 So Many Nights (2008) [ larger cover art ] |
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I left the house left the room with the foxy on my back
And my supplies in a magic pack
And I followed the sound of music
Not up a hill … but down to an old wharf shack
Inside I heard the trumpets call
I salute to the champions on the wall
And in the jazz of squalls and impassioned brawls she danced
And the night she looked so fine to me
Oh I am a man on an Odyssey
And so tie me to the mast I must believe!
Wow didi didi I just had to look
I said wow didi didi how those hips they shook
Eye patch tongue ring little black book
Welcome fishies to my hook
And the tiny chefs they waved their giant knives
And the dark goumas they flicked dynamite
Still I kept the sight of my desire
And this one thing’s sure I made no apologies
Lights dimmed but she shone like mythology
And I must admit she felt so alive
Chorus
She waves for everybody down on the floor
As if to pray to the gods of the festival
And there we were in the depths of the wild below
Her face so close I could taste the distant shores
She whispered ‘wait for the trumpet’s call’
It’s not exactly love it’s to adore
Chorus
| Segue (Almost Paradise) | Posted: Apr 04, 2013 - 11:07 Every time you feel like playing that godawful pounding crashing headache inducing macho BS Black Keys band, please play this instead. RP is finesse, not bonehead. Eh? |
| Lazarus (Bethany) | Posted: Apr 04, 2013 - 11:07 rdo wrote: I've never been able to get into these silly, light-hearted songs. They just seem like throw-aways to me. I need a song that really makes me think. I know what you mean... some cool horn work, but the rest is forgettable... I am too ambivalent about it to actually rate it one way or the other... |
| rdo (DC) | Posted: Jan 31, 2013 - 15:51 I've never been able to get into these silly, light-hearted songs. They just seem like throw-aways to me. I need a song that really makes me think. |
| Alexandra (PNW) | Posted: Jan 31, 2013 - 15:50  This rocks! |
| MojoJojo (Indianapolis, IN USA) | Posted: Oct 10, 2012 - 17:11 Yeoleman wrote: Only decent song on this disc... "No Longer There" is nice. |
| Yeoleman (Samsara) | Posted: Sep 28, 2012 - 03:13 Only decent song on this disc... |
| TerryS (Another SW) | Posted: Jun 25, 2012 - 18:34 Quite liking this, but prefer Big Head Todd. |
| valeriogonzalez (Quito, Ecuador) | Posted: Jun 06, 2012 - 12:53 philbertr wrote: Is it just me, or does anyone else hear influence of Squirrel Nut Zippers? Well, Squirrel Nut Zippers has lots of influences too. |
| Baby_M (a 100+-year old building in downtown Akron, Ohio) | Posted: Jun 06, 2012 - 12:44 A cat empire needs a cat emperor. I have just the thing.....  |
| Kaisersosay (Mighty Mighty Bostown) | Posted: Jun 06, 2012 - 12:44 sorry not today,,,not feeling it. |
| cohifi (Denver) | Posted: Apr 04, 2012 - 01:57 philbertr wrote: Is it just me, or does anyone else hear influence of Squirrel Nut Zippers? yes. which album? I need to get rid of the one I have if you're interested. |
| le_colonel | Posted: Mar 22, 2012 - 11:23 Every once in a while, a set of songs comes along on RP that makes me hit stop and put a CD on. Barr Brothers - "Beggar" etc. + this one is one of those sets. |
| philbertr (Roch New York) | Posted: Feb 19, 2012 - 17:59 Is it just me, or does anyone else hear influence of Squirrel Nut Zippers? |
| boober (KC,Mo) | Posted: Nov 16, 2011 - 13:44 This song has a great "hook"  |
| daedalus (Over your hill) | Posted: Sep 26, 2011 - 22:07 My daughter introduced this band to me last year. Happy to hear them on good old RP! Never fails to surprise!!! |
| Byronape (Snorkeling in the River Styx) | Posted: Sep 26, 2011 - 22:03 So I'm working alone in the service desk and jamming out to this, head bobbing and desk drumming, when our cleaning lady walks by and looks through the window in the door. I could hear her laughing over the music. Oh well, this is a good song and I have every right to enjoy it! If she has terrible taste in music, she can bite me. |
| AliGator (The Bluegrass) | Posted: Sep 26, 2011 - 21:59 Love me some fishies! |
| QueenLucia (On the edge and ready to jump) | Posted: Sep 14, 2011 - 11:11 Ahhh....this is just what I needed to counteract the mind-numbing hold music the IRS is playing in my other ear. Cranking this one up! |
| errantpenny (where the fog breaks) | Posted: Sep 14, 2011 - 11:10 Love this so much! I cheered when Bill announced the song!  |
| 2cats (Oklahoma) | Posted: Sep 14, 2011 - 11:10 I usually leave my office door open because it gets too cold in here if I close it. Well, I had to close it so I could turn the volume up for this one. |
