Joe Bonamassa - Slow Train
(May 15, 2013 - 01:50) | Seeing all the Robin Trower comparisons here made me reply:
I've seen both of these guys live and technically and in terms of showmanship Robin doesn't even come close to Joe, not by a long shot. From a guitarist's perspective, Robin needs loads of effect pedals and enhancements to impress and reach his sound as where Joe can blow you away with an unplugged acoustic guitar if he wants to.
It's all related to taste, i know, but in terms of skills i'd say it's not fair to compare Robin and Joe.
This song, 8 --> 8
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Björk - All Is Full Of Love
(Apr 23, 2013 - 01:28) | Pretty divided opinions on this one i see...
This is the only song of Björk i know and actually like.
8
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Boy & Bear - Lordy May
(Apr 19, 2013 - 06:13) | I'm not sure if this song carries some sort of religious message, because that's not my thing. But in terms of musical quality i think it's excellent!
9
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Dire Straits - Follow Me Home
(Apr 18, 2013 - 06:15) | How fantastic this one get's played after Single Handed Sailor. The most perfect blending of two songs on an album i ever heard, so thanks for making it so!
That and for the song:
10
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Dire Straits - Once Upon A Time In The West
(Apr 17, 2013 - 04:48) | jmdh wrote: There was something... different about this version. Then I realised that it was the album original, and grew up knowing the version from Alchemy... Now that is a superb rendition.
Strange... The difference between the two is huge IMO. The Alchemy version has way more distortion on the guitar and Terry Williams' panic drumming doesn't even come close to the very subtle drums of Pick Withers in this version.
Putting all of that aside, Knopfler puts an additional extra minutes of improvising to Alchemy's rendition.
Anyway, both versions are fantastic, but not quite alike if you ask me...
10
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Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris - Right Now
(Apr 03, 2013 - 06:47) | WonderLizard wrote:
I've heard some pretty squirrely stuff from time to time that isn't exactly to my taste, but I have yet to hear a bad song on RP. Certainly nothing amounting to crap.
To each his own, but regularly i'm hearing some awful stuff here.
YET...
It's still the very best of radio i've heard so it's no problem at all...
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Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
(Mar 20, 2013 - 02:15) | mrdak wrote:
If you hate this voice, you must be one horrible m*f*!
I'll take being one horrible m#f# over having a voice like Neil's* any day!
*that's when he's singing songs like this... 
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Boy & Bear - Feeding Line
(Mar 05, 2013 - 04:23) | I really can not compare this to the Fleet Foxes. The lead singer's voice somewhere remotely sounds the same as the FF lead singer at times, but Boy & Bear's music as a whole really doesn't sound like FF.
This, "Moonfire", is an excellent album by the way. Great variety!
8
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Leonard Cohen - A Thousand Kisses Deep
(Feb 28, 2013 - 04:57) | And here i am thinking this is a music station...
If i want to listen to an excruciating slowmo poet i'd be looking elsewhere i guess... or not...
1
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Gavin Coetzee - Your Sweet Touch
(Feb 20, 2013 - 02:32) | Love this guitar technique!! Download his album for free at his site. Not a masterpiece IMHO but yet, there are some sweet tunes to be found!
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Dire Straits - Down To The Waterline
(Feb 13, 2013 - 04:10) | And how about Pick Withers, the best drummer Knopfler ever played with! The man really had a feel for great rhythms and very tastful fill-in's!
Anyway, still a 9!
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Alanis Morissette - Thank U
(Jan 04, 2013 - 01:00) | In itself i don't think i really like it (not sure though  ), but it has such a distinctive sound and ring to it which immediately brings me back to a time things were so uncomplicated and nice. For that, i love hearing it...
8
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The Avett Brothers - Live And Die
(Dec 28, 2012 - 03:09) | A lot of criticism here. I can see how, yet i still like this album. But this song is the most "poppy" of 'em all. I suggest Bill playing some of the other tunes of which i'm sure they'll be received quite well here, because there are some nice gems to be found. This, i agree with some, is too happy sing-along-ish.
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Xavier Rudd - Follow The Sun
(Dec 19, 2012 - 06:32) | Stingray wrote:HELPLESSLY TERRIBLE! I was better with 15 - SERIOUSLY!!!
Oh really?!
I'm all for people stating their opinions. But you are rediculous.
Perhaps you should drag your ignorant ass to one of Xavier's concerts and see him sing, play (slide) guitar, percussion AND digeridoo's all combined in one song...
I bet you would even suck at sitting between all these instruments, let alone trying to play one of them. Yeah... I know...
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Rush - Subdivisions
(Nov 27, 2012 - 07:11) | Wow!
This is a whole new approach at the definition of horrible...
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Bob Marley - Exodus
(Nov 23, 2012 - 07:22) | Since last week we have a new speaker set including a subwoofer. Thanks to this subwoofer it becomes apparent how incredibly monotone this song really is...
Bob Marley is a true legend, but this is so boring...
Bleh.... 2
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Miles Davis - Mystery
(Nov 06, 2012 - 03:13) | I can see how one could like this, but this is really too strange for my taste...
5
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The Pretenders - Kid
(Oct 25, 2012 - 03:31) | Oh no_o_o_o_o_o_o_o_o_o_o_o_o_o_o_o_o_o_, not the Pretende_e_e_e_e_e_e_e_e_e_e_e_e_e_e_rs.
I guess it's a hate-it-or-love-it kind of thing...
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The Avett Brothers - Life
(Oct 19, 2012 - 06:05) | Wow! Saw these guys last year in Paradiso in Amsterdam. Stunning show!! And From what i've heard so far this album would be a great addition to my CD collection...
9
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Mumford & Sons - I Will Wait
(Oct 03, 2012 - 05:22) | So.... They picked up right where they left off...
Good news for the ones who love(d) their debut album. Bad news for the ones who hate(d) it...
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Led Zeppelin - Nobody's Fault But Mine
(Oct 01, 2012 - 03:22) | buddy wrote: Great tune from an under-appreciated album.
Crappy tune from an over-appreciated band.
But that's just my opinion, i know, but that doesn't make it any better...
2
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First Aid Kit - Emmylou
(Aug 22, 2012 - 07:51) | This album is addictive... Excellent work by these lovely Swedes...
9 —> 10
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Neil Young - Helpless
(Aug 22, 2012 - 03:41) | Sjaaks wrote:I'm sorry but i couldn't help sing along "Let It Be" and "Knock- knock knockin' On Heaven's Door"...  Not all that original... 4
Hannio wrote:
Your derision is misplaced. Helpless was first recorded in 1969. Let It Be came out in 1970. Knocking on Heaven's Door in 1973.
Touché!
But still, it sounds so generic melodically speaking... On the other hand, somehow my feelings managed to appreciate this a bit more since RP played this song a couple of times, so i'll bump this up to a 6. But that's more like a 5.6 than a full 6....
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Dire Straits - Calling Elvis
(Aug 21, 2012 - 04:51) | romeotuma wrote:
This is a profound song about my father...
Not sure about the profound part, but the part about Elvis being your father seems very likely! 
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Kathleen Edwards - Goodnight, California
(Aug 07, 2012 - 07:14) | oldsaxon wrote: I just can't like this. To me it is a drone. I tried, I gave it the dozens of listens that RP gives me(relentlessly). It still drones. No idea why it's popular. The pace is slow, to the point of dragging, the bass is the one thing that is decent, the guitar, the drums, all plod. even the harmonica seems lethargic and sleepy.
Give it up already, nothing or nobody requires you to like it...
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T. Rex - Mambo Sun
(Aug 03, 2012 - 06:02) | Obviously a major inspiration for the Black Keys!
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RJD2 - Smoke and Mirrors
(Aug 03, 2012 - 03:21) | cohifi wrote: Nice. Can't wait to star wars in 3D...
oldsaxon wrote:
R23D? C3DO?
With the all mighty 3Darth Vader!
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo"
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Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing
(Aug 03, 2012 - 03:08) | Segue wrote: this song is just as annoying as it was 33 years ago. RP has made DS tolerable with other songs but this one is ANNOYING
And i hope this song is gonna be annoying very often for years to come... 
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Yardbirds - Shapes Of Things
(Aug 03, 2012 - 02:23) | LPCity wrote: I'll always remember this song as one of the staples of AM radio when our whole family did a cross country trip in the summer of 65'.
Is it possible to even imagine a family of five driving all the way from Maryland to California (and back!) with nothing in the car for entertainment other than the AM/FM radio? Damn I'm old.
I would so love to do that! Given the chance i'd do it right now! Living in the boring Netherlands, AM radio, an old airconditioning-lacking car and a trip from the east to the west of the states sounds amazing!! So... ANYTIME if i could! Consider yourself lucky that was (or is) within your grasp of doing...
Cheers!
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Toad The Wet Sprocket - Something's Always Wrong
(Aug 03, 2012 - 01:21) | seanyeomans wrote:
and I mean like Counting Crows boring. ugh.
Really?!
Hmm... And here i am thinking this is such a unique and beautiful song.... But i guess something's always wrong...
Still a 10 for me though 
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First Aid Kit - Emmylou
(Jul 27, 2012 - 01:29) | Absolutely lovely!! They're definitely growing on me... The growing on me part aside, i can not give this anything less than a 9.
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Keane - Atlantic
(Jun 26, 2012 - 03:10) | I am an absolute fan of Keane's debut LP "Hopes And Fears", this one followed after it but in my humble opinion didn't live up to high expectations... This song is good, but overall this album isn't anywhere near as good as "Hopes And Fears". Though the first one being very piano-pop mainstream material, it was very refreshing....
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Bonobo - El Toro
(Jun 15, 2012 - 02:46) | 8 —> 9
I'm really liking this! Think i might have to buy this album!
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Booker T & The M.G.s - Green Onions (Live)
(Jun 14, 2012 - 05:13) | jhorton wrote: Aren't all you people who think this kind of music is cool, living in rest homes yet?
Mute button!
Uhm... Check your own ratings, it's not so different from this, so why be an ass about it...
To answer your question: No, i'm 30 years old and capable of living by myself AND..... i think this song is really cool!
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Triggerfinger - I Follow Rivers
(Jun 08, 2012 - 00:55) | WHAT?!?! This was a huge hit here in the Netherlands. An improvised rendition, apparently they rehearsed this 20 minutes or so before they played this live in the studio during a live show (this is a one-time one-take recording). The ting-ting sounds are a couple of glasses they grabbed from the studio...
Very surprised to hear this here on RP.
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Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah
(Jun 06, 2012 - 01:41) | 
Even asleep, i'm wondering if i'll wake up from this anytime soon...
Really horrible!
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Luna - Still At Home
(May 31, 2012 - 04:24) | Couldn't have said it any better...
black321 wrote:This song really snuck-up on me, quite nicely.
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Air - La Femme D'Argent
(May 31, 2012 - 04:17) | This song has made it to my personal top 10 wake up songs... Such a great groove to start the day with. Thanks to a very simple and effective alarmclock with mp3 function, the chances of waking up happy have increased dramatically!
>>> 
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The Black Keys - Sister
(May 11, 2012 - 05:09) | I love the sound of the clicking drumsticks at the end!  Like saying "That's a wrap, now let's get the hell out of here!"
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Dire Straits - Water Of Love
(Apr 13, 2012 - 00:12) | YEAH!! Without knowing it at first i really wanted to hear this song right now.... Wait... wut? Never mind, it's just the utmost PERFECT timing... 
10
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God is an Astronaut - Remaining Light
(Apr 12, 2012 - 00:52) | For the gamers among us (if there are any), the first minutes remind me a lot of the soundtrack of the PlayStation 2 classic "ICO".
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Natalie Merchant - Motherland
(Apr 04, 2012 - 03:31) | I know it's totally irrelevant but i'd like to share this very annoying "looks like" opinion with you all. To me she totally looks like a female version of Mark Wahlberg.
 
Sorry for the spam, but doesn't she?!
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Bon Iver - Towers
(Mar 21, 2012 - 04:11) | Really liking this right now... I'm not sure how i'd feel listening to an entire album of falsetto singing, guess there's only one way to find out.
This one on his own: 8
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Camel - Rajaz
(Mar 21, 2012 - 02:39) | justsomeone wrote:Oh, the blasphemy!  All the comparisons to other guitarists. This is Andrew Latimer and he has influenced a lot of guitar players - NOT the other way around..
Eeeaaasy... Not my intention at all, i wouldn't know who came first or who influenced who or something like that. I'm just sayin' it sounds very identical to Snowy White at times, but you could put it the other way too i guess... It's just based on what i know, so.... No harm intended... 
*edit, i googled it, it seems Snowy White is a year older than Andrew. So i guess it would be hard to say who influenced who...
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Ed Sheeran - The A Team
(Mar 15, 2012 - 06:11) | One of the contestants in "The Voice Of Holland" (YES, the dutch invented this "brilliant" show) sang this. Since then it has become a huge hit in the Netherlands which you hear a gazillion times on mainstream radio every day.
So to me it's really overplayed. Never loved it, never hated it...
5
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Band of Skulls - Wanderluster
(Feb 23, 2012 - 03:44) | Huh?!
Saw these guys a few weeks ago as the opening act for the Black Keys. Never thought i'd hear them here... 
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Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
(Feb 17, 2012 - 04:06) | Somebody tell me, how can somebody that looks like this:
have a voice like that... Okay okay, he was a lot younger when he sang this, but still...
By the way, i don't hate it, but i don't like it either. 5
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Caro Emerald - A Night Like This
(Feb 10, 2012 - 03:55) | Aaaarrggghhh, she's the so-called Dutch superstar. One of the very few that seem to make it outside of the Dutch borders. Good for her, not for me. Horrible fake person who acts as being nice but in fact is very arrogant. And the last few years she headlined every medium large festival her in the Netherlands.
Sigh, i'm so tired of hearing and seeing this woman...
2
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Arcade Fire - We Used To Wait
(Feb 08, 2012 - 02:27) | I love the different atmospheres you find in this song. This one ranked number 2 in the song top 100* of 2010 here in the Netherlands. That's fair if you ask me.
9
*the top 100 of a respected music foundation, no mainstream audience...
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Basia Bulat - Heart Of My Own
(Feb 07, 2012 - 04:13) | I'm still really loving this!!
This morning i rode my bicycle again to work (8~9 miles) while it was freezing, -14 degrees Celsius and still, this album kept me listening and going.
9
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The Black Keys - Lonely Boy
(Feb 02, 2012 - 04:24) | ferwoman wrote:
HAHA, FANTASTIC!!
Saw these guys yesterday night, amazing show!!! Loads and loads of energy, blew me away!!
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Bonnie Raitt - Spit of Love
(Jan 26, 2012 - 04:12) | UhLain wrote: I know I give out 9s pretty regularly, but this one I give with vhim and vigor.
L-O-V-E ME SOME Bonnie Raitt. I really think I'm a 50-yr old trapped in a 31-yr old's body with my musical tastes....
Haha, i came here to "raitt" this a 9 and then i read your comment. I'm 30 myself.... We're probably suffering from the same dicease...
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Mark Knopfler - Working On It
(Jan 26, 2012 - 01:52) | jptl wrote: I'm a Knopfler fan but this is the first time hearing this instrumental. Very nice.
You should check out his Soundtrack catalog... This (Wag The Dog) but also others are really respectable, like "Local Hero", "Cal" and "A Shot At Glory". There are lots of instrumentals on those soundtracks. I remember sometimes listening to Dire Straits and thinking by myself, it would be nice to just hear the music without him singing. I don't mind him singing of course but sometimes his guitar sings better than any singer ever could...
Anyway, it's worth checking it out!
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Missy Higgins - Secret
(Jan 24, 2012 - 04:48) | I'm wondering. I read a discussion here about the song "The Laugh Of Recognition" by Over The Rhine. Some people stumbled over the way the singer pronounces the letter "S". I'm wondering if the same goes for this song, she really "sshhh"s the letter "S" a lot, so........
I dunno, i'm just sayin'
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The Black Keys - Lonely Boy
(Jan 24, 2012 - 00:15) | Oh yeah! Just 7 more days till i get to see these guys in "het Klokgebouw" in Eindhoven! Whoohoo!
\o/
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Porcupine Tree - Start of Something Beautiful
(Jan 19, 2012 - 23:40) | gemtag wrote: Maybe it was the tracks leading to this but this sounded most excellent. Like a glass of water for a parched tongue.
Nicely put, couldn't have described my thoughts any better about this song at this particular moment.
9
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Joni Mitchell - Both Sides Now
(Jan 13, 2012 - 02:56) | Lovely! Simply lovely!! I honestly didn't know this is from 1969 already!!  Wouldn't have guessed it...
9
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Buffalo Springfield - Bluebird
(Jan 11, 2012 - 04:50) | Maybe i'm swearing by saying this, but at first i thought i was listening to the Beatles. Very similar sounding if you ask me (especially the singer(s)). Anyway, sounds good!
7
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Pink Floyd - Us And Them -> Eclipse (live)
(Jan 11, 2012 - 01:32) | Haha, that's a HUGE PF set playing right now... Not a fan, but not a hater either........... EXCEPT for those screaming ladies.... If i hear them again i swear i'll turn down the volume, don't care if my colleagues want to listen to it or not....
