![]() Road To Rouen (2005) [ larger cover art ] |
Making sense of what I've heard
And what is on my mind
Well don't look down cos it's far to fall
Oh yeah
Count the hours face the fear
It's all you need these days
We're past the post and through the door
We welcome commercial suicide
Kiss the love you leave behind
And let it bother you
Well you do what it takes to get what you can
Last night I thought about her
... love and what I do
It's hanging over me
I'm sure to break your loving heart
I'm down and take a walk down a sugar coated sonified
I've been hanging around for hours
Staring at your holy ground
Ooooooh
...
I might've known that you'd be tearing up the photographs
Oooooh
At sight of all I've done been taken for higher ground
... china dolls and better times
This side of life...
you know this living hell solid gold coming for no one
And what is on my mind
Well don't look down cos it's far to fall
Oh yeah
Count the hours face the fear
It's all you need these days
We're past the post and through the door
We welcome commercial suicide
Kiss the love you leave behind
And let it bother you
Well you do what it takes to get what you can
Last night I thought about her
... love and what I do
It's hanging over me
I'm sure to break your loving heart
I'm down and take a walk down a sugar coated sonified
I've been hanging around for hours
Staring at your holy ground
Ooooooh
...
I might've known that you'd be tearing up the photographs
Oooooh
At sight of all I've done been taken for higher ground
... china dolls and better times
This side of life...
you know this living hell solid gold coming for no one
| MM_Oz (Gidgie.. in the golden west) | Posted: May 09, 2013 - 21:59 glimpses of the Bourne movie theme in there... |
| Propayne (Richmond VA) | Posted: Apr 12, 2013 - 14:03 Toke wrote: dig wrote: Since no one has dropped the "E" word yet, allow me... EPIC! ''Excrementa'' would be more accurate naaaa, not so much |
| Toke (Bournemouth UK) | Posted: Mar 08, 2013 - 06:29 dig wrote: Since no one has dropped the "E" word yet, allow me... EPIC! ''Excrementa'' would be more accurate |
| dig | Posted: Mar 05, 2013 - 18:52 Since no one has dropped the "E" word yet, allow me... EPIC! |
| bitbanger (Upper West Side) | Posted: Mar 05, 2013 - 11:43 5 -> 7. The more I hear this tune the more I like it. |
| TerryS (Another SW) | Posted: Jan 23, 2013 - 18:33 Ahhh, the Road to ruin album....likin it. |
| ziakut (Slightly North of Obvlivion) | Posted: Jan 17, 2013 - 08:46 The more I hear from this album, the more I like. Such is a good thing. |
| Lichenia, (uk) | Posted: Jan 17, 2013 - 08:45 Thanks for the last hour. Brought me back from a dark place. |
| DavidS_UK (Central England, UK) | Posted: Jan 04, 2013 - 14:34 coloradojohn wrote: Quite possibly the coolest intro EVER...and, whoah, what follows! This baby does it all, and well. Scintillates in multiple spectra! Atoms ionized and electron shells traded! Fades out as comes in, with me wanting more! I agree, there are tremendous echoes of the early Supregrass in here and yet it isn't dated; damn catchy bass line and riff too. |
| metod (Canada) | Posted: Jan 01, 2013 - 19:45 Wow...is this the same Spergrass I remember from years ago? Very cool....they seem to mature a lot... |
| willemd | Posted: Dec 05, 2012 - 05:47 oldsaxon wrote: Yeah, sure, all of that...but do you like it? I hope you're trying to be funny... someone else was trying to make something interesting. |
| oldsaxon (Wales via Vancouver, BC.) | Posted: Dec 01, 2012 - 10:52 coloradojohn wrote: Quite possibly the coolest intro EVER...and, whoah, what follows! This baby does it all, and well. Scintillates in multiple spectra! Atoms ionized and electron shells traded! Fades out as comes in, with me wanting more! Yeah, sure, all of that...but do you like it? |
