The Vapors - Turning Japanese
(Aug 24, 2012 - 14:01) | RobRyan wrote: We had a Japanese/African American receptionist who brought suit against my firm for alleged harassment based on race. I was deposed and was questioned about the fact that she heard this song played by RP which I usually have on at my desk.
I love the American Civil Justice system.
Not.
Proving that you can find bias anywhere if you really want to, facts and reason be damned.
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Regina Spektor - Patron Saint
(Aug 24, 2012 - 13:59) | dwhayslett wrote: Way too cutesy.
Regina's music walks that fine line between childlike wonderment and cutesy, and sometimes she spills over onto the wrong side. She hits about half the time with me, and this is one of those times.
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Radiohead - Let Down
(Aug 24, 2012 - 13:33) | leafmold wrote: Pushed this up to a 10.
I was about to do the same and found that I'd already rated it a 10.
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Patti Smith - Dancing Barefoot
(Aug 24, 2012 - 12:27) | lemmoth wrote:
A year after "Ttreatment's"post, I'm beggin' Bill to consider "Till Victory" a great rocker, or RNR N, a brilliant song and when understand in context a plea for love and tolerance.
"Till Victory" rocks. So does "Rock N Roll N****r", but it's a tough sell in these PC times. It was hilarious to watch Patti introduce her performance of "Rock N Roll N****r" at her RRHOF induction as a song her mom requested..."the one I do my vacuuming to..."
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Patti Smith - Dancing Barefoot
(Aug 24, 2012 - 12:24) | Jeff09 wrote: Check out U2's cover of this.
I must admit the U2 cover is pretty awesome, and I'm much more fond of Patti than U2.
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The Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You
(Aug 24, 2012 - 12:22) | Proclivities wrote:
Probably because they're playing parts of the tune in a similar rhythm and strumming style to "Brown Sugar". This rocks.
I think they're pretty much copping the riff off "Brown Sugar" or at least coming damn close.
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Yo La Tengo - The Summer
(Aug 23, 2012 - 08:47) | Byronape wrote: I love the album title. Fakebook. That should be the real name for Facebook.
Would it be too ironic to "like" this comment? 
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Kasabian - Let's Just Roll Like We Used To
(Aug 23, 2012 - 08:07) | railroadwail wrote:I'm hearing Hall and Oates, "She's a Maneater" here. Anyone else?
A little bit - mostly the keyboards, but there's a similar feel to the choruses in general. "Maneater" wasn't exactly a personal favorite, and likewise this isn't my favorite Kasabian song. Their debut was fantastic but I haven't heard anything at that level from them since.
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The Knack - My Sharona
(Aug 23, 2012 - 08:00) | Only the solo saves this. Otherwise it's just a boring song I've heard too many times.
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David Bowie - Changes
(Dec 23, 2010 - 10:23) | apd wrote:
perhaps my memory has gone but... is that really the original cover? I don't remember the collage on the vinyl version.
You're probably thinking of the ChangesOne and ChangesTwo albums, which had different covers. When these were combined for the CD market - I believe the result was actually all of ChangesOne and a few songs awkwardly cherry picked from ChangesTwo - we got this Photoshop beauty on the cover of the resulting Changes album.
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Michael Miller - Carolina Skyline
(Dec 23, 2010 - 09:26) | cohifi wrote: I thought this was Lucinda Williams. Guess not.
My reaction exactly, until I turned the volume up a bit. I'll admit to enjoying this more than most of what Lucinda's been putting out the past few years. An 8, and I could be convinced that it's worth more than that.
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U2 - Mysterious Ways
(Dec 10, 2010 - 11:00) | It galls me to rate U2 this high - most of their output flat out bores me - but this seems like a solid 8. This slinky, sexy groove still sounds fresh and exciting all these years later.
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Damien Rice - Dogs
(Dec 08, 2010 - 12:36) | nigelr wrote: Hard to despise, did I hear a diminished/augmented chord in there somewhere?????
Yes, hard to despise, but very easy to feel indifferent about. Nothing to set this guy apart from a dozen blandly inoffensive semi-acoustic pop acts around the turn of the millenium.
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Led Zeppelin - All My Love
(Dec 08, 2010 - 12:31) | I enjoy the occasionally Led Zeppelin track here - RP seems to play them just enough - but this isn't one of the most exciting choices available from them.
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Fiona Apple - O Sailor
(Dec 08, 2010 - 11:52) | I do enjoy Fiona Apple on occasion, but there's a sameness to many of her songs that keeps me from digging deeper into her work. Seriously - isn't this the same melody from "Shadowboxer"?
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Robert Plant - Mighty Rearranger
(Jun 10, 2010 - 09:27) | The basic riff here sounds an awful lot like ZZ Top's "La Grange" to me. I keep waiting for Robert to go "haw haw haw..." In my world that is *not* a good thing.
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Spoon - Don't You Evah
(Apr 28, 2009 - 14:03) | stevo_b wrote: Seems like blasphemy to have this after Bruce...
Agreed. Don't you evah...I mean ever... do that again.
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The Cranberries - God Be With You
(Mar 14, 2009 - 21:27) | JohnErle wrote: Reminds me of Sinead O'Connor's version of I Am Stretched On Your Grave. Especially when the fiddle takes over. Good song, though.
Looks like I'm not the first person to notice the resemblance. :)
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The Cranberries - God Be With You
(Mar 14, 2009 - 21:22) | This reminds me a good deal of Sinead O'Connor's "I Am Stretched On Your Grave". This is a good thing, and much more interesting that I expect of the Cranberries.
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Nirvana - Come As You Are
(Dec 10, 2008 - 07:23) | I like this song just fine, but the "unplugged" treatment adds nothing. Unnecessary while the original is still available.
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The Pretenders - Kid
(Nov 01, 2008 - 12:11) | This is OK but not the most exciting thing the Pretenders did in their first (and best) incarnation. Personally I prefer most anything from the harder rocking first half of this album to most anything from the second half.
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Euphoria - Sweet Rain
(Nov 01, 2008 - 11:39) | jktravl wrote: Go ahead you "this sounds like" people. Everyone sounds like someone else. Regardless of who sounds like whom, I find most of Euphoria crisp and refreshing. So to me they sound like a freshly made salad. Delicious.
This sounds like Euphoria...er, euphoria to me.
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Steely Dan - Deacon Blues
(Nov 01, 2008 - 11:33) | The only track on Aja, aside from Josie, that I still enjoy. And it is a solid 7, if not 8. There is something to be said for that fact, when I've heard this thousands of times and when my tolerance for repetition is a shade above nil.
