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Michelle Shocked — If Love Was a Train
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Monkeysdad
(Simi Valley, CA)
Posted: Apr 11, 2013 - 09:14
 
Good Gawd folks, the song was great when first released, it's still good now.

For her to show up in Frisco and make that rant,...well, somethings wrong there, right?! Does anyone suppose that she might be in a slightly diminished capacity?! That she could be or has broken down in some way?! Is anyone really thinking this through? Because if it doesn't look right and doesn't sound right clearly there must be something wrong!

pvg44
(Wayland, MA)
Posted: Mar 21, 2013 - 16:44
 
Add me to the list of those disgusted by this bigot. Please don't provide her any more attention or income (some of which comes from my contributions to RP).

snunyc
Posted: Mar 21, 2013 - 16:19
 
Surprised you guys played her today.
Her recent anti-gay tirade is inexcusable and ignorant. Why are you giving her air time??
Perhaps it was a clever scheme to get comments? If so, it worked. This is the first time I've ever stopped by to comment on your boards. {#Mad}
Love RP, keep up the good work, promise not to play any more Michelle Shocked and I promise I'll visit the Website more often. Deal?

beattrix68
Posted: Mar 21, 2013 - 16:17
 
Yeah — a great song — but personally, I can't listen to her music anymore given her most recent vocalization about her personal politics re: gay marriage. She exudes ignorance, bigotry,and hatred in what she said in San Fran at hear last concert. I boycott Michelle Shocked, and I think RP should, too.

capzfan
(Virginia, USA)
Posted: Mar 21, 2013 - 16:16
 
Very weird. I have always liked her but she appears to have gone off the deep end:

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/1552539/michelle-shockeds-tour-vanishes-following-anti-gay-comments

sajitjacob
(Christchurch NZ)
Posted: Mar 21, 2013 - 16:16
 
In the same year:
My room mate had a poster of Michelle on his wall, I asked him to play me some; I said "God this sounds like the kinda music my Dad likes!"

And yes I still feel too young for this.


 catnip wrote:
Saw her do this live in 1988, in the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, one of the best gigs I've ever seen.

God, I feel old. 
 


MsJudi
(Houston, TX)
Posted: Mar 21, 2013 - 16:15
 
Personally, I'd like to see her removed from the play list, but that's just me... and all my gay friends and family....

lazylemming
(City of the Angels)
Posted: Mar 21, 2013 - 16:14
 
surprised to hear her today given all the press she's made for herself recently...
Michelle Shocked Controversy Continues: The Damning Audio Transcript


plaid
(Tech nexxus o' my house)
Posted: Mar 21, 2013 - 16:14
 
After her recent homophobic comments, I'm going to have to say no.

LastChance
(13,500 feet up (and falling fast))
Posted: Mar 21, 2013 - 16:13
 
After her recent anti-gay rant, she should be banned from RP.

laozilover
Posted: Feb 18, 2013 - 06:03
 
this song just hit me the right way today. I am bumping my rating from a 72 an 8.
catnip
(mostly wearing lard)
Posted: Feb 07, 2013 - 13:36
 
Saw her do this live in 1988, in the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, one of the best gigs I've ever seen.

God, I feel old. 

rockpommel16
(rockpommel´s land...near the netherlands)
Posted: Jan 02, 2013 - 11:22
 
...AHHH,..come on,bill.....WHAT a set:

Michelle Shocked - If Love Was a Train
Ray LaMontagne - Henry Nearly Killed Me (It's a shame)
Chris Isaak - Round 'n' Round

.....my ass gets tired from shaking.....thanx.....funny.......

Nerubo
(Denver, CO)
Posted: Dec 17, 2012 - 13:40
 
 Proclivities wrote:
  Since when does blues or R&B concern itself with exact grammar, anyhow?
 
Hear hear!  Are you seriously telling that a song called "I Can't Get Any Satisfaction" wouldn't suck? Rock 'n roll is not a corporate memo.  It's a basic mistake - the genre determines the level of formality needed.

 

msymmes
(Toronto, CA)
Posted: Dec 17, 2012 - 13:38
 
Dyn-o-mite !
 

clive369
(Windsor, UK)
Posted: Dec 17, 2012 - 13:37
 
This takes me back ... 1990? Let's hear more from this album - it's all good.

kaybee
(Lost in the Wilds of Toronto)
Posted: Aug 13, 2012 - 19:50
 
Love this.  Lyrics are clever and funny and it's a really rocking piece.

TerryS
(Another SW)
Posted: Aug 13, 2012 - 19:50
 
Me Shell Shocked.

Giselle62
(many bear, big rock, estuary California)
Posted: Jun 27, 2012 - 22:06
 
bring it on into the station now.

jsanio
(Canada)
Posted: Apr 25, 2012 - 07:49
 
Damn... I think I ..Ummmm I have to go clean up now...
Wow.. that was a sexy cut!...

Stranglersfan
(Revelstoke, B.C.)
Posted: Apr 25, 2012 - 07:39
 
Awesome RP! Great to hear MS.

rockstarbro
(Up and to the right. A little higher. A little to the left. Ahhh... that's it. RIGHT THERE!)
Posted: Apr 25, 2012 - 07:37
 
Reminds me of a solo weekend camping trip.  Well, solo as in me, my tent, my guitar, a case of beer, a boom box with CD player and Michelle Shocked!

