10/10 for tortoise hearts comment; 2/10 for Crowded House wannabe song.

 winter wrote: 
I HAD to bring this comment back - Winter, you just crack me up.  I love Michael Penn's music - he's able to put a twist on any subject matter and be serious and silly at the same time.  Quite a gift...

 lostindetroit wrote: 
Definitely a Matthew Sweet thing going on here.

 Jazbo wrote: 
you are most correct sir...

Someone needs to upload March (1989), please.

The cover must be a reference to the cult BBC TV series The Prisoner, featuring Patrick McGoohan as a secret agent who resigns and is then kidnapped to a strange village. The opening sequence shows lines of filing cabinets with 'Resigned' written on them. More detail at Wikipedia.

Be seeing you :o)

Gotta say I really like this guy. Also like his taste in women!!

Thank you for jarring my memory, I use to love Michael Penn!! - He's been around a long time, and definitely unsung. 

can't help it. still like it.

meh. How uninspired and boring.

His website is attractive when it comes to look but it's crap when it comes to getting infos.

One of the very few Beatles songs I've ever liked! Oh wait..

Farquwaar wrote:
I agree... I don't know about superstar, but I think he is hugely under rated and very talented.

These days superstar status seems to be reserved for crap pop stars with a few exceptions.

Here's a guy who should be a superstar!!! Always interesting, imaginative and unique...

Sounds like one of the brothers Finn, listen to those cords ... I thought this was a recent Split Enz song or something (they reformed to tour)

psycholynx wrote:

"Let's hear it for the boy..."

Here's an article on Chris if anybody is interested...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4645862.stm

IceNine wrote:I'll play Footloose.

passsion8 wrote:

Dead at only 40 years old. They haven't released the cause of death yet, but whatever it was, it's still pretty sad.

I think I'll go home and watch Reservoir Dogs tonight.

RIP Chris Penn - found dead today

randomprime wrote:

I hear you. But you gotta get over it.

I mean, do I boycott every Michael Douglas film, throw pigs' blood and tortoise hearts at him at the premieres, and send daily 5000-word letters full of adolescent angst and lurid erotic poetry to Catherine Zeta-Jones?

Wait a minute - yeah, I do.

OK, never mind. Do your own thing.

I'm torn by this; I hate Micheal Penn because he married Aimmee Mann - I just know she'd dig me if she got to know me. But I loved this whole album before I knew it was the man who stole my Mann. What to do?!?

I think he's got that pop sensibility that is shared with artists like Elliott Smith, Matthew Sweet, and even Ben Folds.

I guess if I have nothing nice to say I should not say anything... How did this make the RP playlist and it has an average rating of 7???

hitz wrote:
Well, that ain't a bag gig, now is it?

well I like it. so there. the music says plenty & I don't give a rat's a-- about the rest.

justin timberlake? you must be joking. matthew sweet is more like what I'm thinking.

Outstanding! Great record. The influence Brendan O'Brien had here is marked.

hitz wrote:

You're entitled to an opinion, even if I don't share it. You say it with such certaintly... that doesn't make your opinion fact though.

I believe Michael Penn is quite talented. Yes, his songs have been hit or miss, but his "March" CD has some excellent writing on it, well deserving of praise. Several of his songs since then have been quite good, IMHO. Yes, I agree that Aimee is probably a better songwriter.... but saying that doesn't mean Michael Penn's accomplishments are any less significant.

hitz wrote:
Aimee was 15 the first time around. Doesn't count.

Mark1970 wrote:

OK, I'll volunteer. I hate to think of JT reduced to grabbing off JJ's clothes for a living.