Beth Orton - Stolen Car
(Jun 18, 2013 - 07:23) | daedalus wrote: Her breathy style is slowly morphing from being interesting and quirky into irritatingly affected.
Anyone else ?
That breathy style makes me fall in lust with her every time she comes on....ohhh yeahhhhh.....
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Owiny Sigoma Band - Owiny Techno
(Jun 14, 2013 - 07:13) | 59 people have rated this so far and its got a 2.9 average - with 23 Sucko-Barfo votes. That has got to be some kind of all time LOW rating!?!
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BoDeans - Fadeaway (live)
(Jun 13, 2013 - 09:09) | tuorelensar wrote: Guys my network is online but I can't listen it. Can anyone help???
I'm hearing great here in Southern Maryland!
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Ludovico Einaudi - Time Lapse
(May 22, 2013 - 09:53) | Lazarus wrote:
Everybody in my church loves this music...
What, do you live in an old church or something?
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The Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You
(May 02, 2013 - 11:13) | grant wrote: Done before or not, the lyrics in this song are hilarious and it sounds really good when your playing air guitar, at a very high volume.
The volume on my air guitar goes up to 11!
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Keren Ann - My Name Is Trouble
(Apr 24, 2013 - 12:04) | helgigermany wrote: terrible voice!
Yet you list both Neil Young and Bob Dylan with a 10 rating????
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Gordon Lightfoot - The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald
(Mar 07, 2013 - 08:58) | Proclivities wrote:
Some former crew members and maritime engineers theorized that the ship suffered a structural failure, and was split by the combination of waves and the cargo weight, before she sunk to the bottom. At any rate, it was a horrible tragedy, honored beautifully by this song.
Recent investigations with Remotely Operated Vehicles found hatch covers unsecured. Tragically, it appears that the hatch covers were not properly secured, so the waves washing over the low freeboard swamped the holds, filling them with water and causing the ship to capsize. http://www.navweaps.com/index_tech/tech-080.htm
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Carolina Chocolate Drops - Snowden's Jig
(Feb 12, 2013 - 10:37) | Acoustic Engineers have created a plot of frequency versus level of annoyance, and can plot the "Level of Constant Annoyance" which is a bathtub shaped curve. Those frequencies on the ends of the spectrum where the sound becomes increasingly annoying varies among the population. Hence, there is a scientific reason why, for some people (like me) that frequency of violin is PARTICULARLY annoying - somewhat akin to waterboarding for me.
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Elton John - Levon
(Jan 05, 2013 - 06:25) | trailhub wrote: Gawd I'm sick of hearing this song (on mainstream radio, not here). But have to admit that it really is a good song, overplayed or not.
OK Trailhub, I have to hoist the Bullshit flag on this one. Roughly how often DO you hear Levon being played on mainstream radio there in St Louis?
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Rachid Taha - Barra Barra
(Jan 04, 2013 - 15:51) | Baby_M wrote: {Previous copy deleted}...
And really, even if the lyrics were nothing more than a recitation of the Cairo municipal income tax regulations, that badass guitar would still do it for me.
Re-posted because it is funny as shit...and so true!
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Kronos Quartet - Lux Aeterna
(Dec 06, 2012 - 04:49) | The comments on this song had me laughing out loud to the point where others around me wanted to know what was so funny.
Gawd, I love RP!
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Ella Fitzgerald - Once Too Often
(Nov 26, 2012 - 09:18) | I always keep RP on as background music in my office. As a ROT (Rule Of Thumb) if I stop in mid-work because the song has caught my attention, it HAS to be a minimum of an 8. {The only exceptions are a few artists who REALLY grate on my nerves...}
Ella got a 9...
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Harvey Reid - Racing the Storm
(Oct 30, 2012 - 11:15) | Chuck Prophet - Storm Across the Sea
Yoshida Brothers - Storm
Harvey Reid - Racing the Storm
All in honor of the Once-in-a-lifetime, Frankenstorm of the Century, Hurricane Sandy...Rock on RP!!!
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Bjork - Oh So Quiet
(Jul 25, 2012 - 12:24) | There are 12 people out there that think this is "Godlike".... I am not sure "Godlike" means what they think it means.
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John Lennon - Jealous Guy
(Apr 17, 2012 - 16:17) | Stingray wrote: I do not care of the few folks who gave this song a "1"
what I am truely mad about are the brain-dead idiots,
who gave this gem a 3,4 or 5!
UUUUUUUUUUUUNBELIEVABLE!
Phew, I gave it a 2, so I guess that I am safe from the wrath of Stingray!
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Alannah Myles - Black Velvet
(Apr 16, 2012 - 17:46) | Way to mix it up, Bill!!!
Just because the song was a hit and won a Grammy doesn't make it BAD music. Don't let the comments from the anti-popular snobs keep you from throwing in an occasional hit like this...
