 Primitive Radio Gods (1994) [ larger cover art ] |
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| MsFine (a mile high) | Posted: Sep 28, 2008 - 21:40 Not only is this song catchy, it's very unique. Such creativity is refreshing when so many other songs sound so similar. Love this song! |
| two2fly (Madison, Wisconsin, US) | Posted: Aug 28, 2008 - 08:12 Sucko-Barfo. I feel ebarassed to have even wasted the time to poorly rate this rediculously weak excuse for music. (and then write about it). |
| westslope (BC coast) | Posted: Aug 28, 2008 - 08:09 A little bit of a Lou Reed vibe happening here? I like it. |
| Danny_G (Lima) | Posted: Jul 27, 2008 - 16:09 Waterfall by The Stone Roses and now this, cool  |
| parrothead (could be anywhere in the great USA) | Posted: Apr 08, 2008 - 14:10 Teko wrote: This song will always make me feel the way I felt when I first heard it on the radio. It was summer, I'd just moved to San Francisco, and the world was full of amazing possibilities. Then what happened????? |
| ronniegirl (Middle of New Jersey) | Posted: Mar 23, 2008 - 16:10 greengarden wrote: I feel the same way about '66. he he. Me too. and 76, 86. A friend in London sent me this CD when it first came out there, and I fell in love with them, especially this song. Probably why I like the Moby cd Play, the sampling. |
| DigitalJer (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) | Posted: Feb 05, 2008 - 15:40 sad, haunting - I've always associated this song with nihilism. I like it, very much. Reminds me to live life fully. |
| megmoves (Wisconsin) | Posted: Feb 05, 2008 - 15:38 Do Do N Do Do N Do |
| auburntigerrich (Edge of the 'Verse) | Posted: Feb 05, 2008 - 15:38 The video is pretty trippy, too. |
| lophrequa (the very edge of the land) | Posted: Jan 20, 2008 - 18:08 feeling suddenly Life in a Northern Town ? |
| sunny_day (East Coast) | Posted: Jan 20, 2008 - 18:06 jedzep wrote: Sampling B.B. King....very cool!!!
I agree |
| ALive (earth) | Posted: Dec 20, 2007 - 07:09 Nice..2 Thumbs Up! |
| lee_sf (2nd floor, corner) | Posted: Dec 04, 2007 - 19:35 Love the intro and groove of this song. The whole thing is pretty good. I sorta remember buying the whole PRG CD based on this one song. Bad idea. One of the worst albums imaginable. An early reinforcement to my rule to listen to and like at least half the tracks on an album before buying the whole thing. Added: looks like several others had the same experience. |
| Stapes (Seatown) | Posted: Nov 18, 2007 - 21:20 i love this one. stopped work just to listen...(that dosen't get to happen much). |
| ick (San Diego, CA) | Posted: Oct 18, 2007 - 12:41 I liked the I-rails better... |
| Baby_M (a 100-year old building in downtown Akron, Ohio) | Posted: Oct 18, 2007 - 12:36 Don't like the song at all, but I do like the idea of "Primitive Radio Gods." |
| MagicalTrevor | Posted: Oct 18, 2007 - 12:35 Long name. Good song. 'Nuff said(true believers). |
| sukilau (cellar dweller) | Posted: Oct 18, 2007 - 12:32 TimeWaster wrote: Don't like this one, but I've never heard it before, and that's why I listen to RP.
"I may disagree with what RP plays, but I will defend to the death RP's right to play it" I do like this one, and I do like what you just said! |
| aaehr (NYC) | Posted: Oct 18, 2007 - 12:32 boring to repeat what a lot of people say, but never heard this...excellent reason to listen to RP. |
| dpath2o (San Jose, CA) | Posted: Oct 18, 2007 - 12:30 they got it right with this one |
| Roverfish (Tucson, AZ - Thanks for visiting...now go home!) | Posted: Sep 01, 2007 - 13:55 Not to be confused with Bruce Cockburn. Coincidence? I wonder. How blue can you get? 7. |
| mindless (Auckland City, New Zealand) | Posted: Aug 16, 2007 - 16:56 ploba wrote: i love love love this song!!!
Me too too too. |
| greengarden (Naples, FL) | Posted: Aug 16, 2007 - 16:12 themotion wrote: Good memories.
I think this song was just ahead of the time. If released now, it would have seen much more popularity. . . . god . . . it's weird that '96 was ten years ago. not enough time in this life. I feel the same way about '66. |
| diseasedyak (anchors away!) | Posted: Aug 16, 2007 - 16:11 Dear god I thought this was an old U2 song for the longest time until RP played it a few months ago. |
| heebooh (Paris, France) | Posted: Jun 14, 2007 - 18:07 Teko wrote: This song will always make me feel the way I felt when I first heard it on the radio. It was summer, I'd just moved to San Francisco, and the world was full of amazing possibilities.
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| Teko (out there somewhere) | Posted: May 30, 2007 - 06:34 This song will always make me feel the way I felt when I first heard it on the radio. It was summer, I'd just moved to San Francisco, and the world was full of amazing possibilities. |
| meydele (By the sea) | Posted: May 30, 2007 - 06:32 ploafmaster wrote: Oh man, this is another one of those songs that fosters my illusion that high school might actually have been a good time of my life...
