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Bruce Hornsby — The Way It Is
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jimys
(A land far, far away with no television)
Posted: Apr 04, 2013 - 20:09
 
Always loved the piano in this.

On_The_Beach
(The Blue Planet)
Posted: Apr 04, 2013 - 20:08
 
Standin' in line marking time
Waiting for the welfare dime
'Cause they can't buy a job
The man in the silk suit hurries by
As he catches the poor old lady's eyes
Just for fun he says "Get a job"

That's just the way it is
Some things'll never change
That's just the way it is
Ah, but don't you believe them

Lazarus
(Bethany)
Posted: Apr 04, 2013 - 20:04
 

Everybody in my church loves this song...

Propayne
(Richmond VA)
Posted: Mar 04, 2013 - 08:53
 
 Antigone wrote:
Don't care what anyone else thinks of this, I like it. It takes me back, big time. And reminds me of a happy memory with my former best friend. She took me to a BH concert for my birthday one year, and he played dedications. She had him play a song for me ... though he screwed up the dedication she wrote for him to say.

And he's a Virginia boy.
 
Yep, from my home town, Williamsburg Va.

Some great local musical talent in the tidewater area in the '70s.

Hornsby, Wampus Cat, Gail Warning...

Antigone
(A house, in a Virginian Valley)
Posted: Mar 04, 2013 - 08:37
 
Don't care what anyone else thinks of this, I like it. It takes me back, big time. And reminds me of a happy memory with my former best friend. She took me to a BH concert for my birthday one year, and he played dedications. She had him play a song for me ... though he screwed up the dedication she wrote for him to say.

And he's a Virginia boy.

lshinkawa
(Berkeley, CA)
Posted: Feb 01, 2013 - 00:50
 
Thank you for playing this. Really nice.

msymmes
(Toronto, CA)
Posted: Dec 31, 2012 - 16:38
 
A blast from the past.   If you like his piano thing.

cc_rider
(Austin Texas. Y'all.)
Posted: Nov 30, 2012 - 07:53
 
 sajitjacob wrote:
And yet 3 years after this came out the Berlin Wall fell. Most people's lives are better now than they were even a generation ago, and check out the infant mortality rates of 100 years ago!. At the end of the day it's all about perspective.
Hopelessness is the seed of apathy, 

It's Friday beer o clock, and I drink to hope and Bill's tunes that have kept me going though some rough old times.

 
Thanks. Sometimes we need to be reminded how far we've come.

- I grew up in Montgomery Alabama. I've seen racism up close and personal. Mr. Hornsby references some elements ('the color bar') that have disappeared, thankfully. Racism is still there, no doubt, but there has been some progress.
- I was fortunate(?) enough to visit East Berlin around 1986. At that time no one, NO ONE, could imagine the wall coming down in their lifetime.

Peace.

Hannio
(Austin, TX)
Posted: Nov 30, 2012 - 07:52
 
 ckcotton wrote:
Is that a Laser Disc on the front cover

:)

Who remembers THOSE? 
 

Speaking of older technology, my grandfather worked for Deutsche Grammophon for a while.  He was awarded several patents related to the cutting edge technology of the time - flat vinyl disks.

capandjudy
(Huntington, WV)
Posted: Nov 30, 2012 - 07:51
 
 cosmiclint wrote:

We're dancing on the west coast too!

 

A younger RN with whom I worked in the 1980s talked about what a great tune this was to dance to. Listening to it now I see it. 

richardgold
Posted: Nov 30, 2012 - 07:50
 
Are we the only office who play 'guess the band?' all day with Radio Paradise. We don't keep a score because everyone here is a ... no that's a lie .. because I would lose and I am the boss.

Decoy
(Milliway's, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe)
Posted: Nov 30, 2012 - 07:45
 
 daisymaybee wrote:
Also love the Tupac version.
 
Always wait for the Tupac versions beat to drop.  Mighty powerful it is.

iTuner
Posted: Nov 30, 2012 - 07:45
 
No PSD in iTunes, arghhh.

asiaSF
Posted: Nov 30, 2012 - 07:45
 
 helgigermany wrote:
Classic! Nice! Never overplayed!
 

OH, YES!!! Terribly overplayed!

helgigermany
(Germany)
Posted: Sep 28, 2012 - 12:12
 
Classic! Nice! Never overplayed!

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Sep 28, 2012 - 12:12
 


This classic song always reminds me of Whisky a Go Go...  love it...