| coloradojohn (A Mile High and then some, Cherry Creek, Denver) | Posted: Nov 22, 2012 - 01:07 Quite possibly the coolest intro EVER...and, whoah, what follows! This baby does it all, and well. Scintillates in multiple spectra! Atoms ionized and electron shells traded! Fades out as comes in, with me wanting more! |
| smackiepipe (Western North Carolina) | Posted: Oct 10, 2012 - 13:56 Crap. Just when I was getting ready to leave work 5 minutes early... Now I'm stuck. |
| jberko (Franklin, TN) | Posted: Sep 04, 2012 - 17:01 Sounds alot like Kula Shaker. I like! |
| warderblu | Posted: Aug 01, 2012 - 08:36 NP. Although Bill plays tracks from the "Road To Rouen" album often, I like their other albums much better! aspicer wrote: Awesome - thanks for the heads up warderblu! Road To Rouen |
| aspicer (Chicago, IL) | Posted: Jul 31, 2012 - 13:16 warderblu wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supergrass_Is_10 Awesome - thanks for the heads up warderblu!http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supergrass_(album) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_on_Other_Planets aspicer wrote: Not very familiar with Supergrass overall - what is the best album to jump into oh music brothern?! ;-) |
| warderblu | Posted: Jul 31, 2012 - 13:00 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supergrass_Is_10 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supergrass_(album) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_on_Other_Planets aspicer wrote: Not very familiar with Supergrass overall - what is the best album to jump into oh music brothern?! ;-) |
| aspicer (Chicago, IL) | Posted: Jul 31, 2012 - 12:58 Not very familiar with Supergrass overall - what is the best album to jump into oh music brothern?! ;-) |
| warderblu | Posted: Jul 31, 2012 - 12:58 Too bad they broke up! Saw them twice over the years - what a great band! peter_james_bond wrote: Amen to that! ![]() |
| Ag3nt0rang3 (Canada) | Posted: Jul 31, 2012 - 12:57 Not a big Supergrass fan, but this is really hitting the spot at the end of a workday. |
| peter_james_bond (West Of The Burg) | Posted: May 05, 2012 - 15:25 Propayne wrote: I miss Supergrass. Would be great to have a new CD by them this Spring - to blast in the car on a beautiful day with the windows down. Amen to that! ![]() |
| TerryS (Another SW) | Posted: Mar 26, 2012 - 18:02 dpvest wrote: reminds me of machu pichu Not so much for me- I only heard the sound of cameras clicking and llamas munching. |
| beelzebubba (Where the hell is Walldrug, South Dakota?) | Posted: Feb 21, 2012 - 05:47 One of the best lesser known bands of the past 20 years. |
| finoufk (Bordeaux - france) | Posted: Jan 23, 2012 - 08:55 linden wrote: Love this. Now I'm longing for some Alan Parsons Project. "(The System of) Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether" would sound good after this. good idea |
| Propayne (Richmond VA) | Posted: Jan 20, 2012 - 11:53 I miss Supergrass. Would be great to have a new CD by them this Spring - to blast in the car on a beautiful day with the windows down. |
| bobringer (Wayne, NJ) | Posted: Jan 20, 2012 - 11:51 Note to other rock bands that suck... This is how you do it. |
| linden (Santa Cruz, CA) | Posted: Dec 26, 2011 - 09:38 Love this. Now I'm longing for some Alan Parsons Project. "(The System of) Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether" would sound good after this. |
| coloradojohn (Tokyo till Jan. 29, then it's back to Rocky Mtn Way!) | Posted: Dec 10, 2011 - 04:11 Never seem to get tired of this awesome atmospheric jammer! ROCKIN'! |
| rage | Posted: Nov 08, 2011 - 11:55 love it!! |
