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Rickie Lee Jones — Up from the Skies
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Toke
(Bournemouth UK)
Posted: Mar 29, 2012 - 12:40
 
Everyone on my allotment is digging this.....°º©©º° 

oldsaxon
(Wales via Vancouver, BC.)
Posted: Mar 13, 2012 - 13:34
 
 Cynaera wrote:

Since your comment was in May, the playlist has changed. As of today, it was:

Elephant Revival - "Cosmic Pulse"
Pearl Jam - "Yellow Ledbetter"
Rickie Lee Jones - "Up From the Skies"
Jimi Hendrix - Belly Button Window"

So what if RP was taken over by female balladeers?  Today's playlist proves that it's not an ongoing concern (and I bet that Eddie Vedder would resent being referred to as a "Female Balladeer.") {#Roflol} Please feel free to take up knitting or basket-weaving (oh, wait - that's "feeeeemale stuff") whenever RP gets "taken over by female balladeers." Geez - sometimes I'm ashamed that humans are still allowed to breed.

Okay, I had a bad day today, and I hurt in places I didn't know I had (make of that what you will.)  I'm sure the music here will calm me down, but in the meantime, I'm a bitch on wheels with two glasses of Chardonnay in her. Not exactly the same as a gun, but who knows what I'll do with my empty glass?

 
Go with it.....no point in trying to suppress. .. just go with it. I'll duck and weave...don't worry...we're all in this together.
 

Misterfixit
(Nashville)
Posted: Sep 21, 2011 - 09:27
 
 jagdriver wrote:
Hmmmmmm... I want to like this, but am biased by Ellen MacIlwaine's definitive cover. My ears are open, though....
 

Me two ... I think Ellen's version is much better, more voice.

pinto
(west meade)
Posted: Sep 05, 2011 - 14:59
 
 johnjconn wrote:
Anyone got any No-doz? 
They're needed,,,, boring!

 
So much potential - started out with a great album and then went way down.  She's embarrassing herself trying to become a political activist.


kcar
Posted: Sep 05, 2011 - 13:55
 
 michaelc wrote:
Like her style. that funk - hip thing
 
I prefer the original, although it's only a so-so Hendrix song (he recorded a fair amount of throwaway stuff along with the diamonds). 

Rickie's song needs some old bluesman like John Lee Hooker rasping away in the background as the leering hep cat chorus...



Cynaera
(Kenneth's Frequency)
Posted: Jul 20, 2011 - 16:56
 
 oceansurf wrote:
Has RP been taken over by female balladeers?  Enough already!
 
Since your comment was in May, the playlist has changed. As of today, it was:

Elephant Revival - "Cosmic Pulse"
Pearl Jam - "Yellow Ledbetter"
Rickie Lee Jones - "Up From the Skies"
Jimi Hendrix - Belly Button Window"

So what if RP was taken over by female balladeers?  Today's playlist proves that it's not an ongoing concern (and I bet that Eddie Vedder would resent being referred to as a "Female Balladeer.") {#Roflol} Please feel free to take up knitting or basket-weaving (oh, wait - that's "feeeeemale stuff") whenever RP gets "taken over by female balladeers." Geez - sometimes I'm ashamed that humans are still allowed to breed.

Okay, I had a bad day today, and I hurt in places I didn't know I had (make of that what you will.)  I'm sure the music here will calm me down, but in the meantime, I'm a bitch on wheels with two glasses of Chardonnay in her. Not exactly the same as a gun, but who knows what I'll do with my empty glass?


Huey
(Netherlands)
Posted: May 02, 2011 - 14:34
 
 johnjconn wrote:
Anyone got any No-doz? 
They're needed,,,, boring!

 
U kidding??   open the ears!!! .8.


paraclete
(Citrus Heights, CA)
Posted: May 02, 2011 - 14:33
 
Oh no, much more!  I love the cover, and then something from the original artist.  how about "Castles Made of Sand"

oceansurf
Posted: May 02, 2011 - 14:32
 
Has RP been taken over by female balladeers?  Enough already!

Businessgypsy
(Deepest, Darkest Florida)
Posted: Dec 12, 2010 - 06:12
 
Very nice, unexpected. Thanks!

michaelc
(Walnut Creek, CA)
Posted: Nov 10, 2010 - 11:00
 
Like her style. that funk - hip thing

dlaumor
(Nantes - France)
Posted: Jul 06, 2010 - 02:07
 
 Alpine wrote:
no mi gusto
 
Pas le mien non plus...


james_of_tucson
(Tucson AZ)
Posted: May 03, 2010 - 13:07
 
 Misterfixit wrote:

Ricky Lee at age 7.  Grandfather Peg Leg took the pic with an old Argus camera.
 