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Delays - Nearer Than Heaven
(Feb 21, 2008 - 12:45) | TriskyJen wrote: I'm enjoying this group more and more. First bought one song, then two more, and I'm now waking up singing snippets of two others I want to buy. (Should have just bought the album)
Yes, I hear some eighties in there, but the guitar tweaks it away from those sounds I grew up with (was that only thirty years ago? ahem). And the vocalist goes from gritty (like gravel in his throat) to angelic. Interesting.
Check out 'No Ending', and 'Wanderlust'.
I highly recommend buying this album if you like all of those songs. The songwriting quality is consistently high: IMO only "Stay Where You Are" only falls short of the usual mark due to the (over)use of some intrusive production effects. Their second album is quite different - more electronics, less guitar pop - and is a "try before you buy" item if you like this style.
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Spoon - Don't You Evah
(Dec 20, 2007 - 09:18) | Docked five notches for the cheesy handclaps and tinny synths that give me nightmares of the 80s.
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R.E.M. - Bittersweet Me
(Dec 20, 2007 - 08:33) | This is pleasant. But that's not a compliment for a band that once was so much more than pleasant.
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The Beatles - A Day In The Life
(Dec 20, 2007 - 08:27) | jcjoh wrote: The Beatles are so overrated, especially in their Sgt. Pepper's - White Album era. It's just whiny crap; but everyone's so damn nostalgic; objectivity is gone.
Hey Jude is another beauty.
I'll take the onslaught.
Much of this is overrated from today's POV, but it's still enjoyable and not all that whiny except when Lennon decides to sing through his nose (see: "Lucy in the Sky").
If you were there, I suppose it's hard to be objective, as most people just hadn't heard anything like this before. But I wasn't there.
This may be their most influential album, but it wasn't their best. I'll take most anything off Revolver or Abbey Road (with the notable exceptions of "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" or "Octopus' Garden") over this anytime.
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Grateful Dead - Althea
(Nov 13, 2007 - 18:52) | superfido wrote:Oh my god, they want to be the beegees with that cover. 
Back in the day people used to refer to this album as "Disco Dead", as much for that photo as for the overproduction and bad songs inside.
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Bob Marley - No Woman, No Cry
(Nov 13, 2007 - 18:46) | kyleminor wrote: I get that this song is a classic and all, but if I have to hear it one more time, I think I'll freaking die. Aren't there other raggae songs in the world?
Yes. There's "Jamming" and the one they play over the Jamaica vacation ads on TV.
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Kate Bush - Army Dreamers
(Oct 03, 2007 - 08:58) | felix_the_man wrote: I totally adore KB, but this is a little goofy. Thank goodness she evolved...........
What is evolution for one person is reduction to the least common denominator for another. For me, Kate began to lose the personality that made her so appealing after The Dreaming. I love her early, theatrical "little girl" material...so alluringly different from anything else out there. 
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Pink Floyd - On The Turning Away
(Jul 20, 2007 - 14:30) | I feel truly sorry for those people who knock this simply because Roger Waters isn't on it. Things change, bands evolve. Most of the important players are still present, and more importantly it sounds like classic Floyd. This belongs in the pantheon of their best work.
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The Who - I'm Free
(Jul 20, 2007 - 12:55) | Art_Carnage wrote: The version of this song from the "Tommy" film soundtrack is much better. This version seems lifeless after hearing that one.
I don't know the soundtrack version, but the Who did an outstanding take on this on their 20th anniversary Tommy tour. The roar that Daltrey perfected later in his career really gave this an intensity that's missing on this studio version.
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Nick Drake - Road
(Jun 08, 2007 - 12:05) | highwindows wrote: And to think that I only caught up with Nick Drake about 5 years ago. What the hell was I doing in the 70's?
I imagine you were doing the same thing as I was doing - listening to other things that don't stand the test of time the way this album does.
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Beck - Missing
(May 24, 2007 - 08:10) | radiozep wrote:
Love some songs, don't like some songs as much. But what I like about him is that every time I hear a new song by him, I have no clue it is him. Every song, at least to me, sounds completely different. It's crazy how many different styles he has.
Really? I identified this as Beck pretty quickly, and I'd never heard this before. The combination of this rhythm and orchestration is a dead give away when he's in his Mutations / Sea Change mode, as is Beck's voice.
This particular style of his usually puts me in the right frame of mind, though the Mellow Gold / Odelay / everything but the kitchen sink type material just doesn't connect.
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Trespassers William - Lie in the Sound
(May 24, 2007 - 07:53) | rah wrote: Mar-gret Thatch-er on T-V
shocked by the deaths
that took place
in Beijing...
This is much better than Sinead's "Black Boys on Mopeds", if only because you can't tell if the lyrics are overwrought and childish.
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The Cure - The Walk (everything Mix)
(May 09, 2007 - 11:19) | LPCity wrote: Remember when EVERYBODY did remixes of their popular songs? About 1985-86 or so I think...
I'd been trying to forget. In the unlikely event I ever want to hear a club mix, I'll go to a club, thank you very much.
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Bruce Springsteen - Jungleland
(May 09, 2007 - 10:57) | ziggytrix wrote: Penn Jillette said something in an interview (the details of which, I'll skip) about 2 kinds of people, Springsteen fans, and Dylan fans, and I guess I'm the latter. :(
I can't imagine why liking Dylan and Springsteen would seem unusual to anyone - they're probably my two favorite artists - but then again I've never had any use for Penn Jillette and his smarmy antics. That guy is like Michael Richards with magic tricks.
This song, however, is genius. Nobody captures the joy, excitement and uncertainty of soon to be lost youth like Springsteen did back in the 70s.
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The Church - Metropolis
(Mar 20, 2007 - 13:25) | bokey wrote: There should be a law that you have to be able to sing normally before you can be a lisper.
The vocals ruin a good song.Get a testosterone shot dude.
I suppose you think Tom Waits needs a testosterone shot because he lisps too. 
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Suzanne Vega - Marlene on The Wall
(Mar 20, 2007 - 13:22) | Ando wrote:
Hey Smackhead,
Don't do that.
Go purchase her first 2 albums. They're different from the rest (and excellent too). Then decide if you want the rest. Don't miss the smaller pieces by grabbing a greatest hits.
I would definitely recommend picking up her first album first - personally I saw Solitude Standing as a holding pattern and not a terribly interesting one. Later SV is hit or miss. I loved 99.9F, but lots of people jumped the ship with that one.
