 Ain't Love Grand (2002) [ larger cover art ] |
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drive by my house late at night
you can see from the freeway above
no silhouette, but a light left on
burning there for love
smoke is rising from the fire
coming out my back door
i'm inside, sound asleep
cigarette on the floor
burning there for love
well i can still remember
a couple of years ago
when the smoke and flame called my name
it was a burning house of love
that rusty nail over our front door
is where i hung our tears in the rain
i threw that horseshoe into the weeds
to see what luck can bring
cause you're in your bed, i'm in mine
on either side of town
i think i might take a ride
and burn your love house down
like a burning house of love
| daedalus (over your hill) | Posted: Aug 29, 2008 - 23:02 I'm appalled to hear this mediochre uninspiring stuff on this great station. I can only guess that Bill thought of a connection with the previous song (Garbage) . I hope none of the people I've turned on to RP were listening....  |
| musikalia (Somewhere (over the rainbow)) | Posted: Jul 29, 2008 - 06:55 This is terrible! |
| dolfan (Kingsland, Ga./Jacksonville, Fl) | Posted: Jul 29, 2008 - 06:49 CyberCoyote wrote: Nice.. but how bout some real X.. probb to hard for radio Paradise:
I've always liked this one, but I have uploaded "I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts," it's been added, but has yet to play. That's another very strong X song. |
| Koan (in or around Toronto) | Posted: Jun 27, 2008 - 18:02 So, that was an unpleasantly jarring shift in the playlist. |
| toterola (Somewhere between Shipping and Receiving) | Posted: Jun 27, 2008 - 17:57 I saw these guys on the tour for this album, at a little club in Cincinnati called "Bogart's". They rocked like no-tomorrow, and I felt like I had died and gone to heaven. I saw John, Exene, D.J., along with Dave Alvin and Jonny Ray Bartel (as The Knitters) at HSB 7 last fall. They've still got it!    |
| CyberCoyote (Sierra Foothills) | Posted: Jun 20, 2008 - 00:48 Nice.. but how bout some real X.. probb to hard for radio Paradise: |
| WonderLizard (2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise) | Posted: May 27, 2008 - 07:11 I cringe at the negative reaction to this song--or is it the group? X was one of the great LA punk bands, especially with Billy Zoom on guitar (as on this track). Yes, it was their bow to straight ahead rock versus their thrash und drang heritage, but this is not a bad song. |
| snowcat (Cold, Frozen Minnesota) | Posted: May 27, 2008 - 07:05 huebdoo wrote: Why does this remind me of background music during an 80's Action film montage? Can you hear this playing in the background while Sylvester Stallone gets into shape for the fight or Steven Segal is looking for the Puerto Rican Drug king-pin in the streets of New York?
Totally can see it that is great cheesy montage music You nailed this!!! |
| LongGoneDaddy | Posted: Mar 25, 2008 - 07:08 dbenwen wrote: Live version, please!
agreed!  |
| dbenwen (Peachtree City, Georgia) | Posted: Mar 25, 2008 - 07:05 Live version, please! |
| oscar_driver (Planet Earth) | Posted: Mar 25, 2008 - 07:04 ouch ,,,, |
| huebdoo (San Fran) | Posted: Jan 22, 2008 - 09:26 Why does this remind me of background music during an 80's Action film montage? Can you hear this playing in the background while Sylvester Stallone gets into shape for the fight or Steven Segal is looking for the Puerto Rican Drug king-pin in the streets of New York? Totally can see it that is great cheesy montage music |
| bronorb (Wisconsin) | Posted: Jan 22, 2008 - 09:25 Sounds like something an amateur garage band would come up with in about 1984. Not impressed. |
| redeyespy (Haven of calm) | Posted: Nov 20, 2007 - 13:11 This is NOT representative of peak-of-their-powers X. Not a bit. The overproduction on this is disheartening; it would've been right at home on a Poison album. The fact that this turd wasn't flushed for good reminds me that I need to upload more earlier era X tunes. Haven't been lucky thus far... I even tried the live, spare version of this track, and it was sent to File 13. |
| dionysius (The People's Republic of Austin) | Posted: Nov 20, 2007 - 12:39 DoctorHooey wrote: Wow, what crap production. Sounds like it was recorded inside an 18-wheeler.
