This is freakin cool

 unclehud wrote: 
Some stuff still seems vibrant and relevant years later, some does not. This tune is okay, but it is heavily dated (which is fine) and it isn't quite Bach or Coltrane.  Do you really listen to John Cage - does anyone?

 RonBraithwaite wrote: 
If RP has taught us anything, it's that good music is good music....age doesn't matter.

 johnjconn wrote: 
Good one!!!!     

This is so good. Stopped working to listen.  Wow.

More from the magically musical year of 1969

Nice call. I haven't heard these guys in forever.

Don't know what to think of this.  I will flag it as a 6 for now.

Feeling more than a little Grappelli in this one. =)

Wow, heavy man, heavy. Back when music was more than music, it was COSMIC, know what I mean? Just kidding. But seriously, really, really good stuff, they don't make cars like they used to(thank goodness), but I wish more music was made like this stuff, karma filled joy.If you really like this song, you should buy the album, The Dolphin is one of my fav's as well, and was covered much later by Gove Scrivenor on his album from a few years back. Man oh man, life was good back then, life's still good, and I really believe in spite of all of the naysayers and end of the worlders out there, that it will be a good life in the future. You just gotta keep your focus, keep smilin, no matter what.

Tune has soul 

I dig.

 Johnny_Wave wrote: 
How about music by Bach, Puccini, Cage, Coltrane, or Elvis?  How about books over 40?  Buildings over 40?  People over 40?  Enough already.

It's A Beautiful Day is one of my all-time favorite bands and this is probably my favorite song from their second album. I wore out three copies of their first album.

And I'm not a complete fuddy-duddy. I like Daft Punk, Radiohead, Porcupine Tree, et.al. But just because a song is more than 40 years old doesn't mean that it is no longer beautiful.

Cool song.

 Ag3nt0rang3 wrote: 

Dude, you really missed out.

 Johnny_Wave wrote: 

Speak for yourself. I like this just as much now as I did then. You evidently could not be bothered to explain how the context of 2010 has changed your opinion from 1970. How old are you, anyway?

Maybe if it were still 1970 this might be OK, but it's 40 years too late.  Enough already

Foot. Won't. Stop. Tapping.  The only other song I've ever heard by these folks is "White Bird."  What a departure "Don And Dewey" is!  I'm lovin' it...

Saw these guys in 1970 at the Bath Festival. Their set was awesome and I bought "Marrying Maiden" as soon as I got back to London. I lost the LP about 20 years ago along with a lot of others from that period so this was a very welcome refresher.

For reasons that are beyond me, this reminds me of "Whistlin' Past The Graveyard" by Tom Waits (off Blue Valentines). That album is from 78, a good 8 years after It's a Beautiful Day recorded "Don and Dewey".

No idea why.

Am I going mad?

I considered myself a fan of these guys back in the day — yes, a long time ago, why don't you rub it in, AgentOrange— and I've never heard this track. Thanks for playing it, Bill. And the segue to the following track, Embryonic Journey by Jefferson Airplane, was flawless. Bravo.

Haven't heard this since it came out in 1970—nice!

 Gryn wrote: 
I'm in my 30's, and the 1960's were before I was born. That's a long time ago.

One of the best bands of the era. So fun to see them live. Deserves way higher rating!

Christmas Eve and I'm busy working my ass off to get stuff done so I can put work to rest for the next two days.  Man, THIS is the sort of thing that you only get on Radio Paradise to make that whole process go SO much better.

I bet Huey and Louie are feeling a bit left out.

Havent heard this for a very long time!! Thanks RP!!