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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Weight of the World
(Mar 16, 2007 - 14:08) | Daveinbawlmer wrote:
My Sellout meter is pegging on this. This could be the old sound and really rock out - but sounds like they're trying to be "radio friendly".
Selling out? Radio friendly? I only wish I lived in a world where this sells like hotcakes and gets serious (terrestrial) radio play.
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R.E.M. - Drive
(Mar 16, 2007 - 12:40) | lmic wrote:
Really, I think a lot of it is about disappointment...I'm among those who can't get past the chasm between the great stuff they did at IRS and now... We hate most that which we once loved. It's a thin line between love and hate, etc.
Have you sat down and listened to Automatic for the People in its entirety? It's really best appreciated as an album, and hearing individual songs on the radio doesn't really do justice to it as a work of art. Though I share your early-REM bias to a sizable degree and flat out refuse to listen to any of their recent drum-machine electronica, I'd suggest that ATFP stacks up rather nicely against any of their IRS catalog if you give it the time to sink in.
Personally I enjoy Monster as well, but that's a tougher listen and requires setting aside a few more prejudices.
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Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
(Mar 15, 2007 - 08:32) | rtkmusic wrote: So much promise is contained in the opening seconds of this song, and then there is a drastic collision of influences and it dies at the scene...
Pity...
To each their own. I was ready to slam this based on the (IMO relatively tuneless) opening, but I really like the groove this has evolved into. A solid 7.
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The Shins - Sea Legs
(Mar 15, 2007 - 07:59) | I seem to recall liking the Shins but this sounds like any random, faceless, early-80s Brit band. And I've always considered the early 80s to be a musical black hole.
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Phish - First Tube
(Mar 13, 2007 - 09:27) | I never got into Phish, mainly because they seemed too much in love with their own virtuosity (look how many rhythms we can play at the same time!) and frat-boy wit. But the first part of this is pleasant despite its polyrhythmic pretensions, and the closing jam flat out ROCKS - enough to make me want to hear more Phish and reconsider my opinions.
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James Dapogny's Chicago Jazz Band - Caravan
(Mar 13, 2007 - 09:00) | DebateG wrote: Makes me really want some Django.
Makes me really want anything with a discernible melody and a sense that it's actually going somewhere.
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Graham Parker - If It Ever Stops Rainin´
(Jan 17, 2007 - 13:12) | cortriga wrote:
It's just you. Hiatt may have been influenced by Mr. Parker, however.
I doubt it - John Hiatt's actually been recording a couple years longer than GP, though it took him a lot longer to catch on. I personally find Parker's singing to have more range and feeling, though both are fantastic artists with very substantial back catalogs.
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Coldplay - Talk
(Jan 17, 2007 - 12:46) | th0m wrote: Sounds strange....
Funny, it sounds just like every other Coldplay song to me. 
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The Beatles - Across The Universe
(Jan 17, 2007 - 12:10) | renlat wrote: Why writing that this song is from Let it Be?
Not the same version.
Too bad - I much prefer the production on the Let It Be version. Despite the criticism that's been heaped on that production, I think it gives the song a wonderfully airy, uplifting feeling. That being said, this song is virtually impossible to ruin, especially when the Beatles are doing it.
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J.J. Cale & Eric Clapton - When This War Is Over
(Jan 12, 2007 - 11:03) | Pairing J.J. Cale with Clapton seems pretty redundant, particularly considering that neither one is a good enough singer to warrant double tracking. And the song's kinda boring, but with these guys I suppose that's redundant too.
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Delays - Nearer Than Heaven
(Jan 11, 2007 - 13:17) | This is one of those wonderfully upbeat songs that can't help but put me in a great mood. Follow that up with "Just Like Heaven" or "She's So High" and I just might float off into the ether. 
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Bruce Cockburn - Night Train
(Dec 21, 2006 - 10:19) | On_The_Beach wrote: This is probably Bruce's best album, and that's saying a lot. Almost every song is amazing. If you're looking to buy one Bruce CD, try this, "Humans", or "Dancing in the Dragon's Jaws", which is a more acoustic, folky affair. "Stealing Fire" ain't bad, either.
Depends on the listener's taste really. This album seems to emphasize BC's world music and jazz sides, though a couple songs (like this) rock nicely. If folk is more to your taste, Humans and Dancing are better choices. And though Stealing Fire rocks pretty straightforwardly (and is probably tied with Dancing for my favorite BC disc), the production will turn off many people who despised the 80s.
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The Cure - Pictures of You
(Dec 21, 2006 - 10:04) | slowhand wrote: This is THE Cure for me. Wish Robert would'nt have sold it out to be commercial...Trivializes the song a bit for everyone. Hate when artists tag their art to to products just to make a friggin buck.
I'm with you. It's not as if the Cure really needed the money after they sold zillions of copies of Disintegration.
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Talking Heads - What A Day That Was
(Dec 21, 2006 - 09:50) | pousso wrote:
I don't understand why these guys (esp. David Byrne) are seen as brilliant by so many people. I think the Talking Heads are aweful to listen to! Am I missing something???
Nope. 
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Tori Amos - God
(Dec 21, 2006 - 09:22) | Kagin wrote: Good sound -- don't much care for the subject matter....
Don't care about the subject matter - don't care for the sound. Typical early nineties alterna-crap that doesn't hold a candle to anything on Little Earthquakes.
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Sarah McLachlan - Elsewhere
(Dec 21, 2006 - 08:47) | djinnthespazz wrote: I like her early stuff much better than the later.
This album and Solace are her best IMO. Speaking of Solace, I am at a loss to explain why Bill and Rebecca have added the excellent "Path of Thorns" to the library but never actually played it.
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Enya - Storms in Africa
(Dec 08, 2006 - 14:22) | davin wrote: Uh yeah. People make fun of Enya and I can hear why, but I can also hear utter and sheer brilliance in this. 9/10.
Agreed. This is from the Watermark album, her first real success and a great listen all the way through. She's been pretty much repeating herself since then, with less effect, hence the lousy reputation.
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Crowded House - Weather With You
(Dec 06, 2006 - 13:23) | gjeeg wrote: wOOdfaCe
If you don't hear this album as transcendly accomplished, creative, melodic, inspired and rare, then you should not be allowed to listen to music.
One of the greatest albums I have ever heard and I am 52 years old and heard it all.
Usually when someone on this board suggests that those who don't share their musical tastes "shouldn't be allowed to listen to music" I assume that they've just finished their freshman year of college. Surprise, surprise.
