Listening to Edie Brickell on Radio Paradise

Posted 3 months ago by Sofa_King [ Reply ]

I this song doesn't appeal to you in the least then I'm sorry, we can't be friends.
I don't even want to meet you. (nor you me, no doubt)

Posted 3 months ago by xray38 [ Reply ]

When I first heard this tune on D.C. area's WHFS FM radio station I knew it would be a hit. My ex and I saw her debut tour at The National Theater on Pennsylvania Ave. Great seats. Great show. Then about 10 years later I was visiting family in Boston and Edie and the New Bohemian's put on a free show in front of the Public Library on Copley Square with the Trinity Church as a backdrop. Wow. Timeless music. Thanks for playing it Bill!

Posted 4 months ago by tripp1 [ Reply ]

Proclivities wrote:

I've re-read my post several times to see why two different people have oddly misinterpreted it; I can find no logical reason. Did I imply somewhere in my post that I could "do better" than Edie Brickell? Show me exactly where I did so. As I responded previously to another post (which also inferred something which I had not suggested), I was responding to a prior post which asserted that Edie Brickell was in her thirties and from the West Coast when this song was released. My post was merely to point out that neither of those assertions were accurate; I wasn't passing any judgment on the singer or the musicians involved in this recording. Do people just stand up their own straw-men to everything these days?

Saw them back then - fun times

Posted 6 months ago by bluecshells [ Reply ]

ziakut wrote:

Tasty and unconventional wah wah solo. Glad it's the entire and not the edited for AM radio version.

ENVELOPE FILTER (AUTO WAH)

Posted 6 months ago by Wonderloaf [ Reply ]

Queue wrote:

Is it Choke, or Shove, or Chuck (me in the shallow water)?

I always thought is was chuck but you made me look

Posted 6 months ago by NoisyMiner [ Reply ]

Fell in love with Edie when I found her album at one of my mom’s house cleaning clients. Out of a towering stack of maybe 200 cd’s fate would have it that I found this gold. Immediately yelled “religionnn is the smile on a doggg”

Posted 8 months ago by marlen.htx [ Reply ]

The comments seemed to have gotten too deep...

Posted 11 months ago by yootz [ Reply ]

The guitar solo always annoyed me. Sounds like Charlie Brown's teacher.

Posted 11 months ago by renegade_X [ Reply ]

love everything about those two albums... just so amazing, usually try and listen to both together...

Bill you didn't mention her music with Steve Martin.... outstanding IMHO...

-DCO

Posted 1 year ago by 3Dave [ Reply ]

When we first saw the music video for this, my friends and I started singing:
I'm not aware of too many things
I don't know why I squat when I sing

Posted 1 year ago by bhallmark [ Reply ]

RIP Brad Houser. An incredible bassist!

Posted 1 year ago by awhfman [ Reply ]

Hannio wrote:

Click the "Lyrics" button right smack dab in the middle of the page.

i always heard 'shove'. still do, are those lyrics correct? guess sometimes you hear what you want

Posted 1 year ago by dischuckin [ Reply ]

all i can say is i enjoy making up lyrics for the song...some fun guitar but i never understood what made this tune popular

Posted 1 year ago by xcranky_yankee [ Reply ]

Ha! All these years I thought this was Suzanne Vega...

Thanks for the education RP

Posted 1 year ago by meanderer [ Reply ]

I've always loved the guitar on this, some really tight wow pedal work!

Posted 1 year ago by squakmtn [ Reply ]

I cannot recall who spoofed this, but remember the line "Philosophy is a class I never passed."

Posted 1 year ago by dc_zee [ Reply ]

Remember buying this on 12" at the time! This song has stayed with me since and always enjoy it. It led me to later buy their album Ghost of a Dog (well that and a good wee review in some probably obscure music mag).
That album has remained a favourite ever (1990) since and now I've got my 11yo daughter into it. Now that doesn't often happen with dad's music!

Posted 3 years ago by carntsleep [ Reply ]

Black Sabbath to Brickell...You clever guy Bill!

