Beck - Scarecrow
(May 03, 2013 - 00:58) | Best by Beck that I've heard for a while. Just wish he would occasionally sing with a bit of passion!
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The Jam - Town Called Malice
(Apr 25, 2013 - 03:06) | treatment_bound wrote:
And they cranked out 6 great albums in 6 years, but for some reason, we're still stuck with only 4 songs to play from The Jam here at Radio Paradise.
Can we please EXPAND THE PLAYLIST HERE FOR THE JAM?
Another vote for this. Can't believe that such a significant (and musical!) band as the Jam is so under-recognised on my favourite radio station!
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Melody Gardot - Who Will Comfort Me
(Apr 10, 2013 - 10:24) | paultron wrote:i'd say that's accurate, it's yet another musical gold rush... or perhaps it could be described as a fad. in either case, i submit that it's not necessarily a bad thing. if one considers historical musical evolution, it always comes in waves as a result of popularity, collective taste, and you better believe record companies are tuned-in. yes, the resulting saturation of can be exhausting, but with time the masterpieces (either at the collective or personal level) will endure. i think i'll hang on to this tune 
I agree with the comment about this enduring, but I'm not sure I entirely agree about the genesis of the music of these similar(ish) artists. Personally I think as much as anything that it's a coincidence, as I don't think that either Melody Gardot or Amy Winehouse (or for that matter, Adele) were greatly influenced by each other while developing their styles. And anyway the judgement should be based on their music, and each of them has produced material which is, by any standards, very decent indeed, and leagues better than some of the other stuff that is around.
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Shook Twins - Growing Things
(Apr 08, 2013 - 09:55) | Just love the Shooks! Wonderful harmonies, great banjo. Would love to see them in the UK one day. Why aren't they better known?
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Tom Petty - Listen To Her Heart
(Apr 05, 2013 - 07:12) | I have a 12" white label of this track which is vastly better than this version. Much punchier and altogether more powerful. Somewhat slower too, if my memory serves me right. I have never heard the same version of the track elsewhere. I might try and digitise it one day and upload it to RP.
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The Staves - Facing West
(Mar 27, 2013 - 09:25) | These three girls are absolutely great live. Catch them if you see them coming up near you.
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Rolling Stones - Some Girls
(Mar 26, 2013 - 01:50) | Not one of their best. Can't help but feel this is just a bit too misogynistic - even for the Stones.
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Pixies - Where Is My Mind
(Mar 17, 2013 - 04:23) | I can understand why some might like this song, but personally I find it too annoying. And I can see that to some that is the point of it.
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Golden Earring - Radar Love
(Mar 17, 2013 - 01:28) | One of the things that I loge about this song is that it is continually inventive all the way through. No section sounds like another. Great stuff.
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Yardbirds - Heart Full Of Soul
(Mar 17, 2013 - 01:21) | Lazarus wrote:
I'm around... I have been saved... I am a sinner no more... I will never let women use me for my body just for money again— only if they love me, or at least like me a lot...
everybody in my church loves this song...
Respect. Best ever post on RP.
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Paul Simon - Graceland
(Mar 05, 2013 - 10:23) | Quite excellent. I had forgotten quite how brilliant this track is, from what is also an almost peerless album.
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Cracker - Shine
(Mar 04, 2013 - 11:32) | Dull and monotonous. In every other way it's not too bad.
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Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
(Feb 08, 2013 - 03:59) | The reason that Led Zep lead the pack of rock bands by a large margin is that they bring together rhythm, power, melody and SOUL. No other band has achieved this so consistently throughout their work.
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David Bowie - Space Oddity
(Jan 29, 2013 - 06:23) | cmarcan wrote:CAN WE SAY OVER RATED! 
...and overplayed.
8.6 from the RP listeners says not, I'm afraid. It's just you.
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Chris Isaak - Baby Did A Bad Bad Thing
(Jan 29, 2013 - 05:33) | Sorry, bored with this now. I don't know what it is, but I always feel there's something a bit fake about Chris Isaak. I'm sure it's just me.
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King Crimson - One Time
(Jan 27, 2013 - 07:37) | For anyone who likes this, seek out an album called "the lost letter z" by Thomas Lang - a great lost masterpiece.
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Matisyahu - Sunshine
(Jan 22, 2013 - 01:01) | Sorry - not trying to impose my taste on anyone or anything, but I really don't like this. Auto-tuned rubbishy pap (won't even do it the compliment of calling it pop) to my ear, I'm afraid. No attempt to do anything of any melodic interest in the backing whatsoever, just a mind-numbingly dull rhythm track.
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Calexico - Alone Again Or
(Nov 08, 2012 - 08:44) | Great version. I love that Calexico have re-interpreted their own interpretation of this song.
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Red Rider - Lunatic Fringe
(Sep 19, 2012 - 04:04) | This isn't a song. It is a plodding beat with someone lazily playing some simplistic rhythm guitar over it. Even the vocalist doesn't really bother with a melody. Tedious and boring garbage. Sorry to be so tough but when there is so much great music around this has nothing going for it at all in my view.
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Fever Ray - Keep The Streets Empty For Me
(Sep 14, 2012 - 00:53) | Stingray wrote:Be honest Notting-Freddy - is your beloved color pinkish? Yes, was refering to your Abba notion.
This is either terribly misjudged irony or you're just plain stupid. From the evidence it's hard to say for certain although I'm tempted to plump for the latter explanation over the former.
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Roy Orbison - She's A Mystery To Me
(Sep 06, 2012 - 11:27) | rabbi_phil wrote:they aren't mysterious.......they're ALIENS.........definitely.... .4 sure they don't understand our language...what is it about "i might like u better if we slept together" that they don't get?
The best way of getting on with people who don't speak your language is to learn theirs. Apologies in advance if you were aiming at irony.
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Azure Ray - New Resolution
(Aug 29, 2012 - 08:10) | To me this is the type of "music" made by people who desperately want to be in a band but don't actually have any interest in music.
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Patti Smith - Nine
(Aug 18, 2012 - 11:45) | Very impressed with this at first hearing. Might even be the best thing she's ever done for me.
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Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
(Aug 18, 2012 - 01:48) | Just perfect music for a glorious sunny day here in the UK - not a cloud in the sky. Shame the same can't be said for the political and social world around us.
