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Morphine — Top Floor, Bottom Buzzer
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rdo
(DC)
Posted: Nov 22, 2012 - 10:13
 
The stuffinicity of these guys is just way too much for me bare.  I need AIR!!!

Nadine
Posted: Oct 22, 2012 - 02:27
 
 hencini wrote:


If you don't like Cure for Pain, you don't like music. 

 
That's right. It is an absolute wonderful album - from the first note to the last.

I never thought about morphine's songs sounding similar. I like almost every song of them...I think I just can't get enough of it & Mark Sandman's way of singing: he had an attitude in it I liked a lot. he sounded like a (likable) bon vivant.

And I'll always be grateful for having had the pleasure to seeing them live in '95. It was a marvellous gig, in a -literally- tiny shoebox, with a marvellous (sax) sound. They were such a great and fun live band. They're one of the bands I miss A LOT. There's only one band I miss more: E.S.T. (Esbjörn Svensson Trio).

Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC)
Posted: Sep 20, 2012 - 13:16
 
 Leener wrote:
Awesome opening and any song that mentions Chartreuse gets an extra point.
 
Nasty liqueur, nice color, pretty good tune.

Rooney
(Near Paradise)
Posted: Jul 19, 2012 - 15:20
 
Hot damn, this is good.

4merdj
(donde el viento se devuelve)
Posted: Jul 19, 2012 - 15:17
 


Byronape
("post-capitalist wreckageville")
Posted: May 17, 2012 - 07:22
 
It could be my mood, the great quality stream, or the good headphones, but this is really hitting it right at the moment.

Put together from chops of other songs or not, good is good.  And I think this is really good.

V12Silly
(It's not about the bike, it's about the basket that carries the beer.)
Posted: Apr 15, 2012 - 13:53
 

Dedicated to the not so Secret Service



cmarcan
Posted: Feb 09, 2012 - 09:10
 

I really like Morphine.  I couldn't listen them all day because their songs are all very simular, but then again I could say that about every band (Except for Pink Floyd of course).



Foot
(NorCal / Wine)
Posted: Dec 10, 2011 - 14:00
 
(Another) one I can't believe I hadn't rated before - immediate 9+

hencini
Posted: Nov 08, 2011 - 21:33
 
 impediguy wrote:
Come on people! So much bad hype and yet so little said. Morphine is not bad, and this song does not epitomize them. This song was mixed from the dregs of their recordings after Mark Sandman died of a heart attack on stage. That is, this album was put together from bits and pieces of yet unpublished recordings from a dead man.

Morphine was quite good before their career abruptly ended in 1999. The three piece band consists of three members: Dana Colley, a baritone sax player; Billy Conway (or once Jerome Deupree) on drums; and Mark Sandman who sang and often played a two-string bass guitar with a slide. The band's sound was obviously in the low register with Mark Sandman's deep voice, a slide-bass, and baritone sax. Their sound is like a silky smooth addiction. I highly recommend that you all listen to their "Cure for Pain" CD before speculating about the band and posting morbid postmortem about a single song.

They were very great guys as well, who bonded well with their audiences. Dana Colley would sometimes take pictures of their audience during shows for their own memory. There will be a documentary on Mark Sandman this year.
 

Indeed.  If you don't like Cure for Pain, you don't like music.  The odd-numbered tracks in the middle are some of my favorites of all time: In Spite of Me, Cure for Pain and (to only a slightly lesser extent) Candy.  


ckcotton
Posted: Nov 08, 2011 - 21:11
 
Not one of their better efforts....

DD rabbi_phil
(beach)
Posted: Oct 08, 2011 - 09:01
 
givin' the klipsch a workout. yeah,thats what I'm talkin bout!


zair99
(In Cognito)
Posted: Oct 05, 2011 - 13:55
 
Mmmm.... had to turn this one up!

Marzz_13
Posted: Jul 06, 2011 - 05:47
 
One of my new FAVORITE bands thanks to RP.  SO original with just bass, tenor sax and drums.  Not for everyone...but very, very cool.  Sandman was a brilliant and creative musician taken way too soon.

