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It's A Beautiful Day — White Bird
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midreaming
Posted: Jun 14, 2013 - 16:15
 
 boober wrote:
good ANALogy

For those of us old enough to remember the relevance of this song and how it felt to hear it on the radio this song was powerful.Calling a classic like this "cheese" is F'ud Up my little rodent. 

 
i also called it academic, older than dirt and wholly irrelevant in a post modern world. the cheesy part was all that bothered you, ..boober?

ScottishWillie
(The Scottish Lowlands)
Posted: Apr 30, 2013 - 02:23
 
 slr242 wrote:
Some pretty iconic harmonies here, strongly evoking images of late '60 San Francisco pop music. If the rest of their music sounded like this track, then I'm surprised that they didn't gain more traction. But perhaps sharing a small town with the Dead and Jefferson Airplane, there wasn't any bandwidth to spare. Too bad.

 

If I had a time machine I think I'd like to visit San Francisco in the 60’s



bb_matt
(Hampshire, England)
Posted: Apr 30, 2013 - 02:19
 
Better examples of this era, very generic copy-cat stuff. Terrible lyrics.  

slr242
(San Francisco)
Posted: Mar 30, 2013 - 00:08
 
Some pretty iconic harmonies here, strongly evoking images of late '60 San Francisco pop music. If the rest of their music sounded like this track, then I'm surprised that they didn't gain more traction. But perhaps sharing a small town with the Dead and Jefferson Airplane, there wasn't any bandwidth to spare. Too bad.

Grammarcop
(You want an E Class? We got 'em!)
Posted: Feb 26, 2013 - 13:01
 
White bird must fly or it will die. No gray areas there!

Bargamon
(Carolina)
Posted: Feb 26, 2013 - 13:00
 

Im on a dairy free diet and this is cheezy!

Classic song from a different era!  Good stuff..........



cmarcan
(Nanaimo, BC)
Posted: Feb 26, 2013 - 12:55
 
Barfo!

matassa
Posted: Feb 26, 2013 - 12:54
 
I never tire of this song.... strong memories listening to this as we made the annual summer trip across wide open Wyoming.
NicJohn
(Northern Michigan)
Posted: Jan 26, 2013 - 05:29
 
Nice memories and a great song!

helgigermany
(Germany)
Posted: Jan 06, 2013 - 23:46
 
Nice!

Giselle62
(many bear, big rock, estuary California)
Posted: Dec 25, 2012 - 21:23
 
Bliss.

abbey_normal
(Behind keyboard)
Posted: Dec 06, 2012 - 14:50
 
Stop. Seriously, stop.

robotbass
(Boston Area)
Posted: Dec 06, 2012 - 14:49
 
Still a great song! I am dating myself but I saw these guys play for free on Cambridge Commons many years ago. "Smokin" show! {#Daisy}

dw
(PHill, CA)
Posted: Dec 06, 2012 - 14:48
 
I remember seeing them at Fillmore. I used to be friends with Patti Santos in high school (yes, in the '60s). Was sad to find out recenetly that she died in a car accident in Northern California several years ago.  But I do like this song a lot - brings me back everytime....

slowhand
(NC)
Posted: Dec 06, 2012 - 14:47
 
Makes me really miss 68'. With the exception of Nam it was a wonderful time.
 

helgigermany
(Germany)
Posted: Nov 24, 2012 - 12:52
 
Nice!

boober
(KC,Mo)
Posted: Nov 05, 2012 - 11:33
 
 mgkiwi wrote:
What a yukky dated song! {#Sick}
 
you too mgkiwi?

mgkiwi
(North of South and a little East of West)
Posted: Nov 05, 2012 - 05:32
 
What a yukky dated song! {#Sick}

boober
(KC,Mo)
Posted: Nov 05, 2012 - 05:31
 
 midreaming wrote:
ya know.. somewhere there is a recording of the first dork ever to bang on a hollow log. And it's beautiful .. in a really really academic way.. and it's relevant today how?!  this outdated cheese is cheese cheese and more holy moldy unmitigated cheese..
 

good ANALogy

For those of us old enough to remember the relevance of this song and how it felt to hear it on the radio this song was powerful.Calling a classic like this "cheese" is F'ud Up my little rodent. 