Posted 3 years ago by bdwhitepm [ Reply ]

dlynnwhite wrote:

Man some of y'all take this stuff way too seriously....just tap your toes for cryin' out loud!!! It's not gonna cost you anything but about 3-4 minutes of your life and if you are on that tight of a schedule there are far better things to worry about.

How can anybody not like this comment?

Posted 3 years ago by Rob57 [ Reply ]

Great song, great album !!!

Posted 3 years ago by Michael_in_Paradise [ Reply ]

MrStatenIsle wrote:

Great groove, love the bass on this.

Yes! I was thinking the same thing. Never noticed it before. Loved this song since I was 15 - 30 years now.

Posted 3 years ago by rigel2213 [ Reply ]

Didn't like it then, don't like it now. Now where are those shallow waters?

Posted 4 years ago by Jelani [ Reply ]

Masterpiece of groove and musicianship.

Posted 4 years ago by MrStatenIsle [ Reply ]

Proclivities wrote:

I've re-read my post several times to see why two different people have oddly misinterpreted it; I can find no logical reason. Did I imply somewhere in my post that I could "do better" than Edie Brickell? Show me exactly where I did so. As I responded previously to another post (which also inferred something which I had not suggested), I was responding to a prior post which asserted that Edie Brickell was in her thirties and from the West Coast when this song was released. My post was merely to point out that neither of those assertions were accurate; I wasn't passing any judgment on the singer or the musicians involved in this recording. Do people just stand up their own straw-men to everything these days?

"If you think you can do better" is now the phrase I associate with this tune ...thanks!

Posted 4 years ago by lizardking [ Reply ]

Still can't remember who did the cover...and it wasn't Weird Al Y... "Philosophy is a class I never passed..." ;-)

Posted 4 years ago by dc_zee [ Reply ]

Philosophy

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Religion

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Oh, I know what you mean, Edie Brickell. I know what you mean.

Posted 4 years ago by danmc [ Reply ]

Pretty darn groovy!

Posted 4 years ago by njswede [ Reply ]

Mrs Paul Simon

Posted 4 years ago by BSartiste [ Reply ]

During these times of strict quarantine.... This song is enough to make me leave the house

Posted 4 years ago by yougivememosi [ Reply ]

I yearn for a mash-up of What I Am with Simon's I Think Too Much.

Posted 4 years ago by DavidSwannanoa [ Reply ]

in all honesty, this song is a masterpiece. Not a 10 but a solid 9

Posted 4 years ago by capooti [ Reply ]

Please stop playing this.

Posted 5 years ago by SmackDaddy [ Reply ]

jacopo777 wrote:

I don't care about the music. I think she's hot. And so does Paul.

I had to find out who Paul was....boy....I don't keep up on celebrity marriages at all! I think this bit from her Wiki page is sweet (except the last part) about how they first met Hope they're doing good together still.

And I'll re-re-rate (I've gone 8 to 7 to 6 and now back to 7) Long Live RP!!

Wiki: Personal life
Brickell married singer-songwriter Paul Simon on May 30, 1992.[18] Brickell was performing on NBC's Saturday Night Live on November 5, 1988, when she noticed Simon standing in front of the cameraman. "Even though I'd performed the song hundreds of times in clubs, he made me forget how the song went when I looked at him. We can show the kids the tape and say, 'Look, that's when we first laid eyes on each other.'" Brickell and Simon have three children: Adrian, Lulu, and Gabriel.[19] In April 2014, both were arrested on a domestic disturbance charge, appeared in court after which the prosecutor decided against prosecution and charges were dismissed.

Posted 5 years ago by lizardking [ Reply ]

The Popeye song

Posted 5 years ago by black321 [ Reply ]

Rooney wrote:

I first rated it an 8. After reading all the negative comments, I changed it to a 10.

You show 'em. I remember when this came out. Holy cow. Something a little different.

Posted 5 years ago by johnrah [ Reply ]

jacopo777 wrote:

I don't care about the music. I think she's hot. And so does Paul.

You need glasses then

Posted 5 years ago by jp33442 [ Reply ]

I don't care about the music. I think she's hot. And so does Paul.

Posted 5 years ago by jacopo777 [ Reply ]

Rooney wrote:

I first rated it an 8. After reading all the negative comments, I changed it to a 10.

he he. I remember when she first came out with this. Refreshing.

