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| RichardPrins (Oceania) | Posted: Mar 21, 2006 - 20:05 corny wobbly synth? |
| meghan89 (between 2 vertices) | Posted: Feb 20, 2006 - 09:40 I don't feel like this is reggae. I feel its more like porch music. Mellow, nice, nothing you have to think too hard about. |
| crowhog2000 (Cincinnati, Ohio USA Baby) | Posted: Feb 20, 2006 - 09:34 I'll never smoke weed with Willie again   |
| TeddiB (Hell, Arizona(meaning, visit, but go away, there's already too many people here!)) | Posted: Feb 05, 2006 - 16:36 Mari wrote: Yea, I believe it, he's quite a character isn't he?
yeah, but dreck is dreck regardless of the source! |
| Bizzarefall (SoCal) | Posted: Dec 09, 2005 - 11:18 I kind of like it. Willie can remember when a dime bag cost a dime... |
| byrd | Posted: Dec 09, 2005 - 11:16 mojoman wrote: Willie Nelson + reggae is kinda like mixing creamed corn with chocolate fudge.
creamed corn and chocolate fudge.... mmmmmmmm...  |
| TheLoneIguana (Central California) | Posted: Dec 09, 2005 - 11:15 I get a kick out of this. People take things waaaay to seriously around here. |
| Cruithne3753 (Bristol, UK) | Posted: Dec 09, 2005 - 11:15 It's not that bad - at least it's not Dancehall, or *shudder* "Lover's Rock"... |
| ScottN (An inch above the K/T boundary layer) | Posted: Nov 24, 2005 - 20:34 The cover (artwork) appeals to herbalists everywhere. The song? Puhleeze. trempel wrote: I love the album cover |
| kazuma (Austin, TX) | Posted: Oct 30, 2005 - 07:52 Kill switch! Kill switch! Where did I put that dang kill switch??? Oh well, probably someone likes this. I can wait. |
| jah_blessed (Netherlands) | Posted: Oct 19, 2005 - 02:19 mojoman wrote: I love reggae. That's why I believe certain people should never perform it! Willie Nelson + reggae is kinda like mixing creamed corn with chocolate fudge. Each is okay by itself, but together ...? :puke: I love reggae as well, but I must say that the album has grown on me. The groove is reggae, but the "texture" (steel and slide guitars, harmonica) is definitely country. I really like this blend and I find myself whistling, humming and singing along to most of the songs.  Certainly not a classic album (a 6 at best), but pleasant enough nonetheless.
Actually, the original by Jimmy Cliff isn't reggae either. |
| MikeCloud | Posted: Oct 15, 2005 - 16:50 Willie Nelson is a great artist, and this song... does NOT prove it. Anybody trying to get a record contract with this as demo would be laughed out of the building. Is there a reason why you don't play the real version of this song (which is great)? Is there a reason why you don't play any of willie's *good* sonds? |
| mojoman (Rocky Mountains, Colorado) | Posted: Oct 12, 2005 - 16:16 rolf wrote: I really don´t understand that so many people dislike reggae.
I love reggae. That's why I believe certain people should never perform it! Willie Nelson + reggae is kinda like mixing creamed corn with chocolate fudge. Each is okay by itself, but together ...? :puke: |
| ScottN (An inch above the K/T boundary layer) | Posted: Oct 08, 2005 - 18:25 I love RP. I know the definition of Eclectic. But this song...it's just wrong... well at least it's not Harder They Come. Whoops, Bill has the message..he just stepped on the ending..lopped off the last few agonizing seconds. |
| trempel (Abbostsford, BC, Canada) | Posted: Oct 01, 2005 - 00:05 I love the album cover |
| cptbuz (El Dorado Hills, CA) | Posted: Sep 17, 2005 - 21:02 I'd much much much rather hear Jerry Garcia and David Grisman's version of this song, or even Jimmy Cliff....but Willie Nelson...yuck |
| SpaceCowboy (Off the shoulder of Orion, near the Tannhauser gate) | Posted: Sep 16, 2005 - 06:16 What's this? Is he singing about the current state of his career? |
| physicsgenius | Posted: Sep 16, 2005 - 06:13 Oh man, this thing is in heavier rotation than Britney Spears on HOTT QNX FM, YOUR STATION WITH THE GREATEST HITS. |
| jah_blessed (Netherlands) | Posted: Sep 13, 2005 - 05:18 I really want to like this but I just can't. There are much better tracks on the album. "Darkness on the face of the earth" is one. This one just doesn't cut it for me. |
| chinacat | Posted: Sep 12, 2005 - 10:53 rolf wrote: I really don´t understand that so many people dislike reggae.
