This is a fun band, I have always liked them.

I love it. Escapist fantasy of leaving it all behind and taking to the road. The road is paved with gold.

Someone's gotta say it: Damn Proclivities, every time you post, well, it's awesome!  I have said it before, and I am saying it again - you entertain and educate with each posting.  I always scan song threads for your posts because they will, at some level, be enlightening, elucidative, and whatever other alliterative or other terms you wish to apply.  As much as I love RP, you make the experience that much better.  Thank you.

Proclivities
(Paris of the Piedmont)

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 colleen wrote:  
Songs can be about whatever the author wants - the lyrics blankly tell a story; no actual families were harmed in the composition of this song, and no behavior seems glorified by the lyrics.  Many songs are about unpleasant or unsavory subjects - some fictional, some based on true events - it doesn't mean that a listener who may enjoy those tunes is without a conscience.  Does liking Hitchcock's "Psycho" or Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" make one devoid of a conscience?  I don't think we want a world where writers and artists are told what their subject matter should be

Can't help but feel like I had to live through this song on the radio once already. It's not a bad tune though, just so overplayed at the time it came out. Still though, does RP have that much of a 90s-born audience to warrant playing it? voted 3

Great Hook!

A fabulous quirky highway song

 colleen wrote: 
Songs can be about whatever the author wants - the lyrics blankly tell a story; no actual families were harmed in the composition of this song, and no behavior seems glorified by the lyrics.  Many songs are about unpleasant or unsavory subjects - some fictional, some based on true events - it doesn't mean that a listener who may enjoy those tunes is without a conscience.  Does liking Hitchcock's "Psycho" or Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" make one devoid of a conscience?  I don't think we want a world where writers and artists are told what their subject matter should be.

 lemmoth wrote: 
We appear to have lost our grammar skills, hmmm?

 d48m02h1918 wrote: 
Detect?????  It came right up and grabbed me.

A Beatles Influence.  Like at least 75% of the music that came out concurrent with or after the Beatle's career.

A song about parents getting drunk and abandoning their children in the middle of the night and never going home again and not caring?
How can anyone with a conscience like this song>?

As much as I revere great artists with long, prolific, diverse careers I also really love some of the great songs by so-called "one hit wonders" like those listed below and this wonderful tune. 9

As an avid fan of Fastball, I can tell you that this entire album (along with their third album titled 'The Harsh Light of Day') contains great songs with solid guitar and excellent melodies.  No it has nothing to do with the fact that they come from Austin, TX....

They just have a fantastic sound, and I actually detect a heavy Beatles influence in many of their songs!!   

I don't know why .... but I LOVE THIS SONG!!!

 Stratocaster wrote: 
Sinead only had one hit?

 karljonasson wrote: 
OH. Wish I'd read that before my remark. Very cool! Maybe I can arrange for this song to play on my (88 year old) dad's PC a few times a day. (just kidding)

 Shaken_Bake wrote: 
The lyrics seem to make it clear that they've just completely lost it as far as reality is concerned, so the kid's level of neglect might not be any different if they're home or wandering someplace. This seems like a very spooky song under the carefree surface.

 Shaken_Bake wrote: 
It's about seniors leaving adult children I'm pretty sure… based on a true story… at least that's what somebody told me. So you can enjoy it more now.

 ick wrote: 
No way, it's fun stuff!

I find this whole album quite enjoyable.  I must be unsophisticated.  

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
I love this song too, and Fastball; it/they take me back to when I was living in DC and bartending because it would come on at the restaurant all the time and it would always make me stop, take notice and sing along. Those were some good times.

I've had this at 8 for a decade, just moved it to 9. I always stop and listen, maybe go read the lyrics, think about things. That's a good song that does that.

always heard Dave Edmunds in this one...

The child abandonment aspect of the lyrics always disturbed me.

 Proclivities wrote: 
I can understand how being a one-hit-wonder can be a bad thing - sudden fame, sudden obscurity, high probability of frittering away any cash gained.

Do that with a bad song, and you also get the scorn of the hoi polloi in the bargain.

But song was a hit for a good reason: it's a fine pop song. Putting out good work and having it, or at least some of it, appreciated by millions can only be satisfying. The folks who wrote this will be probably still be glad to take credit for it when they're in nursing homes.

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 spacemoose wrote: 
Are you saying you would rather not have an album which went platinum?  Also, they had about three songs in the Top 20, not one.

 jkhandy wrote: 
That's an intersting observation.  I don't know if I agree with it. 

One hit wonders depress me.

And here it is again....love it!!  Great song for Sunday morning with my 1st cup of joe.

Hey Strat, I like what you said ... good list of great songs .... many are on my iPod also ... and the rest will be soon .... thanks, PK

 Stratocaster wrote: 

Fun. Simple. Cool. Catchy. Enough said.