Posted 5 years ago by johnrah [ Reply ]

buddy wrote:

New Bohemians was a 3-piece art-rock band on the local club circuit in Dallas in the mid-80s. I was in a local band on the same circuit at the time. They had a small but loyal following. Edie was at a gig one night and being a bit tipsy started heckling the band, who went back at her saying something to the effect of "if you think you can do better, jump up here. She did, killed it, and the rest is history. She wasn't a professional singer at the time. She joined NB, they added a guitar player, and put out the first album, which at the time was a pretty good offering in the mix of crap out there.

So...as the band said to her...if think you can do better, get up there.

I've re-read my post several times to see why two different people have oddly misinterpreted it; I can find no logical reason. Did I imply somewhere in my post that I could "do better" than Edie Brickell? Show me exactly where I did so. As I responded previously to another post (which also inferred something which I had not suggested), I was responding to a prior post which asserted that Edie Brickell was in her thirties and from the West Coast when this song was released. My post was merely to point out that neither of those assertions were accurate; I wasn't passing any judgment on the singer or the musicians involved in this recording. Do people just stand up their own straw-men to everything these days?

Posted 5 years ago by Proclivities [ Reply ]

Great groove, love the bass on this.

Posted 5 years ago by MrStatenIsle [ Reply ]

Tasty and unconventional wah wah solo. Glad it's the entire and not the edited for AM radio version.

Posted 5 years ago by ziakut [ Reply ]

This is a nice meaningless groove, in the best sense of meaningless. And what a groove. I'll give it an 8.

Posted 5 years ago by thovden [ Reply ]

Rooney wrote:

I first rated it an 8. After reading all the negative comments, I changed it to a 10.

Posted 5 years ago by Proclivities [ Reply ]

Donald Rumsfeld's theme song?

Posted 5 years ago by RabbitEars [ Reply ]

Paul Simon did Ok for himself...

Posted 6 years ago by jacopo777 [ Reply ]

Every time I hear this, I have to say to myself...

"Uh, is Princess Leia taking a dump?"

Posted 6 years ago by gandalfbmg [ Reply ]

This song is a guilty pleasure or not. Let's quit overanalyzing. Guilty pleasure for me. Not for others. Everybody wins. We move on.

Posted 6 years ago by pinto [ Reply ]

Back in the musical wasteland of the late 80s, this was a breath of fresh air, first heard when getting a ride from a friend. I credit it, a least a little bit, with getting me into more eclectic music. That was a lot harder then, pre-Internet (OK, the Internet existed then, but I didn't get on until 1991 in college).

Posted 6 years ago by Nerubo [ Reply ]

sdwright wrote:

I don't remember the West Coast putting out better quality mucisians than Texas... thinking Janis Joplin is a good example of the women in that category, but if you feel the left coast has something special, I would love to know what that might be.

Proclivities wrote:

I agree with many of the points you brought up, but she was about 21 or 22 years old (not in her 30s) when this song came out and she and this band are from Texas, not the West Coast. I don't remember the '80s sucking any more or less than any other decade, despite what a lot of people want to believe.

I never suggested that the West Coast produced better quality musicians than Texas - certainly not in my post; I'm not sure how you inferred that. I was responding to a prior post and pointing out that Edie Brickell was not from California or in her 30s when she composed this song, as that post had claimed.

Posted 6 years ago by Proclivities [ Reply ]

Simply one of the most annoying songs ever. I'm negative on few tunes, but I stick and listen to this one until my fingernails start to screech on the sandpaper just to confirm I don't want to listen to it. If you know what I mean.

Posted 6 years ago by kingart [ Reply ]

Proclivities wrote:

I agree with many of the points you brought up, but she was about 21 or 22 years old (not in her 30s) when this song came out and she and this band are from Texas, not the West Coast. I don't remember the '80s sucking any more or less than any other decade, despite what a lot of people want to believe.