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Yes - And You And I
(Dec 06, 2006 - 12:35) | lmic wrote: Wish I understood why I love the Moody Blues but cannot countenance Yes.
*sigh* 4.
-lmic
Probably because strong melodies were always the first order of business with the Moodies, rather than instrumental and compositional virtuosity. Most Yes sounds like dissonant noise to me, even if I recognize that it's technically impressive. That being said, I enjoy this album and love this song in particular.
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Pink Floyd - Learning to Fly
(Dec 02, 2006 - 11:28) | ladybinnath wrote:
If you're using RealPlayer, the "back" button takes you to the previous song.
Oops, that's not quite right. The "back" button will take you to where you started the stream. If you want to go back to a previous track, you need to drag the clip from the "live" position backward until you reach the right spot.
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Pink Floyd - Learning to Fly
(Dec 02, 2006 - 10:51) | djblitz wrote: How the hell do you do that?!?!
If you're using RealPlayer, the "back" button takes you to the previous song.
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AfroCelts - Nevermore
(Sep 25, 2006 - 12:53) | Whirlpool wrote:
What's A Fuzak?
It used to be a disdainful term for jazz-rock fusion which had been homogenized to the point of no discernible personality, but I guess it's now applied in the same vein to any fusion of musical styles. I wouldn't quite describe this as faceless fuzak, but it's really nothing to get terribly excited about either.
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Led Zeppelin - In The Light
(Sep 11, 2006 - 12:25) | physicsgenius wrote: I've said before that Rolling Stones is the most overrated band in history, and I still stand by that, but I should qualify it thusly: Led Zeppelin is so overrated it requires an entirely different scale devoted solely to itself.
I hesitate to tar any band, except perhaps Dave Matthews, with such a broad brush. Surely there are numerous Zeppelin (and Stones) songs that are mind-numbingly overrated and overplayed, but this isn't one of them. Better to save your vitriol for true cretin-rock like "Black Dog" and "Start Me Up".
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Tom Petty - Down South
(Aug 23, 2006 - 13:58) | cayenne wrote: This has the same tune as a Bob Dylan song, only it's kinda lame. Tom, you can do better than this!!
Actually this reminds me of a more uptempo version of Neil Young's "Thrasher". Either way, it's derivative...but I must add that I like it a good deal anyway!
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Nick Drake - Hazey Jane
(Aug 23, 2006 - 13:41) | topcat wrote: Sounds a lot like Al Stewart on this song.
Yes, this reminds me quite a bit of Al prior to his Alan Parsons collaborations and pop success. Beautiful stuff, in both cases. 
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Los Lobos - Shoot Out The Lights
(Aug 23, 2006 - 11:52) | mojoman wrote: Class, compare and contrast. Bruce Springsteen: knows only a few chords. Wouldn't recognize a true guitar solo if it bit him. Lousy singing.
Los Lobos: true talent. Complex music and chord structure. Blistering guitar solos. Truly fine singing.
Any questions?
Yes - what does the quality of the song necessarily have to do with the technical ability of the musician? Springsteen has never been about chops but rather about songwriting and the ability to connect emotionally with his audience. If he doesn't reach you on an instinctive level, you'll probably never get him.
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Los Lobos - Shoot Out The Lights
(Aug 23, 2006 - 11:43) | fishercat wrote: Why are we listening to this version instead of the original by the genuis Richard Thompson?
I suppose it's to remind us how genius is more than just the songs - there were remarkable intangibles at work on the original.
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Coldplay - Don't Panic
(Aug 10, 2006 - 08:56) | True, no need for panic - but some other kind of emotion would be nice to hear from these guys once in a while. This is nothing more than adult contemporary for baby boomers. 
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Modest Mouse - Ocean Breathes Salty
(Aug 03, 2006 - 11:07) | goo wrote: I'm convinced that anyone who doesn't like Modest Mouse is simply not musically evolved or is too lazy to really listen and discover the brilliance here. It's closed minded and simplistic to reject this music. To me, it's like a child who grimaces when he/she tastes beer for the first time-simply not mature enough to appreciate it yet.
I've listened all the way through and it appears that I still haven't evolved. Ordinarily I'd want to stick my head in the oven right about now, but it seems so much easier to give this a 2 and move on. 
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Eric Burdon - Soul Of A Man
(Aug 02, 2006 - 09:09) | The backing singers on this are a nice touch, but otherwise this is nothing that half a dozen artists haven't done better. Personally I find the Bruce Cockburn version far more compelling.
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Neko Case - The Needle Has Landed
(Aug 02, 2006 - 08:32) | juliealice wrote: I've been enjoying everything RP has been playing from this album. I'll have to go get it. I really dig the album art, too - does anyone have any idea if it depicts an actual legend or story, or is it just random?
I highly recommend this CD if you like anything RP's played from it. The songwriting and arrangements are consistently great all the way through, and there's something so magical about Neko's voice on this.
I have no idea about the artwork, though.
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Los Lobos - Kiko and the Lavender Moon
(Jul 07, 2006 - 14:44) | This song must be growing on me. I was finally able to get past the annoying "Three Blind Mice" part and find some worthwhile harmonies here...enough to bring my rating all the way up to a 3. 
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Sophie Zelmani - Going Home
(Jun 02, 2006 - 21:29) | byrd wrote: The intro sounded like some boring muzak, but it picked up with the vocals, and turned out to be quite enjoyable. Never heard of Sophie Zelmani before, but hopefully we'll hear a bit more here on RP.
On a side note... her voice kind of reminds me of Jewel.
I was really starting to groove on this song, then I read that comparison and everything almost went to hell. Almost.
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Béla Fleck - Shuba Yatra
(Jun 02, 2006 - 21:14) | I'd heard a good deal about this guy before, but never stumbled upon his actual music. Very interesting mix of styles - I want to hear more now.
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Lucinda Williams - 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
(Apr 03, 2006 - 12:56) | ottergeek wrote:
Sheryl wishes! Besides, Lucinda's first album "Grace" was released in 92 and Sheryl's first album was released in 94.
Actually Lucinda's first album was Ramblin' and I believe it was released back in 1978. By the end of 1992 I believe she had four albums out and none of them were titled Grace. One of these albums - the self titled one - is a must-have if you like Lucinda at all.
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Loreena McKennitt - Night Ride Across The Caucasus [Live]
(Mar 31, 2006 - 13:33) | Ahh Loreena...a voice that just takes me places. I understand and respect her decision to stay away from the music business for a few years after her fiance passed, but I've missed her. Fortunately, I am now hearing that a new album is in the works!