6
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Pink Floyd - Speak To Me -> ...In The Sky (live)
(Jan 11, 2012 - 01:17) | I'm so sorry, but i truly hate those ladies screaming "wwoooooooohhhooohhh, waaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH haaaaaahhhaaaaaaaaaahooooowwwwwww"
Further more, i can not understand how this is a 9,1. An 8 i can understand, but a 9,1... No sorry, not for me...
4
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Kathleen Edwards - Chameleon-Comedian
(Jan 06, 2012 - 07:31) | Jacksonstat wrote:I cannot wait for this album to be released. Kathleen can do no wrong in my book.
+1 !
The original release date is 01/17/2012, has Kathleen released another song or is the album out early??
Anyway, this song's amazing too, just like "Change The Sheets"! This will be an album worth buying!!
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Broken Bells - Citizen
(Jan 06, 2012 - 01:35) | What a great set today, it spontaneously made me donate another $10.... SO THERE!!!
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Neko Case - At Last
(Jan 06, 2012 - 01:11) | Wow!! A song where she actually controls her voice rather than yell it all out! This sounds really nice, she should do it more often like this...
8
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Guster - The Captain
(Jan 06, 2012 - 00:31) | Excuse me, but i'm gonna have to bump this up to a 10. Really loving this right now!
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David Bowie - Wild Is The Wind
(Jan 05, 2012 - 04:08) | We-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-ell, this is te-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-erribl-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-le. Rating thi-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-is a two-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o.
2
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Basia Bulat - Go On
(Jan 05, 2012 - 02:59) | Shesdifferent wrote: Makes me want to slit my wrists.....
Then i'm afraid your problems are much bigger than just this song............... yeah.... good luck with that.
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Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Work Song
(Jan 04, 2012 - 03:52) | bytejunkie55 wrote:
you gotta be kidding right. Lets see who today equals him.
hmmm, still thinking....still thinking....
No you've got to be kidding. This sounds like Steven Seagal and his shitty band. This guy has no idea what he's doing with his guitar. It sounds like the only thing he's trying to do is make sure he fills every second with all the notes he can play. There really is no logic whatsoever in what he's doing... It's all pentatonic scales so believe me, as a guitar player myself, it's not even difficult what he's doing...
So does somebody equal him? I can not think of a guitar player in the entire RP playlist that's worse than this guy, no, SERIOUSLY.
2
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Eva Cassidy - Fields of Gold
(Jan 04, 2012 - 02:43) | Still goosebumps after all the listens i gave this one.... 9 —> 10 a well-deserved rating from my part
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The Avett Brothers - I And Love And You
(Jan 03, 2012 - 08:04) | Me and my girlfriend went to see the Avett Brothers in Paradiso Amsterdam last august.
A truly wonderfull and most excellent show but somehow a "Dave Grohl/Foo Fighters" moment snuck in there. Some guy in the audience picked a fight with another guy and they started to brawl so Scott stopped the band for a moment and politely asked what was going on and why those guys were fighting (unlike Dave Grohl who threw the word f#ck and motherf#cker in there a bunch of times). So after things cooled down a bit, they continued where they left off, which was this song and as if it was all part of the show, the lines "I used all my words to fight" .... "oh but it's such a waste of time" followed seconds after the event. That obviously made the audience applaud the way the Avett Brothers solved this situation.
Sadly enough some people think it's no problem to disturb a great show for something as stupid as fighting, on the other hand, it's great when a band feels so connected to the audience and acts on situations like that. It makes it much more intimate that way... An unforgettable night it was, the useless fight aside...
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Coldplay - Warning Sign
(Dec 23, 2011 - 03:03) | Hearing a song like this makes me realize how much Coldplay has changed over the last years. This was magical to me in 2002, but with Viva La Vida and their latest album (don't even know the title) it's a very long way from magical.
Too bad......
This one however: 9
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Mark Knopfler - Hill Farmer's Blues
(Dec 22, 2011 - 07:54) | Thanks Bill! Thanks RP!
Just what i needed for this day to be perfect. EXCELLENT set came by today, WONDERFUL!
A well deserved 10 for the 22nd of December 2011.
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Of Monsters and Men - King and Lionheart
(Dec 21, 2011 - 06:44) | ufamsm wrote: This song drives me crazy, the singer has the most atrocious diction. Every single time this comes on, all I can hear is "You're a king, and I'm a lion!!!! HA!!!!"
HA!!!!
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The Black Keys - Lonely Boy
(Dec 20, 2011 - 07:54) | Great riff! Great rhythm! A real head-bouncer!
Gonna see these guys the 1st of February here in Eindhoven, Klokgebouw (Clock Building). Oooooooh yeah!
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The Shins - A Comet Appears
(Dec 16, 2011 - 03:13) | Aaahhhhh... I know this song for a while now but somehow today this gives me goosebumps like never before. And sadly enough music doesn't do that often for me anymore (no idea why)...
9 —> 1.000.000
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Alison Krauss & Union Station - Paper Airplane
(Dec 15, 2011 - 23:58) | pdelrio wrote: Alison Krauss is a great bluegrass fiddler but too often goes into that rhythm chop. Her voice is somewhere in the dog hearing range and she sings it through her nose. That gets annoying after a couple of songs and sounds too whiney. Union Station is a great group of musicians but they should go back to real bluegrass and leave this chick version alone. Alison needs more edge to her stuff...more energy.
I partially agree with pdelrio. Whether you like it or not is not part of what pdelrio is saying. If you listen to an entire album of Alison singing, it really isn't dynamic at all. It's all in the same range, almost afraid to try something else... That doesn't say Alison is a bad singer or musician. It's just pdelrio's opinion based on listening to Alison's music and how he feels about that.
The part about Union Station and going back to whatever isn't really worth a discussion, that's just an empty conclusion based on an opinion...
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Caro Emerald - That Man
(Dec 09, 2011 - 01:52) | Caro's from the Netherlands. That would make me proud hearing her here wouldn't it? Frankly, i'm tired of her. It's not my thing to begin with, but she played at every little and big festival the last couple of years, her song "A Night Like This" got played a gazillion times a day on every mainstream radio station... Plus the fact that she has an attitude...
And last week she announced to be playing at Jools Holland's Hootenanny this year... I guess it's just me then....
3
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Of Monsters and Men - King and Lionheart
(Dec 09, 2011 - 01:35) | jessi1126 wrote:The female singer reminds me of another singer but I can't place it!?!?!?!? Good song ;-)
She sounds like Kate Nash, not sure if it is her, but it's pretty similar.
And LOL @ the Mumford & Daughters joke... 
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Alison Krauss and Union Station - Crazy Faith
(Dec 07, 2011 - 05:50) | Businessgypsy wrote: With nothing taken away from incredible vocal stylist/guitarist Tyminski, I think the instrumental spotlight belongs to dobro player Jerry Douglas here.
Yes you are right. But to be honest, only recently i found out Jerry Douglas is a Union Station member... Amazing, that makes them even amazingER, if not amazingEST. 
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Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing
(Dec 07, 2011 - 02:47) | Apart from MK being my musical hero, i have to say that Pick Withers is by far the best drummer that ever played with him. Maybe not technically, but he has a certain style i really love. The drums of Pick on the first two DS albums and especially in Sultans of Swing always stood out for me, excellent subtle work.
After the subtle drums of Pick came Terry Williams, the man's on crack when drumming. Major over the top fill-ins, constant open hi-hat and way too loud. He couldn't even stay in tempo.
After Terry Williams i believe Mark switched drummers a couple of times, but all were better than Terry's massive wall of drums.
In Knopfler's solo career he started with Chad Cromwell who now drums with Neil Young i believe. Also a very talented drummer who knows what a song needs and always drumming with the right dosage.
Nowadays Danny Cummings drums for Mark. He was one of the percussionists in the late Dire Straits era (>1990). But as a drummer i'd say mediocre at best. A shame, because a great drummer is just as important as any other instrumentalist if you ask me...
Just sayin'...
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Michael Hedges - Rickover's Dream
(Dec 07, 2011 - 01:44) | Now this i love! Beautiful complex arrangements yet taking it slowly, instead of rushing it at 200bpm like so many guitarists do.
9
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Chet Atkins - Jam Man
(Dec 07, 2011 - 01:20) | The harmonic picking right before the end is fabulous! This man was truely a remarkable guitarist (with very long fingers ).
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Willy Porter - Road Bone
(Dec 06, 2011 - 02:40) | Surely he's a great guitarist, but to me it feels like this is playing fast for the sake of playing fast. I wonder what it would sound like when played at half speed...
6
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Air - La Femme D'Argent
(Dec 02, 2011 - 06:39) | bluefrog wrote: I freaking love this freaking song.
What bluefrog said.
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Neko Case - Dirty Knife
(Dec 02, 2011 - 05:47) | It's okay if you sing with a lot of power, but if you do Neko, please do it in key.
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Emmylou Harris - Goodnight Old World
(Dec 01, 2011 - 02:41) | Never heard this before, or anything from her new album for that matter. But i could instantly hear this would have to be some of her later work. Her voice really aged over the years, in a good way, but you can clearly hear the difference between the young Emmylou and the Emmylou now...
7
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Kathleen Edwards - Asking for Flowers
(Dec 01, 2011 - 02:02) | spotcheckbilly wrote: Terrific song from a talented artist. I'm hoping for a new album soon.
You wish will be granted in jan/feb 2012... I'm happy about that! 
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Natalie Merchant - After the Gold Rush (Live)
(Nov 30, 2011 - 03:20) | What a major voice difference from the song "Motherland". The way she sings here is beautiful, with "Motherland" (and maybe the rest of that album) totally not...
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Trace Bundy - Bristlecone
(Nov 22, 2011 - 07:52) | 9 > 10
I've heard this one a couple of times now through my earplugs while riding my bicycle to work and loving this more and more! Great rhythm and all...
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Dire Straits - Once Upon A Time In The West
(Nov 18, 2011 - 07:49) | Carlo9151 wrote:
...and the second even better than the first. Just one song from the later I'd like to hear sooner or later: Single-Handed Sailor
Let's shake hands! Single Handed Sailor is my number 1 DS favourite...
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Bon Iver - Towers
(Nov 18, 2011 - 02:34) | About the pronounciation. If it's French then Bon pronounced as "Bone" isn't correct. In French the 'n' would be silent and the 'o' wouldn't be pronounced as "ow" but more like "aw".
That would make it "Baw Eevair".
Hmmmmm... Language can be a strange thing.
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Basia Bulat - Go On
(Nov 09, 2011 - 05:33) | This morning on my bike (bicycle that is) riding to work, in a beautiful Dutch autumn setting with all the yellow, red and brown leafs all around, this album really hit the spot...
8
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Fleet Foxes - Sim Sala Bim
(Nov 09, 2011 - 04:57) | Sjaaks wrote: On one hand i really like this album, on the other hand i constantly get the feeling they're trying too hard, especially after the song "Helplessness Blues". Throughout this album it's like they're constantly searching for some form of complexity but can't find it... I don't know, i get lost in some songs and then it loses its charm. But that's happened to me before and after a couple of more listens i really like it, so who knows...
This one on its own however; 8
So, i listened to this album a bunch of times now and it still comes by now and then. All in all i really love it! I don't think this is the best song on it though, but the complexity which bothered me at first, is one of the things i love about it now. It's surprising and unpredictable, so yeah, i love it!
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Midlake - Young Bride
(Oct 28, 2011 - 01:50) | Oh somebody should upload the first track of this album "Roscoe"! Beautiful track and a great showcase for Midlake's qualities...
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B.B. King - Stormy Monday
(Oct 28, 2011 - 01:30) | Now this is how i like hearing BB, way better than "The thrill is gone". Thanks RP for playing this classy blues!!
10
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Midlake - Young Bride
(Oct 21, 2011 - 03:33) | WHO UPLOADED MIDLAKE?!?!?!?!
Thanks! :-)
Excellent, Midlake seem very competent in capturing a certain medieval atmosphere. Not so much with this song, but others and especially their latest album "The Courage Of Others". I really love Midlake, however i realise it's not for everyone...
9
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Kathleen Edwards - Goodnight, California
(Oct 19, 2011 - 04:43) | I said it before and i'll say it again, BUY THIS ALBUM! Absolutely stunning piece of work from the first second to the last (which is actually this song btw)...
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Fleet Foxes - Mykonos
(Oct 18, 2011 - 00:39) | I keep loving this one and my guess is, i'll still love it 50 years from now...
9
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Dire Straits - Single Handed Sailor
(Oct 05, 2011 - 05:41) | Still amazed by the insane solo at the end. Not insane in a "Buckethead/Steve Vai" shredding way, but insane as in complex and beautiful yet within the boundaries of "normal" rock music.
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Mich Gerber - Eros
(Sep 02, 2011 - 04:18) | I opened the comment page for this song and saw i made a huge mistake, so let me correct it:
2 —————> 1
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Derek and the Dominoes - Layla
(Aug 31, 2011 - 06:12) | Haha, the outro. Haha, horrible, HORRIBLE playing. Amazing, it's like they're playing totally out of key on purpose...
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Porcupine Tree - Dark Matter
(Aug 19, 2011 - 07:36) | Normally i like my music with some rough edges, this seems almost over-produced. It's all so smooth and very "finished" with no room for anything else.... But somehow it works for me with Porcupine Tree, think i'm gonna have to look into their discography, very curious about what i'll find there.
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Joe Bonamassa - Dust Bowl
(Aug 16, 2011 - 03:13) | It's funny to hear that Joe Bonamassa is new to many people here. In the "blues scene" he is very well known but many blues fans think he is too bombastic and too slick, missing the rough edges of a true blues musician. I always thought Joe is more of a rock musician than a blues musician. In the rock genre (be it with a bluesy tone) he fits better i think...
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Mumford & Sons - Little Lion Man
(Aug 12, 2011 - 01:39) | I couldn't care less about the censorship, it's not like 50% of the lyrics have been changed you know...
And for the people who appreciate the censorship because of the kids listening, i can understand. However, you know they'll be exposed to foul language one way or the other (except for the Amish people, but they're not on these boards anyway), so does it really matter?
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Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing
(Aug 03, 2011 - 02:04) | Aahhh, the clean strat sound catches me every time... Beautiful sound and even more beautiful playing... Such a progressive piece of music in the late 70's...
10
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Toad The Wet Sprocket - Dam Would Break
(Aug 03, 2011 - 00:47) | Stingray wrote: considered to be a college-band!
Something that was sooo wrong!!
Not so much a college-band, more connected to people's memories from highschool/college...
Great band nonetheless... This is my favourite song!
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Cass McCombs - Harmonia
(Jul 29, 2011 - 06:04) | This morning in my car on my way to work this one came by again, one of the most beautiful songs i've heard over the last years. I thought to myself, haven't heard this one on RP for a long time and here it is... 
aaaahhhhhh... so soothing...
10
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Subdudes - All The Time In The World
(Jul 28, 2011 - 06:02) | Toke wrote:Likewise heard this track once and went straight and bought the Album all tracks are Brilliant, Great Band Great Lyrics Just a Magic Album Full marks RP 
If you love this, then you could also check out "the Band of Heathens". A great band from Austin, Texas. A very, very similar sound with a couple of great albums...
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Eilen Jewell - Dusty Boxcar Wall
(Jul 28, 2011 - 05:31) | I'm sorry, but i'm so NOT in the mood for her voice right now. So lazy, dragging every note to the next...
On other days it's okay, but not today... *sigh*
I'll shut up now...
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Mark Knopfler - What It Is
(Jul 28, 2011 - 02:22) | RobRyan wrote: Mark Knopfler/Dire Straits did a good song once. They have recycled that song many dozens of times since. If you've heard Sultans of Swing, you've heard their (his) repertoire.
I couldn't agree less... Clearly you haven't listened through Mark's discography, there's so much variety...
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Florence and The Machine - Cosmic Love
(Jul 28, 2011 - 00:54) | I find the instrumental outro very impressive, beautiful work on the harp, but i don't really like her voice, or rather, her way of singing... Too bad, because it's quite unique...
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Foo Fighters - Everlong (acoustic)
(Jul 27, 2011 - 07:19) | The "2 Meter Sessions" is actually a program hosted by a Dutch radio DJ by the name of Jan Douwe Kroeske. Many, many famous and also less famous artists have been on the show and left some really impressive live registrations.
So actually, "2 Meter Sessions" is not the correct name, it's "2 Meter Sessies", pronounced in English it would be "Tway Mayter Sesseas".
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The Raconteurs - Many Shades of Black (w/ Adele)
(Jul 27, 2011 - 05:28) | ginger wrote: This song doesn't really seem to let Adele showcase her great voice as much as her solo album does.
Well, that's probably because it's "The Raconteurs (w/ Adele)", not "Adele (w/ The Raconteurs)"...
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The Frames - Rise
(Jul 27, 2011 - 03:56) | claya wrote:Isn't this the vocalist from Swell Season? .... are my ears decieving me?
Yep, that would be Glen Hansard... Unmistakable voice...
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The Black Keys - Howlin' For You
(Jul 27, 2011 - 03:29) | What you don't hear with a regular speaker set is that the chorus has a very deep tone which gives it that extra powerful sound, so listening to this in my car with a fairly large subwoofer is pretty fun! 
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Los Lobos - The Town
(Jul 26, 2011 - 00:50) | Great song for a midnight drive down the highway... Nothing or nobody to see, just you, the car and the white lines on the road passing by...