New Bohemians was a 3-piece art-rock band on the local club circuit in Dallas in the mid-80s. I was in a local band on the same circuit at the time. They had a small but loyal following. Edie was at a gig one night and being a bit tipsy started heckling the band, who went back at her saying something to the effect of "if you think you can do better, jump up here”. She did, killed it, and the rest is history. She wasn't a professional singer at the time. She joined NB, they added a guitar player, and put out the first album, which at the time was a pretty good offering in the mix of crap out there.

So...as the band said to her...if think you can do better, get up there.

Posted 7 years ago by buddy [ Reply ]

1000384363 wrote:

Wonder if she wonders where this came from to become such an iconic song. Not sure how anyone could "hate" it.

I don't hate it. I just don't like it. Silly but harmless.

Posted 7 years ago by Webfoot [ Reply ]

I'm mostly positive about the tunes here on RP. Only a few tracks or acts turn my screws to "Grumble" or "Aaarrrggghhhh!" This is one of them. Absolutely grates my ears like sandpaper. C ya, Edie.

Posted 7 years ago by kingart [ Reply ]

Proclivities wrote:

I agree with many of the points you brought up, but she was about 21 or 22 years old (not in her 30s) when this song came out and she and this band are from Texas, not the West Coast. I don't remember the '80s sucking any more or less than any other decade, despite what a lot of people want to believe.

Texas aka the third coast.
A lot of good music came out of the '80s. A refreshing rescue from stultifying '70s prog rock.

Posted 7 years ago by Hannio [ Reply ]

Proclivities wrote:

I agree with many of the points you brought up, but she was about 21 or 22 years old (not in her 30s) when this song came out and she and this band are from Texas, not the West Coast. I don't remember the '80s sucking any more or less than any other decade, despite what a lot of people want to believe.

Texas aka the third coast.
A lot of good music came out of the '80s. A refreshing rescue from '70s prog rock.

Posted 7 years ago by Hannio [ Reply ]

Queue wrote:

Is it Choke, or Shove, or Chuck (me in the shallow water)?

Click the "Lyrics" button right smack dab in the middle of the page.

Posted 7 years ago by Hannio [ Reply ]

Is it Choke, or Shove, or Chuck (me in the shallow water)?

Posted 7 years ago by Queue [ Reply ]

One of my favorites from my youth. The guitar solo is severely underrated in opinion. Thanks for playing!

Posted 7 years ago by SurfDoc [ Reply ]

crogers wrote:

...Of course, her perspective was that of a thirty-something left coast up-and-comer and if one had no experience in that context, I can see how one could take her a bit too literally.

Remember the 80's? Sucked in many ways. Ms. Brickell at least found a way to call it like it was. Music for the ages? Nah. But not as dreadfully useless as some might think at first glance.

I agree with many of the points you brought up, but she was about 21 or 22 years old (not in her 30s) when this song came out and she and this band are from Texas, not the West Coast. I don't remember the '80s sucking any more or less than any other decade, despite what a lot of people want to believe.

Posted 7 years ago by Proclivities [ Reply ]

Edie:agd3::Neko:Bill

Posted 7 years ago by agd3 [ Reply ]

FatPants wrote:

Can't stop thinking of Beavis and Butthead making fun of this video.

Huh, Huh. She said "Deep"

Posted 7 years ago by LPCity [ Reply ]

Can't stop thinking of Beavis and Butthead making fun of this video.

Posted 7 years ago by FatPants [ Reply ]

Painful.... PSD

Posted 7 years ago by Canlistener [ Reply ]

Stefan_Lutz wrote:

Why won't Mr Simon let her come out and play anymore?

She does music with Steve Martin, quilte good stuff indeed. During the last 4 years they have released 2 albums and created an award winning musical together.

https://open.spotify.com/track/65mbF1Oaufdmx0RMoo24rG

Posted 7 years ago by Jörg_Asmussen [ Reply ]

I first rated it an 8. After reading all the negative comments, I changed it to a 10.

Posted 7 years ago by Rooney [ Reply ]

Having a smoke crossing the channel from the UK to France, before the chunnel, with a bloke just out of jail and off to join the Foreign Legion. Memories

Posted 7 years ago by 25demayo [ Reply ]

Surely it's

Shove me in the shallow waters
Before I get too deep

Posted 7 years ago by rtrt [ Reply ]

D-doo yeah.

