bam23
(Berkeley) | | Posted: Sep 07, 2012 - 11:44 | |
I found this CD as part of a collection being given away in front of a house several years ago. My first effort to really listen to Rickie Lee Jones. It is very good, politically driven, and it was really my first time really listening to her music. If only we could somehow delete certain overplayed and really not very representative songs from the airwaves (as well as my memory banks), the world would be revealed as more interesting than it sometimes appears. I guess this means I like the CD.
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Sloggydog
(UK) | | Posted: Sep 07, 2012 - 11:33 | |
Totally missed it first time through but liking it now
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shellbella
(so california) | | Posted: Jul 06, 2012 - 13:28 | |
Nice!!!!!  |
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kayumann
(Right where I want to be...) | | Posted: Nov 27, 2011 - 11:32 | |
Love the bass line pulsing through this tune !
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cohifi
(Denver) | | Posted: Oct 26, 2011 - 21:05 | |
i wish it didn't sound this goodd keyboard slip  |
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Cynaera
(South of Neanderthal) | | Posted: Oct 13, 2010 - 17:01 | |
EleventhMan wrote:You're joking I hope...Chuck E is Chuck E. Weiss...good friend of Rickie's, best bud of Tom Waits...back in their hobo days hanging out at Ebbet's Field blues club in Denver...then on to the Tropicana Motel in L.A....of Janis Joplin/Jim Morrison fame... go here for good Chuck E bio: (click here)She writes a lot of autobiographical stuff - some of her most beautiful songs are rooted in tragedy. "Skeletons" was written for her friend Bird, who was shot and killed by police in a case of mistaken identity. I can't listen to her music without getting pulled into her life. I guess that's why she always gets a 10 from me. |
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nigelr
(Coffs Harbour, Australia) | | Posted: Jul 10, 2010 - 00:46 | |
Mari wrote:Thanx for bringin' this back up Bill!  Love Rickie!  |
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peter_james_bond
(The Burg) | | Posted: Feb 01, 2010 - 15:14 | |
kcar wrote:Here I am, watering my plants in the middle of the night, and I gotta say: this is pretty good! I'm glad some DJ realizes that Rickie Lee actually wrote and performed more than one song...Thanks, Bill.
Ha, so true. I really like this one too. Rickie is not very prolific but when she does release material it's usually pretty good. |
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kcar
| | Posted: Jun 26, 2009 - 00:23 | |
Here I am, watering my plants in the middle of the night, and I gotta say: this is pretty good! I'm glad some DJ realizes that Rickie Lee actually wrote and performed more than one song...Thanks, Bill.
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pinklife
(St. Augustine, FL) | | Posted: Apr 23, 2009 - 13:36 | |
Does anyone else hear "Boris the Spider" in the bass line here?
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nigelr
(Coffs Harbour, Australia) | | Posted: Oct 16, 2008 - 02:13 | |
Gregorama wrote:Rickie Lee is awesome. Very few singers can be considered any cooler than she is.
The big deal is that she has a great voice, is a fantastic story teller, and that she is way hipper than the average person.
That, and the fact that her music is classic: it stands the test of time. Plus she has made jazz more palatable to a lot of folks as well.
Thank you sir! 9 minimum. |
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Baum74
(Düsseldorf, Germany) | | Posted: Oct 16, 2008 - 02:12 | |
Nabla wrote:It's very pleasant to recognise that also Rebecca and Bill like a lot of those great tunes which clearly belong to my own CD collection since several years - and which I am still playing again, again and again... Please continue in this way!  Hey, wow, lucky you!  |
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Nabla
(Ver-Cork-st (Ireland)) | | Posted: Aug 02, 2007 - 07:37 | |
It's very pleasant to recognise that also Rebecca and Bill like a lot of those great tunes which clearly belong to my own CD collection since several years - and which I am still playing again, again and again... Please continue in this way! |
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rbigelo
(Spanish Town) | | Posted: Apr 30, 2007 - 00:20 | |
Good to hear Rickie Lee Jones again! |
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Mari
(île de lesvos) | | Posted: Mar 29, 2007 - 09:57 | |
Thanx for bringin' this back up Bill! Love Rickie! |
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babyjuice
(NYC) | | Posted: Mar 29, 2007 - 09:54 | |
She sounds great here. i saw her perform on the west side piers about 12 yrs ago and she was in bad shape, kind of like watching Hunter S. Thompson try and perform.
This is awesome.
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EleventhMan
(Hangin' around..) | | Posted: Dec 09, 2004 - 08:51 | |
rascal420 wrote:Was "Chuck E" of "Chuck E's in Love" actually Chuck E Cheeze?
That's what I heard.
You're joking I hope...Chuck E is Chuck E. Weiss...good friend of Rickie's, best bud of Tom Waits...back in their hobo days hanging out at Ebbet's Field blues club in Denver...then on to the Tropicana Motel in L.A....of Janis Joplin/Jim Morrison fame...
go here for good Chuck E bio: (click here) |
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Dais
(Chicago) | | Posted: Sep 26, 2004 - 14:39 | |
There are a few smooth voices that just draw you in when you hear them... Rickie Lee Jones is one. Thanks for playing.