8
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Neko Case - Things That Scare Me
(Jul 22, 2011 - 02:15) | gypsyman wrote: What's not to like?
Well, if that was my Mercury, i wouldn't like her standing on the hood and swinging a sword like that. You can stand and swing your sword 5 meters away from that car as much as you like but you don't stand on a Mercury... ... ...in my very humble opinion of course...
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Coldplay - Trouble
(Jul 22, 2011 - 00:54) | They had such a great feel to their music then, their new album has totally lost that feeling as far as i've heard it. At least that's how i feel about it...
This one: 9
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Fleet Foxes - Montezuma
(Jul 21, 2011 - 04:05) | ch83575 wrote: Maybe I am the only one, but I kinda like it.
I kinda like it too... I've heard the CD a couple of times now and like it so far. I love the first two CD's as well. But there's something about the Fleet Foxes, the replay value of their music isn't that good i think... At first i really love it but after a few listens i don't feel the urge to listen again... Then after a while when i convince myself to listen one of their CD's again i like it, but it doesn't happen spontaneously...
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Morcheeba - Enjoy the Ride
(Jul 20, 2011 - 06:20) | texashotrod wrote: Morcheeba!!! Fan-freakin-tastic group!! Her voice is angelic and brings me the feeling a valium does, I signed up for RP today and this was the first song I heard... So glad that I am "working" in the office so hard today and was able to discover this site. Great Selections/Artists and astute comments and observations. Happy Friday to all.
Well a very warm welcome to you Texas Hot Rod!! You'll love it here, i'm sure!
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Canned Heat - On The Road Again
(Jul 20, 2011 - 02:44) | To imagine in August these guys will play at a local Bluesrock Festival in a small town just around the corner from where i live...
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The Boxer Rebellion - Semi Automatic
(Jul 20, 2011 - 02:40) | rbschader wrote: Same for me. I now fly to different countries to see bands ( Great Big Sea, Young Dubliners) as well as get on every email list for many bands. August has me scheduled for 8 bands (7 I have heard on RP) in SoCal. Just found out Porcupine Tree is OPENING for a concert in San Diego next month. Opening?!?!?!
Sounds like a huge privilege... I'm from the Netherlands, the only thing i'd really wish to go to would be the Austin City Limits festival... A cousin of my was there and had a blast there... Of course i'd like to see more but if i had to choose, i'd choose to attend the ACL festival...
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Outback - An Dro Nevez
(Jul 20, 2011 - 01:48) | Just imagine, sitting in the middle of the Outback, seeing these guys play while in the background the red sun is setting... Sounds a lot better than sitting in this shitty office all day...
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Basia Bulat - Go On
(Jul 20, 2011 - 00:25) | I'm really impressed lately by Basia, at first i didn't really notice it but the last couple of times she came by here on RP it struck me, excellent sound!
Plus, she sort of has the Michelle Williams look going for her and in my book that's a good thing...
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Mark Knopfler - Marbletown
(Jul 19, 2011 - 06:04) | Heard an exquisite live version of this in the Heineken Music Hall in Amsterdam! Wonderful!
9
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Fleet Foxes - Your Protector
(Jul 19, 2011 - 05:52) | This and Mykonos remain my favourite tracks from the first two albums, but i have to admit, those albums don't see the CD-player a lot...
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The Byrds - My Back Pages
(Jul 19, 2011 - 04:58) | This song really does sound old and dated, but it works for me, very lovely harmonies...
8
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Pink Floyd - Us & Them -> Eclipse
(Jul 15, 2011 - 06:39) | chasech5 wrote:Nah. Its not that early stateside. Great way to wake up. Using the RP iTouch app with a radio dock.
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Sjaaks wrote:I'm probably the only one here:
Can you imagine, it's 6:36 am in CA, but it's 3:36 pm in the Netherlands and boy is this song making me sleepy...
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Kaki King - Gay Sons of Lesbian Mothers
(Jul 15, 2011 - 04:39) | MrKite wrote:
Why bring it up so often? A nice cocooned world you live in. In your own supposedly 'tolerant' country a man was fired recently from his job as a teacher in a state-funded school solely because he was gay ( a ruling supported by your government no less). And that's in the 'enlightened' west! If you open your eyes just a little wider you'll see plenty of horrible reasons.
And trust me, as someone who is gay - I hate having 'to bring it up' every time you start a new job, or meet new people. It's certainly not something that has me adding Yah! at the end. Not that I'm embarrassed or ashamed, the problem is you just never know what kind of a reaction you are going to get.
I know it's not as accepted as many people would want it to be, and i'm sorry it presents awkward situations for you now and then... 
And trust me, i know the Netherlands aren't as tolerant as many people claim it to be. Let me be clear about the fact that i don't have ANY problem at all with people being gay. I could try to write down my thoughts about the topic here but it'll probably come out wrong and i don't want to offend anyone, it's not always easy expressing yourself in a foreign language...
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Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
(Jul 15, 2011 - 02:15) | mortifyd wrote: Is there some requirement on this station to play a lame overly tired Dire Straights song once an hour? I get it Mark Knopfler is a gifted guitarist and lyricist - but I was around in the 80s and got tired of it then. This station came highly recommended and has pretty much played Dire Straits 9 out of 10 times I've tuned in in the last week.
It's not really making me want to keep listening.
But that's with so many artists... The also play a lot of Pink Floyd here or Pear Jam/Eddie Vedder. Just two out of a lot of artists i can perfectly live without, but there's so much good stuff here too that i keep coming back every time...
Please be thankful Bill doesn't play "Walk Of Life" or "Money For Nothing" or worse "Twisting By The Pool"...
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Pearl Jam - Just Breathe
(Jul 14, 2011 - 07:19) | 
This is the fourth time i hear Eddie Vedder today.... That's bad news for me......
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Amy Winehouse - You Know I'm No Good
(Jul 14, 2011 - 04:34) | I can not respect someone who is so disrespectful to life... Not liking this kind of music at all makes not liking her a lot easier too...
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Emmylou Harris - Red Dirt Girl
(Jul 14, 2011 - 00:43) | Saw Emmylou perform this one together with Mark Knopfler in 2006 in Ahoy Rotterdam.
Beautiful, BEAUTIFUL performance, especially with the addition of Knopfler's phenomenal guitar work, perfectly suited for a song like this... I still feel the goosebumps running up and down... A truely magical night that was...
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Joe Bonamassa - Dust Bowl
(Jul 13, 2011 - 06:07) | g-rod wrote:Based on a classic photograph of the Dust Bowl period in the Midwest:  Completely off topic, How come there isn't a Dust Bowl in college football??
Thanks for that very interesting piece of history there!
Amazing that's a picture, it looks more like a painting...
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The Airborne Toxic Event - Sometime Around Midnight
(Jul 13, 2011 - 04:27) | About 13 years ago, exactly what they're telling/singing about, happened to me. Man, was i frustrated... But then, 4 years later i met the woman of my dreams who now is also the mother of my wonderful daughter...
But it's cool when a song completely connects with something you've been through...
9
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Philip Glass - Opening
(Jul 13, 2011 - 02:17) |
Not that i think this is bad, it's just not helping me through a day's work... :)
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Chris Isaak - Wicked Game
(Jul 12, 2011 - 06:54) | I'd kill to have the gear to produce this guitar sound... But my Les Paul, my cheap Squier Strat and my Fender Super Champ amp won't get close to it.... Too bad...
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John Hiatt - Cry Love (live)
(Jul 12, 2011 - 06:14) | Papernapkin wrote:
'You are a douche.' Yeah, that's enlightened criticism.
In Dutch "douche" is the exact meaning of the word "shower". So let's keep it fun here:
Man! You are a shower!
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Fleet Foxes - Sim Sala Bim
(Jul 08, 2011 - 04:49) | On one hand i really like this album, on the other hand i constantly get the feeling they're trying too hard, especially after the song "Helplessness Blues". Throughout this album it's like they're constantly searching for some form of complexity but can't find it... I don't know, i get lost in some songs and then it loses its charm. But that's happened to me before and after a couple of more listens i really like it, so who knows...
This one on its own however; 8
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Aimee Mann - The Scientist (Live)
(Jun 30, 2011 - 00:12) | This cover is exactly the same as the original, with the exception of Aimee singing through her nose. Since it's not adding anything to the original, how can you like it more than the original??
It's beyond me, really... 
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R.E.M. - Losing My Religion
(Jun 29, 2011 - 07:14) | This one always recalls a special feeling i had when i was a little kid and when this was a hit... Wonderful song!
9
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Coldplay - Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall
(Jun 29, 2011 - 02:55) | Darlington wrote:
Yeah, I kind of feel the same way...I have always enjoyed them despite all the flogging they get here. However, this really doesn't do anything for me. Hope the rest of the record is better than this.
Yeah, this is the first i hear this new single but it's not doing anything for me either... It's all getting a bit happy and trendy, not for me...
5
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Talking Heads - (Nothing But) Flowers
(Jun 29, 2011 - 02:45) | Sorry people, i can't help it. The music is okay but DB's voice just touches all the wrong nerves.... I hate this guy, it's a feeling i can't suppres... I really hate him.... Horrible singer....
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Del Amitri - Tell Her This
(Jun 29, 2011 - 02:13) | This is the only song i know by them, but i sure love it!! Sweet and "little" piece of music and that's what i love about it!
9
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J.J. Cale - Fancy Dancer
(Jun 28, 2011 - 06:29) | Very knopfler-like playing.... That i like, the song itself is a bit bland....
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Dire Straits - Tunnel of Love
(Jun 28, 2011 - 04:09) | Still magical! The outro sends chills down my spine, again and again...
10 ——-> ...... ...... 10
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Crowded House - Archer's Arrows
(Jun 21, 2011 - 05:42) | Cynaera wrote:
You realize, of course, that you are our favorite troll ........ Make of it what you will.
Hey Cynaera, not too long ago you told me to not feed the troll... 
(by the way, how should i pronounce Cynaera, i have absolutely no idea)
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Elbow - The Birds
(Jun 21, 2011 - 03:44) | I think it's boring... I don't mind tension builders, but this one doesn't deliver....
4
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Joe Bonamassa - Slow Train
(Jun 15, 2011 - 04:53) | Stingray wrote:
With the difference that Trower can play the guitar!
HAHA, either you've never seen Robin Trower play guitar, or you were too wasted to make sense of it. I saw both Robin and Joe, Robin is a loser on guitar compared to Joe. Robin only knows the pentatonic scale and if you'd take away the 368 effect pedals that Robin all you hear is a sad little boy stuck in his third guitar lesson back in the day...
Seriously, i saw Robin last year, it's such a letdown given his reputation, not to mention his singer who (NO KIDDING) had the lyrics to the songs in front of him on stage...
Worst performance i've seen in a VERY, VERY long time...
Further more, i'm not a fan of Joe, i'm not into this theatrical blown-up sort of blues, but he is a very talented guitarist nonetheless...
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Joe Bonamassa - Dust Bowl
(Jun 10, 2011 - 03:48) | vandal wrote:
Joe is channeling his inner Robin Trower. . . awesome. . .
Yeah, except Robin doesn't have a fraction of the talent that Joe has..... (as a guitarist i mean)
Ow, and i really like the cover art, except for his logo, it seems a bit death-metal band like...
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Climax Blues Band - Couldn't Get It Right
(Jun 10, 2011 - 02:53) | lemmoth wrote:Well you've certainly proven the first part of your sentence by some of your bizarre ratings. So this is what qualifies as "fantastic." How about another tune from the same era - lets say David Bowie's Heroes - Oh yeah - you give that a 1 
Man, come on!! What's up with all the "let's check each others ratings and prove our points that way"... Music is purely a matter of taste, so what if he thinks DB's Heroes is a 1, that doesn't have anything to do with this song....
Just stick to your own ratings, discuss all you want about people's comments on a song, but don't use their ratings as a tool....
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Dire Straits - Expresso Love
(Jun 09, 2011 - 07:33) | Cynaera wrote:MY kidding?
I must say, you do have a lovely kidding! Mine's not so nice...
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Rolling Stones - Far Away Eyes
(Jun 09, 2011 - 06:56) | I really don't like the Stones, but i'm a sucker for sugar-sweet country, so i can't help but like this...
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Neko Case & Her Boyfriends - Whip the Blankets
(Jun 07, 2011 - 07:42) | romeotuma wrote:
She makes even country music sound cool... love it...
Uhm.... Nah, she makes country sound horrible...
I like Neko and her voice, but not with this...
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Cake - Long Time
(Jun 07, 2011 - 07:33) | Ohowohowohowohowahawahawahawell i don't like this....
4
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Cass McCombs - Harmonia
(May 27, 2011 - 04:35) | Have heard this one lots and lots of times over the last months and it's still growing on me...
10
imho
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Miles Davis - The Pan Piper
(May 25, 2011 - 03:10) | Probably not considered a compliment, but the high flutes make me think of the earlier Star Wars soundtracks...
I know.... Stupid, but i can't help it!!
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The Decemberists - Calamity Song
(May 25, 2011 - 02:45) | When this song kicks in it's like, .
Then you wait and listen and you're like, .
Then further along with the chorus and all it's  .
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Gary Jules - Mad World
(May 24, 2011 - 07:52) | Last weekend i took the time to watch Donnie Darko for the first time, i had seen it before but didn't pay attention to it....
WOW! Great, GREAT movie! A movie with a manual, but great! Especially hearing this song in that context makes it a beautiful song...
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Iron & Wine - Monkeys Uptown
(May 18, 2011 - 00:00) | There's something about singing with a low and a high voice that confuses me. It's done before but somehow i cannot place it. I don't even know if i like it or not...
Damn, that's strange, like this song...
So........ A 3 or a 7? I'll stick to a 6 for now....
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Morcheeba - Enjoy the Ride
(May 17, 2011 - 23:21) | Felix_The_Cat wrote:Strange that which such positive lyrics the song is in minor key..
Interesting to say the least... I'm gonna have to check out this album, if it's as good as this it'll be a trip!
9
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The Decemberists - Rise To Me
(May 17, 2011 - 06:28) | Amazing! Anything with a pedal steel gets an instant 7, but seeing as this is my favorite song of this album, i crank it up to a 9. I love the harmony between the singers and the pedal steel...
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John Lennon - Remember
(Apr 29, 2011 - 04:19) | Musically speaking, i'd say this is horrible in terms of quality.
But hey, music's made to feel, not to measure...
Even so:
3
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Neko Case - Dirty Knife
(Apr 28, 2011 - 07:42) | romeotuma wrote:
I hope Neko washed the dirt off her feet, before standing on the hood of this beautiful Mercury...
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The Decemberists - January Hymn
(Apr 20, 2011 - 05:52) | I'm liking this track more and more...
And all the comments about his voice, i can understand you don't like it... It's a hate-or-love voice...
7
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The Shins - A Comet Appears
(Apr 20, 2011 - 04:57) | Huey wrote: I bought this CD. Hate it. Who wants it?? PM me. the best reason gets it. I pay mailing.
My thanks goes out to Huey , who really was so kind as to send me this album, free of charge! I really love this album, especially this track, amazing!
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Soggy Bottom Boys - I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow
(Apr 19, 2011 - 04:13) | Misterfixit wrote: You all can joke all you want, but I remember as a child around 1950 at my Granny's home in Franklin, Tennessee, a bunch of itinerant buskers who went from house to house and played music just like this. It beat all to say the least. Granny had big old tears in her eyes when they sang "Amazing Grace". See, Granny was a'borned in 1862 and had buried 4 husbands, birthed 14 children after being married at 14 .. lived to be 102 years old. Dear Old Granny, Gone On Home to Glory.
Wow, those are some amazing memories you have!! Thanks for sharing!
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Fleet Foxes - Battery Kinzie
(Apr 19, 2011 - 03:33) | It seems as though they managed to keep their own sound, gonna have to listen to the entire album to decide whether that's a good thing or not... But this one sounds excellent!
8
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Cab Calloway - Minnie The Moocher
(Apr 15, 2011 - 05:30) | mvanderford60 wrote:
Poor, sad, little euro-trash - the future won't be kind to the hopelessly white.
No need to get rude... I'm sure my future will be very kind to me, no doubt. And who said anything about me being white? And what does that even have to do with this song?
By the way, assuming that's your last name, "van der" is a euro-trash name, my my, you must be happy about that...
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Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes
(Apr 15, 2011 - 00:53) | chadlymn wrote:
Do people who were little boys in the 80's really even know what good music is?
Well, good is a relative term of course. I'd like to think i know and like my share of "good" music. But since i got flamed a bit for my statement about this being an "annoying 80's keyboard like song" and "me being a small brat in the 80's" i have to say. In the last year or so this song came along in a series i watched and a movie which i both loved. So with that this got a bit more meaning, so i'll bump it up from a 4 to a 7.
So there!
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Foo Fighters - Everlong
(Apr 15, 2011 - 00:02) | It's weird, often i look at the playlist and see that i've just heard the Foo Fighters. Somehow this song seems to completely dodge my attention, so apparently i've heard it many times but never listened to it. With this i'm not saying it's bad, it's just, bland (? if that's the right word ?)...
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The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony
(Apr 14, 2011 - 04:22) | This is one of those songs people will still hear on the radio* 150 years from now... It's not that i love it so much, but it's so distinctive that i like it.
