Cesária Évora - Sodade
(Dec 25, 2008 - 12:53) | What a beautiful-sounding song. Perhaps I'd love it even more if I understood that language.
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Elton John - Funeral For a Friend - Love Lies Bleeding
(Sep 11, 2008 - 20:13) | rbigelo wrote:This is certainly not "Mona Lisas and Mad-Hatters" or "Madman Across the Water." 
It certainly is not, but it remains great. I get a kick out of all the disparaging remarks from the sophistos on this board. It's like, if a song isn't about Global Warming concerns, it somehow must be inferior. You gotta accept Elton John for what he was/is. And, for what EJ was, this song truly rates a "10."
It's like the movie Wizard Of Oz. I mean, come on, the Wizard Of Oz? It's only one of the greatest movies ever made.
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Elton John - Funeral For a Friend - Love Lies Bleeding
(Sep 11, 2008 - 19:48) | Are you sure this is an RP song? Did I hit the wrong link or something? It just seems a tad out of place here. But this is clearly a masterwork from one of the greatest popsters of all time, and the album is pantheon quality.
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Edwin Starr - War
(Jun 25, 2008 - 19:00) | RedGuitar wrote: A snippet from a song by a friend of mine:
If they put all the guns and bombs in the ground,
Then peace would be the only sound
You'd hear.
I'm sure some people would still find something to complain about.
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Nitin Sawhney - Mausam
(Jun 13, 2008 - 20:05) | The listeners who gave this track an 8 or 9 are likely the same folks who think the Beatles are over-rated.
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Bob Dylan - Tombstone Blues
(Jun 13, 2008 - 19:30) | sdn wrote: Is this supposed to be completely nonsensical?
Mostly, yes. But that's part of its genius, especially given the times in which it was written.
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The Who - The Seeker
(Jun 12, 2008 - 20:21) | wbl wrote: The Who is NOT why I listen to RP. Its a good song but not why I come here. Please keep the dusties down to a minimum.
The door is over there.
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Tracy Bonham - Something Beautiful
(Jun 12, 2008 - 20:17) | bluedot wrote: So why do I get a vibe off it that I've heard this before by someone else, and that it's derivative and cliché?
Funny, I feel that way about half the stuff I hear at RP.
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Toots & The Maytals - Take Me Home, Country Roads
(Apr 26, 2008 - 17:26) | Curious thing about the majority of RP listeners: they rate this version an average of 6.1. If John Denver's version were played it would likely receive a far lower rating, even though it is a vastly superior rendition. PC On Parade.
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Pink Floyd - Summer 68
(Apr 26, 2008 - 16:51) | This is the Floyd stuck in a transition period, absent Syd. It's not very interesting.
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Santana - Put Your Lights On (feat Everlast)
(Apr 05, 2008 - 15:27) | EssexTex wrote: Does he pre-record his riffs/solos and keep them in box ready for another generic song?!
Apparently he does.
If Carlos Santana were a white guy we wouldn't hear and read half the stuff we do about this overrated guitar player.
I mean, he's good...but he ain't great. But he hangs with the "right" people and gets involved in the "right" causes, so he gets a lot of ink.
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Bob Dylan - Things Have Changed
(Apr 01, 2008 - 20:03) | It's so good to hear Bob writing and performing things from his heart, instead of simply going through the motions, like so many of those old, washed-up geezers.
It may not be the best stuff he's ever done, but it's honest.
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Led Zeppelin - D'yer Mak'er
(Mar 15, 2008 - 19:42) | Bat wrote: Wondering what the title is shortened from.
Generally apostrophes are used when you shorten a word by taking one or more letters out, or smash two words together and lose a letter.
So what's missing from D'yer and Mak'er?
Did you make her?
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U2 - All I Want Is You
(Feb 26, 2008 - 19:24) | The Edge has to be the most unimaginative, uninteresting, repetitive and overrated guitarist in the history of rock. U2 might have been a great band if they would've canned him in 1985.