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Led Zeppelin - Black Dog
(Mar 31, 2006 - 13:27) | This song, beaten to death by NYC area rock radio in my youth (and probably still to this day), is the reason I refused to listen to these guys for years. Is there a melody here? No wonder my mom used to call it noise.
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U2 - With or Without You
(Mar 31, 2006 - 13:18) | Funny, this isn't any less cringeworthy the first time I'm hearing it on RP than it was the fifty thousandth time I heard it on classic rock radio.
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Screaming Trees - Sworn and Broken
(Mar 31, 2006 - 13:13) | ploafmaster wrote: Wow, that keyboard part just took this song from okay to marvelous...How stirkingly beautiful!
I totally agree. I was only half listening until that break came in and my jaw just dropped. I need to hear more Screaming Trees.
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Jimi Hendrix - Castles Made Of Sand
(Mar 31, 2006 - 12:51) | Another overrated hippie who might be able to sing his way out of a paper bag if he weren't stoned all the time. But we'll never know.
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John Lennon - Give Me Some Truth
(Mar 31, 2006 - 12:48) | This song has always sounded like a tape loop to me...same nail hammered over and over, just like Lennon always did in his solo career. I wasn't around to experience whatever cultural impact the man had way back when and so I only have the music itself to go on. Apart from the presumed context this just strikes me as mediocre, nothing that would rate attention had Lennon not shown much more talent while in the Beatles. A 5 if I ever heard one.
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Jane's Addiction - Jane Says
(Sep 09, 2005 - 12:00) | This, to me, defines what a "5" is all about. Just nothing to get hopped up about either way.
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Ryan Adams - Let it Ride
(Sep 09, 2005 - 11:57) | Mangoman wrote: Wow-- He sure dropped off the radar, didn't he? I wonder why?
His downfall seems to be that he has begun to write an enormous amount of material in a short period of time but has forgotten how to separate the wheat from the chaff. Some of his career decisions also seem more driven by spiting the record company than by good music - almost the entirety of Rock N Roll, for one egregious example. But I do enjoy an awful lot of what's on the new album even if it's all just a bit to much to digest.
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Placebo - Every You, Every Me
(Sep 02, 2005 - 12:21) | kmh wrote: this sounds like RUSH ,but without the BALLS.
My first thought was "80s Rush!" Considering that, to say that it lacks "balls" is redundant.  I like this, though, regardless of the comparison.
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Emmylou Harris - Wrecking Ball
(Aug 18, 2004 - 09:04) | llazare wrote: Love this album. Love the Daniel Lanois Emmylou combination.
This is an amazing album start to finish.
Amen to that. This is one of my least favorite tracks off the CD, which makes it merely outstanding.  It's impossible to say what my favorite is because there's so much great music on Wrecking Ball, but let's just say I wouldn't be upset to hear her version of Jimi Hendrix' "May This Be Love" on RP. 8)
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Diana Krall - Temptation
(Aug 16, 2004 - 14:19) | pixidrizzl wrote: I tend to enjoy this style of music but her voice is just rubbing me the wrong way. She seems to be overdoing it to me.
Funny, I had the opposite reaction. Jazz is hands down my least favorite genre of music, and I especially dislike the sort of pop lounge junk that Ms. Krall usually does. But this really grew on me as it played...would love to hear the Tom Waits version.
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Joan Armatrading - Show Some Emotion
(Aug 16, 2004 - 14:12) | Feel free to play more Joan anytime. As a matter of fact, why is "All the King's Gardens" still sitting unplayed on your server? It's time to correct that little oversight.
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Patty Griffin - Cold As It Gets
(Aug 16, 2004 - 10:52) | Nuance wrote: reminds me of a young Emmmylou Harris
Stylistically it reminds me of Emmylou's recent material, from Wrecking Ball onward. I am not so familiar with her early work but thought it was more traditional country and less folk/rock influenced.
Regardless, thanks to RP for playing this. I am now going to Amazon to order the CD.
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No Doubt - Bathwater
(Aug 16, 2004 - 09:17) | lordcruloze wrote: I've always wanted to hate them but I just can't *sigh*
Agreed. I think it's just that I find Gwen Stefani to be an obnoxious, shameless poseur: to me she's the McDonna of alt-rock. The band has some talent and they write some nice songs (like this), though.
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Erin McKeown - The Taste of You
(Aug 16, 2004 - 09:11) | This sounds like it belongs in the soundtrack of some movie set in the 1920s. Couldn't we have left it there?
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The Cure - Just Like Heaven (dizzy mix)
(Aug 06, 2004 - 13:31) | Gets a bottom of the barrel rating simply for trashing the most glorious piece of music the Cure ever recorded with silly production tricks.
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Bruce Cockburn - Child of the Wind
(Aug 06, 2004 - 13:08) | Leslie wrote: This is an incredible album. If you like this song, please check out the entire CD.
Agreed, with the single, admittedly minor qualification that "Cry of a Tiny Babe" grates on these non-Christian ears. The rest is genius, perhaps the last truly great BC album.
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Lucinda Williams - Hot Blood
(Mar 18, 2004 - 11:40) | A great bluesy song that was even better when I saw her play the Paradise in Boston back in 1993. Lucinda and the band stretched the tension to the point where I thought the song might break. The absolute highlight of the evening.
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Bob Marley - Three Little Birds
(Mar 18, 2004 - 11:31) | Ityllux wrote: I think Bob Marley is overplayed on this station, and yes, I usually end up changing stations when he comes on...
It just doesn't seem to fit my tastes as well as just about everything else played.
I enjoy Bob Marley, but I tired of the Legend CD long ago. Along with Stairway to Heaven and Free Bird, these songs should be iced until, say, next century.
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Neil Young - Rockin' In The Free World
(Jan 30, 2004 - 14:39) | I prefer the electric version at the end of the album - appropriately, that one sounds like everything's about to come completely unhinged - but anything off Freedom is well worth hearing. Great set, BTW.
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R.E.M. - Country Feedback (live)
(Oct 17, 2003 - 10:30) | Outstanding.  REM, even well off the peak of their powers, can occasionally touch my soul in a way that few bands ever could. Of course, this was originally written for Out of Time back in 1991 and not for one of their recent, ill advised experiments in electronica.
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Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil
(Oct 15, 2003 - 13:10) | lbrc wrote:the stones are classic but overrated and out of date! - please retire before more of your members die off. 
I have to agree about the retirement part, but these guys - at least Keith Richards - will probably literally live forever. They've tried hard enough to kill themselves off, but they just *can't*. After WWIII, I think the only ones left will be Keith and the roaches...