8
* whatever the concept of radio will be by then
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Leonard Cohen - The Future
(Apr 14, 2011 - 03:29) | aaronm wrote: I agree that the lyrics are brilliant, but I just absolutely do not connect with the musical (muzak-al?) part of this song. For my money, it works infinitely better as a poem than as a song — or at the very least, a song sung, to this tune, sung by Cohen.
+1
Hate this song in terms of its musical aspects...
3
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The Derek Trucks Band - Down In The Flood
(Apr 14, 2011 - 03:00) | romeotuma wrote:
How about noticing the
You go right ahead loving this, but it makes you wonder if you even allow yourself to listen to it while bombing everyone with those comments.
In context: I like this song, but it's not 45 comments worthy... That would be a 7.
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Keane - Your Eyes Open
(Apr 13, 2011 - 07:05) | Synth80s wrote: I don't care if some people overlook Keane. This, their first album, is a solid gem. Their follow-up albums have gotten progressively worse, though...
Completely agree, i was completely blown away by this album, listening in the car and screaming with it at the top of my lungs. Fantastic from the first song all the way through to the last. What came after was also a total dissappointment for my ears...
9
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The Decemberists - Down By The Water
(Apr 13, 2011 - 03:51) | I love the early work of the Decemberists, then this one came along and i was like, YUCK! That woman just can't seem to sing in key, horrible...
...so a friend of mine borrowed me the CD and i listened it about 10 times i guess and i must say, i really like it, i guess this song isn't the best one to present "the King is dead", at least not for me. I still don't like it, the rest of the CD i do...
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The Derek Trucks Band - Down In The Flood
(Apr 07, 2011 - 07:46) | fredriley wrote:
Seven comments on the one page. I think we get the picture...
Just for fun i counted Romeotuma's comments on this song and it's 44 !
So i think even the presidents agree with Fred, "we" get the picture, especially since 95% of those comments is "excellent, i love it".
 So how about leaving some room for comments that actually do contribute something...
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Sia - Breathe Me
(Apr 07, 2011 - 05:53) | kilroyjoe3 wrote: My volume is at 0! Why can't there be a 0 rating!?
Fake, needlessly aspirated, whispery voice and raspy throat sliding between notes. Scores right down there with nails across a chalk board.
0 isn't a value. So if you would like to state that you hate this song it would have to be stated by a value, "0" wouldn't say anything... But that's just a smart-ass reply...
I too have my share of "boy-i-wish-there-was-a-0-rating" songs.
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Adele - Rolling In The Deep
(Apr 07, 2011 - 03:18) | Not a fan of Adele at all!
But... I must say, this one has a very unique sound and i saw her sing it live on the most popular talentshow "The Voice Of Holland" and she did a great job. Very confident and strong personality.
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Son Volt - Tear Stained Eye
(Mar 30, 2011 - 03:01) | When people hear a lap- or pedal steel it's quickly considered country music. I do love country music in its purest form, not for 24 hours a day, but with the right dosis i love it. So much of music nowadays wouldn't exist if it wasn't for country music, so in some way many people like it i guess...
Ow, and not everybody that likes country music is a cowboy...
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King Crimson - Eyes Wide Open
(Mar 25, 2011 - 07:05) | To me it sounds like a "Let's see in how many different ways we can sing Eyes Wide Open". After 300 variations to singing that sentence, it's done...
2 —> 2
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Crowded House - Amsterdam
(Mar 25, 2011 - 06:32) | bwlang wrote:
Hmm - meet mister pronunciation
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/321174/van_gogh_the_pronunciation/
Mildly amusing, especially where he corrects himself.
I'm a Dutchman so i know how to pronounce it, but it always makes me laugh when someone says it in English "van Go". I think it's almost impossible to pronounce when you haven't mastered the Dutch language.
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Alexi Murdoch - Some Day Soon
(Mar 23, 2011 - 07:59) | Stingray wrote:
Geh' schaissn, Horst!
Sagt der Österreicher zu so einem Kommentar!
Who the fuck cares what kind of "Blue Mind" you like, HORSCHT...?
Is that a pile of shit i smell or is it Stingray again?! Are you aiming for the least-contributing-RP-listener-of-the-year-award again?
Wow, you are one sad story... Telling me - in a topic of an Alexi Murdoch song - nobody would care about another similar song, yet you think it's useful to post what some shitbrain Austrian guy would - NOT - say.
Please Stingray, do yourself a favour, don't waste your energy on posting these useless comments, try to save the last braincell that's left in that empty head of yours.
So.... If you like this, you'll love Alexi's song "Blue Mind" too... 
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Coldplay - The Scientist
(Mar 09, 2011 - 01:36) | Felix_The_Cat wrote:
HAHA
I was scrolling through the comments and right at the A-HOOOOOOO moment this one appeared... Very nice!! HAHA
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Guns N' Roses - Patience
(Mar 09, 2011 - 00:40) | scraig wrote: Nobody in rock was close to these guys in the early 90s.
Nobody in rock is as far off as these guys since the early 90's.
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Patty Griffin - Heavenly Day
(Mar 08, 2011 - 00:58) | At first i thought, oh... another rendition of Hallelujah.... But then this is Patty Griffing so that makes up for a lot!
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Kathleen Edwards - Goodnight, California
(Mar 04, 2011 - 06:13) | I'm happy Kathleen is higly appreciated here, and i said it before and i'll say it again and again,buy her album "Asking For Flowers", it's a gem!!
9
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Mark Knopfler - What It Is
(Mar 03, 2011 - 05:37) | Stingray wrote:
What the heck has music and guitar-playing to do with technic.
Technic is basic stuff. Without technic you cannot play any guitar!
Read those two sentences again...
1. What is "technic".
2. So basically, what you're saying is guitar-playing is or can be music, it has nothing to do with "technic". But without "technic" you can't play guitar, so....... uuuhhhh.....
You're not even making sense. For example, there are what you call session-guitarists. Technically some of them are VERY skilled, but it's possible they don't even like what they have to play, so that's what i mean by "terms of technical quality", at that point it doesn't really involve "feeling" you know... There are also guitarists who aren't really that good technically, but have a certain style of playing you really like.
And that's exactly what i meant. If i tell someone that i think Mark Knopfler is the best guitarist "out there", they can not tell me that's bullsh*t because another guitarist is way better. Maybe in terms in technical quality he or she can play stuff that's more complex, but if i don't like that guitarist's style, to me he or she is not better.
I have a suggestion for you, slow down with forcing your opinion on others. Every comment of yours i read is very aggressive opinion-wise. Not everything you say or feel or think is shared by everyone else... Shhheeessshhhh...
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Crowded House - Archer's Arrows
(Mar 01, 2011 - 06:04) | At first listen this one didn't stand out, it kind of blended into a day's work but with every listen this one is really growing on me. Excellent song!
8
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The Decemberists - Rise To Me
(Feb 24, 2011 - 06:06) | fredriley wrote:
...but that wave will eventually crash and break...
And what will remain after that crash and break? Yes exactly, that "too much" Country you were talking about... And i'm glad it will!
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The Decemberists - Rise To Me
(Feb 24, 2011 - 06:04) | freeone1 wrote: anything with a slide steel, steals my heart.
Couldn't agree more!! Such an amazing instrument!!
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Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower
(Feb 24, 2011 - 04:28) | YES YES YES YES YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
EXACTLY at the right moment!!!! Having a hard day @ work, everything and everyone against me so this one is VERY welcome!! YEAH!! Just the thing i need to set this rough day straight!
10 —> 1000000
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Ray LaMontagne - Beg Steal or Borrow
(Feb 23, 2011 - 02:51) | Boy, Bill is really making up for playing David Byrne and Brian Eno, first Sailing To Philadelphia and now this one, amazing!!
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Cab Calloway - Minnie The Moocher
(Feb 18, 2011 - 06:18) | The moment the effing heidi-heidi-blabla started, my colleague and i looked at each other and said in chorus, "i HATE this song!".
A well deserved 1
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The Shins - A Comet Appears
(Feb 16, 2011 - 07:55) | Huey wrote: I bought this CD. Hate it. Who wants it?? PM me. the best reason gets it. I pay mailing.
Considering your location, it would be wise to mail it to me... ;-)
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Wilco - Someone Else's Song
(Feb 15, 2011 - 03:25) | Strictly listening to this musically, i absolutely love it, it really fits me...
Strictly listening to this lyrical-wise, i can't help but laugh with a certain sad undertone...
Listening to this as a whole, i still really love it, it's a solid 9 for me!
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Joe Jackson - It's Different For Girls
(Feb 09, 2011 - 03:03) | Terrible! (IMHO) He always sings so whiny...
But then, i wasn't even born then so probably i lack the necessary memories that make up for the musical "terribleness"... 
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Alexi Murdoch - Towards The Sun
(Feb 08, 2011 - 07:24) | sailorgirl wrote: I would not normally like this layed back music, but I really need it right now. It's got a great effect. 2 days from now I'll put my beloved dog down. Old Man Jake is just too sick to carry on. We all need peace.
My sincere condoleances to you, a dog can be your best friend -unconditionally-, i have 2 dogs too and losing them is hard to imagine....
Good luck with everything...
And..... i really love this song.... 9
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Jimi Hendrix - Little Wing
(Feb 04, 2011 - 07:00) | sandpebble wrote:
With the exception of Stevie Ray.
I agree, SRV's version seems much more fluid, i personally like to hear SRV's cover rather than this one...
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Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris - Right Now
(Feb 02, 2011 - 07:03) | siskinbob wrote:I've told you a thousand times ...... Don't exagerate !!!
Sjaaks wrote:
It's still a nice change from the 100 times Pink Floyd every day...
Uhhh, no... you haven't told me at all...
At the time my statement wasn't actually exagerated, but i have to admit, lately i've been hearing a lot less of Pink Floyd so that's a good thing, for me at least...
And despite being a Mark Knopfler fan, i can understand people saying they hear a lot of Mark Knopfler here, believe it or not, i could live with less airplay for Mark but then, there's a lot of other crap that could be lost here so.......
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Kaki King - Gay Sons of Lesbian Mothers
(Feb 02, 2011 - 05:24) | The song is fine, but the title... :-|
Gay and lesbian are the same thing right? Almost everybody would like gay people to be accepted as much as hetero-sexuals. Then why bring it up so often. You don't hear people say the word hetero-sexual all the time, but the word gay is so over-used. Nowadays it's like, hey look at me, i'm GAY! Yah.... So what?! Enough already...
But like i said, the song is good!! 7
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U2 - Bad (Live)
(Jan 28, 2011 - 05:41) | Peace_tode wrote: Sjaaks wrote: "but personally "The Edge" is annoying the crap out of me... He always plays the same notes only in a different order" Sorry but this is an assinine statement. There is a finite number of notes to be played. But the order is infinite. And if you find a pattern, that might be defined as style. You have choices.
Well, what i mean is it's like he "invented" one melody or thingy and for all that came after that he just put that thingy backwards or something like that. It all sounds the same. And besides that, ALWAYS using a delay effect might sound cool, but it just shows your weakness as a guitar player because you can not bring it clean. It's like a pilot flying with auto-pilot, sure let's do that because it's safer that way and we won't be making any mistakes but it doesn't measure your qualities as a pilot... But i know, it's about the music, not about the individual, it's just that it bugs me sometimes that people look at guitarists like these as being gods but in fact they are far from it...
No... Not for me, it's incredibly overrated in my humble opinion...
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The Lost Satellites - Andromeda Rises
(Jan 26, 2011 - 03:56) | jhorton wrote: Wow, that guy has David Gilmour's voice!
My thoughts exactly, but maybe that's because here at work i can't turn the speakers up...
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R.E.M. - Pretty Persuasion
(Jan 21, 2011 - 05:09) | There is only one thing that comes to mind when i hear this song:
A.D.D.
It's freaking me out!
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The Beatles - A Day In The Life
(Jan 14, 2011 - 04:26) | I don't get it, in the "top-rated songs" section it says this one scores a 9.6something. And here it says a 9.3.
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The Black Keys - Too Afraid to Love You
(Jan 14, 2011 - 04:16) | Stingray wrote:
Oh really...!
Pink Floyd (of the "Shine on" period) have nothing, noooooooooooooooooooothing WHATSOEVER
to do with the "Keys" - nothing. NO THING!!!
Play Grand-Daddy's favourite - then you let the KEYS tell you how wrong and endlessly BOOORING
the 80 years olds are! I am looking for the right explanation - hard to find in another language!
I hear "Crazy Diamond" (the title+lyrics alone is pure madness) and see 12.000 aged Hippies. Bold,
pony-tail, earring (or two), silly tattoo, wrinkled and a pityful Hippy-Chick sitting by their side - both of them
slow-motion headbanging to the "1-beat-per-minute" sound of this retirement-home band!
Yes, true - I hate them. But most of all I hate what they stand for!
Now a secret: Once I loved FLOYD and especially "Crazy Diamond" Yes - I did. I admit it!
How many years ago was that? 50? 30 at least! For me some 20!
Comparing them and their songs to modern-intellgent music makes me nothing but...
bitterly smile! Mostly about what fools all those must be, that rate this "Hippy-bull" more than a 5!
You could have given this an 8 when it came out. Give itmore than 5 today is retro in a very very stupid-old way!
Common - do what you like! Leave me alone. I give a shit what you like!!
It's as if Bill read your comment, because today, this Black Keys song is followed by Pink Floyd, hehehe...
But man, you are really agressive with your opinions. You could tell the same as above with a lot less anger and less prejudices...
The dark side, you are from...
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Crowded House - Amsterdam
(Jan 14, 2011 - 02:48) | Another "Amsterdam"...
I know Coldplay has a song called Amsterdam, Shane Alexander has one, Jacques Brel wrote one, Guster has one and i know there are a couple more... Must be an inspiring city for artists... :-)
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Moby - Find My Baby
(Jan 13, 2011 - 08:07) | Cynaera wrote: I generally like Moby, but this mix gives me a headache. That "WHOO!" after almost every line is like knowing the cat is killing a bird outside the window and waiting for the next excruciating scream of pain. I want it to stop, but I know it'd be useless to intervene...
EXACTLY! I was getting really annoyed by the "WHOO!" also.... But hey, at least it's over now... 
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Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit - The Blue
(Jan 13, 2011 - 00:57) | dmax wrote: The beginning is SUCH a steal from "Why Don't We Do It In The Road."
Hmmmm, i'm gonna look it up, it would be a shame since i really like this song!
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Talking Heads - Born Under Punches
(Jan 12, 2011 - 03:05) | dmax wrote: Imagine how old this song is (THIRTY YEARS), and therefore how groundbreaking.
Not really, since they´re using those typical 8-bit Nintendo-like sounds... Exactly THAT is what makes it sound old...
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Bob Dylan - Rollin' And Tumblin'
(Jan 12, 2011 - 02:05) | It's like they actually 100% copied the guitar from Muddy Waters' version, this is sad.... Why cover a song if you're trying to make it sound exactly the same...
Since i like the original, a 4.
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Stevie Ray Vaughan - Riviera Paradise
(Jan 11, 2011 - 08:02) | Stingray wrote: HEARD STEVIE is rehearsing with
Elvis and Jimi...
TRUE...?
With Jimi maybe, but i've heard Elvis is eating burgers at the "Heavenly Diner" all the time...
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Keane - Playing Along
(Jan 07, 2011 - 07:01) | frecko wrote: I'm gonna turn down the volume...
That's by far the least inspired comment for this song...
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Stevie Ray Vaughan - The Sky Is Crying
(Jan 07, 2011 - 00:23) | Blues music is not for everybody. I think blues music is something you grow into or not. If you can only listen to it melodically (if that's even a word), than i understand you think it's all the same. I thought the same some years ago but after attending a blues festival and seeing a few artist express their feelings through this kind of music it became something totally new for me. The art is in making somebody believe the story you're trying to tell and not every blues artist is capable of that.
So for me blues music is something really unique in the world of music, but like i said, i understand if somebody feels the exact opposite.
So that's another 2 cents...
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Patty Griffin - Sweet Lorraine
(Jan 05, 2011 - 05:19) | bobcat1963 wrote:hou op! ik krijg dr koppijn van!
Welnee joh!
Great song and an outstanding performance!!
9
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Camel - Rajaz
(Jan 04, 2011 - 08:12) | If there is one guitarist this guy sounds like it is DEFINITELY Snowy White. Just listen to Snowy White's rendition of "Midnight Blues". It's almost a copy....
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Robin Trower - Day of The Eagle
(Jan 04, 2011 - 00:47) | I saw Robin Trower last summer live at the Blues Rock Festival here in the Netherlands.
What a big dissappointment, he constantly uses his effect pedals and the poor guy only knows pentatonic scales. Further more, his singer (and i'm NOT kidding) had to use lyric sheets to sing the lines... Man, i felt really sad for these guys, with all the talent i saw that day, Robin Trower was really, really bad...
3
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Sonny Landreth - Howlin' Moon
(Dec 17, 2010 - 03:17) | A sincere request Bill, please play "The Goin' On" or "Let It Fly" from this album... Way better IMO and much more representative of Sonny's real talent...
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Mark Knopfler - Hill Farmer's Blues
(Dec 09, 2010 - 00:07) | To me, the best song of this album by far and definitely in the top 3 of Knopfler's solo work. And if you think this is good, you should hear it live with a couple of minutes of improvisation as outro —> *goosebumps*.