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Derek and the Dominoes - Layla
(Feb 09, 2008 - 19:40) | keller1 wrote: One of those "Bill dilemmas": give it the 3 ("ho hum") rating all of the 500 classic rock standards should get, or acknowledge that it's "eclectic" and give the tune what it used to be worth, which is 8 plus.
Me, I'm abstaining.
When I listen to these songs, I put myself in a time warp, and judge the merits by their impact, influence and song craft, relevant to the time they were made. This song gets a 10.
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The Beatles - Girl
(Feb 04, 2008 - 19:31) | EssexTex wrote: Just goes to show even the Beatles could pen a stinker
Impossible to give a sensible reply to this statement.
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The Beatles - Girl
(Feb 04, 2008 - 19:29) | I have rarely rated songs with a 10, but this mind-blowing classic from the greatest songwriter of the rock era gets a 10. Sheer genius.
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Robert Plant - Shine It All Around
(Feb 04, 2008 - 18:52) | Nothing spectacular here. A solid 7 at best. You'd think a legend like Robert would be inspired to show the young guns how it's done, and use a little more of his imagination.
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Steely Dan - Reelin' In The Years
(Jan 28, 2008 - 18:21) | billbangert wrote: lame lame lame...overplayed then, no need to be ever played on RP. Steely Dan is fine, but not this mainstream of a song.
Did I miss something? Is there an unwritten rule that RP can not play great songs which also happened to be massively popular?
There's a reason songs like this one became so popular and overplayed: they're good songs.
If you had never heard this song before you'd think it was fantastic.
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Tom Petty - Refugee
(Jan 28, 2008 - 18:11) | I don't care how over-played this tune may be...it's still a great song.
And I'll say this again; the "classic rock" of the 60's, 70's and 80's is still the best ever made.
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Pink Floyd - Fat Old Sun
(Jan 27, 2008 - 22:22) | Zeito wrote:I have a spot soft for this album, but apparently no one in Pink Floyd does. Check out the quotes at the end of the Wikipedia article!
"Atom Heart Mother is a good case, I think, for being thrown into the dustbin and never listened to by anyone ever again! <...> It was pretty kind of pompous, it wasn't really about anything."
Roger Waters - Rock Over London Radio Station - March 15, 1985
I kind of feel the same way about nearly all early Floyd stuff. Nothing artful or spectacular. Highly self-indulgent.
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Elton John - Madman Across The Water
(Jan 26, 2008 - 11:27) | Mugro wrote: Hey! I am scared shitless now, and it has nothing to do with Vietnam or Iraq!!
It has to do with living in this middle aged world where nothing is as good as you thought it would be and you hope against hope that it won't be as bad as you thought it could be.
I want to live a life of adventure and leave the stress of adult life behind, but I have a son that needs me. So, I cannot go anywhere.
I want to escape the things that I know make me human, but I am unable to. I dream of my dead father being not dead but in prison... a prisoner of his own choices in life and having no hope for escape.
???
And this has what to do with this song?
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R.E.M. - Driver 8
(Jan 26, 2008 - 11:23) | Consistently overlooked band. Always delivered solid and inspired efforts.
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Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
(Jan 22, 2008 - 21:25) | Gorgeous! The quality and greatness of that era's rock has never been, and likely will never be rivaled.
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Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
(Jan 22, 2008 - 21:15) | From their position at this time, it took a lot of gonies to release this album. A band with their own vision.
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Feist - 1234
(Jan 22, 2008 - 19:49) | Leslie Feist can do no wrong. I'm crazy about her.
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Pink Floyd - San Tropez
(Jan 20, 2008 - 21:43) | When you hear this tune now, and remember what the Floyd was and what they later became, it sounds like they took a side road and got off track temporarily.
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Tom Petty - Time To Move On
(Jan 20, 2008 - 20:58) | So much of TP's post 80's material seems contrived. This is not one of them. This sounds like a truly inspired song.
