 Bare Bones (2009) [ larger cover art ] |
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Instead of feelin' bad, be glad
You've got somewhere to go
Instead of feelin' sad, be happy
You're not all alone
Instead of feeling low, get high
On everything that you love
Instead of wastin' time, feel good
'Bout what you're dreamin' of.
Instead of tryin' to win something you never understood
Just play the game you know, eventually you'll love her good
It's silly to pretend that you have something you don't own
Just let her be your woman and you'll be her man
Instead of feelin' broke, buck up
And get yourself in the black
Instead of losin' hope, touch up
The things that feel out of whack
Instead of bein' old, be young
Because you know you are
Instead of feelin' cold
Let sunshine into your heart
Instead of acting crazy chasin' things that make you mad
Keep you heart ahead, it'll lead you back to what you have
With every step you're closer to the place you need to be
It's up to you to let her love you sweetly
Instead of acting crazy chasin' things that make you mad
Keep you heart ahead, it'll lead you back to what you have
With every step you're closer to the place you need to be
It's up to you to let her love you sweetly
Instead of feelin' bad, be glad
You've got someone to love
Instead of feelin' sad, be happy
There's a God above
Instead of feelin' low, remember
You're never on your own
Instead of feelin' sad, be happy
That she's there at home
She's waitin' for you by the phone
So be glad that she's all your own
Instead of feelin' bad, get happy
Waitin' for you be the telephone
So get back home
| mindless (Auckland City, New Zealand) | Posted: Sep 17, 2010 - 00:12 peter_james_bond wrote: Nice!  I was going to say that. |
| bachbeet | Posted: Aug 15, 2010 - 23:23 I like it. Has a laid back jazz feel. |
| Kokoloco53 (Safford, AZ) | Posted: May 12, 2010 - 11:22 Great voice, nice music. I'm actually happy that the world appreciates her talent and retro sound. Me? I'm already so retro at my age that I listen to RP to try and stay young and here the new stuff so RP plays Madeleine and othere retro stuff too much for my tastes. I didn't apprecaite Billy Holiday anyway. Oh, heck, sorry for being negative. Just please "don't play it again, Sam !" |
| titanium667 (Oakmont, PA USA) | Posted: May 12, 2010 - 11:14 Billie Holiday singing lyrics by a 6 year old. |
| peter_james_bond (The Burg) | Posted: Apr 10, 2010 - 17:15 Nice! |
| jhorton | Posted: Mar 12, 2010 - 22:35 Feel like I woke up on an elevator. Sixty years ago! |
| lostintokyo | Posted: Mar 12, 2010 - 22:33  ho-hum, indeed |
| ndg (Madrid, Spain) | Posted: Mar 10, 2010 - 02:44  |
| jcioban (Between NYC and Boston) | Posted: Mar 10, 2010 - 02:43 What a segue.... Taj Mahal & Chieftans — a Black Beauty ...to Marilyn Peyroux.— a little white sleeper. My body can't take the gyrations.... |
| rjewyo (Ventura, CA) | Posted: Feb 09, 2010 - 09:34 A Billie Holiday... incarnate  |
| ortallcowgirl (Globe, Arizona) | Posted: Jan 26, 2010 - 11:00 LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE. SEXY TOO |
| stefffm | Posted: Jan 06, 2010 - 03:50 I love her voice - somewhere between velvet and alpaca wool  |
| jarrudy (Rocky Mountains) | Posted: Dec 08, 2009 - 14:09 cactusjo wrote: Also get the Billie likeness (just lacks the . . . .I don't know . gruffness? (Is there such a word?)) But like very much all the same!! agree. a bit too polished. i can already predict that we'll hear it in the next trendy romantic comedy movie. |
| cactusjo (Auckland, New Zealand) | Posted: Nov 12, 2009 - 01:45 Also get the Billie likeness (just lacks the . . . .I don't know . gruffness? (Is there such a word?)) But like very much all the same!! |
| osbyec | Posted: Nov 04, 2009 - 10:01 gtm256 wrote: Reminds me of Fiona Apple's Extraordinary Machine. Exactly! Just when she gets to the "Instead of acting crazy..." part. |
| HazzeSwede (Vinyl Land) | Posted: Nov 04, 2009 - 10:01 fimo wrote: ahh, there's Billie singing - no, wait - damn -  - the sound q is too good ...  (that was intended to be a compliment, Mrs. Peyroux!) was thinking the same,,,nice anyhoo |
| tompoll (Seattle WA USA) | Posted: Oct 19, 2009 - 17:39 Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz... Sorry, what? I dozed off there. Don't know exactly why, but Madeleine does nothing for me. Not good, not bad, just dull. Though my opinion doesn't seem to be hurting her career any.  |
| peter_james_bond (Lunenburg, NS) | Posted: Oct 06, 2009 - 15:53 unclehud wrote: I love RP!!! Five bucks says this wonderful woman isn't played on any radio stations within 200 miles of here — including the half-dozen college stations in that area. Great Comment! I'm sure your money is safe. I live in Canada, and even with the fairly eclectic music the CBC plays, I hadn't heard of her before Radio Paradise. |
| unclehud (300 feet above the planet) | Posted: Oct 06, 2009 - 15:50 I love RP!!! Five bucks says this wonderful woman isn't played on any radio stations within 200 miles of here — including the half-dozen college stations in that area. |