10, no less than godlike
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Mat Kearney - City of Black & White
(Dec 08, 2010 - 07:52) | First heard this song on a mixtape a friend of mine made for me, i was pleasantly surprised, especially by the outro....
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Ludovico Einaudi - Andare
(Dec 08, 2010 - 00:30) | Didn't think i'd live to see it happen but today Ludovico's music moved me...
I was looking through the window, it's a dark and gray day today. I saw a very lonely snowflake make his way past the trees to the ground and then this song started, i have to admit that was perfect.........
3 —> 8
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Clinic - For The Wars
(Dec 03, 2010 - 02:25) | There's a little bit of Elbow - Mirrorball in there if you listen closely...
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Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond
(Nov 23, 2010 - 06:48) | Usually i'm not really crazy about Pink Floyd, to me they have their ups en downs, but this one is a totally different story... Amazing from the first second to the last and rating it any lower than a 10 would mean i don't take myself seriously...
Funny story by the way, my parents got married in the early 70's and my dad made a video of their wedding and for certain parts he used this song, but besides that i already knew i got my musical taste from him...
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U2 - All I Want Is You
(Nov 23, 2010 - 05:03) | eddief wrote: Definitely in the top 5 of all time great Edge guitar solos.....
And VERY low in the top 1.000.000 of all time guitar solos...
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Guster - The Captain
(Nov 22, 2010 - 06:11) | Sjaaks wrote: This is amazing, wouldn't have guessed this is Guster... Great outro!!
9
I couldn't agree more!
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Tired Pony - Held In The Arms Of Your Words
(Nov 19, 2010 - 04:40) | A friend of mine told my i should listen to this CD, even though he knows i don't like Snow Patrol. So... i listened to the CD several times but no....
The songs which aren't sung by Gary i do like but the one by Gary, no.... There's way too much Snow Patrol for me in there, it doesn't bring anything new.
It seems they were shooting for a highly influenced-by-country album but they say it turned out more of an Americana album......... No.... Not really.... By the way, if you ask me, this is one of the worst songs on the album, there are a couple of songs which are way better...
5
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Lucy Kaplansky - I Had Something
(Nov 19, 2010 - 04:32) | SERIOUSLY, if you like/love this, listen to the cd "Red Horse" by "Red Horse", a collective of Lucy Kaplansky, Eliza Gilkyson and John Gorka. Trust me, you'll love it!!
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Moby - Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad
(Nov 18, 2010 - 06:46) | I remember getting goosebumps from the moment the bass (not the beat) kicks in... Always loved this one.... Nice and simple...
9
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Coldplay - High Speed
(Nov 15, 2010 - 06:22) | The_Seeker wrote: Coldplay: As overrated as Donnie Darko.
Haha, good one... Though i like both Coldplay and Donnie Darko (the movie that is)....
Although i have to admit that i grew tired of Coldplay's most recent album (Viva La Vida) rather quickly.
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Belly - Gepetto
(Nov 15, 2010 - 05:50) | romeotuma wrote:
This song is good for the ears...
Actually, it's not..... At least not for my ears, this huge wall of sound is just penetrating my ears with brute strength, very badly produced....
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Eric Clapton - Reconsider Baby
(Nov 12, 2010 - 08:01) | Maybe there should be a new term for this kind of music. I mean, if "the Blues" should only be played by "poor black guys" (this is not what i'm implying), then how do you call this what EC's playing right now? Most people nowadays refer to "the Blues" when they hear a 12 bar three chord song with the typical turn-arounds, but does it HAVE to be about suffering and all that?
Well, NO.
I play the guitar myself and i'm a "white boy", but hell i sure like to play "the Blues". Not because i'm suffering but because it's FUN to play it. So maybe we should call it "the Reds" i don't know...
All in all, i think it's rediculous if you're whining about a "white boy" playing "poor black guys" music. Come on, is it still 1930 or what?!?!?!
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Mark Knopfler - Camerado
(Nov 12, 2010 - 04:18) | Excellent! Great to hear this one in the mix... There are more "B-side" songs by Mark that didn't make one of his albums, for instance "The Long Highway", i believe that one was released on the "What It Is" single just like this tune "Camerado".
Anyway, love this!
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Mark Knopfler - What It Is
(Nov 11, 2010 - 07:04) | Laurelai wrote:I am rating number 1337!!! I always knew I was 1337
I wonder how many people here know what you mean...
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The Black Keys - Too Afraid to Love You
(Nov 08, 2010 - 07:09) | Such a strange song, great, but strange. When it kicks in it's like some sort of underground Wu-Tang Clan song with a stolen riff in it and then somehow they change the whole atmosphere and make it totally their own.
Very nice!!
8
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Tom Petty - Angel Dream (No. 4)
(Nov 05, 2010 - 07:03) | Damn, this one's REALLY annoying when listening with headphones on. The "clicky-sounds" drive me crazy.... Don't get me wrong, it's a nice song, just not so much through headphones...
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Dire Straits - Once Upon A Time In The West
(Nov 05, 2010 - 01:55) | Godlike for sure... The clean texas pickup sound of Mark's red strat and the touch of his fingers truely make for a unique sound.... To me, it touches all the right nerves...
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Coldplay - The Scientist
(Nov 03, 2010 - 03:27) | With all the whining by all the Coldplay haters here, i can't even hear Chris Martin whine anymore...
Damn...
Anyway, i love this one...
9
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Ray LaMontagne - Beg Steal or Borrow
(Oct 27, 2010 - 02:04) | I do like country, but Ray's voice somehow makes it different from country, it's the pedal steel that's the closest to country.
Anyway, i love this song, Ray's music is really growing on me!
8
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Energy 52 - Cafe del Mar
(Oct 25, 2010 - 01:23) | Heard the chords and the sound effects and i thought, this can't be Cafe del Mar can it? And yeah it is, of course only here on RP this epic version...
I'm not into dance/trance anymore but classics like this remain to be loved...
9
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Trespassers William - Lie in the Sound
(Oct 22, 2010 - 08:00) | hulabell wrote: Hate to admit but I found this song because it was on an episode of "One Tree Hill" and it just gets more beautiful each time I hear.
I think so too, have heard it lots 'n lots but still not tired of it....
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Alexi Murdoch - Towards The Sun
(Oct 22, 2010 - 05:14) | Well, too bad a lot of people don't like it... I just love the mood Alexi sets with his music, calm and peaceful... And believe me, here in the Netherlands we could use more of that, with all the political chaos and multicultural issues we're dealing with nowadays, sometimes everything's getting so hostile here, not on the outside but you can feel it growing.....
So thanks Alexi and thank you Bill, this one puts my mind at ease, even if it's just for 3 minutes.... 
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Ray LaMontagne - Repo Man
(Oct 22, 2010 - 04:53) | Cynaera wrote: WOW. I'm so glad to know that Ray LaMontagne has stopped sowing his wild oats in flower pots!
HAHA, Bill just quoted your comment, how cool is that!!!
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Grateful Dead - Me & My Uncle
(Oct 22, 2010 - 04:32) | Me likey likey...
mrandrew wrote:OK, thats it. Enough of Radio Cowboy. I'm changing the channel. Someone call me when Radio Paradise is back.
Have fun at the other channel, but i don't think anyone is gonna call you...
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Dire Straits - Down To The Waterline
(Oct 22, 2010 - 03:03) | SirLars wrote: one of my favourite guitarists... that fingerpicking on the electric is so definitive of dire straits...
Indeed, the clean and edgy sound that Mark got out of his strat back in the day was really groundbreaking...
What a guy!
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Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
(Oct 22, 2010 - 01:54) | sirdroseph wrote:This is one of those transcendant songs that is absolutely immune to overplay. Played on clear channel, every day, every 10 minutes, don't care, irrelevant!!
Hardly... The first dozen times i heard it i thought, wow, what a unique and great song... But nowadays it just comes in one ear and just as fast out of the other... To me it lost its special-ness...
And i doubt you would like to hear this song every 10 minutes...
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The Wailin' Jennys - One Voice
(Oct 22, 2010 - 00:38) | natalita wrote: sounds like sesame street
Then i hope my kid gets to see lots and lots of Sesame Street...
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Chemical Brothers - One Too Many Mornings
(Oct 21, 2010 - 08:02) | On_The_Beach wrote:
What's that? Hawaiian noises?
Bangin' on the bongos like a chimpanzee
That ain't workin', that's the way you do it
Get your money for nothin' and your chicks for free
danmcminn wrote:Hey, don't you have some fridges and microwaves to deliver?
Neh, that little ******'s got his own jet airplane, that little ****** he's a millionaire...
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Emancipator - Nevergreen
(Oct 21, 2010 - 06:41) | allenrudd wrote: I'm going with lion.
Lions aren't what they used to be... My imagination is really running wild here, but i think i see a cliff...
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Grateful Dead - Dire Wolf
(Oct 20, 2010 - 07:08) | Well........ i love it!!
But then, i'm totally in love with the pedal steel sound...
8
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Gazpacho - Winter Is Never
(Oct 14, 2010 - 04:28) | RedGuitar wrote: Who would name their band after a cold soup?
gazpachoid wrote:Every band name is stupid if you see it this way. Who would name an account after a musical instrument? Jon-Arne from the band explained where the band name came from in this interview.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Sorry, but i thought that was really hilarious.... HAHA
As for this song, wow, REALLY nice....
9
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Coldplay - White Shadows
(Oct 14, 2010 - 02:25) | cactusmatador wrote:
2005 is "back in the day" ? Really?
To me it seems ages ago, a lot has happened since... I was in a very different phase of my life so yeah, it's sorta like back in the day... And now i think of it, not being English/American, i wouldn't know how to say/put it differently either...
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Massive Attack - Paradise Circus
(Oct 13, 2010 - 23:53) | fredriley wrote:
I was brought up a Catholic in the South of Ireland, and know plenty about Christian beliefs, and at the very centre of Catholicism (and other Christian sects, but most clearly in Catholicism) is the repression of sexuality by means of guilt. It took me a long time to get over that conditioning.
And here i am a VERY happy man for being a non-believer... Imagine that...
We're just organisms founded by nature and we're doing what we are designed for, surviving and breeding. It just so happens were intelligent enough to let ourselves believe there is "something" or "someone" above.... But not for me, when i die, i believe, it stops.... No heaven, no hell, just the end of an organism, the way nature works, the same as a fly or the same as a fish, it stops there....
But hey, that's just my perspective on things...
As for this song, it has a certain atmosphere and it always gets my full attention...
8
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Calexico - Deep Down
(Oct 13, 2010 - 01:21) | Stingray wrote: CALEXICO is good for STINGRAY!
Not super-trooper-sonic good!
But pretty good - I like them lots!
Bet they are a good live-band!
Great riff!
They ARE a great live band! I never actually saw them live, but i've seen a concert on DVD and was blown away by it, imagine actually standing in the crowd.
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Kathleen Edwards - Asking for Flowers
(Oct 12, 2010 - 01:37) | mfassett wrote:
Great road trip music.
Indeed, last year me and my girlfriend hired a mini-campervan and travelled all the way through New Zealand, this CD came by very often... Excellent mood-setting music....
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Tommy Emmanuel - Gameshow Rag/Cannonball Rag
(Oct 11, 2010 - 03:12) | nate917 wrote: I'd like to hear what all the guitarists out there think of this — technique, style, etc. I like it, but I don't know enough about guitar to say something like "well, he's no Leo Kottke...."
Well... I play the guitar for about 2 years now... I know i catch on pretty quick but this is a totally different case. For this guy somehow the word guitarist isn't enough... It's really strange, it's more than just playing what he does, it's as if his hands/arms function in a total different way compared to any other guitarist... Technically i'd say (MHO) he's the best "guitarist" out there...
However, to me, such fast and complex pieces of music totally lose the feeling of the music behind it... It just gets on my nerves and after a couple of minutes i really need to hear something that communicates with me, not something that just launches hundreds of chord progressions and scales AT me...
So... Hearing a Tommy Emmannuel song every now and then is great, but no more than that for me....
7
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Alexi Murdoch - Some Day Soon
(Oct 08, 2010 - 05:16) | My sincere condoleances too... Sometimes i think of the day i will have to say goodbye to my father, with whom i share(d) a really amazing life, and i can't imagine how difficult it must be.... However i can understand how a beautiful song like this connects with an experience like that...
9
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Dire Straits - Single Handed Sailor
(Oct 08, 2010 - 01:20) | Papernapkin wrote: Lazy DJ-ing to play Dire Straits so much.
Don't worry, one of the daily 20 Pink Floyd songs will be back on any second...
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Talking Heads - Psycho Killer
(Oct 08, 2010 - 00:46) | horstman wrote:And then me and the rest of the heads would promptly kick your ass and throw you out of the venue. 
Ooohhh, but then.... No one in the world could make me attend something as bad as this... So you go kick somebody else's ass...
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Jimi Hendrix - Gypsy Eyes
(Oct 07, 2010 - 01:27) | toterola wrote:
I think Jimi owes his "immortality" to being mortal. If he'd still live today, i don't think he would be such a legend....
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Jimi Hendrix - Gypsy Eyes
(Oct 07, 2010 - 01:25) | Electric Ladyland (0)
Respect, electric guitars and amplifiers in the year 0. Clearly ahead of its time...
Not a very brilliant piece of songwriting though....
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Son Volt - Jukebox of Steel
(Oct 06, 2010 - 01:21) | socalhol wrote: MojoJojo wrote:Nails + chalkboard = Sun Volt Dufus, faux-folk/grunge, whiny tripe. Yes, I am in a bad mood, but still...  I'm in a good mood and I'll still agree with you! Sun Volt = 
Hmmm, don't know Sun Volt, i'm gonna have to look 'em up.
Son Volt though, i like!
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Deodato - Also Sprach Zarathustra
(Oct 04, 2010 - 00:17) | Haha, this is quite funny...
Love the way how they combined the high ending note of the classical piece with a 7 chord.... HAHA! Great!
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Mark Knopfler - What It Is
(Sep 30, 2010 - 05:46) | Zigi wrote:
Neither of them can hold a candle to Jimi or some of today's virtuoso's so the discussion is irrelevant anyway. Who do you like more is important and that's personal.
Here we go again....
Now you're talking about technical qualities. Jimi was an incredible influential guitarist, but there are so many guitar players since and today which are technically way better, but they are not all famous.
And i'm not saying that Mark Knopfler is one of them, i know he's not the most technical player but he has his own style...
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Sia - Breathe Me
(Sep 30, 2010 - 04:59) | dboseman wrote: This first time I heard this was when I saw the last episode of "Six Feet Under." I thought I was going to make it through the show without crying, but when the final scene began and this music started playing I lost it.
Ditto.... Such a beautiful and emotional ending to an amazing series!
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Rolling Stones - Far Away Eyes
(Sep 30, 2010 - 00:17) | nagsheadlocal wrote: Seriously annoying.
If you want real country, try Merle Haggard or Johnny Cash. If it's parody you're looking for, try Weird Al Yankovic.
This just sucks.
Yes! YES! Thank you!
I wonder why good ol' Merle doesn't get any playtime here... But then again, so many people can't stand country music...
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XTC - Greenman
(Sep 29, 2010 - 06:26) | Working on something here and for some reason it just got really f*cked up and now i'm really screwed. Have to do the damn thing all over again and it's gonna cost me hours to finish it.
And then there's this song playing. Out-of-this-world annoying, it's like it's laughing in my face because things all turned out wrong....
Oh, when......does.....the...hurting.............stop...........
Ow wait, that's now, it's over....
If only there were a rating below 1 for these rare occasions....
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Eliza Gilkyson - Is It Like Today
(Sep 29, 2010 - 01:50) | I'm totally in love with the CD Red Horse. Red Horse is a collective of Eliza Gilkyson, John Gorka and Lucy Kaplansky.
Eliza is one talented songwriter!
This one: 8
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Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris - Right Now
(Sep 29, 2010 - 00:42) | ziakut wrote: Not to complain too terribly...but there's an awful lot of Mark Knopfler being played in one day here....kinda surprising. I like...but a little goes a long way.
It's still a nice change from the 100 times Pink Floyd every day...
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U2 - In God's Country
(Sep 27, 2010 - 07:52) | tanyaahogan wrote:THE one, ALL-time, MOST amazing song
Uhm........
No.....
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Indigo Spirit - Legends
(Sep 27, 2010 - 07:44) | RedGuitar wrote:
'better "THAN" Indigo Girls' is the correct grammar. Why do people have trouble with homonyms and 'then - than' usage?
Uh, let me think... Well it's a wild guess but maybe because not everybody here is from an English-speaking country? 
It's one thing to expect that people can read/write/speak English, but it's another to expect people to fully understand the language and all its grammar stuff...
As you probably know by now, i'm not from an English-speaking country myself, i'm Dutch. Now you try to translate "Better than Indigo Girls" to Dutch and let's see how you do...
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Bob Dylan - Desolation Row
(Sep 23, 2010 - 06:02) | Dylan writes some great stories. The problem with him i think is that most of these stories are more fit for a book then for a song... Like this one... How long is it? A day and a half?
5
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Allman Brothers - Jessica
(Sep 21, 2010 - 07:25) | I really respect the Allman Brothers but this....
It's nice the first 3 seconds, the next million times of the same melody get more annoying and annoying... F###, i hate it even more than the last time i heard it...
