This is an 'eclectic' station aimed at a range of tastes. Playing any 'album-side-length' (ie > 20 mins) is going to piss folk off who don't like that type of music, and lose listeners. There are plenty of long tracks I'd love to hear played but my tastes aren't others, and there are long track from, say, The Who, which nark me. Not liking 20 minute tracks isn't the mark of a "crybaby" - have some respect for your fellow listeners, and think of how pissed off you'd be if 20 minutes of RP airtime was taken up by something you loathed.

As for this track - in one ear and out the ear without leaving any sign of its passing. I'm aware that Fela Kuti is famous, accomplished and whatnot, in which case this can't be anything near his best.

Good song and decent album...but the Title TK album is classic.

Elevator music.

Ok, ok, I can see the appeal of this song, somewhat, but really!

How about "The Graduate"?  .... "plastic"

I see some resemblance in the young Tom Cruise "Joel" character and the young Dustin Hoffman "Ben" character.

Interesting that they would be cast as brothers later in "Rain Man".

I thought "New Adventures in HiFi" was their peak. Trouble is, I can't stand Stipe's voice no more...

Research has shown that putting facts into a song makes things easier to remember - don't be afraid to learn!

One bourbon, one scotch, one beer.

man, the studio version is soo much better.

He looks like Hugh Grant.

These guys are pathetic.

I know a lot of dogs named Prince.
This song gives me a headache. The most over-rated artist of all time. Yucko-Barfo

" Because there’s a light (what light)
There’s a light (one light)
There’s a light (white light)
There’s a light (what light)
There’s a light (one light)
There’s a light (white light)
There’s a light (what light)
There’s a light (one light)
There’s a light (white light)
There’s a light (what light)
There’s a light (one light)
There’s a light (white light)
Inside of you "

- great songwriting? copy and paste I feel. I like wilco but this song is weak.

 This song, in particular, makes me feel very anxious.

I'd rather hear the original.

As perfect a pop tune as was ever created. Palpable tension. Bass bridge intro nails it.

I was just going to say that if it were not for the singing, i would've thought it was the theme song to some horribly cheesy 80s television drama.

I agree, maybe when you climbed the top the only thing to go on is..... dismantle

Tripe.
:puke: :puke:









:puke: :puke:
NONONONONONONOooohhhnnooooononononononononono

ARGH My ears.

Indeed. But who is that on trumpet? Miles?

Lyrical nectar!

Okay, jazz people, I gots a question. When this is just Miles on the trumpet, it's pretty cool. Why, then, when the rest of the band comes in, is it necessary that they play chords that are so bloody jarringly gratingly awfully murderously horrendously discordant?

Fun with adjectives, by my question is serious. Anybody know where this part of the tradition came from?

More like...

"Another supposed 'pattern of behaviors' labeled as such to partially circumvent individual responsibilities and create a new market."

.....there is substance to the argument that a market is being cultivated here. Be skeptical.

Oh please tell us what other music is good so we can be cool like you.

More likely they live in LA, drive vettes, eat out every night in expensive resturants, and have sex more often than we go to the bathroom.

The Dan

Don't Take Me Alive is not even uploaded here

Walter Becker (1/2 of Steely Dan) has a new solo album coming this year. One of the tracks is called "Bob is Not Your Uncle Anymore." So we'll see how that goes.

Well, this is just a very odd song to me. Not rock, not rap - more like Cab Calloway.

I heard he wasn't personnaly the nicest of men.
I am sorry, but I do not buy into "Genius absolves bad behavior"

I was into Mitch Miller and Sesame Street before I heard Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane. While Mitch might be uncool, I definitely won't look back.

:puke:

TH twice in 4hrs. Go to the penalty box.

The Pixies are OK, but they were really just Throwing Muses wannabes.

Anytime a kid asks you why punk rock developed let them listen to this bloated "Masterpiece"

After fourteen years, Walter Becker has another solo album. Click on graphic for info.

I feel bad for you guys that don't get the Heads. It's just sublime in it's strange little way =>

A most excellent tune, and probably his best album.

C- for unenlightened attitude.

The Mordor and gollum junk reveals that at it's heart, under all the Metal rock-god crunchiness, Zep is really a band of nerds.

Censorship can only occur in the public sphere by a public entity.

If you take a crap on your bosses desk, and get fired for it, this is not censorship.

Similarly, if you had a Velvet Elvis in your cubicle, and your boss asked you to remove it because it clashed with the rest of the decor of the office, this would not be censorship.

These are matters of taste, and Bill certainly has the right to be the arbiter of that on his own radio station.

