Midnight Oil - Tone Poem
(Feb 28, 2008 - 08:33) | thumbs way up on the guitar riff.... and way down on the lead vocals, as per usual for MO
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Neil Young - When You Dance I Can Really Love
(Jan 09, 2008 - 06:32) | healyf52 wrote: This song still blows me away. Thank God for Neil, almost everything I know about the guitar, I copied from him.
I like Neil Young but the irony of this song is, like most of Neil Young's music, its not really danceable unless you're doing like a Grateful Dead-style dance.
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David Bowie - Modern Love
(Nov 21, 2007 - 12:45) | kazuma wrote: This song was the soundtrack of a multi-hour nightmare I had on the eve of my brother's wedding back in 1983.
Thanks for leaving us hanging ....
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Iron & Wine - Naked As We Came
(Nov 21, 2007 - 11:13) | Jobs this guy is ill-suited for: Fire Warden, Umpire, Circus MC (or any other MC for that matter) lead singer for a (rockin) rock band.
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Pearl Jam - Black
(Nov 20, 2007 - 09:05) | hippiechick wrote: When this song would come on, my family would run to the hills so they wouldn't have to listen to my emotive wailing!
sounds like a rational response...
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The Beatles - You Never Give Me/The End
(Nov 09, 2007 - 11:15) | LongGoneDaddy wrote: the Cistine Chapel of music! forgive my ignorance, but what is the translation in Sun King...is it Portugese and what does it mean?? anyone???
its nonsense italian - nothing deep... kind of joke really
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Elvis Costello - Monkey To Man
(Nov 08, 2007 - 06:44) | Not a horrible song I guess but it never would have made the cut on any of EC's first 5 or 6 albums. It's like he forgot how to write a clever melody and chord progression. This song rides on one chord almost throughout and there's nothing original about the melody.
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Elvis Costello - Monkey To Man
(Nov 08, 2007 - 06:44) | Not a horrible song I guess but it never would have made the cut on any of EC's first 5 or 6 albums. It's like he forgot how to write a clever melody and chord progression. This song rides on one chord almost throughout and there's nothing original about the melody.
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Swati - Blackjack
(Nov 07, 2007 - 07:57) | this song sucks - the cute girl with the sweet voice "has new york city all over" her and she gets a prostitute. oh my!
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Rolling Stones - Rocks Off
(Nov 05, 2007 - 06:41) | lionirons wrote: This album has to rate in the top five rock albums of all time.
I'd go ahead and put it at Number #1. Who can seriously listen to Pepper over and over again without wanting to skip most of it like Lovely Rita?
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The Beatles - Girl
(Nov 02, 2007 - 14:50) | EssexTex wrote: Just goes to show even the Beatles could pen a stinker
you're out of your mind
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John Lee Hooker - Dimples
(Nov 02, 2007 - 06:40) | I saw John Lee Hooker in a Blues bar in San Francisco with a couple of young ladies. He was just in the audience not playing, dancing with the girls. I walked up to him and said in his ear, "a-Boom, Boom, Boom" and he just answered, "a-How, How, How"
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Prince - When Doves Cry
(Oct 23, 2007 - 15:06) | roseap wrote:This song wasn't even a good idea in the 80's... 
this song practically invented the 80's. This and "Kiss" had more copiers than Xerox
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Prince - When Doves Cry
(Oct 23, 2007 - 15:06) | roseap wrote:This song wasn't even a good idea in the 80's...
this song practically invented the 80's. This and "Kiss" had more copiers than Xerox
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Robert Plant - 29 Palms
(Oct 18, 2007 - 07:03) | wow - who sold him on that bogus cover art? the music's nice, Plant's in great form.
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Mono - Silicone
(Oct 17, 2007 - 13:55) | Portishead called, they want their sound back
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The Postal Service - The District Sleeps Alone Tonight
(Oct 17, 2007 - 06:32) | lee_sf wrote: Heard the chorus, got interested, said to self "cool song." Then the bland verse lyrics came in and the song went pretty much nowhere. Read through the positive comments, didn't get it. Read through the lyrics looking for redeeming value... STILL didn't get it.
That's a lotta work to confirm that it really is an underwhelming tune.
"Clark Gable" off of this record is a better song. These guys have a similar squirmy approach as Death Cab for Cutie.
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Iron & Wine - Naked As We Came
(Oct 11, 2007 - 08:14) | FilmSurgeon wrote:These guys just rub me the wrong way, starting with an instinctive dislike of their name, and ending with the whispery, "this is important music, so be quiet & hear what we are saying" delivery.
And this may be TMI, but rubbing me the wrong way is not easy to do. 
Bill talks about dynamics alot but its true there's no dynamics here its full on mellow always. And please, quit whispering
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Talking Heads - Television Man
(Oct 05, 2007 - 07:51) | shakitten wrote:
It's funny...I keep hearing people say what a genius David Byrne is. But whenever I hear him, I always hear an ADHD kid on Mountain Dew who keeps making annoying, incessant vocalizations for attention.
Just my opinion....
If RP would EVER play something from the first two albums you might understand how great they were - this song shows how they lost their ideas and energy toward the end.
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Jeff Buckley - Lover, You Should've Come Over
(Oct 05, 2007 - 07:28) | Saw Jeff when he was an unknown, playing a benefit for a food coop in Brooklyn. He played by himself. Allan Ginsburg read poetry there. After the show it looked very much like Allan was on the make for Jeff.
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B-52's - Rock Lobster
(Sep 21, 2007 - 13:51) | My highschool band did an awesome cover of this back in the early 80's - it was our encore!
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Spoon - The Underdog
(Sep 20, 2007 - 07:23) | screw Napster - this is the album of the year and they STILL don't have it!!!!
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Cranberries - Zombie
(Sep 19, 2007 - 08:52) | rah wrote:
the so-called glottal "catch" or stop is a vocal style you hear in a lot of traditional Celtic singing. it's not that Delores is trying to sound like Sinead -- it's that both women were raised around traditional Irish music, and likely learned to use their voices that way.
Yeah but it became a 90's cliche in that Sarah McGlaughlin (sic), Alanis Morrisette and countless others started doing it.
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English Beat - Mirror In The Bathroom
(Sep 18, 2007 - 13:23) | Deadwing wrote:I Just Can't Stop It is still a great album after all these years  Mirror in the Bathroom is awesome but I especially love Two Swords, Twist and Crawl, Click Click, and Best Friend  This album has never really left my rotation for very long 
So true, I saw the Beat twice on an IRS tour with R.E.M. opening. They had just come out with their first EP. The Beat pretty much blew them away each time.
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Bruce Springsteen - Radio Nowhere
(Sep 18, 2007 - 11:12) | jjbix wrote: talk about radio nowhere, listen to this nowhere song bruce, way to milk a career, give it up!
I think it rocks pretty well - not bad at all
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Kings Of Leon - True Love Way
(Sep 17, 2007 - 12:49) | Jamunca wrote: Why don't I like this?
It doesn't rock - there's not much to like - I like the guys voice but this makes me long to hear Molly's Chambers again
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Pearl Jam - Yellow Ledbetter
(Sep 13, 2007 - 09:19) | I never get much of a sense of what PJ songs are about - maybe its the enunciation or lack thereof- just doesn't move me. The music isn't interesting enough to overcome this vacuum
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Air - Once Upon a Time
(Sep 05, 2007 - 08:21) | squidish wrote: I am a big fan of AIR French Band, but wish sometimes they would get a guest vocalist in on the action. Like the girl from Zero 7 - that would be perfect on this one, with some lyric changes.
They had a different singer for "Playground Love" on the Virgin Suicides soundtrack and that came out great!
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Toots & The Maytals - Still Is Still Moving (w/ Willie Nelson)
(Aug 29, 2007 - 07:23) | goo wrote: Yuk! This doesn't work at all. Willie Nelson is a fish outta water here....embarrasing performance....did some producer think this was going to be a great union of talents? Who is responsible for this?
Toots liked this song of Willie's and though its a bit of a "stoned" thought or idea who can blame him? I think its great.
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George Harrison - Isn't It A Pity
(Aug 23, 2007 - 11:17) | out_to_lunch wrote: It appears the members of the Beatles have been dying off in sucession of talent: John first, then George.
Methinks Ringo is next....
harsh on Paul 
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John Hammond - Jockey Full of Bourbon
(Aug 23, 2007 - 08:36) | ranwulf wrote:Tom Waits is outstanding, but it's always amazing to hear people covering him: different interpretations turn the songs into something else entirely. Holly Cole does an entire album of Tom's music on "Temptation," and does a fantastic job. This is a good version, but I gotta say I prefer Tom. 
Waits version blows this away. Hammond's is a relaxed, breezy, languid interpretation which is at odds with the desperate nature of the lyrics.
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The Kinks - Come Dancing
(Aug 23, 2007 - 08:19) | horstman wrote: This song is so "pop" for the Kinks. It just grates when compared to the rest of their library.
But it helped to fill the coffeurs, what the hell.
Take it or leave it for me.
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if you don't have a sentimental or nostalgic side you're not going to like it I guess or a lot of other music - the rest of us get it I imagine
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James McMurtry - Levelland (live)
(Aug 22, 2007 - 12:19) | I like the album title. I've been using "aught" alot instead of saying like 03 but it really hasn't caught on. 
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Tom Petty - Mary Jane's Last Dance
(Aug 22, 2007 - 11:21) | alux wrote: Okay then. So what's a heavenly harmonica sound like? Dylan? Just looking for a benchmark here.
Heavenly harmonica players?:
Stevie Wonder
Willie Nelson's harmonica player
John Popper (although I'm not a big fan of his)
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Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
(Aug 22, 2007 - 08:50) | How come this is the only track that RP plays?!? The whole album is great and RP should be playing many more tracks. Is it up to listeners to upload the song files? I can believe that would be the case.
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Coldplay - Til Kingdom Come
(Aug 21, 2007 - 13:55) | does he write cliche'd and dull lyrics because he leads an idyllic life or does he lead an idyllic life because he writes dull, cliche'd lyrics?
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U2 - New Year's Day
(Aug 21, 2007 - 11:17) | I actually like their later stuff better than this humorless, marching, strident, sanctimonious and melodramatic period
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Blues Traveler - Run-Around
(Aug 14, 2007 - 11:31) | woozurdaddy wrote: After several months, finally a song that made me turn off RP (at least until it's over). One of the top 3 worst concerts I ever attended. I'm sorry, playing a harmonica really fast doesn't make it listenable....
:puke:
here, here .... this song is a 3 chord jam that goes nowhere
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Radiohead - Karma Police
(Aug 13, 2007 - 12:24) | davidyoull wrote: It would be best to follow this with "Sexy Sadie" by the Fabs
my thoughts exactly, "this is what you get" part with piano sounds very similar to sexy sadie.
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Talking Heads - (Nothing But) Flowers
(Aug 08, 2007 - 09:00) | I like the early David Byrne better, the one who had some angst, the one who was creating a new kind of dance music like what you hear on the first 4 Talking Heads albums. Now he's all about being cute and doing latin inspired, "world" music - nothing particularly new or interesting. This trend started with songs like this.
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Iggy Pop - Lust for Life
(Aug 07, 2007 - 11:59) | robco1 wrote: Uh, actually Bill I think he's referring to shooting up in the ear...still not family-friendly cruise line jingle stuff.
How weird to hear this for a commercial?
shooting up in the ear?! Iggy may have tried that but it probably refers to getting yelled at and nagged all his life for just being himself!
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The Police - Roxanne
(Aug 07, 2007 - 07:46) | meydele wrote:
There are a lot of great Police tunes hidden away. . . but that doesn't make this one any less great. I still love it, even on the 12,000,000,001st hearing.
Sting and the band sure think its one of their best since they play it so much. I disagree. I remember how surprised I was that the singer wasn't Latino.
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The Clash - Clampdown
(Aug 03, 2007 - 11:51) | what a great song. Mick on the middle 8 is a perfect counterpoint to Joe on the verses.
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Wilco - Impossible Germany
(Aug 01, 2007 - 11:09) | is this song about a guy trying to book a world tour? "Impossible Germany, unlikely Japan" those words don't seem to connect with the rest of the song.
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Arctic Monkeys - Old Yellow Bricks
(Jul 27, 2007 - 09:42) | sunnysoul03 wrote: OK....I think this album just officially made my 'To Buy' list
OK... this just officially made my overplayed on RP list
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Nico Stai - The Song of Shine and Shame
(Jul 23, 2007 - 08:27) | jksteacher wrote: Elements of Jack Johnson and Modest Mouse, with a voice that reminds me of Peter Gabriel. Interesting....
Sounds more like the singer in Band of Horses with a little Perry Farrell tossed-in
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The Dead 60s - Riot Radio
(Jun 28, 2007 - 11:44) | kazuma wrote:
We really need some Gang of Four on RP!
Why have all the Gang of Four sound a-likes come out recently? Franz Ferdinand started it.
What none of them have is that avant garde, existentialist, socialist, modern viewpoint in their lyrics as Gang of Four did.
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The White Stripes - Conquest
(Jun 28, 2007 - 10:39) | Its clear that the Racontuers were a break for White. This is where he truely shines, this is where he can let his freakily awesome talents loose.
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Cranberries - Zombie (Live Acoustic)
(Jun 21, 2007 - 09:29) | meydele wrote: Could not hate this woman's voice more... which is strange, since I usually like odd-sounding singers. :puke:
yeah I have to mute this
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Beck - Loser
(Jun 15, 2007 - 13:14) | MY friend got this as a demo when we was in AnR at a big record company. He played it for me and I thought it was great. He passed and now says they wouldn't have been able to afford Beck anyway. I wonder if he cringes everytime he hears "Loser"
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The Good, The Bad & The Queen - Kingdom Of Doom
(Jun 13, 2007 - 09:00) | Pazzat wrote: ...and don't forget in all the flurry of admiration for Damon Albarn that the bass player in The Good, The Bad and The Queen is Paul Simonon, late of The Clash.
Bass doesn't play much of a part in what I've heard from this group - nor does a groove.
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The Smiths - What Difference Does It Make?
(Jun 13, 2007 - 08:13) | Bocephus wrote: why did they remix this? The original is much better. The drums totally overwhelm here. Still a great tune.
almost sounds like a live version
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The Clash - Clampdown
(Jun 08, 2007 - 12:54) | Songs like this enter your consciousness and stay - reaapearing when you reflect on life as work. The Clash at their best!
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Sigmon - Leaving Day
(Jun 08, 2007 - 12:16) | Whirlpool wrote: That album cover is some cool artwork.
I might have advised against it... the armpits get alot of play in the picture
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Red Hot Chili Peppers - Scar Tissue
(Jun 08, 2007 - 11:20) | there is way better RHCP songs to play on RP. I would have gone for something more funky but funk and RP don't seem to get along. 
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Elvis Costello - Radio, Radio
(Jun 08, 2007 - 09:59) | cattgirl813 wrote:
And why were the SNL people so pissed about him doing that? They always show the clip, but never give the back story.
Since its a live show its timed to the second - throwing in a different song screws up the schedule.
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Elvis Costello - Waiting for the End of the World
(Jun 07, 2007 - 13:07) | grouchokerr wrote: David Chase just recently said in an interview that he could have used Elvis Costello, The Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan music as most of the soundtrack to the Sopranos series. Something dark, devious, mysterious and quite deep about all three artists...and they make great mob music...
parts of this song are very dylanesque
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Rolling Stones - Jumpin' Jack Flash
(Jun 07, 2007 - 12:56) | I hear this and see Brian Jones in huge sunglasses and their faces painted - Brian Jones couldn't have been around much longer after this. And wasn't this also after the Rock and Roll Circus filming?
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Bob Marley - War
(May 31, 2007 - 12:10) | fredriley wrote: A wee bit over-didactic, IMHO. The lyrics sound like they're written for a propaganda poster, not a reggae song, and come across pretty clunkily. Not one of yer man's best, I don't think.
maybe not his best - but its as good an anti war song as I've ever heard.
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TV On the Radio - Things You Can Do
(May 31, 2007 - 10:55) | rgrace wrote: No, no, no. No resemblance to Zappa whatsoever. Jeesh. What planet are you guys from? :)
Morphine. End of story.
no semblance to Zappa or Morphine (why because of a sax?) afro beat meets Peter Gabriel, end of story
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Led Zeppelin - The Rover
(May 25, 2007 - 07:58) |
Never big fans of corporate rock, or FM radio, members of LZ were complaining that Stairway and Black Dog were getting all the air play. When asked what they thought was better they mentioned "The Rover" as being much better, and I have to agree.
If they liked it so much how come they never played it much live, that I know of at least?
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Radiohead - Optimistic
(May 24, 2007 - 12:37) | treatment_bound wrote:
I agree with everything he wrote...except they have no, and I mean no, good songs!
I don't even want to know what you consider good: 
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Sting - Mad About You
(May 23, 2007 - 13:37) | Hey, this guy sounds like Blake without the human beatbox noises
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Phil Collins - In the Air Tonight
(May 23, 2007 - 12:26) | in high school I ran with a group of kids who used to label guys (preps, mostly) who dressed and listened to Phil Collins as "Phil's" -
Usage - Dude that Phil is after you cause you bumped his beemer.
I could never figure out why this song was so appealing to so many folks.
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Steven Delopoulos - Seasons
(May 23, 2007 - 11:35) | mediocre - why is Dylan great and this guy not - even though he has a better voice? Because Dylan would crystallize all the lyrical quality in this whole song into just one line, instead this guy has to repeat the same lines over and over until they just sound inane.
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The Who - Eminence Front
(May 23, 2007 - 07:21) | I can't believe they still play this boring song. What's it supposed to mean anyway? 
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Rusted Root - Send Me On My Way
(May 23, 2007 - 07:09) | bjl000 wrote: Starts out like a decent David Byrne tune ends up like a over done Talking heads ripoff.
Definitely the David Byrne schools of vocals
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Gorillaz - Demon Days
(May 23, 2007 - 06:54) | eastcoast wrote: I'm sorry I just don't get this...sounds like monotonous mind druel
wonder why so many RP folks missed the boat on what was a huge hit all over the world, certainly one of the biggest musical sensations of 2004/2005?
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Pearl Jam - Better Man
(May 22, 2007 - 11:45) | Leetzy wrote: Why? Why so much Pearl Jam? Please. Stop.
can't find a better song?
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Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil
(May 21, 2007 - 13:20) | The Godard, or was it Truffault movie is strange but half of it is the stones recording this. It really opened my eyes just how much control Keith had. There's no doubt he was the musical director - I think he even played bass on this. The other's pretty much did what they were told. Of course Mick has a strong input but music-wise, its all about Keith.
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Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
(May 21, 2007 - 13:06) | I've never been able to reconcile Springsteen's city kid/street kid dramas with music that relies so heavily on piano and bell sounds. Its more West Side Story than rock n roll.
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The Specials - Message to You Rudy
(May 21, 2007 - 12:56) | My senior talent show in - gulp - 1982, i formed a band with friends called Rudy and the Mod Vespas and we did this song and Niteclub
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The Specials - Message to You Rudy
(May 21, 2007 - 12:56) | My senior talent show in - gulp - 1982, i formed a band with friends called Rudy and the Mod Vespas and we did this song and Niteclub
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Lou Reed - Intro/Sweet Jane
(May 21, 2007 - 12:50) | electronicthroat wrote: The guy on the album cover looks like a gay Frankenstein.
I think thats the look Lou was going for 
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Hooverphonic - No More Sweet Music
(May 21, 2007 - 11:51) | Carl wrote: No More Sweet Music contains samples from the Henry Mancini penned Lujon from the album "Mr. Lucky Goes Latin". (click here)
I think Will I Am sampled that for his album with Sergio Mendes on the song call That Heat
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Spirit - Fresh Garbage
(May 21, 2007 - 10:23) | undo_silence wrote: William Orbit stole it for a Pink Song :-)
I think the Pink song rocks!
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Roxy Music - To Turn You On
(May 21, 2007 - 09:20) | Daveinbawlmer wrote:
Love the bass on this track. Fantastic record, has stood the test of time. Still sounds wonderful.
I think its their best!
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The Doors - Light My Fire
(May 21, 2007 - 07:09) | strange that I was thinking of this song as I woke up today. I wondered how many times Robbie Krieger has been urged to come up with another "Light My Fire."
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Cake - Frank Sinatra
(May 18, 2007 - 13:41) | I had a 9 year old student who I gave guitar lessons to who wanted to learn this song. If you see this, best wishes Jack!
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Patty Griffin - Getting Ready
(May 18, 2007 - 09:31) | This is the kind of country music I like - which is different than 99% of what is now called country music.
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Arctic Monkeys - Teddy Picker
(May 18, 2007 - 08:52) | reviews are saying Fluorescent Adolescent is the best song on the album - could we hear that one?
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Counting Crows - A Murder Of One
(May 18, 2007 - 08:01) | musikalia wrote:
I can't either! :puke:
he's quite annoying - especially when he's singing about wanting to be a big star.
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Poe - Hey Pretty
(May 17, 2007 - 10:48) | Sounds a bit like Garbage - the band that is
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Steve Earle - Telephone Road
(May 16, 2007 - 12:27) | rtkmusic wrote:
Yep, but as far as roads go, his Copperhead Road is better
I disagree - if Steve Earle has a better song than this - I haven't heard it - not that I'm an expert 
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Steely Dan - Deacon Blues
(May 16, 2007 - 11:05) | 9-volt wrote:i realize that steely dan is a legendary band, but holy crap, they have to have the cheesiest, most velveeta sound ever... maybe it's a generational thing. 
yeah some folks can't see the genuine soul and heartfelt expression within the gloss of virtuosity but I get it
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Richard Thompson - Turning of the Tide
(May 16, 2007 - 08:53) | I like a lot of folks voices that get trashed on RP: Dylan, Cohen, Waits, Costello, etc. But I Thompson's voice is a wedge for me from enjoying his songs and music
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Gabriel Rios - Angelhead
(May 15, 2007 - 12:27) | I keep thinking Joni Mitchell's going to start singing "help me I think I'm fallen....." when this song starts.
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Secret Machines - Nowhere Again
(May 10, 2007 - 13:34) | lily34 wrote: i really like the cd/album cover.
I really like the cover as well. I had downloaded this tune and never saw the cover. It makes me like the song more. Reminds me of the back cover of the Lyres "On Fire" album.
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Talking Heads - Girlfriend Is Better (Live)
(Apr 27, 2007 - 11:57) | On_The_Beach wrote:
The keyboardist (Bernie Worrell) was definitely the weak link in the "Stop Making Sense" tour band. Kinda ruins some of the songs.
You're talking about the funkiest keyboard player of all time, ask George Clinton
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James Brown - Get Up Offa That Thing
(Apr 27, 2007 - 11:52) | dmax wrote: Hadn't thought of it until heard a new article about his music, and realized that what they were saying was accurate:
James Brown's music was truly African. Listen to it compared to American "soul" and it's not as closely related as it is to the traditional African music with its clean repetition and horn stabs. Once I heard that, it sounds completely different to me.
James Brown influenced African Music more than the other way around.
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Quannum - I Changed My Mind
(Apr 27, 2007 - 11:38) | swampaholic wrote: Great to see Lyrics Born make RP
totally - god forbid a rapper gets some play on RP
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Led Zeppelin - Tangerine
(Apr 27, 2007 - 08:43) | I had a cool dentist as a kid: novacaine, laughing gas and he let you put on headphones and pick out a tape to listen - I picked this album - what a trip! 
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The Shins - Phantom Limb
(Apr 27, 2007 - 07:09) | healyf52 wrote:I can't help it, I think this tune is an insipid piece of drivel...
Does RP play any of their other tunes, cause this one really blows...
Insipid piece of drivel? Totally disagree. That description would be more appropriate applied to a song that repeats a simplistic phrase in its chorus over and over - this song, lyrically I still haven't figured out.
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Doves - Caught By The River
(Apr 26, 2007 - 13:52) | as soon as I hear a cliche like "cause you give it all away...." its hard to keep listening. 
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The New Pornographers - Three or Four
(Apr 26, 2007 - 13:32) | I think these guys/girls are great - they're songs don't all sound alike but they are all very well crafted  - hoping that by the time I finish this I'll still be the first comment!
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Bob Dylan - Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
(Apr 26, 2007 - 11:36) | saw Bob Dylan play a couple of years ago. He played keyboards the whole show. Did not pick up a guitar once. He sang each song to the same melody. I'm a big fan so it was kind of a downer - the band was pretty good but it was hard to know what song they were doing.
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Chris Isaak - Solitary Man
(Apr 25, 2007 - 07:28) | Daniel_Pittenger wrote: I think he butchers the Neil Diamond version. Neil Diamond is one of my favorite artists, and this song is one of his best. I'd like to see some Diamond on RP, that would be neat.
I wouldn't go that far - I think he does the chorus well but the verses are lacking. I think this was actually Diamond's first hit and one of the best
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Arcade Fire - Keep The Car Running
(Apr 24, 2007 - 12:39) | rosedraws wrote: I just wish the rest of the album was as good as this... or their others. I love these guys.
I actually think this is one of their less interesting songs - kinda sounds like "The Darkside" by John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band
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David Byrne - Dirty Old Town
(Apr 24, 2007 - 12:27) | Is it me or does early Talking Heads get snubbed on RP. I'd love to hear something like "Warning Sign"
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Jethro Tull - A New Day Yesterday
(Apr 24, 2007 - 12:11) | eastcoast wrote: I liek Tull but this just sucks...where is the flute?
the flute is that breathy thing that solos for about 12 measures....
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The Who - Love, Reign O'er Me
(Apr 24, 2007 - 11:52) | newwavegurly wrote: I'm sure this won't go over well with some of The Who "purists" around here, but Pearl Jam did an excellent cover of this for the movie "Reign Over Me" with Don Cheadle and Adam Sandler.
I agree and I'm not much of a Pearl Jam fan. I know Eddie is a HUGE Who fan.
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TV On the Radio - Things You Can Do
(Apr 24, 2007 - 11:32) | maxmox wrote:
If you mean Fela Kuti, who I saw two weeks back, these guys could take take some clues from the extremely high energy delivery of FK and The Positive Force - outstandingly awesome band with wicked rhythm section, dancers, brass and ENERGY!!!
Attended a workshop with percussion section - whew, make me want to go home and burn my congas.
You must mean Femi Kuti - Since Fela died in like '97
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Buddy Holly - Not Fade Away
(Apr 23, 2007 - 11:30) | dogdokken wrote:
The things the Dead did to this song, no other band will ever be able to do (to any song). NFA from 01/22/78 blows my mind.
I'll take the stones version - The worst cover I ever heard was the Dead stumbling through Louie Louie which every high school garage band on earth has probably managed to play better than how they did playing to 20k folks at MSG in NYC
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Moxy Fruvous - Jockey Full Of Bourbon
(Apr 20, 2007 - 09:28) | its such a great song - impossible to improve on Tom Waits version - this one is a little too cheery for the desperation the lyrics call out. things like that happen when a song starts to become a standard.
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The Shins - Phantom Limb
(Apr 20, 2007 - 08:35) | Thanks for playing this - the melody has wafted its way into my brain's number #1.
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Bob Marley - Buffalo Soldier
(Apr 20, 2007 - 07:42) | ginathelintqueen wrote: This is *hilarous* --it *is* the Bannana Split Gang song. Only I liked that one better. Something about giant animals on rollerskates does it for me every time!
;-)
-gina
I always noticed how similar the two were - the question is: which came first?
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Thomas Dolby - I Scare Myself
(Apr 19, 2007 - 12:06) | wow - never heard this version. How about playing the original or ANY Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks btw
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Sarah McLachlan - Ice (Live)
(Apr 18, 2007 - 12:24) | Sarah, Alanis, the Cranberries singer and Sinead O'Connor all share the lilting high notes in their voices. A kind of split second falsetto. This was such a 90's trend. If you know what I mean, what would you call this trait? Anyone have a name for it?
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The Clash - This is Radio Clash
(Apr 18, 2007 - 09:28) | at the time I thought it was "Disco!" but now I appreciate how awesome this song is... the video was even better - as far as that goes, disco wasn't so bad - once you learned how to dance - 
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Pearl Jam - Daughter
(Apr 17, 2007 - 13:53) | Vedder, Hootie, singer from Stone Temple Pilots, singer from Creed = the 90's rock voice
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The Pixies - Monkey Gone To Heaven
(Apr 12, 2007 - 14:54) | horstman wrote:Even though I consider myself a fairly competent Christian, I am facinated with numerology.
Man is 5
Then the Devil 6
And if the Devil is 6, then God is 7.
My driver's license was recently updated and the first three numbers are 666.
Cool.
Does this respond to something in biblical text or sacred tracks or something?
Pixies Rock, Pixies Rule 
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Elvis Costello - Inch By Inch
(Apr 12, 2007 - 07:49) | Up to this one I had bought every EC album religiously, as soon as they came out. With this record the magic just seemed to be missing. He's had a few hits here and there but the brilliance seems gone... I have no desire to buy his records anymore.
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The Specials - Gangsters
(Apr 11, 2007 - 14:21) | for my high school talent show, me and my friends formed a band and did a Specials medley of this song, Nite Club and one other one. We called ourselves Rudy and the Mod Vespas
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Bob Marley - So Much Trouble In The World
(Apr 11, 2007 - 09:03) | rKokon wrote: Knowledgeable persons: Please give us summary info and/or links to educate us about the time signature of reggae. Also your opinion about its immediate antecedent and its first child. Thank you.
Reggae is a slower version of rocksteady which is the slower version of ska
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The Smiths - How Soon Is Now
(Apr 10, 2007 - 13:44) | I saw the Smiths on the Pier in NYC way back when. They opened with this song which I thought was pretty ballzy since its arguably their best and most popular and most encore-ish song.
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Rodrigo Y Gabriela - Diablo Rojo
(Apr 10, 2007 - 12:08) | pmb-dc wrote: I've listened to a lot of RP but not sure I've caught this one before. It's rare that a song is so captivating that you MUST know who is performing it and where you can find more! Many kudos to Bill...
If you haven't caught this one before than you haven't listened to much RP lately.
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Elvis Costello - Pump It Up
(Apr 10, 2007 - 11:01) | this is a 10 -
good elvis = with the attractions
boring elvis = with all the countless duets he feels the need to do as if he's not good enough on his own.
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Steely Dan - Aja
(Apr 10, 2007 - 09:20) | Lots of people write off SD as just studio musicians and the compositions do require virtuosity but it doesn't mean there's no soul in the music. I think the lyrics are very heartfelt albeit from a world-weary, sometimes sarcastic and jaded point of view.
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The New Pornographers - The Bleeding Heart Show
(Apr 10, 2007 - 09:06) | tapatia wrote:
I would add:
Using songs by The Who and David Bowie to sell wireless phone services.
Marketing your song in a commercial is now the best and getting to be the only, viable way to sell your music rather than selling it at your shows. I don't begrudge artists for doing it... and I don't attach their body of work to a product - the song, if its good, will long outlast the commercial association.
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The Clash - The Magnificent Seven
(Apr 10, 2007 - 08:38) | At the time I couldn't figure out Sandinista and was horrified about the Clash going Disco!? They were so far ahead of their time and not interested in sticking to the limitations of punk. The record has matured well.
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U2 - Bad
(Apr 10, 2007 - 06:53) | The challenge is calling them a rock band. There's just about zilch sex, drugs and rock n roll in their music. Chuck Berry it ain't. I't s not much fun. It's hard to dance to them. Most of their beats are marches.
They are also very sanctimonious. But on the plus side, they always seem to get better as the years go round and there is room for music for our "souls" as opposed to soul music and their guitar sound is as unique and as innovative as any to ever come along.
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The Bongos - Numbers With Wings
(Apr 06, 2007 - 12:33) | I come from the same neck of the musical woods as the Bongos (Hoboken, NJ) and I followed them quite a bit way back when but I must say its been MANY years since I've heard one of their songs or even thought about them. I guess they're currently residing in the "where are they now?" file
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The Beach Boys - Sail On Sailor
(Apr 06, 2007 - 07:11) | The guy who sings lead on this (Blondie Chapman?) now sings back up with the Rolling Stones when they tour.
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Camera Obscura - Tears for Affairs
(Apr 06, 2007 - 06:51) | Everytime this comes on I check who it is - its great and maybe soon I'll remember the name. Its not on Napster though.
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Tori Amos - Spark
(Apr 05, 2007 - 11:57) | Johray63 wrote: Kate Bush influenced, to say the least. It's also true that, considering their simular backgrounds, their music is pretty much alike.
Tori Amos is so much like Kate Bush both in vocal style, and in musical arrangement and I would say subject matter that its impossible to listen to her and not hear Kate. Tori Amos is an American copy of the original.
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Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill
(Apr 04, 2007 - 06:51) | natural_tools wrote: I like some of her stuff, but this is dramatically awful. Seems too much to be a product of the time.
This song will be played and appreciated long after most 80's stuff is forgotten. It has a universal theme - I'd say its a classic.
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Masters of Reality - She Got Me
(Apr 03, 2007 - 12:37) | daveesh wrote: this is a great album!!!
i have to admit, i thought it was going to be ballroom blitz when the drums started...
how can you hear those drums and not think of Ballroom Blitz?
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English Beat - Save It for Later
(Apr 03, 2007 - 09:37) | I saw a couple of dates on an early IRS tour with R.E.M. opening. It took me years to take R.E.M. seriously after seeing the Beat blow them off the stage twice.
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Prince - When Doves Cry
(Apr 02, 2007 - 09:13) | I'm surprised this has such a low rating. This song and the "bass-less" minimalist production influenced a whole slew of 80's and 90's artists from INXS to Van Halen and on and on. In fact I can't think of many songs that had nearly as much influence as When Doves Cry
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Coldplay - Clocks
(Mar 30, 2007 - 13:05) | He's tall, good-looking, married to Gwen Paltrow so his life doesn't suck but the name of the band does and his songs aren't really about anything - he's no poet - this song is catchy and makes me think of airports and taxi's
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Spacehog - In The Meantime
(Mar 30, 2007 - 12:57) | this song is a 10 - did Spacehog make anything else anywhere near as good as this?
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Greg Brown - Who Woulda Thunk It
(Mar 30, 2007 - 08:45) | This is Ho-Hum material. One might think of Bob Dylan when you hear this voice but can you image Dylan singing such an inane lyric over and over again as "Who woulda thunk it?" - the cuteness wears out by the second refrain.
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Madeleine Peyroux - Dance Me To The End Of Love
(Mar 29, 2007 - 12:45) | On_The_Beach wrote: Sounds eerily like Billy Holiday.
She's sounds so much like Billie Holiday that you don't mind the imitation - its such a pleasing sound! - Great song too.
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Beck - Mixed Bizzness
(Mar 28, 2007 - 13:58) | bluedot wrote:this beck song is awful, in my opinion.
and i LOVE beck.
self-conscious gimmickry.
a misguided contrivance.
luckily, rp also plays some of beck's more successful efforts!
admit it , you just can't dance can you?
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Nick Drake - Cello Song
(Mar 28, 2007 - 13:26) | Chicks dig him more that guys. They love that lost, dreamy, puppy-dog quality about him. He didn't have all that much to say though did he?
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Yardbirds - Heart Full Of Soul
(Mar 28, 2007 - 13:24) | sutcliff wrote:
According to their website, which is not 'up to date':
Founding members Chris Dreja (rhythm guitar)
Jim McCarty (drums/songwriter)
then....
Ben King (lead guitar and backing vocals)
John Idan (bass and lead vocals)
Alan Glen (harmonica and backing vocals)
http://www.theyardbirds.com/home.html
Surprise to me too!
Any band that had as guitarists: Clapton, Beck and Page (although not all at the same time) can't be called anything other than legendary
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The Beatles - Good Day Sunshine
(Mar 28, 2007 - 12:57) | johndmessner wrote:
Paul had enormous value in the Beatles. It could even be argued that in the second half he was the most important member. Do you not like the songs that Paul wrote? Many great songs from the Beatles' albums - in particular, from Sgt. Pepper forward - were Paul's. As an example, most of the good songs on Let It Be were his. Oh, and Sgt. Pepper was his idea....
Paul was/is extremeley talented and integral to what the Beatles were but in the latter half it could be argued he was certainly the corniest of the four. And his love for smaltz weighed the group down. One could understand the frustration the other's felt as inordinate time went into recording idiotic Paul tunes like "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" while John was begging for someone to help put some time into recording the masterpiece "Across the Universe"
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Son Volt - The Picture
(Mar 28, 2007 - 12:26) | driver8 wrote:ohh - outstanding! Thank you RP!
War is profit and profit is war.
We'll know when we get there.
We'll find mercy....
What's that line supposed to mean? We'll know when we get where? Mercy from who? What's that got to do with war?
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Miles Davis - Concierto De Aranjuez
(Mar 26, 2007 - 11:55) | Apparently Miles himself was bored with the record and in his bio said he never listened to it after it was recorded.
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