michaelgmitchell
(Stirling, ON) | | Posted: Feb 16, 2013 - 11:47 | |
bluematrix wrote:I will always think of a new years many years ago when i hear this song. I was at a party at a friends house and everyone had someone to kiss at midnight, except for me. I was sitting on the bench of this baby grand piano (no not playing) and feeling sorry for myself when this song came on a few minutes later. I could feel the pain in her voice and it matched and ignited my own. I'm not that emotional of a guy, but... I'm not sure I've ever cried so hard before. I slipped out the back door and walked in the woods most of the night.
The power of music... Thanks for sharing this. Hard to spill it all out there. Easier here, though, as we're relatively anonymous. It was important enough for you to take the time to write it. Just as important that someone acknowledge this. I chose to. I'm sure you've moved on from that memory ... as I've moved on from many of mine, thankfully. |
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Jelani
(Home of the freak, land of the vague) | | Posted: Feb 16, 2013 - 11:43 | |
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michaelgmitchell
(Stirling, ON) | | Posted: Feb 16, 2013 - 11:42 | |
 Passionate woman, brilliant song-writing. Still have this CD's tracks on my playlist. |
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leafmold
| | Posted: Sep 12, 2012 - 12:26 | |
Loved her, back in the day.
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Cornelia
(Arlington VA) | | Posted: Sep 12, 2012 - 12:23 | |
I feel like I'm supposed to like this, but I just don't. I recognize it's unique & heartfelt — but I just can't jibe with her style. Can't win them all. Maybe it would hit me differently on another day.
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kingart
(Brooklyn NY) | | Posted: Jul 11, 2012 - 14:04 | |
Nice song. Heartfelt. But at first I thought it was Edie Brickell. Which almost made me hit the PSD. Shooting rubber bands at an off key voice.
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daedalus
(Over your hill) | | Posted: May 09, 2012 - 02:54 | |
I'd have given her my heart on a plate!
She always seems to have worn hers on her sleeve, no matter what.
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FlatCat
(Chicago) | | Posted: Apr 07, 2012 - 09:22 | |
Still like this, but over time RLJ has come to sound very affected to my ears.
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bluematrix
(confluence of mississippi and missouri rivers) | | Posted: Apr 07, 2012 - 09:08 | |
I will always think of a new years many years ago when i hear this song. I was at a party at a friends house and everyone had someone to kiss at midnight, except for me. I was sitting on the bench of this baby grand piano (no not playing) and feeling sorry for myself when this song came on a few minutes later. I could feel the pain in her voice and it matched and ignited my own. I'm not that emotional of a guy, but... I'm not sure I've ever cried so hard before. I slipped out the back door and walked in the woods most of the night.
The power of music...
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Euskadita
(MX) | | Posted: Apr 07, 2012 - 09:02 | |
crockydile wrote: How about a 2-Marginal ? Less than acceptable |
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On_The_Beach
(The Blue Planet) | | Posted: Mar 06, 2012 - 18:54 | |
lbaltz wrote:. . . This is a great track from one of her best records. . . . I'd take it one step further; the best song from her best album. |
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lbaltz
(Sag Harbor, NY) | | Posted: Mar 06, 2012 - 16:55 | |
I always smile when Rickie Lee is played. This is a great track from one of her best records. Then there's "Traces of the Western Slopes"...
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CamLwalk
(Albany NY) | | Posted: Dec 02, 2011 - 11:04 | |
Always loved this album. Big fan of Rickie. Saw her at the Chance in Poughkeepsie back when this came out. Magic.
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mrdak
(Middle GA) | | Posted: Dec 02, 2011 - 11:04 | |
Rickie Rocks, baby  |
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Cynaera
(Kenneth's Frequency) | | Posted: Aug 29, 2011 - 17:47 | |
I love this song - so intimate... I have a live version from her boxed set, and it's really great - she improvises and changes the words, and I love it, too - but this version holds my heart. I still find that when I hear it, I inadvertently hold my breath until my body tells me I better breathe or I'll end up in an emergency room... I love Rickie Lee Jones. Always.
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mike_chouinard
| | Posted: Jul 29, 2011 - 08:28 | |
Rickie Lee helped me escape the tedium of the British Columbia Bible Belt town I grew up in. It was probably a little odd for a straight teenage boy to be listening to her, but when I think of the pap my peers were listening to during the early 80s (poodle metal, wimpy Brit techno-pop), I guess I had to grab on to something different (with help from my oldest sister). Steve Gadd's tomtoms, alone, make this song a gem.
