 Somebody's Miracle (2005) [ larger cover art ] |
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| Nadita (Zürich, Switzerland) | Posted: Sep 24, 2012 - 23:28 Special. I like it quite well - different minds, different culture, different experiences, different music. Thanks for all the diversity. Bored are only boring People - my Grandma always says. |
| vandal (arriving somewhere, but not here. . .) | Posted: Jun 05, 2011 - 19:20 sunward wrote: Does leaning on it really make any difference or do you just have a flair for drama? Leaning is a metaphorical expression. . . |
| sunward (British Columbia) | Posted: Jun 02, 2011 - 23:34 vandal wrote: I'm leaning on the freaking mute button with every ounce of my being. . . Does leaning on it really make any difference or do you just have a flair for drama? |
| vandal (arriving somewhere, but not here. . .) | Posted: Jun 02, 2011 - 23:25 I'm leaning on the freaking mute button with every ounce of my being. . . |
| (former member) | Posted: May 02, 2011 - 10:07 meydele wrote: That was depressing. Girl has issues. Adopted brother. Alcoholic. |
| seiferth (MA) | Posted: Mar 31, 2011 - 18:33 mattt wrote: I..uh..I..um...what? Is this real? Is this really Liz Phair? Boy I sincerely hope not- she has way more to offer than skin. This song for instance. |
| Stingray (EUROPE) | Posted: Dec 27, 2010 - 16:37 Lame! |
| ScottN (Vacationing in Gaza) | Posted: Jan 15, 2010 - 22:37 skidoo wrote: WTF? LMAO I f you can't relate at all to this, That is, it elicits a WTF and LMAO, then I wonder about your breadth of the human experience? Just sayin.... |
| (former member) (Farther north than I ever thought I would live again... and it's cold, dammit!) | Posted: Jul 29, 2007 - 13:11 I heard this on RP a few months and it caught my attention. Then I bought the album the other day and gave it a few listens. I don't really care about the old Liz/new Liz debate. This is a beatifully crafted song that, IMO, hits you where it hurts. Every time this track comes on, I end up stopping what I am doing and thinking of a dear friend who drank himself to death many years back. It hurts. It made me feel and, good or bad, isn't that the point of art? |
| TerryS (The other SW) | Posted: Jan 21, 2007 - 19:02 After this picking the scabs off song, bring on Tom Waits for some really real verisimilitude please. |
| ScottN (An inch above the K/T boundary layer) | Posted: Jan 21, 2007 - 19:00 a powerful song with poignant lyrics. Gets a nine from me. |
| skidoo | Posted: Jan 15, 2007 - 19:32 WTF? LMAO |
| pixelgato (Madrid, Spain) | Posted: Dec 09, 2006 - 10:26 That was one depressing way to start my listening today! Glad the playlist has just gone from strength to strength over the last few hours! |
| meydele (By the sea) | Posted: Nov 24, 2006 - 12:39 That was depressing. Girl has issues. |
| GlassMan! (Britton MI, USA (not the UK)) | Posted: Nov 18, 2006 - 12:38 A hazy and depressing '1' aaahhh, follwed by Nirvana Apologies, how appropriate. Thank you. |
| jubilantme (indiana, where sanity and wisdom vanish.) | Posted: Nov 18, 2006 - 12:36 parts of this remind me of silent night, the christmas song. |
| Hinkamp (Planet Utah) | Posted: Nov 02, 2006 - 09:20 dmax wrote: I'm sorry, but that's totally not correct. Like a lot of the folks at RP, I've got more than a few decades of lyrics stored somewhere in my brain cells. These are not trite.
Oh, I want to die alone With my sympathy beside me I want to bring down all those demons who drank with me Feasting bleed through me On my desperation I don't mean to offend anyone's sensibilities but I'm still not convinced that isn't trite. Just by posting the lyrics doesn't change my mind.And of course it isn't just the words, it is the sing-song delivery that make it less believable as a true emotion. I've been around a lot of alcoholics and AA regulars and I don't think this is the way they would describe their problem. |
| Hinkamp (Planet Utah) | Posted: Nov 02, 2006 - 09:07 ScottN wrote: Please consider using "in my opinion" in your posts. This works for me as a great song; no parody required.
