my god...almost twenty years ago.  still love it.

 cosmiclint wrote: 
I am in no way a musician...I listen...but really...placenta?  Is it really called that? 

Like a rolling thunder chasing the wind...
Like a rock song cliche' comin' again... 

This is a great song to strum late at night in people's living rooms. And the placenta line sure gets their attention if they haven't heard it before :)

great driving song, I crank it way upp
Thanks!! 

Always loved the production on this one.

One of my most favourite songs - I tend to love moody or dramatic music

 Proclivities wrote:When a critic calls a performer pretentious, I think they mean the performer has "artistic pretentions", mainly.  Artisans, the forerunners of artists, worked with their hands, and that is where the modern word art comes from. Pretension had nothing especially to do with it. But now the word art certainly has the connotation of pretentiousness. Take the plastic arts (sculpture, painting, etc..), or what we usually mean when we use the word "art" by itself. Contemporary plastic art is intrinsically and self-consciously pretentious. Go to any museum of contemporary art, you'll see what I mean (I am not talking about the many lesser-known artists who are not a part of all that). Poetry has become the same. All this is because there is no longer the “vulgar” public “consuming” those art forms. This “vulgar” public, thank god, is  still the final arbiter of music, film, and fiction - the three creative art forms that are actually still alive. I kinda like the term "Art Rock" (often intended as a diss) because it means the performer is primarily concerned with the music, as opposed to the life-style aspects of Rock. I, for one, want Radiohead and similar performers to be appreciated by all and sundry (i.e., the “masses”). I think if they all just pay a little more attention, they’ll see what I do in their music. It’s not for everyone of course. I want good performers to be recognized as true artists, but yes, without the pretense.

Outstanding!

 chitown wrote: 
They've got to let you out of that cage once in a while.  Bill - you got any Lionel Richie to cheer this guy up?

Quite possibly the worst song I've heard on RP.  Don't get it.

They KICK ASS live (no pun intended really!).  By far their best album was their first - I highly recommend you pick it up if you like them at all...called "Mental Jewlery" - incredible record!

Just the song title make's this a nine !

Oh yes... back in the hazy days of High School.  Staying the night with my friend, a little , talking about girls, and jamming out to some Live (and many other great 90's bands)...  I miss those days sometimes. 

 htowncoog wrote:
Amen, brother.  Seen them twice, so I get to say it twice: they were great in person, on stage.

At least on some radio stations here in NYC, this seemed to have been deemed the unofficial 'theme song' of the Oklahoma City bombing. I kind of like the song—a dirge, kind of ominous though hopeful—but in my mind it is linked strongly to that low moment in American history. 

 teadye wrote: 
Wow, just what are you birthing there?
This song still rocks!

My first 3 rating goes to this song. I have disliked this band since first hearing—and especially disliked this song. It's a visceral reaction that's hard to articulate, but here goes. It just seems one of the worst examples of 90's self-important "alt-rock" that wasn't raw or interesting enough to be alternative or robust enough to be rock—or fun enough to be either. "Neither fish nor fowl nor good red herring" — Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

Mostly, it just bores me.

My little sister used to sing, "like a roller wonder juicing the wind" when this came on the radio (she was 6 when this song released).  I can't listen to this tune without hearing her!

haven't heard this song in a long long time... but i still call it the song that converted me into a listener with good tast... This album is - from my point of view - one of the best ever made. nothing compared to all the shit they released later on... these were the good old live-days!!! brilliant! simply brilliant!

Interesting CD cover, shame about the dull song. Sort of like Pearl Jam, but less interesting. Inoffensive and unnoticeable, other than when he goes into an anguished I'm-trying-to-squeeze-a-log-out scream. Next song, please.

teadye wrote: 

I'm LMAO... just thought about the lyrics in another way: "rolling thunder chasing the wind. I can feel it!" Morning after the big bowl of chili.... 8^)

Say what you will, but these guys are great "live." 

And it's an 8+

Wow, that takes me back a few years. Can't decide if I like it now though.

 ziggytrix wrote: 
"Art" is not "by definition, artifice".  The former word is not derived from the latter; the Latin word "ars" (skill) is the source for both words.  Pretentiousness is certainly a valid (albeit over-used) criticism for creative endeavors since art is not intrinsically pretentious.

pretentious:
1. Claiming or demanding a position of distinction or merit, especially when unjustified.
2. Making or marked by an extravagant outward show; ostentatious.

 gandalfbmg wrote:Anyone else remember a show called "Strange Luck" with DB Sweeney on Fox (back in the early 90's, on with the X-Files)? If you remember the show, you'll know why this song made me think of that show. And somebody earlier was right about these guys in concert. One of the best shows I've been to.

 Cynaera wrote: 

That was one of the best uses of music in film that I can recall.  I was just enthralled with that segment (and the show in general)!

Lighten up Kowalcyzk!