If you look up pompous and overblown in the dictionary this song is used as an example.

I'm getting JJ Cale in here, quite like it.

Creepy lyrics . . . and not in a good way.

I have no idea what she's saying, but I like it.

Not their usual style, but I like it.

I like this song... The first thing I thought of when I heard the first eight bars was "My Sharona," and then "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead."

Used to like the Eagles, back when they were, uh, the Eagles. Now Eagles Inc. sleeps with corporate america with their new release only distributed at Walmart ">

These boys are older...they're saving for retirement!

I've been wanting to know something for a long time...
Is there a "year of the Cat?" or is he using it as a metaphor for an invisible netherworld? If there is no "Year of the Cat" (I mean, I've never seen one of the Chinese restaurant menu) then that song is similar to the Television song "Venus de Milo"
"I fell into the aaaarms of Venus de Milo.." Tom Verlaine singing.

I won't rate this one,love Janis,this song for personal reasons I hate.

Amazon is offering this song for free:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002A66B7S 

Bloodbuzz Ohio by the National has a swarm of bees carrying someone away, and now the muzzle of bees by Wilco (buzz/muzz, get it?).  I think there is a conspiracy going on here with the bees.   

The Sound of Music crosses the Bridge Over the River Kwai and heads to the Oktoberfest In the Ozarks where it headlines with Hootenanny.

I have heard two song off of this, and I can say without hesitation that I would use this CD as a Frisbee.

. . . I joined a facebook group that's against the overuse of the word "amazing". . . .

. . . the intonation on her voice is pretty shocking.

Okay, now I understand why Bill just played Toccata in D minor.

I've never forgiven herself for "Chuck E's in love" which is an auto-mute these days....

I said are you gonna be my gurl???

"Universally appealing?"  Its a pop song.  She's not trying to "get her point across."  She's writing poetry to music and poetic license proposes that she can create however she chooses. 

Likewise, you can react however you so choose, but to project your political sensibilities into the mind of the poet and ridicule her based on your mindset is absurd. 

I happen to like the lyrics and the presence of the word fuck, which typically appears in my casual verbal discourse on a regular basis. 

By "family experience," I mean: "An experience that one shares with one's family."   I'm not using "family" to mean "Family Values."  

To get it out on the table:  This song uses the word "Fuck" quite prominently in its catchy and hummable chorus.    I have nothing against the word "Fuck," and I'm pretty liberal about my teenage sons' language.  But I've got do draw the line somewhere.  My line is somewhere around my nine-year-old daughter cheerfully mopping down the counters singing "...I heard you fuck through the wall..."  

After Little Feat's "Let It Roll?" Ouch.

I thought that this song was no longer needed now that Bush is gone.

Back when I was young and he still sang. He actually had some soul.

why can't I rate it an 11?!!??!?!

Speak of the Devil...Back in my day when the Devil came around we used to give him a real good thrashing before sending him packing. Nowadays the Devil is invited in for dinner and to babysit the kids! Who is this Devil? Well let me tell you..."Excuse me Mr Bond". Who are you? "A friend Mr Bond. Please go with these gentlemen, they wish to speak to you in another room". What? No...this can't be happening...Let me go,I won't stand for it.

"I apologize for that outburst ladies and gentlemen. Don't worry about Mr. Bond, he'll be back to his old self in no time. Now, please continue listening to Radio Paradise".

I really, really, want to like Suzanne. Something about her voice just doesn't sit right with me, though. I think maybe it's because she sounds very pre-pubescent to me. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but there seems to be a lack of anything sultry or arousing.

I understand this song as an analogy between the superficial way we approach sex in the U.S and our similarly vapid auto-(and thus oil)-obsessed culture. Think: consumerism, disposability, an aggressively willful ignorance.

Really a pleasant song, but completely not the folk music, political change, acidic and subversive Bob.

Surely a segue into the Muppets theme...?

GHOSTBUSTERS!       

Not so weird. Half of the African continent speaks French.