Simple fact. Were there no Beatles or no Pixies there would be no Nirvana

My favorite TMBG's album is still John Henry. The musicianship, writing and hooks are as strong on that album as anything. I know it put off a lot of fans, but it's a GREAT album.

please someone explain what is appealing about steely dan. sounds like elevator music to me.

Steely Dan. Dan Steele. Outre Daniel. It's growing.

Are you talking about the same "Wm. F. Buckley" who wanted the U.S. government to place boundaries on free speech? Along with Tipper Gore and Joe Lieberman?
I'm just wondering, because Bruce Springsteen stood up to that bunch of assholes just like he did Reagan and Dubya.
Bruce and Billy Bragg try to do the right thing, and they get told to "shut up and sing" by folks like Laura Ingraham and "Man" Coulter.
I like it when my heroes speak out. It makes me think they care about something besides getting richer.

It's hardly censorship if Bill voluntarily chooses to blank out part of the name.

the changing or the suppression or prohibition of speech or writing that is condemned as subversive of the common good. It occurs in all manifestations of authority to some degree, but in modern times it has been of special importance in its relation to government and the rule of law.

It's hardly censorship if Bill voluntarily chooses to blank out part of the name.

can't help but thinking of the scene in "Silence of the Lambs", where the senator's daughter is driving in her car, this tune on her radio, just before she meets up with "Buffalo Bill".

I never understood the appeal of this one.

This is a remix. I think it kinda sucks. It seems like DB was just saying to all of his critics, hey, lookit me now, I can really whoop-whoop on this one.

Underrated album. Great song.

insert fork in eye

I was thinking the same thing. Did you know that in Deconstructing Harry, the trip to the upstate part of New York was inspired by the road trip in Wild Strawberries?

+1 = 9

Screw the haters. Radiohead is fantastic, and this entire album was a breath of fresh air in a world of four-chords and 4/4 predictability.

Preach!

Hmm... that crap music you're referring to is called jazz.

Maybe he just likes to play JAZZ on his geetar, and frankly when you're that good you can play just about anything, including stuff that people who are used to pop rock don't understand nor know how to listen to.

I feel like I'm gravitating toward the physicsgenius camp. Because the stuff played on RP is all this listener-submitted tripe, we end up listening to stuff that's no better than what you get on a Clear Channel. No commercials, that's good. But in terms of getting out of the same old box, only marginally better.

Please explain the relevance of this quote to this particular piece of music.

What's wrong with the people on RP these days? I see the most snivelling, snidey negative stuff in the comments! Do you realise how you make yourself look? Are'ya proud of y'self?

"If you have nothing nice to say, don't bother saying anything."

"He" is two guys.

God I hate Steely Dan..... MUST RESIST URGE TO KILLLLLLLLL !!!!


I wrote a Haiku for them:

I hate Steely Dan

With a bright purple passion

They can eat poo poo

My feelings exactly. The keyboardist (Bernie Worrell) was definitely the weak link in the "Stop Making Sense" tour band. Kinda ruins some of the songs.

Hootie and Blow? You haven't listened to much CS.

I miss the Patty Griffin from the time of Flaming Red. Oooh well, artists have to evolve and many evolutionary changes are NOT beneficial.

Prozac or the musical equivalent of a bran muffin.

Like the bird on the cover.

I wish Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney would lose their religion.

That MTV unplugged bossa nova version of Layla is nauseating. (Hey, even Pete Townshend agrees with me on this one)

Absolutely unnecessary...I hated this song 25 years ago, and it certainly hasn't improved since. Let's hope Donnie gets filed away for a long spell at RP.

Another song ruined by an Apple commercial.

Are you kidding me? Drugs are the best thing that has ever happened to music. The only good Beatles songs were written during their heaviest drug phase. That goes for all the other best songs ever written.

If Clint Eastwood could do such a great job with Forrest Whittaker on 'Bird' I can only imagine how great Cheadle would do with Miles.

Yes I have even tried to listen to the words to see if I held some special meaning for me that would help make me like it better but even after all these years no sale.

And Lemon isn't that bad.

It would be a great tragedy if all commentary was like Walter Cronkite was like 30 years ago ..... bland, bland, bland with no thought behind much of anything.

The Boring Monkeys, as I term them, cannot find a way to break out of their soporific lonesome whipoorwill mold they are in. Margo, as gorgeous as you are, try SCREAMING a few times to see how it feels.

neutral noise

Oh yecch. My daughter loves Kate Bush. Personally, I'd rather hear fingernails on a blackboard.

And if you had any brains, Timbaland is producing Coldplay's next album so if he were marginal, then why would they bank their next album to this guy?

geeezzzzz...put on my red shoes and dance to the sound he's playing....what a fagot.