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Tom Petty - The Golden Rose
(Jan 19, 2008 - 19:51) | This guy tries too hard to be deep and artful...and he's not.
Stick to the Rock 'N Roll, Tom.
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Radiohead - Reckoner
(Jan 19, 2008 - 19:34) | Nothing special here. Not even close to the best tune on this disappointing release.
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Joni Mitchell - Coyote
(Jan 15, 2008 - 19:52) | nigelr wrote: Can't get with the lyrics or Joni on this, but I like what the rest of the musicians are doing in this song.
Can't get with the lyrics? Oh my! They are only sublime.
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Elton John - Where To Now St. Peter
(Jan 15, 2008 - 19:39) | victoryluna wrote:
C'mon! It was very quickly downhill after Madman Across the Water!
Do singer/songwriters have to make songs about saving the world or ending strife to get people's respect?
Elton's work of 1972-73, which includes Honky Chateau, Don't Shoot Me and Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, is some of the finest pop ever crafted.
Early and mid-Beatles music seems unassailable, but Elton's is fair game, even though both are equally masterful.
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Cesária Évora - Sodade
(Jan 13, 2008 - 15:51) | kaupmees wrote: It loses all of its meaning in English. The concept of sodade/saudade doesn't even have an equivalent in English.
Hogwash. Utter hogwash.
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The Waifs - Sun Dirt Water
(Jan 13, 2008 - 15:19) | Not really familiar with this band, but this particular tune just isn't doing it for me.
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The Who - Quadrophenia
(Jan 11, 2008 - 21:38) | robco1 wrote: How great is it to have a DJ who respects the music enough to play the whole series as a sonic unit the way it was meant to be heard. Bill is the best!
I agree wholeheartedly! RP is truly fine.
And like it or not, this seminal album was adventurous and a serious attempt at the highest of arts. A pantheon release.
This album is yet another of the works from a certain era that, if you haven't listened to it from start to finish, you've missed something truly magical.
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Bruce Springsteen - Magic
(Jan 11, 2008 - 21:22) | parrothead wrote: For the record
1. O'Reilly is full of himself.
2. Sean Hannity is a simpleton.
3. Limbaugh is a broken record.
While I generally agree with and support Limbaugh's views, I absolutely agree with your sentiments.
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Pink Floyd - Mother
(Jan 11, 2008 - 21:18) | wferrier wrote:
The Wall is pitifully inferior to truly great works such as Dark Side, or Wish You Were Here, which is without question their greatest work. The Wall represents when Floyd moved from an underground to a mainstream pop group, these songs were found in every pizza shop jukebox. And they are just awful, dazed, confused, and genuinely ugly, (albeit Another Brick in the Wall is a catchy tune). Confused, dazed, ugly reflecting the human conditionI guess it does.
I couldn't disagree more. And while The Wall may not be Floyd's best work, it is still truly great stuff. Truly great.
I remember, however, when this great LP first came out. It's almost all you heard on most AOR stations. The anticipation for this release was keen indeed.
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George Harrison - Isn't It A Pity
(Jan 11, 2008 - 20:58) | A wonderful song from a truly great album. If anyone here has never listened to that album all the way through, you've missed a true masterpiece. "Beware Of Darkness" is sublime.
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Elton John - Funeral For a Friend - Love Lies Bleeding
(Jul 03, 2004 - 06:44) | phineas wrote: The definitive "10".
Someone posted elsewhere about seeing Elton and Co. create this in concert ---- that gives me the definitive jealousy!
I saw Elton at the Forum in Inglewood, CA on his 1974 tour, when he was at the top of his concert game. He used to kick off his shows with this number. He'd have the dry-ice fog effects enveloping the stage, with the wind and graveyard tones introducing a rocking Elton, who really used to jam on this number.
Elton and his band used to go nuts at the conclusion of Love Lies Bleeding, using that long ending for a prolonged, rocking jam. Had the crowd going crazy. Set-up the rest of the show quite nicely.
