa fo don min me no we ar so fo

Speak for yourself--I'm diggin' everything I've heard off this album so far.

Great tune, but today it feels like nails on a blackboard.

I guess from the comments that people are missing the point of most bluegrass music or in this case Dawg music.
They take the song and make it their own.........otherwise it's a rehash of the original. It's not bluesy anymore for one thing and the instrumental work (a large part of the music, more so that the original) is great. Solid 9

If a cow-orker asks if I'm busy, I usually answer "just one step ahead of the spider."

Keeps the silly questions to a minimum.

You mean this is in english??????? I like it either way.




This song is that old?

Be a frog, bounce a cheetah!
Be a frog, bounce a cheetah!

Truth in advertising.

me too.

I could blather on and on how much I love The Pretenders, especially the first three albums.

Chrissie Hynde doesn't get the props she deserves as one of the best songwriters of our time.

Hi-de-hi-de-hi-de-hi!!

minnie the moocher? anyone? no?

just me then

Where in my post do you see me making this claim? I'm curious to know so I can go edit it. Oh wait, I never said that. Or even implied it as far as I can tell.
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I am so greatful to have parents who have a good tastes in music, ha, so my first time hearing this song is not on CSI (lame).

Dude, this song totally rocks, don't deny! Thanks ma!

p.s. I blame Zappa for most of the Carlos bashing. And who hasn't Zappa bashed?

The Curtain Hits the Cast from the mid-1990s is fabulous, start to finish. That is, if you dig this kind of slow-drip melodic vibe with the occassional cacaphonic build.

It means, don't "hog" that joint, pass it over to me!

Terrible, simple-minded, cliched lyrics that sound like they were written by a fifth grader. Hard to believe this is the same guy who was writing such creative, poetic material only a few years earlier.

A fine song, but at the risk of being heretical, I liked the version in the film "The Commitments" even better - chock full of energy.

Playing this crap is inexcusable. :puke:

Sure sounds like old Black Sabbath to me

Putumayo is archetypal world music, but the term no longer really applies as a genre. Music these days is a river of regional currents all mixing together in a global market, but representing still distinct traditions. Rock, for instance, is but a drop in the bucket.

Sounds like Zappa lost his voice, and tried to fill the gap with a mariachi band.

I had to bump this to a 10. Wow.

Now, you kids who're calling this 'Country', or worse, 'Country and Western', seem kinda behind the power curve here. The day Neko Case is played on a 'country' station, we'll be throwin' snowballs in Miami.

Trying to put a label on Ms. Case, indeed on MOST artists here, is pretty pointless.

c.

Sorry...I just don't see how this one is rated so high. I strongly dislike this version.

Saw these guys in a small venue, I think a favor to a family member, and they really jam. Very, very good musicians. If you like new style jazz, see them or buy their dics, you won't be disappointed.

Just like everybody else on this post, i love this song, everything about it. But what amazes me is that EVERYBODY ELSE DOES, too. There's a little or a lot of angry scree mixed into the comments of every song i've ever seen posted on RP. How refreshing to see all positive comments on this timeless English Beat song.

The nice lady on the cover compensates for the bad tune... (at least a bit)

seems like that was a series of songs coming from a very macabre place (including the song "where'd you hide the body?")

I was looking for the "true" account of the song - the most popular urban legend that most people know is this is about a young woman who was kidnapped leaving a punk concert, raped and tortured, but by gaining the trust of her captor was able to finally escape. Snopes.com doesn't have an official stance either way, though Wikipedia backs this up, citing the book Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana.. More disturbing is a note by Cobain in the liner notes of Incesticide which read "Last year, a girl was raped by two wastes of sperm and eggs while they sang the lyrics to our song 'Polly,"

Sorry to disturb any of you who may be offended by the song origin. Though it may spark an interesting debate on whether one can like an piece of artistic expression (like a song) based on its merits and not the beliefs it expresses/behaviours it may induce.

Perfection!

And this is music? How?
This is terrible, very very bad

Bleh.

oh man, i cant hear this song without thinking of Veronica Mars now. Such a shame to cancel that show, even if the third season was weak.

My favorite talking heads song. Beautiful.