This album is Petty's finest work.

This song has a lower rating than that Blackfield song?!! C'mon! Stop with the knee-jerk bad ratings just cuz you heard a song on regular radio. We get it, you're anti-commercial radio. That doesn't make the song bad.

But this song is still really, really bad.

Freedom of speech. What a fuckin joke.

How can you not find this painful?

This whole album is so full of fun stories. I didn't really like it when it came out - I think it just got overplayed - but the older I get the more I appreciate his humor and style.

Robbie

Give up the faux Indian thing. It's tiresome.

It's an "Album Only" at iTunes. Boooooo!

No, I don't want the entire album.

Bowie-The Man Who Sold the World
REM-World Leader Pretend

Do I sense a theme? An ode to our "fearless (mis)leader perhaps?

In order to enjoy this song, try swinging those arms out alternatively (left, right)like Sting in the video. It's fun! "are spirits...in the material world, are spirits..." and so on.

All hail the Studio Rock Kings.

Of course that is his "real" name, so you can't fault him for wanting to use it...

Does anyone else hear part of the Halloween theme in the background? It's freaking me out a bit.

Would guess that you have little or no clue of which you speak.

And I agree with "Guido (Joey Pants) is easily the strongest character in the film" - which is why the movie takes its dark turn when he shows up to spoil the lighthearted fun.

Boring & uninspired.

I'd listen to Frank read the telephone book.

You should get out more.

I've heard farts more entertaining than this.

Overplayed. Here and everywhere. The Dandy Warhols have other songs, right?

this could be the soundtrack to my entire work day.

However, I found their vocals (even their harmonies) always lackluster because of a limited range (others I'm sure will disagree).

Not so much this song, but I like when RP plays some of the heavier stuff, it does balance out the sound a bit. There are quality heavy bands that deserved to be heard (Audioslave).

I was driving myself crazy trying to figure out what song I was being reminded of which sampled (or at least copied) the drums from this. Thankfully, Wikipedia set me straight. It was Garbage - Stupid Girl, for anyone who cares.

Gah

If everyone WERE listening! Hypothetical subjunctive, people! :)

What a blast from the past. I think the Foo Fighters' cover on the Essential Interpretations anthology brings new life to this "old" classic.

New to RP, yes. Vintage TMBG - about 15 years old.

More, please.

I can appreciate that they do things different, and if you love them great. I personally find them virtually unlistenable. I guess I'm just someone who can't appreciate music and can only enjoy what I know. (What an interesting study in being pretentious.)

"Ferverancy"? Are you George Dubya in disguise? ;-)

I like jazz, to a point. Beyond that point, I hate it. Where's that point? Right were technical virtuosity becomes more the focus than melody, that's where. Quite a ways back there behind these guys. . . .

The RP song comment board is worse than college English. Would you like me to cite my references as well?

Cavity man?

The opposite of awful. This is the reason volume knobs which go to 11 were invented.

You would actually download this stuff ?? Why ??

Such banal dreck. Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Good point, even brother Miles experimented readily with fusion, Bitches Brew et al. However, experimentation should NEVER usurp real musicianship.

Still remember the video.

Listen, we need to be thinking about energy conservation, climate change and all that, ok? Leaving your lights on will only create more problems - do you want that? DO YA?

wow. just took a look at the track list on this album; 9 phenomenal pop songs in one nice little package and consider all the other stuff released that year.

What a horrible left turn after the high of the Chemical Bro's and Beastie Boys.

And also made sure this was never a British Number One Single cos of Joe Dolce's "Shudduppa Ya Face".

Rumor has it that he walked off stage at a show in Minneapolis when someone yelled that from the audience. Goes along with the posting below regarding his obnoxious personality. Still, a pleasant song nonetheless.

Oh, I'll bet they want Michael Bolton or Milli Vanilli.

If fervent preachy intolerance defines religion, then you're on to something. . . .

Incorrect.

As much as I don't like the song...that's a bit ridiculous I think. Am I the only one thinking that?

Wasn;t this used in a film - Talk Radio was it? Was a quality film - jeez - showing me age now!

I usually like Wilco, but that ending was like being under the dentist's drill.

This (music) just doesn't fit here.

they sound cheap and sleazy.

Refreshingly anti-American.

What's a bong?

ROFL. Wow....

Hey Bill,

Could you play 'Janine' by Soul Coughing after this tune just for fun?

Cheers!

YES! This is one of the best f'in songs ever written. Can't be played loud or often enough!

worst comment ... ever.

Or not be scratching my balls.

