I got a copy of this album from the public library, and after rating this track "10"I was very surprised that every other song on it absolutely sucked. As an album, it really is junk. I've actually never heard any other song by him I particularly liked.

Was Heidi a ho?

Funny choice of clothes for chasing pirates. Oh, well! Off to Somalia with ya!

her accent is quite subtle, but I think she might be Irish,
can anyone confirm this?

i think stevie wonder is overrated. had he not been blind i don't think he would've been very famous

 

het nederlandse always argue - wat jammer

You REMEMBERED that it's a Dylan tune! That's like saying you remembered God is in Heaven.

Oh,  yeah, the Greeks have long been noted for their cutting edge surf music.  Hang ten, Stavros...

dog shit

Shut up you poser dumbass.
And put your damned shoes back on!
Your feet stink as much as your songs.

I couldn't find anything about it with a brief Google search, but I did turn up this gem:

Stevie and Marvin

I really do love the internet sometimes...

wat maakt deze mooie dame toch mooie muziek

does he say the fire the fire or i fart i fart?

Horrible wankery.

2. 

You can ask the same question about Dane Cook. There is absolutely nothing remotely humorous in his act. But people whoop and cheer (though there's not much actual laughter).

I had to look and see if it was Leonard Cohen or Tom Waits.  Can there be a tie for the worst singer who ever lived? 

Aw, come on...there is some pretty pickin' and some form of audio restfulness in this SS song, right?  Were you rating the individual, his musical legacy, or this song?  HNY & Cheers, Z
 

george: "bollocks. i can't figure out how to light this thing!"

Holy crap - what a blatant ripoff of Simon and Garfunkel!  They're probably spinning in their graves right now!!
Oh well, I guess they finally got what was coming to them after Simon dared to plugged in his guitar at the Newport Folk Festival.

Ever heard the Philip Glass "Knock Knock" joke?
Goes like this: "Knock Knock"
"Who's there?" "Knock Knock"
"Who's there?" "Knock Knock"
"Who's there?" "Knock Knock"
"Who's there?" "Knock Knock"
"Who's there?" etc...
Wow your music snob friends.

Abhor this genre more than I can say. Isn't there a jazz-haters' club out there where I can get affirmation of my vexation over pointless, unstructured meandering and the misuse of brass instruments for purposes of seduction? Don't kid yourselves, folks; jazz isn't intellectual, it is a path to the validation of the lack of structure and accountability. And it has the quality of irresolution and trailing off into nothingness. How many people who have conscious purposes in their lives do you know who like jazz?

I was about to correlate liking/disliking jazz with political propensities, but instead will refrain.

It sounds very nice but i hate to say that i can't tell if you're a woman or man ...
:D
OScar

And I thought I was listening to a gyspy acoustic version of 'Imagination' by UK 80s synth-groover 'Belouise Some'

These "can't sing" folks on this blog seem to think everyone ought to be Freddy Mercury or KD Lang.

Has my vote for best live album ever!!!!!

I used to be like that...
I got a call to play piano for a band that was covering 16 blues tunes. I thought - no sweat - 1-4-5 in 5 keys... What I discovered in preparing the material was that each song was different in ways that were sometimes obvious and sometimes subtle. Charting that stuff so that I'd be able to recreate those 16 1-4-5 songs as unique pieces was a real eye-opener for me. I hear the blues alot differently now. FWIW.
CC

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.

Hearing this makes me think of the movie, Amelie.

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

this song is awesome. i saw the film (The Last Temptation of Christ) with my father in cinema when i was 12 years old. at the entrance were christians standing, giving us flyers with the message that we will end up in hell when we watch this movie. after watching the film, at the exit , the same guys were standig with new flyers that said we have to read the bible to see that it wasn't like shown in the film. we loughed. it's not that i do not believe in god, in fact, i don't know him, but i think if he would have seen this "christians" he must have loughed, too. thanks for reading.

They don't like it because it isn't what they're used to hearing from Robert and Allison, so that's not ok, Plant and Krauss need to get back into their little boxes and perform in the same format people are used to, like trained monkeys.

First off, I'd give them praise for trying something different as artists, and second it comes through that it's actually excellent music once you sit down and listen to the CD 2 or 3 times all the way through.

In my dreams, I find a very sick person to go cough on Tim Finn every few days and give him permanent laryngitis so that he can't go poison his brother's work ever again.

Like Yoko, he caused the creative end to Crowded House. (Don't bother correcting me with facts. I'm convinced.)

This album was recorded in 1975. Bruce was barely in his twenties. When you were in your twenties, weren't your dreams and emotions big, sweeping, overwrought? Mine were. That's why they were great. That's what this era of Bruce's music was speaking too. It NEEDS to be "bombastic", because when you're young and invincible--everything is urgent, vital and...bombastic.

sounds like michael bolton

puke

Some folks prefer the object of their faith not taken lightly. I'm not beholden to any one religion so I'm not particularly offended, but there are people who get mighty riled at casual usage of their Deity.

all ya music historian types out there. . . Was Procol the first Rock band to play in concert with Philharmonic/Symphonic orchestras?