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Pearl Jam - I Am Mine
(Jun 29, 2004 - 07:48) | iggy33 wrote: Way too much whining about Supper's Ready...Not being able to see the genius in Genesis is like saying G.W. Bush is a smart guy.
Much more effective had you said...not being able to see the genius of Genesis is like not being able to recognize the righteousness of G. W. Bush.
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Steely Dan - Aja
(Jun 14, 2004 - 23:29) | rulebritannia wrote: Perhaps their best and most consistent........brilliant music.
All the Dan's LP's were exceptionally good right up to, and including Aja. But I would agree...Aja is their best.
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Sarah McLachlan - Solsbury Hill
(Jun 09, 2004 - 22:59) | Horrible rendering of a great song. Her version seems to discount the actual experience. It sounds like a vocal exercise, albeit a poor one.
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Elton John - Indian Sunset
(Jun 09, 2004 - 22:53) | This is not one of Elton's better songs. In my opinion, Madman Across The Water is quite the cumbersome album; weighted down by it's own pretensions.
Tumbleweed Connection is a much more sincere effort, filled with better songs. But for capturing the essence of what the John/Taupin team was, complete with better songs, Honky Chateau and Don't Shoot Me are as good as they got.
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Pink Floyd - Sheep
(Jun 07, 2004 - 23:37) | ncollingridge wrote: Leaden. All style and no content. No soul!
And just because you say it, doesn't make it so. Brilliance from the Floyd.
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Sting - Inside
(Jun 05, 2004 - 23:29) | bluedot wrote:
...plus, he's saying important, humanitarian things...
we NEED to start using music to say important things.
Don't you think we already have far too many people who think they know The Truth, trying to jam it down others' throats? Do we really need guys like Gabriel and Sting trying to "wake us up?"
I thought music was entertainment. I thought music was art. I thought art is the praising of God.
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Sting - Inside
(Jun 05, 2004 - 23:22) | What would Sting know about love? Self-absorbed, pretentious and insincere.
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Traffic - Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys
(Jun 05, 2004 - 23:19) | It's not that this song is too long. If a song is truly good, or beautiful, I think nearly everyone could handle listening to a 15 minute song. But this song is not truly good or beautiful. Traffic and Cream specialized in jamming for the sake of jamming.
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The Beatles - Rain
(Jun 05, 2004 - 15:22) | It's amazing how even the merely "average" Beatle tunes put most of what we hear at RP to shame. Just a testament to the Fab Four's greatness.
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Dan Bern - Jerusalem
(Jun 02, 2004 - 21:42) | Did this guy think no one has ever heard Bob Dylan? He sounds like he's trying much too hard.
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The Doors - The Wasp (Texas Radio And The Big Beat)
(Jun 02, 2004 - 21:03) | Rarely has a band gone so far on so little. The Doors were at their best when they played rock n' roll. Manzarek and Kreiger worked well together. But when Morrison tried to "open everyone's eyes" with his sophomoric ramblings, the Doors missed the mark. Way overblown band. But Ray Manzarek was obviously one of the best at what he did.
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Alpinestars - Crystal Night
(May 19, 2004 - 17:09) | Cyclehawk wrote: Cool song. I'd like to hear more. Have never heard of these guys.... where are they from?
The Manchester duo of Richard Woolgar and Gly Thomas came into being when the promoters of a local club challenged the pair to compose an hour's worth of music. Influenced by New Order and Depeche Mode, the two took the name Alpinestarsfrom Thomas' mountain bike and proceeded to meet the challenge.
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Jethro Tull - Locomotive Breath
(May 15, 2004 - 22:17) | It's amazing how great Tull sounds played next to today's thoroughly mediocre junk. The best rock of the 1965-1975 era is in a league of it's own.
