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Grandaddy — The Warming Sun
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ninjacatpuppet
(San Diego)
Posted: Jul 01, 2010 - 01:29
 
This reminds me so much of that old Fruit of the Loom commercial, where a band of fruit is playing a song about blue underwear: 

crockydile
(Outer Spiral Arm, Milky Way)
Posted: Apr 28, 2010 - 12:57
 
Is that Funeral for a Friend playing in the background? {#Ask}

vit
Posted: Apr 28, 2010 - 12:56
 
If this was my grandaddy I'd put him in a home. A soundproof home.

ick
(S.E. La Jolla)
Posted: Feb 24, 2010 - 08:03
 
Kermit needs an antidepressant.

mandolin
(...drifting...)
Posted: Feb 24, 2010 - 08:03
 
...reminds me of paul cusick...

zander
(Vancouver)
Posted: Dec 23, 2009 - 11:14
 

The sound reminds me of Klaatu.  BTW, for those who are wondering, that's not a good thing. {#Eh}



PinkFlamingo69
(Nowhere Kansas)
Posted: Dec 23, 2009 - 11:11
 
Blech....!

marc1980
(Victoria, BC)
Posted: Dec 23, 2009 - 11:09
 
I can picture Kermit the Frog singing this song in some swamp somewhere...with Miss Piggy.  {#Puke}

smdeeg
(SillyCone Valley)
Posted: Oct 21, 2009 - 15:22
 
 paulpaar wrote:
this is NOT great! Its the lame kids of today. And they're from the land of milk, honey  and  insects where you can sleep in parks at night. get it?! A friend described these places as places of vermin (snip)

Dude, you're cracking me up with your "the younger generation is going to the dogs" rants, but I'm sorry, an album made 7 years ago by guys in their 30's doesn't count as "lame kids of today".


peter_james_bond
(Lunenburg, NS)
Posted: Oct 21, 2009 - 15:15
 
 FeralChihuahuas wrote:
Not liking something is fine.  Isn't that what the rating thing is all about.  But there's actually some deep poetic songwriting from Jason Lytle and Grandaddy.  Yes it's rather melancholy, and yes it's slow and low in its sound, but give another listen and perhaps find something you didn't expect in this music.
 
Totally with you! This song is actually pretty moving.


flyboy
(Sarah Palin's Hometown)
Posted: Oct 21, 2009 - 15:14
 

I had a grandfather I called Grandaddy.  I miss him a lot.  He was a great guy that had an incredible life.  He helped liberate Mauthausen as a doctor in the US Army.



nate917
(2,815 miles from home)
Posted: Oct 21, 2009 - 15:08
 
 superfido wrote:

Too disharmonic at times for my taste. Listenable, but too uninteresting at best for any real staying power. generally just kind of ho hum{#Cry}


 
You must also have yawned at Echoes off Pink Floyd's Meddle album. Try lovemaking during such songs instead and you may finally unlock their staying power.



FeralChihuahuas
Posted: Aug 19, 2009 - 13:40
 
Not liking something is fine.  Isn't that what the rating thing is all about.  But there's actually some deep poetic songwriting from Jason Lytle and Grandaddy.  Yes it's rather melancholy, and yes it's slow and low in its sound, but give another listen and perhaps find something you didn't expect in this music.

George_Tirebiter
(Phoenix)
Posted: Aug 19, 2009 - 13:37
 
How does this crap ever make it to a recording?  Simply awful.  Reedy voice, depressing melody, ponderous and whiney.  {#Frustrated}  I gave it a 1, and that's too high.

glassman
(Nanaimo, British Columbia)
Posted: Aug 19, 2009 - 13:36
 
Truly Horrible.

paulpaar
Posted: Jul 18, 2009 - 22:52
 
this is NOT great! Its the lame kids of today. And they're from the land of milk, honey  and  insects where you can sleep in parks at night. get it?! A friend described these places as places of vermin: some  with six legs some with two. Seee: it takes little energy and verve and guts and schmaltz to survive in lands of milk and sunny. sad ain't it? Or is it.?

try some truth! but you are probably a kid too. So not now. Maybe in forty fifty years.. . .

Again: maybe the beef and good ice cream is depressing me. (The local sunflower food store had  a killer weekend sale and i bought it or rather the state bought it.)  .  

2.1 is my rate

 

greyfin10
(Panama City, FL)
Posted: Jan 25, 2009 - 22:03
 
Yah, this is great.  And the synth chord changes hark back to Kansas... actually several have that sort of slow "exposition from one theme to another" quality.  It was so immediate an impression that I kept expecting Steve Walsh to start singing.

mrmojorisin
(Salt Lake City, Utah)
Posted: Jan 25, 2009 - 20:49
 
Me likey.

jagdriver
(Tunin' in from the aptly-named Grass Valley, CA)
Posted: Dec 09, 2008 - 09:44
 
I, too, have liked Grandaddy for several years now thanks to RP. My fave is Crystal Lake which, while it's in my own rotation on my DAP, I haven't on RP for many a moon now.

