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Jenny Lewis — Pretty Bird
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lazylemming
(City of the Angels)
Posted: Apr 23, 2013 - 10:41
 
Pretty Bird = Pretty Good (rating, that is!)

Dav3thedog
(Canberra)
Posted: Apr 17, 2013 - 21:51
 
I like it!
yclept
(beyond the above)
Posted: Mar 05, 2013 - 15:19
 
 As long as I rarely hear any Eagles on RP, I'll be content.

cohifi wrote:
Nice!  I like birds in general; just not a big ravens fan.  I prefer Hawks.  Falcons, even.  Sweet set of music, regardless
 



ambrebalte
(Wolxheim (France) - Dreaming about resuming my life in Beijing province)
Posted: Jan 19, 2013 - 05:18
 
 Otomi wrote:
 Grammarcop wrote:
Ha! I just happened to be looking at a photo of Catharus fuscescens fuliginosus when this song came on.
 

Cool. If you look that up on Google Image Search you get pictures of the bird plus Jenny Lewis, thanks to this Radio Paradise page.
 
Two years after, yes, nice match - love this song for a saturday (very late) morning, in winter, snowing, cold

rdo
(DC)
Posted: Jan 13, 2013 - 18:05
 
 villaridge wrote:
This is why I heisitat to comment here at Radio Paradise. For 1, there are no freaking songs rated 10. The best you all seem to muster is a muttering that 8.4 is the shit. That's for stuff like Stairway To Heaven (not to me, but to a bunch of ya), lol, and here in this new realease you gabber on about WTF. why should I comment? what does me rating a song mean when I walk into a comment section of a new song and see the self-centered, myopic, and vapid comments that are here? lol

 

I think the comments here are often quite good.  If you want to read the corporate rags like Rolling Stone and Spin then be my guest.  Those articles are just big puff pieces for the music industry.  The criticism you read there is more like advertising.  (There is always a large degree of promotion in even the very best music journalism and criticism, same goes for literary and art.)  
 
Here at RP you get what people really think about songs.  I think this is the only place in the world where you'll get anything like this.  I think it is great.   The discussions that take place here about music do not take place anywhere else - not with the openness and honesty such as we have here.  Also, it is all inclusive here.  Haters are welcome as well as the musicologists, and we have some good-uns here.  It is also very lively and exhilarating.  Jump into the fray!

cohifi
(Denver)
Posted: Jan 13, 2013 - 18:04
 
Nice!  I like birds in general; just not a big ravens fan.  I prefer Hawks.  Falcons, even.  Sweet set of music, regardless

Grammarcop
(You want an E Class? We got 'em!)
Posted: Dec 13, 2012 - 09:02
 
Good timing! I was just in the process of sending out an email about a snowy owl that is being seen in my area. 

Bobert_ParkCity
(Actually, No longer in Park City Utah)
Posted: Oct 11, 2012 - 15:37
 
Love those humbuckers!

calypsus_1
(East of Eden)
Posted: Aug 14, 2012 - 15:57
 


Well, I decided to reproduce here a comment I saw recently published, by the way, of band Jenny and Johnny - song "Committed" from Their album "I'm Having Fun Now", published in 2010, which reads:

" Why is not this on the radio?! Oh yeah, radio would melt from the awesome. Radio today is audio Nerf - synthetic and bland. "- Just in case.

The band consists of duet Jennifer Diane "Jenny" Lewis, 36 years old and Johnathan Rice, 29 years old. Curiosity: when Jenny Lewis participated in the movie The Wizard, was 13 years old.

Ok, that everybody is quiet, no, I'm not saying that this song "Committed" is a masterpiece, but in the face of horrible and low quality of new songs, new bands, and singers that have recently appeared there, I must say that the first time I heard the song it was interesting, well designed, and most importantly, well performed. Note that the final sound is done using as few 2 guitars and duet-voices (Jenny & Johnny) with battery backup.

Committed, committed
I need to be committed
I need to be locked away
I need a straighter jacket on my crooked frame
I need to be admitted today

Excited, excited
I need to get excited
and reconnect with nature, babe
I need to focus on the sunshine, focus on my goal
Truth in every grain of sand

I put my back into, put my back into my work
I will receive what I, will see what I deserve

Listen

You have to be patient
This new administration is doing the very best it can
But there's armies in the banks who tried all of the skanks
Attorneys for the Ku Klux Klan

For god and for country, for Michael Jackson's monkey
Just take another on the chin
I was a singer in a band, yeah, had sex in my van
and filling it with mexicans

Who put their back into, put their back into their work
They will see what they, they will receive all they deserve

It's a beautiful life
we lay sleeping
With my beautiful wife and me

We'll hold each other closer till the end of days
I made my decision
I will go back to prison
I will survive the end of my bed
The writing is in the hall, the markings on the wall
that say "dead man walking"
I put my back into, put my back into my work
I will receive what I, will see what I deserve