| SuzG (at my desk) | Posted: Aug 26, 2011 - 12:49 Byronape wrote: It's hard to work when I'm trying not to grove my @$$ off. This needs played much louder then I have any business playing it in my office. Must research band and add to library. Its lunch time here!  |
| fredriley (Nottingham, UK) | Posted: Feb 18, 2011 - 11:56 Byronape wrote: It's hard to work when I'm trying not to grove my @$$ off. This needs played much louder then I have any business playing it in my office. Must research band and add to library. Seconded. It's hard to leave work when RP keeps playing such stonking tunes, and there's a fresh foaming pint with my name on it down the pub, too. A thousand curses on RP! :o) |
| Byronape (Purgatory) | Posted: Jan 18, 2011 - 06:31 It's hard to work when I'm trying not to grove my @$$ off. This needs played much louder then I have any business playing it in my office. Must research band and add to library. |
| SuzG (at my desk) | Posted: Nov 03, 2010 - 09:34 I love me my blaring horns! Piano is pretty fun too... |
| SuzG (at my desk) | Posted: Oct 19, 2010 - 13:52 Cynaera wrote:   (insert chairdancin emoticon) |
| jagdriver (Just a nod and a wink south of Paradise) | Posted: Oct 19, 2010 - 13:50 Sounds a lot like a renamed Alien Fashion Show. |
| wiredsol (Kaukauna, Wisconsin) | Posted: Oct 15, 2010 - 11:02 Xeric wrote: Blaring horns = sucko-barfo. Automatically. Every time. And boy, are those some blaring horns. Try and get some soul my friend. |
| pherthyl (Victoria, BC) | Posted: Sep 13, 2010 - 16:16 Saw these guys live recently. Best show I've ever been on. They are endlessly creative onstage. |
| JGM | Posted: Jul 30, 2010 - 18:30 Kind of a blander remake of their outstanding tune "Sly". Still tremendous fun and a jolt of energy when the playlist gets all mopey. Some fo the best trombone work since Squirrel Nut Zippers broke up. |
| Cynaera (South of Neanderthal) | Posted: Jul 11, 2010 - 18:15 Rotterdam wrote: Oh, for heaven's sake. How am I supposed to work? Gotta dance. Gotta.... here I go.... yi-haaaa!!!! |
| Xeric (Montana) | Posted: Jul 11, 2010 - 18:13 Blaring horns = sucko-barfo. Automatically. Every time. And boy, are those some blaring horns. |
| imperience | Posted: Jul 04, 2010 - 22:12 The newest CD is awesome too!! Welcome fishies to my hook... MUHAHAH! |
| SpamNRice (Northern, Italy) | Posted: Jun 03, 2010 - 02:11 Is the whole CD like this? Love it! |
| Rotterdam | Posted: May 13, 2010 - 06:35 Oh, for heaven's sake. How am I supposed to work? Gotta dance. Gotta.... here I go.... yi-haaaa!!!! |
| twitterpated | Posted: Apr 07, 2010 - 10:47 jhorton wrote: Cake meets the Mariachi Horns. Blech! LOL The reasons you dislike them are the very reasons I like them! |
| dekruyter (grand rapids, MI) | Posted: Apr 07, 2010 - 10:41 Good song...jazzy |
| jhorton | Posted: Mar 25, 2010 - 17:56 Cake meets the Mariachi Horns. Blech! |
| KahunaMatata (Honolulu, HI) | Posted: Feb 24, 2010 - 11:49 This makes me think of the Cherry Poppin Daddies!! I'm digging it!! |
| Palaverist | Posted: Feb 24, 2010 - 11:47 The Cat Empire is always good fun. Nice groove! |
| swell_sailor (Da Gorge) | Posted: Feb 24, 2010 - 11:44 I'm really liking this song. Great horn!! |
| mrdak (Middle GA) | Posted: Feb 19, 2010 - 09:42 Now that's killer tone on a bass...... eh Bill? Thanks for playin' this one here bro.  |
| SmackDaddy (San Diego) | Posted: Feb 16, 2010 - 10:45 Beez wrote: Kind-of reminds me of a slower "Date Rape" by Sublime.........strange, I know. I hear it too. There is a similarity in tone, rhythm |
| Bosami (Deep in the heart of nowhere) | Posted: Feb 16, 2010 - 10:44 Mad funky! Like it. |
| Beez | Posted: Feb 03, 2010 - 07:53 Kind-of reminds me of a slower "Date Rape" by Sublime.........strange, I know. |
| ambrebalte (Beijing) | Posted: Jan 19, 2010 - 00:15 I don't know how this guy looks like, but his voice is ...terrrribly sexy  (yeah well, would have prefered a "blinking eyes smiley with very loooong lashes" but you'll have to imagine) |
| Huey (Netherlands) | Posted: Jan 16, 2010 - 00:56 Really liking this..  |
| ambrebalte (Beijing) | Posted: Jan 16, 2010 - 00:53 dancing bananing  |
| a_genuine_find (not me, Radio P) (3rd stone, sol, orion belt, milkyway) | Posted: Jan 09, 2010 - 10:02 This upside down piece is good on ya  |
| Otomi (La orilla de la civilización) | Posted: Jan 02, 2010 - 21:17 Pieter wrote: What? No dancing bananas?    |
| marc1980 (Victoria, BC) | Posted: Dec 23, 2009 - 14:46 CamLwalk wrote: Wow...who are these guys? What fun! You MUST see them live if you can. |