 

helenofjoy
(Lincoln, Nebraska)
Posted: Jul 27, 2012 - 13:46
 
Gets better every time I hear it.

daisymaybee
Posted: Jul 27, 2012 - 13:45
 
Also love the Tupac version.

RedGuitar
(Iowa, USA)
Posted: May 25, 2012 - 07:01
 
 MiracleDrug wrote:


L'Empereur has spoken!!
 
I think Nuance would like Pandora radio - everything played is what you like and only what you like!

Seahunt
(Parent's Basement)
Posted: May 25, 2012 - 07:00
 
 ckcotton wrote:
Is that a Laser Disc on the front cover

:)

Who remembers THOSE? 
 

It is!  My dad retired from RCA.  BTW - Love this song.  I guess I'm old enough.  Can't be sad and listen to this song.  It's impossible {#Bananapiano}

spindrift
(Philadelphia PA)
Posted: May 25, 2012 - 07:00
 
What you said.  Also about it being Friday. {#Yes} 

sajitjacob wrote:
And yet 3 years after this came out the Berlin Wall fell.

 



mandolin
(...drifting...)
Posted: Apr 23, 2012 - 13:44
 
...i just picked up bruce hornsby's newest live album this weekend, bride of the noisemakers, and it's pretty good...i'm still listening through it, but i like what i hear:  what's confusing are the vocals, which alternately don't sound a thing at all like the bruce hornsby to which i'm accustomed, but occasionally bear a flash of resemblance to his voice...

MiracleDrug
(Earth)
Posted: Apr 23, 2012 - 13:34
 
 Nuance wrote:

Actually... this song has no place on the playlist. Please take it off and not make me hear it anymore.
 

L'Empereur has spoken!!

NeuroGeek
(Just Way Out There)
Posted: Apr 23, 2012 - 13:28
 
 lemmoth wrote:


I agree with everything you say here. 
 
me, too

oldsaxon
(Wales via Vancouver, BC.)
Posted: Apr 23, 2012 - 13:27
 
 Byronape wrote:
This song has all the elements of the music I generally hate.  The music has a cheesy 80's lounge act vibe, the vocals fit into a predictable pattern, the "hook" is prominent, and even the piano is over the top.  

That being said, I really like this song.  Maybe because it is all those things and still works.  Maybe because I first heard it while my musical tastes were still developing, or maybe just because it's a really good song.

 
 
I was lucky enough to see him live once. It was a magical show, he took requests from the audience and played many of them. 
I had always thought of him as this song, but he's a talented artist in a way few are. 

lemmoth
(NYC)
Posted: Apr 23, 2012 - 13:26
 
 Byronape wrote:
This song has all the elements of the music I generally hate.  The music has a cheesy 80's lounge act vibe, the vocals fit into a predictable pattern, the "hook" is prominent, and even the piano is over the top.  

That being said, I really like this song.  Maybe because it is all those things and still works.  Maybe because I first heard it while my musical tastes were still developing, or maybe just because it's a really good song.

 
 

I agree with everything you say here. 

govna
(beantown)
Posted: Apr 23, 2012 - 13:24
 
wow, this takes me right back to the back of the minivan.  i feel like i should call my sisters and start a fight.

sajitjacob
(Christchurch NZ)
Posted: Mar 22, 2012 - 20:20
 
And yet 3 years after this came out the Berlin Wall fell. Most people's lives are better now than they were even a generation ago, and check out the infant mortality rates of 100 years ago!. At the end of the day it's all about perspective.
Hopelessness is the seed of apathy, 

It's Friday beer o clock, and I drink to hope and Bill's tunes that have kept me going though some rough old times.

ick wrote:
Unfortunately, the lyrical content is just as true today as then.  We'll never learn.  Is the human condition to be cruel and greedy?  Is it the way it should be?  I'd like to hope not.

 


Byronape
("post-capitalist wreckageville")
Posted: Mar 22, 2012 - 20:16
 
This song has all the elements of the music I generally hate.  The music has a cheesy 80's lounge act vibe, the vocals fit into a predictable pattern, the "hook" is prominent, and even the piano is over the top.  

That being said, I really like this song.  Maybe because it is all those things and still works.  Maybe because I first heard it while my musical tastes were still developing, or maybe just because it's a really good song.

 

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Mar 22, 2012 - 20:11
 
 cosmiclint wrote:

We're dancing on the west coast too!

 
That's cool!  Everybody in my hotel room loves this song...