Easyrider
(Portugal)
Posted: Nov 05, 2012 - 05:29
 
All aboard the 'green' hippy bus😌.

capandjudy
(Huntington, WV)
Posted: Oct 24, 2012 - 04:58
 
Its A Beautiful Day reminded me of the early Jefferson Airplane before they got zonked out.

tkosh
(Minnesota)
Posted: Oct 04, 2012 - 20:26
 
 enkay wrote:
44 years since this song was set free amongst us, eh? That's about how much time I'd like to pass before I hear it again.
 
It's great how music affects us.  This always takes me back to being 15 years old and so totally mesmerized by this beautiful song.  I got the album from my worldly and wise college-student sister.  What a great memory!  Play it again soon, Bill!


prophetzarquon
(woodstock 1969)
Posted: Sep 03, 2012 - 07:20
 


the world needs more rock violin

coding_to_music
(Beantown)
Posted: Sep 03, 2012 - 07:19
 
Hypnotic.  This was a big great song when I was growing up.  Still gives me good chills.

midreaming
Posted: Aug 02, 2012 - 20:35
 
ya know.. somewhere there is a recording of the first dork ever to bang on a hollow log. And it's beautiful .. in a really really academic way.. and it's relevant today how?!  this outdated cheese is cheese cheese and more holy moldy unmitigated cheese..

enkay
(Vancouver Island)
Posted: Aug 02, 2012 - 20:33
 
44 years since this song was set free amongst us, eh?

That's about how much time I'd like to pass before I hear it again.

Painted_Turtle
(Land of Laughing Waters)
Posted: Jul 21, 2012 - 18:15
 
I haven't heard this song in a long time..great too hear it again..thanks Rebecca!

lwilkinson
(North Am-Home of the Last of the Rugged Individualists)
Posted: Jul 02, 2012 - 09:53
 
 
Given that it was the late 60's when this came out it was considered totally in the Haight-Ashbury vein.  Woodstock hadn't happened yet and groups like IABD, the early Grateful Dead and Quicksilver Messenger Service (to name only 3 out of many) were on the cutting edge of the time for "mellow head music".  It's always easy to look back and hold our nose at something made before we were born and that we can't understand because we think that today we're more "sophisticated".

Whatever.  I was there at the time and remember sitting in the audience after the vinyl of this came out and it was, and remains, a great experience.

BikeCoachDave wrote:
Some songs just sound like a parody of themselves, or a band. This one sounds like a parody of the 60's. Not like it represents the time, but as if it is actually calling out some of the strange and silly approaches being tried out in the new rock music of the time. It only has seconds left to play and yet I am STILL tempted to hit the PSD button.
 


CLHdaddy
Posted: Jul 02, 2012 - 09:50
 

Reminds me of Ian & Sylvia.



jen3005545
(Fort Worth, TX)
Posted: Jul 02, 2012 - 09:46
 
{#Daisy}  Love this!!

BikeCoachDave
(Columbia, Ky.)
Posted: Jun 20, 2012 - 06:28
 
Some songs just sound like a parody of themselves, or a band. This one sounds like a parody of the 60's. Not like it represents the time, but as if it is actually calling out some of the strange and silly approaches being tried out in the new rock music of the time. It only has seconds left to play and yet I am STILL tempted to hit the PSD button.

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: May 31, 2012 - 12:04
 
 Cynaera wrote:
I can remember sitting on the floor in the radion station where the DJ was playing this song over the air, on vinyl. He had it turned up loud, was smoking a joint, and we were all just silent, listening.  It was the first time I'd ever heard David LaFlamme or IABD.  And then, the DJ played "Fog On The Tyne" by Lindesfarne. 

