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Band of Horses — On My Way Back Home
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Posted: Apr 05, 2013 - 10:03
 
Thanks AndyJ, Giselle69, Proclivities and others for your comments on this song.  They definitely increase my openness to it.  And that's what this forum is all about, right?  And THANKS to Bill and Rebecca for RP!

stf9
Posted: Apr 05, 2013 - 09:57
 
why don't we retire this one and look for some other songs from this album. we need some new blood in the playlist.

Jazbo
(Beautiful Valparaiso IN.)
Posted: Apr 05, 2013 - 09:56
 
I like this song...

justin4kick
(The Netherlands)
Posted: Mar 26, 2013 - 06:58
 
I guess the next song will be one of the Beach Boys just to do them right.

aspicer
(Chicago, IL)
Posted: Mar 26, 2013 - 06:57
 
 Sweet_Virginia wrote:
Sorry, just can't let go of the fact that it's a lesser Sloop John B.. They must have heard it the night before writing the song. Have to mark it down.
 
I completely agree.

softjeans
Posted: Mar 04, 2013 - 22:25
 
Thanks for putting some lyrics in the song info. Great idea.
TerryS
(Another SW)
Posted: Mar 04, 2013 - 22:24
 
Not many songs are unlike any others and this is quite nice in its own right (not damning by faint praise) quite nice.

mrgus
(Salt Lake City)
Posted: Feb 15, 2013 - 07:22
 
 Sweet_Virginia wrote:
Sorry, just can't let go of the fact that it's a lesser Sloop John B.. They must have heard it the night before writing the song. Have to mark it down.
 

Funny, I just clicked in to ask if anyone else was getting strong "Sloop John B" vibes. got my answer

Sweet_Virginia
Posted: Feb 15, 2013 - 07:20
 
Sorry, just can't let go of the fact that it's a lesser Sloop John B.. They must have heard it the night before writing the song. Have to mark it down.

kingart
(Brooklyn NY)
Posted: Feb 04, 2013 - 14:26
 
A lovely melody that evokes a lot of pleasant images and emotions. One of my favorite RP songs. Unlike some other, good tunes, I might not ever get tired of this one. 

richlister
(Here, there, pretty much everywhere.)
Posted: Nov 26, 2012 - 03:32
 
 AndyJ wrote:
Only the young believe there is a place called "home" they can return to.

Everything changes and there is no going back. You're always here or there or you stay home.

Home becomes something you carry with you and re-create whetrever you go.
 

  richlister wrote:
All together now... "I want to go home..."
 
 
Thanks, bro...

metod
(Canada)
Posted: Nov 19, 2012 - 09:38
 
Beautiful...just beautiful.
If you like this song...you'll love the whole album.
At some point I had this on replay in the car for a long time.... 

AndyJ
(Oregon)
Posted: Oct 20, 2012 - 10:59
 
Sandberg is worth reading for everyone... What he wrote so long ago seems appropriate to so much of today.
 I'm one who has always taken the "one less traveled". 

  Giselle62 wrote:
It was originally a traditional West Indies folk song, "The John B. Sails," taken from a collection by Carl Sandburg (1927).
 



AndyJ
(Oregon)
Posted: Oct 20, 2012 - 10:57
 
Only the young believe there is a place called "home" they can return to.

Everything changes and there is no going back. You're always here or there or you stay home.

Home becomes something you carry with you and re-create whetrever you go.
 

  richlister wrote:
All together now... "I want to go home..."
 



richlister
Posted: Oct 19, 2012 - 01:08
 
All together now... "I want to go home..."

Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC)
Posted: Sep 24, 2012 - 07:10
 
 Giselle62 wrote:
It was originally a traditional West Indies folk song, "The John B. Sails," taken from a collection by Carl Sandburg (1927).
 
Thanks for that.  It often seems that many of the "music critics" who post in these threads apparently fail to acknowledge that any music even existed before the 1960s.  There is a strange delusion that everything musical can only be traced back as far as Bob Dylan, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Doors, Pink Floyd, etc., and that traditional chord progressions, which have existed for centuries, were miraculously "invented" a less than 50 years ago.  If the only tool one has is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Mari
(île de lesvos)
Posted: Jul 16, 2012 - 13:41
 
{#Music}so love this song, so love Band of Horses! 