Posted 7 years ago by Webfoot [ Reply ]

BobbyCat wrote:

I don't understand all the negative comments. I loved this song since it came out, and enjoy it still pretty much

me too BobbyCat!

Posted 7 years ago by fatcatjb [ Reply ]

boober wrote:

"What I am is what I am" is the equivalent of today's often heard bullshit statement...

"it is what it is".......who the hell came up with that? I think I'll write a song entitled "It is what it is"

I agree with some of the comments below....I like this song musically, lyrically it is really bad!

Yeah, good song: the production is cool, tasty guitar solo, nice bass - but those lyrics read pretty much like middle school poetry. She's still active musically, she hasn't vanished.

Posted 8 years ago by Proclivities [ Reply ]

Edie Brickell: "What I am is what I am..."

Butthead: Didn't Popeye say that?

Beavis: Yeah! They ripped this off from Popeye.

Posted 8 years ago by timmus [ Reply ]

I don't understand all the negative comments. I loved this song since it came out, and enjoy it still pretty much

Posted 8 years ago by BobbyCat [ Reply ]

I agree, it's just terrible, I want to say, absolutely awful. 1.

Posted 8 years ago by whomhow [ Reply ]

Synth80s wrote:

I rarely rate songs lowly, and I almost never offer negative comments, but this song is an exception. I deeply dislike everything about this song. Sorry. To each their own, of course.

Agree with you here. Nothing appeals to my ears about this. The lyrics bug.

Posted 8 years ago by DaidyBoy [ Reply ]

I yam what I yam and that's all what I yam?

Posted 8 years ago by LowPhreak [ Reply ]

I rarely rate songs lowly, and I almost never offer negative comments, but this song is an exception. I deeply dislike everything about this song. Sorry. To each their own, of course.

Posted 8 years ago by Synth80s [ Reply ]

Yes indeed, good gear makes all the difference. Too many people try to judge the merits of music while listening through the equivalent of a tin can and string. How much credibility would you give a movie critic today who only watched films on a 12" black and white TV?

Like music? Cool, do yourself a huge favor and invest a little cash in some good quality equipment. No, not that three-figure, big-box, mass market crap. I'm talkin' about the good stuff, engineered by people who care about music more than building "hi-fi" to a price. No budget? Save for it. Not an audiophile? That's fine — get your gear set up for you by people who care about making music sound incredible in your place. It's worth it — if you care about this part of your life — you won't regret it. Life is too damn short to listen to crappy audio and the artists you love who really care about what they're doing deserve to be heard on the best equipment you can afford.

malamucha wrote:

Funny, I hated this in nineties, possibly the song used to be overplayed on the radios or what. Listening to song now from better speakers and dac I liked it for first time.

Posted 8 years ago by crogers [ Reply ]

Funny, I hated this in nineties, possibly the song used to be overplayed on the radios or what. Listening to song now from better speakers and dac I liked it for first time.

Posted 8 years ago by malamucha [ Reply ]

She looked pretty foxy in the video.. kinda like Demi Moore in One Crazy Summer.

Posted 8 years ago by floydoftherocks [ Reply ]

leafmold wrote:

Really? Because her band was called the "new bohemians" that's what she is/was? She's about as hip as a Jeb Bush.

"As hip as a Jeb Bush" has a great ring to it. That's one to remember! All in all, this discovery was about the best part of this song ever.

Posted 8 years ago by 2020sk [ Reply ]

Man some of y'all take this stuff way too seriously....just tap your toes for cryin' out loud!!! It's not gonna cost you anything but about 3-4 minutes of your life and if you are on that tight of a schedule there are far better things to worry about.

Posted 8 years ago by dlynnwhite [ Reply ]

Why won't Mr Simon let her come out and play anymore?

Posted 8 years ago by Stefan_Lutz [ Reply ]

Perhaps many of you are missing the point of this thing. I could be wrong (it's happened at least once before...) but to my ear, she's expressing her distaste for the (then) current pop culture, the vapidity, shallowness and often bald-faced stupidity of mid-to-late '80s Valley perspective and the general lack of real adult guidance and structure and boundaries that many sub-cultural young people desperately needed but never really got at that time. Of course, her perspective was that of a thirty-something left coast up-and-comer and if one had no experience in that context, I can see how one could take her a bit too literally.

