Also, this song makes me want to go out, buy a mandolin, and BURN IT.  It would be an incredibly cathartic experience.

 sadsack wrote: 
You've NEVER heard this before?  This definitely must be your first day at RP.

Wow. Never heard this before. Why I listen. Thank you. 

So sick of this crap.

 Excelsior wrote: 
Dude, you're always so negative. Life's too short to be bitter and hating everything. LIghten up, be happy. If music on RP doesn't make you happy, find something, somewhere else, that does. Don't give yourself ulcers or high blood pressure by being angry and grumpy all the time. Peace. :-)

 Excelsior wrote: 
What's the point in bashing a song multiple times? Song after song after song? If you don't like it, comment if you must, then turn down the volume!  It's not brain surgery...

The beginning of this tune fools me into thinking it's Amy Ray's "Johnny Rotten"

Beautiful tune!

hi bill, will you please play some nina simone now for excelsior?  i think that's what he's looking for!    thanks!

Great song Bill, don't take it off the playlist!

Alright, we've heard this song about a billion times by now.  Can we just assume that everyone who enjoys it has already bought the CD and can listen to it on their own, and MOVE ON TO ANOTHER SONG ALREADY??  Perhaps to a woman who doesn't sound like a guy??? 

Pointless, unrelenting noise.

Not to beat around the bush, this song sucks.

I'm sure it was fun for the mandolin player to rock that thing all the way through the song, but not fun for anybody else.

I had no idea that was Joan Armatrading.  I thought I was listening to some weak Water Boys knock-off.

 Excelsior wrote: 

Until you give some indication of just how often ad nauseam actually is, your apparent complaint about overplaying is pretty hard to accept. This is especially true since you seem to use this same complaint for any song that you don't like that gets played more than once in a blue moon.
As for you comment about Joan sounding like a guy, why is that a problem? She's always sounded this way and has still produced lots of great music.

So two songs ago, we had to listen to Nick Harper play a thousand notes per minute.  Now we're listening to the mandolin player play a thousand notes per minute.    Quantity does not make up for quality!

Excelsior wrote:


Amen... as someone who prefers the mandolin in the hands of say Chris Thile, this song really didn't do anything for me

I went to her concert in Montréal in 1976 and was blown away. Still am.

Let's see...

• Mandolin is far, far too busy


• The woman singing sounds like a guy


• Harmonica solo that manages to be in every key BUT the mandolin's


• The damn song is played ad nauseam on RP

A solid 1.

Droidac wrote:

Well, one by one, it's up to a 10 for me now!

Jelani wrote:

Joan could almost be his mum......

Damn! I thought that this was Ben Harper's dry dead voice, but the music was too good. Had to get up to see who it was. I hope she hasn't been hanging out with him. It's rubbing off.

Most excellent -- but overplayed recently, IMHO.

I've been listening to the girl from St.Kitts for 30+ years and she just keeps getting better. The driven, insistent mandolin counterpoints the tender, poignant lyrics - just awesome!

I cannot believe this is Joan Armatrading.....Yuck!

I like the mandolin but can't get past the voice

4

everytime i hope this is going to be "When I'm dead and gone", but everytime it's not ...

Just eeeked its way up to 9.