| patrick30 (Austria) | Posted: Nov 02, 2011 - 02:08 Please Bill, more of this! skybreakers wrote: Please Bill, no more of this.. |
| skybreakers (Amsterdam, Holland) | Posted: Oct 24, 2011 - 02:07 Please Bill, no more of this.. |
| d-don (Oregon) | Posted: Oct 17, 2011 - 10:58 Easy on the ears...I dig. |
| cohifi (Denver) | Posted: Oct 07, 2011 - 23:45 another SG song I need. Thanks RP! ![]() |
| kayumann | Posted: Oct 01, 2011 - 12:36 Excellent toe tapper!! |
| ckcotton | Posted: Sep 26, 2011 - 18:43 kaybee wrote: I love the moodiness of this piece, the buildup and everything. I keep imagining driving down a highway somewhere in southern France in late summer with this playing. Is the whole album this good? Its the best one on there for sure..... |
| kaybee (Lost in the Wilds of Toronto) | Posted: Sep 26, 2011 - 18:41 I love the moodiness of this piece, the buildup and everything. I keep imagining driving down the D117 highway in southern France in late summer with this playing on the car stereo. Is the whole album this good? |
| madhoop (Carlsbad, CA) | Posted: Sep 22, 2011 - 10:07 Doesn't though... Bridieboo wrote: This sounds soooo good in headphones! |
| Bridieboo (Halifax, NS) | Posted: Sep 06, 2011 - 13:43 This sounds soooo good in headphones! |
| fredriley (Nottingham, UK) | Posted: Aug 18, 2011 - 06:32 Cynaera wrote: I'd settle for weed. The British satirical cartoonist Steve Bell drew the strip below in 1982 which nicely combines both meanings of supergrass, in the context in which the term was coined: ![]() |
| Propayne (Richmond VA) | Posted: Aug 18, 2011 - 06:26 Love Supergrass. I'll be hitting the road soon for a longish trip. Think I'll bring this CD along, but hope I don't end up in Rouen! |
| stevieslo | Posted: Jul 21, 2011 - 16:24 IrieTom wrote: Oddly enough, I'm hearing a little Franz Ferdinand in the outro... That's hot...I heard it too. Just got one of their albums (the self titled one) after hearing it on RP (its great), so I'll try and find the RtR one as well... |
| dpvest (roseville) | Posted: Jul 21, 2011 - 16:21 reminds me of machu pichu |
| palad1 (London UK. A froggie in exile.) | Posted: Jun 29, 2011 - 07:40 Some pretty strong Zep channeling going on there.... |
| flateric (Essen) | Posted: Jun 13, 2011 - 11:28 |
| kevinc (Richardson, TX) | Posted: May 23, 2011 - 20:37 smackiepipe wrote: One of the first tunes I ever heard on RP (when I joined back in 05). Immediately bought the CD back when BMG was still in business, and was shocked to see that they had it! Technically BMG still exists...they're called yourmusic.com. They sell CD's for 6 bucks shipped (5 bucks when there's a sale). Alas, they're closing shop in the next few weeks to a month. But it's a decent place to get mainstream titles on the cheap. |
| smackiepipe (Western North Carolina) | Posted: May 19, 2011 - 08:57 One of the first tunes I ever heard on RP (when I joined back in 05). Immediately bought the CD back when BMG was still in business, and was shocked to see that they had it! |
| pinnyrat | Posted: May 15, 2011 - 14:59 GREAT TUNE. (purposeful allcaps) |
| Cynaera (South of Neanderthal) | Posted: Apr 17, 2011 - 19:40 HazzeSwede wrote: Let's go together,all the way up to TEN,just the band name deserves # 10 ! I'd settle for weed. But I have to say that I was in the middle of a really great Live Journal update when this came on, and I immediately thought, "Geez - this is SUCH a 10!) So, I'm bumping it from 9 to 10 - not just because of the name, but because the song itself pulled me out of a very deep and serious mind-space. Any song that can do that deserves a 10, in my opinion.... |
| rowdydaisy (Chicago, IL) | Posted: Apr 14, 2011 - 01:12 So bummed I never saw this band live. |