I believe that most of these comments are coming from people who love reggae. |
| foppy-knight (California) | Posted: Sep 12, 2005 - 10:51 This stinks! Willie, it's okay to smoke it, but this album is taking it a bit far,ya know mon? |
| SCJoniguy | Posted: Sep 12, 2005 - 10:51 rolf wrote: I really don´t understand that so many people dislike reggae.
Well, you got your GOOD reggae and your BAD reggae...this would be an example of your BAD reggae. |
| strick (Syracuse- your sympathy accepted...) | Posted: Sep 12, 2005 - 10:50 The only thing saving this from rating a 1 is the greatness of the original song.  |
| tony620d (an office) | Posted: Sep 09, 2005 - 06:30 willie, i love ya and all. but stick to the country man. |
| rolf (Frankfurt, Germany) | Posted: Sep 05, 2005 - 13:44 I really don´t understand that so many people dislike reggae. |
| winter (hither and yon (mostly yon)) | Posted: Sep 02, 2005 - 23:54 The only thing preventing me from giving this a "1" is my refusal on general principle to call anything "sucko-barfo". |
| ObeliskToucher (Houston, TX) | Posted: Sep 01, 2005 - 09:40 Just to quantify my dislike of this track, I'd rather listen to cuts from Pat Boone's "In a Metal Mood" album. :-& |
| aceface (a hollowed-out volcano on the western rim) | Posted: Sep 01, 2005 - 09:40 shayde wrote: I don't get Willie Nelson. He's a mediocre singer, why is everyone so batshit over him?
Judging from many of the comments here as well as the song rating, "everyone" isn't. ;) It doesn't seem so bad to me. |
| Leslie (Antioch, CA) | Posted: Sep 01, 2005 - 09:35 This song gets more awful upon each listen. Ugh. |
| MsJudi (Houston, TX) | Posted: Aug 29, 2005 - 08:22 If there's anything that will make me turn off RP faster than reggae, it's Willie Nelson trying to sing reggae. |
| pyxxel (Dublin, Ireland) | Posted: Aug 25, 2005 - 10:03 TeddiB wrote: this is just wrong Exactly! As reggae, it's awful. as anything else, ....too. :( |
| rayban (Living in Bill Spooners Garage....don't tell him) | Posted: Aug 21, 2005 - 17:17 dionysius wrote: I do not smoke marijuana, but I do enjoy both reggae and Willie as well
Busted! |
| TeddiB (Hell, Arizona) | Posted: Aug 21, 2005 - 17:08 this is just wrong |
| physicsgenius | Posted: Aug 12, 2005 - 04:56 physicsgenius wrote: Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot. Why won't my ratings dropdown show me negative numbers?
On further listening, I would not rate this negative. Low, yes, but not negative. |
| NoEnzLefttoSplit (just out of stuttgart, near the woods) | Posted: Aug 12, 2005 - 04:55 precisely. Could we hear the original? |
| Hempeltons (One step better than I used to be) | Posted: Aug 10, 2005 - 13:50 umm yeah I dont know umm ok I am almost without words here, well at least none that can describe that. I will have to reserve a rating judgement until I hear it again. Caught me completely off guard. I love that song, especially the Garcia/Grisman versions that just drip with emotion and an almost bittersweet melacholy. I guess it falls in line with other recent "late-in-carreer" genre-jumping musicians. Neil Diamond doing modern rock (His take on the Portishead song is actually really cool). Johnny Cash doing Soundgarden and NIN (We all know how those became "His" songs and ooze with pasion and emotion) John Denver doing a metal album. (Correction: It's Pat Boone - In A Metal Mood. Hope this didnt put all you John Denver fans on the lookout for the lost "Metal" album. I suppose I should check my facts before posting them. Sorry for the confusion and hysteria this may have caused.) But, Willie + Reggae? I'm just not feeling the vibe, mon. Yeah I'll have to get back to you on this one. |
| dionysius (An obscure province of the Wholly Roamin' Empire) | Posted: Aug 10, 2005 - 13:31 I do not smoke marijuana, but I do enjoy both reggae and Willie as well (he sings so much more than country; always has!). Where were all the complainers years ago when Willie did Stardust, his album of classic pop standards? He doesn't have to perform country, only, forever and ever amen. Why can't he do reggae just as well? Why can't he do whatever the hell he wants to do? As long as the results justify the means--and I think that they do in this case, marginally--then why the hell not? Not groundbreaking by any means, but certainly pleasant. His voice sits nicely atop those deep, deep grooves. Now, if only Jimmy Cliff would return the favor and cover "Whiskey River".... |