Jelani
(Home of the freak, land of the vague)
Posted: Jun 01, 2011 - 17:09
 
 impediguy wrote:
Come on people! So much bad hype and yet so little said. Morphine is not bad, and this song does not epitomize them. This song was mixed from the dregs of their recordings after Mark Sandman died of a heart attack on stage. That is, this album was put together from bits and pieces of yet unpublished recordings from a dead man.

Morphine was quite good before their career abruptly ended in 1999. The three piece band consists of three members: Dana Colley, a baritone sax player; Billy Conway (or once Jerome Deupree) on drums; and Mark Sandman who sang and often played a two-string bass guitar with a slide. The band's sound was obviously in the low register with Mark Sandman's deep voice, a slide-bass, and baritone sax. Their sound is like a silky smooth addiction. I highly recommend that you all listen to their "Cure for Pain" CD before speculating about the band and posting morbid postmortem about a single song.

They were very great guys as well, who bonded well with their audiences. Dana Colley would sometimes take pictures of their audience during shows for their own memory. There will be a documentary on Mark Sandman this year.
 
Yeah, what he said...

impediguy
Posted: Mar 30, 2011 - 12:59
 
Come on people! So much bad hype and yet so little said. Morphine is not bad, and this song does not epitomize them. This song was mixed from the dregs of their recordings after Mark Sandman died of a heart attack on stage. That is, this album was put together from bits and pieces of yet unpublished recordings from a dead man.

Morphine was quite good before their career abruptly ended in 1999. The three piece band consists of three members: Dana Colley, a baritone sax player; Billy Conway (or once Jerome Deupree) on drums; and Mark Sandman who sang and often played a two-string bass guitar with a slide. The band's sound was obviously in the low register with Mark Sandman's deep voice, a slide-bass, and baritone sax. Their sound is like a silky smooth addiction. I highly recommend that you all listen to their "Cure for Pain" CD before speculating about the band and posting morbid postmortem about a single song.

They were very great guys as well, who bonded well with their audiences. Dana Colley would sometimes take pictures of their audience during shows for their own memory. There will be a documentary on Mark Sandman this year.


ecyfoto
(Tampa)
Posted: Mar 30, 2011 - 12:27
 
Mark Sandman just had such a great gift with words. The tunes are the cherry on top. How sexy is "top floor bottom buzzer"? Woof!

GwaiLo
Posted: Jan 26, 2011 - 18:32
 
I'm not really one for posting here... but I have to say that Morphine is one of those groups that each song sounds so similar that even if there is a large gap between each individual song being played, it feels like they are played far too frequently.
I also have to agree with some of the previous posters that this one in particular is particularly poor.


aelfheld
Posted: Jan 26, 2011 - 18:32
 
 Axelito wrote:
I just hate Morphine, every single song...
 
Consistency is not always a virtue.


Axelito
(France)
Posted: Dec 29, 2010 - 05:32
 
I just hate Morphine, every single song...

Paul_Skybreakers
(Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
Posted: Dec 29, 2010 - 05:31
 
 bam23 wrote:
The principal issue I have with this band is exemplified by this song. The lyrics like an excuse to put together a tune, without any particular reason other than that they needed to record something. All bands have a sound, some more stereotyped than others. Morphine uses the same mix of instruments in pretty much the same way for all the songs I have heard. This particular one falls shorter than most on the lyrics side.
 

Exactly. The tune is uninspired and boring.

SirLars
(London, ON)
Posted: Sep 22, 2010 - 07:46
 
{#Puke}

bam23
(Berkeley)
Posted: Jul 20, 2010 - 08:45
 
The principal issue I have with this band is exemplified by this song. The lyrics like an excuse to put together a tune, without any particular reason other than that they needed to record something. All bands have a sound, some more stereotyped than others. Morphine uses the same mix of instruments in pretty much the same way for all the songs I have heard. This particular one falls shorter than most on the lyrics side.

4merdj
(donde el viento se devuelve)
Posted: Jul 20, 2010 - 08:41
 
Yeah BB! {#Chillpill}{#Bananapiano}

ick
(S.E. La Jolla)
Posted: Jul 20, 2010 - 08:40
 
I gotta meet this Priscilla...

