Grating and painful. Everytime I take it down a notch. But now I'm at 1! Now what? A petition? No, the mute button will do.

Well-placed Satie sample. Good track.

Clariposa wrote:

Now that's funny! At least the next time this song rolls around I'll have the image of some woman standing up every few seconds . . . "boing" . . . "boing"

Odyzzeuz wrote:

Wow, you're so smart! I mean, obviously, because somebody doesn't like this song, this one song, they prefer the drivel spewed forth by Clear Channel. And don't forget that they're clones! You sure figured out everything pretty quickly!

I thought she was saying "boing".
She sounds like Bjork to me.

LennytheB wrote:

You're crazy. Time to seek professional help...

Call me crazy... I started with a 3 on this one.. found myself at a 6.

It is cool to like Elvis Costello. Must be cool. Must remember to like this song while I'm driving ice picks in my ears to stop the monotony...

radiojunkie wrote:

Listening to the drill at the dentist triggers an emotional reaction too. Sometimes causing me to sweat. Maybe that will be my first upload on RP.

Odyzzeuz wrote:

you are so unique, just like everyone else.

UNN

welcome to playlist portion of our show, our playlist have miraculous healing powers.

not really my speed

I find this fascinating. The woman saying ''und'' in the background over and over is weirdly mesmerizing. I swear I'd rather listen to something experimental like this that endure another Counting Crows by-the-numbers thing. I mean, those who are knocking this, why are you listening to an alternative ''eclectic'' mix when you can get something owned by Clearchannel? They never surprise anybody. And go eat at McDonalds while you're at it, you clone.

jadewahoo wrote:

You pegged it!!

jadewahoo wrote:

The trite and superficial version of the above:

Why is it that the very act of listening to this song makes me feel cooler than I am? Like "stiletto-wielding-blonde-Russian-secret-agent-named-Svetlana" cool.

Shesdifferent wrote:

Abso - friggin - lutely! :puke: :puke:

I was just about to leave work & now I'll have to stay for a few more songs to get this mess out of my mental audio banks....when will it end??? AAAAAggghhhhhh

Shimmer wrote:
It depends on your definition of "enjoy." There are quite a number of recordings I love listening to because they trigger an emotional reaction. Sometimes they cause me to sweat. Usually, they're not songs I would play if I had somebody else as a captive audience -- say, in the car. This is one of them. It's a personal experience.

RP your really being cruel with this one....what an awful song...and the girl in the background makes it even worse :puke:

Shimmer wrote:

Yeah, I do. I will not always be in the exact mood for it. But it's a cool song, perfectly eclectic for RP, and is also quite intense as part of an almost three hour live show in a big club where you're standing 25 feet directly in front of him.

Govi wrote:
And today it shrinks further to a 2. But I'm not quite ready to compare it to a rabid dog!

I like this song. It has that Elvis Costello self loathing and dark slickness that I have come to know and love.

Prefer...

Once upon a time
You let me feel you deep inside
And nobody knew, nobody saw
Do you remember the way you cried?

I'm your toy, I'm your old boy
But I don't want no one but you to love me
Oh I wouldn't lie
You know I'm not that kind of guy

E.C.'s version of Cohen's I'm Your Man

tictocsailor wrote:

I, too. This one I could happily never hear again. Sometimes I get stuck in a situation in which it is inconvenient to change or shut it off, and I feel like I've been cornered by a rabid dog.

Is there anyone who actually enjoys this song? I can appreciate it on some abstract intellectual level, but I can't imagine playing it for pleasure.

Disclaimer: I am a rabid Elvis fan.

I've been thinking about this song for weeks but my old fogey brain couldn't come up with the title or album it was on. Thanks RP! I've been dying to hear this!

Lots of the RP songs grow on me. This one shrinks. Down to 4. I can go a long time without hearing "und" again.

The dark litany of this song really got a hold of me, drew me into its limbo and insisted that there is no safe way out. Powerful. Beautiful.

elvis vs. elvis...

Two newspaper editors like playground sneaks
Running a book on which of them is going to last the week
One of them calls to me
And he says, "I know you"
"You gave me this tattoo back in '82"
"You were a spoilt child then with a record to plug"
"And I was a shaven headed seaside thug"
"Things haven't really changed that much"
"One of us is still getting paid too much"

There are some things I can't report
The memory of his last retort
But it was so much easier
When I was cruel

.......

Don't stop thinking of me,
don't make me feel this way,
Come on over here and love me,
you know what I want you to say.
Don't be cruel to a heart that's true.
Why should we be apart?
I really love you baby, cross my heart.

daedalus wrote:

And from futher out 'Gymnopidea' (??) from Eric Satie way in the back ground