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Oh boy
Makin' noise
For the love a' Buddy Holly
My six string
Way gone
Real low
Let it roll
Like a motor ever purrin'
My machine
Rave on
Sentimental blood
You spill
I'll reach out to catch it
Oh boy
Makin' out
Gotta' try to make the most
Of a queer thing
Ah, gotta' shout
Real loud
Rock n' roll
Cupid Charlie noddin' off
In the mezzanine
Gotta' shout
Sentimental tears
You spill
I'll reach out to catch them,
I may never see the light
I may never dream in color
I may may never see the light a' day
Feelin' dizzy
Feelin' weak
Feelin' dizzy
Like I'm gonna' sinkĀ
Oh boy
Makin'noise
For the love a' Buddy Holly
My six string
Way gone
Real low
Let it roll
Like a motor ever purrin'
My machine
Rave on
Sentimental blood
You spill
I'll reach out to catch it
Sentimental tears
You spill
I'll reach out to catch it (cont.)
I may never see the light
I may never dream in color
I may may never see light a' day
I may never see the light
I may never win you over
I may never be in love
I may never see the light
I may never see light
I may may never see light a' day
| Proclivities (Paris of the Piedmont) | Posted: Dec 14, 2012 - 12:20 WonderLizard wrote: Every time I hear a string quartet in a rock/pop song, I think of "Yesterday" and "Eleanor Rigby." They may not have been the first—tho' I'm at a loss to say who it could have been—but IMHO they were the most influential. Those songs were certainly influential, though producers like Phil Spector used string arrangements in pop/rock songs prior to George Martin and The Beatles doing so. |
| lemmoth (NYC) | Posted: Dec 14, 2012 - 12:15 ThePoose wrote: Channelling Marc Bolan of T. rex. Totally |
| dew34 (Wisconsin-quite woodsy) | Posted: Oct 12, 2012 - 18:44 1wolfy wrote: yes ThePoose wrote: Channelling Marc Bolan of T. rex. Channeling Ray Davies |
| WonderLizard (2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise) | Posted: Feb 05, 2012 - 11:39 Every time I hear a string quartet in a rock/pop song, I think of "Yesterday" and "Eleanor Rigby." They may not have been the first—tho' I'm at a loss to say who it could have been—but IMHO they were the most influential. |
| keidse | Posted: Jun 29, 2011 - 13:11 channeling Michael Knott |
| 1wolfy (Mission Viejo California) | Posted: Jun 14, 2011 - 16:38 yes ThePoose wrote: Channelling Marc Bolan of T. rex. |
| cohifi (Denver) | Posted: May 15, 2011 - 17:46 The sun shines somewhere all the time, right? ; ) |
| gabrielle7nt (Palo Alto) | Posted: Apr 24, 2011 - 10:25 Stingray wrote: TOO GOOD FOR THE MASSES! EXACTLY THE RIGHT THING FOR ME! I concur. |
| TimeWaster | Posted: Feb 10, 2011 - 07:50 Stingray wrote: TOO GOOD FOR THE MASSES! EXACTLY THE RIGHT THING FOR ME! OKAY BUT I DON'T KNOW WHY YOU'RE YELLING! |
| rare_trees | Posted: Dec 22, 2010 - 16:19 The internet was tailor made for two things: 1) people born to post nothing but negative spam on any song, product, person, business, etc. and subject under the sun and Moon. Often these types are "fixated", i.e., so and so is the world's greatest guitarist, usually somebody rated in the top 100 guitar players on Rolling Stone. Or maybe they despise all 100, either way, they are buzz-kill because they get a reaction to their infantile ramblings. 2) people like the rest of us that love rp and most if not nearly all of what they collect and play. I woke up with headphones on about a month ago, hearing Amadou and Miriam for the first time. Today it is wide awake, hearing Grant-Lee Phillipsfor my first time. I heard the Marc Bolan T-rex sound or influence, but I also heard modern alt rock. One of the great things about an eclectic station like rp, is sooner or later, you hear an old familiar, or brand new song. Often done in 3/4, 4/4, 5/4, or even an "unusual time" format.Does Grant Lee Phillips, aka Buffalo, do any songs in "unusual time signatures"? I'd aplogize, for the long, rambling post, but it is my great pleasure to push the barfing emoticon(s) both below the fold and to the back pages... Peace, Raretrees If anyone on rp sees this, how about some old Zephyr, Candy Givens and Tommy Bolin music? My personal favs are the stuff where Candy sang prominently "later" rather than "earlier" in her "album" career. She got really polished after getting past "her first studio" takes. |
| ThePoose | Posted: Sep 03, 2010 - 10:11 Channelling Marc Bolan of T. rex. |
| Stingray (EUROPE) | Posted: Sep 03, 2010 - 10:09 TOO GOOD FOR THE MASSES! EXACTLY THE RIGHT THING FOR ME! |
| inthefog (San Francisco, CA) | Posted: Aug 14, 2010 - 14:14 I could never than RP enough for introducing me to Grant Lee Phillips (and Grant Lee Buffalo). Still: thank you! :) |
| Cynaera (South of Neanderthal) | Posted: Jul 16, 2010 - 14:40 WonderLizard wrote: Yes, Excelsior was annoying, but he's long gone. There's nothing to be gained in rising to year old bait. BTW, if you take even a casual glance at his rating pattern, he simply dialed up one artist after another and rated them. It wasn't as if he actually listened to the songs. Pretty funny when you think about it. At least the long, lost and—at least to one habitue of these pages—lamented Physicsgenius actually listened to the stuff before he savaged it. I've had a couple of drinks tonight, so I'm a bit more, er, critical than usual. Apologies. I wondered about others' comments regarding Excelsior. Thanks for explaining! (And don't apologize for being "critical." I'm glad you can feel comfortable enough here to let it all out. Haven't seen any of Physicsgenius's comments yet, but hey - the year is young! Enjoy your current evening, WonderLizard (since the comment I tagged was from September of 2009...)  |
| stevebeaver (Washington DC) | Posted: Jul 01, 2010 - 12:59 Love GLP. Puts on a great fun show, especially when it is just him and his guitar. |
| lemmoth (NYC) | Posted: Apr 30, 2010 - 18:04 Four words Mark T Rex Bolan |
| ziggytrix (Dallas, TX) | Posted: Mar 11, 2010 - 13:59 I want to make "For the love of Buddy Holly!" a regular expletive. |
| Darlington (Columbia, South Carolina) | Posted: Oct 05, 2009 - 07:16 I've been listening to a couple of his CD's in the car recently. Uniformly very good stuff. |
| lmic (Narrow Minded Couch Potato) | Posted: Oct 02, 2009 - 11:06 Same branch of the family tree as Michael Penn? This is by far my favorite Grant-Lee Phillips song Bill plays. 8 |
| WonderLizard (2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise) | Posted: Sep 03, 2009 - 19:18 Wizzuvv_oz wrote: you have one thousand three hundred and fifty-seven songs that you have rated 1. Don't forget to take in some fluids and maybe some electrolytes. Yes, Excelsior was annoying, but he's long gone. There's nothing to be gained in rising to year old bait. BTW, if you take even a casual glance at his rating pattern, he simply dialed up one artist after another and rated them. It wasn't as if he actually listened to the songs. Pretty funny when you think about it. At least the long, lost and—at least to one habitue of these pages—lamented Physicsgenius actually listened to the stuff before he savaged it. I've had a couple of drinks tonight, so I'm a bit more, er, critical than usual. Apologies. |
| On_The_Beach (Vancouver BC, Bud) | Posted: Aug 20, 2009 - 01:08 bbryan wrote: I hear a little T.Rex in this... I was just thinkin' the same thing! To the point that I think it may be intentional. (somebody's been listening to a little "Jeepster"!) |
| Wizzuvvoz (Land of Nod. East of Eden on Route 66.) | Posted: Jul 31, 2009 - 10:12 Excelsior wrote:  you have one thousand three hundred and fifty-seven songs that you have rated 1. Don't forget to take in some fluids and maybe some electrolytes. |
| peter_james_bond (Lunenburg, NS) | Posted: Jul 02, 2009 - 13:09  |
| bbryan | Posted: Jun 19, 2009 - 07:16 I hear a little T.Rex in this... |
| jjbix (san diego) | Posted: Jun 17, 2009 - 14:46 what a tedious tune, . . . ugh, yuck, blah, eeek, . . . |
| WonderLizard (2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise) | Posted: May 02, 2009 - 19:33 peter_james_bond wrote: I'm sick of seeing Excelsior's vomiting emoticon If his troll like comments can't be removed they can at least be pushed off the first page. Come on RP listeners lets make enough positive comments to push his negative comments into history!Chill, brothers and sisters. The XBoy took a powder some six months ago and hasn't been heard from since. Unlike PhysicsGenius, with whom I rarely agreed but admired for his wit and erudition, XBoy seemed only to revel in pure, vile negativity. It is for his like that God created the vomiting emoticon, and I for one do not mourn his passing. |
| osbyec | Posted: Apr 15, 2009 - 05:59 First time I ever heard Grant-Lee Phillips was as the town troubadour on Gilmore Girls. :) Glad I get to hear him elsewhere also. |
| philbertr (Hurricane Target Florida) | Posted: Apr 01, 2009 - 06:35 peter_james_bond wrote: I'm sick of seeing Excelsior's vomiting emoticon If his troll like comments can't be removed they can at least be pushed off the first page. Come on RP listeners lets make enough positive comments to push his negative comments into history!It is going to take some doing, but I think it's worth the effort! Here is my part..... |
| fredriley (Nottingham, UK) | Posted: Apr 01, 2009 - 06:35 peter_james_bond wrote: I'm sick of seeing Excelsior's vomiting emoticon If his troll like comments can't be removed they can at least be pushed off the first page. Come on RP listeners lets make enough positive comments to push his negative comments into history!Seconded. A shame that you can't have killfiles on web fora. Nowt wrong with negative comments, but his relentless slagging off really is wearing and wearying. As he rates some 25% of RP's output as sucko-barfo you do wonder why he hangs around here. Reminds me of some footie fans who swear loyalty to their team but only go along to matches to relentlessly slag off their own players. Must be a form of catharsis, I guess ;-| |
| i4niblind (Vancouver, BC) | Posted: Mar 16, 2009 - 09:17 I've always dreamed in colour. I don't recall ever having a black and white dream.. i'm pretty sure that's how dogs dream. (my effort to rid the page of vomitous comments). |
| TanteJensen (one step ahead from my shoe shine, two steps away from the county line) | Posted: Feb 23, 2009 - 03:26 Nice, but on the edge to becoming overplayed. |
| physastro2050 (Aachen,Germany) | Posted: Feb 23, 2009 - 03:23 grant lee=real music  |
| peter_james_bond (Lunenburg, NS) | Posted: Feb 16, 2009 - 08:43 I'm sick of seeing Excelsior's vomiting emoticon If his troll like comments can't be removed they can at least be pushed off the first page. Come on RP listeners lets make enough positive comments to push his negative comments into history! |
| parrothead (could be anywhere in the great USA) | Posted: Jan 22, 2009 - 14:17 Hannio wrote: Yes, he was. In 1493 Columbus sailed the deep blue sea. Or something like that. 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue. It should be noted that there were slaves and disease on the same fleet of ships sailing on the ocean so blue. |
| miamizsun (New Digs in Fort Lauderdale(3261.3 Miles SE of RP), FL) | Posted: Nov 08, 2008 - 08:08 love grant's stuff.  |
| KahunaMatata (Honolulu, HI) | Posted: Oct 07, 2008 - 17:44 Playing this song after "Following Slowly" is why I listen to Radio Paradise all day long. Thank you Bill!!!  |
| Excelsior | Posted: Sep 23, 2008 - 18:10 |
| Excelsior | Posted: Sep 18, 2008 - 05:22 Hey Grant: You're allowed to go directly from one note to another. You don't have to slide back and forth between each one. It really, really sucks. |
| Hannio (Austin, TX) | Posted: Sep 11, 2008 - 06:05 Bjornie56 wrote: leshwatt wrote: I saw GLBuffalo on the Jubilee tour in Columbus. Elbows on the stage for me. The energy was intense, one of the best shows I've ever seen. He is a brilliant songwriter. I wish he would tour more often. Columbus?? He was a sailor,eh? Yes, he was. In 1493 Columbus sailed the deep blue sea. Or something like that. |
| jagdriver (Auburn, CA) | Posted: Aug 20, 2008 - 11:26 runaway wrote: His singing reminds me of Turin Breaks. Checked his wiki entry. No connection. I did find out he's the troubadour on Gilmore Girls. That's cute. Also done some highly acclaimed music. Must hear more to form a real opinion though. Yeah, I thought it was Turin Brakes, too. 6 ==> 7 |
| Bjornie56 (Sweden) | Posted: Aug 05, 2008 - 12:12 leshwatt wrote: I saw GLBuffalo on the Jubilee tour in Columbus. Elbows on the stage for me. The energy was intense, one of the best shows I've ever seen. He is a brilliant songwriter. I wish he would tour more often.
Columbus?? He was a sailor,eh? |
| leshwatt (ohio) | Posted: Jul 27, 2008 - 17:01 I saw GLBuffalo on the Jubilee tour in Columbus. Elbows on the stage for me. The energy was intense, one of the best shows I've ever seen. He is a brilliant songwriter. I wish he would tour more often. |
| Paul_in_Australia (Melbourne) | Posted: Jul 04, 2008 - 22:28 ClaireWild wrote: singing on this track, sounds like Marc Bolan to me.
spot on |
| jonnybolo (Italy/PU) | Posted: Jun 05, 2008 - 01:35  |
| thewiseking (New York, New York) | Posted: Jun 03, 2008 - 10:01 i'll Grant you this, this does not suck. |
| inindian (Ring of Fire) | Posted: May 25, 2008 - 17:09 Carl wrote: This really appeals. Seldom have I agreed as much with the comments (re George Harrison sound, John Lennon, etc.). Just promoted my rating by one!
I get the Beatles thing happening for me too. I really like this more than some of his other work. |
| out_to_lunch (Philly by way of CT) | Posted: Apr 01, 2008 - 12:15 ziggytrix wrote: not really. listen to them both back to back. they're not that similar IMO. Grant Lee Buffalo is way before radiohead's time anyway....great band though... |
| ziggytrix (Dallas, TX) | Posted: Jan 15, 2008 - 15:40 GChevy410 wrote: Karma Police?
not really. listen to them both back to back. they're not that similar IMO. |
| joeheyming (Sunnyvale, CA) | Posted: Nov 29, 2007 - 08:39 good to listen to when you just get into work |
| Wizzuvvoz (Land of Nod. East of Eden on Route 66.) | Posted: Nov 08, 2007 - 07:53 nice segue from NY "Goin' Back". 2 X 8 for me |