Peg Leg Jones, who once had Milton Berle as a supporting act :-)

In 79 I had the biggest crush on this woman, and I'm sure I've never really gotten over it.


Alpine
(N39d39mW121d30m)
Posted: Apr 01, 2010 - 21:05
 
no mi gusto

johnjconn
(chicago land)
Posted: Jan 12, 2010 - 19:28
 
Anyone got any No-doz? 
They're needed,,,, boring!


stevo_b
(Rock Ridge)
Posted: Dec 28, 2009 - 08:20
 
just never liked her.....

thewiseking
(New York, New York)
Posted: Oct 26, 2009 - 12:58
 
 jagdriver wrote:
Hmmmmmm... I want to like this, but am biased by Ellen MacIlwaine's definitive cover. My ears are open, though....
 
definitive? both of these  covers have an interesting effect. they actually make you like the song less.

Prodigal_SOB
(Back Home Again in Indiana)
Posted: Oct 10, 2009 - 13:22
 
dunno wrote:
 Misterfixit wrote:

Ricky Lee at age 7.  Grandfather Peg Leg took the pic with an old Argus camera.
 
and then the album was called "pop pop" ? very suspicious.
 

 laozilover wrote:
Wrong cover art!

 



dunno
(somewhere between here and over there)
Posted: Oct 10, 2009 - 12:28
 
 Misterfixit wrote:

Ricky Lee at age 7.  Grandfather Peg Leg took the pic with an old Argus camera.
 
and then the album was called "pop pop" ? very suspicious.



DaveInVA
(In a crumbling Queen Anne mansion in Damnville, VA)
Posted: Oct 10, 2009 - 12:24
 
I like!

helgigermany
(Germany)
Posted: Aug 24, 2009 - 11:21
 
Nice song, very nice!

Hannio
(Austin, TX)
Posted: Aug 24, 2009 - 11:19
 
 Misterfixit wrote:
Phlegmaticman wrote: Fun cover!
 

Ricky Lee at age 7.  Grandfather Peg Leg took the pic with an old Argus camera.
 

Sheesh.   {#Doh}

nickhanks
Posted: Jul 07, 2009 - 19:23
 
Sounds like Martin Mull

jagdriver
(Tunin' in from the aptly-named Grass Valley, CA)
Posted: Jul 07, 2009 - 19:20
 
Hmmmmmm... I want to like this, but am biased by Ellen MacIlwaine's definitive cover. My ears are open, though....

lawman
(Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)
Posted: Jun 22, 2009 - 02:18
 
vit wrote:
This from somebody who has an Aimee Mann song rated an 8?

I do?  You take more interest in my voting record than I do mate!

vit
Posted: May 21, 2009 - 08:23
 
lawman wrote:
It's OK,but I wish she'd haveput off the recording session until after she'd shaken that cold. Ids geddin od by nerbs.


This from somebody who has an Aimee Mann song rated an 8?


lawman
(Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)
Posted: May 05, 2009 - 07:14
 
It's OK,but I wish she'd haveput off the recording session until after she'd shaken that cold. Ids geddin od by nerbs.

mr_toad
Posted: May 05, 2009 - 07:13
 
mmmmmmm I love talking and talk to me some more, I love planet earth too and everyone that walks on it,

More_Cowbell
(North of Chicago, IL, USA)
Posted: May 05, 2009 - 07:13
 
 stkman wrote:

and you are the opposite of smart

 
And this song is the opposite of good.


stkman
(Texas)
Posted: Mar 19, 2009 - 04:20
 
 Excelsior wrote:
It's like an anti-song... the exact opposite of music.
 
and you are the opposite of smart


Misterfixit
(Nashville)
Posted: Feb 15, 2009 - 15:37
 
 Phlegmaticman wrote:
Fun cover!
 
Ricky Lee at age 7.  Grandfather Peg Leg took the pic with an old Argus camera.



stkman
(Texas)
Posted: Dec 30, 2008 - 00:57
 
Rickie sang a "cool" song great tune and the musicians do a great job bass is great

abby_normal
(hereabouts)
Posted: Oct 27, 2008 - 20:52
 
I'm liking the shuffle, the swing...

paraclete
(Citrus Heights, CA)
Posted: Sep 10, 2008 - 13:50
 
I LOVE Jimi, and have for several decades.  I find this version to be playful, whimsical, and fun.  Kinda like it.  But then, I am not in the altered state that I was so often during my formative years of listening to Jimi.