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Red Hot Chili Peppers - Breaking The Girl
(May 09, 2004 - 23:35) | phorp wrote: Everything this group does sounds simplistic, banal and predictable. I am open minded, like a wide variety of music old and new, but I just don't see what these guys do for their followers... when I hear 'em I turn off the source.
My sentiments exactly.
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Marc Cohn - True Companion
(May 01, 2004 - 20:52) | MsJudi wrote: Schmaltz.
What's wrong with schmaltz? Tell us, in all your life, especially in close, intimate moments, that you've never been schmaltzy.
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Patsy Cline - Walkin' After Midnight
(Apr 19, 2004 - 22:21) | "Eclectic" radio??? You weren't jokin'!
And to think that I submitted "Green, Green Grass Of Home" by Elvis and was rebuffed.
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Sting - Never Coming Home
(Mar 20, 2004 - 20:46) | Eul0gy wrote:
As far as where the talent went... its still there, it shows... but pretension is slapping it around like a red headed step child.
A lot of these "artists" are fat, slow and satisfied. There's no passion, anymore. It's just a job they do.
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Bob Dylan - Black Diamond Bay
(Mar 07, 2004 - 18:53) | black32 wrote: Wed Oct 23, 2002 - 10:31
By: roguewarer
Location: Bloomfield, MI
"I think it's *chic* to like Dylan, but he's way overated...
Chic? For forty years? Story-telling at it's finest. No one....ever...in the history of rock, told stories better than Robert Zimmerman.
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Mark Knopfler - El Macho
(Mar 07, 2004 - 18:29) | Typical Knopfler. Not that that's bad, mind you. But does this guy ever rock?
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Jimi Hendrix - Belly Button Window
(Mar 07, 2004 - 17:21) | How refreshing to hear an obscure, hidden gem from one of the most important figures in rock history. That's why we listen to RP!
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The Beatles - A Day In The Life
(Jan 24, 2004 - 23:55) | Amazing! Someone does what everyone else here does....gives his/her own opinion...and, because it doesn't echo that of nearly everyone else's, he gets pummeled. That's hard to figure out.
So the guy isn't into The Beatles. Big f'ing deal! Is he wrong for not liking this song?
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Little Richard - Tutti Fruiti
(Jan 21, 2004 - 21:02) | Bjork to Little Richard??? Most certainly one of the strangest segues I've ever heard.
Funny, sometimes we see people commenting that particular artists or songs just don't fit the RP style. This tune may be one of them. You might as well play some Krokus or L. A. Guns while you're at it.
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Bruce Springsteen - The Promised Land
(Jan 12, 2004 - 23:13) | Isobel wrote: What absolute drivel. I will never "get" why this man is worshipped by so many otherwise rational music fans. Somebody please explain what's good about this!! I honestly want to understand.
If you have to ask, it would be a complete waste of time for anyone to attempt explaining it to you.
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Paul McCartney - Maybe I'm Amazed (live)
(Jan 04, 2004 - 18:04) | jayladdin wrote: Great version, if this is from the recent live release, I'm surprised - I didn't realize he still sounded this good!
It's not....and he doesn't. This version was originally found on 1976's triple live album Wings Over America.
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Bruce Springsteen - Human Touch
(Jan 04, 2004 - 00:39) | I saw Bruce at the L.A. sports arena in 1988 with my, then, girlfriend, who hailed from NYC and was a huge Springsteen fan. It was easily the best concert I've been to. I can imagine a great performer, perhaps, equalling Bruce. But better? No chance. And my girlfriend said his early shows, from the 70's, were even better!
I think the whole Springsteen thing can be summed up in the way he reaches the average, everyday working Joe; the guy who's struggling from paycheck to paycheck, hoping that, one day, he's going to find all the promises of the good life. Springsteen expresses that ordeal so perfectly. He nails it squarely. And he delivers it, especially in concert, with an honest, intense passion that is unsurpassed.
