I don't know what everyone elses problem is with this joyous shift your arse kind of a song. Truelly energising!!

Dread Tentacles!

I LIKE THIS SONG!!!

Nice sound!

Every time I hear this, it brings back that memory - in living Nostalgiacolor.

I too felt I had to rail against the negative! This is nice stuff... I can't see why all the haters come out against this type of music on RP.
This is the kind of cool, different music I come to RP for.

Absolutely. This Mortal Coil is the only version for me.

I think the "dumb looking ski mask thing" on the cover is actually a picture of Subcomandante Marcos, leader/spokesperson of the Zapatista movement. I've enjoyed every track from this album played on RP, so it's off to the record store for me, and again big thanks to Bill & Becky for introducing this listener to yet another brill band. 8 from the Nottingham jury.

Bill, I know you mentioned this song isn't getting good feedback, but I quite like it. And even when I don't like the less mainstream music RP plays, I'm still glad you play it. Keeps things interesting.

 

Este tipo de comentarios racistas estaría bien que se los ahorraran...

I feel exactly the same way. I had always dismissed Pearl Jam as "heavy metal" and never bothered to listen to any of their music. I was pleasantly surprised when I heard the Into the Wild songs here on RP, so much that I purchased the CD. I have loved listening to it and have come to realize that Eddie Vedder is an amazing talent and that I have missed a great deal over the years.

Another new artist from RP! I like it...

Could this B any more repetitive?

Really good, love his lyrics....poetic genius....not at all boring.

Very nice to see Rick Wakeman here.

For the folks that think the nimble fingers detract from their enjoyment, try to step back a little bit and listen to the soundscape rather than the notes. Kinda like a waterfall. You enjoy the sound as a whole, even though if you try, you can hear the water crashing on this bolder here and that one there and into the pool below. So let the notes go and enjoy the flow and the mood and the movement of the piece.

I listen to RP so I don't have to hear this kind of music. . . .

oh well

I love the added "dusty vinyl record" static.

It reminds me of just how much that was a part of the old-school listening experience. I miss it.

Habib Koite's music is beautiful and meaningful in any language, and it's clear that any artist can sing in almost any language, as they don't need really know the language, but only sing the song, translate or write directly in the language they want, sing a song of another person etc. As I'd already read (I'm not a good english writer, I know), Habib's lyrics in native language talk about life, single but important things of life. It's enough, I think. So, when I heard this beautiful song, I really don't mind if it was in english or french, or spanish or portuguese (my language). I felt the feeling and the meaning, and this was enough.

Wow - are all the haters here? I love me some Franti - and throwing in Zap Mama just clinches it. At least a 7.

That's a bad attitude for RP, Jinxie. Once a good band, always a good band here.

yes. something for us rednecks too.

OMG! ~ want to stick forks in my ears !!!!!

>^..^<

OMG, what a SET, BillG. I love RP!

Me too

Initial reaction = cool!

If you want to hear this song done right, check the Moxy Fruvous' version.

Love Dar!!! .... More Dar on RP please.

I'm a huge TD fan, and this is one of his best albums.

What happened to Poe????? She dropped off the face of the planet. Makes me sad.

A good kind of madness.

Intriguing. Like to read the lyrics.

... she has become a damn good vocal stylist but her strong suit has allways been she is a amazing jazz piano player, been listening to her for years, do think the recording industry has pushed her into more commercial stuff

The more I hear it.....the more I LIKE it!

I hate to be a little grammar nerd, but is that *really* the title of the album?

Free your mind...

hallelujah - here she comes

This is just one of the songs where the Weird Al parody is better than the original.

Used to listen to the Sister Sweetly album driving between ABQ and PHX. Great long distance desert crossing music.

By all means, more Brazilian, please Bill or Rebecca! Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Juan Gilberto, the divine Baden Powell, the softness of Ana Caram...

Gotta agree. simply brilliant songwriting.

Like this song more every time I hear it. I wish the average rating were a little higher.

At first I thought I was just hearing an extended version of the previous song (Crowded House's "Four Seasons in One Day") Lovely, lovely song. And nice to hear the occasional instrumental on here.

Thought it was Brian Eno at first. It's different. I like different. Thats why I like RP. Thanks rp again and again and again...

i get chill bumps when i listen to this version. RIP.

As Adrien Belew once put it - imagine all those housewives doing their ironing and this comes on the radio.

THIS IS GREAT! I love it when RP mixes in world music— yay Bill!

thank you

nice - it was a good movie as well

Great song. These guys need to get back to basics and release some new and original like the first three albums.

Agree. Great Album.