Remember the 80's? Sucked in many ways. Ms. Brickell at least found a way to call it like it was. Music for the ages? Nah. But not as dreadfully useless as some might think at first glance.

Posted 8 years ago by crogers [ Reply ]

dragon1952 wrote:

This song is exactly as intended. A bohemian, hipster type ditty. It's not intended, nor does it pretend, to be anything else. If you can't dig it, well then I guess you're not a hipster....ha ha. Probably "too deep" for you.

Really? Because her band was called the "new bohemians" that's what she is/was? She's about as hip as a Jeb Bush.

Posted 9 years ago by leafmold [ Reply ]

I've found this song to be intolerable since the day it came out.

Posted 9 years ago by Jelani [ Reply ]

boober wrote:

I like this song musically, lyrically it is really bad!

Perhaps, except for "Religion is a smile on a dog." I still think that one's a keeper.

Musically, I think the Garciaesque guitar on the bridge may be the best bit. Of course, that's the one part that the FM edit unceremoniously hacks out of the song as if were a cancerous mole on a bulbous schnoz. Unforgivable IMO.

Posted 9 years ago by crogers [ Reply ]

Don't mind what follows.........so long as it isn't Paul Simon.

Posted 9 years ago by TerryS [ Reply ]

ick wrote:

What's next? The Spin Doctors?

I would absolutely LOVE to hear "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong".

Not likely, since it was essentially banned from the radio. "Doesn't test well with women."

Posted 9 years ago by wgsu_1978 [ Reply ]

"And now, we briefly pause from "Apocalypse Watch 2015" to bring you ... "

I'm nearly as tired of this tune as everybody else. So why does it sound so refreshing to hear even a snatch of humor on RP?

Posted 9 years ago by wgsu_1978 [ Reply ]

"What I am is what I am" is the equivalent of today's often heard bullshit statement...

"it is what it is".......who the hell came up with that? I think I'll write a song entitled "It is what it is"

I agree with some of the comments below....I like this song musically, lyrically it is really bad!

Posted 9 years ago by boober [ Reply ]

SmackDaddy wrote:

Bill, why do you keep dragging this tired wet dirty rag out?

Maybe to Smack a Daddy across the face. Perhaps a rolled up newspaper would work better.

Posted 9 years ago by h8rhater [ Reply ]

acamon wrote:

I have to agree, there's something nauseatingly bland about the whole affair. The fact it was covered by an ex-Spice Girl really emphasises the class of song it is.

This song is exactly as intended. A bohemian, hipster type ditty. It's not intended, nor does it pretend, to be anything else. If you can't dig it, well then I guess you're not a hipster....ha ha. Probably "too deep" for you.

Posted 9 years ago by dragon1952 [ Reply ]

Bill, why do you keep dragging this tired wet dirty rag out?

Posted 9 years ago by SmackDaddy [ Reply ]

I like it! Refreshingly mindless.

Posted 9 years ago by sweet_annie [ Reply ]

The T-Wah!

Posted 9 years ago by JaySea [ Reply ]

I remember when this first came out—seems like it summed up the 80's: "don't let me get too deep".

Posted 9 years ago by gregskrtic [ Reply ]

I know what you mean. And I want you to know what I mean: this is one of the most insipid and annoying tunes in history. One audio version of waterboarding.

Posted 10 years ago by kingart [ Reply ]

ick wrote:

What's next? The Spin Doctors?

That would be nice

Posted 10 years ago by MJMJ [ Reply ]

What's next? The Spin Doctors?

Posted 10 years ago by ick [ Reply ]

acamon wrote:

I have to agree, there's something nauseatingly bland about the whole affair. The fact it was covered by an ex-Spice Girl really emphasises the class of song it is.

Tell me what you want.

What you really, really want.

Posted 10 years ago by LPCity [ Reply ]

While I may not agree with her assessment of intellectual disciplines, this is a groovy little number nonetheless.

