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Musicbrainz DBWe're wounded but walking, dumbstruck but talking still
And I don't think we've made it, don't think we ever will
We're radio rental, so accidental too
And I don't think we've made it don't care if we ever do
Smashed in, crashed out
Spun around, messed about
Can't get up for falling down
Heh come and join the zoo
Shell shocked, red raw
Punch drunk, saddle sore
Forest Gump at heaven's door
Just looking for a clue
We're wounded but walking, dumbstruck but talking still
And I don't think we've made it, don't think we ever will
We're radio rental, so accidental too
And I don't think we've made it don't care if we ever do
Love bite, bee sting
Heavy heart, broken string
Never mind, cos everything
Yeah everything is alright now
We're wounded but walking, dumbstruck but talking still
And I don't think we've made it, don't think we ever will
We're radio rental, so accidental too
And I don't think we've made it don't care if we ever do.
| unclehud (now 50 feet above the planet in Boston) | Posted: May 22, 2013 - 18:10 symthy wrote: Grows on me every time. Cheesy, but nice cheese. I'm thinking a nice Emmental, slightly rubbery but very moreish none the less Ice cold beer, tennis shoes, and Ray-Bans. |
| stewliscious (northGA) | Posted: May 17, 2013 - 08:28 I am hearing the Jayhawks in the last couple of songs |
| Ouachita | Posted: Mar 24, 2013 - 15:51 agkagk wrote: Love this tune! I'm at maximum volume. That's 2KW of peak Bryston power playing through a pair of Magnepan 3.6s plus another 1.5KW from the Paradigm Servo 15. I don't push my system that hard very often. 100dB is not good for the ears, and I want to listen to RP until Bill and I are very old men. However, this song begs me to crank it every time. Wow! Awesome sound system!!!! |
| rdo (DC) | Posted: Mar 24, 2013 - 15:49 It's not often I love happy songs...but I Iove this one!  |
| unclehud (now 50 feet above the planet in Boston) | Posted: Mar 15, 2013 - 14:30 Like it. Horn section is strutting, and enough percussion to smartly carry the big band sound. |
| TheKing2 (on a small planet) | Posted: Mar 15, 2013 - 14:28 a well crafted song. |
| ianmoff (Nr London UK) | Posted: Feb 27, 2013 - 09:45 This just sounds so happy |
| richlister (Here, there, pretty much everywhere.) | Posted: Jan 17, 2013 - 06:20 "Bee's wax... biscuit tin... tarmac... mobile phone... keyboard... 3 piece suite... carrot sticks... how long have we gotta make this track?... salad spinner... yard brush... steering wheel..." |
| nagsheadlocal (North Carolina, the new New Jersey) | Posted: Jan 17, 2013 - 06:16 A blazing horn section always cheers me up . . . |
| cotsnots | Posted: Nov 19, 2012 - 04:50 After thinking him just anither 80's has been, I worked on gig with him and found him engaging, articulate and intelligent, a great songwriter and perfomer. A thoroughly good egg. Bump up that score ! ^ |
| 4merdj (donde el viento se devuelve) | Posted: Nov 15, 2012 - 12:30 Para bailar La Bamba se necesita ... un grupo Mexicano ... and you ain't it  Muy buena versión ...  |
| symthy (Oz) | Posted: Oct 25, 2012 - 01:10 Grows on me every time. Cheesy, but nice cheese. I'm thinking a nice Emmental, slightly rubbery but very moreish none the less |
| tonypf (Honolulu) | Posted: Oct 09, 2012 - 18:15 My ears perk up whenever this rolls around. |
| vanmas (Leiden, Netherlands) | Posted: Sep 17, 2012 - 06:59 Stuff of my youth. This multi-instrumentalist has made some other fun songs too... Maybe some other time on RP? |
| sajitjacob (Christchurch NZ) | Posted: Aug 07, 2012 - 17:39 Joy! |
| rabaak | Posted: May 20, 2012 - 08:04 Nik Kershaw has a lot of good music on his older CD's |
| coloradojohn (A Mile High and then some, Cherry Creek, Denver) | Posted: May 13, 2012 - 23:16 Not only is it good to hear this, but the Progression of Beats in the last hour or so has been PHENOMENAL and YOU DA MAN, BILL, and your team merits mighty high praise! Keep it coming, thanks! |
| brucej76 (Toronto, Canada) | Posted: May 04, 2012 - 18:40 passsion8 wrote: RP never ceases to amaze me. Nik Kershaw? Here? You mean I'm not the only one in the universe who's heard of him? WOW!