Actually it's thought that his lung cancer was caused by asbestos inhalation, not his pre-sobriety life-style. Just fyi

Love it! 

But somehow, the opening bit of poetry sounds like a Dr. Seuss book.   :D
 

The campy 60's space age sound reminds me just a little bit of B52s' Planet Claire.

Seems like a Avett Brothers clone.  Anybody else get that?

These guys are great!
Go Maine!

Ginger Baker made a taco?

Intriguing, yet disturbing.

I loathe hip-hop and rap (learn to feckin' sing, guys ) so if Morcheeba is hip-hop then I must unknowingly have had a life-changing conversion so dramatic it would make St Paul on the Road to Damascus look like a passing fancy. This song is smoother than mercury on ice, and that's smooth. 7 from the Nottingham jury.

This whole album is excellent.  Good "brain music" for when you're studying, or "cruise music" for long distance car trips....

Super-cheesy, super-fun :o). You must also see a short animation of a hippo singing this song.  An easy 7 from the Nottingham jury.

Unkle, do you think you can just waltz in here with your fancy production, breakneck beats, cool samples, and with Ian Brown from the Stone Roses singing and just make yourself at home? We will not stand for that!.......................................................................... Bill, more Unkle please!!

If you play this in the car stereo, you are driving a mid-80's Camaro.  With a No Fear sticker on the back window.

This album got me through a very long summer been stuck in Mobile in 69. . . .

I love Wanda Jackson's version... but this ain't too bad either!

Spot on.  Extremely Keane.  I like the other song, "And the World Turned" much better.

Hmmm.  Kinda reminds me of Rush.  Not in a particularly good way.

Gotta go...Birds of a feather flocking outside apparently.

Sounds like an EMO Marilyn Manson

Never realized how polarizing MF&S was 'til I joined RP. . . .

"Every junkies like the setting sun"

Brilliant

Pert and perky little tune, but she's just milking it.  I recognize the beat as udderly stolen from a traditional chant from the Yabaho indians.  Some cleave to traditions...

outstanding cover of an epic song

It's the queen of soul.

Power Chord Anyone?

The album this  song comes from, "Living With The Law", is excellent. This song, "Poison Girl", the title track, and a song that was featured in the movie "Thelma and Louise" called "Kick These Stones (Out of My Bed) are as good as anything played on here. Definitely worth the time.  

i hear this song and can't help but imagine a bunch of drunk white people dancing badly at a wedding.

... We're pretty close to gigging and once we're rolling we'll get some stuff on Itunes and Amazon for people if  they wish to purchase....

Pretension?

Come on all you haters...  you gotta like the horns. 

Hear the 'flattop' line? The Beatles might've heard this song before writing 'Come Together', you think?

Shall we really let him live down Popsicle Toes?

Not even a little near by the stones several version. nO WAY!

Holy Crap! That cover art...talk about "What Not to Wear"

How can someone give a song a 7 a minute into it? Are you daft??!!

When I was 16, this song and other Supertramp biggies felt like they were important and profound. Now 25 years later they sound overblown and pompous with lyrics that mean everything and nothing.

I can't help but marvel at how the playlist of RP is ever so far more eclectic and open than the musical tastes of its audience.
Clearly what bothers most listeners the most from this song is the singer's voice. However, if you've had some minimal exposure to Southeast Asian music, you'll realize that she's simply performing the way that SEA singers are supposed to sing. She's very good in that style. Her voice is clear, strong, and keeps the require tones flawlessly. It's just a matter that Western listeners are not used to those sounds. Likewise, I'm sure that much of the Westerf female singers sound uncouth, manly, and disonant to Asian ears not accustomed to our music.

Open your minds. Open your ears.  This stuff is actually very, very good fusion music!

...Now that you've gone straight from Beethoven to AC/DC, have you left yourself any room for anything else? Is this the climax of the transition skill?

Is this a Velvet Underground/Lou Reed cover?

Radio Paradise. Music without borders.

I always liked this song, but always wondered about the line
"He didn't say a word..."
Uhh, he was headless. How COULD he say a word?

