while (sucks == true)
{
shouldPlay = false;
}

BillG wrote:

Isn't Steve a proponent of internet radio? I'd have to give him credit just for that.

i like this song. i like it a lot. i have a tender spot in my heart for this whole album, actually.

yeah, i said it.

ChicoCyclist wrote:
or:

while (0 == 0)
{
echo "This is at least marginally worthy.n";
}

beelzebubba wrote:
That's the funniest thing I've read all week. But I couldn't disagree more.

if winwood then run boogie
boogie=hipwiggle+headnod+callowayfingerwag

I think Traffic was amazing, but no one who was a real fan can say that some of the cuts off "Mr. Fantasy" and "Low Spark" weren't vastly inferior to this very, very good song. Others were precursors to this style, and there's a real evolution. The same can't be said for "Back in the High Life Again" -- that song just blows fourteen different directions at once. But THIS SONG... the pacing, the key, the lyrics, the edgy synth and that magnificent organ/drum rhythm combo. I really, really like this song.

*looks in pop-up and finds "Ho Hum" as an option*

perfect.

I caught Steve Winwood a couple weeks ago at the Indian Casino here. He was REALLY Good...looked great and did a whole slew of Blind Faith and Traffic songs. I was empressed, the tickets were free, and I really wasnt expecting much, but dang! GREAT SHOW!

Probably depends on what 'i' is defined as being. Not sure what language this is in, but I suspect Official Psuedo Code, which uses variables which are immune to overflow problems. :)

sirrus wrote:

Traffic Yes
Anything off this album No!
Sucks... please do not play again. Makes me want to change the station...

beelzebubba wrote:

While that's close, I've got to add my own version:

while(true)
{
Console.WriteLine("This sucks!");
}

beelzebubba wrote:

I think your Winwood suck-o procedure will barf at 65,535 ways. :)

Oh, how does this suck? Let me count the ways:


for i=1 to 9999999999999
print i
next i

Perhaps, but I don't think I ever heard *this* song on radio anywhere in the span of close to 20 years since the disk was released. Great tune from a pretty solid album, despite some of the songs getting a bit much airtime over the years.


Old_Pool_Skunk wrote:

Don't understand the vitriol. I loved Traffic and Blind Faith. But I loved dancing to 80s Winwood too. Just relax and ease up on your anger and snob attitudes, people.

This whole album was terribly overplayed... but I've always liked Steve. No reason. Next.

But it wasn't the bullet that laid him to rest was
The low spark of high-heeled boys

Too bad the boys didn't get to him before this album was made :D

This sucks beyond all else that sucks. It never ceases to amaze me how once-great musicians turned into total crap. I think the water in the '80s became polluted or something.

little stevie winwood is just marginal background music IMO

Agreed. Immediate good mood through a great song (and great timeframe)!

Illustr8r wrote:

When did growing up equate to sucking?

The Traffic Gods are not smiling right now.

INSTANT good mood!

I see a common theme among the haters, namely context -- they hate Winwood, they hate 80's music, they hate synths. On its own merits, this song kicks ass.

deneb wrote:
And I've always had a particular dislike for him. It's for no particular reason; it's based mostly on this 80's solo work; and I won't even rate the song because it's such a baseless . . . loathing.

hcaudill wrote:

HEY! Don't you dare badmouth mid-80s Van Halen! I'm hot for teacher, dude. Oh, wait. Wasn't I, like, 16 when I thought that was a good song? Ah, the rose-colored lenses...

Brad_Eleven wrote:

I think it's fair to hold Steve Winwood to a higher standard, considering his own earlier self-righteous posturing about the record industry's focus on money over art. And even if we forgive SW for this tripe, we shouldn't be celebrating it on RP years later.

ugh, this is...profoundly, irritatingly dull.

Funny, my wife and I were just having a difference of opinion regarding whether or not Steve Winwood was a sellout - she arguing that his work in the 80s was not so bad. It's been a while since I actually heard the stuff he was doing in that period, and I have to say this really is classic mid-80s FM-radio slop. Right up there with the same period's output from Van Halen, Jefferson Starship, Heart, and Rod Stewart.

I somewhat enjoy this whiteboy funk.

ludwig7 wrote:

Oh, like you never did anything brilliant in your own life, then produced less-than-thrilling results later? D'you suppose that people in your life have asked themselves the same thing about you?

ludwig7 wrote:
I recently saw part of an interview with him on PBS, wherein he said something dismissing his 80's output as an unfortunate blip in his career that he doesn't like to revisit. I think that was after Austin City Limits. Turns out he's a pretty good guitarist too... (always knew him as a keyboard player & singer).

ludwig7 wrote:
It's called Growing Up.

And be glad this isn't "Spy in the House of Love". As distasteful as this may be, SITHOL makes this sound like Mozart...