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| ploba (the other coast and hang a left) | Posted: May 30, 2007 - 06:32 i love love love this song!!! |
| rosedraws (never close enough) | Posted: May 14, 2007 - 10:14 Am I alive or thoughts that drift away? Does summer come for everyone? Can humans do what prophets say? If I die before I learn to speak Can money pay for all the days I lived awake But half asleep? awesome. |
| TimeWaster | Posted: Apr 12, 2007 - 22:03 Don't like this one, but I've never heard it before, and that's why I listen to RP. "I may disagree with what RP plays, but I will defend to the death RP's right to play it" |
| mattt (Undisclosed Location) | Posted: Feb 09, 2007 - 11:09 Koan wrote: If this song were released today, I might not think as much of it as I do. But at the time, this sounded very fresh. It came out 3 yrs before Moby popularized the blues-sampling electronica sound in Play. Anyway, since I was so receptive to it at the time, I'll probably always love this song.
Rest of the album sucked, I think. Then and now. What you said. |
| ginger | Posted: Feb 09, 2007 - 11:08 Always loved this song. It's nice to hear it again. |
| Oneder (Just south of paradise...) | Posted: Jan 25, 2007 - 19:54 The full title is "Standing outside a broken phone booth with money in my hand". The name is almost as long as the song!  |
| phreels (North Shore, Hawaii) | Posted: Dec 13, 2006 - 03:51 Koan wrote: If this song were released today, I might not think as much of it as I do. But at the time, this sounded very fresh. It came out 3 yrs before Moby popularized the blues-sampling electronica sound in Play. Anyway, since I was so receptive to it at the time, I'll probably always love this song.
Ah, you have explained it perfectly!  |
| Koan (the Annex, Toronto) | Posted: Nov 28, 2006 - 13:20 If this song were released today, I might not think as much of it as I do. But at the time, this sounded very fresh. It came out 3 yrs before Moby popularized the blues-sampling electronica sound in Play. Anyway, since I was so receptive to it at the time, I'll probably always love this song. Rest of the album sucked, I think. Then and now. |
| messydiner (The spaces inbetween) | Posted: Nov 28, 2006 - 13:17 ploba wrote: exactly! I love this song, but the rest of the album is garbage. Oh yeah, I bought this album when the song was getting a lot of airplay too. Took it back the next day and exchanged it for something that was listenable. All Hail the One Hit Wonder!  |
| hippiechick (In the world but not of it) | Posted: Nov 28, 2006 - 13:16 Making a return appearance from One Hit Wonderland! |
| cattgirl813 (All over the place and staying put) | Posted: Nov 28, 2006 - 13:14 I'd forgotten all about this. Way cool to hear this again, especially the shimmering piano solo.  |
| thewiseking (New York, New York) | Posted: Nov 28, 2006 - 13:13 new order rehash/tribute; 90s style; with mobyish "clever" sampling. yawn |
| escapist (Col-oh-hum-bia, MD) | Posted: Oct 30, 2006 - 06:59 ploba wrote: exactly! I love this song, but the rest of the album is garbage. FYI, I picked this song up on "The Cable Guy" soundtrack, which is (in hindsight) a pretty good cd with a good cross-sampling of 90's music (Filter's "Hey Man, nice shot", a good Cypress Hill track, and even a silverchair track I enjoyed). And this can be picked up real cheap on Amazon used. |
| pannaramma (From Away) | Posted: Oct 30, 2006 - 06:55 beautiful. |
| ploafmaster (Richmond, VA) | Posted: Oct 30, 2006 - 06:51 Oh man, this is another one of those songs that fosters my illusion that high school might actually have been a good time of my life... |
| PeaceInIraq (The Federally Occupied District of Columbia) | Posted: Sep 01, 2006 - 17:23 Out *%$king standing! |
| themotion (the great city of austin in the not so great state of texas) | Posted: Sep 01, 2006 - 17:23 Good memories. I think this song was just ahead of the time. If released now, it would have seen much more popularity. . . . god . . . it's weird that '96 was ten years ago. not enough time in this life. |
| Alexandra (The American Riviera) | Posted: Sep 01, 2006 - 17:19 ndfan75 wrote: Wow! I haven't heard this song in a long freakin time! sweet
 Yeah...brings back some fond 90s memories, doesn't it? |
| ndfan75 (Texas) | Posted: Aug 18, 2006 - 03:19 Wow! I haven't heard this song in a long freakin time! sweet |
| Zweiblumen (Boston, MA [2,606 miles ENE of Paradise, CA]) | Posted: Aug 03, 2006 - 11:29 kadsit wrote: What a unique song! It's one of those songs that didn't get overplayed, and then got forgotten, so it's a treat when I hear it! Love it love it!
Didn't get overplayed? Where were you in the summer of '96? Strong, strong associations for me with this song and driving back and forth to my summer job as a waiter. |
| isaacsonar (Spokane, WA) | Posted: Aug 03, 2006 - 11:26 deneb wrote: This song was played heavily where I was in New England, summer of '96, but somehow I never got sick of it. And it really brings back that summer for me. That, and "Where It's At" by Beck, and "Pepper" by the Butthole Surfers. Redolent pop song trio.
Ditto...those three songs were the soundtrack of that summer for me. |
| rumplestiltskin | Posted: Aug 03, 2006 - 11:25 mojoman wrote: Wait... if they have radio, then by defintion they can't be primitive. Am I right?
Hey, catch up to the times, dude. Didn't you hear that video killed the radio stars? |
| penguinja (somewhere between Boston and Chicago) | Posted: Aug 03, 2006 - 11:25 Oh wow. I haven't heard this song in years. oh freshman year..... thanks. |