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Elbow - Lippy Kids
(Apr 09, 2012 - 08:58) | What the fork is a Lippy Kid, and why are they being told to build a rocket?
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Tanita Tikaram - Twist In My Sobriety
(Mar 30, 2012 - 09:41) | When this song was out in early 1988, I was living in Scotland and my daughter was just learning to talk. My wife and I overheard my daughter singing to herself one day, and after a bit figured out that she was singing "More than a twist of my so-br-i-e-ty..." over and over, and my wife and I had a good hard laugh as we knew that she had no idea what she was saying, but was mimicking the sounds! This song will always have a special place in the heart of this father...
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Tom Waits - Come On Up To The House
(Mar 13, 2012 - 15:04) | Stratocaster wrote:
Thank GOODNESS for the new "Play Something Different" !!
I didn't know about the PSD button until you mentioned it! Its BRILLIANT! Thanks Stratocaster...
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Fourplay - Breakfast In America
(Jan 09, 2012 - 09:30) | As I was feverishly working away at my desk, I started to subconciously sing along, I realized what I was doing, that this isn't Supertramp, and (to the dismay of my office mates) started to cackle uncontrollably. This is just a fun little song!
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Iguanas - 9 Volt Heart
(Dec 20, 2011 - 10:53) | adamdbenson wrote: I grew up with KFRC and Dr. Donald D Rose. A few years later it was KOME with personalities like Dennis Erectus. Wow - memories. Thanks for this one. =)
In the late 60's and early 70's in the East San Francisco Bay Area, I woke up at the butt-crack of dawn every morning to deliver newspapers. My clock radio was always set to 610 AM, and the sounds of Top 40 on KFRC. It was all we listened to. This song eloquently captures the significant role that silly little radio played in our young lives!
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Taj Mahal - Queen Bee
(Oct 27, 2011 - 13:32) | Huey wrote:
Me niether / either/ etc....sucks. 3.
If it "sucks", then its NOT a 3 (Ho Hum), its a 1 (Sucko-Barfo). I'm going to have to issue you a Level 1 Rating Citation for mis-rating this song. You are hereby sentenced to completing a formal technical review of the RP song ratings to include the RP Quantitative Number Rating System (QNRS) and the qualitiative descriptors assigned to each numerical rating. Due to me by next Friday....
s/
Officer Bruce
RP Song Rating Enforcement Agency
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Chantays - Pipeline
(Jan 31, 2011 - 07:47) | Stingray wrote: This is not SURF - this is primitive early 60's BS!
Retirement-home music!
What the hell is wrong with RP tonight?
I guess I take a walk....
"Always with the negative waves, Moriarty" ....
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Jake Shimabukuro - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
(Jan 31, 2011 - 07:32) | blades wrote: aweful
Ha! Very clever - I get it - its a play on "awful" meaning that you are really full of awe at his creative abilities. Or you just can't spell...
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Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond
(Jan 25, 2011 - 08:33) | Allright what's going on here, I checked to see where this fell in the overall listener ratings. On the song page this is listed as having a 9.1 average rating, but the Music/Artist page lists this as having a 9.485 average rating and being ranked #15 overall.
Tha Floyd have 4 of the top 15 ratings and 6 of the top 25 ratings — better that Beethoven, The Beatles, and Jimi!!!
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The Beatles - I Am The Walrus
(Jan 21, 2011 - 13:04) | How do you rate a song like this? "OOOOoooo, I was stoooo-ned the first time I heard it, so its a 10" doesn't cut it. But, the Beatles were ground breaking! Yes, but we are rating the song, not the group. It has nonsensical lyrics, does that make it a great song? There are lots of song with unintelligble/nonsensical lyrics that aren't great. Is the melody that good? Not really. Do we hear singing or musicianship that is worldclass in this song. I don't think so. Is this the first of a new genre of music or some groundbreaking, trend-setting new song? There is no great effect of the song completes within the context of the album. Objectively, I'd call it a Pretty Good song at best...
Maybe I need some "mid-course correction" here?
goo goo g'joob
juba juba
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The Black Keys - Howlin' For You
(Dec 16, 2010 - 10:40) | Everytime I hear this I keep bumping it down a notch. I'm down to a 2...its not that good of a song and its getting real old.
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Gordon Lightfoot - The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald
(Dec 08, 2010 - 10:27) | This song always brings me back to my sophomore year at the US Naval Academy when this song was so popular on the radio. As sophomores we were allowed to have stereos in our room, and I had Navigation Class for first period. As I was gathering my books, charts and navigating instruments in preparation for Nav class, I can still vividly recall hearing this song playing on the radio in our room on the second deck, fourth wing, of Bancroft Hall . The song so eloquently highlights some of the hazards of life aboard ship at sea. Perhaps, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald subconsciously played into my ultimate decision to become a Navy Pilot instead of a ship-driver????