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The Beatles - Dig A Pony
(Jan 02, 2004 - 23:36) | gregorbill wrote: I can't say I ever particularly enjoy listening to the Beatles. In fact, I find a lot of it irritating.
... As if I could say anything to change anyone's opinion of the Beatles!
A rare breed, to be sure.
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Jethro Tull - Nothing Is Easy
(Dec 25, 2003 - 13:33) | drH wrote: Without question the best Tull LP. Probably the only one worth owning.
I disagree. This Was, Benefit, Aqualung and Thick As A Brick are all right on par. Essential Tull.
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Jethro Tull - Nothing Is Easy
(Dec 25, 2003 - 13:27) | cavendish wrote: Spinning Tull drops your stock considerably.
Please stop.
When I consider some of the truly questionable stuff we hear at RP, Tull is essential.
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Bering Strait - Porushka-Paranya
(Dec 24, 2003 - 21:52) | Sounds like a good time. Too bad I can't understand what they're singing about. I should've taken my great uncle's advice and learned Russian.
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Peter Gabriel - Biko
(Dec 14, 2003 - 21:33) | mangialone wrote: I appreciate the message of this song and that its popularity brought attention to Stephen Biko and others unjustly imprisoned, but musically I never did care for this tune.
I kind of feel the same way. Just because the socio-political messege of a song is powerful or the commentary touches people deeply, doesn't necessarily make the song great. But that's just me.
Peter Gabriel obviously has a lot to say, but, musically, his songs really don't do much for me.
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Elvis Presley - Can't Help Falling In Love
(Dec 02, 2003 - 21:58) | If RP really wants to be the eclectic radio they bill themselves as, Elvis had a ton of great, underappreciated gems, largely from the 1969-1973 period, like Green, Green Grass Of Home, that would sound fantastic here. You should definitely play more from the single most important and influential performer in American modern music.
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The Beatles - Fixing A Hole
(Dec 02, 2003 - 20:43) | zaakster wrote: This is probably the trippiest song they ever did.
Have you listened to Revolver?
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Joni Mitchell - All I Want
(Dec 01, 2003 - 23:36) | rmurray248 wrote: Terrible phrasing, awful tone and octave transpositions without any cohesion or musical intention. She tries so hard to be different that what she ends up doing is ignoring those things that could make a song more listenable. She doesn't have the ability to sing strong and compelling melodies so she tries to mask things with her fluctuating vocalizations. These songs could and should be so much better.
Ah, come on! This is modern music. This is rock and roll, blues, jazz and country. And we are all Working Class Heroes.
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Joni Mitchell - California
(Nov 30, 2003 - 20:01) | Geez, I thought I'd balance out all the (astonishingly) negative comments. This is a beautiful song from a beautiful, intelligent, honest and thoughtful songwriter, unique in it's style.
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Koop - Glomd
(Nov 29, 2003 - 20:33) | RP does, in fact, bill itself as "eclectic radio." But with Moby and Koop being played back-to-back, maybe it's a little too eclectic for my tastes.
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Nirvana - The Man Who Sold The World
(Nov 29, 2003 - 19:52) | One of the most over-hyped and over-rated bands of all-time. Someone referred to Cobain as the "voice of a generation." What a pathetic generation!
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The Who - The Seeker
(Oct 26, 2003 - 16:18) | The Who are just straight, unadulterated Rock. Especially their early stuff!
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The Doors - L.A. Woman
(Oct 19, 2003 - 19:30) | Definitely a rockin' song! But it would've been cooler if RP played something like Hyacinth House.
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The Beatles - It's All Too Much (remix)
(Oct 19, 2003 - 19:05) | rossriena wrote:Oh my... This is all too.... much...
That's the worst piece of Beatles ever! 
C'mon! It must rank above Revolution 9, huh? Not their best effort...but I love The Beatles.
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Collective Soul - Listen
(Oct 19, 2003 - 19:01) | Not much to really excite you, here. But I suppose I wouldn't turn away from it. I can handle four minutes of it.
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