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Jelani
(Home of the freak, land of the vague) | | Posted: Jul 29, 2011 - 08:25 | |
fredriley wrote:
Ah, well that's one way of judging people - whether they acknowledge a singer's "genius" or not, and if they don't they must be emotionally deficient. Thanks for the pity, mate, but no thanks. Even when my life was an emotional roller-coaster I hated RLJ's voice, and "Chuck E's in love" has been in my top 10 most hated for at least two decades.
Cheers!!!! Couldn't stand her since the day I first heard her in high school in the 70's. |
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Gregoria
| | Posted: Apr 25, 2011 - 17:22 | |
fredriley wrote:
Ah, well that's one way of judging people - whether they acknowledge a singer's "genius" or not, and if they don't they must be emotionally deficient. Thanks for the pity, mate, but no thanks. Even when my life was an emotional roller-coaster I hated RLJ's voice, and "Chuck E's in love" has been in my top 10 most hated for at least two decades.
Yeah, 3 times hearing Chuck E's in Love was 2 times too many, but this album changed my mind about Rickie Lee Jones. I haven't heard this in 20 years, but the first chords brought it all back. Great album, not that anyone cares about albums anymore. |
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LuvWilloughby
(Westmore,VT) | | Posted: Apr 25, 2011 - 17:17 | |
Couldn't agree more. Held up really well for being 30 y.o.
coding_to_music wrote:Eleven !
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blueotis
(Olympia, W@) | | Posted: Feb 21, 2011 - 16:53 | |
If music is the doctor of my soul, then this woman is my pharmacist.
She always comes through with the right script. Thanks Dr. Bill... |
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coding_to_music
(Beantown) | | Posted: Jan 21, 2011 - 10:35 | |
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fredriley
(Nottingham, UK) | | Posted: Nov 19, 2010 - 07:51 | |
justin_thyme wrote:A brilliant song from one of great talents of our time. I feel sorry for those who lack the ability to appreciate RLJ for the genius she is . . . their lives must be so emotionally flat.
Ah, well that's one way of judging people - whether they acknowledge a singer's "genius" or not, and if they don't they must be emotionally deficient. Thanks for the pity, mate, but no thanks. Even when my life was an emotional roller-coaster I hated RLJ's voice, and "Chuck E's in love" has been in my top 10 most hated for at least two decades. |
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(former member)
| | Posted: Oct 18, 2010 - 15:50 | |
This tune'll always have a fond place in my heart. Had a dream one night that was particularly vivid about finding a lost relative. It was an emotional reunion in that dreamworld and somehow this made it into my brain's soundtrack to the event.  |
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bachbeet
| | Posted: Sep 16, 2010 - 22:06 | |
I like a lot of Rickie's stuff. Especially her debut album. This may not be her best but it's still good.
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On_The_Beach
(Vancouver BC, Bud) | | Posted: Jul 14, 2010 - 23:37 | |
lwilkinson wrote:I keep visualizing a drunk sitting on a bar stool and crying into her bourbon.
Perhaps you should stop staring into the mirror. |
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justin_thyme
(Windward O`ahu, Hawai`i) | | Posted: Apr 10, 2010 - 15:11 | |
A brilliant song from one of great talents of our time. I feel sorry for those who lack the ability to appreciate RLJ for the genius she is . . . their lives must be so emotionally flat.
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crockydile
(Outer Spiral Arm, Milky Way) | | Posted: Apr 10, 2010 - 15:09 | |
lwilkinson wrote: a bad poem set to discordant music and then described as a "song".
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Clark_Kent
(Krypton...well, almost (Vienna)) | | Posted: Nov 04, 2009 - 08:01 | |
For me the song started as an "8" but dropped to a "5" somewhere in the middle of the song...
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lwilkinson
(North Am-Home of the Last of the Rugged Individualists) | | Posted: Nov 04, 2009 - 07:56 | |
I take affront at a bad poem set to discordant music and then described as a "song". I keep visualizing a drunk sitting on a bar stool and crying into her bourbon.   |
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ceviche
(Lima, Peru) | | Posted: Nov 04, 2009 - 07:55 | |
Boy, it's been a long time - this LP got a lot of rotation when it came out and I had my studio apt in college. Reminds me of a whole crowd of people with whom I long ago lost touch. Hah!
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