 

ick
(...out of the primordial ooze)
Posted: Jan 19, 2012 - 08:50
 
Unfortunately, the lyrical content is just as true today as then.  We'll never learn.  Is the human condition to be cruel and greedy?  Is it the way it should be?  I'd like to hope not.


siandbeth
(Santa Cruz California)
Posted: Jan 19, 2012 - 08:49
 
I disliked this song when it came out, but of course now I think it's great. 

Bosami
(Deep in the heart of nowhere)
Posted: Jan 19, 2012 - 08:48
 
 ckcotton wrote:
Is that a Laser Disc on the front cover

:)

Who remembers THOSE? 
 

HAHA! I could never afford one. Oh nostalgia...

ckcotton
(Adding snarky comments since 2007)
Posted: Jan 19, 2012 - 08:47
 
Is that a Laser Disc on the front cover

:)

Who remembers THOSE? 

wrangler
(swamps of jersey)
Posted: Jan 19, 2012 - 08:46
 
representing my home town of williamsburg, virginia.....BRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCE!  {#Cowboy}

Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC)
Posted: Dec 18, 2011 - 16:01
 
 listen_n_sf wrote:
The 80's were such a tragic time for musicians hair.  
 
Do you believe that the 60's and 70's were somehow better for musicians' hairstyles than the 1980's?  
mungo jerrykiss
Why do so many people insist on singling out the 80's as an unprecedented era of stylistic badness? By the way, I never liked this tune.



cosmiclint
(Vancouver BC)
Posted: Dec 18, 2011 - 15:58
 
 ri_shelton wrote:
The piano WOWs me!
 
It's really quite remarkable, isn't it?


Spud
(Newcastle, Australia)
Posted: Nov 16, 2011 - 22:34
 
Just got home from work, hit Radioparadise and this classic is on, it has made my crappy day.  Great memories with this song.


ri_shelton
(A few clicks up the river)
Posted: Oct 16, 2011 - 09:15
 
The piano WOWs me!

cosmiclint
(Vancouver BC)
Posted: Oct 16, 2011 - 09:12
 
 romeotuma wrote:

Everybody in my hotel room be dancing...


 
 
We're dancing on the west coast too!


(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Oct 16, 2011 - 09:11
 


Everybody in my hotel room be dancing...  love it...


 


gypsyman
(just passing through....)
Posted: Jul 14, 2011 - 02:11
 
Really? OK...


michaele
(A2)
Posted: Apr 10, 2011 - 05:09
 
My 15 yo son hears this song playing overhead in a dept store and asked me why is some weird dude singing Tupac's song like this?

Propayne
(Richmond VA)
Posted: Mar 09, 2011 - 17:17
 
 listen_n_sf wrote:

I went to VCU, didn't he play at The Pass on Broad St?
 
Hey, I went to VCU also! Graduated in '83.

Don't remember The Pass (maybe before or after me?). Lots of places come-and-go on Broad Street.

listen_n_sf
Posted: Mar 09, 2011 - 16:58
 
 Propayne wrote:
Ah, Hornsby!

I grew up in Williamsburg Virginia. Use to see Bruce play at the local Holiday Inns and such. 
 
I went to VCU, didn't he play at The Pass on Broad St?

listen_n_sf
Posted: Mar 09, 2011 - 16:56
 
The 80's were such a tragic time for musicians hair.  

Propayne
(Richmond VA)
Posted: Mar 09, 2011 - 16:54
 
Ah, Hornsby!

I grew up in Williamsburg Virginia. Use to see Bruce play at the local Holiday Inns and such. 

capandjudy
(Huntington, WV)
Posted: Feb 05, 2011 - 14:28
 
I worked with an RN in the 90s who said that she loved to dance to this song. After some thought I could see what she ment.

Sasha2001
(Where the last of the union men run free)
Posted: Feb 05, 2011 - 14:03
 
 Hannio wrote:
Wait a minute!  I just thought of some change that happened.  Obama said that we would mark his election as the time when the rise of the oceans began to slow, and sure enough, in the paper today it says that scientists are withdrawing journal claims of rising sea levels.  Good job, Barry!
 


Did Barry really say that? Or did O'Rushbeckannity imagine he said it during a Sarah Palin wet dream.

GuiltyFeat
(Ra'anana)
Posted: Feb 05, 2011 - 13:56
 
I might have been able to love this still if Mr. Hornsby had ever been able to produce something half as good. Funny how that works.