ick
(...out of the primordial ooze) | | Posted: Mar 22, 2013 - 06:38 | |
This is why I love Radio Paradise... Johnny Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues" followed by this. Just awesome.
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wrangler
(swamps of jersey) | | Posted: Jan 18, 2013 - 12:44 | |
classic album.  |
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mandolin
(...drifting...) | | Posted: Nov 01, 2012 - 09:19 | |
day of the dead down in mexico
you ever been on a holiday
you ever thought that you been here before
you ever did in a desperate way
on the beach stands a donkey that is waiting for you
a hee haw stamping his hoof
a fine blue day as dreamed by the boys
nodding up on the roof and the meeting is held in the darkness
and in the darkness everyone's blind
the muriel masters stand there in velvet
and i know you're falling behind drink in a bar down in the motel
i get involved with a prisoner
she's got a skull like a seraphim
i figure she is a messenger
she's at the heart of the festival
she's got the hands of a picador
she asks the spirits for a romance
she gets a ghost for a paramour and the wedding is held in the darkness
cause in the darkness the guests are all blind
graveyards and mountains wrapped up in satin
and i know you're falling behind day of the dead down in mexico
we read a book on the alamo
we filled the tank up with texaco
we buy a trinket for curio
we walk the stuff through the marketplace
dripping smoke, dollars, and aftershave
i got the mind of an astronaut
emerging from the shell unscathed
climbing out of hell unchanged but then the deal is dealt in the darkness
and in the darkness the dealers are blind
jokers and aces cruising in black fur
i know you're falling behind |
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Sloggydog
(UK) | | Posted: Jul 14, 2012 - 00:03 | |
lily34 wrote:
wow. you're right!
and the problem with that? Still a very cool song. |
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lily34
(lexvegas) | | Posted: May 11, 2012 - 13:49 | |
ddog wrote:I like The Church but this sounds like Midnight Oil in slow motion.. wow. you're right! |
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smackiepipe
(Western North Carolina) | | Posted: Feb 22, 2012 - 12:31 | |
The Church had a habit of starting a lot of their albums with slow-mid tempo songs like this. Kind of eases you. Like the song, love the album.
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ddog
(Midwest USA) | | Posted: Jan 05, 2012 - 16:11 | |
I like The Church but this sounds like Midnight Oil in slow motion..
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WonderLizard
(2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise) | | Posted: Nov 19, 2011 - 07:57 | |
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kaybee
(Lost in the Wilds of Toronto) | | Posted: Jun 30, 2011 - 18:09 | |
Well, I have to disagree...I like this.
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More_Cowbell
(Northern IL) | | Posted: Apr 28, 2011 - 07:45 | |
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handyrae
(Zero Point Field) | | Posted: Apr 12, 2011 - 12:02 | |
horstman wrote:Like a lot of albums back in the day, this is collection of songs that is to be taken in its entirety, not as individual songs. The album is a very good, expressive.
But I think this song is very strong and has a great upward progression towards its end. They were a phenomenal band of the 80s sound, very intellectual. One of my faves.
I politely disagree. I can think of very few albums from the 1980s that should be listened to as a collection of songs. But then I spent the 80s making mix-tapes, so maybe it's just me. |
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Det
(Lower Saxony Germany) | | Posted: Apr 12, 2011 - 12:00 | |
the task of - being human
how many time of him (it) (whom) (he, she,...) (human) is worth in money currency 4 freedom?
so what !!!! - enjoy (I - human) do
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JsDad
(Chapel Hill, NC) | | Posted: Feb 08, 2011 - 15:38 | |
Great album. Not one of my favorite tracks.
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horstman
(Syracuse, New York) | | Posted: Dec 23, 2010 - 15:20 | |
ckcotton wrote:MUCH better songs on this album...
Like a lot of albums back in the day, this is collection of songs that is to be taken in its entirety, not as individual songs. The album is a very good, expressive. But I think this song is very strong and has a great upward progression towards its end. They were a phenomenal band of the 80s sound, very intellectual. One of my faves. |
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ckcotton
| | Posted: Sep 03, 2010 - 10:29 | |
MUCH better songs on this album...
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Stingray
(EUROPE) | | Posted: Sep 03, 2010 - 10:27 | |
"Notte goot...!"
said my Italian girlfriend!
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CoYoT51
(Lima, Perù - Reims, France) | | Posted: Aug 18, 2010 - 12:12 | |
stevenv58 wrote:Not a great pick me up for the morning, that’s for sure.....sounds like their dying........
F#cking A, man! |
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CoYoT51
(Lima, Perù - Reims, France) | | Posted: Aug 18, 2010 - 12:10 | |
They sound so happy to sing...
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ihategrapejuice
(Bloomington, IN) | | Posted: Aug 02, 2010 - 10:22 | |
I keep hearing the old Windows shut down sound in here...
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peter_james_bond
(The Burg) | | Posted: Mar 12, 2010 - 13:29 | |
jadewahoo wrote:What a fucking frigging brilliant song!
Had to edit your comment. Common decency dictates that you watch your language around the Church.  |
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audiophelia
(Pennsylvania) | | Posted: Mar 12, 2010 - 13:29 | |
Still boring after all these years...
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a_genuine_find
(not me, Radio P) (3rd stone, sol, orion belt, milkyway) | | Posted: Jan 08, 2010 - 13:42 | |
spigolli wrote:... this church actually deserves to be torched
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stevenv58
(Elliot Lake Ontario, Canada) | | Posted: Dec 08, 2009 - 05:02 | |
Not a great pick me up for the morning, that’s for sure.....sounds like their dying........
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EssexTex
(Gitche Gumee) | | Posted: Oct 06, 2009 - 06:42 | |
They even sound bored....like me
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digizone
| | Posted: Oct 06, 2009 - 06:40 | |
One of the best new albums this year was from The Church - "Untitled #23" Please play some here! Crank the "Deadman's Hand" it rocks!
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k_trout
(Dream State) | | Posted: Jul 19, 2009 - 10:40 | |
"We lose half the congregation every time American Idol starts up". Kenneth Parcell |
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xkolibuul
(Chuckanut sandstone) | | Posted: Apr 30, 2009 - 23:57 | |
healyf52 wrote:kind of sound like 'Midnight Oil' on xanax.. Nice. Both are from Oz after all. |
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wrangler
(swamps of jersey) | | Posted: Apr 15, 2009 - 06:17 | |
yes! thanks. great song, album, and band. just saw yesterday that they will be playing at irving plaza in nyc this summer.
"it's not a religion, it's just a technique"
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spigolli
(Peachtree City, GA, USA) | | Posted: Mar 30, 2009 - 10:52 | |
... this church actually deserves to be torched
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rdo
(DC) | | Posted: Mar 14, 2009 - 17:44 | |
The build up at the beginning sounds like that song by the Divinyls. Every time I hear this I start expecting the line "I touch myself..." |
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