Isn't this the song on the CSNY Live album that he introduces with the line:

"This song starts out kind of slow.... and then just fizzles out altogether".

Just noise.

I'd just like to say that the practice of "quoting" another poster and then changing the quote so that it says something you can agree with is really slimy. The disqualifier "Fixed it for you" is inadequate and cheap.
Grow up. Say what you want to say and let others have their say without ripping them off.

I got to see Bela with Stanley Clarke and Jean Luc Ponty a couple years ago on the Trio tour. Very cool!

I can't stand her. She ruined almost every recent Phil Lesh & Friends concert with her voice. She has got a voice like a water-pipe rupture...

Is Clapton on this track ????

one of the happiest birthdays ever when my grandparents got me that box set.

OMFG!

This is definitely one of the best Streetfunk-songs EVER written.

With the late, and very, very great Byron Berline on fiddle.

This came out while I was recovering from a pretty nasty accident. You'd think it would bring back bad memories but this album made me feel like I might come back to life. I remember bopping around my parent's kitchen high on percocet and smoking Marlboros with my broken jaws wired shut - front teeth missing.

...except it's not in 3/4 time... i think. Can't quite believe it isn't, it's so lilting. I *think* it's 4/4 but could be wrong. Anyone with a better ear care to comment?

She became a vagitarian?

Oh no, their all coming across the Rio Grande demanding rights while at the same time breaking the law by even being on our soil blah blah, etc etc etc..

is this song really about "games without frontiers"? the venerable, silly euro-contest tv show? And are the lyrics saying something subtle that I miss or they are indeed utterly idiotic?

Fee died recently, but I think the tubes are still playing, without Fee of course. Personally, The Tubes ain't The Tubes without him. They put on the best shows!!!

Did Bill just pronounce that Afro "kelt" ?????

Someone who's not afraid of the Police.

Ahh, Tom Waits' younger days. Before his extremely raspy voice.

All cats are grey

Only after I became a sexually experienced man did I understand these lyrics:

The empty-handed painter from the streets
is drawing crazy patterns on your sheets

Yeah, and this guy looks like the type of kid I use to beat up in high school. He sucks!

I heard "Stairway" about 30 seconds into it. Good call. A great mind thinks alike

So essentially what he's saying is that none of us are free?

i would like to hear his "somewhere over the rainbow" version. it is just such a great song!

When I was a kid I would arrange the spices at the supermarket in the "proper" order every time we went. I'm sure the grocer just loved me!

Besides being horribly hillbilly, can anyone actually relate to this song?

Going against the grain here, but I find this incredibly boring. Sort of like listening to a room of people babbling.

What a nice music to wake up on ! Still a nice music, even when almost going to bed !

So this is what Europeans think singing sounds like. Huh.

That may be the worst album cover I have ever seen!

Pure alchemy baby. If there was only Thelonius on bass....

I've always been torn by the idea you expressed here. Was it because of our age? Do we remember it as an era that was greater than it was? I think not. There have not been the likes of: The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Jethro Tull, Derek & the Dominoes, Allman Brothers, Eagles, CSN&Y, Yes and Elton John (prior to their becoming "pop"), Van Morrison, the Moody Blues, and the PEAK of Pink Floyd, since then.

I'm sure some of the younger listeners will have their say about this....but let's face it...there are VERY FEW bands of the 80's and 90's that will be remembered and their songs played 30-40 years from now!!

Saw Ry do a fantastic live version of this about 25 yrs ago here in Austin at the Paramount Theatre. We were in about row 6, right in front of those two fellows singing the backing vocals. John Hiatt was in Ry's band at that point as well.

I like the heads a lot, and have most of their albums. This song is one of their weakest efforts.

I can't recall anything Bonnie Raitt has ever done besides have a white streak in her hair that demands that she get the airtime and publicity that she does.

When WWIII Started****1979

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

The last is actually the only comment I found interesting myself. etc etc etc through to:
Unfortunately Saddam performed this feat through the swift application of torture, the death penalty, and even the application of genocide in the North of the country.

I DO like Sting's Desert Rose, by the way!

Great to hear Pat Metheny on RP, but find it odd that Bill would play this fairly non-descript piece by the group. Indeed, a review of the total number of Metheny songs (either Pat individually or as the Pat Metheny group) ever played on RP shows that only five have been played on Radio Paradise. As the entire work of Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays is so extensive and rich I would encourage Bill to dig deeper and give us something that showcases Mr. Metheny's guitar talents and Mr. May's piano offerings more than this song does. That's not to say this is bad, but there's better Metheny work out there.

Happy Birthday David Bowie!!! 61 today and still looking and sounding great!!!

I like Sting, and this song as well. Unfortunately, I can't help thinking of the giant mess in the middle east with all the extremist Musslim groups, bent on distroying western society. I am always left with a bad taste in my mouth and deep rooting hatred for all of them.

SIMPLY RED LIKE VOICE

they are phenomenal live.

Just these two!!!

Unless they are singing about French toilets.

I bought the CD, but this is the best track on the disk.

"You see, in this world there's two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig."

Reminiscent of the female genital organ, isn't it?

Such a lovely voice.
This song will always remind me of Young Frankenstone...I mean, Frankenstein.