phineas wrote:

You're confusing "missed" with "ignored".

I'm only curmudgeonly about things that deserve it. And it pays quite well, thank you.

colt4x5 wrote:
We should get along, we really should. But sometimes, people are just so... WRONG. I mean, they are SO wrong. It's my duty to point the finger at non-Nick Drake fans and say, "Revolution, Day 1, Hour 1, Minute 1, against the wall."

Now HERE is a singer-songwriter that I can actually enjoy.

Never could get through an entire album of his in one sitting, though.

His songs are great as individual "little breaks", but after a while, they all start to sound the same and lull one to sleep.

If you gotta Nick Drake song, I gotta 10 fer it. Cha-CHING

colt4x5 wrote:

That's a really stupid idea, you jerk. ;)

A Nick Drake classic! Love everything about this song.

time-saving suggestion ........

you like a song: cut and paste:
I LIKE THIS SONG AND YOU'RE A JERK IF YOU DON'T

you don't like a song: cut and paste:
I DON'T LIKE THIS SONG AND YOU'RE A JERK IF YOU DO

you don't know what you're talking about: cut and paste:
I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT AND YOU'RE A JERK IF YOU DO

you do know what you're talking about: cut and paste:
I DO KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT AND YOU'RE A JERK IF YOU DON'T

all-purpose: cut and paste:
(BLAH BLAH BLAH) AND YOU'RE A JERK IF YOU DON'T AGREE

this will save LOTS of time and standardize postings.
pretty cool, eh?

ploafmaster wrote:

Excellent point. Deserves repeating. Deserves repeating. (Did I already say that?) I often feel posts are a bit acerbic. LET'S ALL BE FRIENDS!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Just kidding. Let's all be enemies and DUMP on one another every chance we get!!!)

Now, here's my thing I can't resist ... the person recently attacked is posting from Texas. Um ... Midland? Crawford? 'Cause I could always type slower and use shorter words ...

O:)

wxman wrote:

Booyah!

Art_Carnage wrote:

And we continue the search for an Art_Carnage comment with signs of any sort of intellect.

Was wondering when I would hear some Nick Drake today. :D

Art_Carnage wrote:
Hey, AC, you musta just missed my post on an earlier song:

Has Art_Carnage liked anything he's posted to on RP? Seems like a professional curmudgeon.
So, does it pay well?

samiyam wrote:
Well, you're on the right track, in that you mention Drake's "music" and "ass" in the same paragraph.

And here's a tip for everyone. Mumbling the lyrics doesn't magically make them profound.

Not a huge Nick Drake fan, but ease up man. It's not that bad. And as Mig7 said, its short. You could be listening to real crap....As in that found on regular radio.

shell wrote:
Believe it! Don't worry, Bill never listens.

honey wrote:

At least you can still type...

The visitiations from Nick Drake are amazing--they keep RP grounded between some of its more wonderfully esoteric flights

Every time I hear this guy, I think of the overly sensitive man from the movie Bedazzled. Is it just me?

mig7 wrote:
I just can't believe that this music can be offensive enough for people to make a negative comment. I guess the overall rating substantiates it's worth. It wouldn't be RP without a regular dose of Nick Drake. Don't listen to them Bill.

At least this song is short.

samiyam wrote:

Geez...it's posts like this...so here goes mine! Time to paste!

Wow, isn't it really really cool when someone states an opinion (not a refutable fact, but an irrefutable opinion), and other people like to jump on in and attack it? Like, for example, stating that those rating this song low are 'loons'.

I mean, I like the color green, and I hope anyone liking yellow suffers from a debilitating brain anurism.

But finally moving to the realm of the serious...

I wish more people would simply share their opinions about the song/artist/album, good or bad, without attacking each other. LIKING or DISLIKING music is not a matter of intelligence or skill, it's a matter of taste. Now arguing about an artist's abilities may be debatable, but how their work affects each of us on an individual level can never rationally be struck down.

Ciao,
The Dude

:?

P.S. I think I'm gonna put this message everywhere I deem appropriate today. Call it my dopey little crusade against angry music lovers. Maybe if some people see this in several places, they'll get the point.

Art_Carnage wrote:

Well, you can always go listen to Clear Channel stations and get lots of Led Zeppelin and "Classic Rock" and get yer silly cloth ears out of here!! Nick Drake is so good I'm amazed we're even listening to the same song! You fulfill what Zappa said... "Most people wouldn't know good music if it came up and bit 'em in the ass".

I had never even heard of Nick Drake before Radio Paradise. Yeah, I was too caught up in the Dead at that time I guess. Anyway I have yet to hear a song that I don't like. This man's music is wonderful. What a tragic loss, but then again how many times over the millenium have we lost geniuses to their own personal demons.

llazare wrote:You know, I never picked up that irony. I didn't discover Nick's work until the early 90s, so never really appreciated the context and sequence of the corpus of his work. It has often struck me that this is one of very few musical moments where Nick is squarely on the upbeat side of the emotional palette. Now it strikes me even more so. Thanks, llazare.

Pipes wrote:
Nah, next time I heard it, I realized it sucked even worse than I originally thought, and gave it the "1" it deserved.

one of very favorite Nick tunes...one of my very favorite tunes ever!
thanks R&B!!!

Art_Carnage wrote:
Check your ratings! You gave FLY a 2.