X  {#Hug} X



Giselle62
(many bear, big rock, estuary California)
Posted: Jun 16, 2012 - 10:04
 
It was originally a traditional West Indies folk song, "The John B. Sails," taken from a collection by Carl Sandburg (1927).

Giselle62
(many bear, big rock, estuary California)
Posted: Jun 16, 2012 - 10:03
 
Sloop John B is probably an old Jamaican song.

SheRidesABeemer
(Nashua, NH)
Posted: Apr 22, 2012 - 11:07
 
I think they are channeling REO Speedwagon {#Sick}

Blastcat900
Posted: Mar 26, 2012 - 09:54
 
Yes, its totally Sloop John B. And that is what makes this song so great. It's an update, a remix... oh those blessed days.. and now, so new again. If I had never heard of the Beach Boys, I would sit crossed legged on the floor, in awe. As it is, I fell down, and thought I'd just sit down here for a bit while this played. My butt hurts.

kcar
Posted: Mar 14, 2012 - 09:11
 
 imklammer wrote:
I hear "Sloop John B"
  

scraig wrote:

sweet mother of rip offs
 
That Beach Boys song is almost 50 years old. Don't think it has perpetual rights to a certain rhythm and sound. And it probably borrowed from an even older song itself. 

mcYammer
(Beervana)
Posted: Mar 14, 2012 - 09:10
 
 Toke wrote:

Then you aint trying hard enough..... sit back and enjoy the ride.
 
Toke up some Sloop John B

Toke
(Bournemouth UK)
Posted: Mar 13, 2012 - 06:15
 
 Shimmer wrote:
This is the worst trip I've ever been on.
 
Then you aint trying hard enough..... sit back and enjoy the ride.

justin4kick
(The Netherlands)
Posted: Jan 24, 2012 - 13:51
 
Biets Boys!

PA1749
(Room 106)
Posted: Dec 22, 2011 - 06:50
 

I really enjoy this group. Thanks for playing it.



bronorb
(Wisconsin)
Posted: Dec 14, 2011 - 10:04
 

Great band.
"Evening Kitchen," from this album, MUST be added to the play list.



MiracleDrug
(Earth)
Posted: Dec 14, 2011 - 10:04
 
wondering if this qualifies as "horse whispering"... {#Whistle}

Shimmer
(Bethesda, MD)
Posted: Dec 07, 2011 - 11:18
 
This is the worst trip I've ever been on.

Seahunt
(Parent's Basement)
Posted: Dec 05, 2011 - 04:47
 
Going to see them Sunday.  Yea!

stratrjb
(Looking towards the horizon)
Posted: Nov 23, 2011 - 12:23
 
 daveshel4 wrote:


Sounds like you have another to warm up to — there's three of them (and they're all great)

Band of Horses - Infinite Arms Infinite Arms (May 18, 2010) Band of Horses - Cease To Begin Cease to Begin (October 9, 2007) Band of Horses - Everything All The Time Everything All the Time (March 21, 2006)
 
I did get the third and love it!  Next is to see them live!


sirdroseph
(Yes)
Posted: Nov 23, 2011 - 12:23
 
 ozzie1313 wrote:
Never like the Beachboys at all even though they were musically sound - same with this song.
 

Sorry you do not like the Beach Boys.  I don't like Aerosmith but I fail to see how either of these facts have anything to do with Band of Horses cause I know you weren't trying to compare this lame band with the Beach Boys, right.......right??{#Eek}


ozzie1313
Posted: Nov 20, 2011 - 12:55
 
Never like the Beachboys at all even though they were musically sound - same with this song.

