handyrae
(Zero Point Field) | | Posted: May 22, 2013 - 06:45 | |
pk53 wrote:no song, no matter how great, should be played more frequently than once or twice a month....one shouldn't feel like they hear the same song every time they log in...
Well, the answer is simple then -- log on more often!  |
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pk53
(Sonoma County) | | Posted: Apr 20, 2013 - 23:25 | |
no song, no matter how great, should be played more frequently than once or twice a month....one shouldn't feel like they hear the same song every time they log in...
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Dave_K
(Waterbury, CT) | | Posted: Apr 05, 2013 - 05:55 | |
KCAR wrote:
"Chris Isaak has got to be the most lovelorn sonofabitch in show business"
Funny KCAR, and somebody has to be I guess. Who can think of another lovelorn SOB? Great song by the way.
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Stingray
| | Posted: Apr 05, 2013 - 05:45 | |
Forget anything you think or have heard about Issak. Instead - go see him in concert! |
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Zep
| | Posted: Mar 26, 2013 - 17:05 | |
icemang wrote:It's a good song - probably my favorite CI tune these days - but man, six plays in a month? i think I heard all of them, too. There's too much music in the world for that. A year later, and five plays. But it's cool, I dig this tune. |
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nancyco
| | Posted: Mar 16, 2013 - 19:14 | |
Even pretty boys experience heart-breaking life-shaking sadness, as do pretty girls. I relate to this song.
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oldsaxon
(Wales via Vancouver, BC.) | | Posted: Dec 20, 2012 - 14:19 | |
icemang wrote:It's a good song - probably my favorite CI tune these days - but man, six plays in a month? i think I heard all of them, too. There's too much music in the world for that. Man, that's some jaded remark. If this were "airplay" you'd be getting six a DAY... |
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Highlowsel
(New York City) | | Posted: Dec 20, 2012 - 14:18 | |
Pretty boy with the (sometimes) good music that all the ladies love. Dang him and his voice! Heh!
Highlow
American Net'Zen
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icemang
(Boston & DC, mostly) | | Posted: Dec 16, 2012 - 10:19 | |
Probably my favorite Chris Isaak song - a lot to like, with the heavy reverb, the galloping bassline, his emotive voice....good stuff, not lost in melancholy like I find a lot of his stuff to be.
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Dahlia_Gumbo
(San Francisco) | | Posted: Dec 12, 2012 - 17:13 | |
oh oh, going to see Chris Isaak TOMORROW night in San Francisco.
Yippee.
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MassivRuss
(Massachusetts) | | Posted: Dec 05, 2012 - 06:22 | |
Everyone in my cube loves this song  |
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ziakut
(Slightly North of Obvlivion) | | Posted: Dec 05, 2012 - 06:21 | |
Kinda like this, but not my favorite CI.
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ziggytrix
(Dallas, TX) | | Posted: Aug 28, 2012 - 09:21 | |
run4more wrote:I take no exception to your comment but every time I scroll down and read here I think of other subjects that are available (as per Steve Goodman): mama, trains, trucks, prison, getting drunk, et al. Just in case the man runs out of things to say about love lost...  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Isaak_discography#Singles He does plenty of other songs but it would seem that (with the exception of Santa Claus is Coming to Town, feat. Stevie Nicks) only the heartbreak songs make it to the charts. |
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michaelgmitchell
(Stirling, ON) | | Posted: Aug 16, 2012 - 20:13 | |
 "...look at all you happy people!..." Yes, indeed. How do you think THIS kid feels about all you happy people! |
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ppak
(3rd spherical clast - [Map Ref. 41°N 93°W]) | | Posted: Jun 10, 2012 - 14:01 | |
Love it's Memphis Rootsiness, sort of Carl Perkins meets The Byrds. |
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icemang
(Boston & DC, mostly) | | Posted: Mar 23, 2012 - 05:29 | |
It's a good song - probably my favorite CI tune these days - but man, six plays in a month? i think I heard all of them, too. There's too much music in the world for that.
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Roguewarer
(Southfield, MI) | | Posted: Mar 07, 2012 - 09:04 | |
Enough with the warbling... I used to like him, too. Things must have shifted for me, because now I find his sound and messages more annoying than ever.
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vandal
(arriving somewhere, but not here. . .) | | Posted: Feb 09, 2012 - 16:36 | |
Ears_of_Stone wrote:
I like the song and singer but this comment is hilarious. Thanks for the laugh.