It gets a 10 for being a wonderfully moving tale of such a tragic event.
A short summary of the cause of the sinking can be found at: http://www.navweaps.com/index_tech/tech-080.htm
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Jefferson Airplane - Martha
(Oct 27, 2010 - 10:10) | DaveInVA wrote:I can't believe this song only gets a 5.6 here. Tough crowd. Guess you had to be there. (I was) 
Dave - Really groovy, maaaaannnnn. But if you claim to have been there in the 60's, and remember it, then you weren't really there...
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Anna Ternheim - What Have I Done
(Oct 26, 2010 - 19:20) | First,
Mandible wrote:
I'm not comparing the MUSIC to Aimee Mann: please compare album covers
Then,
ziggytrix wrote:
Seriously?
OK, they both have black wiry structures in them. They both use cyan, white, and black. They both feature night skies.
Now the differences. Aimee Mann's also uses the color GREEN. In Anna's album art the black wiry structures are television antennas, while Aimee's are electric line towers. Anna's has a photo of herself holding hands with what appears to be A MONKEY WEARING PEOPLE CLOTHES. There is NO MONKEY in Aimee's album cover.
That was more fun than I expected!
Ziggytrix gets my vote for the snarkiest comment ever in the history of RP....AWWWWRight ZIGGYTRIX!!!!!
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Ellis Paul - Maria's Beautiful Mess
(Oct 13, 2010 - 05:36) | Rooney wrote: I AM SHOUTING. WHAT THE HELL EVER HAPPENED TO PRONOUNCING LYRICS SO YOU CAN FREAKING UNDERSTAND THEM? Between this song, and "Cathedrals", I thought I'd slowly but surely lost my hearing, or something vital to comprehension.
Dood - I'd think about going a little easy on those espressos. Why so wound up?
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The Derek Trucks Band - Don't Miss Me
(Aug 02, 2010 - 07:44) | fredriley wrote: WTF is that thing making a scraping noise in the left channel once per bar? Sure does spoil an otherwise nice number.
Now you ruined the song for me - I keep focusing on that sound. Kind of like a deck of cards being thumbed. What is it?
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Cowboy Junkies - A Common Disaster
(Jul 16, 2010 - 12:46) | romeotuma wrote:
We just started shagging... cool...
uhhhh, as in "dancing to beach music" or the Horizontal mambo" ?????
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Tricky - Evolution Revolution Love
(May 01, 2010 - 13:56) | helgigermany wrote: Nice cover art! What music genre is this?
I've always heard Tricky as "Trip-Hop". Its a great album! I first heard it in a used CD store in a college town. I was browsing for CDs and kept going up to ask what song was playing, and they kept telling me "its still Tricky"...so I had to buy it. Now I can't get it away from my kids.
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Miles Davis - Freddie Freeloader
(Apr 26, 2010 - 11:45) | Businessgypsy wrote: Monday morning Miles! Normally I am pretty tolerant of personal tastes and individual perspective, but if you don't grok Kind of Blue or at least appreciate the history and influence of this recording you might need a DNA test to determine your species.
Great 50th anniversary remaster out on this.
You know how the sound of fingernails on a blackboard drives some people nuts and others don't know what you are talking about? The sax in this piece is fingernails-on-a-chalkboard annoying to me. I guess my DNA must be a few strands short...
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It's A Beautiful Day - White Bird
(Jan 28, 2010 - 08:05) | rtrudeau wrote: Shockingly low rating for such a good song.
The song was released in 1969. I think those of us that were around in the late 60's / early 70's appreciate it much more than younger PR listeners!
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The Cure - Close To Me
(Jan 25, 2010 - 07:52) | First 8-track - John Denver - AERIE
First 45 - The Royal Guardsmen - SNOOPY VS THE RED BARON
...so take THAT!
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Porcupine Tree - Mellotron Scratch
(Dec 01, 2009 - 13:56) | Does anyone know if the "1969 Moletron Synthesizer" featured in the movie Southlander was a play on the Mellotron synthesizer for which this album takes is title?
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Antonio Vivaldi - The 4 Seasons - Summer - Allegro Non Molto
(Nov 19, 2009 - 08:19) | Sound can be plotted on a curve with frequency on one axis and the degree to which one finds that sound annoying on the other axis - the curve is called the Line of Constant Annoyance. Think about how annoying the sound of a baby crying is - evolved deliberately to attract the mother's attention. For me, violins fall at the peak of that Line of Constant Annoyance. Violins are not too far off in frequency from a wailing baby...
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Peter Gabriel - Ngankarrparni
(Sep 29, 2009 - 12:53) | Every now and then my computer will lock up and play a loop of music, I had to check and see if that happened again....nope...just not one of Peter's best efforts I'm afraird
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