Perhaps she wishes to appear corpse-like. She succeeded.
It's the bloodless lips that clinches it.

Great... Please give us lots more songs in languages other than English! No objection to songs sung in English, of course, but the proportion of 99% to 1% gets tiresome sooner or later. A proportion of 50% to 50% would be much more preferable (even though it would still be very unfair towards languages other than English).

And don't tell me to "go listen to a World Music radio station instead". I'm not in the least interested in "World Music". I dislike radio stations that are sorts of ghettos, specializing in one kind of music only; this is why I believe Radio Paradise is the best radio station of all: because it's unabashedly eclectic. All I'm interested in is good music, and it's more than obvious that 99% of the world's good music is not sung exclusively in English.

you can throw 20 DB tracks at us daily... thanx Bill

Isn't Tom supposed to come on at the end of this song and tell us to flip the record over?

Hi there, I'd like to talk to you about your Ducts

It's like musical porn: it's sick, but you can't look away...

it makes me shake my bootie! But, what is with the album cover?!

cool music, but I can do without the childish and cliche Kumbaya album cover.....

I love the beautifully upbeat, simple melody combined with the complex, but very expressive rhythms. Grabs me every time I hear it.

... somewhere, someone is having their little moment of paradise in the day.. and for me.. i hear this song starting and I start to feel a little calming mellow spot in the center of my chest ... and I then make the point of enjoying the moment because someday I'll have wished I could ...

Lovely

I was thinking Shawn Colvin with grace notes of Dar Williams

Great music to listen to while I work!

that voice blend of roy orbison and george harrison is to die for! contrasted against tom petty. whew! i'm having cognitive dissonnance!

in a good way.

This is in the same 'fusion' stable as Afro-Celt Sound System, a melange of world influences with a core of Celtic sounds. I can hear digeridoos and Middle Eastern and African rhythms in the background of this. 7 from the Nottingham jury, likely rising on further listening...

positivity, gotta love the message

Here's a sample of the lyrics: Men, what has gotten into us? How can you rape a child before she has matured? If it is desire, what kind of desire is this? Sad and unthinkable, but if it keeps at least one person from victimizing another, it should be a never ending loop.

Anyhow, it's something different, I suppose, trying to figure out what someone's trying to communicate after their text has been mangled by Babelfish (in my opinion a terrible, terrible disservice to the cute idea invented by Douglas Adams for his Hitchhikers books...)

You're kidding, right? brilliant is what it is ziggytrix wrote:

This entire album was sadly overlooked. Not as accessible as Diesel & Dust (although that's nearly a given), but certainly as rewarding a listen as Blue Sky Mining - lots of cool tracks.

It's too bad the Oils broke apart, but who knows? Maybe they'll reform at some point.

Díaz's lengthy chronicle is indeed highly readable. Another well-written and thoroughly researched account is William Prescott's History of the Conquest of Mexico (1843). For the Aztec side, read Miguel León-Portilla's book The Broken Spears. It has some minor translation problems (from Nahuatl to Spanish then into English), but you can get a good idea of how the Conquest was seen and felt from a native perspective. If you can get your hands on the Dibble & Anderson translation of book 12 of the Florentine Codex, you can see a transcription of a Nahuatl text regarding the Conquest, including illustrations drawn by native scribes, with an English translation.

Yet another great song from the 80's. Even though their music isn't always about upbeat things, the Furs generally make me feel happy.

volume.... goes.. UP! nice.

Much hate seems to be directed toward this song, but I can't figure out why. I really, really like it.

Groovy, man. Makes me want to sit on the porch with a glass of iced tea and my best dog.

Not a huge DM fan but do like this one, may need to go back and listen to somemore

sounds like Chris Issak with a stuffed up nose.

Wish he was still writing stuff like this.

you would sound ridiculous. like criticising jesus for not providing a vegetarian
meal at the feeding of the 5000....

Great Chris Smither tune interpreted nicely by Plant & Krauss. I've never heard the original. For some reason, I really like Shawn Colvin's cover of it from her "Cover Girl" cd from the mid-90s http://www.folkalley.com/music/amazon/asin/B0000029JI

I surprised myself by really liking this one, good stuff, a melting pot of musical styles takes you away from it all

I think this is my favorite album by PG, great stuff.

and even Shawn Colvin (we need more of her stuff on RP, please). Good stuff...Antje D...thanks for the introduction, RP!

I love Adrian Belew in this song

And your first favorite would be....???

One of the great American Folk - Poet - Comedian talents of today. This guy really shines Live, so see him if you get a chance.

I caught their performance on Saturday Night Live. They weren't very impressive.