superfido
(Sweden)
Posted: Dec 09, 2008 - 09:44
 

Too disharmonic at times for my taste. Listenable, but too uninteresting at best for any real staying power. generally just kind of ho hum{#Cry}



tomis
Posted: Nov 07, 2008 - 20:51
 
Sounds like Pink Floyd jamming on Imagine with some throw-away vocals thrown in for good measure.

lily34
Posted: Sep 05, 2008 - 16:17
 
thought westerberg was involved in grandaddy?

snowcat
(Cold, Frozen Minnesota)
Posted: Jul 20, 2008 - 07:06
 
Holy Alan Parsons Batman!
tomis
Posted: Jun 02, 2008 - 23:00
 
Reminds me of The Beatles, with some hints of Pink Floyd
KurtfromLaQuinta
(Yep. I'm still here in La Quinta.)
Posted: May 02, 2008 - 13:15
 
More_Cowbell wrote:


Just like Al Gore.
No. These guys are way better. They're from Modesto for crying out loud!
garthwb
(Emerald Isle)
Posted: Mar 16, 2008 - 08:01
 
Any chance of some Sparklehorse?
More_Cowbell
(North of Chicago, IL, USA)
Posted: Feb 29, 2008 - 12:40
 
xc_para_puravida wrote:
Boring.


Just like Al Gore.
xc_para_puravida
Posted: Dec 28, 2007 - 16:04
 
Boring.
kindermanltd
(American, man.)
Posted: Dec 28, 2007 - 16:03
 
Kind of sounds like the theme for the movie Scarface.
lily34
(derby, ny)
Posted: Nov 27, 2007 - 06:38
 
forgot all about grandaddy! thanks for playing this to remind me.


leathepea
(Hickory, NC)
Posted: Nov 27, 2007 - 06:36
 
Sounds like the Flaming Lips meets John Lennon. Still pretty cool though.
Mari
(île de lesvos)
Posted: Nov 06, 2007 - 09:13
 

fissmoll
(Lulea, Sweden)
Posted: Oct 11, 2007 - 03:54
 
they are just so good...
arserocket
(Way down South West Scotland near boredom)
Posted: Sep 25, 2007 - 11:55
 
Thats so many good songs in a row now - we need something to hate soon?
smackiepipe
(Western North Carolina)
Posted: Sep 25, 2007 - 11:53
 
Sounds like eels singing on top of Hoverphonic music.

With John L on the piano, as others have mentioned.
C57BL6
(where the wild-types aren't)
Posted: Aug 09, 2007 - 07:20
 
govna wrote:
very floydian chord changes for a minute in there. not bad.


i am hearin APP
govna
(beantown)
Posted: Aug 09, 2007 - 07:17
 
very floydian chord changes for a minute in there. not bad.
dc_zee
Posted: Jul 24, 2007 - 14:33
 
Bad_Art wrote:
She dumped your ass - probably for being whiney. Get over it!!


...and apparently he was a liar and cheat! I'm jus sayin'.
gormeister
(Commonwealth of Virginia)
Posted: Jul 08, 2007 - 18:29
 
possibly the worst song i have ever heard on RP. truly execrable.

and to top it all off they actually named their album 'sumday'. you must be kidding me....
they receive a 2 for being indistinguishable from an act in a junior high school talent show, and this as i am feeling generous and lighthearted.

Bad_Art
Posted: Jun 07, 2007 - 10:19
 
She dumped your ass - probably for being whiney. Get over it!!


weevilkinevil
(close to Paradise)
Posted: May 22, 2007 - 18:38
 
:puke:
furiousgopher
Posted: May 10, 2007 - 03:51
 
A couple of things I want to say about this track:

the dude who said it was like 'imageine' -ok. The piano chords are a bit like the first three in that track, but that's about it.

This band is great. They're certainly not 'bubblegum' -a lot of it's innovative, challenging and inaccessible. Kind of like how The Eels were a band loved by geeks and Primus a band loved by musos, so this band is loved by muso geeks.

Heartbreaking.
scruzer
(Lompico, CA, USA)
Posted: May 07, 2007 - 00:51
 
hideousness! make it stop.
gjeeg
(Syracuse, New York)
Posted: Apr 21, 2007 - 06:43
 
It takes great songwriting courage to discuss your failings. It is not easy. Unless you're so depressed that you always feel this way. But if one is always depressed, then songwriting, working a band, and producing music must be even more of an uphill challenge. Artists make it look easy to the rest of us. We are deceived and criticize.
babyjuice
(NYC)
Posted: Apr 05, 2007 - 11:16
 
another whiny "misunderstood" dude. what a bore.
Kaw
(Leeuwarden (The Netherlands))
Posted: Mar 05, 2007 - 05:10
 
I like Grandaddy for years now. I heared that they broke up? That's bad news if it is true...
I'm suprised that they are not famous here!?
fuh2
(I think I'm in the USA)
Posted: Feb 17, 2007 - 13:37
 
A Masterpiece.
mirkolazza
(gattaca)
Posted: Jan 04, 2007 - 07:26
 
The song was good, but not from their best album...
yclept
(above high tide and into the green grass)
Posted: Dec 20, 2006 - 19:13
 
how cool that that have John Lennon on keyboards!!
splooge
(Indiana)
Posted: Nov 21, 2006 - 15:37
 
Wow, that was good. Never heard these guys. Thanks Bill.