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Lichenia,
(uk)
Posted: May 09, 2013 - 10:43
 
Great beat 
 
toddbruner
(Albuquerque)
Posted: Nov 02, 2012 - 10:20
 
 gypsyman wrote:
  < Reply >


I thought it was Cracker
 
Pre-Cracker

ottovonb
Posted: Aug 31, 2012 - 11:37
 
Strangely happy and melancholy all at the same time.

 

LongGoneDaddy
Posted: Aug 31, 2012 - 11:35
 
Stepford Reagan. 

Baketown
(Maryland)
Posted: Mar 26, 2012 - 06:44
 
One the best CVB  songs of all time!!!!

BLADERUNNER
(Port City on the Cape Fear)
Posted: Mar 22, 2012 - 07:58
 
I liked him better when he took the skinheads bowling.

deepwoodskev
(In a town west of Chicago)
Posted: Feb 23, 2012 - 14:27
 
 Dinges,_the_Dude wrote:
Please, SKIP!!!!!!! Can somebody pull the plug?!
 
It's called a mute button, sir. Maybe use it?

bpkengor
(East Coast, USA)
Posted: Feb 23, 2012 - 14:26
 
Yuck!

mcYammer
(Beervana)
Posted: Feb 23, 2012 - 14:22
 
LOVE the gears grinding in Reagan's head. Seeing him speak, one often wondered the provenance...

gypsyman
(just passing through....)
Posted: Jan 18, 2012 - 19:57
 
 < Reply >
 rdo wrote:
I hear a Cracker influence.
 

I thought it was Cracker



Dinges,_the_Dude
(under sea-level, N52°22', E4°52')
Posted: Nov 20, 2011 - 09:41
 
Please, SKIP!!!!!!! Can somebody pull the plug?!

ziakut
(A place with air, water and chocolate.)
Posted: Oct 19, 2011 - 19:38
 
If Robert Smith of The Cure was less intense and had more to smile about...he might have created this tune. I can hear a slight resemblance in the vocals...anyway. I like this...it doesn't take too many chances musically...but I do like nonetheless.

olivertwist
(Atlanta GA)
Posted: Sep 14, 2011 - 07:18
 
 rdo wrote:
I hear a Cracker influence.
 

Ha - good one!

rdo
(DC)
Posted: Sep 14, 2011 - 07:13
 
I hear a Cracker influence.

Sasha2001
(Where the last of the union men run free)
Posted: Feb 09, 2011 - 17:31
 
Sounds like it was ahead of its time. Reall diggin this

Hannio
(Austin, TX)
Posted: Aug 03, 2010 - 12:38
 
 horstman wrote:


You know, we can all pick on Physicsgenius for his silly little remarks . . . but this one hits it squarely on the mark.

The Republicans have clearly screwed this country in the wrong direction for many years under several adminstrations (or just one really!).

I think it's time to face the dawn looking east and not west.

Horstman
 

They told me if I voted for McCain nothing would change, and they were right!

Dinges,_the_Dude
(under sea-level, N52°22', E4°52')
Posted: Mar 29, 2010 - 11:40
 

Please, please skip next time...!!!




KurtfromLaQuinta
(Yep. I'm still here in La Quinta.)
Posted: Nov 23, 2009 - 14:34
 
 nate917 wrote:
I hope someone will upload CVB's "Take the Skinheads Bowling."  Great tune.
 
It's been done.
It didn't make it.

Well I just checked.
It wasn't listed.
I know I uploaded it a few years back.

That means only one thing...
I'm going to upload it again! {#Mrgreen}



mcYammer
(Beervana)
Posted: Nov 23, 2009 - 14:24
 
gotta love "...wheels they turn and gears they grind"

Still, I agree, the first (two) album(s) should find some play, Bill. To provide some pure angst white soCal ska vibes. For those who need it.

grungepuppy
(Flagstaff, AZ)
Posted: Jul 20, 2009 - 12:07
 

 rtrudeau wrote:

The last time this song was commented on was almost a year ago. Your statement would appear to be, to use your terminology, "way inaccurate."

 
Notice that I wrote "this band," not "this song."


rtrudeau
(Bay Area, California)
Posted: Jul 20, 2009 - 12:04
 
 grungepuppy wrote:
This band is way overplayed on this station. Marginal at best.
 