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Steel Pulse - Sound System
(Oct 15, 2003 - 10:54) | ladybinnath wrote:Damn, I missed this. The entire Handsworth Revolution CD was a work of genius, the pinnacle of English roots reggae. I'd love to hear more Pulse. Maybe "Prodigal Son" or "Ku Klux Klan"?
And while we're at it, how about some late seventies Aswad too? 
Oops. I had this song confused with "Sound Check", which is on Handsworth. This is from Tribute to the Martyrs, the follow-up, and is on that level.
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Gomez - In Our Gun
(Sep 05, 2003 - 11:17) | I had given this an 8 until that truly annoying electronic riff came in at the end and knocked it down to a 4. :headshake:
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Alanis Morissette - Utopia
(Sep 05, 2003 - 11:07) | This is nice. I'd mentally written Alanis off as a has-been and a one-trick pony, but now I think I may have been too quick to pass judgment. I'd like to hear more of this album. 8)
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Peter Gabriel - Don't Give Up
(Sep 05, 2003 - 10:58) | Lupin_III wrote: Whatever HAPPENED to Kate Bush?
I get the feeling she simply tired of the recording industry and trappings of celebrity (she was one in the UK at least). She'd never really intended to become a recording artist at first - she was really more into theater and performance art - but it's one of those things, lucky for us, that just happened. These days I think she spends most of her time away from it all in the countryside of England with her family.
FWIW this is one beautiful track...please more Gabriel (preferably pre-Us) and more Kate Bush!
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Tracy Chapman - All That You Have Is Your Soul
(Sep 03, 2003 - 11:16) | Tracy Chapman has certainly done some nice songs - whoever mentioned "Baby Can I Hold You" gets a second from me - but somehow, every time she comes on I think to myself how much I'd rather hear Joan Armatrading, her obvious influence.
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Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
(Sep 03, 2003 - 10:25) | I burned out on this entire album in my freshman year of college nearly twenty years ago. Each night in the dorms you could count on someone blasting "Wish You Were Here" from their speakers. I have not been able to listen to it since, and once again I find myself reaching for the mute...
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Rosanne Cash - The Wheel
(Aug 29, 2003 - 10:26) | Art_Carnage wrote:Much better than the version used to sell tires. Nice! 
Agreed...I've owned "The Wheel" since the CD came out back in 1993 or so and that tire commerical just makes me cringe. :P
That "circular" guitar riff (that's how it's credited in the liner notes!) that Steuart Smith does here is incredible.
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Lucinda Williams - 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
(Jul 31, 2003 - 09:43) | Why is it that this album just *bores* me? I love much of her other material - especially her self titled CD, which to me stands head and shoulders above the rest of her catalog - but the Car Wheels stuff leaves me cold. IMO one of the most overrated albums ever.
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Peter Gabriel - Mercy Street
(Jul 31, 2003 - 08:13) | Originally Posted by lbrc:
amazing tune and album! suck it up dylan fans!  :d
Who says you can't love Dylan *and* Gabriel? More of both, I say!
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Suzanne Vega - Calypso
(Jul 31, 2003 - 08:00) | Like virtually all of the Solitude Standing album, this does nothing for me. I vastly prefer her first...please feel free to play anything off that one.
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Richard Thompson - Easy There, Steady Now
(Jul 30, 2003 - 10:24) | Mediocre for RT, but still nice to hear. Just saw him last weekend in Rochester...best guitarist I've ever had the pleasure of watching. If you like his stuff even a little and you get the chance to see him play live - GO.
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Warren Zevon - Carmelita
(Jul 30, 2003 - 09:47) | Originally Posted by buck-arkansas:
for all you making the connection to this tune and the last one by the indigo girls. i might be wrong here, but i think that this tune, carmelita, was originally written by townes van zant. a cosmic cowboy from austin. also, the country performer, joe ely, recorded too on his "live from liberty lunch" album. (pimp)
No, Warren Zevon wrote this himself.
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Cat Power - Keep On Runnin'
(Jul 30, 2003 - 08:10) | Originally Posted by casablues:
boring and repetitive
What is boring and repetitive to one person is hypnotic to the next. I can't say why, but this just made me stop in my tracks and listen, trance-like.
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Tori Amos - Space Dog
(Jul 30, 2003 - 08:06) | What is it with people giving this a 1 before it even starts playing? It's not the best thing I've ever heard but certainly does not deserve that sort of wrath.
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The Beatles - I'm So Tired
(Jul 30, 2003 - 07:35) | Sorry to be a naysayer, but I just cannot get into this or most of Lennon's other later material. I just find his voice thin and grating. This song sounds to me just like his 70s output, which I despise. Yes I respect what he did for rock, but no I do not like his music since he stopped truly collaborating with McCartney.
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AfroCelts - Seed
(Jul 29, 2003 - 11:32) | Sounds like a cross between Sting and Dave Matthews. Yuck.
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Natalie Merchant - This House Is On Fire
(Jul 29, 2003 - 10:58) | Amazingly - considering how much I despise virtually all of this woman's work after In My Tribe - I like this a good deal. She appears to have summoned up some passion from some secret stash that was saved for just this moment. The rhythm of it is nice too. :)
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Paul Simon - The Sound of Silence
(Jul 29, 2003 - 10:38) | A wonderful song and some beautiful, understated guitar work, almost ruined by Paul Simon's continued attempt at singing. Almost.
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Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill
(Jul 29, 2003 - 10:24) | Originally Posted by SuperWeh:
I generally like KB, I like her earlier stuff best though.
Me too. I personally found the Hounds of Love album to be a disappointment. Kate's vocals seem muted here compared to the wondrous theatrical gymnastics that defined her early work. In the late 70s and early 80s she was unlike anyone else in rock, though if you're familiar with Sinead's Lion and the Cobra you have some sense of what I'm talking about. That being said, this is far superior to most of what was out in 1985, but mediocre in the context of Kate's canon.
Perhaps we might hear Wuthering Heights, Them Heavy People, Babooshka, or Army Dreamers?
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Billie Holiday - What a Little Moonlight Can Do
(Jul 15, 2003 - 12:53) | Originally Posted by cherylg4:
Gotta love Billie Holiday, but isn't this an "eclectic, intelligent rock" station?
Actually, I don't gotta. If I wanted to hear jazz - and I never ever *want* to hear this emotionally vacant musical form - I would tune into a jazz station.
