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Musicbrainz DBCracking up, I'm getting ready to go
Had enough, I can't take any more
No pills that I can take
This is too real and there ain't no escape
It scare the daylights
It make a nightmare
I'm tense and I'm nervous
Everybody all around me
Shakin' hands and sayin' howdie
I don't think it's funny no more
Cracking up, Like a worn out shoe
Ain't wet, but the world leakin' through
I'd run, but I find no pace
I laugh, but it's wrecking me
Wrecking me
It make a shiver, it make a shake
It make a monster, just like an earthquake
Everybody havin' fun
I don't know how they can carry on
'Cause I don't think it's funny no more
At dead of night time, at crack of dawn
It comes upon me without warning
If I were a gunman I would shoot
I'd tear the hair out by the root
I'd make a knife out of a notion
All at sea in an ocean of a emotion
I don't think it's funny no more
I don't think it's funny no more
Cracking up
I don't think it's funny no more
Cracking up
I don't think it's funny no more
Cracking up
I don't think it's funny no more
Cracking up
I don't think it's funny no more
Cracking up
| GawgaBoy (State of Confusion) | Posted: Jan 24, 2013 - 09:46 karljonasson wrote: Don't hear any of his new stuff on RP, that is a shame - his last 5 albums are all outstanding. Much different than this older material though. Would put him in the top 5 songwriters ever. Please upload some songs! I would like to hear more from Nick ! |
| karljonasson (Edmonton, AB, Canada) | Posted: Nov 07, 2012 - 08:53 Don't hear any of his new stuff on RP, that is a shame - his last 5 albums are all outstanding. Much different than this older material though. Would put him in the top 5 songwriters ever. |
| rpdevotee (San Jose, CA) | Posted: Sep 20, 2012 - 20:02 Oh Suzie Q, baby I love you...Suzie Q... Wait, wrong song... |
| Giselle62 (many bear, big rock, estuary California) | Posted: Sep 20, 2012 - 20:01 i might get this 'greatest hits" I don't have any of his stuff. |
| Giselle62 (many bear, big rock, estuary California) | Posted: Sep 20, 2012 - 20:00 You don't hear much of him on the radio and his stuff is good. |
| WonderLizard (2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise) | Posted: Sep 05, 2012 - 10:26 misterbearbaby wrote: When they made Nick Lowe, they broke the mold. Unfortunately his head was still in it... When my brother was born, they threw away the mold. It grew back. |
| lily34 (lexvegas) | Posted: Jul 19, 2012 - 22:10 misterbearbaby wrote: When they made Nick Lowe, they broke the mold. Unfortunately his head was still in it...  i love this! |
| treatment_bound (Duluth to Madison) | Posted: May 17, 2012 - 19:11 citybiker wrote: Back in his heyday with Buzz. Heard "Shanty" by this guy  today on The Drive...still a great tune. I used to love it when they played the whole thing before a snarky Buzz Kilman newscast. "Well there ain't nothin' to do and there's always room for more. Fill it, light it, shut up and close the door." Brandmeier's show pretty much ran it's course, and was very much "of its time", but I still miss the 6:00 AM news with a comedic spin on it. Hearing him on WGN just doesn't work for me in 2012, and I feel like I'm getting OLDER at an accelerated rate by just checking out 720 AM. |
| misterbearbaby (Marina del Rey, California) | Posted: May 17, 2012 - 14:13 When they made Nick Lowe, they broke the mold. Unfortunately his head was still in it... |
| citybiker (Chicago) | Posted: May 17, 2012 - 14:13 treatment_bound wrote: Anybody out there remember this as the theme song from Brandmeier's "crack me up" line back in the 80's on WLUP in Chi.? I do. Back in his heyday with Buzz. He's back on the air at WGN, but much tamer. Loved the bad jokes too. |