Make the commitment





Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC)
Posted: Jul 14, 2012 - 16:32
 
 villaridge wrote:
This is why I heisitat to comment here at Radio Paradise. For 1, there are no freaking songs rated 10. The best you all seem to muster is a muttering that 8.4 is the shit. That's for stuff like Stairway To Heaven (not to me, but to a bunch of ya), lol, and here in this new realease you gabber on about WTF. why should I comment? what does me rating a song mean when I walk into a comment section of a new song and see the self-centered, myopic, and vapid comments that are here? lol

 
What difference does it make if there are no songs rated "10"?  What would one be?  There are several of the tunes on the playlist which are rated over 9.0 which I could do without hearing for a long time.  I generally don't care what other people like, but I do like this song and most of Jenny Lewis' material that I've heard.
I think it's the nature of the song comments to be self-centered, and often myopic - except mine, of course.  

losthiker
(ISIS)
Posted: Jun 27, 2012 - 09:56
 
This is nice but Bird Song (Hunter, Garcia) would have been sublime after Joplin.

Whirlpool
(Nowhere Important)
Posted: May 15, 2012 - 21:18
 
Nope. Can't get into it.

Blastcat900
(Neither here nor there)
Posted: Apr 10, 2012 - 13:03
 
I quite like it.

olivertwist
(Atlanta GA)
Posted: Mar 09, 2012 - 21:02
 

Beautiful. Why don't more RP listeners like it?



Bobert_ParkCity
(Park City Utah)
Posted: Feb 10, 2012 - 17:56
 
nothing like a crunchy humbucker - except a crunchy hollow-body humbucker! go M. Ward!

Grammarcop
(Upriver from Zug Island)
Posted: Feb 07, 2012 - 03:59
 
The Weather Channel is now using an instrumental version of this during the Local on the 8's segment. 

Dinges,_the_Dude
(under sea-level, N52°22', E4°52')
Posted: Dec 05, 2011 - 14:01
 
And, yet, I like this song in a way!

villaridge
Posted: Oct 06, 2011 - 22:42
 
This is why I heisitat to comment here at Radio Paradise. For 1, there are no freaking songs rated 10. The best you all seem to muster is a muttering that 8.4 is the shit. That's for stuff like Stairway To Heaven (not to me, but to a bunch of ya), lol, and here in this new realease you gabber on about WTF. why should I comment? what does me rating a song mean when I walk into a comment section of a new song and see the self-centered, myopic, and vapid comments that are here? lol


nalle
(Malmo, Sweden)
Posted: Aug 27, 2011 - 09:35
 
 coy wrote:
donovan and jenny lewis
that would be a match !!
 
Don´t you know? It´s a match. :)

coy
(san antonio)
Posted: Aug 27, 2011 - 09:33
 
donovan and jenny lewis
that would be a match !!

fingerpin
(oHIo)
Posted: Jun 21, 2011 - 07:42
 
 j7 wrote:
The visual fuss regarding that picture for me is........."Maybe Jenny should lay off the fried chicken sandwiches with mayo."
Pudgie bird...pudgie biiiirrrrd......lalalalalaaaa.
 
oy... body dysmorphic disorder is a tough one; thoroughly entrenched. Good luck to you. :/ 

GChevy410
(Newport Beach, CA)
Posted: Jun 21, 2011 - 07:38
 
 rabbi_phil wrote:


"Petey" says  'hi'          where's that blind kid? I'm selling my stuffed cat.

 


I am goig to start a pet store. We are going to specialize in Worm Farms...you know, like an Ant Farm, but with worms.

We are going to call it "I got Worms"

DD rabbi_phil
(beach)
Posted: May 24, 2011 - 21:09
 
 coccyx wrote:
Another Dumb and Dumber moment.  Officianados with a truly sophisticated talent for remembering meaningless details of low-brow humour will know what I'm talking about.
 

"Petey" says  'hi'          where's that blind kid? I'm selling my stuffed cat.


gandalfbmg
(3 mi from Paradise (Missouri))
Posted: Apr 11, 2011 - 10:04
 
 calypsus_1 wrote:
who remembers The Wizard?!?

 

Cought that movie on cable a couple months ago. While watching it the young girl was so familiar but I couldn't quite pin down who she was... Hopped on IMDB and was shocked to see it was Jenny, but it did make sense (the red hair, bad as the do was...). I knew she'd been a child actor, but I was thinking she was in in Salute Your Shorts or some such Nickelodeon show...

maxgruv
(Vancouver, Canada)
Posted: Mar 10, 2011 - 21:38
 
Soothing, but with an edge. Ahh, Jenny...

SugahBlanco
(USA)
Posted: Feb 28, 2011 - 10:33
 
 Propayne wrote:
Zen Archer by Todd Rundgren would be soooo cool after this.
 