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Natalie Merchant - This House Is On Fire
(Jul 15, 2003 - 12:18) | Originally Posted by downbylaw:
where is natalie merchant from? she's got a wierd-ass accent.
She's from Jamestown, NY, about an hour and a half away from Buffalo. And I can assure you that accent is something affected - surprised? I thought not - cause I live in WNY.
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Steve Miller Band - Serenade
(Jul 15, 2003 - 12:15) | Sorry, I can't listen to this. To me Steve Miller and all the boring crap on this greatest hits CD represent all that is wrong with classless schlock radio. I've heard he used to be interesting, but I don't believe it.
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Suzanne Vega - Tom's Diner [DNA version]
(Jul 12, 2003 - 15:05) | Originally Posted by adib:
Love the original, detest this travesty...
I don't need to ever hear either version again..."and instead I hit the mute..."
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10,000 Maniacs - Don't Talk
(Jul 12, 2003 - 14:57) | Originally Posted by marycrichards:
I think this era of Natalie Merchant's career was definitely her peak.
IMHO this song is the best thing she's ever done, though it was quickly downhill from here. By the time of their next CD, Blind Man's Zoo, her pretensions and mannerisms had overtaken her ability to carry a tune.
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Yes - Roundabout
(Jul 12, 2003 - 14:10) | If you must play Yes - and I wouldn't be crushed if you never did again - at least have the decency to pick something that hasn't been beaten to a pulp by classic rock radio. This is about as eclectic and intelligent as Free Bird.
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Prince - When Doves Cry
(Jul 12, 2003 - 13:42) | Originally Posted by RonH:
Patti Smith, give it up. This is the "only one and truely" version of this song.
Not to say that is because I'm from Minnesota as well as Prince and makes my opinion partial to him. :D
Ron, I have to disagree here. I have never found Prince's more minimalist stuff credible, including this. Patti makes a more convincing minimalist IMHO.
This is what it sounds like...when Prince whines.
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Patti Smith - Summer Cannibals
(Jun 30, 2003 - 14:37) | Love love love Patti. Hate hate hate this song.
I was so thankful that she did not play this at her recent local show, which was possibly the greatest, most intense experience I've had in my concert going life. Seen Patti live, now I can die. :D
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Jimmy Buffett - Pencil Thin Mustache
(Jun 25, 2003 - 11:15) | Originally Posted by trancefussion:
oh man guess I should have waited to hear the whole song before I rated it, because it got worse as time went on.
You can change your ratings if you want. Just click on the drop down box again.
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Buffalo Springfield - Bluebird
(Jun 24, 2003 - 10:11) | What a come-down after Dar Williams. ZZZZZZ...
At first I thought it was Dave Matthews, and coming from me that is no compliment.
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Dar Williams - I Saw A Bird Fly Away
(Jun 24, 2003 - 10:10) | Love it...put me right into a much better mood. Dar has a wonderful, unique vocal style, and the different (for her) instrumentation really works.
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Concrete Blonde - Joey
(Jun 24, 2003 - 09:53) | Originally Posted by pazzat:
Reminds me a lot of U2's 'Whose Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses'. Which came first?
This did, by about a year. I can't say I really hear the connection.
I'd have to agree with the person who said "great album lousy song choice", though this is hardly bad. The two songs that bracket this on the Bloodletting CD ("Lullabye" and "Tomorrow Wendy"), though, are stunners that put this to shame.
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Rush - The Enemy Within
(Jun 24, 2003 - 09:41) | Originally Posted by tomnam:
I agree with adbkil that Rush belongs in the Rock-n-Roll hall of fame. I rarely hear other musicians site them as an influence but I think everyone can agree that they do their own thing - and do it well. Their induction in to the RRHOF would represent a very loyal segment of the rock nation and would only boost RRHOF's validity. It hope they aren't overlooked...
Well it seems they have been so far. Bands are eligible for the RRHOF 25 years after their first recording AFAIK. The first Rush album was 1974, so they would have been eligible in 1999 or 2000, depending on timing.
If voters are mostly rock critics, that might explain a lot about their omission. In critical circles, it's considered cool to hate anything that smacks even a little bit of progressive rock - particularly Rush.
However it seems absurd to me to say that AC/DC belongs in the Hall but Rush does not.
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Chuck Prophet - Run Primo Run
(Jun 24, 2003 - 09:30) | Originally Posted by tomlipp:
sounds like a Dylan song and that is a good thing.
Or the best thing Tom Petty's done in about ten years. Good stuff. :)
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Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
(Jun 09, 2003 - 15:23) | I'm no fan of Jagger's singing or posturing, and his yowling on this makes me cringe. I don't find this one particularly interesting, mind you, but it'd be *tolerable* without that vocal.
Yes, that's my 1.
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Bob Marley - Waiting in Vain
(Jun 09, 2003 - 15:09) | I love Bob Marley, but couldn't we go a little deeper than the Legend album? This is on the verge of getting really tired. Someone suggested "Natural Mystic", which I'd love to hear. How about "Heathen" (also from Exodus), "Ambush in the Night" (Survival), or just about anything from Uprising?
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Bob Dylan - Things Have Changed
(Jun 09, 2003 - 14:26) | Originally Posted by Roto:
Ranks right up there with anything he did in the past for me. I even like his voice on this one. (pimp)
I thought the movie was overrated though
Agreed. This song was *by far* the best thing about the movie, which made little sense and made me care even less. I didn't even like Michael Douglas in this, which is saying something for me.
Bob is still a god.
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Lucinda Williams - Righteously
(Jun 09, 2003 - 14:22) | Lucinda is always a welcome listen to me, and this has a nice groove. I'd love to hear other tracks off World Without Tears, though...seems that this is the only one getting play here and the whole album is really nice. WWT has some stuff that might even make believers of those folks that dislike her "twangier" material.
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Barenaked Ladies - Call and Answer
(Jun 09, 2003 - 14:08) | This is one of the very few BNL songs I enjoy. When they set their dorky sense of humor aside, they can be quite likeable.
I wouldn't mind hearing "Brian Wilson" too.
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Jimmy Cliff - The Harder They Come
(Mar 15, 2003 - 09:31) | Originally Posted by mperry:
this might be just be a degree better than "Legend" as THE cd to first turn someone onto reggae. essential stuff.
As a first reggae album, I think this is it, even considering the unnecessary repetition of two songs at the end of the CD. The only thing that comes close is Bob Marley's "Uprising".