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Arctic Monkeys - Red Light Indicates Doors Are Secured
(Jul 14, 2012 - 03:14) | fredriley wrote: Lighten up, O Didactic One. Sheffield in the 80s was known semi-seriously as the People's Republic because it was run by a Labour council under David Blunkett (yes, he once really was left-wing) and spent a lot of money on, amongst other things, public transport. It was a bastion of resistance to the destructive neo-liberalism of the Thatcher regime, and for that reason was directly targetted by the regime. It was most definitely a better place to live than other regions of the UK which had been ravaged by untramelled Thatcherism, destruction of social welfare, and asset-stripping.
Neoliberalism, like any form of fundamentalist ideology, is a grossly misguided and simplistic way of approaching a country's economy. That should be obvious to anyone with any sense. Unfortunately there are still hordes of people on the right of politics who believe that it IS that simple. But in practice all you end up with is rank after rank of big corporations who run everything for profit with no mind to the common good; basically where we are right now in the "wealthy" west.
Extreme capitalism is, in my view, as corrupt as communism. No-one in their right minds would want to live in a communist country, but because business pulls the political strings in the west we end up with a system that is becoming equally as unjust. In theory capitalism offers equal opportunity for all, but in its extreme form the only people who succeed are those who own or run the big corporations which can smother out the smaller businesses before they even get going.
Just to be clear, fredriley, I am essentially agreeing with the thrust of your post! And I love this track.
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Jeff Beck - Going Down
(Jun 28, 2012 - 13:10) | Dullsville - sorry, really don't get it. Very repetitive. Just doesn't go anywhere.
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Sade - Long Hard Road
(Jun 08, 2012 - 10:53) | If you like this, check out her 2000 album, Lovers Rock. Much overlooked but full of beautiful songs, sang with more passion than in much of her other work.
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Wilco - Black Moon
(Jun 04, 2012 - 11:15) | Quite glorious and beautifully restrained. Very few bands can pull off a song like this with such a delicate touch.
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Alannah Myles - Black Velvet
(May 18, 2012 - 11:19) | Plodding beat, session-musician guitar screaming, over-dramatic double-tracked vocals, this is just tedious pop pap.
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New Model Army - Vagabonds
(May 07, 2012 - 05:06) | TerryS wrote:
Having lived with Gypsy encampment 500 yards from my front door for years, there were certain reasons for the police not to want them around. Not that anything excuses the excesses, but they did spring from that reality.
Yes, there is a tragically large disparity between the romantic image of the traveller lifestyle and its tawdry actuality.
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Queen - We Are The Champions
(Apr 30, 2012 - 10:59) | This song represented a banal low even for Queen. Plodding beat, simplistic lyrics, fit only as a stadium singalong (as which it was undoubtedly designed). Pop pap.
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Mudcrutch - Crystal River
(Apr 12, 2012 - 07:24) | So there is something else to Mudcrutch other than their rubbish version of Matty Groves (oops, sorry, "Shady Grove" I meant). I rather like this and its gentle bumbley melodic style. A pleasant way of passing some time and great to work to.
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Lana Del Rey - Video Games
(Mar 31, 2012 - 04:15) | kcar wrote:
Lana's definitely a product of a music label/ad campaign. Beautiful woman, very limited singing abilities, no persona or schtick. And this song is a collection of pop-music cliches.
Maybe she'll produce some great music. But there has to be better young talent out there than this.
Completely agree. This just doesn't work for me at all. Every time I hear it I just think "you sure ain't convincing me!". Fake and artificial, her adopted persona just doesn't ring true, and there is nothing else there.
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Shook Twins - Window
(Mar 17, 2012 - 04:26) | Really great - a fantastic band. Buy the album - it's wonderful.
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Shook Twins - Rose
(Mar 17, 2012 - 04:25) | Great harmonies always from the Shook Twins. Love this song - the album is wonderful, well worth buying.
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Michael Franti & Spearhead - Pray For Grace
(Feb 03, 2012 - 04:02) | Although there is some great music from Michael Franti/Spearhead (the Home album as an example), this is just too simplistic to appeal to me personally.
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Imogen Heap - Lifeline
(Jan 20, 2012 - 06:12) | christopherwoods wrote:
I think one of the appeals of Immi is that she's a multi-instrumentalist and also very technically capable in the studio - this isn't such a big thing these days (well, I think it is) — but she was breaking new ground with electroacoustic composition at the turn of the last decade. Her compositions are engaging and (IMO) draw you in; some of the imagery she evokes can be quite startling and visceral when you stop and dig through the layers to actually 'listen' to it. She challenges a few preconceptions about what makes a 'good tune'; I also like how she plays with sound on a technical level (but that's probably from my background as a sound engineer / producer). She's also not shy of writing non-rhyming lyrics. ;-)
Some of her stuff is, I will readily agree, a bit so-so - I vastly prefer her first album, Speak for Yourself, over her second album Ellipse - but she's a 'marmite' artist (you either really like or really dislike her music, there's not much of a middle ground).
If you saw her live and was unimpressed then you must've been unlucky and caught her on an off day, she's usually fantastic live and has done some quite interesting things directly involving her fans to contribute to live impromptu composition at gigs - sometimes given away as free downloads after the fact, sometimes included in her released musical works. She's really quite excellent at fan engagement too, which I think deservedly brings her fans.
All said and done, she's fundamentally a talented musician, vocalist and composer — and people like her should continue to be supported and encouraged! :-)
Sorry, but for me all of that technical stuff and her admittedly strong interaction with an audience is of no importance in the face of the lack of any real melody. There's a plethora of artists who do manage to combine technical mastery with decent melodies.
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Steely Dan - Reelin' In The Years
(Jan 20, 2012 - 06:05) | ncollingridge wrote:
They don't have Classic Rock Radio in Knebworth, either. Like you, I've always loved this song - I used to listen to it on Radio Caroline in the 70s.
BTW, the tile should be "Reelin' In The Years".
Amazing - since my last comment the song title has been updated! I never imagined that a song comment would actually get a response...
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Beady Eye - The Roller
(Jan 20, 2012 - 04:32) | fredriley wrote:
Influence isn't plagiarism, and IMO Gallagher sings a f*ck of a sight better than Lennon ever did - I'll take Oasis and the Gallaghers above any of Lennon's stuff every day of the week.
WTF is it about folk on here complaining about 'ripoffs'?? After thousands of years of music-making every song is derivative of something and there is nothing original. The Beatles themselves 'ripped off' scads of predecessor and contemporary artists. Big feckin' deal.
Personally I think there is a difference between a song being derivative and a performance sounding like an imitation of another artist. If I had been in the control room when Noel Gallagher sang this song I would have said to him "Noel, mate, that sounds just TOO close to John Lennon. Can you try singing it again, but this time make it sound more like yourself?".