| treatment_bound (Duluth to Madison) | Posted: Mar 31, 2012 - 05:17 Anybody out there remember this as the theme song from Brandmeier's "crack me up" line back in the 80's on WLUP in Chi.? |
| ScottFromWyoming (Powell) | Posted: Feb 28, 2012 - 13:01 zipper wrote: I really don't like Nick Lowe. I know. ...you just STFU.  |
| Snoopy2 (Earth) | Posted: Feb 12, 2012 - 10:42 :)....snazzy....  |
| meinthecorner (Past the gravy, far beyond the golden fries) | Posted: Jan 27, 2012 - 22:22 He is a master. |
| Bobert_ParkCity | Posted: Jan 11, 2012 - 16:14 Nick Lowe and the Noise to Go! Love it. So much of my old vinyl (back at my parent's house) gets played here. |
| gemtag (Texas) | Posted: Dec 10, 2011 - 20:54 Love Nick. Forgot about Jesus of Cool! I'll have to pull some old 45's |
| jberko (Franklin, TN) | Posted: Oct 24, 2011 - 18:13 Shades of CCR, but very entertaining |
| MiracleDrug (Earth) | Posted: Sep 07, 2011 - 05:38 get 'em BASHER!!! |
| fast_eddie | Posted: Jul 22, 2011 - 08:09 Lot of punks on here today!! Haha! |
| vandal (arriving somewhere, but not here. . .) | Posted: Jul 06, 2011 - 11:32  |
| Cynaera (South of Neanderthal) | Posted: Apr 02, 2011 - 14:47 Thanks, Baby_M - I think you're right. Love this song - love Nick Lowe...... |
| vandal (arriving somewhere, but not here. . .) | Posted: Mar 17, 2011 - 23:59 fucking genius. . . |
| Baby_M (a 100+-year old building in downtown Akron, Ohio) | Posted: Jan 14, 2011 - 09:01 Cynaera wrote: Not vouching for these lyrics - I had to search through all manner of misquoted lines and I'm still not sure these are correct... Please feel free to correct the lyrics if they're wrong, but here's what I got: Cracking up, getting ready to go Had enough, I can't take any more No pills that I can take This is too real and there ain't no escape It scares the daylight making nightmares I don't think it's funny no more cracking up Cracking up like a worn out shoe I don't think it's funny no more cracking up The dead of nighttime the crack of dawn I don't think it's funny no more cracking up Whatever lyrics you choose, Nick Lowe did a superlative job of translating real life into rhyming lyrics and a pretty kick-ass sound. I think it's "I'd make a knife out of a notion," but otherwise it looks spot-on to me. |
| bluedot (Long Beach, CA) | Posted: Dec 13, 2010 - 22:20 fingerpin wrote: Run through the jungle. Haha, I listened through the whole intro thinking it was Creedence! Different cool song instead.... |
| cathenley (Santa Barbara, CA) | Posted: Nov 27, 2010 - 20:23 Very talented artist, with major history in my general direction....  |
| SoundThinker | Posted: Oct 11, 2010 - 13:17 SoundThinker wrote: Two seconds before the Violent Femmes song was over I told me roommate that the next song would be “Cracking Up”!!! All I could do was start laughing when he freaked out. I’m getting to know this station too well! Two summers ago I was on house arrest. Nick Lowe was playing a solo acoustic show at the Boulder Theater, a nice, quaint and prefect theater for Uncle Nick. There was no way I was going to miss that and so that was the only time that I broke my house arrest and was able to get away with it!! It would had been worth it either way! Here’s all the images from the re-released “Jesus of Cool” album!         |
| vandal (arriving somewhere, but not here. . .) | Posted: Oct 11, 2010 - 11:10 treatment_bound wrote: I posted this pic earlier on "Switch Board Susan", but I like it so much I'm sharing it with the "Cracking Up" crowd... I have this on vinyl. . . |
| SoundThinker | Posted: Oct 11, 2010 - 11:10 Two seconds before the Violent Femmes song was over I told me roommate that the next song would be “Cracking Up”!!! All I could do was start laughing when he freaked out. I’m getting to know this station too well! |
| buzmaggie (AZ, US) | Posted: Oct 11, 2010 - 11:09 this is a good ole SEXY rock n rolla! i will take one!  |
