I always liked this one.  Like oldsaxon, I also liked undun, these eyes, etc.

Lordy, YES!  Summit County, CO, Summer and Winter of '84...but also amazingly ripping were When You Touch Me, Undun, and No Sugar Tonight/ New Mother Nature Suite...
and this, still as radical and bad-assed a song now as ever...Jam it!

Killer Tune.  Here's another version w/ a cameo.  Guess who? 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8cHE6Q93FY

Had the 45-right next to my Grand Funk Railroad.

I expect Canada has smaller death count from guns than America. Nothing to be jealous about there eh ?

Great song BTW.

Never gets lame asking people to guess who is playing this. 

I kind of like Canadian acts, Neil Young, RUSH, Leonard Cohen,The Band,Cowboy Junkies, Daniel Lanois and William Shatner.

 Carrizito wrote: 
For realio?

Ah give me a break....this belongs in the dust bin

 Kokoloco53 wrote: 
I had a laugh. I seriously hope it was supposed to be funny.

 Kokoloco53 wrote: 
Amen, my American brother :)

 fredriley wrote: 

True, Ike coined the term.   I'd slash that damn budget in half. Supposed to be for defense. Our defense.  I'd slash all government in half, though, so I don't think you and I are speaking the same language.  I do find it amusing though to hear Europeans complaining about subsidies going out of the US and abroad, smack dab into their coffers.  These bases are subsidies, you know, to the host country.  It's you guys sucking Uncle Sam's big ole Yankee teat.  Please, ask us to leave, kick us out.  I beg you! Good luck on your governments allowing that.

Rometuma's consistant, that's for sure. I always chuckle and find it endearing in a Forrest Gump kinda way. I have no problem with him. He likes what he likes, and nothing else floats within his bubble.

Monkeysdad wrote: 
Agreed!

 romeotuma wrote: 
Romeotuma, have you ever met a song you didnt rate a 10? Isnt there another forum online somewhere you might post your countless political articles and your silly 'everybody in my hotel room....' comment that is sprinkled some 3K times on RP?

Apparently, this song was mostly improvised (the lyrics that is) as the band was just in this groove and Burton stepped to the mike and started with that classic line. Would never have made it to vinyl had not there been someone in the studio with a tape recorder...one of the first of the kind..

Sounds like that kid on American Idol right now, Philip Philips. 

Classic indeed...one that didn't need a re-do by Lenny Kravitz whatsoever!

Classic....guess you had to be there!
 

Everybody in my hotel room loves this song...

 

All right, that does it. I'm from the era, and The Guess Who has always been a favorite, and their anthem song American Woman is truly a classic, but I also like the jazz favorite, Undun, These Eyes and Laughing. But I understand that the yournger listeners could be critical, I just didn't think they would have created such an uproar politcally regarding Canada, our brothers from the north of the Amercian continent. Are we not all Americans, from the north pole to the southern streches of Argentina? Amerigo Vespucci was one of the first explorers of the Americas and is where our name comes from. C'mon, lighten up, enjoy the day, dig it.

 kcar wrote: 
The 'military-industrial complex' was identified by a US Pres, Eisenhower no less, way back in 1961. All that's changed since then is the size and influence of this system. Only yesterday Pres Obama, flanked by various bemedalled top brass and pointy-heads, announced military spending cuts and 'realignment of forces' (see BBC story) - it'll be interesting to see if the complex defeats that proposal.

Not that it's got anything to do with this song, mind - it just came to mind when I saw your post, so I thought I'd throw in my 2 cent's worth (Euro cents, naturally).

I was just a kid and I thought this was horrible then. Earns a Sucko-Barfo.

and for the record consider Canadians pretty smart.

 aelfheld wrote: 

Actually, your original post is pretty snarky. And too long to make the "jealous" and "resentful" summation a mere throwaway line. 

Btw, a stable and prosperous democracy like Canada does not lose its military like a set of car keys. If elected Canadian governments reduced or merely maintained a level of military capability, they did so as an expression of voters' wishes. I'm not sure how its present military strength "is a bad thing for Canada." Are the Inuits on the warpath? 

We'll have to disagree about the influence of the American military on American government officials. I'm not talking about deployments—and neither were you with your ship and plane numbers. I'm talking about military budgets and weapons systems. It is insanely hard to kill a weapons project because contractors and lobbyists pressure Congress and the White House to keep boondoggles alive. Contractors also spread work and jobs on a project over many states to maximize federal government support and prevent cuts. 

As a recent Wired article put it: "While a relative handful of troops fight and die "downrange" in war zones, a massive bureaucracy develops strategies, spends money, and—most especially—builds weapons, all in the name of theoretical, decades-hence showdowns. It's a $500 billion perpetual motion machine."

Bush I, Clinton, Bush II and Obama have all fought to control our military budgets and taken heat for it. American military expenditures in 2010 were about 6 times larger than those of China which has the world's 2nd-largest military. Whom are we competing with now? 

"The only ones you find talking about 'drawbacks to having the world's largest military' are those who want to spend that money on their own enthusiasms."

Dick Cheney, is that you? 

 kcar wrote: 
First off, I'm not 'snarking' about the Canadian military - the loss of its once vaunted military is a bad thing for Canada.

If you think the military tail wags the American dog, then you've been watching entirely too many silly movies and not bothering to pay attention to actual military deployments.  The only ones you find talking about 'drawbacks to having the world's largest military' are those who want to spend that money on their own enthusiasms.

As for the bit about Canadians being 'jealous', that was a throw-away line about a song irritating ab initio.

 aelfheld wrote: 
My bad—read your post too quickly. But I'm still a bit confused as to why you think that Canadians should be jealous or resentful about the relative size of their armed forces. Most Americans these days will tell you that there are plenty of drawbacks to having the world's largest military. Too often the tail wags the dog. 

Btw—how did you jump from a song about American women to snarking about the Canadian military? 

prefer Lenny's version.

 kcar wrote: 
Neither resentful nor jealous.

I'm not Canadian.

not sure it should have 6.8 score, either

 Ahnyer_Keester wrote: 
Nothing in the list of available tunes, would be sweet though.

 jenseda wrote: 
The greatest piece of gobbledy-gook...

 aelfheld wrote: 

My friend, if you checked out the percentage of the US federal budget going to the military (as "defense") and explored the modern-day instances of the American "military-industrial complex" that Eisenhower warned about, then you'd be neither resentful nor jealous. 

 

This should be followed by something, anything by BTO.