I like the song/singer as well. . . |
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run4more
(The cave) | | Posted: Jan 24, 2012 - 18:35 | |
Sasha2001 wrote:
So I guess you feel just peachy when your girl leaves you? What is the statute of limitations on relationship grief in your book? Without songs about gettin dumped what else would musicians write about?
I take no exception to your comment but every time I scroll down and read here I think of other subjects that are available (as per Steve Goodman): mama, trains, trucks, prison, getting drunk, et al. Just in case the man runs out of things to say about love lost... |
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Ears_of_Stone
(Crushed under the hooves of the herd) | | Posted: Dec 16, 2011 - 10:51 | |
vandal wrote:
. . . needed to be at a higher altitude when they dropped him. . .
I like the song and singer but this comment is hilarious. Thanks for the laugh. |
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coloradojohn
(Tokyo till Jan. 29; can hardly wait! (Hope I don't burn up on re-entry...)) | | Posted: Dec 03, 2011 - 03:31 | |
I love how Chris consistently brings it with the best of what Roy Orbison and Elvis Presley were all about...and that is a very cool thing indeed.
His live shows are entertainment at its finest, too. He has a great on-stage sense of humor and gets instant audience rapport, and wow, that voice, that timing, that heart-felt twang he puts into those classic lovelorn lyrics that grab the hearts and ears of so many, every time...
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rednred
(San Francisco, CA) | | Posted: Nov 29, 2011 - 11:17 | |
I saw Chris Isaak perform live in San Francisco on New Year's Eve 1993/1994, and while he put on a good show, I always had a grudge against him for not playing "San Francisco Days" that night, even though "Wicked Games" had released that same year. Then I saw him perform for my second time at "The Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival" (my favorite music festival each year) last month in Golden Gate Park in SF and he blew me and the rest of the crowd away. It felt like what it would have been like seeing Elvis Presley perform live today, if he had lived and still performed like he did in his two great years from 1956-1958, before he went off into the Army and returned to make mediocre Hollywood films and perform in Las Vegas like a shadow of his former self.
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lshinkawa
(Berkeley, CA) | | Posted: Nov 21, 2011 - 21:10 | |
Imkirok wrote:
That's what makes him so great.
Amen |
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Imkirok
(The Arctic Hinter Land) | | Posted: Nov 01, 2011 - 12:30 | |
kcar wrote: Yes, songs about losing at love are the bread and butter of songwriters, but Isaak wallows in the pain with his singing style. You'd think his vital organs were being dissolved in the confines of a four-minute pop song.
That's what makes him so great. |
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vandal
(arriving somewhere, but not here. . .) | | Posted: Nov 01, 2011 - 12:28 | |
MiracleDrug wrote:always wondered why Chris didn't leave a bigger dent in the musical landscape...  . . . needed to be at a higher altitude when they dropped him. . . |
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MiracleDrug
(Earth) | | Posted: Sep 19, 2011 - 15:06 | |
always wondered why Chris didn't leave a bigger dent in the musical landscape... |
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hencini
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sirdroseph
(Yes) | | Posted: Jun 17, 2011 - 05:11 | |
Great song! 7 -> 8. Although I am mad at him for getting plastic surgery, he looked better before and somehow takes away from his coolness that he would do that.  |
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MojoJojo
(Indianapolis, IN USA) | | Posted: Jun 12, 2011 - 18:54 | |
kawasaki wrote:Who remembers The Chris Isaak Show? So fun. I keep waiting for it to come out on DVD. Woot!  |
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kcar
| | Posted: May 16, 2011 - 15:22 | |
unclehud wrote:This guy is one of a long line of whiny-boy singers. (Latest incarnation is Ray LaMontaigne.) This song is an upbeat tune, and I like it, but the lyrics reveal his true colors: "Look at all you happy people, wish I could be like you."
Sasha2001 wrote:
So I guess you feel just peachy when your girl leaves you? What is the statute of limitations on relationship grief in your book? Without songs about gettin dumped what else would musicians write about?
Actually, I was stuck on the throne while listening to this song and I thought to myself, "Chris Isaak has got to be the most lovelorn sonofabitch in show business." Yes, songs about losing at love are the bread and butter of songwriters, but Isaak wallows in the pain with his singing style. You'd think his vital organs were being dissolved in the confines of a four-minute pop song.
I can't recall hearing a song of his that wasn't about romantic heartbreak. I'm sure he writes about stuff besides love, but those songs don't seem to get played. |
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