What in incredibly well done and beautiful average song.

I generally like Peter Gabriel, but this song is pure SHYTE.

Very interesting album cover:  Knights Templar; The Kaiser; the dead Kennedy; Marilyn Monroe; Marx (the commie, not Groucho); the sweating man from Atomic Comics; King Kong, must be a message there someplace ....

Nice as ambiance.

It's a pure 10 for me. Love it. 

The Bland

you, sir, have a low threshold for sanity 

Liking Plant is akin to praising Microsoft.
Both are big corporate brand names.
Both satisfy, mostly.
Both fail to deliver their very best at all times.
It's not cool to go with the herd but it is safer on the wallet.

At last some Rock n'Roll....likin it.

Oy, intolerable.

Yikes,another redhead to send marriage proposals to.  Another mailbox full of restraining orders.       oh well.

i'm waiting for MY man...

I was in the middle of something else when this started, and I liked it because it was so compelling - and then I read who did it and thought, "Holy cow - THAT was Bruce Cockburn??? Well, geez..." Now I have to factor in a new dimension to his talent. This was really awesome, and I'd thought he couldn't produce more awesome. I have a LOT of listening to do.

I saw Santana while they were touring behind this album - back when musicians weren't surrounded by bodyguards and flacks and toadies of all sorts. Carlos was standing around before the show kicking it with the fans. One guy was saying he had the exact same set-up as Carlos (guitar, amp, even the same strings and picks) but he couldn't achieve that tone.

Santana just laughed and said: "Man, you don't have my fingers."

Over the years whenever I've had a student who wanted to get a certain tone or style, I'd tell them that story. Even in the age of electronics, there's still a human at the core of the sound. 

"The ruins are wild, tonight will be an open mike" - wtf? Nurse! My eardrops!

Thankyou. I was trying to place the voice. Vocal could be by Tricky.

Grandpa's music. Blech!

A little too close to "Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do" for comfort.

Sounds like an early Rap song.
Yo Yo Yo

Love this Dylan song, a great poet song. Not only a great poet, the greatest one. Comments?

I'm swimming against the current here, but I for one think this song rocks. 

Cool nuff.

I had to go to YouTube to see for myself. It still doesn't compute.

About time RP started playing some rock & role.

One of the strengths of RP is that they play "deep cuts", tracks off of albums that don't necessarily grab you at first listen, like most singles do, but are more sublime and grow on you over time to the point where you wonder how the track escaped your attention in the first place. It's one of the many things that makes RP such a special radio station and why I contribute monthly (or did until I lost my job).

Yay, finally a female singer! ;)

The prevailing sentiment here seems to be that this woman is attractive and therefore can't possibly be "authentic" or something.

What a bunch of horseshit.

I clearly do not get this.

10 bucks says this transitions into Calexico

Yep, great stuff. This album, The Joshua Tree & Achtung Baby were at the zenith of the U2 bell curve. Like most great bands (think the Stones, The Who, Dylan) they have those few years of incredible creativity and power and then start to wane. I saw the overblown spectacle that was their latest tour and this song was a reminder of how great they once were.

No. Those critiquing need to demonstrate their ability to critique, including their ability to understand music in the big picture sense, as well as the critiqued offering.

It's not right to generate this kind of rejoinder:

"I don't like this song."
"Then you're an idiot."

Instead of attacking the critic - especially in the face of a well-formed critique - the responder is obligated to create a defense of the song. That's how dialogue works, and we seem to have periodically forgotten that here.

I don't want to annoy by bumping my earlier post citing the NY Times Style Book.

Suffice it to say, better authorities than we agree that the plural construction used in this song is both correct and preferred.

Lovely vinyl.

My system is a very ordinary early 1970's MacIntosh tube pre-amp; equipped with the latest Svetlana tubes (Svetlana used to make amplifier tubes for Soviet Army Radar Jammers now turns out sublime hand made tubes for audiophiles).  Amplifier is a Sansui 5000, equipped with same type tubes.  All cables are #10 guage solid copper wires threaded individually via emt conduit to 18kt gold connectors.

