Interesting viewpoints.

Politics: A show... behind the curtains lurk the wizards. Dorothy and Toto are worried about witches and the Wizard gives them hope... until they see that he was always a charlatan and the solution was in front of them all along.

The ONLY reason politicians have so much power is that we GIVE them power.

War. Why do YOU fight? WHO do you fight? Is it your wife? Is it your boss? Is it your father? Does it make a difference whether it's Germans, Japs, Russians or Islamic extremists? Not really. War is war. Ready to kill in the name of Right. Ready to slam someone because they wronged you.

So when a thief makes a grab for something that's 'yours', do you hurt them?

When you stand with THE POWER OF YOUR SOUL (or your spirit or your true self or your best character... fill in the blank) the thief can't harm you. They are only stealing from themselves. This is the only way to end war (be who your are with compassion for others). They can't actually take something real from you.

Freedom is what it always comes down to. Look at all the Chinese who are pissed off at the West right now because their idea of Freedom is different from ours!

The best thing each of us can do is look out for our own freedom and let others do the same... sending armies in rarely helps. Of course there are extreme exceptions (liberating the concentration camps in Nazi Germany), but by and large, military 'solutions' don't work.

Sound hippie-liberal? It's not. Sound Christian fundamentalist? It's not. It's just true.

The politicians are always making a grab for this or that. They think their 'village' is in need. Whether their 'village' is the board of directors of Haliburton or some small town in Idaho, taking from others to give them what they 'need' is still a form of war. 'Protecting' them from the grabs of 'others' is war as well.

Look. The musicians we are talking about are only pointing out the pain that comes from all these mistakes. They are singing about looking above all this...

...and so we talk and think and feel. Thank God for Texas.

Steve

The more comments I see of yours out in the ether, the more clear it becomes that Texas may truly be the land of all things backwards.

I know it's easy for non-fans to dismiss Tom Waits, but he truly is a unique talent. His music (and voice) can be challenging... but when (or if) you are able to appreciate him, the reward is significant. At some point in time, give "The Heart of Saturday Night" (track or entire album) a close listen. It's truly magnificant. The imagery & emotion conveyed gets to me upon each listen.

Alan Wilder left after this album. Been a bit of a struggle since, but still some good songs on their later stuff.

Why this song is so popular in RP?
It's quite good, but it surprises the amount of 10s

Guess I belong to the 0,01%, who can actually understand what she is singing :-)

Never thought I would experience danish music from a american radio station - Radio Paradise rocks!

Your comment sounds like so many other comments on every single song in this gosh darn Radio Paradise thing.

I think this sounds very Stone Roses-ish. The singer sounds exactly like Ian Brown, and the guitar sounds just like something John Squire would do. In fact, I don't think this sounds like anything other than the Stone Roses. And even if I did, I can't imagine anyone would find it the least bit interesting to hear my opinion on who else it may sound like!

Tubular Amos!

sittin back....cool beer....cool tunes and the smell of the ocean blowing in....ahhhhh....time for a fatty

IS this whole CD this good? I really like this song, and i think i liked another one of their songs, (the cd cover is familiar,) but I am almost totally unfamiliar w/ the band.

...kind of a meddle feel...

Saw him live in the late 60's and again about 6 years ago. Maybe the moves aren't what they used to be, but the perfomance... and performer... still kick ass!

definitely over the top... can't put my finger on why, but i kinda like it.

And I thought on Floyd's Dark Side...

Poor grammar in the title aside, this is a nearly perfect match of singer to song. Completely outstanding.

Maybe. I hear a lot of influences. I think I'll ask Santa for this CD.

Everything went south when the concept of "we" was replaced with the concept of "me".

This song should fit well into any list of "Top Ten Worst 60's Songs." It may only be overshadowed by the Zeiger & Evans dirge "In the Year 2525."

Read the new Vanity Fair profile of him. He's odd, for sure, but he seems to have put himself back together.

Best line ever: "What's your name who's your daddy"

Hahaha!

This whole album is marvelous. Picked this one up sheerly from RP listening. (Take that, RIAA...)

One of the best tracks on the album, next to Half Acre, Leave Me Here, and Waltz. This tune is a good representation of the rest of it.

Delicious.

Jim Morrison was sooo hot!

RaUUUUUUUL!