| fimo (up in the Eifel hills, Germany) | Posted: Sep 22, 2009 - 15:06 ahh, there's Billie singing - no, wait - damn - - the sound q is too good ... (that was intended to be a compliment, Mrs. Peyroux!) |
| EssexTex (Living The Dream) | Posted: Sep 18, 2009 - 03:47 Skinny dippin in Kentucky |
| nate917 (2,815 miles from home) | Posted: Sep 02, 2009 - 08:42 titanium667 wrote: OK, but lyrically adolescent. 5 So is "High Hopes," but it's still a great Sinatra song. |
| wally42 (Between a Rock and a Hard Place) | Posted: Aug 25, 2009 - 14:06 Just saw her live at the Rocky Mountain Folks Fest...Awesome!!!! |
| rdo (DC) | Posted: Aug 25, 2009 - 14:06 It's times like these I wish I had veto power over the playlist. |
| chanchu | Posted: Aug 19, 2009 - 20:18 Really great acoustic jazz - like Leon Redbone only feminine.  |
| df1489 | Posted: Aug 09, 2009 - 12:58 truly great voice... |
| laozilover (Left of Chicago and up) | Posted: Aug 01, 2009 - 19:49 gtm256 wrote: Reminds me of Fiona Apple's Extraordinary Machine.  |
| GerJib (Toronto, Canada) | Posted: Jul 28, 2009 - 12:30 Oh, I like her. I feel a shopping trip in my near future |
| gtm256 | Posted: Jul 28, 2009 - 12:29 Reminds me of Fiona Apple's Extraordinary Machine. |
| terryd (England) | Posted: Jul 25, 2009 - 00:14 A double programme on BBC4 (TV) last night, the first was about her life and how she got to Paris and sung on the streets and trains right up to date, second part was her concert in Los Angeles. It can be seen again on the BBC's iPlayer. Well worth a watch. |
| rah | Posted: Jul 21, 2009 - 12:41 meh. |
| gofishbish (somewhere between the keyboard and the chair) | Posted: Jul 21, 2009 - 12:38 paulpaar wrote: what a coo little honey, this one ITs an 8, boys and twirls. are you awake? I am man. and she's swingin' hain't she? ho yeah... |
| paulpaar | Posted: Jul 08, 2009 - 20:54 what a coo little honey, this one ITs an 8, boys and twirls. are you awake? |
| titanium667 | Posted: Jun 17, 2009 - 09:42 OK, but lyrically adolescent. 5 |
| peter_james_bond (Lunenburg, NS) | Posted: Jun 15, 2009 - 05:25 She'll be playing this year at the Montreal Jazz Festival. |
| milaalba | Posted: May 20, 2009 - 11:42 Pyro wrote: I like this...nice vocals, fun steel guitar...sort of a modern day Billie Holliday? i agree, but i actually prefer her voice over billie's. billie's is a little too sad for my liking. madeleine's voice has a happier tone to it. |
| Felix_The_Cat (Buenos Aires, Argentina) | Posted: May 14, 2009 - 11:22 Rotterdam wrote: I like this. And I would really appreciate it if nobody tells me that I have no taste. Who did and Who cares?? :-) |
| sdn (Philadelphia) | Posted: May 14, 2009 - 11:20 jjbix wrote: do all her songs sound the same? they are all "3s" to me . . . I like her music, I really do... but yeah, I was just logging on here to post that they all sure do sound the same. :-/ |
| jjbix (san diego) | Posted: May 14, 2009 - 11:18 do all her songs sound the same? they are all "3s" to me . . . |
| mr_toad | Posted: May 06, 2009 - 08:57 timeless...... |
| casey1024 (Connecticut) | Posted: May 06, 2009 - 08:56 Rotterdam wrote: I like this. And I would really appreciate it if nobody tells me that I have no taste. Ditto |
| Wizzuvvoz (Land of Nod. East of Eden on Route 66.) | Posted: May 01, 2009 - 10:16 Pyro wrote: I like this...nice vocals, fun steel guitar...sort of a modern day Billie Holliday? pretty much. I just about always give her songs a 7. Which is kind uninteresting but I always kind of like 'em ch83575 said it well (below). As I move it down to a 6. Jack Johnson is a good comparison (one good note), plus her voice is sounding a little too much like a practiced impersonation. |
| Pyro | Posted: May 01, 2009 - 10:14 I like this...nice vocals, fun steel guitar...sort of a modern day Billie Holliday? |
| Akaiila (London, UK) | Posted: Apr 24, 2009 - 06:18 ch83575 wrote: I like it too, but I don't think I could tell any of her songs apart at this point. Kind of like Jack Johnson... a bit of a one note. One very nice note, but one note none the less. I know what you mean about not being able to tell the songs apart, but I think it's more of one mood - and right now it's got my foot tapping nicely... |
| claire_k | Posted: Apr 17, 2009 - 08:31 Just discovered this song today on... TV! Is the album getting launched? Anyway a song that instantly gets me in a good mood |
| ch83575 | Posted: Apr 17, 2009 - 08:29 I like it too, but I don't think I could tell any of her songs apart at this point. Kind of like Jack Johnson... a bit of a one note. One very nice note, but one note none the less. |
| silverghost57 (Pennsylvania) | Posted: Apr 17, 2009 - 08:28 Nice, sweet |
| coolpeople_rule (Winter wonder land) | Posted: Apr 17, 2009 - 08:28 Nice, retro feel. I like it...is has a certain timeless quality to it. |
| rvontha (Erie, PA) | Posted: Apr 17, 2009 - 08:28 Rotterdam wrote: I like this. And I would really appreciate it if nobody tells me that I have no taste. I'm with you. On both counts! |
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