Turn table is a Technics from 1968, same type I had in Vietnam which was accidentally shot when my hootch-mate Carl "Reefer" Riffenberg let off an accidental 12 gauge flechette round.   The rest, the usual most expensive stuff I can buy.  Being filty rich does have it's benefits.

Except:

My Hearing is so far gone now that I can only close my eyes and dream of what it must sound like.

Believe me when I tell you that no number of Veteran's Administration $4,000 each digital hearing aids wil ever make up for my 17-year old ear drums lost.  Too many years of drumming and too many times on the rifle range or in the jungle.

Word to the young and unwise reading this .. protect your hearing more fervently than you protect your gonads.  You can always find a sperm donor but never new ears.

Dave

 Stefen wrote:Ellipsis is the dot dot dot mark indicating an ommision in a sentence, like ...
Ellipses is the plurl of ellipse, like an oval, or the plurl of ellipsis. 

Jesus - Tori Amos, Cream, Bjork. Ew. I am so outta here right now. I love RP, but somebody let me know when Bill spins some Patty Griffin, R.E.M. or Neko Case or something again...

What the hell happened to RP? It used to be so cool, now every time I tune in it's like a history lesson.....

Maybe for once, you just need to have your heart ripped open and your guts publicly stomped to really identify with this one?

Girls. Ponies. Saccharine. Cloying.

turning OFF the volume, until this is over..............

One of the most annoying things about RP is Bill's refusal to use this band's correct name. It is "The Beatles", not just "Beatles". Just look at the album cover, Bill!

brutal...outahere.

...Django Reinhardt?  Classic Early Paris 1937 has a ridiculously similar song. ??

excellent cover song, if so.

sick song generally.

Sorry, never liked the Stones. All their songs get a 1 from me.

I try to never rate a song I've never heard before higher than a 7. Just seems wrong.

8.

Bill, thanks for playing these guys. Really one of the great bands of the last long while.

Ac/Dc sucks? Fuck You.

This is a jam on Dr. John's "Walk On Guilded Splinters" from his seminal album Gris-Gris. One of the greatest albums of all time, wild Bayou voodoo psychedelia. If you don't have it, and it is still available (I think Rhino re-released it a number of years ago), definitely check it out.

WTG! I quit last October after some 40 years. I started mostly to look cool—and because everybody else did. Last year we lost my best friend's father and older brother, both to lung cancer. Neither of us smokes now.

Why do we keep listening to this creepy (for the last 20 years) band?

Now that's three crappy DJ Mixes you've played in row.  I thought your standards were higher than that.  I see another DJ mix coming on.  I guess it's time to find another station to listen to.  I've been a loyal listener for years now because you didn't play this shit.  I can't believe the arrogance of these DJ's to think that they can improve apon a class

Well Mr Fixit, 

Hard to read your comments & keep it together. Glad you made it through. And yet, here we are again. Hard to believe how little the big boys ever learn. ANd how quickly they forget.

"Coming in fast" seems to refer to the C123 and C130 aircraft which sprayed the shit at low levels. We usually saw them and pulled out our ponchos (rubberized rain cape) over us . unless, of course, there was somebody out there watching for us to pull the capes and then start their shit. The wop wop wop noise towards the end sounds like the unique sound of the UH1E Huey helicopter. That sound will give ANY Vietnam Vet flashbacks, to be sure. There's no equivalent all-encompassing fear, hate, loathing, terror, tragedy, delight, thankfulness, last living sound, to compare with the wop wop wop of the Huey. Sorry gang, I do go on. Suffice it to say that the lickspittle scum bureaucrats at the Veterans Administration have done their best to deny benefits to hundreds of thousands of us who were exposed and still have the after effects. Children, too, with various birth defects, spinal bifida and so forth. Damned if that song didn't get me cranked up ... Happy New Year Robert MacNamara and all of your little men, next time you can fight your OWN little war in Veetnam ....

Almost thirty years ago, and still great! :)

That's it. I'm outta here. This has been the worst set ever. "Radio Paradise Lost."