Sorry, but this is a 1 for me...
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Stevie Ray Vaughan - Couldn't Stand The Weather
(Sep 21, 2010 - 06:13) | Cynaera wrote: I saw a documentary on SRV on PBS - .......................
Totally agree with you, it's all emotion and raw feeling if you see him play, the man and his guitar are one all the way...
This song, i hadn't heard it before, but wow, what a groove!! 
10
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Elbow - Mirrorball
(Sep 16, 2010 - 07:17) | I'm probably the only one here, but in terms of musical quality this is really good. I loved the song and listened to it quite often but it's becoming less and less every time i hear it. When listening to it now i'm almost wishing it's over. I'm also not quite sure if this one can stand the test of time...
But hey, just my
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Santana Brothers - Luz Amor Y Vida
(Sep 16, 2010 - 06:47) | jkhandy wrote: All of Santana starts to sound the same after awhile. Not a very wide range there. IMHO.
I agree. He always uses the same distorted sound and besides that, this song is one of many same-sounding songs of his...
Not a bad guitarist, but it's all not very creative...
5
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The Black Keys - I'm Not The One
(Sep 16, 2010 - 06:27) | First heard the Black Keys here on RP. But only recently they caught my attention, great GREAT band!!
And it probably has been said a million times here, but the cover is very original, cool!
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Michelle Shocked - Secret to a Long Life
(Sep 16, 2010 - 02:31) | Despite Romeotuma's very surprising comment, i like the country-groove this one's got going... Being a dutchman the lyrics (when English) usually are something i pay attention to after a couple of listens...
For now, a 7.
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Alexi Murdoch - Some Day Soon
(Sep 15, 2010 - 01:44) | If you love this one from Alexi, you'll love his song "Blue Mind" too, my favorite...
Think i'm gonna have to see "Away We Go" because of the reviews here, my girlfriend didn't think the movie was that good though...
But with a soundtrack like this, you can't go wrong IMHO...
8
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Guster - Ruby Falls
(Sep 15, 2010 - 00:18) | I love the way this song builds and then sorta fades out with a very subtle piece but then all of a sudden there's the trumpet...
8
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Roy Buchanan - Sweet Dreams
(Sep 14, 2010 - 23:30) | slippery wrote:Didn't know Mitch had a brother..? 
Yeah he did. But Mitch always got lucky with the hot women (e.g. Baywatch), so that's why Roy's got the blues...
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My Morning Jacket - Golden
(Sep 10, 2010 - 02:38) | The singing's very nice and i love the melody! They really have some great songs!!
9
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Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
(Sep 08, 2010 - 03:38) | I hate to say it (cause it's being said very often) but this one is being played really often. Lots of songs get played a often, but this one almost daily. I wonder if that's good for the overall appreciation of the song....
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Mumford & Sons - Awake My Soul
(Sep 03, 2010 - 03:52) | fredriley wrote:This lot remind me of the Decemberists, who are far better, as they both seem to be avatars of a 'nu-folk' movement. M&S are pretty big this side of the Pond it seems, though I could never fathom their appeal. Ho-hum
They are pretty big on this side of the pond indeed... Two weeks ago at a pretty big festival here in the Netherlands; Lowlands (70.000 or so). They were favorite, also sold the most cd's there...
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Eliza Gilkyson - Angel and Delilah
(Sep 03, 2010 - 03:49) | Never heard Eliza here on RP, yesterday i bought the album Red Horse by Red Horse. Eliza is one of the three masterminds behind that production... Amazing!!!
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Monsters of Folk - Temazcal
(Sep 02, 2010 - 07:24) | dj-amma wrote: ...and Conor has several among the best (this one included)...
Ah, so this is Conor from Conor Oberst, thought i recognized the voice...
This is nice indeed!
8
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U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
(Sep 01, 2010 - 05:25) | horstman wrote:
Ah, most architectural ruins are created by the forces of man or nature. It could be that a lot of castles caught on fire during times of war, feuding, or just the occasional cooking/heating accident.
For me, the unforgettable fire signifies on the cover a tragedy long gone but not completely forgotten. You're a lot closer to these castles than I Sjaaks, perhaps you could walk around and feel the energy that these beautiful structures still exude. The United States has far fewer of these treasures standing, most being war battlements.
History is a powerful force that U2 were trying to convey in this album. I say they did very well.
It's not that i don't like castles, it's the opposite actually. I visited quite a lot of castles and always like the atmosphere that seems to dwell amongst these great architectural wonders. But the cover is just too easy man....
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James Horner - Sing, Sing, Sing
(Sep 01, 2010 - 05:22) | Jelani wrote: Why, when I hear this, do I always seem to get an image of a cartoon wolf in a Zoot Suit dancing the jitterbug?
Funny, i always get an image of Jim Carrey in that very very bad movie the Mask... By which i'm saying, this song annoys the crap out of me...
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Nada Surf - Your Legs Grow
(Sep 01, 2010 - 04:00) | crockydile wrote:
7? Really??!! "Where it's cold but not that deep 'Cause your legs grow." I could randomly arrange words on a refrigerator to make better lyrics. Ugh.
Well, i like this song for its musical qualities... But i have to agree, the lyrics don't make the slightest bit of sense...... At least not to me, but i'm just a dutch guy...
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Neil Young - Rockin' In The Free World
(Sep 01, 2010 - 03:07) | I respect Neil and his work, but this is really bad, oh boy.... His harp playing is hurting my ears, sounds like someone playing it for the first time with breath-shortage....
3
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Cranberries - Zombie (Live Acoustic)
(Sep 01, 2010 - 03:01) | To me it's especially the "flipping-over" of her voice (damn, don't know the English word for it) that makes it even worse... If you do that, you better be sure to do it in tune, but every time she "flips-over" her voice she goes a couple of notes too high.....
That's so bad it's not even funny.... Poor woman, if she'd only understand...
2
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Gogol Bordello - Pala Tute
(Aug 30, 2010 - 05:48) | Bill just commented on this song before it started. Something about "despite its 4.3 rating, i still think it's really fun to listen".... Excellent, sometimes you have to take something for yourself!
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Albert King - Born Under a Bad Sign
(Aug 30, 2010 - 03:33) | Huh? Why is the exact same song twice to be found in the database...
I was sure i rated this one, but it said otherwise....
Oh well....
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Notting Hillbillies - Your Own Sweet Way
(Aug 30, 2010 - 01:45) | QueenLucia wrote: I wanted to listen to this cd the other day. I pulled out the case, opened it up, and the cd was missing! I presume it's having a good time, wherever it is. Hope it comes home soon.
HAHA, nice one!!
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Ryan Adams - New York, New York
(Aug 26, 2010 - 04:54) | Hmmmmm, listen to "Darling Pretty" by Mark Knopfler, it's from 1996. Would you say it resembles??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqHJWsgGx4g
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Cass McCombs - Harmonia
(Aug 26, 2010 - 03:23) | ladyj wrote:I agree hippiechick wrote:Nice slide guitar!
+1
This is great!!
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Jimmy Thackery - Burford's Bop
(Aug 26, 2010 - 02:37) | The guitar sound is great, it's so fun playing this way!! Strumming all the way down to the bridge, great sound!!
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Harry Manx - Baby Please Don't Go
(Aug 26, 2010 - 02:10) | I think this has to be listened to in context. So many (blues) artists don't play by setlists, they just play whatever they feel like. So when you're attending a concert it's always pretty cool when an artist comes up with a cover of a cool song, it's always surprising.
For radio purposes, i agree these covers aren't always suitable...
Though i really like Harry's take on this one...
8
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Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes
(Aug 26, 2010 - 01:54) | To all the fans here,
I was still a little boy during the eighties, so to me this sounds like a very overrated annoying eighties keyboard like song. So if you do not have some sort of a sentimental connection with this song, it's really not that good, believe me...
4
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Erin McKeown - Blackbirds
(Aug 26, 2010 - 01:12) | 4 —> 6
Not much, but ey, gotta be honest here... Still love it musically but i keep hearing her sing "this doesn't sound right, now does it?"...
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U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
(Aug 20, 2010 - 07:50) | What an incredible uninspirational cover.... Hey you know what, we live in Ireland, why not take a picture of this castle and get that out of the way...
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The Moody Blues - Nights in White Satin
(Aug 20, 2010 - 07:41) | iTuner wrote: Where's the emoticon of someone puking?
HAHA
I could post it now, but that's too easy....
I'm not a big fan of this, but i like the cover art!
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John Lennon - Imagine
(Aug 20, 2010 - 03:25) | jatkins679 wrote:
I can't tell you how awful such a comment makes you seem. John Lennon was about love and forgiveness, not about revenge or violence. He already died a violent death. The world isn't made any better of a place with hoping anyone else falls victim to it, too.
I'm not religious in any way, but i understand the hatred and anger people experience when something terrible like a murder happens...
To me personally, if anyone is sick enough to take away somebody's life, there's only one life they should take away and that's their own... If you're intend on doing something like that, you don't deserve a life...
just my two cents...
But still, a wonderful message that John's delivering with this beautiful piece of music...
10
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The Bad Plus - Flim
(Aug 20, 2010 - 01:07) | Ericac wrote: see them or buy their dics, you won't be disappointed.
... i don't know what you're getting at here, but i'm pretty sure it doesn't have anything to do with this song...
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Coldplay - Viva la Vida
(Aug 19, 2010 - 08:06) | I wonder how many "Coldplay-haters" here are "Coldplay-haters" because it's much cooler to hate 'em than to like 'em... 
I'm not a CP hater, but this one's definitely overplayed, at least here in the Netherlands, so i wouldn't mind not hearing this one for the next couple of years...
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Pearl Jam - Unthought Known
(Aug 19, 2010 - 05:49) | lemmoth wrote:
So - name a better purely American rock and roll band .
Name a group with five strong songwriters.
Name a better live band still touring today
What other rock band that is not named the Rolling Stones or U2 could sell out NYC arenas for 3 nights years past their peak record selling time.
Come on!! Lady Gaga's concerts keep getting sold out, no matter what arena, but that doesn't mean it's really good now does it?
Personally i can easily think of a couple of live bands still touring today, but that's offtopic...
All the things you mention are a matter of taste, i can understand why you feel that way, but don't put it down as if you're talking about facts here, because Pearl Jam doesn't rank high in my book... And i'm guessing there are quite a few with me here on RP...
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Joan Baez - Diamonds and Rust
(Aug 19, 2010 - 04:46) | Lrobby99 wrote: A beautiful song and voice with limited appeal to those with limited tastes.
HAHAHAHA, rrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiigggghhhhhhhttttttttt....
If that's the case, then i'm glad my taste is limited...
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Jack Johnson - No Good With Faces
(Aug 19, 2010 - 02:59) | I always get the feeling that if you haven't been to the east coast of Australia (or any other place with the same kind of atmosphere) to hang with a bunch of surf people, you don't get why this would be so great...
All Jack produces sounds the same to me and it's all low paced and easy... There aren't any surprises to his music...
My girlfriend's been to Australia and she likes this a lot....
5
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Mark Knopfler - You Don't Know You're Born
(Aug 18, 2010 - 08:18) | This song was the beginning of new "guitar" period for Mark. After this album "Our Shangri-La" was released, almost the entire album consisted of songs with the typical sharp and edgy "tremolo" sound. Mark always loved this sound, especially when played by his childhood "hero" Hank B. Marvin. He spent a lot of time trying to get his guitar to sound like that but never really made it...
The next album, "Kill To Get Crimson" also mostly featured the same guitar sound and frankly, i grew a bit tired of it... So with the latest album "Get Lucky" Mark found more of his trusted old sound again, thank god for that..
BUT! This one is really nice, so i rated it an 8.
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Joseph Arthur - Can't Exist
(Aug 18, 2010 - 05:00) | I get the feeling every Joseph Arthur song has the same vocal sound as this, i know just a few... Even if that's not the case, i'm tired of hearing it...
5
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Elbow - One Day Like This
(Aug 18, 2010 - 03:34) | It's strange, but this one always makes me think about Christmas, i think it has christmas-like feel to it...
That's not a bad thing, but hearing it on a warm and sunny day like now feels a bit out of place....
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The Who - Behind Blue Eyes
(Aug 13, 2010 - 04:54) | socalhol wrote: (cool album cover too! kind of 2001 Space Odyssey — the monolith)
Seriously? This album cover is so unbelievably fake, and not in a good way....
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William Shatner - Common People
(Aug 09, 2010 - 03:09) | Captain's log:
Stardate 201008091207. Spacecraft captains are multi-talented, quite surprising. Have to rate this an 8.
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The Decemberists - The Crane Wife 3
(Aug 05, 2010 - 03:19) | Love this track! Especially the bass-line and the very last strum, just a minor detail but the guitar, bass-guitar and drums just hit the last note perfectly at the same time...
9
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Sonny Landreth - Broken Hearted Road
(Aug 05, 2010 - 00:03) | jagdriver wrote: Sonny also makers a guest appearance on Mark Knopfler's concert VHS/DVD.
Yes, and that would be the DVD "A Night In London". And for example the song "Blue Tarp Blues" from Sonny's latest album (From The Reach) features Mark Knopfler.
Sonny also, i believe, used to be the guitarist for John Hiatt's band. John Hiatt also occasionally plays along on Sonny's records...
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Pearl Jam - Alive
(Aug 04, 2010 - 23:56) | kgish wrote: I'd give a million dollars to be able to lick the guitar like that!
Really? Hmmm, for a lot less you get a bunch of lessons and with a little talent en dedication you'll be playing it in a couple of years... :) It's really not that hard...
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Pearl Jam - Unthought Known
(Aug 04, 2010 - 05:02) | lemmoth wrote: Best American band bar none.
Really??
Best live band bar none.
Really??
Best set of five songwriters in a band ever.
Really??
This is rock and roll delivered by adults who have absorded myriad influences, and synthesize it all.
Perhaps...
Three sold out arena nights in NYC. Nobody in rock does that anymore.
Really??
HAHAHA!
Rrrrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiiggggggghhhhhhht...
Sorry, doesn't rank higher than a 6 for me...
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Dengue Fever - Seeing Hands
(Aug 04, 2010 - 04:39) | HAHA, i burst out in a loud laugh when Bill pronounced their name:
"That's Den-GAY Fever"
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Mark Knopfler - Get Lucky
(Aug 04, 2010 - 02:37) | Aaaahhhhhhhhh, this is great! What a storyteller, i'm so glad he keeps on doing what he wants to do...
And you gotta love the flute-solo... Very surprising!
10
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Eluvium - Prelude For Time Feelers
(Aug 04, 2010 - 00:24) | welland4 wrote: Was this used on the finale of Lost?
My thoughts exactly, i also think i know this from LOST, not sure though if i know it from the finale...
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Led Zeppelin - Going To California
(Aug 04, 2010 - 00:10) | Pretty nice actually, but then... He goes up with his singing and all i can think is, PLEASE MAKE IT STOP!
For that, 3
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Flaming Lips - Are You A Hypnotist??
(Aug 02, 2010 - 07:55) | YEAH!!
Just discovered the Flaming Lips and in particular this album, what a great listen!!!!
It was the cover art that caught my attention at first by the way...
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Paul Simon - Another Galaxy
(Aug 02, 2010 - 07:49) | spigolli wrote: A brilliant lyricist but I sure miss the finger picking of the early days.
And here i was enjoying the guitar work... :)
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Ludovico Einaudi - Divenire
(Aug 02, 2010 - 07:03) | Ludovico sure is one of Bill's favourites:
7:00 am - Ludovico Einaudi - Divenire
1:25 am - Ludovico Einaudi - Primavera
Too bad he's not one of my favourites...
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Pikkardiyska Tertsia - Witch's Eyes
(Aug 02, 2010 - 02:38) | secretsauce wrote: Interesting!
... Shades of Mike Oldfield's 'Tubular Bells', a la a capella (which is not a bad thing).
Nat wrote:
Exactly what I thought!
+1
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Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
(Jul 08, 2010 - 01:14) | This may sound odd, but i really like the windy sound at the end, gives it an extra mysterious feel....
Although i heard this one so often, today it really connected with me...
7 —> 8
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Alexi Murdoch - Towards The Sun
(Jul 08, 2010 - 00:46) | Cynaera wrote: I thought I'd commented on this one, but I hadn't, so here it is. Yeah, to me, he's reminiscent (guh - did I spell that correctly?) of Nick Drake, but that's not a bad thing. In fact, I rather like this song. Pleasant, non-threatening, non-aggressive, and when I close my eyes, I can imagine myself in a deep forest with deer eating out of my hand and butterflies flittering past me, kissing me with their wings.
Oh, shut up. I can have a fantasy, can't I? This song allows me to step outside this sometimes ugly, hostile world and go to a place where I can be safe for a moment. Don't we all need that, once in awhile?
No, don't answer that - it was a rhetorical question.
Schizophrenic?
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Dire Straits - Ride Across The River
(Jul 07, 2010 - 02:02) | bubink wrote: Someday I *will* see this band live....
Quite a bold statement there... Especially since Dire Straits broke up in 1995. The possibility of MK visiting your place isn't too small, but you'll have to wait till his next album release, he's now in Europe and almost finished with his "Get Lucky" tour...