Trite? For you maybe. For me, and I will guess for many others too, not hardly. Well golly doesn't posting to a comment board automatically make it "your opinioin?" |
| ScottN (An inch above the K/T boundary layer) | Posted: Oct 29, 2006 - 19:28 Hinkamp wrote: This song only works if your think of it as a parody of sincerity... because, really, it is soooo trite. Please consider using "in my opinion" in your posts. This works for me as a great song; no parody required.
Trite? For you maybe. For me, and I will guess for many others too, not hardly. |
| (former member) (Shadow Valley Condos) | Posted: Oct 29, 2006 - 16:46 Hinkamp wrote: This song only works if your think of it as a parody of sincerity... because, really, it is soooo trite.
I'm sorry, but that's totally not correct. Like a lot of the folks at RP, I've got more than a few decades of lyrics stored somewhere in my brain cells. These are not trite. Oh, I want to die alone
With my sympathy beside me I want to bring down all those demons who drank with me Feasting bleed through me On my desperation |
| Hinkamp (Planet Utah) | Posted: Oct 26, 2006 - 07:30 This song only works if your think of it as a parody of sincerity... because, really, it is soooo trite. |
| lophrequa (the very edge of the land) | Posted: Oct 26, 2006 - 07:28 :puke: |
| mattt (Undisclosed Location) | Posted: Oct 20, 2006 - 06:50 NorthernLad wrote: I..uh..I..um...what? Is this real? Is this really Liz Phair? |
| KevDogRedux (Los Angeles, CA) | Posted: Oct 11, 2006 - 16:12 I guess I'm in the distinct minority. I, too, loved Exile. But, I also like Liz's new stuff, including this newest album, Somebody's Miracle. I guess sometimes we don't want people to mature. |
| Irumanboy | Posted: Sep 30, 2006 - 12:21 Liz has fallen from great heights, Exile was a masterpeice of cliche free, excellent songwriting and honest playing. I know people have to make the bucks, and I would probably do the same, but she has really chug-a-lugged the corporate Kool-aid. |
| NorthernLad (Elk Lake, Northern Ontario Canada) | Posted: Sep 30, 2006 - 10:14 Why did she go all Lindsay Lohan on us? (click here for NSFW image) |
| exciter76 (venice - la bella italia / I am two people: one you know, but don't like, the other one you don't know but you don't want to...) | Posted: Sep 27, 2006 - 00:39 so sexy liz |
| Frater_Kork (Uppsala, Sweden) | Posted: Sep 27, 2006 - 00:14 It keeps growing on me... 8 |
| skindy (AwlbanNY) | Posted: Sep 12, 2006 - 09:51 The more I hear this song, the more I feel it stands right up there with Liz's best work (Exile, Whip-Smart, WCSE) from her pre-pop-reinvention days. Liz, although it's fewer and further between, you can still kick ass with songs of truth and emotion. And screw all you immature jerks making "jokes" about the subject matter. Grow the f*ck up. |
| Al_Koholic (Exit 82, NJ) | Posted: Sep 12, 2006 - 08:53 monkeywonders wrote:  I like it! hiccup. |
| ScottN (An inch above the K/T boundary layer) | Posted: Aug 22, 2006 - 16:20 Great song, though sad. Typically inspired playlist for this great station, Bill pairs it now with All Apologies. |
| Magnus (not back in Redondo Beach where I should be) | Posted: Aug 22, 2006 - 16:18 8 for the lyrics. |
| meloman (Warsaw, Poland) | Posted: Aug 17, 2006 - 14:38 Thistle wrote: ...one can only hope.  Now there's a classy emoticon. Asshole, right? |
| liser (hurricane alley) | Posted: Aug 17, 2006 - 13:16 This is a very sad, very true song. Take it from someone with two family members dead from alcoholism - it's too true. Probably could've done without hearing this, actually. |
| steeler (Riding The Bus to Canton) | Posted: Aug 17, 2006 - 13:16 queenjill wrote: Subject matter aside, this song doesn't have one-tenth of the honest, heartfelt emotion of "Exile in Guyville." Every song on that album came straight from her gut. This song is fine, but it could be sung by anyone.