....This is simply awful in my opinion and
we shouldn't really encourage it.Just play
the original song by pulp, great song ruined by this
muppet.

Mack's Ear Plugs, can I help you?
Yes. One pair needed immediately. Will pay any price.

But did you ever take a minute to consider the tension between the music, the stupid rock'n'roll lyrics and the way Stipe sings them, as in a kind of funeral or wake?
Well, try now.

It's here already in Florida.

Heh, rhyming "heroes" with "zeroes?" nice.

I like it but, egad! that title!

Today would have been John Waynes 100th brithday. He didnt listen to REM.

What can I say, they're the Beatles of my generation.

Paul's Boutique was certainly ahead of its time, but I would say it has not aged well. Check Your Head has held up better so far.

He's a Scientologist!

I know a lot of folks love this band, but a little too smaltzy for me.

What a long way of saying God can't be effed, I mean, He is ineffable.

Reminds me of the end of the movie Dogma. :)

I'm sure you meant to say "smoldering".

I can't think of one without the other now.

I love it when the Heads sing about food -

Wild, wild rice...............

You'd be hard pressed to find a better R.E.M. album than Life's Rich Pageant.

Please play the Gary Numan original.

Tina Weymouth the bassist? C'mon you gotta be kidding! Her work on the early TH albums was serviceable at best.

I don't believe that Thom and Radiohead give a flying fuck what critics think. Nor do they give a shit about catering to anyone's precious song construction sensibilities.

These two ideas, along with a host of others are among the many reasons why we Radiohead fans like them.

The rest of you are entitled to believe whatever you want and certainly don't need our permission to do so - but your continued attempts to persuade us to change our beliefs is both ridiculous and boring.

out

Anyone who thinks he doesn't sound like Thom Yorke is in complete denial. Yuck.

I want to be snarky.

One note worship of an artist is terribly boring to read. If you must continue the RH idolatry campaign, at least exhibit some creativity in your apotheosis.

I'm waiting for the Youtube video: some guy in mascara screaming "LEAVE RADIOHEAD ALOOOONE!"

That said, I will add myself to the membership of the club that dislikes Radiohead. There's something about Thom's thin, back-of-the-throat keening that really grates on my nerves. It's painful. He's so sincere, too. But all of Radiohead's songs --with the exception of their instrumental work, which I rather like -- sound alike to me because of Thom's singing. It's a matter of taste. Fans will say it's stylized. I call it affected. We'lll have to disagree. There. Enough notes?

LOVE this album and HATE this song. Play the first two songs on the album instead.

I'm waiting to hear Donald Fagan break in w/some vocals... NICEE!!!!

Lesser Dan is still good Dan.

I'm drinking cheap beer and farting

this reminds me of a frozen fish, fumbled in mid-air by a new employee, landing at high velocity on the floor of Pike Street Market and skidding across a puddle of slush, finally coming to rest against a bucket of fish guts.

I read or heard recently that Mr. Price regretted the MJ piece...

Different Helloween, same sh*t. Let's rock.

So, now, if he's not aware of his own death, how is it then that he's able to declare the fact of his own death? See, it's the logical inconsistency there that troubles me.

Make that 4th

It's comments like this that keep me from dating younger men anymore.

first time to hear RUSH on RP Bill. More OLD RUSH please.

IMHO, not one of their best. Kinda watered down, a la '80's style.

What was up with the '80's? So many awesome artists (Elton John, CSN, Stevie Wonder, etc.) just seemed to hit the 80's and whimper out, only to return again to their former greatness in the 90's and present day.

The 80's were just SO weird....

How much do we have to pay to get them to stop?

Yet, even though I recognize the technical quality and the studio savoir-faire, I just can't relate to their music. It's like putting the best programmers together to produce the best web page, and then they only show the code.

I felt FWWM ruined the story for me. Too much told to me, I didn't have to think at all.

Unless you are talking about the soundtrack.

It's almost like there's a whole other layer there beneath the mainstream sound.

Iraq is actually quite close to being resolved. Closer than I thought it would be by now.

Prince is part of the "axis of drivel", which includes Michael Jackson and Britney Spears.
A couple of hits, and rest forever on your
laurels of weirdness.

My 5-year-old son thinks David Bowie is just somebody mentioned in a They Might Be Giants song. It's refreshing, not sure why.

or a personal opinion... MountainGirl, come down and get some air.

Poetic? Maybe, but my two year old can rhyme.
Insightful? Maybe... Maybe not.
Cheesy? Definitely!