KurtfromLaQuinta
(Yep. I'm still here in La Quinta.)
Posted: Nov 03, 2011 - 14:18
 
I really like "Laredo" off of this CD.
To bad it got The Boot off the LRC.

sirdroseph
(Yes)
Posted: Oct 21, 2011 - 12:09
 
 sharkey wrote:

Still rec'd 26million views on Utube as backdrop to Danny MacAskill

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z19zFlPah-o&feature=email

 

Bet they did not receive as many hits as Lil Wayne or Lady GaGa latest videos.

scraig
(Santa Barbara, CA)
Posted: Oct 21, 2011 - 12:08
 
 imklammer wrote:
I hear "Sloop John B"
 
sweet mother of rip offs

gatorade
(Peninsuland)
Posted: Oct 07, 2011 - 20:39
 
 Brian_S wrote:
Sasha, go pack a bowl.
 
Bump

daveshel4
(Seattle)
Posted: Oct 06, 2011 - 16:26
 
 stratrjb wrote:
Love both of their albums! They took some warming up to, but well worth it.
 

Sounds like you have another to warm up to — there's three of them (and they're all great)

Band of Horses - Infinite Arms Infinite Arms (May 18, 2010) Band of Horses - Cease To Begin Cease to Begin (October 9, 2007) Band of Horses - Everything All The Time Everything All the Time (March 21, 2006)



Andy_B
(aboard MV "Horizon," east coast Fla)
Posted: Sep 18, 2011 - 07:21
 
Just right for a mellow Sunday morning.

stratrjb
(Looking towards the horizon)
Posted: Sep 15, 2011 - 09:01
 
Love both of their albums! They took some warming up to, but well worth it.

sirdroseph
(Yes)
Posted: Sep 15, 2011 - 08:59
 
 Cynaera wrote:

Remember that if you slice horizontally, the flesh will close up. You need to do it vertically, along the vein, as if you're slitting open a vanilla bean.  Sorry.  Just trying to be helpful.

 

Thank you, anything to stop the noise! However, I just hit mute whenever this horrible band comes on. I am a simple man.

Cynaera
(Kenneth's Frequency)
Posted: Sep 10, 2011 - 15:47
 
 Brian_S wrote:
Sasha, go pack a bowl.
 
A BIG one. And hey - once it's lit, pass it this way. {#Daisy}

Cynaera
(Kenneth's Frequency)
Posted: Sep 10, 2011 - 15:46
 
 murraybula wrote:


I agree %100, as I slowly slit my wrists....

 
Remember that if you slice horizontally, the flesh will close up. You need to do it vertically, along the vein, as if you're slitting open a vanilla bean.  Sorry.  Just trying to be helpful.


westslope
(BC coast)
Posted: Sep 10, 2011 - 15:45
 
 hikeupit wrote:
Huge Beach Boys influence on this song
 
Yes.  Gets me paying attention but not sure I want to keep paying attention...


Sweet_Virginia
Posted: Sep 01, 2011 - 15:09
 
 scraig wrote:

Boy, you nailed that one.
 
Exactly Sloop John B- I was waitning for them to break into the exciting Beach Boys bit.



zeelandhills
Posted: Aug 19, 2011 - 11:48
 
 Brian_S wrote:
Sasha, go pack a bowl.
 

{#Lol}..good one, Brian!

sharkey
(Toronto - Ontario - Canada -Just passing through)
Posted: Aug 03, 2011 - 10:44
 
 sirdroseph wrote:


{#Yes}This band is in the dicitonary next to bland.
 
Still rec'd 26million views on Utube as backdrop to Danny MacAskill

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z19zFlPah-o&feature=email


fingerpin
(oHIo)
Posted: Aug 03, 2011 - 10:42
 
 imklammer wrote:
I hear "Sloop John B"
 
I thought the same thing so I played these two songs back to back the other day; I enjoyed them both. Sloop John B is a vicious ear worm. O_o

sirdroseph
(Yes)
Posted: Aug 01, 2011 - 05:21
 
 fredriley wrote:
They shoot horses, don't they? Dullsville from the first sung note, IMO. 3 from the soporific Nottingham jury {#Sleep}
 

{#Yes}This band is in the dicitonary next to bland.

scraig
(Santa Barbara, CA)
Posted: Jul 20, 2011 - 13:18
 
 imklammer wrote:
I hear "Sloop John B"
 
Boy, you nailed that one.