Another Smiths song that runs the emotional (and musical) gamut from A to C ...

Okay, I am changing the station now knowing full well that music taste is subjective.

Everybody in my church be dancing to this marvelous song...  love it...
 

Drone.....Drone...... Drone....

Ok, wow, sounded like the BNL lead singer (being played on RP!? no way!) love them - had to check - ah, the Smiths

Pretty good Smiths tune. Just not in the mood for it right now I guess. Meet you at the symmetry gates.

 warderblu wrote: 

This is so Mint!

 

"And then produce the text
From whence was ripped
Some dizzy whore, 1804"

That last line cracks me up, especially the way Morrissey delivers it with that drawl of his.

Love the Smiths. Any song with Keats and Yates in it rates in my book.

Everybody in my hotel room be dancing to this marvelous song...

 

 dkeifer wrote: 

I agree...  we be dancing...  love it...

While Wilde is on mine.

Perfect jingle jangle pop by the greatest band/songwriting pair of the past 30 years.

Before you start arguing, remember there's always someone, somewhere with a big nose who knows. In this instance, it's me.

Great song! The Smiths at their retro Brit Indie best!

I highly doubt that Yates is on my side.  He was Illuminati. -_-

 daedalus wrote: 
Embarrassing to whom?  Maybe you've spent too much time in that labyrinth of yours.

Dude should sing on Broadway

 crockydile wrote:  I wouldn't be that generous.

 crockydile wrote: 
lol

Automatic 2 for a song with him singing.

 DigitalJer wrote: 
Awesome (and impressive) breakdown.

Sometimes Morrissey can be a bit of a dreary drawers, but the lyrics are often quite funny, like these:

If you must write prose/poems
The words you use should be your own
Don't plagiarise or take "on loan"
'Cause there's always someone, somewhere
With a big nose, who knows
And who trips you up and laughs
When you fall
Who'll trip you up and laugh
When you fall
You say : "'Ere long done do does did"
Words which could only be your own
And then produce the text
From whence was ripped
(Some dizzy whore, 1804)

 DigitalJer wrote: 
He also tries to avoid repeating the same artist often.  You know, like Morrissey twice in four hours.  Hence my message.

 nate917 wrote: 
All cred to DrLex:

I think expecting Radio Paradise to have a playlist of 8 billion songs, or even 8 million songs, is quite a bit of lack of perspective. Do you ever come out in the real world? Even in my country where FM radio doesn't suck as hard as in the US, you'll hear the same song multiple times a day unless you'd go working, shopping and dining while wearing industrial ear protection. Because you seem to like numbers, here's some mathematics. Suppose a station has a playlist of 10000 songs. I have no idea how many songs the active playlist of RP has, but this seems reasonable, especially in the light of the following assumption. Suppose this station is run by DJ Random, who gives every song a number between 1 to 10000 and uses a perfect random number generator to pick the next song. Suppose you listen to 120 songs this way (at an average of 4 minutes per song, that would take 8 hours). The birthday paradox says that in this case (see simulation below), there's a 50% chance that you'll hear the same song twice in this time span!

For a playlist of 50000 songs, the 50% chance of repetition is already reached at approx. 250 picks, not the expected 600. Of course, while many radio streams work this way, on RP this is not how it's done — luckily. First of all, Bill avoids the horrible transitions that DJ Random would produce, by combining songs that actually belong together. This reduces the amount of randomness, but of course Bill has a memory and will try to avoid repeating the same song often. To minimize repetition, he would need to create an ideal sequence of all songs once, and repeat this eternally. But that would become boring too, so as a compromise and to keep managing RP tractable, Bill recycles 'stretches' of playlist, slowly mutating them and discarding them after a while. And Bill is only human, so he'll play the songs that he likes a little bit more often than others. I wasted some of my time telling this story to show that things can be a whole lot worse, and I believe RP comes damn close to an ideal radio station. You just have to accept the fact that ideality doesn't exist and that some of the songs you don't like will be played, and repeated after a while.

We just heard Smiths four hours ago.  I guess it's Drama Queen Day in Paradise.

Always reminds me of the teeny-bopper Goths hanging out at Evergreen Cemetery in Santa Cruz as I would walk past, to work, in the mid-80s. Actually, they were kind of frightening.

'Some Dippy Whore 1804'
always makes me laugh

erf - mildly melodic whining.....

what stinky fish fails to tell us was that he was 14 when he kept beating up the 5th grader.

 Roverfish wrote: