The Barr Brothers - Old Mythologies
(Oct 13, 2012 - 23:20) | I'm so happy these guys are getting some play. I've seen them in tiny clubs with less than 20 in the audience. Love 'em!
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Rolling Stones - Heaven
(Oct 01, 2012 - 19:27) | Funny....I remember really disliking this song when the album came out (only track on the album I didn't like)....now I'm loving it. Tastes change.
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Norah Jones - Say Goodbye
(Sep 27, 2012 - 19:32) | I was gonna give this a 7...but I bumped it up to 8 because she looks so hot on the cover. Very good album.
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David Bowie - Seven (live)
(Sep 07, 2012 - 07:30) | I'm secure enough in my masculinity to admit this....
I'm completely heterosexual, except for an unhealthy fixation on David Bowie
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John Prine - Paradise
(Jun 29, 2012 - 05:42) | Who is rating this with ones and twos? What is wrong with you??
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James McMurtry - Choctaw Bingo
(Jun 27, 2012 - 13:38) | I agree with this article. This song should be the national anthem. Kids would learn all the words in school. Might slow up sporting events, but man, it'd be worth it.
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Madness - One Step Beyond
(Jun 20, 2012 - 15:18) | I was just reading their Wiki page. Came across this—
Madness then announced plans for a reunion concert, Madstock!, which was held at Finsbury Park, London on 8 and 9 August of that year. The original lineup reunited, performing together for the first time since Barson left the band in 1984. Over 75,000 fans attended the weekend festival, and the dancing of the boisterous crowd seemingly caused an extraordinary event of ground-shaking proportions (during "One Step Beyond", according to the legends). As seismologist Alice Walker told the 1999 BBC documentary Young Guns Go For It:On the 8th of August 1992, the police phoned the British Geological Survey, and they said that people had been phoning in saying that there had been an earthquake in London. They had described some effects like heavy lorries passing outside. People were frightened. Tower blocks were being evacuated because people thought the tower block was going to fall down. It was an intensity of about five. When I told the police that I thought the cause of the disturbance was a Madness concert at Finsbury Park, they didn't believe me at first. I got a phone call the next night from the police who said exactly the same felt effects had occurred – and so they did believe me after all. So my reputation as a seismologist still remains intact!
According to the UK's Health Protection Agency: One of the most bizarre investigations conducted by BGS using its seismic network, was in connection with an earthquake reported to be felt strongly in North London in August 1992 when three blocks of flats (8-9-storeys) were evacuated following minor damage that included cracked windows and a cracked balcony. Our seismic network showed that there had not been an earthquake or an explosion, and we were able to deduce that the cause was resonance set up by dancers at a Madness rock concert in nearby Finsbury Park. The resonance frequency of such dancing, in harmony, is tuned to the natural frequency of apartment blocks of this height, so that the movement is amplified.
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Patty Griffin - Goodbye (live)
(Jun 19, 2012 - 10:44) | Funny how a song can make you so emotional. Reading the posts, I can see I'm not the only one that gets choked up by this one.
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Roxy Music - Love is the Drug
(Jun 14, 2012 - 14:30) | 
"If I had to choose between the two Brians, and I really would hate to do so. I would have to err on the side of Eno."
Tony Reason
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David Bowie - Wild Is The Wind
(Jun 01, 2012 - 11:18) | I just looked at the ratings distribution on this song. Votes are all across the map. It's either the greatest song ever, the worst song ever, or...meh. I'm in the first camp...it's a great song.
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Talking Heads - Air (Live)
(May 31, 2012 - 08:51) | Last night I saw David Byrne's concert film Ride, Rise, Roar. Live concert film with very cool dancers. This song in particular was really nifty. The dancers were basically dancing with Strats. Playing "Air" guitar I guess. It's on Netflix streaming and well worth a watch.
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Depeche Mode - In Sympathy
(May 24, 2012 - 12:59) | Dr. Girlfriend: Sweetie, isn't that the guy from Depeche Mode?
The Monarch: Oh, no way! Where? Holy crap, he's with a girl?
Dr. Girlfriend: Oh yeah, that guy is totally straight. I saw a whole thing about him on the VH-1.
The Monarch: But he's the guy from Depeche Mode! It's impossible.
Dr. Girlfriend: Straight.
The Monarch: Come on! He's in Depeche Mode!
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Talking Heads - Life During Wartime (Live)
(May 15, 2012 - 10:15) | Going to see Start Making Sense...a TH tribute band on Friday May 18th at Jillian's in Albany. Seen them a couple of times before, they're amazing!
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World Party - Is It Like Today?
(Apr 08, 2012 - 11:21) | Favorite World Party memory. My wife and I always dug these guys so when they played nearby SPAC we went up early and hung out in the park and had a lovely picnic on a beautiful summer day. While there the band soundchecked and we could hear 'em clear as day from the park. They played an earth shaking version of Day in the Life! Very cool to hear. Oddly they didn't touch it during the actual show but wow!
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Beck - Jack-Ass
(Mar 24, 2012 - 10:53) | scrubbrush wrote:It's probably already been posted here somewhere, but did everyone already know that the music for this song is sampled from the cover of "It's All Over Now Baby Blue" by "Them"? check into it. it's also a good song.
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David Bowie - Station To Station
(Mar 24, 2012 - 09:22) | mmoyer wrote: There is an amazing, amazing live version of this song on the Sound + Vision box set.
Which I used to have, the original 1989 release on clear audiofile clear vinyl...ach I wish I still had that. Beat me to it....I was just gonna mention that live version. Love it!
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Suzanne Vega - Cassidy
(Mar 06, 2012 - 11:24) | Really nice version. My wife & I met Cassidy...she was very kind.
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Florence + The Machine - No Light, No Light
(Feb 29, 2012 - 10:02) | They were on Austin City Limits the other night. I had never seen what the band looked like, only heard them (mostly here). I predicted barefoot twirling....and I was right!
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Dave Matthews Band - Lying In The Hands Of God
(Feb 26, 2012 - 09:59) | Nibbler - "You are the last hope of the universe!"
Fry - "You mean I really am important? How I feel when I'm drunk is correct??"
Nibbler - "Yes...except, the Dave Matthews Band doesn't rock."
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Talking Heads - Air (Live)
(Feb 02, 2012 - 11:09) | I saw , I swear to God, a Talking Heads tribute band last weekend. They're called Start Making Sense and they are really, really good.
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Fleetwood Mac - Sara
(Jan 10, 2012 - 03:27) | I was just reading about The Night of a Thousand Stevies!
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Arcade Fire - Speaking in Tongues (w/ David Byrne)
(Dec 29, 2011 - 23:49) | I really dig this. Probably deserves a little better rating. Speaking of David Byrne (though not in tongues)...there is, I swear to God, a Talking Heads cover band. And they're really, really fun live. They're called Start Making Sense and I'm gonna see them again in a few weeks.
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John Lennon - #9 Dream
(Dec 16, 2011 - 13:12) | I've never been that big of a Beatles/Lennon fan. Weird, I know. They're great and all, I just never seemed to dig 'em as much as the rest of the planet seems to. However, this song is just lovely.
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Fairport Convention - Who Knows Where the Time Goes
(Dec 16, 2011 - 10:37) | I went to a Richard Thompson concert recently. He performed one of Sandy's old Fairport songs and said something I totally agreed with. He said that he wished that Sandy's music would be rediscovered much like Nick Drake's music had. That would be nice.
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Rubyhorse - Long Time Coming
(Dec 15, 2011 - 12:11) | ditty wrote: Thought at first this was crowded house, glad it isn't. Like it alot.
Yeah me too (though I like Crowded House). This is nice.
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Cults - Go Outside
(Dec 05, 2011 - 10:53) | meh. Better than a sharp stick in the eye...but not much.
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Beth Orton - Central Reservation
(Dec 02, 2011 - 11:19) | For the last year or so, Beth Orton has been at the very top of my music diet. Can't get enough of this woman's voice. I wanna curl up inside her voice and stay there. So tasteful, so beautiful. Wouldn't have heard of her without RP.
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Fleetwood Mac - The Chain
(Nov 30, 2011 - 21:57) | Naboo! NABOO!
What?!
Were you in a shamanic trance?
No...just listening to Fleetwood Mac...
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Phish - Chalkdust Torture
(Oct 21, 2011 - 09:40) | Brush with greatness....
Nector once made me gravy fries! MMMMMMmmmmm....gravy fries!
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The Cure - Pictures of You
(Apr 16, 2011 - 12:07) | I was listening to some Cure on my walk today. An earlier track "Strange Day". Thought it was cool how Robert just owns that style of music. Goth juice...made from the tears of Robert Smith.
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U2 - New Year's Day
(Feb 01, 2011 - 21:07) | Johnny-smooth wrote: Here in Boston commercial radio plays either Zeppelin or U2 inter-changeably. The last place I want to hear them, ever, is here on RP. Please Bill, keep us challenged and our ears rich with the sounds & music rarely heard.
I understand what you're saying. Still...this is a damn powerful piece of music.
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Ludovico Einaudi - Primavera
(Jan 19, 2011 - 09:43) | Marty DiBergi: It's very nice.
Nigel Tufnel: You know, just simple lines intertwining, you know, very much like - I'm really influenced by Mozart and Bach, and it's sort of in between those, really. It's like a Mach piece, really. It's sort of...
Marty DiBergi: What do you call this?
Nigel Tufnel: Well, this piece is called "Lick My Love Pump".
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Hoodoo Gurus - Tojo
(Jan 13, 2011 - 11:22) | Hurray for Mozart! I had never heard this before but got caught up in the lyric first listen. Didn't quite get them til Bill mentioned your post.
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Tom Petty - American Girl
(Nov 13, 2010 - 10:54) | I was at a Tom Petty show one time and my wife was working at the venue. She worked for the box office and had a desk on the concourse where she would answer questions and help people with problems with their tickets or their seats. I had seen Tom a bunch of times by then so I spent most of the show hanging out with her. Early in the show a woman came to the desk. She was in her 40s and was bawling her eyes out. "I can't see Tom Petty from my seat!!" I told her I had seen Tom up close and she was better off just listening.
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The Guess Who - Shakin' All Over
(Sep 23, 2010 - 10:28) | Just Wiki'd this song. Did you know AC/DC says the main riff of "Back in Black" was influenced by this song? I didn't.
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Chris Isaak - Go Walking Down There
(Sep 01, 2010 - 12:00) | I was just thinking, Chris Isaak isn't music that I would normally seek out. I gotta admit, he's got some very good songs. Nice voice, great emotion. (Apparently, he's had some troubles with his old lady). That's why I listen to RP. Get exposed to good stuff that I usually don't hear.
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Dave Matthews Band - Lying In The Hands Of God
(Jun 16, 2010 - 09:35) | MojoJojo wrote:I am always reminded of the time I was offered tickets to a DMB concert by a friend. He said he had two tickets he wasn't going to use. It was a double-date kinda thing. After the concert, he told me I could give him the money for my two tickets any time - no hurry. I had the impression that the tickets were gratis, but apparently he had other ideas. I was shocked at how much the tickets cost. No way I would have gone had I understood the required outlay of cash. A very Sienfeldian experience overall.
I've been on the other side of that, and felt pretty stupid for not spelling it out right off the bat. Now if I offer somebody an extra ticket, I always make it plain that I gotta get the cash I laid out for it first. Speaking of which, I got two extras for Phish on Saturday. But I need $50 per.
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Phish - Birds of a Feather
(Jun 12, 2010 - 08:32) | Friday Night, June 11, 2010
Toyota Park
71st & Harlem Avenue
Chicago, IL, United States
Set One
1. Down With Disease
2. Wolfman's Brother
3. Possum
4. Boogie On Reggae Woman
5. Reba
6. Jesus Just Left Chicago
7. The Divided Sky
8. Golgi Apparatus
9. David Bowie
Set Two
1. Light
2. Maze
3. Ghost
4. Limb By Limb
5. Prince Caspian
6. Horse
7. Silent in the Morning
8. Run Like An Antelope
9. Show of Life (debut)
Encore
1. Cavern
2. Julius
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Santana - Guajira
(Jun 11, 2010 - 22:02) | This is head & shoulders my favorite Carlos song. Dig this one.
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Los Lobos - Kiko and the Lavender Moon
(Jun 09, 2010 - 12:56) | Weird. I've been listening for the last few hours and this song has been floating around the back of my head. Now it's here. Get out of my head Bill!
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Wilco - Red-Eyed and Blue
(Jun 08, 2010 - 07:50) | Great song. Until the whistling at the end. Don't whistle on good songs please. Kazoos too. Just doesn't sound good.
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Leo Kottke & Mike Gordon - Living In The Country
(Jun 08, 2010 - 07:45) | Panama_Floyd wrote:Great song, but I wonder how much of a bribe I need to get Bill to finally add the version of "Twice" on this record.. 
Damn skippy! Yeah, Twice is gorgeous.
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Galactic - Bongo Joe
(Jun 08, 2010 - 06:36) | Gonna see Galactic for the first time at the Gathering of the Vibes next month. Can't wait.
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The Who - Magic Bus
(Jun 03, 2010 - 10:34) | Listen to the fadeout of this. You can hear Pete say "I SAW YA!" Keith Moon was trying all day to disrupt the backing vocal session, so they tied him to a chair in the control booth. He wriggled himself out of it just as they were finishing it and he jumped up right at the end.
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The Kinks - Come Dancing
(May 28, 2010 - 11:11) | Awww. This song just made me sad. Last night I went to see Billy Kreutzman & The Seven Walkers @ Revolution Hall in Troy, NY. The place is closing next month. It's my favorite venue in the world. Had such a great time last night. This song reminds me of all we're gonna miss. *sniff
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Los Lobos - Bertha
(May 19, 2010 - 22:20) | Likin' the string of GD covers. This one's got something special. I heard these guys cover Cinnamon Girl live once. Pretty cool. Hell, Los Lobos could cover a Vanilla Ice song and it would still sound pretty cool.
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Harvey Mandel - Wade In The Water
(May 11, 2010 - 12:48) | This has never happened before, and I wish I were kidding or overstating it. This song literally made me throw up. I'm a little hungover and was nauseous before I started listening, but there it is. A song I don't like made me hurl. Feeling better now, but I might have a bug coming on.
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Prince - Kiss
(May 08, 2010 - 23:46) | Seriously, great mix. Ain't no particular sign I'm more compatible with. Good tunes good times up in this joint.
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Elvis Costello - Watching The Detectives
(May 04, 2010 - 21:50) | fredriley wrote: "red dogs under eagle eggs"?? Not the first mondegreen I've suffered with Declan McManus' work.
No, it's "Red dogs under illegal legs." Her shoes are red.
Cellophane wrapped, so correct
Red dogs under illegal legs
She looks so good that he gets down and begs.
She's dressed really hot and looks really good. See.
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New Order - Temptation
(May 02, 2010 - 08:34) | Always liked this song. Sounds like they replaced their guitar strings with rubber bands. The rest of this soundtrack is fantastic.
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Al Green - Take Me To The River
(Apr 27, 2010 - 18:25) | Never noticed the dedication at the beginning, to the redundantly named Little Junior Parker. Nice Al!
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Eels - A Line In the Dirt
(Apr 22, 2010 - 09:36) | I like the Eels. I just spent the last few minutes trying to figure out if the band name came from the Mighty Boosh episode. For the record, the band name predates the episode (sadly...it would have been cool if that was where it came from).
They should totally cover the song though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JoxISdBzmY
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Grateful Dead - Bertha
(Mar 30, 2010 - 10:42) | I wanted to name my daughter Bertha. Wife wouldn't go for it. Had to settle for Shannon (from Jack Straw).
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The Decemberists - The Crane Wife 3
(Mar 20, 2010 - 18:27) | Oh Mrs Crane...you little monkey woman. You're lean, mean, and not too far in between. How'd you like to wrap your spikes around my...
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Metric - Collect Call
(Mar 17, 2010 - 09:23) | On_The_Beach wrote:
I like this video. Catchy. It made me think of Phish's rotation jams (except they do it live).
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Roxy Music - Avalon
(Mar 16, 2010 - 00:47) | But what news of my best friend?
Jahooli...the leopard
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Van Morrison - Tupelo Honey
(Jan 21, 2010 - 22:22) | Props to Bill for the very nice tunes tonite. The Muddy....the Neco. "Today" worked. Then this? Ladling out the golden yummies.
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Youngbloods - Get Together
(Dec 31, 2009 - 13:57) | WonderLizard wrote:
You have a whole decade as your birth year?! Dude—awesome.
lol...must've been a tough birth.
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Muse - Undisclosed Desires
(Dec 30, 2009 - 13:00) | Felix_The_Cat wrote: So far, the best song I found from Muse, no whining 'n moaning here. Depechish but well done...
Yeah...I was hearing the Depeche too. Good tune.
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Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone
(Dec 30, 2009 - 12:53) | redstorm wrote: This is the song that for so many people started it all. The place where The Stones got the name for one of the seminal bands in Rock n' Roll, and the band that so many used as inspiration for the anger and pathos of Rock. The taking of the introspective sadness of the blues, and infused it with the righteous anger, and frustration of "Satisfaction"....and created a new genre.
That's great...but the Stones took their name from the Muddy Waters song.
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Sigur Rós - Untitled Track 4
(Dec 30, 2009 - 10:54) | westslope wrote:Gorgeous. Please give me the shopping CD guide to Sigur Rós' earlier material. I have the latest. What should I buy next?
If you haven't heard Takk... I'd go with that.
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Coldplay - White Shadows
(Dec 21, 2009 - 08:05) | cattail321 wrote: Like they put U2 and Cracker,with a pinch of Pick Floyd In a blender and Yummmmm!!!!!!!
Did you mean Pink Freud?
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Eels - Rags To Rags
(Dec 19, 2009 - 10:18) | Eels Eels Eels Eels Eels Eels
Eels up inside ya
Finding an entrance where they can
Eels Eels Eels Eels Eels Eels
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Iron & Wine - Jezebel
(Dec 12, 2009 - 12:13) | Hippostar wrote: "Say 'Jezebel' one more time. I dare you!"
lol...that's great
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Cat Stevens - On The Road To Find Out
(Dec 12, 2009 - 11:57) | helgigermany wrote:
I totally agree! Why must we always go to the political or theological problems? Why cannot just hear a song and say. thats nice , or not!?
The artist himself brought politics and theology into the equation when he said "He must be killed. The Qur'an makes it clear - if someone defames the prophet, then he must die." Sorry, but if you want to kill people for writing a book you don't like...you're nobody to me. Please Bill, don't play this guy's music anymore.
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Cat Stevens - On The Road To Find Out
(Dec 12, 2009 - 11:46) | I boycott this. Haven't listened to Stevens since he supported the fatwa against Salmon Rushde. I'll turn it back on when the song is over.
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John Mellencamp - Human Wheels
(Dec 11, 2009 - 10:54) | DaveInVA wrote: This is the only John Mellon-Head song I actually like,,,,Was fun seeing someone bean him with a beer bottle at a concert in AZ though :)
I don't like Mellonball either. I had to suffer through a set of his this summer (he was playing with Dylan & Willie Nelson). Blecch. I wouldn't throw anything at him though. And I gotta admit, this song ain't bad.
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The Band - This Wheel's On Fire
(Dec 11, 2009 - 10:47) | I was listening to a Danko club show last night. I miss him something fierce. He used to play a lot of club shows around here when I first moved to Albany and I got to meet him a few times. Very nice, sunny guy, you know. Just loved to play live...and I loved hearing him play live. I just miss him...a lot.
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Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes (live in Athens 1988)
(Dec 07, 2009 - 10:37) | lattalo wrote: As I look to see who is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, I don't see Peter Gabriel.
He should definitely be in there, for the Album So alone, not to mention all the rest
of his catalog.
Gabriel ain't in the hall? Wow. Is Genesis?
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Grateful Dead - Truckin'
(Dec 05, 2009 - 21:53) | Much as I love hearing this wonderful song, I wish RP would play a mind-effing 25 minute live version from the early 70's.
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Bruce Hornsby - Circus on the Moon
(Nov 22, 2009 - 11:11) | You know, when this song started, I said "I bet there's a big, complicated piano solo in here somewhere." And here it is.
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The Orb - Toxygene
(Nov 21, 2009 - 10:13) | Don't kill me or anything, but I know where The Orb is!
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The Clash - Police and Thieves
(Nov 18, 2009 - 10:21) | iscoot4peace wrote: How about adding the Junior Murvin original? It's awesome.
Yeah...I've heard that recently. It's great.
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Talking Heads - And She Was
(Nov 14, 2009 - 09:12) | I heard a Byrne solo show where he introduced this song as being about a girl he knew in Baltimore. She would drop acid and lay in a field outside of the local YooHoo bottling plant staring at the clouds.
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Sigur Rós - Untitled Track 4
(Nov 13, 2009 - 02:07) | nate917 wrote: Soporific, maybe, but dreamy and beautiful. Makes me glad I don't speak Icelandic. They might be singing about taking the garbage out or flat tires or something, and it would ruin it for me.
This song is not in Icelandic. It's Hopelandic (or Vonlenska as it would be called in Iceland). Yep, they made up their own language to make this music. Pretty cool eh?
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Radiohead - These Are My Twisted Words
(Nov 13, 2009 - 00:20) | It's been said Radiohead is an acquired taste...but it's deeper than that for me. The individual songs and albums always take a few listens to sink in for me. I'm a huge fan of this band but there's always a lag from when I hear new material and when I start digging it. Once I get it, then I'm totally hooked. I haven't sussed this song out yet, but gimme a couple weeks. I'm still working on In Rainbows...Bodysnatchers is such a great great song.
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Skeletons
(Nov 13, 2009 - 00:07) | Carl wrote: So, if you squish an egg in your hand, the yoke will squirt one way and the white another?
...sounds like my honeymoon
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Grateful Dead - Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo
(Nov 10, 2009 - 12:14) | You always hear about how the Dead's studio stuff pales in comparison to their live stuff. And to a certain extent, that's true. But that said, this is a really nice track. I like the fiddle.
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Pink Floyd - Fat Old Sun
(Nov 10, 2009 - 10:17) | peter_james_bond wrote: I agree, it should end, with all the tired old jokes. It's not like this thread has been outstanding in the field of commentary.
This thread is really milking the cow jokes.
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The Beatles - Your Mother Should Know
(Nov 09, 2009 - 11:31) | ghcollins86 wrote: How could someone rate this a 2 or a 3????
Obviously, the Beatles were a mighty band with many, many great songs. They lose me on the cutesy Paul stuff like this. Too fluffy, too catchy. I like their more substantial songs (the more John or George centered stuff). I know I'm in the minority.
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Norah Jones - Sinkin' Soon
(Nov 05, 2009 - 11:16) | Tips for reducing your annoyance:
lol ... that's great
Yeah I was hearing Waits there too.
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The Moody Blues - Tuesday Afternoon
(Nov 05, 2009 - 09:15) | lol...this is how dumb I am. for a second i was like "oh shit! it's Tuesday! I gotta work!" Ok it's thursday. Sorry I just woke up.
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Pearl Jam - You Are
(Nov 05, 2009 - 09:12) | michaelgmitchell wrote: That was tasty. First listen.
Yeah same here. Never cared much for Pearl Jam before I started to listen to RP. Bill finally talked me into them.
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Iggy Pop - The Passenger
(Nov 01, 2009 - 05:37) | Last time Iggy was a passenger in my car he stole all the pennies out of the ashtray.
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Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through the Grapevine
(Oct 31, 2009 - 11:08) | keller1 wrote:
My wife was telling me recently that she would listen to her transistor radio in bed late at night and remembers listening to stuff like this. In particular, she remembered, of all things, Sally Go Round The Roses by (I think) the Jaynettes.
To one of the earlier commenters: yeah, radio really did used to be that good.
Times have changed, my friends. This is how we all ended up at RP.
That song (Sally Go Round The Roses) disturbs me somehow. I find it creepy. Hard to say why.
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Warren Zevon - Werewolves Of London
(Oct 30, 2009 - 17:46) | ch83575 wrote: I am a photographer, and shoot some weddings. When I hear those intro notes I am always terrified it is Kid Rock. Thankfully here on RP it never is. If you haven't heard the song I am thinking of, go to a wedding reception next summer.
I cant get enough Zevon BTW.
I feel ya. That Kid Rock crap puts a hurt on my ear balls.
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Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear The Reaper
(Oct 30, 2009 - 17:41) | js5280 wrote: Hmmm, does anyone else see Howard Stern, Baba Booey, and Artie Lang on this cover? (Right 3 persons) Almost seems too much a coincidence...
OK, that is weird. BABA BOOEY!
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Edgar Winter - Frankenstein
(Oct 30, 2009 - 17:39) | Adventures in rock & roll — My wife & I went to Phish's Clifford Ball (their first huge ass festival) in 1995. While we were setting up our tent, Mike Gordon (Phish's amazing bass player) zoomed by us in a golf cart just about rolling over my foot. He got a bit past us and I yelled "Hey Mike!" He turned around and I yelled "FRANKENSTEIN!" and gave him devil horns. He chuckled at me and went on. Encore that night — Frankenstein! Thanks Mike!
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Rush - The Enemy Within
(Oct 30, 2009 - 01:10) | You know, I always thought Rush was fine & dandy...it's just...well, I think we all know some people a little too into this band. Sometimes they sound a little dated to me. Very eighties.
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Fairport Convention - Come All Ye
(Oct 28, 2009 - 12:23) | Last time I went to a Richard Thompson concert, during his patter he talked about Nick Drake's posthumous success and how he hoped that Sandy Denny's music would get rediscovered.
I concur.
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Bruce Springsteen - Backstreets
(Oct 28, 2009 - 09:57) | suebee3 wrote: I tried to enjoy it...I really, really did. A little much at the end - someone needs to stop him from skipping.
Yeah...it just goes on and on and on. I usually like Bruce...just not this one.
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Dire Straits - Ride Across The River
(Oct 27, 2009 - 12:42) | Naboo: This is Liquid Music.
Howard Moon: Whats in it?
Naboo: The tears of Mozart...
Naboo: ...mixed with the urine of Mark Knopfler.
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The Clash - Train In Vain
(Oct 23, 2009 - 09:20) | I miss Joe. I saw him last night on Later w/Jools. Man was a force of nature.
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Ray LaMontagne - Empty
(Oct 22, 2009 - 11:53) | Song has really grown on me since I started listening to RP. The cello really makes it.
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Led Zeppelin - Nobody's Fault But Mine
(Oct 22, 2009 - 07:24) | tompoll wrote: Can drums be hit harder than this? Awesome indeed...
Yeah. I was wondering if he was playing with Louisville Sluggers. Great track.
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Bruce Cockburn - Night Train
(Oct 22, 2009 - 07:15) | That's Rob Wasserman on bass. I'm glad Cockburn is getting more play on RP. Always welcome.
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Los Incas - El Cóndor Pasa
(Oct 21, 2009 - 07:05) | Very strange coincidence. My buddy Pat was over just last night playing Madden w/me. We were listening to music as we played and talking about Paul Simon for some reason. He said he thought someone should cover El Condor Pasa. What are the odds?
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The Lash - The Lucky One
(Oct 21, 2009 - 06:11) | heh.... I was gonna go with "Hearts! Moons! Clovers!" SpongeBob works too.
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Muse - Uprising
(Oct 17, 2009 - 09:30) | Who are 'they'?
Yeah it does sound like the Doctor Who theme.
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Cracker - Darling One
(Oct 14, 2009 - 08:38) | Drinking coffee, losing at computer scrabble, drifting through Bill's odd & wonderful song selections. Nice way to spend a morning.
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The Police - Walking On The Moon
(Oct 14, 2009 - 08:14) | Yesterday I was listening to this: http://www.archive.org/details/umelt2009-09-19.main.km184.flac16
The mighty U-Melt dropped the entire Sychronicity album in the middle of their set at a festy. Pretty neat. I'm seeing them in Albany Halloween.
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Talking Heads - Burning Down The House
(Oct 08, 2009 - 10:40) | Phish once played at the Vernon Downs racetrack in central NY. They encored with Vernon Down The House.
It was pretty funny at the time...I was toasted by the encore. Fun show.
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Phish - Sand
(Oct 07, 2009 - 13:56) | Camden this year featured an EPIC Sand...
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Bob Marley - Stir it Up
(Oct 04, 2009 - 08:28) | Favorite version (besides this)....DREAD ZEPPELIN!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lwF8VLrIyc
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Prince - Kiss
(Sep 30, 2009 - 09:55) | ...and then he served us pancakes.
Yeah, pancakes.
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Silversun Pickups - Growing Old Is Getting Old
(Sep 15, 2009 - 13:50) | Impressive band. I like how they have their own sound. Nothing specific, you just know it's them.
They're also the first band that I got into through Guitar Hero. I was flailing away on my baby guitar thing and I said "Damn...this is a good song."
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Grateful Dead - Ripple
(Sep 07, 2009 - 10:12) | HarrO wrote: The chorus to this song is actually a very good japanese Haiku poem:
Ripple
In still water
Where there is no pebble tossed
No wind to blow
10
Miss you Jerry.
I didn't realize that. I think the lyrics of Crazy Fingers are made up of haikus as well.
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Joan Baez - Diamonds and Rust
(Sep 05, 2009 - 10:48) | FerrariF1Fan wrote: JUDAS PRIEST STILL DOES IT BETTER THAN ANYONE!
Wow...really? LOL! Did Halford's boyfriend make him learn it?
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Joan Baez - Diamonds and Rust
(Sep 05, 2009 - 10:46) | I had a girlfriend long ago. She made me learn this on guitar so she could sing it with me...
*shudders
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Johnny Cash - Hurt
(Sep 02, 2009 - 07:49) | I read somewhere Rubin wanted Johnny to cover Radiohead's Creep for this album, but Johnny balked (didn't want to use the F word, I guess). You can imagine what it would have sounded like, "I'm a creep....I'm a weirdo..."
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Bob Marley - No Woman, No Cry
(Aug 27, 2009 - 14:28) | HokieRider wrote: Awesome set going today.
Bob Marley- No Woman, No Cry
Van Morrison- These Dreams Of You
The Derek Trucks Band- This Sky
Ben Harper- Number With No Name
Bill, you're making it hard to focus on work!!! I just want to go play in the sunshine!
What he said!
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Grateful Dead - Jack-A-Roe
(Aug 27, 2009 - 14:26) | lewie221 wrote: I never understood why the Hells Angels were so into the Grateful Dead. Seems like an odd fit: seriously heavy dudes in leather vs. kinda lightweight folk-rock.
Can someone who was there explain it to someone that wasn't?
I wasn't there. But the Angels started showing up to Kesey's parties in La Honda. From a summary of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test...
"In the summer of 1965, the Pranksters decide to invite the Hell's Angels, a notorious gang, to join them for a party in La Honda. Wolfe explains how Kesey met one of the leaders of the Angels through Hunter Thompson, a writer and journalist who was doing a story on the Pranksters for a national magazine. Kesey immediately hits it off with the Angels, and they all plan for a big party at Kesey's place. The Angles come roaring into La Honda on their motorcycles and are greeted by a huge sign welcoming them. According to Wolfe, the Pranksters and the Angels have a lot in common because they are all outlaws, and "the Angels had done it like the Pranksters, by choice. They had become outlaws first - to explore...and then got busted for it."
The Pranksters have their entire setup going: speakers and stereos are blasting from the trees, everything is painted in Day-Glo, and all of the Pranksters are decked out in costumes. When the Angels arrive, they have no idea what to expect, and are prepared for a fight. But when the Pranksters give the Angels LSD, they begin to have "the most wondrous experience." Sandy begins making up songs for the Angels and singing them loudly through the giant stereo that is set up, songs that go "Oh, but it's great to be an Angel, / And be dirty all the time!" It's a song that normally would offend the Angels to the point of fighting, but the craziness of it all - including Allen Ginsburg dancing and chanting the Hare Krishna - stupefies the Angels, and they simply take it all in and go with the flow. The cops stand at a distance and watch the party unfold, but except for public nudity, the Pranksters aren't breaking any laws they can see, so they can't arrest anyone. The figure the best policy is simply containment." There's a lot of history there from very early. Been my experience that Angels & bikers in general are great to party with. Treat 'em with respect. I often saw bikers at shows and never saw bad behavior. The Hells Angels motto is "When we do right, no one remembers. When we do wrong, no one forgets"
Oh...and the Dead were never light-weights. They blew my freakin' doors off.
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Grateful Dead - Jack-A-Roe
(Aug 27, 2009 - 12:43) | I was thinking of this song just last night. Watching Willie Shakes' Twelfth Night. "If music be the food of love, then play on. Give me excess of it."
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Neil Young - A Man Needs a Maid
(May 09, 2009 - 22:25) | The production is just dandy. Big and dramatic. But I almost don't notice it cuz I love the lyric and the way Neil sings it so much.
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King Crimson - One Time
(May 09, 2009 - 22:16) | I dug this album...a lot. Saw the Crim in NYC that tour. Incredible. Not long after that I saw Fripp, Belew, and Levin at Valentines in Albany (some sort of Crim side project...think it was called Project X or something). Still can't believe I got to hear Robert Fripp in that tiny club!
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Los Lobos - Kiko and the Lavender Moon
(Feb 20, 2009 - 20:24) | I've been a big Los Lobos fan for a long time. Seen 'em live a bunch of times thu the years. Two summers ago I was really excited to see them at the Gathering of the Vibes fest with my family. My kids were gonna get to see this amazing band live for the first time! (They knew Kiko from Sesame Street...Elmo & The Lavender Moon.) At the show I was taking my girls, one at a time, to the front so they could see them up close. I found a nice spot up front behind a taper and put my 9 year old up on my shoulders. During Kiko, before I could stop it, Shannon leans her head into the taper's mike and starts saying "Hellloooooooo!...Hellooooooo!"
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Euphoria - Blue
(Feb 15, 2009 - 10:07) | This is a nice song. The production is a little too busy...too much going on. I'd like it more if it were a simpler arrangement.
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The Cure - The Love Cats
(Feb 03, 2009 - 12:58) | Last week's Theme Time Radio Hour with Bob Dylan had "Cats" as the theme. He didn't play this, but it was filler on my disk.
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Grateful Dead - Ripple
(Nov 17, 2008 - 09:35) | Everything in this song works. Vocals, sweet sweet guitar, bass, melody, drums...everything is perfect. The just-exactly-perfect brothers.
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Björk - Jóga
(Nov 08, 2008 - 09:18) | Powerful song. I love this whole album. And I liked the swan dress.
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Louis Prima - Jump, Jive, An' Wail
(Nov 04, 2008 - 12:56) | Dylan's Theme Time has turned me on to the great Louis Prima (and a zillion other artists). You can download episodes of Theme Time at http://www.croz.fm/pages/ttrh.html
Much recommended.
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R.E.M. - Driver 8
(Oct 25, 2008 - 11:10) | jksteacher wrote: Its a shame the first seven takes of this song didn't work out.
heh
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Jesus Jones - Right Here, Right Now
(Oct 24, 2008 - 11:05) |  Jesus Jones! Now there was a band. Yippers, back in the summer of '91. We all thought they was going to be the future of rock and roll.
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Richard Thompson - 1985
(Sep 22, 2008 - 12:28) | mongoose01ca wrote: What the...
Did this need a cover? I kinda don't think so.
This project/tour/dvd is a music lesson from Richard. Songs from the years 1000 ad to 1999 ad. Bowling for Soup fell somewhere's in there.
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Leo Kottke & Mike Gordon - Living In The Country
(Sep 22, 2008 - 12:16) | Kottke has 15 fingers...on each hand. (Not really heh). If you've ever tried to finger pick...listening to this makes you wanna smash your guitar. Richard Thompson does that to me too.
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The Kinks - I'm Not Like Everybody Else (Live)
(Sep 08, 2008 - 12:32) | Wow that little Pretenders>Pretenders>Kinks run was nice. Chrissie & Ray were a couple (had a child together). I remember how sad it was Chrissie's guitarists ODed. I always reckoned that "Something Better" was written by Ray for Chrissie. Big fan of both bands.
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Björk - All Is Full Of Love
(Sep 06, 2008 - 11:40) | Gotta love Björk. (It's Alt+148, if you're wondering how to make those two little eyes over the 'o' ).
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Sigur Rós - Inní mér syngur vitleysingur
(Aug 16, 2008 - 10:27) | Excelsior wrote: If these jokers were singing in English, they would be laughed out of the studio.
But because they're singing half-Icelandic, half-made-up-Hopelandic, it's trendy to like them.
So remember kids, if you don't like them, you're "closed minded!"
Yes. How dare they sing in their own language! What bastards!
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Sigur Rós - Inní mér syngur vitleysingur
(Aug 16, 2008 - 10:15) | Here's the lyrics...
Inní Mér Syngur Vitleysingur
Á silfur-á
Lýsir allan heiminn og augun blá
Skera stjörnuhiminn
Ég óska mér og loka nú augunum
Já gerðu það, nú rætist saga
Ó nei
Á stjörnuhraða
Inni í hjarta springur, flugvélarbrak
Oní jörðu syngur
Ég óska mér og loka nú augunum
Já gerðu það, lágfara dans
Allt gleymist í smásmá stund og rætist samt
Opna augun
Ó nei
Minn besti vinur hverju sem dynur
Ég kyngi tári og anda hári
Illum látum, í faðmi grátum
Þegar að við hittumst
Þegar að við kyssumst
Varirnar brenndu, höldumst í hendur
Ég sé þig vakinn
Ég sé þig nakinn
Inní mér syngur vitleysingur
Alltaf þið vaða, við hlaupum hraðar
Allt verður smærra
Ég öskra hærra
Er er við aða, í burtu fara
Minn besti vinur hverju sem dynur
Illum látum, í faðmi grátum
Ég kyngi tári og anda hári
Þegar að við hittumst
Þegar að við kyssumst
Varirnar brenndu, höldumst í hendur
Ég sé þig vakinn
Ég sé þig nakinn
Inní mér syngur vitleysingur
Here's a translation of the lyrics. Pretty cool.
Inside me a lunatic sings
On a silver river
You illuminate the whole world and blue eyes
Cut the starry sky
I make a wish and close my eyes
Yes do that, now begins the story
Oh no
At lightspeed
Inside a heart explodes, an airplane crash
Down on the earth sings
I make a wish and close my eyes
Yes do that, a silly dance
All is forgotten in very little time and yet begins
Open eyes
Oh no
My best friend no matter whatever happens
I swallow tears and breathe hair
A bad break, we cry in each other arms
When we meet
When we kiss
The lips burning, we hold hands
I see you wake
I see you naked
Inside me a lunatic sings
Always rushing, we run quickly
Everything becomes smaller
I scream louder
I'm with a shell, going away
My best friend no matter whatever happens
A bad break, we cry in each others arms
I swallow tears and breathe hair
When we meet
When we kiss
The lips burning, we hold hands
I see you wake
I see you naked
Inside me a lunatic sings
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The Wallflowers - God Says Nothing Back
(Jul 28, 2008 - 13:22) | ThePoose wrote:
I'm gobsmacked: JD's singing voice is a ringer for Bruce Cockburn's.
This does sound like Cockburn. That is not a bad thing.
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Grateful Dead - Franklin's Tower
(Jul 20, 2008 - 17:24) | DoctorHooey wrote: Say what you will about the Dead, but they were kind people who loved music and their good energy seeps into everything they do. I love them because of the spirit and enjoyment in their music. Sometimes, especially in the dead of winter (heh, pun) I get so tired of brooding and angst that something like this feels like it's melting the snow away. Rock on, Jerry, in your endless jam with Jimi in the sky
*spins around room uncontrollably
you plant ice you gonna harvest dew
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Lucinda Williams - Can't Let Go
(Jul 20, 2008 - 17:04) | parrothead wrote: There's nothing worst than a drunk woman, pretty or not!!!!
Jeepus! Blasphamy!
Seriously though. Depends on the woman. Some women are really hard to be around when drunk...but some are divine.
I'd love to have a good drunk with Lucinda. Bet she's one of the latter.
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Joe Cocker - Cry Me a River
(Jul 12, 2008 - 10:25) | Grizzly_old_man wrote: When I was a much younger man I knew an equally young woman who though the sun rose and set on this artist.
She found out he was playing in Cedar Rapids Iowa one February day back in the early 70s. Promises were made {that are yet to be fulfilled} if only I would take her to see him. I sold my 66 Mustang notchback sedan to pay for the trip, get the tickets, and a motel room.
As we left beautiful northwest Wisconsin the weather started to worsen. By the time we got to Cedar Rapids it was a full fledged blizzard. I thought for sure the show would be cancelled. It was not. We went into the nearly empty civic center and listened to what ever local band they had open. They sucked. Eventually after the local talent had miserably played everything in their repertory Joe was helped to the stage.
You could tell he was under the influence of something. His band on stage all looked pretty well disgusted and for good reason.
He started out with She came in through the bathroom window made it part way through lost where he was started again then threw up and passed out in his own vomit right there in the middle of the stage.
His band left him there. There were many Boos. Some from his band.
Eventually someone helped him off stage.
The management came out and said there would be no refunds.
The local band came out again and started to play the same stuff they had already done and everyone left.
We got to our room and my date was very disappointed so naturally she decided to drink all the beer and booze we brought along. There were some other mind altering substances in her purse so she consumed them too.
After she passed out it wasnt much fun anymore so I just went to sleep in the other bed and left her alone. She would not have noticed or enjoyed my affections anyway.
It was well afternoon before she could do anything but mimic her idols most recent stage performance.
Eventually the motel manager called and told us that we either had to leave or pay for another day. I had to work the next day so we left.
Ever travel with a woman who has to stop and puke on every stop sign and telephone pole on a 300 mile trip?
Not a real good time.
I despise the man to this day.
Whenever I hear one of his 'songs' all I can think of is him blowing lunch all over the stage.
What a great story! Rock & Roll!
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Leo Kottke & Mike Gordon - Living In The Country
(Jul 11, 2008 - 01:42) | October 2004
Kottke/Gordon Burlington Higher Ground...
Had to go. Jumped in the car and went. Solo trip (companion bailed) just went. Really glad I did. Weird thing was, on the way back drove all the way thru Vermont and thru a major blizzard. SNOWED HARD all the way back. Harrowing. Made it back in one piece. Bought this disk at the show and listened to it the whole way back (esp Over the Dam). October, and it snowed all night.
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The Clash - Clampdown
(Jul 05, 2008 - 13:14) | Captain-Fishy wrote:
Hey, hey!
Ooh!
The kingdom is ransacked
the jewels all taken back
and the chopper descends
they're hidden in the back
with a message on a half-baked tape
with the spool going round
saying I'm back here in this place
and I could cry
and there's smoke you could click on
Thank you. I've always wondered that myself. Kick arse song eh?
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Pink Floyd - Mother
(Jul 02, 2008 - 22:40) | Say what you will about Oedipus...at least he loved his mother.
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The Police - Wrapped Around Your Finger
(Jun 06, 2008 - 12:06) | mjwstickings wrote:
The Blender list is amusing, but there's no way Sting deserves the top spot. He can be pretentious, yes, but hardly banal and pointless.
Yeah, he's not the worst. Hard not to groan when he mentions Scylla and Charibdes. It's like...ooh Sting! You're so well read!
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The Who - Love, Reign O'er Me
(Jun 06, 2008 - 04:26) | I saw the Who in Buffalo back in '81. It was an oppressively hot and humid late summer day. When they played this song a gentle rain started falling and cooled down the crowd. At the end of the song Pete said "Even the f-ing Rolling Bones couldn't of pulled that off!"
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Dolly Parton - Shine
(May 25, 2008 - 11:16) | Nice! What a talent. I wish she wasn't such a 'celebrity' and was just a musician.
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Radiohead - Let Down
(May 25, 2008 - 10:18) | Narty wrote: Has anyone heard the Easy Star All Stars version of this? It becomes almost happy.
I listened to that just now. I was thinking more bands should try to cover this song. You can almost hear Toots turning the lyrics over in his mind as he sing them. The Radiodread thing didn't work on all the songs of OK Computer. The only two tracks that really worked for me were this and Electioneering with Morgan Heritage. The rub-a-dub Electioneering is even better than Radiohead's version.
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Gipsy Kings - Recuerdo Apasionado
(May 25, 2008 - 08:46) | I saw these guys live one time. Great show. I remember there were about 50 acoustic guitars and an equal amount of leather pants on stage.
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Iron & Wine & Calexico - Dark Eyes
(May 20, 2008 - 23:36) | I remember buying "Empire Burlesque" and hearing it for the first time. I thought it SUCKED!!!!!!
Until the last track...
Epiphany. One of Bob's best song ever. Gorgeous...astounding song.
I remember being annoyed at having to buy and suffer through the rest of the album but hell, it's such an amazing song. Almost worth it.
Flash forward to 2008 and I hear this Calexico version. Very, very beautiful treatment of a worthy song. Be sure and check out the rest of the soundtrack album.
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Yes - And You And I
(May 02, 2008 - 19:50) | Wow. I'm really in the mood for this right now. Perfect.
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