I know that he would probably have punched me in the face for cheek (particularly for calling him mate when he doesn't know me from Adam) but I would have felt better...
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Beady Eye - The Roller
(Jan 20, 2012 - 04:17) | Third rate John Lennon soundalike. It sounds to me more like a Rutles parody than an original song.
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Aimee Mann - Long Shot
(Jan 16, 2012 - 21:30) | Great song, but this sounds to me like a very low bitrate MP3 (or a badly encoded one) judging by the "tizz" on the cymbals.
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The Beatles - I Am The Walrus
(Jan 16, 2012 - 01:54) | In response to Bill's comment a few seconds ago about the amount of time people spent trying to work out the Beatles' lyrics, it is amusing that this song was apparently written specifically to be nonsensical. This was because of the analysis of their lyrics that was going on at his old school at the behest of the English teacher. "Let the f**kers work that one out." said Lennon to a mate.
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Ed Sheeran - The A Team
(Jan 15, 2012 - 13:52) | fredriley wrote:That's an awkward thing to do, physically, unless you're referring to his donkey in which case said quadruped would be quite pleased to do without the kicking, I'm sure. The song itself is just tedious, generic, the sort of one-kid-and-his-guitar act you can hear in any music pub in the land. He can sing and play in tune, and maybe his lyrics are heartfelt, but I reached for the blessed relief of the mute button before I could sink into the arms of Morpheus 
Sadly I couldn't agree more. Nothing happening here - move along. Quickly.
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Beck - Beautiful Way
(Dec 22, 2011 - 12:06) | I have to say that I have become somewhat jaded of Beck recently. I'm sure it's just me, but I'm finding his voice rather dreary nowadays, and it's a bit of a dampener on my enjoyment of his work.
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The Pretenders - My City Was Gone
(Dec 13, 2011 - 11:14) | Mugro wrote:
Jon, you had better hide that political opinion here at RP. The natives here have very long knives and very sharp teeth.....
That's the trouble with right-wingers - they think that wielding a big stick is always the answer.
Please don't try and suggest that RP listeners have any specific political leaning, particularly not a right wing one. I am sure that people of all political persuasions listen to RP and that's the way it should be.
Personally I abhor any form of political extremism - a balanced central path is my prescription. Caring - but not too caring. Fiscally conservative - but not to the point that government does too little to keep society stable.
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Steely Dan - Reelin' In The Years
(Nov 18, 2011 - 10:00) | Dillinquent wrote: ziakut wrote:With so many good 'Dan' tunes out there...does this one really have to be played? I still like it, but it's wearing on me big time. I always cringe when RP plays stuff that you can hear on 'Classic Rock' radio. Oh well...I suppose this is throwin' some candy to those that don't have tolerance for new music. Then again...if they don't, they wouldn't be here in the first place, right? I confuse myself. Ha.
I never listen to 'Classic Rock Radio' (in fact I don't think we've got one of those in Hertford) and I love this song, always have.
The fact that RP plays this and all those other great tunes, new and old, is why I listen to RP.
They don't have Classic Rock Radio in Knebworth, either. Like you, I've always loved this song - I used to listen to it on Radio Caroline in the 70s.
BTW, the tile should be "Reelin' In The Years".
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Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
(Nov 05, 2011 - 08:29) | Pibailey wrote: It's difficult to fault this song, no matter how hard you try to hate it.
Why would you try to hate it? Why would you TRY to hate anything? I just do not understand that attitude - it smacks of bigotry and an incredibly closed mind.
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The Who - Quadrophenia
(Oct 19, 2011 - 15:55) | Great track from an unparalleled album. Great passion, dynamics and superb melodies. Couple with a theme that just about makes sense (unlike Tommy!). Keith Moon is IMHO the greatest drummer in rock, driving this whole album along with passion and power. He truly is Animal...
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Bruce Springsteen - Spirit In The Night
(Oct 11, 2011 - 07:28) | finoufk wrote: the more I listen to that song, the more I prefer Manfred mann's cover !
The more I listen to Bruce's loose and relaxed version, the more I prefer it to the much slicker Mannfred Mann cover.
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Björk - Big Time Sensuality
(Oct 04, 2011 - 10:20) | Love everything about this - such an upbeat, playful, FUN, living-life-to-the-full track.
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David Gray - Let The Good Things Come
(Oct 04, 2011 - 10:05) | Poacher wrote: Such a fine thing to have so many musicians appreciate Johns music and also lovely to hear their interpretation of the songs. I don't usually like David Grey. . . but he nails this one.
Totally agree
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Eisley - Memories
(Sep 03, 2011 - 04:11) | deadgoose66 wrote:UGH!!! Painful!!! 
Also dull and just meh...
Production-line emote by numbers.
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Calexico - Close Behind
(Aug 30, 2011 - 02:56) | Quite superb. Melodic, dynamic, uplifting, dramatic. Altogether pretty near peerless.
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First Aid Kit - When I Grow Up
(Aug 10, 2011 - 11:28) | To my ears this sounds almost exactly like Alela Diane. Not a criticism by any means as I love Alela Diane and really like this track too.
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Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Work Song
(Jul 30, 2011 - 09:31) | spaceman wrote:
I don't know which one Mike Bloomfield is, but I thought all of the guitar solo parts were pretty horrible. Especially the ones on the right stereo channel. If that's Mike Bloomfield, I really don't understand what's so great about him. The whole thing sounds like a drunken jam session at best, not something I'd consider ready for release.
Couldn't agree more. Self indulgent noodling with no sense of melody and very dodgy rhythm. Add to that some totally uninspired bass and drums and this represents two hours (at least - it may have been longer) out of my life.
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Imogen Heap - Lifeline
(Jul 24, 2011 - 02:12) | jagdriver wrote: Where's the melody?
Quite. All style and no content. Vocal noodlings with no underpinning instrumental support. I saw her at WOMAD Charlton Park 2010 and she bored me to tears. She obviously thinks she's great, though.
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Neko Case - Buckets of Rain
(Jun 02, 2011 - 06:51) | mapman wrote: OK, nice voice but I'll stick with Dylan's original version.
Love Neko Case, but this is not her best work in my view. I also prefer Dyaln's original - much more weight to it. This is a bit throwaway for my liking, unlike her own material.
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Fairport Convention - Matty Groves
(May 17, 2011 - 05:10) | Amusing when you look into the history of this song. The Wikipedia entry for the 18th century Shady Grove (Shady Grove (song)) says only "The melody is strikingly similar to that of an old English ballad, Matty Groves", but if you look at the Wikipedia entry for the 17th Century British song Matty Groves (Matty Groves) it says "In the United States the song was transformed into the less graphic "Shady Grove", which has itself become a traditional."
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Genesis - Mad Man Moon
(Apr 27, 2011 - 11:34) | A true guilty pleasure. I know I shouldn't like it (the song's incredibly florid and it's the pop version of Genesis), but I have to admit that I do.
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Arvo Pärt - Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten
(Apr 20, 2011 - 12:15) | Stingray wrote: I want to ROCK, and ROLL
and be motivated to F***
and smoke a SPLIFF...
Nietzsche and Pärt-vert I can read and listen to on my death-bed!
Then go and listen to another station that is designed for pathetic simple-minded losers like you. The rest of us delight in the eclecticism of RP that permits the playing of reflective music like this alongside everything else.
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Jackson Browne - Fountain Of Sorrow
(Apr 08, 2011 - 10:11) | One of my favourite songs of all time. Beautiful, aching, poetic lyrics with a gorgeous plangent melody and exquisite harmonies.
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Florence and The Machine - Cosmic Love
(Mar 25, 2011 - 04:57) | mikexican wrote: Liking this more and more and more... she's got a great voice and the music is layered and engaging.
Quite - it improves with every listening.
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Katie Melua - The Flood
(Mar 15, 2011 - 14:54) | Best thing I've ever heard from her. Generally I have found her work to be pretty banal and dull mainstream pap, but this is really quite interesting, with a very accomplished and appealing vocal which has quite a lot of character in it.
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Fairport Convention - Matty Groves
(Mar 15, 2011 - 05:44) | SO much better than the lame Mudcrutch effort called "Shady Grove". This has all the character and shade and light you could want, coupled with the wonderful tones of Sandy Denny. A magnificent telling of the tragic tale.
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Neko Case - Dirty Knife
(Feb 07, 2011 - 06:14) | SmackDaddy wrote:
No, that would be Calexico. Not that I'm complaining.
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Ray LaMontagne - You Can Bring Me Flowers
(Jan 28, 2011 - 04:16) | hippiechick wrote: This guy sure gets a lot of airplay, on radio and tv, everywhere I go I hear him. He must have a great publicist.
Maybe. Or it might be because he produces music that is interesting, enjoyable and highly original. Particularly at a time when a lot (not all!) of current music is somewhat mundane and not very unique.
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Led Zeppelin - Hey Hey What Can I Do
(Jan 03, 2011 - 14:04) | Hannio wrote:
Complete, as of 1970? But it doesn't sound right to me, either. Must be the release date of this song.
Okay, wikipedia says this song was the b-side of Immigrant Song, released as a single in 1970. Incidentally, this is the only Zep song that was ever released as only a single.
Not correct - Trampled Underfoot was definitely released as a single in the UK. I have a copy in my hands right now. It was released on Swan Song records b/w Black Country Woman. Interestingly there is no catalogue number on it. It has a black sleeve with the text Led Zeppelin "Trampled Underfoot" at the top and the text Special Limited Edition at the bottom right at a 45 degree angle.
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Bryan Ferry - Song To The Siren
(Dec 24, 2010 - 04:33) | salide wrote:Is it me or is this guy stuck in the 80's? 
Yup. Pleasant at best. Sounds like an anaemic version of Avalon.
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Steely Dan - Do It Again
(Dec 02, 2010 - 11:00) | I have so much affection for this song and Reelin' In The Years from when they were played on Radio Caroline (the only source of good music in the UK in the seventies) along with tracks from Court and Spark and Blood on the Tracks . They were my introduction to music beyond the pop music of the time, which was all you got on mainstream radio.
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Mudcrutch - Shady Grove
(Dec 02, 2010 - 07:26) | Ah yes, the "pop" version of Matty Groves. Doesn't do it for me, I'm afraid - too dry and flat; it just can't begin to compare with Fairport fronted by Sandy Denny's voice.
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Talking Heads - Swamp
(Oct 07, 2010 - 09:21) | Al Green with Take Me To The River followed by Talking Heads, who, of course, did a totally kick-ass version of TMTTR. Not to mention the river-swamp connection... Way to go, thematically speaking!
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Nick Lowe - Peace, Love And Understanding
(Sep 21, 2010 - 04:03) | Nick Lowe is a true great, albeit sadly under-appreciated, and this stunningly mature and heartfelt version of his song which was originally released in an upbeat version in the 70s is a wonderful demonstration of that. Hunt out his solo albums for some excellent examples of great songsmithery coupled with highly expressive and characterful performances.
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Elbow - Bones of You
(Jul 27, 2010 - 02:39) | By far the best album of the last few years. Wonderful melodies, sophisticated arrangements, soul and passion all in harness together with a great and highly individual vocal performance.
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Blue Oyster Cult - Burnin For You
(Jul 26, 2010 - 04:08) | This is one of those tracks that always makes me want to tune to BBC 6 Music instead. It's artificial 80s pap with no soul - bland simplistic harmonies, trite lyrics and guitar-by-numbers. Dullsville with no redemption.
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Elbow - An Audience with The Pope
(Jul 25, 2010 - 01:25) | ncollingridge wrote:Funny, his voice is one of the greatest strengths of Elbow for me - just shows how subjective taste is. I love the languid and drole nature of it - suits the slightly off-beam nature of the music brilliantly.
Sorry, should have been droll, but the spell-checker "corrected" it for me for some reason...
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Elbow - An Audience with The Pope
(Jul 25, 2010 - 01:23) | Funny, his voice is one of the greatest strengths of Elbow for me - just shows how subjective taste is. I love the languid and drole nature of it - suits the slightly off-beam nature of the music brilliantly.
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David Bowie - Waterloo Sunset
(Jul 05, 2010 - 02:29) | I love most of Bowie's output (particularly the early 70s stuff, of course), but this is a bit of a drone. Workmanlike covers like this which don't really add anything to the original are rather pointless, IMHO.
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Steppenwolf - Desperation
(Jun 25, 2010 - 07:44) | Tedious and lacking in any discernible melody. I can understand that people might have a liking for the band because of their counter-cultural significance to their period, but that was then and this is now, and in the present the tracks I want to listen to are ones that couple some sort of melodicism to whatever else they offer. Many bands of the period managed this and I love hearing their music, but by the sound of this, apart from Born to be Wild which is a bonafide classic by any standards, Steppenwolf didn't have much to offer..
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David Bowie - The Man Who Sold The World
(Jun 24, 2010 - 06:47) | From a 1 to a 9 - what a leap! "Burnin for you" by BOC - absolute rubbish - to the genius of David B. I was just about to turn off RP, convinced that things were heading downhill very fast when this came on and halted me in my tracks.
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Derek and the Dominoes - Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad
(Jun 08, 2010 - 03:49) | Weak track on an otherwise great album. This version throws away any pretence at melody in favour of a tedious thrash with a pyrotechnic guitar solo that is just showing off how fast the notes can be played rather than trying to create something of beauty, emotion and expression, normally Eric's strengths.
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David Gilmour - Short and Sweet
(May 13, 2010 - 04:24) | FlatCat wrote: Nope. Tired of PF and all their spawn. No melody here. Just droning.
Agreed. Dull. Nothing going on.
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Eluvium - Prelude For Time Feelers
(May 09, 2010 - 01:20) | quesarah wrote: I wanted to like it, I did. But the repetition and synth strings wore on me.
Isn't this the soundtrack to "2 girls 1 cup" ?
^^WHS^^; and this reminds me SO much of an 80s period song - I think it's John Miles "Music", but I'm not going to make myself suffer by listening to it again to make sure. Either way, this is so tedious and repetitive that it makes watching paint dry an interesting and worthwhile use of time.
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David Gilmour - On An Island
(Apr 23, 2010 - 08:07) | Propayne wrote: The master of the slow, melodic lead.
Maybe, but his technique is not displayed to good effort on this drone of a song. As so often is the case with artists from groups when they go solo, all that this shows is that he really did need the rest of PF working together as a group to actually create decent tunes for him to play on.
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Ludovico Einaudi - Primavera
(Apr 02, 2010 - 05:05) | I'm afraid I really am starting to find this a bit tedious. Aimless (and admittedly harmless) meandering that just doesn't go anywhere but round and round in circles. Pretty, but pointless. Sorry to those of you who like it...
NEXT!
AND QUICKLY!
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Sade - Soldier Of Love
(Mar 28, 2010 - 13:16) | It's almost as if the eighties never ended.
Shame - her last album (Lovers Rock) was much less cliched. On this one she's trying much too hard, IMHO.
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Fiona Apple - I Know
(Mar 28, 2010 - 02:07) | Love the track, but am I the only one who hears Nick Cave in the chord progression?
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RPWL - Masters Of War
(Feb 06, 2010 - 02:51) | keller1 wrote:
To paraphrase Otto in A Fish Called Wanda: "Jesus, you Brits have a way with words."
Why thank you, kind sir!
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Bob Dylan - Desolation Row
(Dec 04, 2009 - 06:54) | jim1964 wrote: big_gare wrote:Does anyone else hear fingernails on a blackboard mixed into the harmonica? I'm sure of it! Gaak! ...nope.
Me neither
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Wilco - Sonny Feeling
(Nov 24, 2009 - 07:15) | Shouldn't this track be called "Sonny Feeling"? That's how it's listed everywhere I can find it...
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David Gilmour - On An Island
(Nov 24, 2009 - 06:11) | That_SOB wrote:One wo/man's ceiling, is another wo/man's floor. In their day Waters, and Gilmour earned enough poetic capital to write total crap for the rest of their lives and still be par with any and all others. I happen to like this piece as it shows another side (diversity) of Gilmour not often seen, and I'm sure that if "Dark Side of the Moon were to be released today, any of these new generation rap-happy critics would be thumbs down-ing one of the most brilliant and cohesive albums ever made.
Yet another musician who needs the discipline of his bandmates to produce material of the quality produced by theb band. In other words, please don't compare this to DSOTM or any of the PF stuff prior to it. It's self-satisfied cack. I wouldn't go so far as to say that it's soulless, but it definitely doesn't have the subtlety that PF were capable of.
And it doesn't matter how good a musician was previously - each piece of music he/she produces MUST be judged on its own merits, just as DSOTM would be if it were to be released today, and I'm sure that the real critics (at least the ones I read in Uncut, Mojo or Word magazines) would recognise it for its strengths.
BTW, if you haven't caught the 4.1 mix that's floating around the internet if you look hard enough, I would thoroughly recommend it. It's based directly on the original quadraphonic mix that Alan Parsons did but which was never released, and it really is a more powerful version than I have ever heard before, and does the work great justice.
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RPWL - Masters Of War
(Nov 17, 2009 - 14:53) | And to people comparing it to Pink Floyd I just want to make it very clear that late period PF (by which I mean post Wish You Were Here, which itself was only just the right side of the line) should never be confused with the earlier stuff. They are almost two bands, at least in musical style, with the later stuff having none of the delicacy of touch of the earlier period.
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Gustavo Santaolalla - De Ushuaia a La Quiaca
(Nov 14, 2009 - 07:53) | daigoro wrote:
Ha! A Brit lecturing America about meddling in Iraq?
How about the British Mandate of Mesopotamia after WWI?
How about the Anglo-Iraqi War? Talk about a war for oil!
You guys practically DEFINED imperialism! Don't act like your shite don't stink.
Cuba sucks on its own. It doesn't need any help at sucking. Communism always sucks. Such wonderful leaders too like Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, etc.
Which countries are prospering the most in South America right now? Brazil and Chile. Capitalist countries.
Which countries are going down the crapper? Venezuela comes to mind. Once the most prosperous country in all of Latin America. Now Hugo is grabbing with both hands, shutting down free press and radio, and voting himself dictator for life.
Oh by the way, was that line about Cuba not having death squads and not making dissents disappear supposed to be a joke?
The problem is that extreme capitalism is just as corrupt as extreme communism. Look at where we are today in the capitalist west - big corporations don't care at all about society, and libertarians only care about themselves. It's just the same (in reverse) as a communist state where everything is done in the name of society, no-one has any freedom and making money is considered to be evil.
I get so frustrated that people can't see the irony in the battle between left-wing and right-wing politics - they're both just as screwed up. The only way to a happy society (and hence to happy people) is for all of us to see that the right balance is, as always, somewhere in the middle, ie where the health of society is seen as important but concern for this doesn't dominate people's freedom. You have to be prepared to sacrifice some freedoms for its health, but it all has to be within bounds.
Follow Ayn Rand and all hope is lost, just as much as if you follow Marx!
Oh, and it really doesn't help anyone to drag us back to WWI and before - all countries and governments have things they should be ashamed of, but we really need to focus on the present right now...
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John Mayall - Room To Move
(Nov 05, 2009 - 02:23) | Not good this morning - this following Pete Townsend's "Let My Love Open The Door" a few songs ago means I'm out of here for a while. Hopefully things will pick up a bit later on... In the meantime I'm switching to Spotify to check out further some artists I've heard here.
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Pete Townshend - Let My Love Open The Door
(Nov 05, 2009 - 02:13) | rdo wrote:
Are you bothered by the fact that this was a hit? I don't see this as being beneath his talent. I love this song. You seem to have a very negative reaction to it, but I don't think it is the quality of the music that you are reacting to, given the fact you like his music in general.
I totally agree with kaybee. I, too, have awarded this song the ignominious rating of sucko-barfo and I share his views that this is a grand canyon away from the heights of his good stuff. How could the same person have written both "Won't Get Fooled Again" and this garbage? It's trite and simplistic, monotonous and repetitive. The best that could be said for it is that it was a hit, but given the typical taste of the wider populace that really isn't saying anything on an artistic level. Great rock it certainly ain't...
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Pink Floyd - Keep Talking
(Oct 26, 2009 - 03:21) | Pompous and soulless. Sorry - flame away all you like, but that's the truth. I am a great fan of earlier PF for their delicacy and grace, but they lost all of that once they became mega-successful,
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Heather Nova - Ride
(Oct 17, 2009 - 01:17) | Quixmundi wrote: Ouch...the screech singing hurts the ears. Lyrics predictable. Overly produced. Don't believe her angst.
Ditto ditto
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Guster - Ruby Falls
(Sep 10, 2009 - 10:27) | lemmoth wrote:
With you on 3 out of 4 ————- Foreigner????????
^^ What he said ^^
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Rush - Time Stand Still
(Aug 15, 2009 - 10:17) | Tedious 80s pop-rock without any soul. All style no substance. Too much studio stuff (all that reverb...).
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The Audreys - Oh Honey
(Aug 13, 2009 - 09:05) | Kilroy wrote: Lame song. Lyrics are WAY too repetitive - gets very annoying after hearing more than once....
^^^ What he said with bells on ^^^
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Pentangle - Waltz
(Jun 04, 2009 - 15:23) | I LOVE Pentangle, but this is one of my least favourite tracks. It's all style (and "virtuosity") without enough melody. They produced so many great tracks where the balance was much more enjoyable - please can we hjave more of those in the future?
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Andrew Bird - Masterswarm
(May 18, 2009 - 10:33) | First to rate! This is great - I've always liked Andrew Bird's stuff but this is excellent.
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Jets Overhead - All The People
(Nov 23, 2008 - 02:10) | Alexandra wrote: I like the way the two vocal parts weave together...nicely done.
Agree - although I can't help being reminded of "All the lonely people" by America.
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David Bowie - Lady Grinning Soul
(Nov 21, 2008 - 04:22) | horstman wrote:I love trolling. It's fishing for assholes. Look what I caught below. 
As long as you don't expect others to admire you for it. Most of us just want to get on with each other.
Grow up the lot of you!
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Emmylou Harris - All My Tears
(Nov 19, 2008 - 06:10) | phlattop wrote: Her best record with one strong track after another. One of the best albums of the 1990s, IMO.
Entirely agree.
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Franz Ferdinand - Lucid Dreams
(Nov 18, 2008 - 15:11) | Impressed - for me it intrigues in the same way as The Arctic Monkeys, which is definitely a good thing. Sounds like FF have the chops to become a longer term success than I'd first thought. Covering my bet I'll just say that this might be the only good track on the album, though!
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Elbow - An Audience with The Pope
(Nov 06, 2008 - 06:43) | This is SUCH a great album. Every time I listen to a song from it I notice new subtleties. By far the best album of the year (so far - although it's very hard to imagine anything will beat it now).
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Jackson Browne - Fountain Of Sorrow
(Sep 02, 2008 - 05:04) | element1 wrote:
One of his greatest lyrical accomplishments.
Agreed. It's always been my favourite of his songs - this particular section always speaks to me. Who hasn't found a photo of an old and loved girlfriend and thought something similar?
I was looking through some photographs I found inside a drawer
and was taken by a photograph of you.
There were one or two I know that I knew you would have liked a little more
but they didn't show your spirit quite as true.
You were turning round to see who was behind you
and I took your childish laughter by surprise,
and at the moment that my camera happened to find you
there was just a trace of sorrow in your eyes.
Beautifully poignant and poised performance with exquisite harmonies.
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Pink Floyd - On The Turning Away
(Aug 01, 2008 - 01:29) | twp wrote:
I'm a Floyd fan from way back, but I can't stand this record. I'll totally admit that Waters' navel-gazing and self-pitying routine got pretty old, but I still prefer it to this treacly, overproduced, trite nonsense. I actually had to turn off RP until this song was over, it gets on my nerves so much.
Absolutely. This is just tedious, obvious, cock-rock, with no redeeming aspects. How the might are fallen - that this could be the same band responsible for the sensitivity and soul of Dark Side of the Moon is almost impossible to believe. The band should be ashamed that they released this track under the name of the band, demeaning its great heritage.
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Rick James - Super Freak
(Jun 29, 2008 - 00:26) | Funk is good with me, but this is just slightly funky pop; very simplistic with an incredibly boring and repetitive bass riff. Not up to normal RP standards in my view.
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Rolling Stones - Heaven
(May 26, 2008 - 03:35) | ulibcn wrote: marvellous
excellent
sublime
stones
=mess ? Surely not...
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Lily Allen - LDN
(May 12, 2008 - 12:42) | Fascinating the polarized response to this. Yes, it's pop, but the great barbed lyrics make this very clever pop. It's also pretty unpretentious, unlike all the Britney-alikes and their kin. For us Brits it's in a direct line from the deliciously observed music that Ian Dury used to produce before he sadly left us.
If you don't get it, I would have to question whether maybe it's because you're taking things a bit too seriously. Or maybe you just don't get the British sideways look at life.
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Gillian Welch - Revelator
(Mar 04, 2008 - 10:14) | Incredible track. So much character and emotion, wonderful keening, challenging harmonies make it a real treat to listen to.
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The Innocence Mission - When Mac Was Swimming
(Jan 13, 2008 - 05:26) | Such a great song from such a beautiful album. Gentle, pensive, delicate music with such a characterful and expressive vocal performance. Perfect for a relaxed Sunday morning.
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Fleetwood Mac - Hypnotized
(Jan 13, 2008 - 05:04) | Saw the Classic Albums programme about the making of Rumours the other day. It truly was/is a great album, but the one shame about it is that when it came out it caused most of FM's previous output to disapear off the radar. Quit ridiculous when you consider how much stellar stuff they produced in the pre-Rumours days. This track is just one example - think of tracks like Oh Well, Green Manalishi, Albatross, Black Magic Woman, Need Your Love So Bad, Dragonfly, Man of the World, etc etc. All uite outstanding...
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Pete Townshend - Let My Love Open The Door
(Nov 26, 2007 - 00:16) | I'm entirely with EssexTex - this song demeans the memory of The Who. It is just so weak and wimpy in every way. I hate hearing it - this is one of those very few songs that will make me turn off RP.
I can only guess that Pete was going through a particularly rocky period in his life because it sounds like the product of someone who has lost all his confidence.
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Wallflowers - Letters from the Wasteland
(Nov 20, 2007 - 23:29) | I don't know about the rest of the album, but this song is just weak. Dreary and plodding arrangement, no strong melody, tedious vocals, no hook - what's it got going for it? Workmanlike at best.
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Sophie Solomon - Lazarus
(Oct 28, 2007 - 02:04) | meloman wrote:
Call me old fashioned, but I prefer women with tits.
Old fashioned doesn't even BEGIN to cover your problems...
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Dire Straits - Industrial Disease
(Oct 21, 2007 - 00:19) | I'm with bcorcoran and the others who think this is very lightweight fair indeed. Sultans of Swing is by far the best Dire Straits album, mainly because of its sublety in comparison to the rest of their output. This is just about the worst track of all, overly jaunty with a childish melody. It's the type of track that "older" people like because it's "such fun!". By older I don't mean in age, but the type of people who normally say they don't think popular/modern music is proper music...
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Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
(Oct 16, 2007 - 08:55) | I echo the sentiments expressed by some others below - I, too, think that this album is one of the best released over the last few years. It's undoubtedly a truly classic album and there aren't that many around that you can confidently describe in that way.
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Iron & Wine - Naked As We Came
(Oct 11, 2007 - 08:17) | Personally I thought this was gorgeous - just shows that not everyone has the same taste. Indeed I have to say that I don't really understand the other complaints about this track. Incidentally I thought the guitar playing had very distinct echoes of Nick Drake about it.
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Midnight Oil - Bushfire
(Oct 02, 2007 - 11:33) | Great track. I don't normally go for Midnight Oil, but this is excellent. Slight echo of The Cure or The The, though...?
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Johnny Cash - A Boy Named Sue
(Sep 29, 2007 - 02:49) | This was very funny the first time I heard it, and Johnny Cash's deadpan delivery lifts it as high as any comedy song ever could be raised. It stayed amusing for the next twenty or so listens, caused a slight smile for the next fifty times, but I have to say that now it has started to rile me somewhat. There isn't enough going on melodically for me to keep on enjoying it now, I'm afraid...
At least it's pretty short!
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Jack Johnson - Inaudible Melodies
(Aug 31, 2007 - 01:00) | Katie Melua is a lite version of Nora Jones, and Jack Johnson is a lite version of Katie Melua. Bland and dull.
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Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
(Aug 25, 2007 - 05:34) | I just can't imagine how anyone could describe this song as boring and insipid. The expression in Jeff Buckley's voice is quite exquisite, and accompanied by the incredibly delicate and sparse instrumentation I find this an incredibly affecting song. At least I know that I'm not alone in this!
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Eels - Blinking Lights
(Aug 23, 2007 - 05:18) | I don't know if it's just me, but I just can't stand anything by The Eels - the vocals just grate for some reason.
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PJ Harvey - The Wind
(Aug 23, 2007 - 01:14) | Great track. Polly does that tension thing SO well. Lovely loose, loping feel to it, too.
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Mich Gerber - Zumurud
(Aug 22, 2007 - 01:50) | Reminds me somewhat of a Loreena McKennitt song, but I couldn't for the life of me say which one. Very pleasant, though.
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Widespread Panic - Traveling Light
(Aug 15, 2007 - 09:51) | Very weak facsimile of J J Cale. Lyrics seem to consist of little more than "Travelling Light is the only way to fly". Come on! Dullsville...
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The Innocence Mission - When Mac Was Swimming
(Jan 26, 2005 - 10:20) | A beautifully yearning song, perfectly performed, from an exquisite album. If you haven't got it already, and loved this track, don't hesitate to buy the album.
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White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
(Jun 12, 2003 - 10:47) | This is an instant classic - one of the best bits of music that I've heard for years. It's very pacey and powerful, yet melodic.
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White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
(Jun 02, 2003 - 08:32) | THis is the first slice of heavy music for ages that has been of any interest to me. And to think it's just guitar and drums...
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Michael Miller - When We Come To
(May 26, 2003 - 13:53) | Can't find this on Amazon UK or US, or on All Music Guide. ANy clues from anyone where this comes from and how to get it??
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U2 (with Johnny Cash) - The Wanderer
(Mar 29, 2003 - 06:00) | This is a fantastic track - in particular I find it so reassuring that a band of the scale of U2 can still do music like this that is bare and stripped down (rather than bombastic in their normal style), so that its musical elements and character can shine through. Soulful is the single word that comes to mind.
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Mark Knopfler - Hard Cases
(Feb 27, 2003 - 11:39) | Whilst I can appreciate the guy's guitar technique (although I don't think this particular track demonstrates anything really impressive), this track just has no soul. To me it's just an antiseptic and uninspired doodle. Give me the Sultans of Swing anyday - now that WAS a decent album.
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Santana - Song Of The Wind
(Feb 21, 2003 - 08:34) | I'm with rymalia - Caravanserai is a superb album, well beyond any of his/their other albums. It is, however, less immediate and poppy than the other albums which means that it does take some people a little bit longer to appreciate it, and this is the reason that it was not very commercially successful when it was released. Rest assured that this effort is well worthwhile as it has very deep and lasting appeal on a musical level.
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Patti Smith - People Have the Power
(Feb 18, 2003 - 00:54) | Judging by the rating, I'm not alone in thinking this song is pathetic, particularly for an artist of Patti Smith's artistic credentials. It's just simplistic stadium rock of the worst type - even Jefferson Starship would be ashamed of this. Please can it be dropped from the playlist before it affronts our ears again?
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Pink Floyd - Sheep
(Feb 10, 2003 - 03:22) | Leaden. All style and no content. No soul.
Just because it's Pink Floyd doesn't make it good!
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Lucinda Williams - Are You Down
(Dec 31, 2002 - 14:48) | Quite gorgeous. The best track on a really great album (apart from the drear title track which is out of character with the rest of the album).
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Duran Duran - Hungry Like the Wolf
(Dec 31, 2002 - 14:38) | What a surprise - pretty much unanimous dislike for this pathetically lame pop track. This is not the type of thing I listen to RP to hear - this is the type of thing I am trying to avoid by listening to RP. With any other radio station I will turn off when I hear a track by Duran Duran - at least with RP the next track is likely to be worth hearing so I stay tuned, even if I have been rather disillusioned by hearing it!
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Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
(Dec 02, 2002 - 10:41) | Very very cheesy. One of the reasons I listen to RP is in the hope of not hearing music like this, I'm afraid. I don't know why it's popped into the playlist but it seems to me to be an aberration alongside the other good stuff that is played. The only Queen I could ever stand was the Seven Seas of Rhye and Keep Yourself Alive vintage, and I wasn't very partial to that. Eclectic's one thing, but it can be taken too far...
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Santana - Singing Winds, Crying Beasts
(Oct 30, 2002 - 03:49) | I've always thought that Caravanserai was by far the best of Santana's albums, with interesting melodies, rhythms and real soul.
I think it's been overlooked by many because it's just not as commercial as albums like Abraxas, or even worse, some of his/their more recent work, but ultimately it's an album that continues to be very rewarding and most enjoyable after years of playing it.
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It's A Beautiful Day - White Bird
(Oct 30, 2002 - 03:45) | This is such a pretty song, and although I don't agree with them I can understand those who find it too twee. I do think it has to be understood in the context of its time - even though the sentiments in it are rather too gentle for some, given today's macho times, I personally find the melody and harmonies totally gorgeous.
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Cracker - Guarded By Monkeys
(Oct 29, 2002 - 14:14) | I'm sorry, but this one goes beyond my classification of intelligent or eclectic. It's just boring straightforward noise-pop - sub-Garbage if you like. It's not big and it's not clever... 
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Hot Tuna - John's Other
(Jul 19, 2002 - 10:11) | Just one long and incredibly tedious screechy solo after another. Thank God this type of thing went out of fashion with Woodstock! Please spare us...
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Black Sabbath - Planet Caravan
(Jul 16, 2002 - 06:38) | What an eye-opener! I had no idea that there was another side to Black Sabbath capable of producing a song of such beauty.
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Zion Train - Mossman
(Jan 26, 2002 - 12:24) | This just doesn't go anywhere at all. It's like staring at a blank wall.
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Rusted Root - She Roll Me Up
(Jan 22, 2002 - 15:53) | I'm beginning to wonder whether listening to RP is worthwhile - there's been so much anodyne heavy rock music played today that I've been really put off. This track is just pathetic. Is it just Tuesday, I wonder?? Will things get better again?
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Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun
(Jan 22, 2002 - 01:21) | I'm obviously missing something, but to me this song is extremely repetitive, thrashy, pompous, and ultimately pointless.
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Jai Uttal - Lake Of Exploits
(Jan 19, 2002 - 03:04) | Tracks like this justify the eclectic description of the programming. One of the reasons I listen to RP is to hear new and interesting stuff - where else would I get to hear a track like this?
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Santana - Song Of The Wind
(Jan 19, 2002 - 02:59) | I'm with SteveI - this really is a great album and still stands up today. I've recently started listening to it again and am struck by the timeless nature of it.
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Blue Oyster Cult - Astronomy
(Jan 19, 2002 - 02:46) | Sorry - I can't cope with the unrestrained pomposity of this. It reminds me of the worst aspects of seventies prog-rock. Give me Led Zep any day. I can't believe this is the same band that did "Don't Fear the Reaper" which was a great track because it was so imaginative and lacked the pathetic self-importance of tracks like this.
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Garbage - Only Happy When it Rains
(Jan 16, 2002 - 12:32) | An excellent track, and definitely one to add in to those occasional "rain" themed sets. I've always been a bit suspicious about Garbage, feeling that they incline to the manufactured and commercial end of the spectrum, but this track by itself justifies their existence for me.
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Eddi Reader - Simple Soul
(Jan 16, 2002 - 03:46) | Great to see Eddi Reader getting some play on a US-based station. I didn't know that her music had travelled across the ocean yet! The album this comes from is really excellent and is probably her best yet - although I still love Mirmama (her first solo album) a lot. It would be great to hear the first track from that album some time - "What you do with what you've got" - which is a truly beautiful song that deserves much more recognition than it has ever had.
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Emmylou Harris - I Don't Want to Talk About It Now
(Jan 13, 2002 - 15:15) | In general I have to say that I find Red Dirt Girl to be a disappointment after the triumph of Wrecking Ball. In some ways it's a bit like a sequel to that album, but without its inspiration. Maybe it was the lack of Daniel Lanois? The best gig of all time I've been to was Emmylou on her Wrecking Ball tour with Daniel Lanois at Shepherd's Bush Empire in London, and the chemistry on stage was very powerful. Having said all that, this is one of the better tracks on the Red Dirt Girl album - but please can we have a track from Wrecking Ball next time?
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Bruce Cockburn - Night Train
(Jan 13, 2002 - 10:45) | What a gorgeous song - excellent bass work as someone else commented. It has a lovely lolloping feel to it. I'll be investigating Bruce Cockburn further...
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Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
(Jan 13, 2002 - 10:07) | This track should have got a round 10 from everyone - it's almost the definition of great music.
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Cowboy Junkies - Bread And Wine
(Jan 13, 2002 - 08:26) | I love the Cowboy Junkies in general - one of the best gigs I've ever been to was seeing them at the Royal Festival Hall here in London - but this is not up there with their best tracks in my humble opinion.
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Jayhawks - Clouds
(Jan 13, 2002 - 02:14) | One of my favorite bands - I'm a sucker for the harmonies and the melodic guitarwork. How about playing some Golden Smog as well, maybe "Until You Came Along" from the Weird Tales album?
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Pink Floyd - Learning to Fly
(Jan 13, 2002 - 02:00) | I'm sure I'm swimming against the tide on this one, but I have to say that I find all the Pink Floyd stuff after Wish You Were Here to be rather plodding, and this one's no exception. It has some nice touches like the "Gospel" background vocals which lighten it a bit, but the slow and repetitive bass and thumping drums just bring it right down for me.
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The Who - Baba O'Riley
(Jan 12, 2002 - 12:55) | I lived off Who's Next, Everybody Knows This is Nowhere (Neil Young) and Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (Derek and the Dominos) at one stage when I was younger. This track REALLY takes me back.
Baba O'Riley is the most dynamic song I know - it always amazes me with its constant change of pace and the way in which the overall progression and pounding excitement of the song is still fully retained throughout.
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Spearhead - Hole In The Bucket
(Jan 12, 2002 - 12:39) | I totally agree with Poacher - the album is superb and much under-appreciated. Almost uncategorisable and all the better for that.
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