If you ever get to see him, don't expect him to play this song or any of the other less known Dire Straits songs, normally he only plays the well known songs, the "hits". Sultans Of Swing, Romeo And Juliet, Money For Nothing etc.
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Bob Dylan - Most of the Time
(Jul 07, 2010 - 01:03) | What a great song, but the voice..... Too bad, i feel it doesn't fit the song.... Wish i could just shut the voice off and just listen to the instrumental...
I would give it a 9 but because of Dylan's voice, have to give it a 7.
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Stevie Wonder - Superstition
(Jul 05, 2010 - 05:17) | Darlington wrote:
It doesn't get any better than this!
That's why i feel sorry for Stevie...
But seriously, it's not bad and all but the synthesizer bass-line really gets on my nerves after a couple of minutes...
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Mark Knopfler - Get Lucky
(Jul 03, 2010 - 05:59) | spindrift wrote: Has Mr. Knopfler ever recorded anything less than really good?
Uh, as a big MK fan.... YES!
Money For Nothing (i mean the song, not the LP), Twisting By The Pool, Extended Dance Play (EP).... There are some really terrible songs out there he wrote, but then, those songs are from a period he sort of got sucked into the huge 80's thing.... Glad he got out of that and went back to doing his own thing.....
...like this one....
A nice and easy song, perfectly placed on the same-titled album...
9
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Neil Young - Throw Your Hatred Down
(Jul 03, 2010 - 05:56) | crockydile wrote: I'm sick of this song. Not on par with his other stuff.
Maybe that's why i like this song so much. I'm not a Neil Young fan but mostly because i don't know the most of his work, this one really speaks to me...
Right on!!
9
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Vivaldi - The 4 Seasons: Summer
(Jul 01, 2010 - 05:51) | And to think this is composed in 1723, unbelievable how anybody could come up with this in a time where there's so little room for revolution...
I'm not into classical music at all but nothing than my utmost respect for historical masterpieces like this!
10
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Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
(Jun 30, 2010 - 07:19) | Every single year this one ranks number 1 in the Dutch TOP 2000. I for one can't understand why... To me this song is such a terrible mess, truely hate it...
2
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John Fogerty - River is Waiting
(Jun 24, 2010 - 00:54) | Nice!
Fluid and subtle work on the guitar —> 9
The happy feel this song puts out —> 8
Hmmmm, that would be an 8.5 but that's impossible, so....... a 9
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Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
(Jun 20, 2010 - 23:33) | Papernapkin wrote:
So tired of hearing this crap. Same could be said for firefighters, cops, and crossing guards. I'm sure they said the same things about Japanese kamikaze pilots and Germans fighting in WW1 and 2. It all depends on your point of view. Killing people and being shot at isn't necessarily a noble thing.
Good point...
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Guster - The Captain
(Jun 09, 2010 - 05:29) | This is amazing, wouldn't have guessed this is Guster... Great outro!!
9
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Stevie Ray Vaughan - Riviera Paradise
(Jun 07, 2010 - 11:55) | a_genuine_find wrote:
Sometimes I hear Mozart and Beethoven on hold, easy listening.
Does not compute Will Robinson
HAHA, nice one...
Maybe it's easy listening but i think that's because SRV's magic hands play so unbelievably skillfull... Put this in the hands of some random guitarist and believe, you'll have to pay more attention to hear what you hear when Stevie plays it...
This is so clean and cleverly played, wow.......... The guy's a real magician on guitar...
10
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Mark Knopfler - What It Is
(Jun 02, 2010 - 11:38) | scrubbrush wrote: One of the best guitarists of all times. I like his style better than Clapton... go ahead, let the arguing begin.
I won't argue, Clapton's more of a blues type of player, terrific player don't get me wrong, but i think Mark's style of playing is much more definitive than EC's, i think there are way more players that play like EC than like Mark...
I think especially nowadays Mark is underrated as a guitarist because his focus is much more on songwriting than playing. He plays to complement a song and most of the time his songs don't need sophisticated solos and styles, on the other hand i acknowledge that he's not as quick as he used to be, but who can blame him, he's 61 years old...
My favourite guitarist and songwriter he will remain...
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Dire Straits - Single Handed Sailor
(Jun 02, 2010 - 07:42) | Papernapkin wrote:
Sjaaks, please tell me how you know this 'for a fact'?
Okay, I confess. Half of Mark's discography sounds the same as the other half.
Feel better?
Sure i feel better, you replying on my comment only confirms what i suspected, you don't know shit...
But hey, every comment page needs its unintelligent posts to bring out the best of the song... So..... thanks!
10 ———————-> 10
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Talking Heads - Psycho Killer
(Jun 02, 2010 - 07:09) | I would totally throw a full glass of beer to DB's head if i'd be standing in the crowd and listening to this utter C.R.A.P... He really gives the word "annoying" a new and more powerful meaning...
  
1 ——-> 1 ——-> 1 ——-> 1
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Pearl Jam - Alive
(Jun 02, 2010 - 06:56) | I really don't care about Pearl Jam, HOWEVER, i totally understand why this song is such a classic and will always be a classic...
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Toad The Wet Sprocket - Crazy Life
(Jun 02, 2010 - 03:20) | Carissa wrote: Oh, Bill. You're on a nonstop streak, playing all my favorite songs from college. You deserve a raise.
You've got the power to make that happen,
"just click the Support RP link on our website radioparadise.com"
Toad The Wet Sprocket, long time favourite, instant "stuck-in-your-head" songs...
9
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Ratatat - Montanita
(May 28, 2010 - 07:27) | This one always makes me feel all summer-like, love it!!
9
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Roy Orbison - Oh, Pretty Woman
(May 28, 2010 - 01:34) | Shaker wrote:When I was younger and would drive passed my sister walking, I would sing 'pretty women' to her. I just called her 
Kind of sad, of all the women in the world you sing it to your sister...
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Dire Straits - Skateaway
(May 27, 2010 - 04:44) | Being a huge fan of DS and MK, i must say this album really got the least of my attention... Don't know why, think i'll change that now.... This song though always sticks with me...
9
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Sonny Landreth - Congo Square
(May 27, 2010 - 03:23) | Aaaahhhhh, a true guitar magician, Sonny Landreth, one of the most underrated guitarists of the world...
"Probably the most advanced player in the world..." - Clapton
The way he gets his guitar to sound is truly amazing! He's just not a very great songwriter, so for that:
8
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U2 - Bad (Live)
(May 26, 2010 - 05:56) | Everyone's always talking sh*t about Bono, but personally "The Edge" is annoying the crap out of me... He always plays the same notes only in a different order, all these songs sound the same, i don't get why this would be soooo amazing...
Speaking in terms of quality, it's not bad and all... So with that in mind:
6
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Alexi Murdoch - Towards The Sun
(May 26, 2010 - 04:18) | I feel a lot happier after a Alexi Murdoch song than when i just heard a Nick Drake song... So to me this doesn't sound like Nick Drake at all...
8
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Pink Floyd - On The Turning Away
(May 26, 2010 - 04:08) | My favourite track too, especially the epic live version, dunno of which concert but the version that's been officially released on CD...
As far as Pink Floyd, i think they're great but after a few listens they lose my attention, it's really nice and all but i miss the spark... I once made a personal "Best Of" CD of all the Pink Floyd albums but that one almost never touches the CD player...
This one:
9
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Coldplay - Talk
(May 26, 2010 - 01:28) | Fables85 wrote:
Very telling... Coldplay is for 6 year olds, really.
Pale imitators with no depth and nothing to convey...
I'm not even bothering to rate this.
HAHAHA, yet you're going through the trouble of writing this comment... HAHA, nice one!
I've never heard this version, pretty cool!
8
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Nena - 99 Luftballons
(May 20, 2010 - 05:43) | Shaker wrote: This video was the first visual I think ever had of seeing a women with armpit hair.
HAAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
No, this one never had my vote...
4
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Dire Straits - Ride Across The River
(May 20, 2010 - 04:27) | panlad wrote: Absolutely exceptional guitar work by Knopfler.
I never get tired of listening of the way he moves through the spaces in this song. It's as if he's letting the song guide his fills and silences. As other's have commented it is very surreal and transporting.
Perhaps some of his best and most inspiring playing.
Totally! I have the same feeling, although i must say that the guitar work from his latest albums to me sound less inspired than of his early work, nowadays it's more storytelling and the whole concept...
As for this song, besides the somewhat cheap-sounding synth's it has a great atmosphere and it always makes me stop and listen...
9
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Vampire Weekend - A-Punk
(May 19, 2010 - 08:00) | This one always makes me smile, especially when watching the music video...
8
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Jeff Talmadge - Take a Drive with Me
(May 19, 2010 - 01:12) | Brestois wrote:Mark Knopfler has a twin brother?
Nope, but he has a brother and his name is David.
But i hear ya, Jeff sure has some similar licks in this song...
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Dire Straits - When It Comes To You
(May 18, 2010 - 08:23) | I'm pretty surprised about the high ratings the songs of this DS album get... Not that i don't agree, always loved this album even though it's so different in many ways from what they did before this...
9
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Social Distortion - Ring Of Fire
(May 17, 2010 - 02:57) | I don't hear it:
- The drums are just a looped set.
- The guitar is a looped set of down-up-down-up-down-up stroked powerchords.
- The singer is horrible
I can imagine you like Social Distortion but this song just plain sucks and misses everything that involves quality...
2
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Toad The Wet Sprocket - Dam Would Break
(May 17, 2010 - 00:19) | Uhum, well, to me this is one of their best songs, absolutely love this one!!
How surprised to hear it here, but then again, actually not surprised at all...
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2Raumwohnung - 2 von Millionen von Sternen
(May 14, 2010 - 03:08) | prickelpit96 wrote:Wenn Du schreiben Deutsch, dann vielleicht Du lernen Deutsch richtiger, Vogel, armseliger.
You mean like you German people always coming to the Netherlands and expect us Dutch people to speak German, and when we go to Germany (god forbid) you expect us to speak German too...
Before you insult other people, be glad somebody speaks a bit German, cause "ze germans" can't speak ANY other language, it's pathetic...
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Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata
(May 14, 2010 - 02:38) | katearhar wrote: This is just wonderful... however, as a video game player from way back, I'm having "Earthworm Jim" flashbacks...
OMG!! You are absolutely right! Totally forgot about the disgusting Earthworm Jim videogame... HAHAHA, made me laugh all the time!
Thanks for bringing it up!! HAHA
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Amadou & Mariam - Masiteladi
(May 12, 2010 - 03:11) | Overplayed, very true!
But, i still think this is a very fresh sound and i love the way this guy makes his Telecaster sound so bluesy, especially since he is blind!!
To me,
8
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Ludovico Einaudi - Primavera
(May 10, 2010 - 07:31) | Toke wrote:
Perhaps if you sat and listened 100% Sjakks and let the music take your mind to where it relates you may then have some understanding of Music in all its forms, To me its a male salmon travelling 1'000's of miles across oceans to arrive at his spawning grounds scaling rapids/falls and encountering all sorts of trauma, but there again thats probably too romantic for you.
HAHA, okay, i tried:
To me it's a snail travelling across the Sahara and just before it reaches its destination it dies.
I think your imagination is running a bit wild there. Read the comments below, i just don't like this song and i'm not the only one... I just posted because IMHO this song get's played too often, especially if you read the comments...
"but there again, that's probably too honest for you."
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Neil Young - Helpless
(May 07, 2010 - 03:57) | I'm sorry but i couldn't help sing along "Let It Be" and "Knock- knock knockin' On Heaven's Door"...
Not all that original...
4
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Joni Mitchell - Love or Money
(May 06, 2010 - 02:17) | HORRIBLE!!!
Her voice drives me crazy with that forced vibrato... Well, it's not even a vibrato, it's just inconsistently shifting between notes... HORRIBLE, PLAIN HORRIBLE!!!
2
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Dire Straits - You And Your Friend
(May 06, 2010 - 01:01) | Love this track, but it's not suitable for all moments... Really need to be in the mood for this one, but now i am...
I agree with most people below, there are some things Mark (Dire Straits) didn't have to do, or even shouldn't have... Money For Nothing and Twisting By The Pool are the two best examples i think...
Especially if you think about the major differences between the first two albums and the last two albums... On one hand the major differences are what makes this band so versatile and great, on the other it comes with certain risks....
This one, definitely a 9!
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Neko Case - Hold On, Hold On
(May 04, 2010 - 07:25) |
Wow, this is great!!
Just knew a couple of songs of Neko, one better thant the other but this one's really nice!!
9
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The Frames - Rise
(May 04, 2010 - 05:30) | I for one think Glen Hansard's really groundbreaking. It's amazing what he does and with such commitment. To me Glen, The Frames and The Swell Season are truely a rare find!
This one, definitely a 9!
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Ludovico Einaudi - Andare
(Apr 29, 2010 - 07:25) | Maybe on a dark and rainy day in the fall but not on this sunny and warm afternoon... Blegh, hard to stay awake...
3
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Chet Atkins - Take Five
(Apr 29, 2010 - 04:30) | calypsus_1 wrote:
Seen this video many times already... WOW!! What a performance, and what a legend Chet is!
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Björk - Jóga
(Apr 29, 2010 - 01:34) | Albert1967 wrote:
Can't understand you say this . . . She touches the soul. My soul . . .
Indeed, she touches my soul too, with a very large hammer....
2
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Crosby Stills & Nash - Long Time Gone
(Apr 28, 2010 - 02:59) | This is weird but good! My dad still has this LP and when i was a little kid he often listened to it. Remembering as a child i never understood why he'd wanna listen to that music, especially with an old-fashioned cover like this one.
Now this song comes on, i don't know it but i like it, so i check the playlist and see it's CS&N... Funny how memories catch up on you...
And yeah, i love it now!! 8
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RPWL - Masters Of War
(Apr 28, 2010 - 02:08) | The song in itself i'd say an easy 8.
The fact that it sounds exactly like Gilmour's Pink Floyd period, an easy 4.
That would make a 6 then.... Oh well...
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Dire Straits - Once Upon A Time In The West
(Apr 28, 2010 - 01:59) | DaMoGan wrote:
Knopfler plays with such... precision. Like a skilled surgeon with a knife, making exactly the necessary cuts and no more.
Well put!!
To me, definitely a 10 for this classic!
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The Beatles - Here Comes The Sun
(Apr 23, 2010 - 04:25) | I'm sure this song only gets this rating because it's a Beatles song... Come on!
I'm sorry but how does it deserve a 9.1? It's constantly the chorus over and over and over... Definitely a very weak one by a band that did waaaaaaaaaaay better than this....
3
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Kathleen Edwards - Goodnight, California
(Apr 21, 2010 - 04:24) | Wow, i really love this track...
Listen to this album (Asking For Flowers), this is the last track on the album and by that it get's a greater feel to it....
9
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Tom Petty - The Golden Rose
(Apr 19, 2010 - 04:28) | hunthunthunt wrote: While this track was playing, my colleague exclaimed:
"Is this douche bag FM?"
The fact that Radio Paradise isn't broadcasted on FM is a compliment in itself, so don't mind that moron-colleague of yours...
About the song, also hearing a lot of Pink Floyd in there, but that's not a bad thing at all!
7
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The Swell Season - Low Rising
(Apr 19, 2010 - 00:41) | fevertree wrote: This song makes me feel warm on the inside
Exactly, it does the same with me....
10
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Trespassers William - Lie in the Sound
(Apr 14, 2010 - 05:55) | Oh my god!!!
I'm really happy to hear this song here... I've heard it so often but i never grow tired of it, to me it has an amazing feel to it.... Brings back some great memories!
It's also used in the TV show "One Tree Hill" and in the great movie "A Love Song For Bobby Long".
10, no doubt about it
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Dire Straits - Expresso Love
(Apr 08, 2010 - 04:20) | rp1125 wrote: How come nothing from Communique ever gets played? I think it's their coolest album.
Uhm, Single Handed Sailor, Lady Writer, Once Upon A Time In The West and even Follow Me Home are regularly played here....
Luckily....
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Little Feat - Willin'
(Apr 01, 2010 - 00:51) |
I'm a true sucker for lap-/pedalsteel, but this kind of playing is VERY unconventional and it immediately gave me goosebumps, WOW, this is amazing!!!
10
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Luna - Still At Home
(Apr 01, 2010 - 00:04) | bam23 wrote: Really nice lyrical guitar playing from my perspective. Never heard this before.
Indeed, indeed!!!
Wow, this is reeeaaally nice if you ask me! (but who's asking right )
9
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K.D. Lang - Hallelujah
(Mar 24, 2010 - 08:31) | bluedot wrote:
Jeff Buckley was up to the task, IMHO.
Agreed, honestly, i love Jeff's version more than Leonard's...
This one, well it's performed nicely but it's not the way i like to hear this song...
6
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Conor Oberst - Big Black Nothing
(Mar 19, 2010 - 08:25) | Sjaaks wrote: Very nice! I'm gonna look me up some more :-).
8
In the meantime i purchased the album and not dissapointed in the least... A very pleasant up-tempo album with a great variety of songs...
This one stays at an 8 for me...
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Beck - Golden Age
(Mar 19, 2010 - 02:08) | Wooowwwwww, man, instantly falling in love with this track... And i'm normally not such a Beck-kind-a-guy...