yes, I would have to agree, always impressed by Bill's selections...good to hear an 80's name that can produce a song that still sounds good today! |
| jt1 | Posted: Apr 12, 2012 - 06:04 agkagk wrote: I guess you're not British (neither am I). He was massively popular there, so lots of people in the universe have heard of him. You don't have to wish for "Wouldn't It Be Good". It's on the playlist here. Last played May, 2011. Any brit (sufficiently old) will remember Nick Kershaw for "Wouldn't it be good", but its nice to hear something else (anything else) from him. Perhaps we've been a little harsh over here in seeing him as a one-hit wonder from the distant past. |
| agkagk (Ontario, Canada) | Posted: Mar 11, 2012 - 15:18 passsion8 wrote: RP never ceases to amaze me. Nik Kershaw? Here? You mean I'm not the only one in the universe who's heard of him? WOW!
I guess you're not British (neither am I). He was massively popular there, so lots of people in the universe have heard of him. You don't have to wish for "Wouldn't It Be Good". It's on the playlist here. Last played May, 2011. |
| agkagk (Ontario, Canada) | Posted: Mar 11, 2012 - 15:10 Love this tune! I'm at maximum volume. That's 2KW of peak Bryston power playing through a pair of Magnepan 3.6s plus another 1.5KW from the Paradigm Servo 15. I don't push my system that hard very often. 100dB is not good for the ears, and I want to listen to RP until Bill and I are very old men. However, this song begs me to crank it every time. |
| toterola (Further) | Posted: Mar 11, 2012 - 14:58 passsion8 wrote: RP never ceases to amaze me. Nik Kershaw? Here? You mean I'm not the only one in the universe who's heard of him? WOW!
You mean the "Wouldn't It Be Good" where Kershaw's cadence and tone makes Nick Cave seem like Joey Ramone in comparison? This is nice, but let's let some of that stuff stay buried.  |
| passsion8 (over the hills and far away) | Posted: Mar 02, 2012 - 08:58 RP never ceases to amaze me. Nik Kershaw? Here? You mean I'm not the only one in the universe who's heard of him? WOW!
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| cohifi (Denver) | Posted: Nov 02, 2011 - 00:05 this is just one those same old same old |
| jkhandy (Near the ocean (in my mind)) | Posted: Oct 20, 2011 - 11:59 PA1749 wrote: I know where you are coming from. Whenever I listen to "Another brick in the wall" I'm pretty sure that at one point Waters proclaims, "All in all you're just another prick in the hole." I guess that's pretty much how we all get our start. gmichaelt wrote: This has me wondering whether or not, at least once in the song—e.g. around the 70-second mark—he substitutes the word "cunt-struck" for the expected "dumb-struck". I'm pretty sure I'm not reading into the song's lyrics (hearing what I want to hear, or what hasn't been sung), as I'd never heard the word before it spun my ear around. If the word is present—even once—then that's pretty brassy. We now know where your minds are.  |
| mandolin (...drifting...) | Posted: Oct 13, 2011 - 11:36 ...great song, but the album cover totally doesn't suit it... |
| eroz (Boston) | Posted: Oct 13, 2011 - 11:34 This one gets allot of airplay on RP. I enjoy it each time I hear it! |
| PA1749 (Jim Thorpe) | Posted: Oct 11, 2011 - 08:40 I know where you are coming from. Whenever I listen to "Another brick in the wall" I'm pretty sure that at one point Waters proclaims, "All in all you're just another prick in the hole." I guess that's pretty much how we all get our start. gmichaelt wrote: This has me wondering whether or not, at least once in the song—e.g. around the 70-second mark—he substitutes the word "cunt-struck" for the expected "dumb-struck". I'm pretty sure I'm not reading into the song's lyrics (hearing what I want to hear, or what hasn't been sung), as I'd never heard the word before it spun my ear around. If the word is present—even once—then that's pretty brassy. |
| GuiltyFeat (Ra'anana) | Posted: Aug 31, 2011 - 00:53 I wouldn't have picked this out of a Nik Kershaw lineup. Poppy. Fun. Irrelevant. As Nik famously sang in Wouldn't It Be Good: "Don't wanna be here no more..." |
| ckcotton | Posted: Aug 09, 2011 - 13:11 yaaaaaawwwwwwnnnnnn boring |
| Alexandra (Hopefully, departing the Gem City VERY soon) | Posted: Jul 11, 2011 - 05:34 katjazuu wrote: Happy happy!     Especially on a Monday morning!!! |
