 Soul Mining (1987) [ larger cover art ] |
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Well... you didn't wake up this morning,
'cause you didn't go to bed.
You were watching the whites of your eyes turn red!
The calendar on your wall -- IS TICKING -- the days off.
You've been reading some old letters.
You smile and think how much you've changed.
All the money in the world couldn't buy back those days.
You pull back the curtains, and the sun burns into your eyes.
You watch a plane flying across a clear blue sky.
THIS IS THE DAY -- Your life will surely change.
THIS IS THE DAY -- When things fall into place.
You could've done anything, if you'd wanted.
And all your friends and family think that you're lucky.
But the side of you they'll never see
Is when you're left alone with the memories
That hold your life together like -- GLUE
You pull back the curtains, and the sun burns into your eyes.
You watch a plane flying across a clear blue sky.
THIS IS THE DAY -- Your life will surely change.
THIS IS THE DAY -- When things fall into place.
THIS IS THE DAY -- Your life will surely change.
(repeat to fade)
| chyk5 (Florida) | Posted: Apr 17, 2013 - 08:40  |
| catnip (mostly wearing lard) | Posted: Mar 27, 2013 - 13:40 Brilliant song. Brings back memories of 2005/6 which are now not so difficult to deal with. |
| aspicer (Chicago, IL) | Posted: Mar 27, 2013 - 13:33 Amazing song - brilliant album! |
| chyk5 (Florida) | Posted: Feb 13, 2013 - 12:58 15 people rated this a 1?! Maybe they were listening to the Starland Vocal Band and felt this a rude interruption. |
| 34bogas (México city) | Posted: Feb 13, 2013 - 12:55 ¡Qué buena canción! El Soul Mining lo tengo en cassete... El pianito suena muy, pero muy bien |
| msymmes (Toronto, CA) | Posted: Feb 13, 2013 - 12:53 This is the day!!!! |
| paradisepig (Inverness-Scotland) | Posted: Jan 13, 2013 - 05:01 Full of a cold...flumped over ....no enthusiasm ...BUT now boogieing around my sewing room  |
| zackdog0126 (Bluffton SC) | Posted: Jan 13, 2013 - 05:00 zackdog0126 wrote: Old memories I was 17, life was simpler.... |
| zackdog0126 (Bluffton SC) | Posted: Jan 13, 2013 - 04:58 Old memories |
| Bobert_ParkCity (Actually, No longer in Park City Utah) | Posted: Jul 08, 2012 - 15:21 Well... you didn't wake up this morning, 'cause you didn't go to bed. You were watching the whites of your eyes turn red. The calendar on your wall is ticking the days off. You've been reading some old letters. You smile and think how much you've changed. All the money in the world couldn't buy back those days. You pull back the curtains, and the sun burns into your eyes. You watch a plane flying across a clear blue sky. This is the day your life will surely change. This is the day when things fall into place. You could've done anything, if you'd wanted. And all your friends and family think that you're lucky. But the side of you they'll never see Is when you're left alone with the memories That hold your life together like — GLUE You pull back the curtains, and the sun burns into your eyes, You watch a plane flying across a clear blue sky. This is the day your life will surely change. This is the day when things fall into place. This is the day your life will surely change... (repeat to fade) |
| Giselle62 (many bear, big rock, estuary California) | Posted: Jul 08, 2012 - 15:08 the lyrics were sweet—-funny, i useta listen to them when they were all industrial and postpunk and wouldn't listen to them when they got all poppy ——but like this. |
| ziakut (Albeit In The Meantime) | Posted: Jun 17, 2012 - 17:11 Love this band and this track! Haven't heard it in ages. Great to hear. |
| Foot (NorCal / Wine) | Posted: Jun 06, 2012 - 21:46 Great band but certainly not their best track. However, 9+ for RP including it in the mix. |
| Chelshite (Bognor Regis, W Sussex, England) | Posted: Apr 04, 2012 - 10:58 I always wear an uncertain smile when I listen to this tune... |
| iTuner | Posted: Mar 14, 2012 - 13:04 Love this song. Brings me back. |
| ziggytrix (Dallas, TX) | Posted: Mar 14, 2012 - 13:03 this music reminds me of old (pre full band) TMBG. a slowed down version of Rhythm Section Want Ad, perhaps? you're the reason why. |
| marciaz | Posted: Mar 03, 2012 - 18:38 This song ALWAYS makes me smile! |
| SmackDaddy (San Diego) | Posted: Jan 11, 2012 - 00:16 Stingray wrote: 100% AGREEMENT! A MASTERPIECE INDEED (like three other albums from this VERY underrated band!) There's a lot more than three |
| Cornelia (Arlington VA) | Posted: Nov 29, 2011 - 13:59 I might add to my childbirth playlist.. appropos & a great tune |
| JavaJones (San Francisco, CA) | Posted: Nov 29, 2011 - 13:58 8->9! Perfect just-out-of-the-shower-getting-dressed music. Woo! - Oshyan |
| EdmoJoe | Posted: Nov 29, 2011 - 13:58 You can swim in this song. |
| hmulhall | Posted: Nov 08, 2011 - 13:41 RP are sleeping on the job! They still have not up-dated the release of this record to 1983. A great song & album just the same. |
| foothillfreak (Salt Lake City) | Posted: Nov 08, 2011 - 12:35 I gotta dig up my record of this.. Great album. |