This is the song for Raul Ibanez of the Mariners, and therefore it gets a slightly higher rating than normal.

A 7 for me to go with the 7 U's in Raul's name.

Scorpions do make me vomit as well (afortunately, never heard them on RP) but there's a HUGE ABBYS between them and BÖC, as there is, by the way, between BÖC and most of the bands of this genre they were co-founders of. Nonetheless, I admit that a better song could have been chosen, especially from Secret Treaties.

Stranglers - Golden Brown
Jethro Tull - Bouree

I have no objection with a juxtaposition repeated every couple of months ... especially when a segue is ... well ... brilliant.

From Tull's Flute + Bach, to the Stranglers' harpsichord + pseudo-baroque. The two songs sound nothing alike, but they have a connecting thread ... that's the sign of a good segue. Kudos Bill!

Darn. When the song title came up, for a second I thought it was going to be a cover of the Doors tune. That would be a cool version, and not too hard to imagine...

"Don't you love her as
she's wal-king out
the door?
Oh yeah!
All right!"

Oh, pleez!!! This is just an expanded version of The Macarena!!!!!!!!!!

Redundant.

Kidding. not really

Actually I really like DMs voice, and this too. But I'm funny that way.

c.

ps. I'm still trying to figure out why Lavinia changed her name to Lucia. Am I missing something? It's happened before.

Try installing Octoshape, works for me!
Great program!

Can we get someone to delete that huge comment? Please?

Oh how I wish this was not the theme to the TV show "House"-it's ruined it a bit for me.....

... How simply lovely ... ...

Just in case you didn't know? Comes A Time

Next month (4th May),

at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be:

... 01:02:03 04/05/06 ...

This can only happen in the sixth year of every century

Edit; of course this only works outside of North America, most of the world writes day, month, year and not month, day, year? For North Americans this mathamatical phenomenum took place on April the 5th. and not May the 4th? ...

Give this one a break. Otis has much more to offer.

Sometimes lost in the discussion of Ozzy and what he has become these days is the fact the Randy was simply a phenomenal guitar player. Much of Ozzy's solo career was built around the success of his early solo albums, and Randy's playing on them was a stellar mix of classical and heavy metal stylings that hasn't been matched since. Quite a loss...

I'm sorry, but the occasional deep poetic insights that BD provides just don't make up for the tuneless voice, strangely accented lyrics, so-so guitar playing, and periodic bursts of random notes from the harmonica.

i for one like the voice which emits alternatively betrayal, sorrow, irony, and wit. it's true taste is a personal thing but categorical anti-dylan statements seem unfortunately dull. sure you don't like the voice. but have you listened to his voice?

No.. Perfecto is Paul Oakenfold and Steve Osborne..

(should be beer not wine) Here's to radiostations that don't put artist in a box

So how do you pronounce the name of the group/artist?

What a sweet girl.

You had to be there . . .

Not my favorite LZ song (too quiet), but it's good, anyway!

True that!

Meh. Just because it was a "commercial success" does not make it good. In fact, I might actually tolerate this song if I did not run across it on one radio station or another at least once per week.

This is bad ass! Instant 10!

Another great LZ tune that needs to be cranked up LOUD to be fully enjoyed!

I was, too, but I didn't appreciate The Doors at the time (I was too busy going to high school). With age comes wisdom and greater appreciation.

My upload. This album is great. CAKE is great. Rocking out, with the trumpet in this one too.

And a bit different for CAKE.

I give this song a 10 just for the message!

at first I thought this was just a boring Foo Fighters track, then I realised that it's just a boring rip-off of a boring Foo Fighters track

Wow. She looked totally trollied and sounded...well, she really wrecked that song.
I understand her feeling that being drunk gives her street cred. but performing drunk to the point where you can't hit your notes is unforgivable and unfair to fans who pay good money to see her.

Her studio album sounds good, but...

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz ...

The slow version blows. Revolution by its very nature is meant to be performed and played at '11'.

Didn't some goofball add lyrics to this about 15 years ago? I guess it didn't fly.

Does anybody else remember that?

When this first starts, doesn't it almost sound like Eric Burton & The Animals?

Right! This is not your Dad's Pink Floyd.

Um...on second thought, it may very well be. Anywho, awesome stuff!

this song is growing on me...