Good times....{#Sunny}
 
I miss you...

rest in peace...



(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: May 31, 2012 - 12:00
 


love this beautiful song...

 

TJS
(Bradley, Il)
Posted: May 31, 2012 - 11:54
 
Wasn't this band sort of the basis for the hippy couple in "A Mighty Wind"?

djaychicago
(In a far, far better place)
Posted: May 19, 2012 - 11:26
 
 Jeff09 wrote:

You're right...{#Biggrin}

 



It certainly brings back vivid memories of that state of mind and times of young love. Thanks for the memories Bill.

Kahoona
Posted: May 19, 2012 - 11:25
 
 hagz21 wrote:

This song makes me feel stoned.

 
makes me feel ill!

gusthemonkey
(Southwestern Ohio)
Posted: May 19, 2012 - 11:25
 
I didn't learn of It's a Beautiful Day until their this album was 5 years old...  and each time I hear this song.. now 45 years later... I'm smacked by it's beauty

Kahoona
Posted: May 19, 2012 - 11:23
 
It has been ten years since I have heard this. Possibly 20 I don't know. I was taken aback to hear it  and wondered if age would have improved it.It took all of 30 seconds before I thought this still sounds like shit!

mykoweb
Posted: May 19, 2012 - 11:22
 
Still Great after all these decades!

Bobert_ParkCity
(Park City Utah)
Posted: Apr 29, 2012 - 18:37
 
All those zeroes! ? 6.3! ?  (Good for an old mercedes but...)  c'mon - this song kills it! 

michaelgmitchell
(Ontario, Canada)
Posted: Apr 29, 2012 - 18:36
 
Yikes. This sounds pretty "old". Not always a good thing. For me, anyway.

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Apr 29, 2012 - 18:31
 
 DChas wrote:

We be Dancin'
 
Yeah, this song is gorgeous...  we be moving our hips...

 

DChas
(Gatineau Hills)
Posted: Apr 17, 2012 - 17:55
 
 romeotuma wrote:

Everybody in my hotel room loves this song...
 
 
We be Dancin'

kcar
Posted: Mar 29, 2012 - 01:03
 
 SmackDaddy wrote:
What is the obsession with this song here????????????
 
LOL. Was just thinking, at 4 am, that I hear this song more now on RP than I did back in the day. Like it more now than I did as a kid. 

Maybe you should ask hagz21 and Jeff09 for a...groovier explanation. 


Chrislee523
(Akron, Ohio)
Posted: Feb 26, 2012 - 08:33
 
Was enjoying Squirrel Nut Zipper's "Blue Angel," and the violin-laced swing brought to mind Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks, with violin played by Sid Page, who had replaced David LaFlamme, who went on to do...this.

very nice, very nice :D

iTuner
Posted: Feb 14, 2012 - 07:08
 
 mrdak wrote:
How this song gets anything less than a 9 is beyond me.
 
It may have been something in its day, released when I was born, but it just drones.

Andy_B
(aboard MV "Horizon," east coast Fla)
Posted: Feb 14, 2012 - 07:07
 
W-A-Y too much overthinking going on here.  Taken in it's context of the mysticism and hope for the future of the "flower" generation, this song was an anthem to be free of the shackles of oppression of the times,...the white bird flies free.  Still a 9 for me.


Bozo
(Steeler Penguin Pirate land)
Posted: Feb 14, 2012 - 07:03
 
I can smell the strawberry incense right now:  follow this with Quicksilver Messenger Service  " Fresh Air"  hippie music!! Yippie!!

mrdak
(Middle GA)
Posted: Feb 14, 2012 - 07:01
 
How this song gets anything less than a 9 is beyond me.

MiracleDrug
(Earth)
Posted: Feb 14, 2012 - 07:00
 
I've said it before and I'll and I'll say it again...
{#Yawn}