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masterhead
(Sacramento, Ca) | | Posted: Sep 01, 2004 - 11:49 | |
Wow, I really enjoy the song, Rickie Lee Jones and I really enjoy this comment too, amazing..I will read more about it. I am ahappy camper
gandalfbmg wrote:
I think I figured it out... I think this is another anti-Bush administration song. Specifically, about Mel Carnahan and John Ashcroft. If you don't know the story, during the 2000 election, Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan was killed when his small airplane crashed. It was very close to the election, too close for a new Democratic candidate to be named. So, the Leutenant Governer (now Governor, since Carnhan was dead) said that if Carnahan won the election, he would appoint his wife Jean to his Senate seat until a new election could be held in 2 years. Well, Carnahan still beat Ashcroft in the election and Jean was appointed to the Senate in his place.
What made me think of this was the line about making sure the senator's wife is on board the next time the plane goes down.
And for my usual soap boxing - It's a bit scary that a man who lost an election to a dead man is now the attorney general. And, Jean Carnahan spoke at my college commencement, I was proud to have seen her.
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ChardRemains
(Washington DC/N. Virginia) | | Posted: Sep 01, 2004 - 11:46 | |
randomprime wrote:
Odd, I always thought it was "Chuck D's in Love" and that RLJ was a closet Public
Enemy fan.
Uh yeah. In 1978? You guyz are either sarcastic as hell or really really dumb. |
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Veritas
(Pacific Northwest) | | Posted: Jul 30, 2004 - 00:02 | |
I'm a big fan of her earlier stuff, and this one didin't do much for me on first listen, but it's wearing better and better. Curious about the rest of the album now.
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MrSpaz
(Orlando, FL) | | Posted: Jun 23, 2004 - 07:59 | |
Daveinbawlmer wrote:
She always sounds like she has a wad of snot stuck in her nose :butt:
I made essentially this same comment on another of her songs that gets played here. What's up with that? You just want to tell her to get that goo cleaned out of there so she can sound out the letters L and N properly again. |
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gandalfbmg
(Parkville, MO) | | Posted: May 10, 2004 - 13:12 | |
gandalfbmg wrote:Did she something about a plane going down in KCMO? Is this based on a real event?
I think I figured it out... I think this is another anti-Bush administration song. Specifically, about Mel Carnahan and John Ashcroft. If you don't know the story, during the 2000 election, Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan was killed when his small airplane crashed. It was very close to the election, too close for a new Democratic candidate to be named. So, the Leutenant Governer (now Governor, since Carnhan was dead) said that if Carnahan won the election, he would appoint his wife Jean to his Senate seat until a new election could be held in 2 years. Well, Carnahan still beat Ashcroft in the election and Jean was appointed to the Senate in his place.
What made me think of this was the line about making sure the senator's wife is on board the next time the plane goes down.
And for my usual soap boxing - It's a bit scary that a man who lost an election to a dead man is now the attorney general. And, Jean Carnahan spoke at my college commencement, I was proud to have seen her. |
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| | Posted: May 10, 2004 - 13:06 | |
I saw Rickie Lee in Cleveland a few months ago. Wasn't taken by the new stuff, but this song is definitely growing on me. Powerful, though restrained groove to it
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randomprime
(Madison, WI) | | Posted: May 10, 2004 - 13:05 | |
rascal420 wrote:Was "Chuck E" of "Chuck E's in Love" actually Chuck E Cheeze?
That's what I heard.
Odd, I always thought it was "Chuck D's in Love" and that RLJ was a closet Public
Enemy fan. |
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rascal420
(Truckee, CA) | | Posted: Apr 27, 2004 - 13:36 | |
Was "Chuck E" of "Chuck E's in Love" actually Chuck E Cheeze?
That's what I heard.
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Gregorama
(Austin, TX) | | Posted: Apr 21, 2004 - 09:04 | |
Rickie Lee is awesome. Very few singers can be considered any cooler than she is.
The big deal is that she has a great voice, is a fantastic story teller, and that she is way hipper than the average person.
That, and the fact that her music is classic: it stands the test of time. Plus she has made jazz more palatable to a lot of folks as well.
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rulebritannia
(Sussex countryside, England) | | Posted: Apr 21, 2004 - 09:00 | |
Jimi_Zep wrote:She's like an even more annoying version of Macy Gray This is NOT my kind of music either....so why am I diggin' it so much?
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Rockabobbie
(monitor-side in the foothills of NC) | | Posted: Apr 21, 2004 - 08:56 | |
ooohhh, nice one, Bill. Nice subtle linkage, following up Tom with Rickie Lee. Takes us right back to LA, circa mid70s.
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Dave_Mack
(Saratoga, CA) | | Posted: Mar 24, 2004 - 08:39 | |
Does this remind anybody of War's "The World Is a Ghetto"? It sounds like them playing too. I'll have to check...
(later)...Well, I did find one guy in common - the mastering guy. Oh, well. No jackpot this time.
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