Usually I seem to agree pretty much with the consensus rating for songs on RP, with a few exceptions. The one guy that I just totally can't understand why everyone likes him is Peter Gabriel. I see his name and it's almost a guarenteed 1. The thing is is that I don't think I know anyone who does enjoy his music, let alone would give it a 10. I just don't know what kind of person does give Gabriel a 10. Apparently there were 75 people who did for this song. I'm just curious to know who this appeals to.

wtf is that clicky open mouth chewing sound in the background of this one?...

You know, some hack reporter for Rolling Stone magazine or somewhere wrote an article and described 'punk' as the natural 'answer' to the 'overblown pretention' of prog of the 70's, and people have latched onto his quote and have been repeating it like lemmings ever since, without really thinking about how smart the original quote was in the first place.

Let's examine the notion that 'punk' is the 'answer' to 'prog'. It may sound clever, but does it really ring true? Did legions of Yes fans suddenly wake up in 1977 and collectively say "my gawd, this is pretentious...whoah, have you heard this band called the Sex Pistols??!!"

No, I doubt it. Most people I know who were prog fans in the 70's are still fans today. They may have given up a bit when bands such as Yes ran out of good concepts, but to think that people got sick of Yes and punk was created to 'answer' the 'overblown pretentions' of prog is stupid and lazy.

And I doubt Johny Rotten, Sid Vicious, Jello Biafra, Joey Ramone et. al., were once prog fans or ever paid much attention to prog and one day said, "Blimey, let's write fast 3-chord songs with bloody nasty lyrics that last 2 minutes because prog songs are too long and pretentious an overblown."

If punk was an 'answer' to any musical genre, it was more likely an 'answer' to the status quo stupidity of disco and the the lilly-white wonder-bread puke called the Carpenters and Harry Chapin.

Gawd, that's just stoopid, man........go back to your AM radio station, k?

Can someone help me understand why, in this otherwise perfect song, they chose to leave in Gilmour hawking a massive loogy as part of the intro? Dude, you smoke straights, all right you're cool, I get it?

and great film! I'm surprised I'm the first to mention it here. For all Paul Simon fans who've not seen it yet, check out One Trick Pony.

Why? This Peter Gabriel on vocals, not Phil Collins

:puke: :puke: :puke:
again

I am so annoyed by this song

Bill and Rebecca -- Thank you, thank you, thank you. I have searched for this (as have 38,000+) most of my 44 years on Earth. God Bless you, both. Oh, yeah, I only send money through snail mail but it is on the way.

This is up to a 9. Somehow. I just love it.

This crap is wasting my valuable music listening time.

....
Most current (fem)pop, at least from the 'artists' you mentioned, is shallow fluff designed to sound good to teenagers the first 2 times they hear it, and then become annoying very quickly so they'll want to buy new singles often. To people who have heard a lot of good music during their lifetime, those songs are annoying immediately.
It's disposable music, which is evidenced by the fact that in my country, you don't hear any of those songs older than 6 months on the radio anymore, ever. Nobody wants to hear that stuff anymore, because it's no longer 'hip' and often, that's all there was to it....

What a totally unremarkable song.

Well it's good to see the avg rating has improved drastically (from 4.7 to 6.4) since its first round of exposure.

F***'n awesome - A great master was taken from us - thank you RP for keeping SRV on the air waves - this man can do wrong!

I was verbally and ultimately physically abused by a crazy woman while this LP played non-stop in the background sometime in the late 1970s. When I hear this song, it always reminds of that dark time.

I think it's great. Fleetwood may be overplayed a little on classic rock stations, but the addition to RP's playlist is both appropriate and welcomed by me.

Same 'ol, same 'ol. Pleasant to listen to, but nothing out of the ordinary to me. 7.

Hello:

Quick quiz: who does David Lindley normally play with?

I'll bet that is too easy...

Neil

DMB and Hootie in the same camp? Not even close, sorry. You're entitled to your opinion, but the fact is that when it comes to musical complexity, there's absolutely no comparison between the two. DMB's music has a lyricism that is utterly lacking in the one-hit-wonder music of Hootie.

Not something I ever need to be reminded of. But Lennon is always welcome at my ears.

No, the best thing about leaving college was no longer having to pretend to like people.

Interesting, when you take into account how avocados got their name.

My upload! Disappointed to see that people don't seem to like it very much. I think it's great!

This album is a must for any bachelor's record collection!!!