ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
I imagine the Restaurant at the End of the Universe. But that's in a different universe. 

 MaryAndrea wrote: 
Good word.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/struggente

 

Adjective

struggente m and f (m and f plural struggenti)

1. melting, tender, moving, aching

Everybody wants to go there - but not right now

A good song with great lyrics 

To my brother John.

I'll miss you John - but I plan to be there one day.

Love,

James

One of my favorite all time tunes. I LOVE the lyrics. Its how I feel about being in the mountains. Stunning beauty where "nothing ever happens." Timeless landscape, seemingly unchanging.

Well, I must be pretty shallow, because I like this song a lot. Especially the line, "Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens." It'd be really fun if Bill would follow this song with "Alleluia" by Dar Williams... "Ron and Nancy got the house, but Sid and Nancy ruled/I died eight years ago; I'm still a legend at my high school/I stole a Chevy and I wrapped it 'round a tree/ That's okay, cause no one's gonna make the next century/I'm up in heaven and they say I'm here to stay/ The clouds are really puffy and the angels sing every day... "The waves are always perfect and the sun it always shines, but there's got to be more to death than surfing all the time..."

 FlatCat wrote: 
I don't hear that at all.  The only tonal variations (or possibly off-key sounds) I hear are the transitional slides on the (fretless?) bass being played by Tina Weymouth.  We all hear different stuff though.  It might have been one of Brian Eno's treatments.

 Art_Carnage wrote: 
I wasn't listening but if it's off of Fear of Music then it's the "real" version. You might be thinking of the live version from Stop Making Sense, which is a little warmer.

Interesting to hear that some folks would rather listen to cover verisions. I'm not slamming covers in general, or of this song in particular, I hope everyone knows that Byrne and Harrison actually wrote it..

What a LOUSY version of a great song. Making it "jangly" and drowning out the lyrics is NOT an improvement. Let's put this back in the attic, and bring back the real version.

really great lyrics for a place we can only imagine how great it is

How I miss when Bill used to play the IceHouse version. So much more musical. I presume it's by intent, but the instruments are out of key here.

What drugs prolly did for others, this album did for me....shook me to my 18-year-old core.
Life shaping then, and certainly still awe inspiring now.

I must be in a good mood today - just up'd this from a 1 to a 2!

This is a great song, but I don't like this version...by which I mean David Byrne singing it. Maybe Peter Gabriel? Maybe Potishead?

 DaveInVA wrote: 
bump

 malvey254 wrote: 
it does make good sport. see below

Please shoot me now

 DaveInVA wrote: 
 Here's to ya!

 SweTex wrote: 
Sorry about that, changed it :)

 DaveInVA wrote: 

Was a joke. You forgot to put "absolutely no sense of humour" in your description, so I didn't know.

 SweTex wrote: 
Ok then, hows this :) - If you see my wife tell her to bring them back, I've been missing those...Btw, the song still sucks :)

 DaveInVA wrote: 

Thats strange...your wife told me you don't have any.  Great song, btw.

 Shesdifferent wrote: 
I am guessing that you intended to use the word 'drivel'. I also guess that this unentertaining guy who sucks, etc., actually knows the English language sufficiently well to use it correctly. In addition, there are, strangely enough, quite a few of us who like this.