Leener
(Redwood City, California)
Posted: Jun 18, 2010 - 11:49
 
Awesome opening and any song that mentions Chartreuse gets an extra point.

anabel
Posted: Jun 18, 2010 - 11:48
 
whooo!

Bluesgrrl
(New Orleans)
Posted: May 20, 2010 - 12:47
 
{#Bananajam}{#Bananapiano}OK, the keyboards bumped this from 6 to 7!

fergie348
Posted: May 17, 2010 - 16:52
 
Oh man, I like that!  Groovy in an addled sort of way..

musickat
(Lake of the Ozarks)
Posted: May 17, 2010 - 16:46
 
 thyceomx wrote:
Cooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool! ;-)

 
{#Yes} {#Yes} {#Yes}


zair99
(In Cognito)
Posted: Apr 18, 2010 - 18:23
 
Oh man, I haven't heard this in a while...  So good!  8 > 9

Elliot
Posted: Mar 15, 2010 - 08:22
 
I wonder if I had never heard these guys before whether I would find this song more palettable. As it is, every time a Morphine song starts it's immediately obvious that it's them, and not in a good way. It's gotten really tiresome.

Ho Hum.


xavi
(Barcelona)
Posted: Feb 11, 2010 - 18:12
 
Great tune from lesser known combo.

cattail321
Posted: Feb 11, 2010 - 17:59
 
great turnpike truckin" sounds.....ride Sally ride{#Motor}

mrdak
(Middle GA)
Posted: Jan 11, 2010 - 07:22
 
 ick wrote:
Slutty sax... subzero bass!
 

yeah...... Killer! .... {#Devil_pimp}

handyrae
(Zero Point Field)
Posted: Nov 12, 2009 - 08:26
 
I was thinking this was Cake and the singer had a cold or something.

I like it.

boober
(KC,Mo)
Posted: Nov 09, 2009 - 13:14
 
 Verpeiler wrote:


For some reason I think I just heard the Eels
 
distorted "talking" vocals
It's the reason I like both the EEls and Morphine


ick
(S.E. La Jolla)
Posted: Sep 10, 2009 - 07:45
 
Slutty sax... subzero bass!

Sloggydog
(UK)
Posted: Sep 07, 2009 - 12:27
 
I gots to get me some morphine and maybe this CD too?

ugly
Posted: Aug 09, 2009 - 19:37
 
{#Dancingbanana_2}
besides being a badass song, their name makes me smile. That stuff is great on the rare occasion that I am celebrating extremely heavily.

thyceomx
Posted: Aug 06, 2009 - 23:46
 
Cooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool! ;-)


dBdwg
Posted: Jul 06, 2009 - 07:42
 
wow I wish this song could go on forever.....oh wait....it does...

kickstartmyheart
(Fort Lauderdale)
Posted: Jul 06, 2009 - 07:38
 
De ja vu, anyone? Bill is obsessed with this band! Reminds me so much of early 2000 times ...

contractor07
(Ann Arbor Michigan)
Posted: Jul 06, 2009 - 07:38
 
"She's mixing one for me I think.
And one for Mary Ellen and one for Jane."


HazzeSwede
(Vinyl Land)
Posted: Jun 07, 2009 - 08:40
 
Sax ok rest boring. #4

bindi
(North Carolina)
Posted: May 03, 2009 - 19:32
 
 Doogie wrote:
Keep the sax, the rest can go
 
this doogie agrees.  The sax rocks though!


Harlan879
(New York, NY)
Posted: Mar 04, 2009 - 13:32
 
It's OK... I'd like it better, but we live on the bottom floor, top buzzer, so I just can't relate.

ick
(San Diego, CA)
Posted: Mar 04, 2009 - 13:29
 
Groovy... it makes me swing.

MTachyon
(Neon United Trails)
Posted: Nov 29, 2008 - 17:52
 


Gednabb
(New York City)
Posted: Sep 24, 2008 - 18:07
 
Top Beat!
Bottom Vocals!