| cohifi (Denver) | Posted: Oct 08, 2011 - 00:27 Oh great.....it's not long enough either. Maybe some day ? |
| hmulhall | Posted: Sep 27, 2011 - 08:53 The album art is that of the remastered CD. But more importantly it was released in 1983; not 1987. That was one of my favorite albums to listen to, while I was visting The Land Down Under @ that time. Great album & a great song! |
| hmulhall | Posted: Sep 27, 2011 - 08:53 The album art is that of the remastered CD. But more importantly it was released in 1983; not 1987. That was one of my favorite albums to listen to, while I was visting The Land Down Under @ that time. Great album & a great song! |
| gypsyman (just passing through....) | Posted: Sep 06, 2011 - 18:31 gypsyman wrote: This is not the correct album art. This is. I owned the vinyl.  |
| gypsyman (just passing through....) | Posted: Sep 06, 2011 - 14:24 This is not the correct album art. |
| cohifi (Denver) | Posted: Aug 26, 2011 - 21:28 kcar wrote: Is this a single or alternate version? It sounds like a faster beat than the copy I bought off of iTunes.... funny you mention the alb um cover. This is not the one I have have with this song. what a pain......someday maybe |
| kcar | Posted: May 24, 2011 - 09:08 Is this a single or alternate version? It sounds like a faster beat than the copy I bought off of iTunes.... |
| blueice7 (NYC) | Posted: May 24, 2011 - 09:08 Love The The!! Thanks for playing! Would love to here Uncertain Smile sometime! |
| electronicthroat (South Carolina) | Posted: May 24, 2011 - 09:07 The M&Ms commercial ruined this song for me. |
| Stranglersfan (Revelstoke, B.C.) | Posted: Mar 22, 2011 - 06:44 Great Music, important stuff for many people in the 80's, it still sounds fresh to me! Actual release date of the Soul Mining Album was 1983. Thanks for the great programming this morning! |
| dc_zee | Posted: Jan 18, 2011 - 15:16 I listened to a cassette tape of the album (and nothing else) for about 30 hours straight in my 4th year of architecture studio. It was an intense time so I'm amazed I have such positive memories of the music and lyrics! |
| Stingray (EUROPE) | Posted: Jan 18, 2011 - 15:16 DaveInVA wrote: Its odd he can sing with out stuttering like with the bands name... Compliment - a funny one! Smiling! |
| zipper | Posted: Jan 18, 2011 - 15:15 Hooray for 80s music that doesn't make my eyes roll to the back of my head! |
| Stingray (EUROPE) | Posted: Jan 18, 2011 - 15:13 MUSIC AGAIN! |
| Deadwing (Cincinnati OH) | Posted: Jan 03, 2010 - 05:47  |
| Stingray (Cologne) | Posted: Nov 01, 2009 - 12:07 100% AGREEMENT! A MASTERPIECE INDEED (like three other albums from this VERY underrated band!) |
| lattalo (Beartooths) | Posted: Aug 30, 2009 - 10:25 This album is a master piece and pretty much summed up my life during during the 80's. |
| DaveInVA (In a crumbling Queen Anne mansion in Damnville, VA) | Posted: Aug 30, 2009 - 10:23 Its odd he can sing with out stuttering like with the bands name... |
| mtmedlin | Posted: Jul 29, 2009 - 21:12 AphidA wrote: It really sucks that I have to think of M&Ms when I hear this song now. Me too. I was happy he got some exposure, but sad that he sold out at the same time. Oh well. Matt Johnson defines much of the 80's and 90's for me. |
| inmanart | Posted: Apr 25, 2009 - 15:53 Had a demo of Dogs Of Lust around 1993, that was a pretty hip tune! |
| grandkrok | Posted: Feb 21, 2009 - 14:29 Hi, A long time ago, we played that song on a radio station (102.2 fm on Lyons france, still here, yes) We had fun, with the translation of THE THE..so on air, it could be "Le, Le,La,La and wathewer U can manage it". Even now I don't know how to translate about it - English made group. Big Up to everyone. Grandkrok. |
| JavaJones (Outland, CA) | Posted: Nov 18, 2008 - 16:17 First heard this in the film Empire Records, where it sets the perfect tone for a pull-back closer. Fantastic song, just makes you want to dance, or at least wiggle in your seat a bit! (if you're at work like me  ) |
| Balthazar (SI) | Posted: Sep 16, 2008 - 13:00 Love this album, love this song    |
| AphidA | Posted: Sep 16, 2008 - 12:59 It really sucks that I have to think of M&Ms when I hear this song now. I love the fact that artists aren't as worried about licensing their music and can be relatively obscure but make a lot of money. But, c'mon. I mean do the Flaming Lips really need to sell salad dressing?!?!?! |
| anotherlistener | Posted: Sep 16, 2008 - 12:59 One of those songs that reminds me of the good old days with HFS layin' down the tunes. AAAHHHHH  |
| WonderLizard (2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise) | Posted: Jul 15, 2008 - 08:06 miahfost wrote: Funny, I had the record with this as the cover:
 "> Me, too. I love this album, especially "Uncertain Smile" as someone else said below. |
| superflyLD (Boston, MA) | Posted: Jul 15, 2008 - 08:05 that's right! This song is in that M&M commercial! LOL! 
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