I keep expecting to hear "red roses too...."

Lovely song. It grows on me. 

Gweniviere wrote: 
Agreed! Can't find it on Amazon, iTunes, etc... anyone have a link for us to purchase this great one?

Are they still camping outside St Paul's?

Okay..for some reason this song is giving me chills.  WOW

I sure wish you could buy this in the states.

 On_The_Beach wrote:  I think one of my dogs just had a Toxic Airborne Event.
Ouch.

Reminded me of Airborne Toxic Event (the band, that is).

I absolutely love this song. I've had a lot of family/close people pass on in a fairly short amount of time and it just strikes a chord with me.

 Papernapkin wrote:  
If you're one of the many who don't use the rating option, you still rate.  By not buying all the CDs you don't buy, or by not listening to the music that does not appeal to you, you are consigning the vast majority of performers to oblivion (in your mind anyway). 

Programmers, like the one who runs this station, are the biggest raters of all. They are special raters in that they are gatekeepers to much of what we are exposed to.   By not playing GreenDay or Pavement, highly respected bands who get no airtime on RP, the RP Programmer is effectively giving them a rating worse than sucko-barfo.  That is no small thing.

Fans rate by attending concerts and buying CDs. Which would you rather have, a high rating by some pompous know-it-all, or a fan base? I don't recognize expert opinion in subjective matters like music.  This does not mean that I respect equally those who know nothing about music and those who know a lot (like RP's programmer).  The point is that anyone savvy enough to tune in to RP has a lot to contribute by utilizing the ratings option.  I think RP should pay attention to them and they are definitely not meaningless.

This is positively brilliant songwriting from a guy in his early twenties.

7>8

Contrary to the bevy of tepid comments, I very much enjoy this song and have from the first time I heard it... overproduced? Listen to the content and message of the song and it works quite well...

Dunno what the fuss is about.  It's pleasing to these ears.

Regarding ratings, always amazed by the spread in opinions on less well known songs and bands. Also amazed how virulently some folks dislike some of the bands that I regard as wonders of our time (whatever decade(s) that may comprise—God knows when I first hit this world it was Fats Domino). Talking heads comes to mind in the "shocked at how virulently, etc."

So, I'm shocked that others find this song an overproduced 4. I thought combined with the previous two tracks it was one of the more epic triads RP has laid on my head in a while, i.e., great stuff—thought provoking songs that were given enough room to roam and grow a bit.

 ziggytrix wrote: 

 RadioDoc wrote: 

I totally agree!  4

 Papernapkin wrote: 
Unless you put a typo in your birthdate on your profile, Talking Heads was a bookend of our generation.  Their first album came out in 77 and their last in 1991.

Zeppelin and Yes are from the previous decade.

Just sayin.

As far as the meanings of the ratings?  They're utterly devoid of any objective meaning.  It's just a fun little way to keep notes on what you like.  Other uses, like using them as a shopping list?  Great!  Using them as a method of communication with the station programmer?  Misguided, but sure, fine!  Using them as a method to criticize other listeners?  I guess, whatever, who cares!

 lemmoth wrote: 
I can't tell by your wording in the 1st paragraph if you were stereotyping me or not...regardless, I'm over 50 and love the full spectrum (Hell, they play Cab Calloway on here - my MOM's favorite from the 40's, and I love that) from Beethoven to whatever came out yesterday.  I even like some Rap for crying out loud.    If it's truly good, it's always good.  True, many old people are SO set in their Classic Rock ways (I call it classic crock....songs you hated then AND now)....but I've sure met a lot of young people that are VERY narrow in their musical tastes also.  All I can do is try to pry all age groups out of their ruts. 
Thanks for listening to an old hipster.

 Papernapkin wrote: 
Another older (51) listener who liked what you had to say at first and then realized that you are not talking to RP listeners like me because folks I know who believe that "you know, you really like Led Zeppelin and the Talking Heads and Yes and yours was the greatest generation and all with the best music" are not listening to RP - they are listening to terrestial radio or their own classic rock collections to avoid the commercials.  And that's OK.  Shame they can't have a broader palate of aural pleasure but, whatever.....

Now, what about somebody (hopefully not you Papernapkin) who universally rips most anything created before 2000, or 1990, or 1980 for that matter.  IMHO, they would be just as silly and closed minded.

Oh... and Paul simon wrote some great stuff and if Bill plays him periodically - especially his more interesting explorations, than great.  That's why I love RP.

Sufjan Stevens-class overproduction.  5

2 <== 3

 Papernapkin wrote: 

Hey don't characterize all older listeners. I'm 63 and listen to lots of newer stuff...Arcade Fire, Andrew Bird, M. Ward, Nick Cave, The National, Kathleen Edwards, Belle and Sebastian etc etc. That's why I like this staion so much. I agree with your point that it's hard to rate songs. You really shouldn't even if you despise them at first listen.You really can't generalize. That doen't mean the "The Boxer" wasn't one of the best songs ever written either

The problems with ranking a song: You might hear something that moves you, but you're unsure if the song will hold up. So you give it a high ranking. Other songs are old that you've heard a million times. You like them, but why bother giving it a high score, especially if you're giving only high scores to music you'd like to buy. It's nice being able to find your 'want-to-buy' songs all in one place. Other songs are pure drivel (Paul Simon comes to mind). You give Paul and his ilk a low score because you really want Bill to stop playing this crap. So in the end, the rankings are meaningless, except to me, and other people who think Mr. Simon is this wonderful man who wrote the most meaningful music from, what, 30 years ago, and you're stuck in the seventies and there's no room for new artists because, you know, you really like Led Zeppelin and the Talking Heads and Yes and yours was the greatest generation and all with the best music. But isn't it nice that Bill plays William Tell Overture. We're so awesomely eclectic.

sad song, but what a wonderful world it is!!!!!

Ho-hum from the first sung note. Sometimes you get songs like that. The instrumentals redeem it a bit, and the lyrics are interesting, so a 4 from the Nottingham jury.

where can i buy music from this artist?

So today is Make Xeno Cry Day. That's okay. I can take it. I'm tough.

Something about this song reminds me of that one that hit it big in the mid-90s — the one about runaways, and I think Winona Ryder might have been dating the singer or something.  Meh.

I think this song is very cool.  Thanks Bill and Rebecca!