Darlington wrote:

 
'Cause it was overplayed to death. It needed a good ten years on the shelf.

Saw these guys yesterday (6/1/08). Great two-hour show. Finished with Dave Edmunds's "Crawling Through the Wreckage."

russteaches wrote:
Same here, just looked at the playlist and thought "Wut?"

Get up & cha cha cha!

I find the way he hits phrases like "they WON'T(!) make it home but they really don't care, they WANTed the highway..." to be incredibly grating. Musically, there's precious little for me to enjoy; a steady but unoriginal beat, stock guitar, repetitive verse/chorus/verse (did I even hear a bridge?), etc.

Now, don't get me wrong--everything I've mentioned so far can be a strength. For a good, simple, steady beat, give me John Lee Hooker; for literalist simple lyrics, Johnny Cash; for guitar soul there's a hundred thousand better places to go. McMusic like this is what repulsed me from radio in my mid-teens in the first place. If I die without ever hearing this song again I won't miss it.

-PL-

nice memories

Sister_Vigilante wrote:

yeah, but the guy has a better voice -- nah, this is a way cooler song... maybe it's a bit like Elvis Costello doing Delilah. How could you lose with that?

coming soon to a Shrek movie near you...

This song sounds a whole lot better today than I remembered it being...

i love this tune. I'm so glad you play it. I got the CD out of the library and there's, like, two songs I think are good. This way I can hear it now and then and not blow any money on the CD.

Does anyone else think this sounds like Tom Jones' Delilah?

Been a long time since I heard this one. Always good to hear.

My daughter loves this tune !!

slartibart_O wrote:

here = radio paradise.

/me passes Slartibarfast a big bowl of chips and a dish of salsa.

Fastball?! You're kidding, right?!

wally42 wrote:


yea kinda weird for RP. i was going to say hopefully not a trend but its followed by a drive-by truckers song, so no worries there.

grace6697 wrote:

New York City!?! Get a rope...

Man, late 90's flashback ... I haven't heard this song in forever. Catchy, but still not all that good.

...heck, this gets a ten - i don't care about commercial overexposure...

this song blows. it's almost insulting to play it here.

Always wondered who did this..

Sure, it got a lot of airplay back in the day, but that doesn't make it a bad song.

I know I really should be sick of this one by now, but you know what?, I'm not. Go figure.

?????????????


top 40???????

lmic wrote:

I've heard this song a million times and I just assumed it was Costello.

Someone been listening to Elvis Costello? I like.

We've been backpacking all over western USA states, and this has been our signature song. : )

penguinja wrote:

You're 16? Cool. Hope you get that driver's license!

It's amazing how much better a song is/seems when it's not being played to death.

I for one don't mind hearing songs that were played to death in the 3-5 year ago range on RP. It brings back some memories and lets me reexamine this music.