Shitty hard rock production indeed, but there is a worthy song beneath it all. John's and Exene's voices also cut through the muck rather well. |
| More_Cowbell (North of Chicago, IL, USA) | Posted: Nov 20, 2007 - 12:36 Not too impressive. |
| Krow_Pie (Venice, California) | Posted: Nov 20, 2007 - 12:36 Who chose this song? For fecks sake... |
| LongGoneDaddy | Posted: Nov 20, 2007 - 12:35 timandjuliet wrote: One of the worst songs from one of the best bands from the era. Hungry Wolf? Because I Do? Los Angeles? Motel Room in my Bed? and Skindeep Town! |
| DoctorHooey (/etc) | Posted: Nov 20, 2007 - 12:34 Wow, what crap production. Sounds like it was recorded inside an 18-wheeler. |
| keller1 (Altered States) | Posted: Nov 20, 2007 - 12:34 X does BOC? I like it --- a total breath of fresh air. |
| hippiechick (Weekendland) | Posted: Nov 20, 2007 - 12:33 Exene and Dave Alvin are in a band together called The Knitters. Country punk, really strange. |
| Gaylord_Meatface (Edmonton) | Posted: Nov 20, 2007 - 12:33 I was wondering what .38 Special was up to. |
| Odyzzeuz (Austin, Texas) | Posted: Nov 20, 2007 - 12:33 I don't really want to know anything about what's coming out his back door. |
| CyberCoyote (Sierra Foothills) | Posted: Sep 26, 2006 - 23:32 timandjuliet wrote: One of the worst songs from one of the best bands from the era. Hungry Wolf? Because I Do? Los Angeles? Motel Room in my Bed?
Yes! It would be nice if RP played thier best! |
| Mari (why do all the country girls leave?) | Posted: Jul 22, 2006 - 09:56 trekhead wrote: You take penicilin for that , don't you? Ain't Love Grand?  |
| MinMan (Bay Area, CA) | Posted: Jul 07, 2006 - 17:43 I can't heart this without thinking "Absolutely Fabulous" (music is NOT). |
| wonderplum (South Korea) | Posted: Nov 01, 2004 - 22:41 mig7 wrote: Who would follow Paul Simon and Neil Finn with this shit?
As true in November as it was in June. This ruins the relaxing mood it took me so long to get to |
| wonderplum (South Korea) | Posted: Nov 01, 2004 - 22:39 this song seems like it's missing something. personality, maybe? |
| timandjuliet (Colorado, USA) | Posted: Oct 29, 2004 - 15:34 One of the worst songs from one of the best bands from the era. Hungry Wolf? Because I Do? Los Angeles? Motel Room in my Bed? |
| orpheus (east coast) | Posted: Oct 29, 2004 - 14:26 vertex wrote: Reminds me of big hair days, blah!
yer an idyut.    |
| ScopArch (Only 5529 miles N-NE of Paradise!) | Posted: Oct 18, 2004 - 05:06 X Rocks! Made loud to be played loud! Truly an L.A. Classic! |
| trekhead | Posted: Oct 18, 2004 - 05:01 You take penicilin for that , don't you? |
| cdysthe (Round Rock, TX) | Posted: Oct 09, 2004 - 11:16 Thise is timeless........crap! Sorry! :P |
| redeyespy (SoFL) | Posted: Oct 03, 2004 - 15:34 OMG! All this time I thought Bill was spinning the stripped down version of this song found on the "Beyond & Back" collection. I saw it on the playlist but never heard it! This really does sound like a big hair band cheesefest. Damn. This is not the X I know and love. Now I know why I have put off buying this particular album. I have to upload the other version; it sounds nothing like this, rather more like X's side band, The Knitters. |
| juliamak (Seattle, WA) | Posted: Aug 26, 2004 - 06:52 Terrrrrrible. :P |
| Johray63 (The middle of Meppel, Holland) | Posted: Aug 26, 2004 - 06:49 Not for me, except for the solo guitar sound. |
| tobyloby (Stockholm, Sweden) | Posted: Aug 11, 2004 - 14:11 The worst crap I have heard on RP. |
| ScopArch (Berlin Germany) | Posted: Jul 09, 2004 - 03:36 WOW! X! Havent heard from them since my old L.A. Days! The greatest ROCK band L.A. ever produced. More Please! Excene! DJ Bonebreak, John Doe, Billy Zoom and occasionaly Dave Alvin! August 21, 2004 Belly Up Solana Beach CA August 22, 2004 24th Annual Sunset Junction Street Fair Los Angeles CA November 26, 27 2004 House Of Blues West Hollywood CA BTW, after reading the comments below I see the same music order as on Sat Jun 26, 2004 2:07 am. Could this all be on tape? Do I really care?