10
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Dire Straits - The Man's Too Strong
(Mar 17, 2010 - 07:02) | papaman wrote:
This is neither a long political rant nor does it have the obligatory picture of one 'Dick Cheney'. I'm afraid your comment may fail to rise above the political clatter. I will help you out with some incendiary words...long live Dick Cheney!
Hmmmmm, i believe you quoted the wrong post....
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White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
(Mar 17, 2010 - 06:55) | lostintokyo wrote: just watched "it might get loud" featuring jack white, jimmy page and the edge. white was more than able to stand on his own against such illustrious company. he's the real deal.
Indeed, but he sure is a strange fellow...
But then, his ideas are pretty unconventional and maybe even groundbreaking... I loved the documovie "It Might Get Loud"!
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Kathleen Edwards - Asking for Flowers
(Mar 12, 2010 - 06:59) | For all you people who like this and don't know this album:
BUY IT!
It's absolutely a fantastic album, she really knows how to bring it and to make you believe it! I love this!
10
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Shannon McNally - Pale Moon
(Mar 11, 2010 - 07:17) | Sounds like Nelly Furtado, she even looks a bit like her, but still she is beautiful... So who cares? I do, i like to see beautiful women...
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Thirteen Senses - Into The Fire
(Mar 11, 2010 - 05:34) | Love this, very basic and indeed, it sounds a bit like you've heard it before. But if you judge a song by its pleasantness and how many times you could hear it before you grow tired of it, i think this one ranks pretty high!
8
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Kroke - Usual Happiness
(Mar 11, 2010 - 04:46) | On and on and on, constantly the same theme... No, this really annoys me...
2
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Tommy Emmanuel - Classical Gas
(Mar 08, 2010 - 03:10) | The guy's a total god on guitar, it's mind boggling...
But after an half hour of being overwhelmed with thousands of chord progressions and millions of scales i really grow tired of this...
But the song and the way it's performed, definitely a 9!
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Dire Straits - Single Handed Sailor
(Mar 05, 2010 - 04:50) | Papernapkin wrote: Mark's tunes all sound the same.
Your lame-ass comments all tell the same.
I just know for a fact you do not know the half of Mark's discography, because you wouldn't be saying something like this if you did...
10
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Vampire Weekend - White Sky
(Mar 05, 2010 - 04:16) | Gotta love it!!! This always makes me smile, i absolutely respect Vampire Weekend for what they do, it's unconventional and i really dig it!!
9
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Pearl Jam - Just Breathe
(Mar 05, 2010 - 01:24) | Stardust83 wrote:As a dedicated Pearl Jam fan, I love this song - but what the radio stations worldwide don't seem to realise, is that there are actually other songs on the album too. Please give those some airtime, Bill!
Normally radio stations just play the singles of an album. Guessing that the rest of this album isn't out as a single yet, that would be an explanation why you don't hear the rest...
To me, hearing this one's already too much. Honestly, they have a couple okay songs, but i never understood why Pearl Jam is so highly thought of....
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Xavier Rudd - Home
(Mar 05, 2010 - 01:14) | So i did see him a couple of weeks ago in Eindhoven (the Netherlands). Truly a great show, the man really knows how to bring a good set beautiful songs while partying with the crowd in between...
9
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I Monster - Heaven
(Mar 04, 2010 - 23:50) | Great!! Love the intro, makes you wonder what the hell you're gonna hear now... 
From me as a jury: A solid 9
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Sivert Hoyem - Moon Landing
(Mar 03, 2010 - 07:47) | I love this song, definitely a 9.
BUT!!! The production is utter crap!! When listening to this with it hurts my ears. The recording is way too loud, therefor it all sounds really distorted....
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Phish - Backwards Down the Number Line
(Mar 03, 2010 - 02:34) | For everyone who disagrees the resemblance with the Allman Bros...
This morning 'Jessica' from the Allman Bros came by, this song really drips of the Allman Bros sound. Maybe you don't like it as much but the resemblance is striking!!
I love this one! 9
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Lee Oskar - Sunshine Keri
(Feb 28, 2010 - 23:58) | This sounds like a very funny elevator song. On my way to the 30th floor of some building, hearing this would make me smile whistle along...
But for RP, hmmmmm....
6
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Xavier Rudd - Mana
(Feb 24, 2010 - 02:53) | Saw Xavier last week live in Eindhoven (the Netherlands). He had a bass player and a drummer with him, boy o boy, it was great!! Really tight and professional performance while still maintaining that laidback and party-like atmosphere... What a show!!
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The Avett Brothers - The Perfect Space
(Feb 18, 2010 - 02:02) | Funny,
listened to this album yesterday and realised i love it more each time i listen... But i don't know their earlier stuff so i gotta check it out...
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Mark Knopfler - What It Is
(Feb 18, 2010 - 01:27) | Wow......
There are lots of great guitarists that are technically (much) better than Knopfler, i know this, but there is NO-ONE that can make the guitar cry and speak like Mark can....
What a god!!
10 ———> 10 (damnit, can't go higher)
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Eastmountainsouth - Rain Come Down
(Feb 18, 2010 - 00:56) | Poacher wrote:
I have a soul and I am an atheist. I also watched both my parents die. I also believe religion is a virus.
Just because you may have your own beliefs, do not presume that is the same for other humans.
You are so right, absolutely do not like it when people try to push their beliefs onto you, as if your own statements can't be true...
How rude to tell somebody who's an atheist he/she doesn't have a soul, how dare you?!
When i die, i know it's over with my life. I'm a creation of nature and not of something fiction as a god. Animals die and it's over, they don't worry about there being a god or belief or something like that. The "high" intelligence of us humans makes us capable to imagine stuff like that, but no one can ever convince me that there's something/someone "up there"...
As for this song... Sounds very nice!!!
9
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Xavier Rudd - Home
(Feb 17, 2010 - 01:45) | Going to see Xavier tomorrow (18-02-2010) in Eindhoven the Netherlands... Can't wait!!
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Aimee Mann - Wise Up
(Feb 16, 2010 - 05:28) | First heard this one on the show Dawson's Creek, love this...
9
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The Derek Trucks Band - I Know
(Feb 16, 2010 - 01:44) | nate917 wrote: C'mon, someone rated it 9 during the first 15 seconds — impressed by the intro were you? Tasty B3. 8
C'mon, someone has got way too much time to look up this totally not-important information...
For this song, definitely an 8!
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The Pretenders - Talk Of The Town
(Feb 15, 2010 - 23:57) | Not bad, but the singing....
"Maybe tomoooooorrrroooooo-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-ow"
The song itself, not bad at all!
6 (cause of the singing)
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Benny Goodman - Sing, Sing, Sing
(Feb 15, 2010 - 05:32) | The first minute is fun, the remaing day and a half annoys me.... Don't care if it's a classic, it makes me wanna hit the mute button...
2
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Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
(Feb 15, 2010 - 04:22) | Amazing isn't enough to describe this one...
Love Mark's music for years already but this one truely has something special... It's not just an incredible song that he has written but i know he is the only guy who can bring it like this...
Wow, my hero...
10
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The Gabe Dixon Band - Disappear
(Feb 15, 2010 - 01:58) | Why always the gibbering of who or what it sounds like...
It's whether you like it or not that counts imo... I love this one!
9
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Pearl Jam - Unthought Known
(Feb 11, 2010 - 23:52) | While i still have some trouble with Eddie's voice, this song is actually pretty good!! And i'm a totally non-Pearl Jam kind of guy...
8
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Kathleen Edwards - Hockey Skates
(Feb 10, 2010 - 05:39) | sussey41 wrote: Her Asking for Flowers is a great CD to check out.
Absolutely a great CD, love it from the first till the last song...
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Stevie Wonder - Living For The City
(Feb 08, 2010 - 05:52) | Can't rate it any higher than a 2!
My god this song is so incredibly annoying!
First of all it's way too long.
Second, the ultimate crappy trumpet sample is truely the worst sound i've heard in a very, very long time...
Note: Take the "is" word as my opinion, didn't know how to put it differently...
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Toad The Wet Sprocket - P.S.
(Feb 03, 2010 - 03:00) | I love the fact that Toad The Wet Sprocket get's played at RP. Though this is not one of their best tunes, not bad, but not one of their best.
6
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Mark Knopfler - Border Reiver
(Feb 03, 2010 - 01:43) | AAAARRRRGGHHHHHH, just walking in and hearing the outro.... This song is amazing!!! Love the tempo and love the usage of instruments, absolutely great!!!
10
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Mark Knopfler - Wild Mountain Thyme
(Feb 02, 2010 - 01:06) | I love this soundtrack!! But then... I love almost everything Mark's done up to this point, especially his solo projects!
9
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Coldplay - White Shadows
(Feb 02, 2010 - 00:18) | Became very fond of this album back in the day, loved it all the way through, especially while driving!
This one in particular: 9
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Azam Ali - Abode
(Feb 01, 2010 - 04:29) | No, this is not intended for my liking... Don't really like the somewhat cheap sounding beats and "synth" sounds...
3
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Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head
(Feb 01, 2010 - 04:15) | erichb wrote:
You must live a very sheltered life when it comes to music. If this is the worst song in the world, we should all consider ourselves extremely lucky.
VERY GOOD!! Excellent reply!! Couldn't agree more!
As for this song: 7
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Erin McKeown - Blackbirds
(Feb 01, 2010 - 02:07) | Love the riff that sets in the song, then i was waiting for a nice raw voice of some scarred older guy, and then you hear this voice...
Too bad, it just doesn't fit...
4
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Fleetwood Mac - Black Magic Woman
(Feb 01, 2010 - 02:03) | Like this one better than Santana's "distortionised-distortion" version... Just heard from Bill that it's originally a Fleetwood Mac song, didn't know that!
8
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Dire Straits - Solid Rock
(Jan 28, 2010 - 06:23) | As a big Dire Straits / Mark Knopfler fan i must admit this certainly is one of the lesser songs...
BUT......... They played it alot live and during a concert this song actually makes the place boogy!
To me, this one is a 6.
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Stevie Ray Vaughan - Riviera Paradise
(Jan 27, 2010 - 07:06) | ...........................................................
No words, this man has left us with something fantastic but could've given so much more...
Rest in peace Stevie... 
10
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Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower
(Jan 27, 2010 - 06:45) | The slide sound further on is amazing!! It just makes the song even more exploding, Bob Dylan can be proud of the way Jimi covered this one..
10
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The Airborne Toxic Event - Sometime Around Midnight
(Jan 27, 2010 - 04:13) | scruffystevie wrote: every time I hear this my ears go 'what is this? what what what??? I neeeeeeeeed this?!'
So I'm going to go and get it. Simple. Then I can overplay it to myself at home which I invariably will, cheesing off my boyfriend. Job done.
You go do that!! This one to me is the best track of the album, there are a couple of good ones on it though...
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Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
(Jan 27, 2010 - 02:53) | Never really understood why this one is so highly rated, but one thing's for sure, this song is truely timeless!!!
7
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Mark Knopfler - What It Is
(Jan 27, 2010 - 01:06) | I don't give away a 10 easily, even though Mark Knopfler's my hero... But this one really deserves it, truely godlike!!!
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Sonny Landreth - Speak of the Devil
(Jan 25, 2010 - 07:52) | Definitely an unknown guitar legend.
Eric Clapton about Sonny: "Probably the most advanced guitar player walking this earth..."
Damn, the guy picks with ALL FIVE of his fingers!! Now that's unbelievable! As far as the singing goes, he's not a bad singer but it's not exciting.
Anyway, there are far better songs on this album!! Too bad for the ones who don't know him besides this song and probably won't ever listen to another one of his...
This song: 5
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Dire Straits - Down To The Waterline
(Jan 25, 2010 - 07:27) | Dalebarely wrote: I would probably enjoy this more if it didn't come across as a lazy, inferior reworking of a near-perfect song
You come up with this in an overwhelming age of punk and new wave and then let me tell you it comes across as lazy... I can imagine you don't like it, though... But that's a different case...
To me, definitely a 9!
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Pink Floyd - Marooned
(Jan 25, 2010 - 05:36) | EssexTex wrote: Dave's great...he plays with grace and a seeming lack of effort...like he's gently trimming a bonsai tree.
Not completely with you there...
He surely has some great control over his guitar but to me it doesn't look that way. He's pretty rough on his guitar as if it'll break any second, gentle's not exactly the word that comes to mind...
But a great player nonetheless....
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Dave Alvin - King Of California
(Jan 25, 2010 - 01:49) | Wow!
Really surprised to hear Dave here! (but where else?!)
Last saturday i took a listen again to a couple of Dave's CD's, there are some true gems to be heard...
8
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Chris Isaak - Wicked Game
(Jan 20, 2010 - 07:21) | Always loved the clear tremolo guitar sound... This song always takes me back to that time even though i was just 9 years old then...
7
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Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris - Rollin' On
(Jan 20, 2010 - 07:10) | Great...
Saw them at the Ahoy in the Netherlands during the tour... I must be honest, Emmylou's singing isn't always in key but her voice is one of a kind...
This is one of my favourite tracks of this album...
8
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The Avett Brothers - The Perfect Space
(Jan 20, 2010 - 03:59) | Gotta love it!!
"I wanna have friends, friends i can trust. That love me for the man i become not the man that is was..."
Nice....
8
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J.S. Bach - Toccata in D minor
(Jan 20, 2010 - 01:40) | How could anyone not have the utmost respect for this... It's no MP3 player hit but it just makes you feel so small...
Wow!
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Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris - Right Now
(Jan 18, 2010 - 00:16) | eddief wrote: Love it when the bass kicks in for the first time.
My thoughts exactly!! It's not like you miss something at first but when the bass kicks in it just adds so much!
9, no doubt!
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Nik Kershaw - Wouldn't It Be Good
(Jan 15, 2010 - 04:56) | How is it that this gets played at RP?!
This is something for your local '80's radio station but not RP! C'mon!!!
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Antje Duvekot - Long Way
(Jan 15, 2010 - 01:09) | This is the second song i heard of Antje's album, it sounds great, i'll have to look it up!
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Imogen Heap - Canvas
(Jan 15, 2010 - 00:45) | Sounds a lot like Frou Frou...
Or am i missing something here?
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ZZ Top - La Grange
(Jan 14, 2010 - 07:24) | Whoohoo!
Iron & Wine And Calexico - Red Dust —-> ZZ Top - La Grange
Nice transition!!
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Pearl Jam - Just Breathe
(Jan 14, 2010 - 07:12) | Awful voice for this kind of song, he needs to get that hot potato out of his throat.... 
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Shivaree - Goodnight Moon
(Jan 14, 2010 - 07:06) | Mandible wrote:
She sounds a bit like the lass who sang "Oops, I did it again"...Britney Spears....
I was about to post the same thing.... HAHA
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Ryan Adams - My Winding Wheel
(Jan 14, 2010 - 02:24) | ugly wrote:I'm just not a fan of country music. Ryan Adams is not country but he IS countryish in a way that I find unappealing.
You'd be surprised how much of today's music is based on country, one way or the other...
I think this one's amazing!!
9
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Dire Straits - The Man's Too Strong
(Jan 13, 2010 - 06:17) | A great example of a time that Mark Knopfler was completely fed up with drums.... This song doesn't need drums and seems just as powerful... What a guy!
9
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David Bowie - Heroes (single mix)
(Jan 13, 2010 - 03:14) | It gets played so often, it's not bad and all but there's so much music that deserves to be played for the 9 out of 10 times this one is played.
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Fleet Foxes - Your Protector
(Jan 13, 2010 - 00:52) | Such power with so little... I was blown away the first time i heard the album... Absolutely fantastic!
9
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Mark Knopfler - Sailing to Philadelphia
(Jan 11, 2010 - 02:34) | Stingray wrote:
PS
Question: does anybody know why Knopfler never returns to stage for a few extra songs
(sorry, don't know how this is called in English), once the concert is over?
Seems to be quite arrogant! Saw him 3 times - he NEVER did! Not even in Moscow,
where the crowd was soooo hungry for more! RIDICULOUS!
You mean an encore i think?
Saw him 4 times (1 in Rotterdam, 3 in Amsterdam), once a "private" concert of about 200 attendants... But every time he gave an encore of 2 and once 3 songs... So that's weird....
He's not arrogant i think, he's just really silent and peaceful... I love his style, though i have to agree, a couple more thank you's wouldn't be too much now and again...
As for this song: 7 —-> 8
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Alexi Murdoch - Orange Sky
(Jan 11, 2010 - 01:31) | Such a pleasant voice, also like "Blue Mind" very much but i think if i had to listen to the complete album i would doze off...
This song in particular: 8
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Dire Straits - Single Handed Sailor
(Jan 10, 2010 - 23:53) | Absolutely no-doubt in my mind this is the number one DS song for me. But i can't believe i just missed it over taking a piss and bumping into somebody for a quick chat. Oh well, guess i'll have to play it from my mp3 player this time to make up for loss... :)
Can't rate it any lower than a 10...
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Kings Of Leon - I Want You
(Jan 07, 2010 - 02:07) | It took me as long as the outcome of the single Sex On Fire. I liked that one so i gave the album a try.
Oh my god, his voice is so annoying... How can anyone manage to listen the whole way through this album without wanting to tear your ears off...
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Mark Knopfler - Coyote
(Jan 06, 2010 - 02:35) | calypsus_1 wrote:
Again today! Nice transition, it's as if i heard a previously unreleased version of Coyote :).
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