Much as I like Rush, and always have, I have to applaud Neil Peart's 2nd place finish in the 'Worst Lyricists of all times' list.

http://www.blender.com/guide/articles.aspx?ID=2885

I keep picturing a bunch of americans, wearing taco-bell hats and carrying ridicolously large steins dancing swing to this. That's just..acronym for horrible anyone?

Pretty much a contemporary Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)

If that's true then I feel really bad for younger music fans.

Totally agree! Costello is a manifestation of all that was truly awful in "Grease", visually draped in the dreck of punkesque nonsense.

Like live music at the local coffee shop. Thank god for the caffeine. Sounds like Dan Fogelberg on ludes.

This stock answer again? Standard response: No, I will not go away. I've said it before, I love RP, but I can't stand Radiohead, and belive it or not, not everybody has to like the same bloody bands that you do, mate.

One. Of. The. Most. Beautiful. Pieces. Of. Music. Ever. Written.

And you can put a period on that.

C'mon. Admit it. You're a little bit of a moron. I mean, doesn't everyone have a little bit of moron in them?
:)

....we are in these parts still pretty much "stuck in a Journey/Rush/April Wine muck."

Well, as Paul said:


I'm surprised no one's mentioned that to I yet.

"Keep Your Eyes on the Sparrow" IIRC...

I hope it's obvious how Neko pales in comparison

Sorry to hear you were a vindictive conservative. . . Someday your brain may get better and you'll become a normal conservative.

I do not have the vocabulary necessary to fully illustrate how much I hate this song. Never mind the lyrics (oh you're SOOO deep Mike!) but the nasal quality of his voice and the standard REM trill they incorporate into EVERY. SINGLE. SONG. grate on my nerves, my ears, my very being. To top it off, this song, the very scraping of the grimiest corners of the murky barrell that is REM's discography, is the one I have to hear EVERY day on our local "soft rock and easy favorites" station at work. Thank goodness I have headphones.

And I know y'all love it, so, um, enjoy.

I've been noticing a preponderance of Peter lately.

And it's always so odd that people argue about religion. Religion just shouldn't be debated, as you cannot substantiate your arguments with facts - only faith.

I hate this crap.

All I picture now when I hear this song is buildings crumbling and a guy shooting out the side of his own face. Sick? Perhaps, but it fit perfectly with the movie for me!

It's a great 80's style tune. Bowie purists should calm down, for heaven's sake. It's rather transparently fashionable to denigrate Modern Love and Let's Dance and wax rhapsodic about earlier (and/or later) Bowie. And I say this as a hard core Bowie fan.

these guys were good? good enough to make a movie?

In my imagination, narcoleptic sounds about the right word to describe this cover. The juice of the original is gone in this version.

Actually annanyc, I WAS being sarcastic and belittling to xtianity. I se no reason whatsoever to be "respectful" to something so poisonous, dangerous and (dare I say) DISRESPECTFUL as belief in an imaginary skygod. The sooner we leave behind this thousands of years old mumbo jumbo, the sooner we can tackle REAL problems, like starvation, global ecological degredation, war, etc. All they skygod believers can just die for all I care, because they are not helping anything, THEY are the ones making this world meaner, courser, uglier, and so much STUPIDER.

Ugh! Why do these people always insist on shoving their sexuality in everyone's faces? I don't care what other people do but do I have to be subjected to songs about it?

It don't get much better than this.

If ever there was a band for pre-adolescent bubble gum chewing girls, this is it.

don't know, but they are single handedly turning away about 50% of RP listeners.

Finally, some Skynyrd, but what about the greatest stuff they ever did, it’s in your library, why not play it, Hunh!, Sweet Home Alabama, You Got That Right, Free Bird, What’s Your Name, Saturday Night Special, all deserve airplay. MORE SKYNYRD NOW!

I love this version of the old classic. It comes off like an alcohol-slurred, bitter rant which in and of it self is just plain funny as a satirical slant on the original anthem of perseverance.

Wanna hear some good Wilco? Pick up AM - Tweedy was still doing it right back then.

If you mess around with the letters in The Donnis Trio a little bit, you will eventually get Donnie Iris. I did, anyway...

That's what it feels like

Jazz is about applying mathmatics and theory to music.

If the audience doesn't like it, then we're not intelligent enough. I'm not a fan of this music style.

Beauty, eh?

And yet Lou Reed himself has said he prefers the CJ's version to the Velvets'.

I think it's more like an optometrist color blind exam test...

Stop with the innane political comments.

Sometimes I enjoy building model airplanes while driving my car.

Odd, no? Almost as odd as talking in the middle of the song you're recording.

And to think the Cowboy Junkies tried to cover this.

I'll give points for the guy on bass, but that's not enough to resurrect this tune.

So it's dated. So am I.

