alanthecowboy
(Lakefield) | | Posted: Nov 30, 2012 - 15:40 | |
richlister wrote:OK Patti, I'll stop sobbing, if you stop singing gotta stop sobbing, OK? Good. Patti? Who's Patti? Anyway, she's not singing, so stop sobbing... |
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richlister
| | Posted: Oct 30, 2012 - 07:29 | |
OK Patti, I'll stop sobbing, if you stop singing gotta stop sobbing, OK? Good.
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Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC) | | Posted: Aug 28, 2012 - 07:14 | |
ecyfoto wrote:Sounds like Ray and Phil had a baby. No, but Ray and Chrissie had a baby. |
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WayUpNorth
| | Posted: Aug 28, 2012 - 07:11 | |
Wow, just gotta say that after Shawn Colvin this is sooooooo refreshing ...
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GawgaBoy
(State of Confusion) | | Posted: Jul 27, 2012 - 21:23 | |
treatment_bound wrote: yep... Bill's playing them next. Love this place ! nigelr wrote:
And a little Dusty Springfield..........
is it Dusty? I'm old, but just barely not old enuf to know... but there is a riff that is definitely a 60's girls group. I remeber hearing it on the radio as a kid. |
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BKardon
(Louisville, CO) | | Posted: Jul 27, 2012 - 21:21 | |
mbelge wrote:Exellent song! I believe it was penned by Ray Davies of the Kinks.
Really nice seque to this song from Smithereens Wall of Sleep.
Bill, you are too good! I'm just perusing the board after seeing The Smithereens earlier tonight. They played Wall of Sleep and totally rocked! |
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hayduke2
(Southampton, NY) | | Posted: Jun 26, 2012 - 10:58 | |
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ScottFromWyoming
(Powell) | | Posted: Jun 26, 2012 - 10:57 | |
tom-kenna wrote:Splendid production. I hear Phil Spector, Brian Wilson and George Martin. This particular track was produced by Nick Lowe in some demo sessions. The rest of the album was produced by Chris Thomas. FWIW. |
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BikeCoachDave
(Columbia, Ky.) | | Posted: Jun 26, 2012 - 10:53 | |
Love the Pretenders, but this chorus has never worked for me. Its just crammed into the space the song gives it, though it clearly doesnt fit. Every time Ive heard it over the years it just stopped the song dead in its tracks for me.
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iTuner
| | Posted: Dec 18, 2011 - 22:55 | |
Suddenly I'm back in Harvard Square in the early 80s listening to WFNX
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Hannio
(Austin, TX) | | Posted: Nov 17, 2011 - 05:26 | |
Cynaera wrote:
Me, too... Their early work is so amazing. Dammit, why do the good ones have to self-destruct?! Maybe Ol' Neil was right - it's better to burn out than to fade away...
No. It is much better to fade away. Dying young is a tragedy. |
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Cynaera
(Kenneth's Frequency) | | Posted: Aug 14, 2011 - 17:44 | |
vandal wrote:
Man, I miss James Honeyman-Scott and Pete Farndon. . .
Me, too... Their early work is so amazing. Dammit, why do the good ones have to self-destruct?! Maybe Ol' Neil was right - it's better to burn out than to fade away... |
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fran_tarkenton
(Kamloops, British Columbia) | | Posted: Jul 14, 2011 - 08:53 | |
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MiracleDrug
(Earth) | | Posted: Jul 14, 2011 - 08:52 | |
okay, so the last two sounded like my playlist circa '87 (pre-playlists)...  |
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helgigermany
(Germany) | | Posted: Jun 22, 2011 - 04:31 | |
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bachbeet
| | Posted: Apr 19, 2011 - 22:48 | |
This may not be their best but it still beats so much of the current pop fluff.
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mbelge
(Lincoln, MA USA) | | Posted: Apr 10, 2011 - 11:52 | |
Exellent song! I believe it was penned by Ray Davies of the Kinks.