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| fortyseven (under the big black sun) | Posted: Jun 25, 2004 - 15:18 It is amazing to hear X on air anywhere, but please don't play anything from this album, or Hey Zeus for that matter. See How We Are is acceptable. Even X doesn't play anything in concert that's not off of their first four albums... |
| Nuance (Winnipeg) | Posted: Jun 25, 2004 - 15:18 please stop. |
| ottonorse (Chico, CA) | Posted: Jun 25, 2004 - 15:14 great to hear some X - the search doesn't work so not sure what else is in the playlist my uploads certainly are not doing well X - Blue Spark X - The Have Nots X - Dancing With Tears In My Eyes X - Come Back To Me |
| ciscochasbro (Petaluma, CA) | Posted: Jun 25, 2004 - 15:14 mig7 wrote: Who would follow Paul Simon and Neil Finn with this shit?
I am afraid I have to agree!
I was happily listening when this came on. I had to find out who it was to see who could possibly be so cliche! I was in a band a long time ago and we actually opened for these guys. It was a big deal. But then they were a big deal LA punk band. What happened? |
| mig7 | Posted: Jun 25, 2004 - 15:10 solelover wrote: As I said a year and a half ago:
Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2002 8:15 pm -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thank you and might I plead for these X tunes in the future(in alphabetical order): Arms For Hostages (off of "Hey Zeus!") Around My Heart (off of "Live at the Whiskey A Go-Go") Because I Do (off of "Under the Big Black Sun") Blue Spark (off of "Under the Big Black Sun") Clean Like Tomorrow (off of "Hey Zeus!") Los Angeles (off of "Live at the Whiskey A Go-Go") Shoot Out The Lights (off of "Beat the Retreat" tribute album) The Hungry Wolf (off of "Under the Big Black Sun") They are my absolute favorite rock/punk/country band! And there it is...they're a rock/punk/country band--There's a reason that isn't a Grammy category...Maybe they could start their own splinter award..."And the Crummy goes to..." |
| Nuance (Winnipeg) | Posted: Jun 25, 2004 - 15:09 amen brother. cheesy 80's keyboards - crap all 'round Somebody's asleep at the switch. |
| mig7 | Posted: Jun 25, 2004 - 15:07 Who would follow Paul Simon and Neil Finn with this shit? |
| samiyam (Locked up (thankfully)) | Posted: Apr 20, 2004 - 22:39 Platypus wrote: easily the worst thing i've heard on RP in ages. "cheesy" doesnt even begin to describe this dreck.
I dunno, I kinda like it. It's interesting in a sort of atavistic "Nazareth" sorta way. "I give it an 88 Dick, It's got a beat, you can dance to it" - generic teenager on American Bandstand - |
| Platypus (here, now) | Posted: Mar 26, 2004 - 12:14 easily the worst thing i've heard on RP in ages. "cheesy" doesnt even begin to describe this dreck. |
| wxman (Bethesda, Maryland) | Posted: Mar 26, 2004 - 12:13 Sounds like it should be on the soundtrack to some cheesy 80s movie. |
| solelover (Bayonne, NJ) | Posted: Mar 02, 2004 - 18:28 As I said a year and a half ago: Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2002 8:15 pm -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thank you and might I plead for these X tunes in the future(in alphabetical order): Arms For Hostages (off of "Hey Zeus!") Around My Heart (off of "Live at the Whiskey A Go-Go") Because I Do (off of "Under the Big Black Sun") Blue Spark (off of "Under the Big Black Sun") Clean Like Tomorrow (off of "Hey Zeus!") Los Angeles (off of "Live at the Whiskey A Go-Go") Shoot Out The Lights (off of "Beat the Retreat" tribute album) The Hungry Wolf (off of "Under the Big Black Sun") They are my absolute favorite rock/punk/country band! |
| MsJudi (Houston, TX) | Posted: Feb 09, 2004 - 11:37 "Burn your love lights down like a buring house of love"???? :puke: |