OCDHG
(High on a mountain)
Posted: Feb 05, 2012 - 20:02
 
"If love was a train, I'd never get off" ... I'd rethink this metaphor, hun.

fatcatjb
(Sunny Sacramento)
Posted: Feb 05, 2012 - 20:01
 
I would love to hear a LOT more Michelle Shocked on RP

paulmack
(the hissing swamps)
Posted: Dec 20, 2011 - 11:28
 
 Proclivities wrote:

You can't dance to this?  Turn up your speakers.

 
Couldn't agree more - astounding to hear that comment.


Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC)
Posted: Dec 20, 2011 - 11:27
 
 Cynaera wrote:
Apart from all the grammatical pick-aparts, I still don't favor this song as one of her best. Not rating it, because I just can't dance to it.
 
You can't dance to this?  Turn up your speakers.

Yes, grammatically, it should be "were" (subjunctive) instead of "was" (indicative), but "was" sounds better in the flow of the song.  Since when does blues or R&B concern itself with exact grammar, anyhow?




unclehud
(300 feet above the planet)
Posted: Dec 20, 2011 - 11:26
 
It's got a nice beat, I can dance to it, and it's good-time boogie woogie.  I'm getting on the Love Train!

bluecshells
(EARTH)
Posted: Dec 20, 2011 - 11:26
 
Love IS a train....sing it Michelle!

paulmack
(the hissing swamps)
Posted: Dec 20, 2011 - 11:25
 
Love this CD and this song, even though it's pretty out of character with the rest of the songs on the album. MS has a voice that would fit well with more like this.... And, I agree, Pete Anderson's guitar work on this song is perfect, tasteful, makes you want to shout how good it is.


sherf
(OCNY)
Posted: Nov 02, 2011 - 15:56
 
Love=Train?

10!

wenatchee
(Duvall, WA)
Posted: Nov 02, 2011 - 15:55
 
MoJo Movin' Music . . . Dig It . .

RickyBobby
(Oxford Mills, Ontario - We have a Wal-Mart you know)
Posted: Sep 16, 2011 - 12:50
 
I love trains. I love love. I love Michelle Shocked.

SinisterDexter
Posted: Aug 16, 2011 - 04:06
 
So..."love" are plural?
 

Yes, as a matter of fact, love are plural. {#Daisy}

DD rabbi_phil
(beach)
Posted: Jun 29, 2011 - 21:28
 
 RedGuitar wrote:
Who's playin' that electric guitar?
 
that's pete anderson.  we used to go to any dwight yoakum concerts( in the 80's) within a 200 mile radius just to hear him play. he's all  that.           good times/cheap gas 


ScottFromWyoming
(Powell)
Posted: Jun 29, 2011 - 21:26
 
 RedGuitar wrote:
Who's playin' that electric guitar?
 
That's a good question and I'm glad you asked. It's Dwight Yoakam's right-hand man, Pete Anderson, who is the producer on this album.

bluecshells
(Texas)
Posted: May 13, 2011 - 12:10
 
Hell yeah!  Sing it for us!!!!! Love it!

lasker98
(Canada)
Posted: May 13, 2011 - 12:09
 
Love this song!

PA1749
(Jim Thorpe)
Posted: May 13, 2011 - 12:09
 
{#Dancingbanana}

g-rod
(Church of the Acceptance of Mortality)
Posted: Jan 23, 2011 - 08:46
 
But if you ride a long one and a slow one, what's the point, if you never get off?

;)

helgigermany
(Germany)
Posted: Dec 22, 2010 - 23:56
 
Never heared this before, very, very nice sound!

ubuntourist
(Washington, DC)
Posted: Oct 20, 2010 - 14:23
 
Sounds a LOT like "When I grow up..."


RedGuitar
(Iowa, USA)
Posted: Oct 20, 2010 - 14:22
 
Who's playin' that electric guitar?

Cynaera
(South of Neanderthal)
Posted: Sep 18, 2010 - 21:27
 
Apart from all the grammatical pick-aparts, I still don't favor this song as one of her best. Not rating it, because I just can't dance to it.

Webfoot
(Eugene, Oregon)
Posted: May 14, 2010 - 07:55
 
If Michelle Shocked was a train I think I would jump off.

TimeWaster
(The lower of the two Dakotas)
Posted: Apr 12, 2010 - 13:15
 
That never made sense to me either.

 scott_bruce wrote:

So..."love" are plural?
 



scott_bruce
(Southern Maryland)
Posted: Feb 08, 2010 - 09:39
 
 lsherida wrote:
1.)  This song sucks.
2.)  If love were a train.
 
So..."love" are plural?

buzmaggie
(AZ, US)
Posted: Dec 07, 2009 - 14:17
 

COOL LADY!!{#Fire}



Hannio
(Austin, TX)
Posted: Nov 06, 2009 - 05:02
 
 sqqqrly wrote:
"Michelle Shocked" was a play on words intended to resemble the phrase "shell shocked."  



You don't say.  Never would have figured that out.

Tagish_girl
(happily seeking hammock, Helsingborg, Sweden)
Posted: Jun 01, 2009 - 01:35
 
 wenatchee wrote:
 . . . If I was a train "I'd bring'r into the station" . . .   ;-)
 

like bringing the fishboat to the cannery?
the log to the beaver?

(Grumpy Old Men)

lsherida
Posted: Apr 30, 2009 - 09:18
 
1.)  This song sucks.
2.)  If love were a train.