I don't suppose we might hear "Little Fluffy Clouds" by The Orb after a Rickie Lee Jones tune?

I think MTV played this video every 45 minutes. It was one of the very few they had at the time. I can distinctly remember seeing the bullet go through the card on the video. Great one hit wonder!

heh, when I deam of Michelangelo he's chasing the Counting Crows guy through a museum with a chisel.

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Enjoy!

Hypnotic, dark, and dangerous sounding. . . .

Wow—Jimi Hendrix meets Creedence Clearwater, and they have a baby.

I don't think Stevie sang "Chevrolet" . . . it's most likely "chévere," an expression used by Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Venezuelans and other Latinos as an affirmative acclamation of approval — sort of like "cool" or "groovy" or "it's all good" in contemporary English. Goes along with the song's theme, "don't you worry 'bout a thing." 

What story/book is that from?

I don't care for his trendy political bullshit, but I LOVE this song. Senseless fun pop at its best. . . .

Planta de los pies = Sole of the foot

anyone else hears knopfler, or am i just old           

Does anybody else hear "Ain't No Sunshine" in the melody?

She sings in Farsi, and she ain't an Arab.

. . . it sounds an awful lot like U2? The guitar is especially reminiscent of the Edge. And the background "la la la la" smacks of the Dublin quartet too. . . .

Imagine Bono found his Yoko Ono, and she was a humpback whale. And the whale said, "Remember that thing called pop? Forget it. You are among the whales now. Join us." And all the pomposity that Bono had stored in his heart came pouring out in a muddy sonic parade of aquatic nymphs with neurological disorders playing miniature pianos and pan flutes. And the nymphs found Thom Yorke, who anointed them gods, and tricked the whole iPod generation.

I agree about this being Waters and not really Pink Floyd. I still like it though. It's certainly not as good as Pink Floyd at their best. But, Waters steered the band after Barrett left ... It just took until The Wall to get to this level of masturbatory project. And obviously The Final Cut is a Roger Waters album. But, ya know, all the stuff after Waters left isn't really Pink Floyd either. Anyway...

Al...Al Stewart?

It's a tradition for drugs (including alcohol) to be a part of the music industry . . .

This conjures up a vision of ox-drawn conestogas wending their way westward! 

Wow, how did Bill find a song whose intro/chords sound just like Steely Dan's "Midnight Cruiser" so that he could seque from Royal Scam into this? Amazing!

Why's the bird looking into the void?

A bar and dance floor--with or without the thatched roof--would be closer to the Black African experience associated with this Congolese music.

Holy Doors, Batman!

Radio Paranoid might be a good site redesign for April Fools...

The first time I heard this, I was sitting in the 8th grade classroom of catholic school. . . . I remember this song really stood out. So I rode my bike to the downtown music store and bought the 45. I still have it. . . .

I'm confused why the discriminating listeners at RP love this cheesey, lightweight crap.

. . . I just get tired of folks telling, ordering, asking and begging Bill to take songs out of the play list. As I said, we all have songs we don't like that others do, and we all have songs we love that others hate. If Bill listened to every person who asked for a song to be taken off the play list because it somehow offends them then I suspect there would be damn few songs left on the playlist and everyone would be bitching about how they are all overplayed.
At some point we just have to trust Bill and learn how to use the mute button now and then or stop listening to RP altogether. . . .

Japanese guys with banjos! I LOVE it!

Best

lyrics

ever.

Two words -- Fairport Convention

This is really good folk-rock

Yay! Crisp and airy. 7.

I'm responsible for uploading this song.

You can now DOWNLOAD the whole album and artwork via http://www.visionthingband.com instead for free.

Thanks for your support.

This song is about lamenting the loss of a way of life, oriented around roots music and the pub setting. . . . Enjoy the song for what it is. A powerful statement from someone who has sincere emotions they are trying to express.

Beautiful arrangement of a timeless classic.

What language is she singing in?