I must say I was surprised to hear Bill say he'd adjusted the name 'cause the "cherry poppin" part was "gross" to him. I can see how it could be offensive or gross, but I wouldn't think Bill one to censor a band's name. But he does have the right to.....at the end of the day, it's his business and he's the DJ.

More 1's please (come on, speak up!)

Gotta say, to me this is their best album.

Class of 1987

BAD Asses

Remember the breakdancers in this video? I like the synths at the end...

At least you're not defensive.

Just see the movie (Gimme Shelter) it's all about Altamont, and so much more...

Way down, is it just me or does it sound like he is saying, "it's positive tipoli" or "impositive-ivaly"...anyway a little too annoying to enjoy the rest.

Negative comments - it seems to me - are nothing more than statements intended to indicate superiour musical taste. There's certainly no reason to believe they'll have any effect on RP's playlist. So please, please keep 'em to yourself.

Why aren't there any songs named "New Jersey" or "Delaware" or 'Iowa"?

Too much Wilco.

You need to look closer at things...Like a casual glance at Hufpo, Kos, DU, and like sites and see the hate and seething flowing of the sites. I tend to be grumpy, but it may well be from all the truly stupid things some folks think is the right way to go. Common sense, and history tend to prove my views, wishful thinking and a long line of failed policies are the back up of the left.

Lyrics and music are utterly incongruous.

Too much Wilco.

You and me both. By the way, are you the uploader of Junior Walker's "What Does It Take to Win Your Love"? I was thrilled to see that!

Sounds like someone who takes themselves way too seriously.

Because music, like language, is a form of communication. Why would I value the musical opinion of someone too lazy and/or indifferent to communicate properly.

Great movie, even though it had nothing to do with reality.

I just surfed over to RP and found my own upload playing. What a kick! Such a wonderful epic anthem, in the best robot movie you've never seen. Love the lyrics - battle on!

she must go. she is aged, and out of tune.

And he's not a liberal. Go figure.

Thanks a lot you assholes.

I still haven't seen the finale yet.

I found your soulmate

This makes lousy songs sound like good songs.

...so i have this theory that only guys like donald fagen...

It is nice to hear a jazz piece once in a while. But Brubeck? Way over-rated, but I gave a 7 out of respect.

Next time try B Evans, W Shorter, H Hancock, H Silver....

Gimme three chords, won'tcha gimme three chords, mister,
gimme three chords on th' guitar,
gimme three chords, won'tcha gimme three chords
and you won't hear me no more.

.....if anything its modern true soul music.

Pink Floyd at 6am? Is someone smokin' weed over
there? PF should be reserved for the 3am to 4am shift.

He sounds like Don Henley A LOT on the this album. It's downright creepy on a few tracks.

the best Rufus song ever ... by far...

Great track. Funny though when it first started the percussion sound made me think that it was Did you Steal my Sunshine by Len.... I was certainly glad to be wrong!

controversy!!!! I just saw them on Sat June 16th.... Fing AWESOME.

Audience sing-along = MUTE

This is a bit before they joined the Yacht Rock genre. And - Yay for Yacht Rock - if you don't like it, Oates will kick your ass, man!

What was Wilco thinking with this new album?

Awful.

... Even the cover reminds me of the movie THE SHINING...

I wonder if this lot have ever heard the Violent Femmes?

1990 called, they want their song back.

For me at least, it's hard NOT to love anything by Steely Dan - with the exception of that one annoying instrumental piece on Pretzel Logic - what is the name of that tune, anyway???

It's a direct ripoff of homage to Saul Bass.

More information on the wonderful Saul Bass may be found on the internet. (click here)

MTV being to music what movies are to books: a usurpation of the proper role of the individual imagination.

Shatner and Jackson, hands down.

Listen to Mesopotamia.

Real men choose vasectomy.

Ah, Buddy Holly, the father of silly pop.

It's not cool to like the Eagles so people pretend they don't.

.....they had slam dancing in the early eighties, but they weren't calling it a mosh pit per se even though Wikipedia says so. (they aren't always exactly right :) )

Why do people confuse loose and lose?

Paint by numbers music

Any soul is too much.

This used to be the theme song of the Lawrence Welk Show.

The most successful crappy high school garage band in history.

Sounds like she needs to blow her nose and clear her throat through the whole thing...

Get some abdominal loosening?

Aretha and then this in one night? Too much soul, Bill. Way too much.

Hohum indeed. The only thing worse that Radiohead is a Radiohead fan. The passive, woe-is-me type. Ugg...spare me

OK, but why? So what?!

