Ahhhh, when so much good music brings you to heaven
after "babel" de Santaolla, this ....
Bill, you know what's good for us....
Sometimes, i wonder if one could really know somebody just by looking at what are his/her RP top ratings ....
Bill, why dont you add a feature that suggest matches between RP members, based on their "likes"? (kidding)

Ohhhh yeah... Still jacked with the adrenaline rush from a long and busy 11-hour brunch shift, I biked up The Hill, poured myself a big glass of Prost DoppelBock Winter Lager, did a long cool rip of tasty local Mob Boss, and now feels like it's 1979, and I'm parked in my mean green Cutlass, got VanHalen wailin' on the stereo 8-track; me and my buddies getting up to Standard Orbit before going in to work at the Oriental restaurant, and when I yank out the tape to turn off the ignition and shut down the burble from the thrumming Rocket 350 with big thirsty Rochester through the glass-pack mufflers, THIS SONG IS JAMMING on the local radio station... We all look at each other, my brother, our buddy, and I, and I pull the roach out of the ashtray and FIRE IT UP, our heads melting with the powerful surges of the guitar in this song, the lilting UK-bent pulse of the vocals, and the buzz hits us, and then we know: THIS IS GOOD MUSIC and THAT SURE IS SOME KILLER WEED THERE, BRO!   Again we see...  MUSIC...   CAUSING  BIG  TROUBLE!

"It Never Rains"
by Mark Knopfler

I hear the seven deadly sins
And the terrible twins came to call on you
The bigger they are baby
The harder they fall on you
And you you're always the same— you persevere
On the same old pleasure ground
Oh and it never rains around here
It just comes pouring down

You had no more volunteers
So you got profiteers for to help you out
Well with friends like that baby
Good friends you had to do without
And now they've taken the chains and the gears
From off your merry-go-round
Oh and it never rains around here
It just comes pouring down

Now your new Romeo
Was just a gigolo when he let you down
See the faster they are babe
The faster they get out of town
Leaving make up stains and the tears
Of a clown
Yes and it never rains around here
It just comes pouring down

Oh you were just a roller coaster memory
I don't know why I was even passing through
I saw you making a date with destiny
When he came around here asking after you
In the shadow of the wheel of fortune
You're busy trying to clear your name
You say I may be guilty yeah that may be true
But I'd be lying if I said I was to blame
See we could have been major contenders
We never got no money no breaks
You've got a list of all the major offenders
You got a list of all their major mistakes
And he's just standing on the shadows
Yes and you smile that come-on smile
Oh I can still hear you say as clear as the day
'I'd like to make it worth your while'

Ah but it's a sad reminder
When your organ grinder has to come to you for the rent
And all you've got to give him
Is the use of your side-show tent
Yes and that's all that remains of the years
Spent doing the rounds
And it never rains around here
Well it just comes pouring down

Now you know what they say about beggars
You can't complain about the rules
You know what they say about beggars
You know who's the first to blame his tools
You never gave a damn about who you pick up
And leave lying bleeding on the ground
You screw people over on your way up
Because you thought that you were never coming down
And he takes you out in vaudeville valley
With his hand up smothering your screams
And he screws you down in tin pan alley
In the city of a billion dreams