For me, I keep hearing shades of old Pink Floyd, from Meddle. Can't put my finger on it, maybe the guitar work...

Of air you tire?

Can we come up with a Haiku for this?

For some reason, this sounds an awful lot like Knopfler's Local Hero soundtrack.

Any Moodies is good Moodies.

Damn. That was fun.

Amy Winehouse without the drug addiction.

fifth gear, 150 miles of open road in front of me, speed limit 75 (but I'm pushing 90) ...

There REALLY is no need for this. I guess he felt it necessary to show that any song can be done to a reggae beat. How about "Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini"?

Or maybe Astronomy Dominie?

FYI, calling someone in a subservient position "boy" is generally not done by Americans these days. This is a term that was often used in years past to describe African-American men in a derogatory way.

Just in case you can't get enough of that Shamisen and the guy going Eeeyoooo!
http://www.videofantastica.com/view_video/31903/(click here)

RP brings us music from everywhere. For those of you who have forgotten, the world doesn't end at the USA border! Thanks Bill!!

Another fantastic segue. Go go Bill!

Pretty cool song
I'll give it an 8

This and Meddle have been my favorites since the early 70s. I still experience ecstasy (in the mystic sense, not chemical) every time I hear them.

Freaking genius segue from Quicksilver.

Vocals remind me of Karen Bergquist of Over the Rhine. I like this.

this reminds me of the train scene with T-Dream in Risky Business a little too.

Lucy (Lucille Ball) and Ethel (Vivian Vance) take a flare gun to a concert and hilarity ensues; musical guest: Frank Zappa.

Great rockin bunch of guys. I've seen them a couple times and the fried chicken is finger lickin good. . . .

Let's put our personal agenda aside and sit back and enjoy our music.

Respectfully,

Dave in Nashville, Tennessee, USA

Cool lines Mr Vol -
Agree lets try to get along...Wisconsin rocks to this tune too

Everyone is entitled to their opinions. It's just a shame they aren't more open minded to be able to appreciate others' interpretation of art....

AiYee! A Curse Upon Your Infested Armpits Oh White Person of Great Satanic Predilections! May the Fleas of a Million Camels Infest Your Scrofulous and Withered Hanging Dates!

Ode to Billy Joe.

I was just remarking to a friend the other day how dated the Moody Blues sound to me. I still think they wrote some absolutely gorgeous songs- . . . . I don't know why their music strikes me that way. Could it be something as trifling as production values?

. . . I could be innocent or I could be guilty.
Doesn’t mean that I'll go believin' no news.

"Cleanup in Aisle Seven! Some Commie Brit just lost his lunch after asking about our Guaranteed Personality!"

Actually written as an ode to radio stations south of the border that don't have the same power limitations that US stations do. Hence, they can broadcast much further. The X refers to the first letter in the call letters of the station (i.e. XTRA)...

I've heard one of his songs as a musical intro in TV coverage of NBA games, and I understand that General Motors used a song from The Revolution Starts Now on one of their commercials.

It's well known than only 10% of US citizens have a passport....hence this parochial mindset as expressed above.

roughly the same amount which are non-theistic

A little Crazy Horse? A little Neil Young? A little Pink Floyd?

You need to be in a certain situation to enjoy this.

Summer, a nice car, girl beside you, ocean breeze... damn I need a holiday now.

A german electronic DJ/musician, posing/aliased as a cheezy latino playboy covering a classic, hard rock tune from an English band with sappy, latin instrumentation sung in spanish.

Oddly, I feel like curing people without giving a fig about them..

...sounds like patti smith...

..can ye point me to some evidence of what ye are saying re mass murderer?

He <(meaning Che)> was appointed commander of the La Cabaña Fortress prison, and during his five-month tenure in that post (January 2 through June 12, 1959), he oversaw the trial and execution of many people, among whom were former Batista regime officials and members of the "Bureau for the Repression of Communist Activities" (a unit of the secret police known by its Spanish acronym BRAC). José Vilasuso, an attorney who worked under Guevara at La Cabaña preparing indictments, said that these were lawless proceedings where "the facts were judged without any consideration to general juridical principles" and the findings were pre-determined by Guevara. It is estimated that between 156 and 550 people were executed on Guevara's extra-judicial orders during this time.