Is it me or does early Talking Heads get snubbed on RP. I'd love to hear something like "Warning Sign"

I don't think feeling like wanting to destroy something beautiful means you need therapy.Acting on that feeling does.

Joe Jackson.

I get the same kind of feeling from "Pretty Penny" (which I tried uploading but was immediately sorried)...

I really enjoy their sound. It's just so .

Wrong. Dream Weaver.

Worst cover ever. Insincere, arch, and just extruded from the mill to make a buck off your memories. (running for shelter with arms over head)

Makes me really want anything with a discernible melody and a sense that it's actually going somewhere.

The thing with these particularly trippy New Yorkers is their songs are all so far-out and different, I mean in a very bent way, that you have got to see where they are coming from as an origin in order to see where any of it is going. I think if you can find your way into that space once, then anytime you hear them you can get right to the twist on it and jump in, presto, and it's like when you can somehow see, reach and make the apropos application of an old inside joke with a friend on an obscure but punchy line from Frank Zappa. I think that takes some doing, and I give them heaps of credit. They remain, as ever, very relevant.

It sounds like something from a bad Eighties movie soundtrack - there should be some kind of montage with this.

What's he saying? He's not fond of ice cream?

Definitely in the top 5 best Radiohead songs. Spectacular.

A baby's arm holding an apple...indeed.

"Ughhh."

8. "Jump" (original version by Van Halen)

I think the lyrics are very heartfelt albeit from a world-weary, sometimes sarcastic and jaded point of view.

NEVER heard this on the classic rock stations

frank zappa lives

"Man, it's the same bullshit they tried to pull in my day. If it ain't that piece of paper, there's some other choice they're gonna try and make for you. You gotta do what Randall Pink Floyd wants to do man. Let me tell you this, the older you do get the more rules they're gonna try to get you to follow. You just gotta keep livin' man, L-I-V-I-N."

great song.
great legs.
not so sure about the feet.

Self-Indulgent Crap (Three Different Kinds).

I heard this in the my dentist's office last week. This and Levon by Elton John. That being said, I do like this song.

Song title is just "Down Under."

I think you'll find the name of the song is just 'Downunder'

I'd rather listen to Pat Boone's "In a Metal Mood" while eating hot ambergris.

Glorious guitar riffs provided by Jeff "Skunk" Baxter...
currently working with the US Dept. of Defense on
Homeland Security. Go figure!

You're right, my age affects my ability to judge derivative music and obnoxious vocals.

idunno. i used to really dig the talking heads but when i listen to them now it just doesnt work. feels really dated. a bit corny even. like a novelty which has worn off.

8 9

Love the album cover

Satisfying instrumentally - for someone stuck in the office at 21.05 but vocals about as exciting as tortoise farts.

Probably the only "classic" song from Rattle & Hum.

Ahhh this takes me back to my early twenties dancing in the goth bar. Good times! :)

Besides, where are rock's roots if not in the black experience of America? And that tap root has lots of branches--even gospel, some of which is kick-ass-good (Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir, for instance.)

I'm willing to bet that you would lose that bet.

I saw that Johnny Marr was playing guitar on this album.

Dreck.

It doesn't matter whether you worship the Pixies or not, this still sucks.

I don't get some music as well and some of that music I know is good.

Are these guys trying to be Radiohead?

Hmm. I think there was a woolco in one of the larger towns near where I grew up. Was it related to woolworth? I seem to recall woolco being a smaller department store about the size of a modern pharmacy.

babyarm

Just yanking your chain. C'mon. A little bit witty? You betcha!

Possibly the third most moronic thing I've ever read, after Bill Clinton's autobiography and anything written by Al Franken.

Oh boy, movie quotes!

Dude, this sucks! All-American, muscle-pumping, fratboy, cheap dive bar rock; pass me another Budweiser.

last track on this cd, Watusi Rodeo, is quite nice as well.

this is such a womderful album, and great to hear~

Maybe RP became a Fox News affiliate when I wasn't watching.

i get it;lets strip all of the life out of a song, all of the energy, the wit, the raunch and cover it in a narcoleptic "ironic" way.

Great visual. It reminds me of putting my hand in the hole of the tape casette display in order to examine the cassettes (or was that 8-tracks?) at the old kmart.

Hmm. Kmart has long since closed down, casettes and 8 tracks have made way for CD's; and "glory hole" theft prevention display cases have made way for RFID. Damn, I am getting old.

Probably the ONLY good Robert Plant solo song.

You have got to be kidding.......it's called growing up and maturing... Ten Summoners's Tales was GREAT and so were other albums Sting did.......how many Stewart Copeland or Andy Summer albums can you think of? I liked some of the Police albums but the solo ones are way better.