Zen Archer and Todd Rundgren are brilliant!  However, this Pretty Bird song make my ears bleed!

peter_james_bond
(West Of The Burg)
Posted: Feb 15, 2011 - 06:13
 
 Nadine wrote:
like it—-
 
{#Yes}


jagdriver
(Just a nod and a wink south of Paradise)
Posted: Feb 07, 2011 - 13:34
 
 Randomax wrote:
{#Frustrated} 
 


Otomi
(La orilla de la civilización)
Posted: Nov 26, 2010 - 06:05
 
 Grammarcop wrote:
Ha! I just happened to be looking at a photo of Catharus fuscescens fuliginosus when this song came on.
 
Cool. If you look that up on Google Image Search you get pictures of the bird plus Jenny Lewis, thanks to this Radio Paradise page.

Nadine
(Hamburg Metro Area, Germany)
Posted: Nov 26, 2010 - 03:28
 
like it—-

reminds me a lot of "carina round"... 

Randomax
(Wimberley, TX)
Posted: Oct 25, 2010 - 10:58
 
{#Frustrated} 

mattcol99
(Bath, England, beneath Solsbury Hill)
Posted: Oct 12, 2010 - 02:25
 
love that Guitar Solo.  Comes at you like some sort of rabid animal....

Propayne
(Richmond VA)
Posted: Oct 04, 2010 - 08:30
 
Zen Archer by Todd Rundgren would be soooo cool after this.

Grammarcop
(Where Miley Cyrus comes to LOL.)
Posted: Sep 14, 2010 - 12:27
 
Ha! I just happened to be looking at a photo of Catharus fuscescens fuliginosus when this song came on.




KurtfromLaQuinta
(Yep. I'm still here in La Quinta.)
Posted: Sep 14, 2010 - 12:22
 
I like her new album... "Jenny and Johnny"...
http://www.amazon.com/Having-Fun-Now-Jenny-Johnny/dp/B003VSMOZW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1284492104&sr=8-1

I find this song annoying for some reason.



jagdriver
(Just a nod and a wink south of Paradise)
Posted: Sep 14, 2010 - 12:21
 
 Randomax wrote:
{#Wall}
 
You sure got that right!


Randomax
(Wimberley, TX)
Posted: Sep 10, 2010 - 08:02
 
{#Wall}

Mandible
Posted: Sep 02, 2010 - 08:35
 
 j7 wrote:
The visual fuss regarding that picture for me is........."Maybe Jenny should lay off the fried chicken sandwiches with mayo."
Pudgie bird...pudgie biiiirrrrd......lalalalalaaaa.
 
Calories are energy. Energy gives a person BRAIN POWER to create things such as this song.  If you want anorexic, try listening to Paris Hilton's album. She has one. She does. I'm sure you'd enjoy it.

jagdriver
(Just a nod and a wink south of Paradise)
Posted: Aug 13, 2010 - 11:45
 
Bleeechhhh!

Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC)
Posted: Aug 09, 2010 - 07:30
 
 j7 wrote:
The visual fuss regarding that picture for me is........."Maybe Jenny should lay off the fried chicken sandwiches with mayo."
Pudgie bird...pudgie biiiirrrrd......lalalalalaaaa.
 
Pudgie (sic)?  Curvy - yes, pudgy - no.  Maybe she should develop a nice, trendy, eating disorder like bulimia or anorexia to conform to your standards of beauty.  Good song.



socalhol
(Seattle)
Posted: Jul 12, 2010 - 14:06
 
love this song!  it made it on Vol 1 of my RP Favorites mixed cd's  {#Wink}

Ntropy
(Cleveland, OH)
Posted: Jul 08, 2010 - 10:43
 
 ScottishWillie wrote:

The guitar on this reminds me of a Zeppelin track and I just cant put my finger on which one it is?


 

Makes me think of Robbie Robertson.  That one song.. nearly exactly.. "Unbound"

gandalfbmg
(3 mi from Paradise (Missouri))
Posted: Jun 30, 2010 - 11:30
 
 maxgruv wrote:
Hauntingly beautiful.
 

Both the song and the singer.

maxgruv
(Surrey, BC, Canada)
Posted: Jun 06, 2010 - 14:23
 
Hauntingly beautiful.

calypsus_1
Posted: May 23, 2010 - 17:48
 

jenny by ~reganr
©2007-2010 ~reganr

who remembers The Wizard?!?

anyway, Jenny Lweis of Rilo Kiley fame.



fingerpin
(OhiO)
Posted: Apr 08, 2010 - 06:40
 
 ScottishWillie wrote:

The guitar on this reminds me of a Zeppelin track and I just cant put my finger on which one it is?


 
Tangerine?


gatorade
(Ocean Park, WA)
Posted: Mar 16, 2010 - 18:54
 
My bird really sings and sings to it. Not sure of his rating scale tho.

Crawlmeister
(NYC)
Posted: Mar 03, 2010 - 13:40
 
{#Daisy} Jenny Lewis!


sirdroseph
(Outer Mongolia)
Posted: Mar 03, 2010 - 13:38
 
I just think she is fantastic!! What a talent!{#Notworthy} Though in all honesty, this is not one of my fav tunes from her.


Giselle62
(California's Cental Coast)
Posted: Dec 22, 2009 - 22:12
 
Pretty nice—-quite likeable.