The last time this song was commented on was almost a year ago. Your statement would appear to be, to use your terminology, "way inaccurate."


flyboy50
(Austin TX)
Posted: Jul 20, 2009 - 12:03
 
I'm sitting at my desk attempting to care that my j.o.b does more for me than provide a paycheck.  And I thought... I want Bill's job. How cool to compile and spin tunes all day.  Now that's purpose!

grungepuppy
(Flagstaff, AZ)
Posted: Jul 20, 2009 - 12:01
 
This band is way overplayed on this station. Marginal at best.

maxmox
(Broome, Western Australia)
Posted: Jul 20, 2009 - 12:01
 
 laroue wrote:
More CVB! MORE!
 
And more Paul Kelly


laroue
(Tennessee)
Posted: Oct 08, 2008 - 19:33
 
More CVB! MORE!

nalle
(Malmo, Sweden)
Posted: Sep 07, 2008 - 05:29
 
A nice tune, thanks {#Angel}

nate917
(2,815 miles from home)
Posted: Aug 06, 2008 - 14:15
 
I hope someone will upload CVB's "Take the Skinheads Bowling."  Great tune.

siandbeth
(Santa Cruz California)
Posted: Aug 06, 2008 - 14:13
 
my favorite cvb song, thanks!

jbtidwell
(Atlanta, GA)
Posted: Jun 04, 2008 - 12:12
 
that post from physicsgenius was Nov 09, 2006 - 06:07

guess he/she has ascended or moved on
laramieu
(the plains)
Posted: Jun 04, 2008 - 12:11
 
I think the fact that no one has commented on this song in over a year, even though it has been played quite a few times, speaks to the blah-ness of this tune.
veegez
(Minnesoter)
Posted: May 24, 2007 - 07:27
 
horstman wrote:


You know, we can all pick on Physicsgenius for his silly little remarks . .

Horstman


If you would have stopped there, I was all in.
darkhorse53
(Illinois)
Posted: Apr 22, 2007 - 19:17
 
physicsgenius wrote:


You mean the kind of optimism that hopes if you just ignore AIDS it will just go away? Or the optimism that descended from it, where you have to clap hard to cover the screams in Iraq?

I think I prefer the kind of optimism that comes from facing reality squarely and dealing with it successfully.


Well said.
horstman
(Syracuse, New York)
Posted: Mar 22, 2007 - 10:18
 
physicsgenius wrote:


You mean the kind of optimism that hopes if you just ignore AIDS it will just go away? Or the optimism that descended from it, where you have to clap hard to cover the screams in Iraq?

I think I prefer the kind of optimism that comes from facing reality squarely and dealing with it successfully.


You know, we can all pick on Physicsgenius for his silly little remarks . . . but this one hits it squarely on the mark.

The Republicans have clearly screwed this country in the wrong direction for many years under several adminstrations (or just one really!).

I think it's time to face the dawn looking east and not west.

Horstman
physicsgenius
(90% of everything is crap)
Posted: Nov 09, 2006 - 06:07
 
Baby_M wrote:

I'll take Reaganesque optimism over late-70s impending doom any day.


You mean the kind of optimism that hopes if you just ignore AIDS it will just go away? Or the optimism that descended from it, where you have to clap hard to cover the screams in Iraq?

I think I prefer the kind of optimism that comes from facing reality squarely and dealing with it successfully.
stratrjb
Posted: Sep 26, 2006 - 07:50
 
I didn't listen to this back in the 80's, but have grown to love CVB from RP, reliving the 80's now minus Olivia Newton Jon.
KurtfromLaQuinta
(La Quinta, CA)
Posted: Sep 11, 2006 - 17:00
 
Baby_M wrote:


I lived through the 1970s -- the "energy crisis" and stagflation and Jimmy Carter. All the smart people were telling us that the good times were over and all that was left was managing the inevitable American decline. If we were lucky, we'd surrender to the USSR and get remade into New Socialist Men; otherwise, we'd all get to be extras in Soylent Green or a Mad Max movie.