Posted 10 years ago by Ahnyer_Keester [ Reply ]

zubeneschamli wrote:

I don't like to make negative comments, but this is one of my least liked pop songs. Bad vocals, cutesy lyrics, lifeless accompaniment. Glad she faded after this non-effort.

I have to agree, there's something nauseatingly bland about the whole affair. The fact it was covered by an ex-Spice Girl really emphasises the class of song it is.

Posted 10 years ago by acamon [ Reply ]

I don't like to make negative comments, but this is one of my least liked pop songs. Bad vocals, cutesy lyrics, lifeless accompaniment. Glad she faded after this non-effort.

Posted 10 years ago by zubeneschamli [ Reply ]

dkwalika wrote:

Played to death and not that good to begin with. One-dimensional vocals . . .

The vocals aren't really outstanding, but the music and production are pretty cool - the guitar and bass in particular. Good tune, even if I have heard it thousands of times.

Posted 10 years ago by Proclivities [ Reply ]

Now Mrs. Paul Simon (or are they divorced?), and touring with Steve Martin's band.

Posted 10 years ago by On_The_Beach [ Reply ]

hayduke2 wrote:

carumba, total flashback to doing my homework to Dennis McNamara and John DiBella, sometimes even hearing local rock like The Good Rats...thank you! that little spurt of remembrance may help deter my alzies!

Flashback to the deck of a ferry somewhere in the Aegean...forgotten that I loved Edie and this song

Posted 11 years ago by Lacapella [ Reply ]

This is and was great musicianship. Just listen to all those parts...bass...guitar...arrangement. Good stuff.

Posted 11 years ago by ziakut [ Reply ]

Proclivities wrote:

I had a friend who was a DJ there, even when it was WLIR. Mid-1980s... Man that was a long time ago.

carumba, total flashback to doing my homework to Dennis McNamara and John DiBella, sometimes even hearing local rock like The Good Rats...thank you! that little spurt of remembrance may help deter my alzies!

Posted 11 years ago by hayduke2 [ Reply ]

lexica wrote:

Catchy tune, but it kills me that it's such an ode to incuriosity and mental stagnation.

I enjoy the sardonic ironic tonic...

Posted 11 years ago by JeffGuyett [ Reply ]

Good time old time tune for the memories of my 90's. Nice to hear. What the hell, I'm given it an 8 just for nostalgia's sake!

Posted 11 years ago by Xstar [ Reply ]

dkwalika wrote:

Played to death and not that good to begin with. One-dimensional vocals . . .

Posted 11 years ago by 1wolfy [ Reply ]

Love the stuff she's doing now with Steve Martin and the Stone Canyon Rangers. Check it out on YouTube.

Posted 11 years ago by d-don [ Reply ]

Everybody in my churches loves this song...

Posted 11 years ago by Lazarus [ Reply ]

marmelock wrote:

.... has to be followed with Frank Zappa "You are what you is" Bill!

Hear! Hear!

Posted 11 years ago by BKardon [ Reply ]

Really?

Seriously?

WTF?

Posted 11 years ago by SmackDaddy [ Reply ]

AndyJ wrote:

For me: Too many previous radio plays...before I found RP.

A song from 1989? It must have carved a pretty deep rut if it hasn't filled in two decades later.

Posted 11 years ago by q4Fry [ Reply ]

Played to death and not that good to begin with. One-dimensional vocals . . .

Posted 11 years ago by dkwalika [ Reply ]

For me: Too many previous radio plays...before I found RP.
There are a few songs that have worn ruts in my ears... sad because with less familiarity I would enjoy them more.
At RP the music seems to come in sets... I like the human connections and because I respect the ears of the brand I enjoy the set rather than my own precious preferences...

The competing radios seem to want to feed me an endlessly narrowing selection of -my- music... My ears and purchasing habits have grown since RP opened them to decades of unsatisfying sounds enlivened only by their paid selections into -my- choices.

Lead, I may follow.
Drive/herd and I'm gone...

Posted 11 years ago by AndyJ [ Reply ]

Catchy tune, but it kills me that it's such an ode to incuriosity and mental stagnation.

Posted 11 years ago by lexica [ Reply ]