| Cynaera (South of Neanderthal) | Posted: Jun 23, 2011 - 15:30 This is one of those songs I'd crank up loud on my CD player and get all the sub-woofer-rap-lovers honked off at me as a result. Hey, it's a small town - I have to kick my anthills where I can... |
| Helchat (150 miles southwest of Paradise) | Posted: Jun 23, 2011 - 15:29 katjazuu wrote: Happy happy! What she said |
| katjazuu | Posted: Jun 16, 2011 - 09:54 Happy happy! |
| Alexandra (Hopefully, departing the Gem City VERY soon) | Posted: Jun 16, 2011 - 09:52 Whoa! Great segue from Fiesta los Negritos to this!!! |
| robh (up t'north UK) | Posted: Jun 09, 2011 - 13:56 Never rated Nik Kershaw at all and this was played on RP t'other night Today this song has been in my head all day and I'm really starting to enjoy it...lots! |
| rdo (DC) | Posted: Jun 09, 2011 - 13:55 This has to be one of Bill's favorite songs. One of mine too. Never fails to put a smile on my face. |
| Cynaera (South of Neanderthal) | Posted: Jun 07, 2011 - 13:05 gmichaelt wrote: This has me wondering whether or not, at least once in the song—e.g. around the 70-second mark—he substitutes the word "cunt-struck" for the expected "dumb-struck". I'm pretty sure I'm not reading into the song's lyrics (hearing what I want to hear, or what hasn't been sung), as I'd never heard the word before it spun my ear around. If the word is present—even once—then that's pretty brassy. Here are the lyrics: We're wounded but walking, dumbstruck but talking still And I don't think we've made it, don't think we ever will We're radio rental, so accidental too And I don't think we've made it don't care if we ever do Smashed in, crashed out Shell shocked, red raw We're wounded but walking, dumbstruck but talking still Love bite, bee sting We're wounded but walking, dumbstruck but talking still |
| gmichaelt | Posted: May 23, 2011 - 00:04 mandolin wrote: ...i don't think we've mated; don't think we ever will...  This has me wondering whether or not, at least once in the song—e.g. around the 70-second mark—he substitutes the word "cunt-struck" for the expected "dumb-struck". I'm pretty sure I'm not reading into the song's lyrics (hearing what I want to hear, or what hasn't been sung), as I'd never heard the word before it spun my ear around. If the word is present—even once—then that's pretty brassy. |
| PA1749 (Jim Thorpe, PA) | Posted: Apr 14, 2011 - 05:41 If memory serves, Nik had a song in the 80's call "Wouldn't It Be Good". That was a good tune. |
| 4merdj (donde el viento se devuelve) | Posted: Apr 07, 2011 - 07:58 Siente el ritmo latino, ya'll ... and shake that thang!  |
| vandal (arriving somewhere, but not here. . .) | Posted: Apr 07, 2011 - 07:55 coolness. . . 2x this week. . . |
| vandal (arriving somewhere, but not here. . .) | Posted: Apr 05, 2011 - 07:11 smokingpikachu wrote: I always get excited thinking this is La Bamba . . . then get very disappointed after several seconds. I'm just the opposite: dreading it because it might be La Bamba and then delighted to discover that instead its Nik Kershaw! |
| estprophet22 | Posted: Mar 30, 2011 - 00:27 Reminds me of BT's "Runaround" |
| bindi (North Carolina) | Posted: Mar 06, 2011 - 20:30 beyond words! |
| Wizzuvvoz (crosshairs of radical conservatism on route 66) | Posted: Feb 22, 2011 - 23:15 Very nice segue from the byrds (So you want to be a rock n roll star) |
| smokingpikachu (Tucson, Arizona) | Posted: Feb 17, 2011 - 12:57 I always get excited thinking this is La Bamba . . . then get very disappointed after several seconds. |
| a_genuine_find (not me, Radio P) (3rd stone, sol, orion belt, milkyway) | Posted: Feb 17, 2011 - 12:55 time for new speakers? (  thought this was Calexico) |
| rabaak | Posted: Feb 01, 2011 - 12:10 I love Nik Kershaw. I have two of his albums and can't figure out why he is not more popular in the U. S. I can't think of a bad song on either album. planet_lizard wrote: Bill - can't believe you just described Nik Kershaw as a one-hit wonder!! Maybe in the US, but back here in the UK he had a string of hits from his first two albums! |
| Cynaera (South of Neanderthal) | Posted: Jan 22, 2011 - 16:48 Oh, dang - dancing... Love this. I'm not so critical of content and artistic integrity these days. If it makes me smile, or dance, or feel less pessimistic about life, I just embrace it. And Nik Kershaw? Total no-brainer. I love his music. |
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