If you like rock and reggae, Marley's studio albums from "Kaya" through "Uprising", plus the earlier "Natty Dread", are to be recommended over "Legend". (I prefer the later material, your mileage may vary.) Unless you really need to hear "Jamming" or that Jamaica vacation theme song one more time.
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Nik Kershaw - Wounded
(Mar 15, 2003 - 09:09) | This makes me want to get up and dance around the office like a mad woman. Very cool...
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Richard Thompson - Turning of the Tide
(Mar 15, 2003 - 08:57) | Love to hear RT anytime, though this isn't one of my favorites of his. Play some of his old stuff with Linda and I will worship Radio Paradise forever.
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Live - Selling The Drama
(Feb 07, 2003 - 11:55) | Decent song, but IMHO one of the weaker tracks - along with Dam at Otter Creek and that awful waitress song - on the marvelous Throwing Copper. I imagine you can't play Sh*t Towne here, but how about Pillar of Davidson?
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Rosanne Cash - I'm Only Sleeping
(Jan 13, 2003 - 14:44) | Great song...nice to hear it done by someone who doesn't whine.
I've loved Rosanne since I first heard Interiors. Could we hear something off that CD?
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Patti Smith - Because The Night
(Dec 27, 2002 - 07:18) | Following the U2 cover of "Dancing Barefoot" with this...very cool. More Patti is always welcome. Thank you!
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U2 - Dancing Barefoot
(Dec 27, 2002 - 07:15) | I used to *love* this version when it first got some airplay in the NYC area, despite being a confirmed Patti Smith fan. After hearing Patti's original yesterday on RP, I think this is still good but definitely not in the same league.
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Bruce Springsteen - Growin' Up
(Dec 27, 2002 - 07:08) | Originally Posted by wallyfuzz:
Glad he lost the amp...songs sound better when you can hear what he's saying!
He didn't *lose* the amp. This is one of his original acoustic demos for Columbia, way back when.
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Eric Clapton - Please Be With Me
(Dec 26, 2002 - 11:21) | Who told this guy it was OK if he sang? He could be the Mayor of Dullsville. Only the nice acoustic guitar work saves this from completely going into the dumper.
Please, no more Crapton.
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Sarah McLachlan - Building a Mystery
(Dec 24, 2002 - 07:47) | This is a decent song, but it's gotten really tired. Besides, earlier is always better for Sarah. How about something off her amazing Solace album? "Terms", perhaps?
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George Harrison - What Is Life
(Dec 23, 2002 - 14:34) | Originally Posted by drover:
Ah, the best Beatle of the lot. R.I.P. George... 
My favorite as well. I can only wonder what he could have done if he'd gotten something close to equal time with Lennon and McCartney.
Thank you, RP.
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Bonnie Raitt - When the Spell Is Broken
(Dec 23, 2002 - 14:00) | Originally Posted by Black_Crowned_Ni:
Richard Thompson being done by Bonnie Raitt. Now I have heard everything...and like it!
She also covered Richard's "Dimming of the Day" a few albums back. I do like her taste in covers, but I'd much prefer to hear Richard do it in his own inimitable style.
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Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill (live)
(Dec 23, 2002 - 11:07) | There are very few live recordings that I find add something special to the original studio version. This isn't one of them.
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Dire Straits - Romeo And Juliet
(Dec 23, 2002 - 08:10) | Originally Posted by jpbergjr:
p.s. I heard the Indigo Girls butcher job this song, they should have gone home before recording it.
What on earth was Amy Ray thinking, turning this wonderful song into an unlistenable rant? I love the Rites of Passage album in general, but I always program that song out. The beauty of digital technology... ;)
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Natalie Merchant - Motherland
(Dec 23, 2002 - 07:59) | Originally Posted by ndanger666:
On the whole, I'd rather have root canal than listen to this.
Amen to that.
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Tori Amos - Smells Like Teen Spirit
(Dec 23, 2002 - 07:57) | So what if you can understand the lyrics? The incomprehensibility of the original was appropriate, with passion winning out over technical perfection. This version has too much of the latter and not enough of the former. I like Tori, but she shouldn't have touched this.
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U2 - One Tree Hill
(Dec 23, 2002 - 07:51) | Neither the song nor the album is a personal favorite....I don't like this droney sound that U2 affects on many songs of this era. That being said, Bono's amazing disembodied vocal at the climax of the song makes it all worthwhile.
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Beck - Paper Tiger
(Dec 23, 2002 - 07:21) | Like most of Beck's music, this grows on me the more I listen to it. Cool. :)
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Talking Heads - Burning Down The House
(Dec 23, 2002 - 07:14) | I hated this the first time I ever heard it. Time and excessive airplay (what *do* people see in this?) have done nothing to improve my opinion. If you must play Talking Heads, please stick with early albums like Fear of Music or Remain in Light. This makes me want to smoke crack.
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The Cure - The Love Cats
(Dec 17, 2002 - 13:22) | Originally Posted by girlafraid:
with such an incredible selection of cure songs from which to choose... why "love cats"...? :???:
Agreed...how about "Just Like Heaven" (anything off Kiss Me, really) or maybe "Plainsong" from Disintegration? I don't need to hear this again.
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Ben Harper - Excuse Me Mister
(Dec 17, 2002 - 12:57) | Whatever they're filtering his voice through...it's awful. This is worthy of the mute button.
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Lucinda Williams - Out Of Touch
(Dec 17, 2002 - 11:45) | Nice to hear some Lucinda. This is hardly her best - personally I don't think she'll ever again do anything as full of heart as her self-titled CD - but mediocre Lucinda beats 98% of the other stuff out there now.
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Steel Pulse - Sound System
(Dec 13, 2002 - 14:38) | Damn, I missed this. The entire Handsworth Revolution CD was a work of genius, the pinnacle of English roots reggae. I'd love to hear more Pulse. Maybe "Prodigal Son" or "Ku Klux Klan"?
And while we're at it, how about some late seventies Aswad too?
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Pink Floyd - Fearless
(Dec 13, 2002 - 14:30) | I suppose it *is* a better choice than "San Tropez" or "Seamus" from the same album. Otherwise nothing to get too excited about.
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Tori Amos - Cornflake Girl
(Dec 13, 2002 - 13:57) | I like Tori, but this song and this album do little for me. I'll admit it's improved somewhat over time for me. Then again the first time I heard Under the Pink I wanted to toss the thing out the window. 
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Andy Stochansky - Here Nor There
(Dec 13, 2002 - 13:46) | His singing doesn't do much for me (was he *supposed* to sound like he was stuck in the middle?) but that guitar groove was nice. Yes, it definitely got better as it went on.
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