A bit overplayed for awhile, but wow, now it catches me off-guard again with its spooky, sly chill that slowly, slinkily works its way up to quite an emotional punch...

I wonder whatever happened to this guy. Now he's just somebody that I used to know....

great song-great lyrics

Like this song mucho.

...Check the drumbeat of Harry Belafonte's Banana boat song  .

(Don't if you want to keep listening to this song without thinking of Harry Belafonte's Banana boat song).

 unclehud wrote:

So if you live to 90 :) it actually works out to 0.000000084

Words you don't want to hear from your cardiologist.

 Boxie wrote: 
I read this as picking up the phone to call Radio Paradise.  I like to think that Bill is sitting in the studio answering the phone and taking requests, just like in the golden days of radio.

 unclehud wrote:


Perfect.

 sajitjacob wrote:


I don't know that song and I like his work very much.

Despite or perhaps because of the success of the Baa Baa Black Sheep song, Gotye remains very underrated. 

He's a talented chap.

Kinda song that grows on you. Initially I had it at a 3, didn't particular like it, but then you find yourself busy doing other stuff, song comes on and somehow one foot is tapping along. It's working it's way up past a 5 now...

 unclehud wrote:
 
and I guess the other 2 minutes were fine by them?
I too have it a 9

Go check the live rendition. Such an amazing musician Wally is. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOoR3Q0XQFk

An 11

Bumping this to 10, this has become one of my all-time favourite RP tracks.

 Boxie wrote:  
So ..... you're upset that 4 minutes of your life was "wasted"?  Whatever happened to tolerance and a thirst for new experiences?

(Four minutes is .. like ... 0.0000001% of my life, and how should I consider the "wasted" 25-year marriage that dissolved overnight?  It made my heart a mess.)

This song is a 9.

 Boxie wrote:
 
Given that the song is 6:03 long, which 2:03 of it didn't waste your life.

 Boxie wrote:
 
Not bad considering you probably had to pull your finger out of your ass first.

I judge a song by how fast I pick up the phone to comment.  Almost record time to pick up the phone express my displeasure that RP wasted 4 minutes of my life.

This song's a mess.

Brilliant. 'Nuff said. 9

If I remember correctly, this was my first formidable experience with RP many years ago. An amazing song that I would never hear on the radio nor find the album in any store. E-mailing Wally to get a copy of the CD. Getting blown away by the video for the song.

I'm so happy for his success (and the knowledge that I knew about him "before he was cool").

Well I like it! And the video scares me.

 mkinnan wrote:
 

Totally agree w/you!  It's looooong too

This song is a Mess. Please take this off of your two-week playlist.

 zigzag wrote:
 
that may be the point, mate. a maudlin mess. 

I like this song so much more than his big hit.

Not that I don't like the hit, but this one is just aces.

Love this song, and his album. Can't believe this is 14 years old. Geez. It has a timeless feel. 

Unique sound, I'm voting yes.

This never does it for me. Rises to a low. Next

I am always primed to go hate on some Gotye. That oh-so-precious-y, elite art school thing about him/the sound. Then I just can't bring myself to follow through, as I admit to really liking the sound/songs. 

 alisathegreat wrote: 
Beat is great, yet this would IMO be so much better as instrumental. I can't stand this guy's whining on this track.

This is probably my favorite song on this album. Such a great beat. 

 Agree 100% Bert7 wrote: 

First time I heard this song...hit immediatley. I am buzzed....

love

How do city fathers knew a heart could or should eclipse all the other planets. By heart?

 bc wrote: 
Not that many haters with 2200 raters and an average of 7.2. I gave it an 8, cool video too.

7  8

Nice!

tam-ta dam tam    

 chinaski wrote: 
...gnitS?

Gotye is Sting spelled backwards in Cymraeg (Welsh)

 stunix wrote: 
Quite right. I regret my earlier flippant and unnecessarily negative comment.

I don't like the song, but I can agree that it's well put together. There is a lot of artistry there. Well produced and full of ideas.

I just wish I liked the result. 

This song was the best part of that particular scene in The Great Gatsby. 

this just sounds like a song i used to know ...

 stunix wrote: 
Gotye-Sting?

Clever arrangement, good video, one man band, deserves kudos.      there are many songs more deserving of the hate shown here.

Art is Art.

Wow.  So many haters.  I need to provide some balance.
This whole album is excellent and diverse. 

So there.
 

 misterbearbaby wrote: 
you should find a proper hobby...something that doesn't require lighters.

Goatse seem to be some kind of spear counterpart of Florence Welsh. Someone who sings in a overwhelmingly and ostentatiously strange manner. One could consider this to be the original style of a raw, original artist. One could also consider it an insecure young talent trying too hard to carve out a very special snowflake-niche for her/himself. 
Anyway. Florence works on me. Goatse does not.  

Once every 6 months this works for me , not more. 

His heart problem has given me congestive ear failure. 

Blech.

Song's a mess.

A whiney mess.

 On_The_Beach wrote: 

 2020sk wrote: 

There's Goya, but he worked in a different medium...

Great follow-on from Choir of Young Believers 'Hollow Talk'...a.k.a. music from 'The Bridge'

love this guy :)
awesome video too!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_CM5-gel6o

All right, I read some of the comments, I don't care.
i love love love this song.

thanks for playing it.  

Did you know that with an ordinary pocket lighter you can set fire to a "Pringles" potato chip? Give off an exceedingly acrid smell that reminds me of this song somehow.

Is it me, or does this thing sound repetitive and almost interminable? 
 