I agree about Exile in Guyville, but let's give her some slack on the rest. Exile in Guyville is a seminal work. She hit the high note, and I don't think she will ever match it. I know she will never top it. Not many others, either. |
| Thistle (Peg City) | Posted: Aug 17, 2006 - 13:15 meloman wrote: "Stefen" thinks this is a "great emoticon." Yeah, right! Well, I beg to differ. It's tasteless and sad, for it illustrates that the true message of this song has been lost on you. Though it deals with alcoholism, the song's ultimately about dispair, loneliness, and the pain life brings. Laughing at alcoholism? Maybe next we'll see emoticons ridiculing people with AIDS, in wheelchairs, or using white canes. ...one can only hope. |
| queenjill (CA) | Posted: Aug 17, 2006 - 13:15 meloman wrote: Maybe next we'll see emoticons ridiculing people with AIDS, in wheelchairs, or using white canes.
a little smiley guy with a white cane could be kinda cute.  |
| meloman (Warsaw, Poland) | Posted: Aug 14, 2006 - 03:26 monkeywonders wrote: "Stefen" thinks this is a "great emoticon." Yeah, right! Well, I beg to differ. It's tasteless and sad, for it illustrates that the true message of this song has been lost on you. Though it deals with alcoholism, the song's ultimately about dispair, loneliness, and the pain life brings. Laughing at alcoholism? Maybe next we'll see emoticons ridiculing people with AIDS, in wheelchairs, or using white canes. |
| Stefen (West Hollywood, CA) | Posted: Aug 02, 2006 - 21:29 monkeywonders wrote: How did you create that great emoticon? |
| monkeywonders (everywhere) | Posted: Jul 30, 2006 - 11:19 |
| Johnny_Wave (California, baby) | Posted: Jul 15, 2006 - 19:31 Definitely an 8 |
| queenjill (CA) | Posted: Jul 04, 2006 - 13:01 Subject matter aside, this song doesn't have one-tenth of the honest, heartfelt emotion of "Exile in Guyville." Every song on that album came straight from her gut. This song is fine, but it could be sung by anyone. |
| Thistle (Peg City) | Posted: Jul 04, 2006 - 12:58 hubba hubba |
| Gryn (Oregon) | Posted: Jul 01, 2006 - 03:35 This is one of the very few Liz Phair songs I've every liked. More of the same, please. |
| toker (its a jungle out there) | Posted: Jun 19, 2006 - 21:31 Pretty melody...  |
| ChardRemains (Pepperland) | Posted: Jun 16, 2006 - 12:33 one of the better songs from inside a drunk's head. |
| HombreDeMezcal (Aztlán) | Posted: Jun 16, 2006 - 12:32  |
| zipper | Posted: Jun 10, 2006 - 11:39 Gotta pull his CD back out and give it another listen. Thanks, BillG. |
| cmrump (Flatland) | Posted: Jun 05, 2006 - 07:50 pyxxel wrote: What a non-event of a song.
Commenters here talk of depressing "un-inspired" "non-events," perhaps out of a lack of empathy or experience. Here's a recent un-inspired non-event I've witnessed: a loved one spent the past weekend drinking alone in a hotel room - for her birthday. |
| cmrump (Flatland) | Posted: Jun 05, 2006 - 07:42 sarah_mae wrote: Beautiful song speaking to whatever self destructive tendencies you have. Everyone has some I guess. Hopefully not as difficult as alcholism.
I agree; I always rewind this song several times, and today it's hitting me harder than usual. Dealing with an alcoholic loved one can be self-destructive as well without the help of Al-Anon. |