I'll take Reaganesque optimism over late-70s impending doom any day.
There's nothing wrong with being an eternal optimist!
tomhodgman
(Annecy)
Posted: Aug 28, 2006 - 01:18
 
I love the contrast of the sweet fluidity of the pedal steel and abrupt laissé-faire of the near spoken voice vocals.
jksteacher
(Atlanta)
Posted: Jun 30, 2006 - 11:05
 
Ahhhhh... what a smooth, great day this has been. Key Lime Pie is CVBs best, but we need to have some other cuts off of it, too. I'll get on it....
algrif
(Slightly west of Zero)
Posted: Jun 01, 2006 - 06:02
 
Sorry, but I find this really booooooooring.
LongGoneDaddy
Posted: Jun 01, 2006 - 06:02
 
Key lime and Lifes Rich pageant were stuck in the cassette deck for a long time. CVB's finest!
spacemoose
Posted: Jun 01, 2006 - 06:02
 
drH wrote:


Trite lyrics? Well, I can imagine how someone would think that if all they heard is "Everything is fine, everything is fine." Why not listen to the rest of it? Could be there's a little irony you didn't get.

Yeah, A lot of CVB's lyrics are over a lot of people's heads. This song is total sarcasm + irony. It's really a brilliant song. Same thing is true of pretty much every song on this album.

I remember having a friend who thought "all her favorite fruit" was some kind of free verse stream of conciousness thing. I was like "dude, just actually sit and listen to all of the lyrics once". I guess most people are conditioned to having the point of a song be some banal truism delivered with a psuedo-philosophical blunt instrument and repeated ad nauseum in the chorus.
spacemoose
Posted: Jun 01, 2006 - 05:58
 
One of my favorite albums from one of my favorite bands.
islander
(Seattle)
Posted: May 17, 2006 - 15:50
 
take your sweetheart bowling, take them bowling...
Xeric
(Twenty feet off the ground)
Posted: Jan 05, 2006 - 20:01
 
kazuma wrote:

And now it's here.
Cha-ching!
kazuma
(Austin, TX)
Posted: Jan 05, 2006 - 19:57
 
Baby_M wrote:
All the smart people were telling us that the good times were over and all that was left was managing the inevitable American decline.

And now it's here.
Baby_M
(a 100-year old building in downtown Akron, Ohio)
Posted: Dec 22, 2005 - 08:36
 
steeler wrote:
. . . Love the references to Reagan (I know, I know, he just died, but I lived through the 1980s and his "optimism")


I lived through the 1970s -- the "energy crisis" and stagflation and Jimmy Carter. All the smart people were telling us that the good times were over and all that was left was managing the inevitable American decline. If we were lucky, we'd surrender to the USSR and get remade into New Socialist Men; otherwise, we'd all get to be extras in Soylent Green or a Mad Max movie.

I'll take Reaganesque optimism over late-70s impending doom any day.
rjs
(Atlanta, GA)
Posted: Dec 22, 2005 - 08:33
 
drover wrote:

Dude... whatever you and your little cowboy icon are smokin'... I'd like to try some. Country rock? Maybe for a song or two. Then they switch to Eastern European. Then to punk. Then to something genre-bending. Country band these guys aren't.


Amen to that! The entire CVB catalog covers a wide range of things, they aren't any one type of band, especially country rock.

That said, this dude's recommendations in country rock, covering three decades of its different incarnations, is an excellent list. I especially thank him for the props for the Long Ryders.

Yippe-eye-ay!


drover
(Chicago, IL)
Posted: Apr 01, 2005 - 16:37
 
SpaceCowboy wrote:
CVB is ok, but not the best of country rock bands.

The problem with country rock is the danger of ending up boring and hackneyed. But when it's good, it is pretty near excellent. And I find a very thin line between the two.

CVB, ok. But I would rather recommend Gram Parsons (Flying Burrito Bros, Int. Submarine Band and solo), Uncle Tupelo, Long Ryders, Gene Clark, Dillard & Clark etc. The key word here is Cosmic American Music...


Dude... whatever you and your little cowboy icon are smokin'... I'd like to try some. Country rock? Maybe for a song or two. Then they switch to Eastern European. Then to punk. Then to something genre-bending. Country band these guys aren't.
rgj13
Posted: Apr 01, 2005 - 16:32
 
There's a funky artifact in the beginning of this track, Bill. And I know how you feel about impurities.
pilgrim
(Terra Incognito, OR)
Posted: Feb 16, 2005 - 12:54
 
justlistening wrote:


You're confusing me with justdancing.




that's justfunny