While I like this track, it's sad that Air hasn't been able to match their effort on "Moon Safari".

This is one of those songs long forgotten by rock radio.

Did these guys ever get around to writing a second song?

Nothin' wrong with a little chair music. Making the 'O' with my mouth makes NO difference at all , however. Apart from giving away my SBD's...

All aboard the RP bandwagon.. next stop, counting crows bashing. Everyone jump on lest you be the one who, god forbid, likes them.

The best live band ever w/moonie was alive...also the loudest.

The middle of this song always confused me as a child.

How anyone can possibly give this more than a 2 is beyond me.

One that is only warm because a child has pissed in it.

Vinyl is the best! :)

This is what I'm calling senators to protect? If RP is trying to go out with a bang, doing a crap job. Sorry Joni fans.

With apologies to Ani fans, this is unbearable.

What's with the air raid sirens in the background?

Great cover. Moody, atmospheric. From the wonderful soundtrack to the so-so movie.

It ain't music By God!

tom waits is the musical version of terry gilliam...
you either love him or hate him, there is no middle way

i like them both :)

No kidding? I hear an ironic and angry commentary upon what a crappy world a purportedly compassionate and loving (and omnipotent) God hath wrought.

And your assumption that atheism leads to hopelessness is false. I, anyway, look forward with glee to my carbon being reborn in the next generation of stars. . . .

Are there any Utah songs?

You know Asleep at the Wheel do a great cover of this song too.

The opening instrumental section of this is being used in the TV trailers for Children of Men . Anyone seen the movie yet?

Mine's a constant note, maybe a couple of notes, upper octaves, that I don't "hear" unless I think about it. I don't know music but the highest note on a piano is about the range of it. Plus a slight hiss. No pulsing, tho. I think that would be the most annoying...

Or better still: "I'm Not In Love"?

He said "the moon". There is only one "the" moon.

Apparently the people who praise this kind of stuff are perfectly capable of having closed minds as well.

Must have listened to a lot of Frank Zappa growing up...

how did these guys EVER sell and records/CDs?!?!

I can't get past the second sentence.

Some folks grab their coffee at a drive through Caffino, because they can't tell the difference and don't care, and are happy. The musical equivalent of that are folks who don't recognize how amazing this is.

I've heard of this band before. I think they sang a tune about a bird a few years back... must investigate.

I tried Shhh/Peaceful but it was rejected immediately... *sigh* I listen to that album endlessly

All of this sort of jazz sounds the same. Yes, I appreciate the skill and the hours of practice. And the improvisation can certainly have its moments. Blah, blah. It still all sounds the same. You know what I mean.

Such a sweet, elegant song. Always loved this one.

This is one of my favorite songs, ever.

there's nothing to invent anymore. :)

A song for the heart and mind. Pure brilliance.

For all you SD haters, check out Walter Becker's "Eleven Tracks of Whack" for more head-in-the-oven music.

WARNING: Not the Prince song.

enough with the classic rock!

The guy on the left looks like Gerard Depardieu. Just wanted to share.

From Muse to Beethoven? Man, this makes the last song sound like it was written by a bunch of 9 year olds.

Heh, the irony of a person who is "grooving" to "shmooooov" electric organ "jams" pitying me is giving me a big grin.

Wow, she sure is liked here... I think there are much better examples in the same genre but to each his own (the drum machine bugs the heck out of me). The reason I took the time to post is, I wonder if anyone who loves this "positive, upbeat, summer" song listend to the lyrics about a girl who can't escape a relationship (symbolized by the basement apartment) that has become so painful to stay in that she can't breathe?

Playing like this reminds you that magic does occur.

My wife's comment:
"Je moet wel erg veel gesnoven hebben om dit leuk te vinden"

See, I'm not alone on this.

Rought translation: "You must be high on crack/coke to like this"

For a moment I thought this was Tom Petty's new style. Love the voice. Very happy with this song.

Horns, yeah. "Pushy brass." "Meandering." Even "ugly." Meh. Listen harder. This is the sound of one brilliant man's mind pushing against the limits of what can be expressed in so few notes. The economy and to-the-pointness here is unmatched anywhere else in jazz, probably in any other sort of music. This leaves us all in the dust; the difference is that at least we lovers of Miles are trying to keep up.

Or doesn't like sitting in the dentist's waiting room.

anyone know how the rest of the CD is?

Do you want to be the one to tell Kathleen Battle that she may not sing Opera?

For what it is worth, I like this song. It very clearly portrays the sense of despair people might feel if they truly believe there is no God, and only nothingness awaits us...

sounds like dylan meets ethel merman