Really nice seque to this song from Smithereens Wall of Sleep.
Bill, you are too good!
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maxgruv
(Vancouver, Canada) | | Posted: Mar 19, 2011 - 10:30 | |
Not a bad song, but probably better listened to *without* headphones on. I'm finding the panning echo effect on the drums to be utterly distracting.
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treatment_bound
(Duluth to Madison) | | Posted: Jan 06, 2011 - 08:27 | |
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EssexTex
(Above and Beyond) | | Posted: Dec 15, 2010 - 09:37 | |
Love her voice and the fact she never sold out...
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ecyfoto
(Tampa) | | Posted: Oct 03, 2010 - 09:59 | |
Sounds like Ray and Phil had a baby.
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cousinkill
(Kokomo, IN) | | Posted: Sep 11, 2010 - 04:13 | |
Love the Pretenders, but gotta give the Kinks the edge on this one. Still nice to hear.
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tulfan
(One of the last ones in SE MI) | | Posted: Jul 09, 2010 - 06:52 | |
ScottFromWyoming wrote:It's songs like this that make my overall RP song ratings worthless. For this album, the scale is different. Compared with most stuff on RP, this is a 10. I don't give out a lot of 10s in general, so I might leave it at a 9. But great as it is it's nothing compared to the rest of the record, so I can't give it more than an 8, and I should probably go with a 6 or 7 to get a truer separation from Space Invaders/The Wait. So you might look at my other 8s and think I like this song about the same as those songs and that's not close to true. Looking at it myself, I think I should go in and downgrade my ratings on most of those to more accurately reflect where they fall on my suddenly-capricious scale. But then people would look at my ratings and say "if you don't like the music any more than that, why listen?" and so you see this song just confounds the whole system. I guess that's why I haven't rated it before now. Hmm.
8.
I can commiserate completely. This is one of my favorite debut efforts of all time but within that context this is not one of the strongest cuts. Within almost any RP playlist, it is nonetheless, outstanding. |
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vandal
(arriving somewhere, but not here. . .) | | Posted: Jun 29, 2010 - 12:46 | |
Man, I miss James Honeyman-Scott and Pete Farndon. . .
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More_Cowbell
(Northern IL) | | Posted: Jun 07, 2010 - 10:15 | |
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Nuque
(North of Paradise, across the border, then north some more) | | Posted: Dec 21, 2009 - 23:30 | |
Nice multi-level segue, following the Smithereens... "Now I lie in bed and think of her, sometimes I even weep".
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ArchwayMelissa
| | Posted: Oct 12, 2009 - 06:30 | |
kinks version is a better one as this is more like pop. the original was more rock and roll. Like pretenders though they are quite underrated really.
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ScottFromWyoming
(Powell) | | Posted: Sep 28, 2009 - 03:03 | |
It's songs like this that make my overall RP song ratings worthless. For this album, the scale is different. Compared with most stuff on RP, this is a 10. I don't give out a lot of 10s in general, so I might leave it at a 9. But great as it is it's nothing compared to the rest of the record, so I can't give it more than an 8, and I should probably go with a 6 or 7 to get a truer separation from Space Invaders/The Wait. So you might look at my other 8s and think I like this song about the same as those songs and that's not close to true. Looking at it myself, I think I should go in and downgrade my ratings on most of those to more accurately reflect where they fall on my suddenly-capricious scale. But then people would look at my ratings and say "if you don't like the music any more than that, why listen?" and so you see this song just confounds the whole system. I guess that's why I haven't rated it before now. Hmm.
8.
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helgigermany
(Germany) | | Posted: Sep 28, 2009 - 02:45 | |
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nigelr
(Coffs Harbour, Australia) | | Posted: Sep 28, 2009 - 02:44 | |
tom-kenna wrote:Splendid production. I hear Phil Spector, Brian Wilson and George Martin.
And a little Dusty Springfield.......... |
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