| amoreena (west whatnot) | Posted: Sep 25, 2010 - 11:48 Turn it up and listen to the production......what a great song. Kept me laughing during some real crap in my life. I don't think it's funny no more......cue guitar. |
| Cynaera (South of Neanderthal) | Posted: Sep 09, 2010 - 16:55 Not vouching for these lyrics - I had to search through all manner of misquoted lines and I'm still not sure these are correct... Please feel free to correct the lyrics if they're wrong, but here's what I got: Cracking up, getting ready to go Had enough, I can't take any more No pills that I can take This is too real and there ain't no escape It scares the daylight making nightmares I don't think it's funny no more cracking up Cracking up like a worn out shoe I don't think it's funny no more cracking up The dead of nighttime the crack of dawn I don't think it's funny no more cracking up Whatever lyrics you choose, Nick Lowe did a superlative job of translating real life into rhyming lyrics and a pretty kick-ass sound. |
| a_genuine_find (not me, Radio P) (3rd stone, sol, orion belt, milkyway) | Posted: Aug 24, 2010 - 11:39 I never realized how much Mark Knopfler sounds like Nick Lowe |
| Cynaera (South of Neanderthal) | Posted: Aug 08, 2010 - 16:21 I really love Nick Lowe. This song is just amazing to me. It was another of those songs that the now-defunct Coyote-FM (KOYT) played, and it just made me crank up the radio. To all you naysayers - your opinions have been duly noted. And I still love Nick Lowe.  And it's all okay. |
| zipper | Posted: Jun 21, 2010 - 15:28 I really don't like Nick Lowe. I know. ...you just STFU. |
| treatment_bound (Duluth to Madison) | Posted: May 10, 2010 - 19:33 I posted this pic earlier on "Switch Board Susan", but I like it so much I'm sharing it with the "Cracking Up" crowd... |
| fingerpin (OhiO) | Posted: May 05, 2010 - 05:59 Run through the jungle. |
| vandal (arriving somewhere, but not here. . .) | Posted: Mar 18, 2010 - 11:37 The dead of nighttime, the crack of dawn It comes upon me without warning If I were gun then I would shoot I tear the head out by the root |
| bindi (North Carolina) | Posted: Jan 30, 2010 - 11:23 very infectious riff |
| DaveInVA (In a hovel in effluent Damnville, VA) | Posted: Jan 14, 2010 - 11:15 Love it! |
| Stingray (Cologne) | Posted: Jan 14, 2010 - 11:11 NICK IS GREAT! Still!! |
| Huey (Netherlands) | Posted: Nov 12, 2009 - 15:47 I think it rocks atm...but I could get bored with it real easy..a 7. |
| ScottFromWyoming (Powell) | Posted: Aug 10, 2009 - 03:06 wrangler wrote: that opening bass riff is from the stones' live with me Isn't it CCR's Green River? ==================== Tom Petty does this on:  ...and that's a good version too. |
| SweTex (Swede living in Texas) | Posted: Jul 09, 2009 - 10:46 andrewimft wrote: Love it. Nick Lowe is such a great musician, producer, songwriter.  AGREED  |
| LowPhreak (Earth (for now)) | Posted: Apr 05, 2009 - 09:28 Yeah baby.  |
| HazzeSwede (Vinyl Land) | Posted: Feb 01, 2009 - 07:05 A little bit of CCR in the guitar sound but I am going down from 8 to 7. |
| wrangler (cliffside park, nj) | Posted: Oct 29, 2008 - 12:00 that opening bass riff is from the stones' live with me |
| jagdriver (The aptly-named Grass Valley, CA) | Posted: Oct 29, 2008 - 12:00 cptbuz wrote: me eithor....it's a great song  (me either) |
| cptbuz (40 miles east of Sacramento thereabouts) | Posted: Sep 27, 2008 - 20:01 phillips wrote: this is a GOOD song?? not to me... me eithor....it's a great song |
| phillips (a beach near you) | Posted: Sep 12, 2008 - 05:48 this is a GOOD song?? not to me... |
| tulfan (One of the last ones in SE MI) | Posted: Aug 27, 2008 - 06:29 This song found its way onto many "mix" cassettes I used to make back in the day as the saying goes...still love it.. |
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