Hey. Mice on a girl.

Love the song. But can't find it or the album for sale anywhere. Suggestions?

Is it possible that Steve Earle dislikes Jews as a race?

I wouldn't want to listen to it in heavy rotation, but this is cool.

Interesting. I am of German descent (mother born in Berlin), have German relatives, lived in the Fatherland for 3 years and married a German. I found that many of the stereotypical views Americans have of Germans do indeed have a solid basis.

But I would also argue that Americans in general admire and respect Germans.

I used to autocross an '84 GTI. What year is yours?

Yep, I kept seeing the damn Liberty Mutual ad and thinking, "it's that song I liked so much on RP!" and wondering if some depraved RP listener had suggested they use it. How could they? This was supposed to be our secret!

An amazing 13% think it deserves a 1-rating. That must be a record, don't you think?

need some moody bluegrass..

. . . I must admit, 'Heaven and Hell' was one of my favorite albums back in the 80's . . .

"Oh what will we do with the drunken sailor...?"

Whew!! This makes up for New Order and Porno For Pyros.

It's Still .. our very own RPeep! It must have been the second time I heard it cos I remember Bill commenting on this before.. obviously growing on me in my sub-conscious! good stuff Still!

Why do I suddenly have a vision of several dinner guests doing the callipso around a setting of shrimp cocktail?
:-)

Sundown and you better take care if I find you've been creepin' around my back stairs....

. . . she was lovely. google Jean Shrimpton and see for yourself.

. . . I read an interview with Randy Newman where he talked about writing this song after a brief visit to the Baltimore harbor during the 70's (way before Harbor Place, Camden Yards, etc.) He mentioned what a mistake it was to write such a damning song when coming from such a limited viewpoint.

I love Tangerine Dream. Anything from Force Majeure would be great to hear.

That being said, what I was trying to imply is that he became famous AND probably remains so today because his song, subject matter and background in this video were all about New York and since it was released soon after the tragic attack, . . . .

. . . sweet young thing with a sultry voice clothed in a partially buttoned scout uniform . . . let your imagine wander.

. . . I just saw Al play the other day in PA (in peak form, I might add) - and he gave the backing story behind the song - the references to the Basque separatist movement in France (the border being spain/france), the "Rhodesia" crisis, British prime minister Edward Heath's 70's speech, etc. . . .

Best thing the Smiths ever released

Interesting take on this - this was the first time I heard this and my mental process went something like this (1) it's Cash singing religious lines, (2) wait -- this is a Nick Cave song, (3) interesting cover choice -- Cash actually was pro-Christian, and Cave is anything but. Yet, I never felt that Cash infused this with the religious skepticism that was likely present in the Cave original.

Thank you for your gracious take. . . .

After reading more of your incredibly STUPID comments, complaining about her use of the word "FUCK" and "Hell", . . . FUCK YOU church-fearing bigots. I make YOUR BED IN HELL! . . . . excuse my rage, . . .

Picture this.

You live in a universe where Sinead O’Connor is unknown. It’s Friday evening and you’re at a local pub with your mates. . . . The point of this excessively long post. The music isn’t bad and the musicians aren’t talentless…but if this was an unknown artist would you even consider it? For this, I give it 1 sucko barfo out of 1.

Anyone hear of work on more discs?

Uh...do ya think, maybe he FORGOT?!? . . . A guy asks to meet you at a head shop, I mean...sheesh.

. . . I like this piece, even though I don't care much for the Indigos, probably because it's not trying to be anything other than a good straight-up up-tempo song.

as fall the treetops, so the treetops fall.

What!?

Love it. Would like to hear more selections from 'Let it Die', like Gatekeeper or Secret Heart.

Err, well, not really my thing, but it's good to see a proper tribute to the Olsen twins.