I can respect that you think this is rubbish, but if you just say, 'rubbish,' you are making a value judgement without justifying it, and you also make a statement on other people's tastes - like those who like this song. Wish you and others would take the time to make an intelligent addition to this forum, rather than just throwing out insults. (Even if I do agree with you at bit on this song. It seems a bit out-dated and trite to me, these days. But maybe the lyrics have a meaning I don't know about...?)

So this is just a Tom P and the Heartbreakers record then?

whatever....I never claimed to be an expert. And I believe it is spelled "addict".

Another meaningless band for no reason whatsoever to release an album or be played on RP

Sure, it's cool. However it STILL don't move me. Yeah it swings, but Century XXI ain't about swing...sorry, no.

Overwrought, overplayed, etc....

This song absolutely grates on my nerves!!!!!!!

This song depresses me because it reminds me of how much I loved their earlier music (e.g., Uplift Mofo Party Plan) and how bland they would become.

Maybe I've heard it too many times, over too many years. Maybe it's the 60's flavor. Maybe I just never grokked Janice. In any case, I'd be OK if I never heard this song again.

Me And Bobby McGee... better.

I keep waiting for the chorus to "Secret Agent Man" to break out in this one, even 43 years later.

Yeah, I know I'm weird...

As an atheist who finds "In God We Trust" offensive, let me respond.

I find it offensive because it is an attempt to speak for me. The phrase is on our currency in an attempt to present the United States as a religious nation, and to say that we-as-a-whole trust in God.

Well, I don't. And I find it offensive that certain people wish to speak for me. Sure, majority rule and all that, but religious conviction is a personal statement, not a collective one. I'd find it as offensive if it said "We Trust Republicans" when the Republicans have a majority in Congress, and "We Trust Democrats" when Democrats do. It's a silly phrase, a waste of time, and an attempt to speak for each individual.

I don't feel strongly enough to sue to have the phrase removed, but hey -- more power to those who are suing.

I don't think that the words will make me suddenly become a believer, nor that they have any power over my beliefs, nor over the beliefs of anyone else. It's just an offensive public statement of a personal belief -- one that millions of Americans don't share. The Great Pumpkin is silly as well, but nobody's trying to tell me I trust in the Great Pumpkin.

Only god knows. We will know someday, but then it will be too late, cause, you'll only know for sure when you die. Before then, you can only believe or disbelieve on FAITH. I have faith that god as currently taught by Christians is a big fallacy. But who am I to say. But I ain't going to go kill myself just to learn the truth. God will just to have to wait. Meanwhile I'll just have to live life by the golden rule of treating other people like I myself would like to be treated and hope that I don't botch it very often, which is what I'm prone to do. Often. God Bless. Or Not.

I love this tune. Reminiscent of Alices Restaurant by Arlo Guthrie maybe? Kind of cool though. Haters need to relax & let the tunes flow... Your faves are just around the corner.

:-)

I'm really surprised at the negative reaction to this piece. Yeah, it's a little on the long side, but I think it's an interesting and funny story song. Guess I'm swimming against the tide here...

alas, what fresh hell is this.

reminds one of Richard Clyderman or Yanni.

stripped down Floyd. the bones are bared.

That borders on sacrilege! The amount of praise that continues to be heaped on Jack White just amazes me. He's not bad, but come on...as good as Zeppelin? What's so earth-shattering about what he's doing? This song isn't bad, but it's not amazing...a solid 7. Hardly better than "Stairway", "Ramble On", "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You", "Heartbreaker"...should I continue?

Nothing but positive comments here - that's unusual for RP

I'm trying to give it a chance, but it's not clicking. Grating, yes. Clicking, no. It's like everything is off (music, vocals. backup vocals, everything). Give me Yanni any day.



EDIT: And it just keeps going.

Goodness, there are some touchy people on this board. May I be allowed to say that I just don't like this piece?

Australian Riverdance??

Get on the table and spend a few moments doing the twist.

Then rate the song.

I find it helps.

i liked this better the first time, when it was on Little Creatures, and called "Stay Up Late."

Sorry. Do Not Want

I usually love the Kinks, but for some unknown reason I despise this song. Gets a 2.

Sucky version. I'd beee pissed if I payed for this CD, only to hear a bunch of drunk audience members singing on it. I hate that.

I love how this version showcases the superb lyrics. I just wish Trent Reznor wrote lyrics this good all the time. *sighs*