 LawDude wrote: 
Fortunately, unlike Sting, he doesn't consider himself a deity.

 LawDude wrote: 
Right. Though maybe there's something on the rest of the album...

The only thing this guy has in his favor is that he sounds like Sting.  Beyond that, I have no use tor Got Ya.

all my furry criters like RP

 tutakea wrote: 
yep. -> 2.

 Webfoot wrote: 
lol

8 -> 3

Bored now :-( 

annoying and boring

I could listen to this song back to back for days.  It nears perfection, but with enough imperfection to make it truly beautiful. 

 rplogid wrote:
absolutely true!

 1wolfy wrote: 
(1) The million monkeys thing is inherently tongue-in-cheek. It refers to a completely idealized model, where the monkeys live forever and are always typing in a random fashion. That is, obviously, not true.
(2) Computationally, though, it is meaningful. In that idealized world, it is absolutely true that the monkeys will eventually recreate Shakespeare. 
(3) In the same idealized sense, yes, evolution is actually a necessity. If you string together the letter A, C, G, and T randomly for an infinite amount of time, you will eventually recreate human DNA. And yes, it's the same mathematics which prove (2) and (3). Of course, that is still living in some slightly-idealized fiction, but the core concept is meaningful.
(4) I don't know what to say about your drive-by comment about evolution, other than that you appear to be choosing scripture and faith over the work of scientists. The thing is, you can find a wide body of literature on how the two can be compatible. You should seek it out! Knowledge doesn't have to be dangerous.

(Wow! I'm really down quite the little tangent here, aren't I?)

 1wolfy wrote: 
Well, an alternate theory holds that they've only got 6,000 years to achieve that............huh?

This guy is a one-trick pony.  Everything I hear from him sounds the same.

 sounds like the theory of evolution.  aaronm wrote: 

 Wizzo_oz wrote: 
Ditto here.  I started it at a 8 long ago when I first heard it, resisted moving it to an 9 because I heard it often in other places, eventually moved it to a 9 after it wasn't overplayed, and today it sounded so fresh that I've moved it up to a 10

Love the video to this song....

 nightdrive wrote: 
It's said that if you give a million monkeys in front of typewriters an infinite amount of time / bananas, they'll eventually recreate the work of Shakespeare.

Your post? 3 monkeys, 8 minutes.

(this joke was adapted from a Dilbert comic of ye olden days of yore) 

 shellbella wrote: 
What sort of circuses have you been to?

 7 >>>>> 8

 nightdrive wrote: 
Chill out, dude.  This ain't YouTube 

I never get tired of this song. Love it so much. Thank you Bill.

Sounds like circus music.  I don't like the circus.

After not hearing it for awhile, it's tipping toward a ten for me. Love this tyune.

 midnightoil wrote: 
I wish I'd seen him before he hit it big but never had the opportunity. I have loved him since first hearing this song here on RP. And, by the way, he's a really decent fellow. He sent me a nice email when I ordered this cd from his website.

 nightdrive wrote: 
Doodness dwacious!

(Really love the song, by the way.) 

 nightdrive wrote: 
Now that's an articulate comment.

Hey Gotye guy, shut the fuck up.

Saw this guy live on stage at Hammersmith Apollo recently. Wow, so much energy and love of his music. He is a percussionist but plays keyboards and does vocals too. Went down a storm with the sell out audience. Apart from liking his music, I like the personality too. Heard him interviewed on radio and he is articulate and intelligent. I wish him all the best for the future.

I love this song.. so much. Thank you Mr Dj.

 Poacher wrote: 
I didn't know that.  Pretty impressive.  Despite my own somewhat snarky comment earlier, I actually kind of like this song.  (But I just couldn't help posting the alternate lyrics I did earlier, since they just came to me!)

It's like listening to fingernails being scraped down a blackboard. Utterly dreadful!

A great, powerful, haunting song. An ode to co-dependent infatuation and despair. Who can't relate ?

His heart's a mess.
But he won't admit to it.
He's desperate to connect.
And it's no big deal to her.
Cause it's mostly in his head.

After a couple of toxic relationships like that, you wisen up some. Hopefully

For my money, one of the great songs (and videos, for that matter) of the last ten years.


The passion --- the pure effin heartbreak --- in those lyrics is for the ages.        

11!

Still lovin' the Gotye. bump.

 Poacher wrote: 
 His music still sucks. But hey, that's like, my opinion, man. :)

This song is a pure masterpiece! 

This is my favorite "new" song on RP.  Of course, that will change in a few weeks, but this guy's talent is undeniable.

Seriously love this.

I can't believe it's really been nine years since this first sent its tentacles out of my first Mac, way back when...

Excellent song.....made even more impressive that it is one musician.....
 

milleronic wrote: 
Just so you know - its not a band it is a person working on his own using a variety of instruments and electronics found here and there and put together in a home made studio and without the benefit of a label behind him. 

OK, I can understand you not liking it - but you have to give respect for someone who can produce something this good off their own back.

 

Oh, how I hate this band. Just awful.

 k8ling1114 wrote: 
... who shouts rather than sings and includes no literary references.  I very much like Mr. Gotye, and I very much like Mr. Sting; they create on very different levels, however.

Introduced my new partner's teenage daughter to this and the accompanying video.. and suddenly I was cool!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_CM5-gel6o
 

GreatGreatest song

 blackjackshellac wrote: 
dunno... if this was auto-tuned, why are the notes in the acoustic breakdown at the end so flat?

Great song spoiled by overplay!

This song's a mess
You won't admit to it
It makes no sense
But I'm desperate to eject!