| anniebear (chapel hill, nc) | Posted: Aug 10, 2005 - 13:31 Chunnamark wrote: I don't know what to make of this. It's like a lot of Willie Nelson stuff. There's no reason to like it; you just do. I still think Teatro is his best work in the past 15 years. I actually like a lot of Willie's stuff because I like it, not "because I'm supposed to"......besides, who says any HAS to like anything? I'm a deadhead from way back, yet I can't stand Bob Dylan! Willie's "Teatro" is a very fine work indeed, but this new um...."reggae" is just a reason for that old coot to put a big reefer leaf on his album cover! Peace thru hemp! Hemp for life! |
| islander (Seattle) | Posted: Aug 10, 2005 - 13:29 technoshaman wrote: Willie has taken a lot of shit just for being who he is in this world. For that, and many other reasons, he's closer to being a true brother of Jimmy's than anyone listening to RP. Willie is an authentic dissident and a damn good singer/songwriter. Don't cut him slack because he is in his seventies - he doesn't need it. He stands on his own against posers of any age. See ya - I'm off to buy the CD.
very well said. Does this CD have the Toots song w/ Willie on it? Was it done at the same time? |
| lester | Posted: Aug 06, 2005 - 20:59 Liking it. |
| Shesdifferent (Just visiting this planet) | Posted: Aug 06, 2005 - 20:05 technoshaman wrote: Yeah, that must be what its all about - stupid old people screwing things up - because we all know that everything young people like is cool. What other groups of people do you consider yourself superior to? True, I have felt the same things. Ah, but I was so much older then, I am younger than that now. I am giving this a 2 because its Willie and its reggae. Need I say more? This is not even remotely entertaining or pleasant  EDIT: Had to send this song up in smoke to the land of 1 :puke: |
| th3boon (chicago) | Posted: Aug 04, 2005 - 06:33 rock on willie, rock on |
| SpaceCowboy (Off the shoulder of Orion, near the Tannhauser gate) | Posted: Aug 04, 2005 - 06:33
This is very unsafe... Too much pot, Willie!!! For obvious reasons, you are welcome to LIKE dub and reggae, but please refrain from playing it... Take it from me, I like all four kinds... Dub, Reggae, Country and Western.  |
| emleamy (Virginia) | Posted: Aug 04, 2005 - 06:30 Frankly, I like this! |
| frrisus (Somerville, MA) | Posted: Aug 04, 2005 - 06:30 willie nelson doing his best impersonation of jimmy buffet? 0-fer-2, folks. |
| shayde (Bolton, MA) | Posted: Aug 04, 2005 - 06:30 I don't get Willie Nelson. He's a mediocre singer, why is everyone so batshit over him? |
| technoshaman (Buffalo, NY) | Posted: Aug 01, 2005 - 12:55 Shesdifferent wrote: Someone at RP must love Willie.....third song from this CD I've heard this week...this song is for those old folks who don't know what real music is and will just listen to anything! =;
Yeah, that must be what its all about - stupid old people screwing things up - because we all know that everything young people like is cool. What other groups of people do you consider yourself superior to? True, I have felt the same things. Ah, but I was so much older then, I am younger than that now. |
| am (cubicle farm) | Posted: Jul 29, 2005 - 11:49 Shesdifferent wrote: Someone at RP must love Willie.....third song from this CD I've heard this week...this song is for those old folks who don't know what real music is and will just listen to anything! =;
Riiiight....  Thanks for the laugh.
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| technoshaman (Buffalo, NY) | Posted: Jul 28, 2005 - 12:36 Willie has taken a lot of shit just for being who he is in this world. For that, and many other reasons, he's closer to being a true brother of Jimmy's than anyone listening to RP. Willie is an authentic dissident and a damn good singer/songwriter. Don't cut him slack because he is in his seventies - he doesn't need it. He stands on his own against posers of any age. See ya - I'm off to buy the CD. |
| Chunnamark (Boston, MA) | Posted: Jul 28, 2005 - 09:01 I don't know what to make of this. It's like a lot of Willie Nelson stuff. There's no reason to like it; you just do. I still think Teatro is his best work in the past 15 years. |