Phlegmaticman
(270 miles south of Paradise, CA)
Posted: Aug 25, 2008 - 15:42
 
Fun cover!

Excelsior
Posted: Aug 25, 2008 - 15:39
 
How anyone could sincerely like this garbage is beyond me.

cosmiclint
(Vancouver BC)
Posted: Jul 09, 2008 - 08:44
 
iam_overlord wrote:
It probably makes perfect sense if you're high.


Nope.

But I don't mind it just the same.
iam_overlord
(Allston)
Posted: Jul 09, 2008 - 08:42
 
It probably makes perfect sense if you're high.
a_genuine_find
(Nieuw Amsterdam)
Posted: Jun 23, 2008 - 11:07
 
thewiseking wrote:
a_genuine_find wrote:


..ahem ... a Rickie Lee Jones CD cover demonstrates Hendrix lack of poetic skills ..... how?
makes no sense

COVER,to record or perform a cover of (a song) as in COVER VERSION of the Hendrix song.
dude, you need to put on your helmet, board your little yellow bus, buckle up and get the fuck outta here.

thanks for the patient, articulate and well thought out response.
reason06
(Kansas City MO)
Posted: Jun 23, 2008 - 11:04
 
LOVE Rickie Lee
Excelsior
Posted: Jun 23, 2008 - 11:01
 
rKokon wrote:
Would rate minus zero if that rating existed. This is neither singing nor tuneful; no rhythm. Just sort of an irritating whining.


It's like an anti-song... the exact opposite of music.
thewiseking
(New York, New York)
Posted: Jun 13, 2008 - 09:44
 
a_genuine_find wrote:


..ahem ... a Rickie Lee Jones CD cover demonstrates Hendrix lack of poetic skills ..... how?
makes no sense

COVER,to record or perform a cover of (a song) as in COVER VERSION of the Hendrix song.
dude, you need to put on your helmet, board your little yellow bus, buckle up and get the fuck outta here.
a_genuine_find
(Nieuw Amsterdam)
Posted: Jun 07, 2008 - 20:23
 
thewiseking wrote:
Jimi was an innovative musician but not much of a poet.

This silly cover makes that clear.


..ahem ... a Rickie Lee Jones CD cover demonstrates Hendrix lack of poetic skills ..... how?
makes no sense
wferrier
(Johnson City, New York; Home of the Factory)
Posted: Apr 21, 2008 - 13:10
 
brown1971 wrote:
You listen to the lyrics of this song or "Third Stone From the Sun" and you really wonder...was Jimi Hendrix an alien, or just posessed by the soul of an alien?

I read this great little book a while back called Jimi Hendrix: Starchild. Here's a link to the book on Amazon which should give the credit to RP if you buy it...(click here)

Nice cover by RLJ at any rate...


We are all star children my son. Except for some primeval hydrogen and helium, every atom in our bodies was manufactured in some star that went supernova and spread itself across the galaxy. If you take enough LSD, like Jimmie did, you become somewhat aware of that..
thewiseking
(New York, New York)
Posted: Apr 21, 2008 - 12:59
 
Jimi was an innovative musician but not much of a poet.

This silly cover makes that clear.
rKokon
(MD)
Posted: Apr 21, 2008 - 12:58
 
Would rate minus zero if that rating existed. This is neither singing nor tuneful; no rhythm. Just sort of an irritating whining.
andrewimft
(North Californie)
Posted: Apr 05, 2008 - 22:04
 
meower215 wrote:
RLJ uses her voice like an instrument. I love her, would LOVE to hear something from the Magazine.
thanx for playing her


Yes, Magazine and Pirates are my favorites, would love to hear some of those cuts of sublime harmonic folky jazz pop.
rtb
(NE corner of Work and Boredom)
Posted: Sep 30, 2007 - 07:52
 

brown1971
(San Diego)
Posted: Sep 14, 2007 - 11:46
 
You listen to the lyrics of this song or "Third Stone From the Sun" and you really wonder...was Jimi Hendrix an alien, or just posessed by the soul of an alien?

I read this great little book a while back called Jimi Hendrix: Starchild. Here's a link to the book on Amazon which should give the credit to RP if you buy it...(click here)

Nice cover by RLJ at any rate...
SPACEDOG
(Sliding Home)
Posted: Aug 29, 2007 - 21:35
 
madaxeman wrote:
I can't think why I like this,but I do.



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