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Steve Miller Band — Serenade
Album: Fly Like An Eagle
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Released: 1977
Length: 3:10
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Did you see the lights
As they fell all around you?
Did you hear the music
A serenade from the stars?

Wake up, wake up
Wake up and look around you
We're lost in space
And the time is our own

Whoah
Whoah
Ah

Did you feel the wind
As it blew all around you?
Did you feel the love
That was in the air?

Wake up, wake up
Wake up and look around you
We're lost in space
And the time is our own

Whoah
Whoah
Ah

The Sun comes up
And it shines all around you
You're lost in space
And the Earth is your own

Whoah
Whoah
Whoah
Whoah
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I was 5 when this was released and thanks to my older sisters, heard it often. I was too young to discern good from bad. I just knew it sounded cool!  I'm many years older and it's still cool and now I know it's great music!
Posted 1 month ago by nelsonha    [ Reply ]
Very cool song. 
Posted 7 months ago by jjacque100    [ Reply ]
 johnrah wrote:

There is something brilliant about this song. 


Yes and if you put it in the context of that time ( shortly after Vietnam ) it adds a layer. Which of course a lot of music does...but this one nails it pretty well. 
Posted 1 year ago by reguru2112    [ Reply ]
Thanks, RP. Probably been 30+ years since I've heard this. 
Posted 2 years ago by roadie    [ Reply ]
I still remember the summer of 1976 when this album came out.  With songs like "Fly Like An Eagle", the visuals from "Logan's Run" which was out that summer, and the Mars Viking 1 landing, it felt like the space age was quickly unfolding.  Needless to say, the 46 years since then have been a massive disappointment.  At least we have video games, I guess.
Posted 2 years ago by timmus    [ Reply ]
I had no idea this was from Steve Miller v.2. 
Posted 2 years ago by Zep    [ Reply ]
Finally broke down and ordered this album.  I'm only 46 years late 😜
Posted 2 years ago by jelgator    [ Reply ]
it can be this 70 semi psychedelic blues song, if u high you ll see what s behind all that
Posted 2 years ago by lucidea333    [ Reply ]
Never could stand Steve Miller, even in the 70s.
Posted 2 years ago by wendyleefrancis1    [ Reply ]
 BWGunner wrote:

Some songs just don't do well under streaming compression. 
 



hence the FLAC feed for those with the capacity. sounds wonderful!
Posted 3 years ago by eyke    [ Reply ]
Thanx RP!!
Posted 3 years ago by eileenomurphy    [ Reply ]
Remembering the good old times as a student, listening to my favorite radio station in Cluj - CD Radio - 
Posted 3 years ago by bibutzu    [ Reply ]
 thewiseking wrote:

awful



Is the way you feel about your mediocre comment?
Posted 3 years ago by whatsupdude    [ Reply ]
 johnrah wrote:

There is something brilliant about this song. 



You're right for sure, a solid 8!
Posted 3 years ago by whatsupdude    [ Reply ]
So much more to SMB than their commercial output .,. Listen and simply learn from it .,. Whoa Whoa ooooooooooo
Posted 3 years ago by Matt_Maurer    [ Reply ]
Best song Steve Miller ever made, IMHO.
Posted 4 years ago by chris32    [ Reply ]
Nice to hear from someone who's not afraid to  play some Steve Miller..
Posted 4 years ago by markthecarp    [ Reply ]
 johnrah wrote:
There is something brilliant about this song. 
 

Agreed! Got to see him in a theatre-in-the-round setting with only 3,000 seats at the UofI (I am NOT an Illini)...Fantastic concert!
Posted 4 years ago by mrtuba9    [ Reply ]
7 -> 9
Posted 4 years ago by milleronic    [ Reply ]
There is something brilliant about this song. 
Posted 5 years ago by johnrah    [ Reply ]
 ShaunJ wrote:

You are kidding? {#Rolleyes}

 
I agree, better than Prince. Not kidding. {#Snooty}
Posted 7 years ago by nomnol    [ Reply ]
 dave701 wrote:
Some songs just dont do well. This is one of them. Fly like an eagle outta here.

 
Thanks for your cogent analysis. How could I have been so wrong?
Posted 7 years ago by Webfoot    [ Reply ]
Some songs just dont do well. This is one of them. Fly like an eagle outta here.
Posted 7 years ago by dave701    [ Reply ]
Some songs just don't do well under streaming compression. 
 
Posted 7 years ago by BWGunner    [ Reply ]
I'll second (or third) that! Smooth segue, Bill! :)
 

Steely_D wrote:

Yep. Came to post something like this. NICE seg.

 


Posted 7 years ago by brookap    [ Reply ]
awful
Posted 7 years ago by thewiseking    [ Reply ]
 Flipmode wrote:
great transition from Turin Brakes Jackinabox to Serenade. Sounded like it was meant to be. 

 
Yep. Came to post something like this. NICE seg.
Posted 8 years ago by Steely_D    [ Reply ]
 Stingray wrote:

soooooooooooooooo terrible!!!!

"1"

 
Ha! Yeah, Steve Miller sez that every day...
all the way to the friggin' royalties bank. 40+ million times.
Here's a rhyme for just you: schnick mod.

 
Posted 8 years ago by below72    [ Reply ]
 justin4kick wrote:


We're with 3 now.

 
add 1 more
Posted 8 years ago by oldman    [ Reply ]
 DocStrangelove wrote:
Better than Prince . . .

 
You are kidding? {#Rolleyes}
Posted 8 years ago by ShaunJ    [ Reply ]
Better than Prince . . .
Posted 8 years ago by DocStrangelove    [ Reply ]
Thanks RP for playing this song  and a lot of other B sides.  I heard " fly like an eagle" and "joker"enough. Although I was once a midnight toker
Posted 8 years ago by baylees    [ Reply ]
 JBC75 wrote:
As much as I despise Steve Miller, I gotta admit that this is one song I like.
 
asusinskas wrote:

My sentiments exactly.  I don't like this song but it doesn't make me run to change the station.

 

We're with 3 now.
Posted 8 years ago by justin4kick    [ Reply ]
I've loved this song since the first time I ever heard it.
Posted 8 years ago by mdfergy    [ Reply ]
 NCEyeballKid wrote:
One of the first albums I ever owned.  It was a 10 at the time.  Time has not been good to this song.  3 now
 

 

Yes, this album was huge back on the day, but it was never a "10"!  That said, I think the music (including the hits on it that have been beaten to death for 40 years) holds up OK, so I'm going to have to give it a better rating in 2015 than 3!
Posted 9 years ago by treatment_bound    [ Reply ]
great transition from Turin Brakes Jackinabox to Serenade. Sounded like it was meant to be. 
Posted 9 years ago by Flipmode    [ Reply ]
May have been overplayed at the time but this song touched me in '77 and still does 38 years years later.
An outstanding track from an outstanding album.
Posted 9 years ago by Weave    [ Reply ]
One of the first albums I ever owned.  It was a 10 at the time.  Time has not been good to this song.  3 now
 
Posted 9 years ago by NCEyeballKid    [ Reply ]

soooooooooooooooo terrible!!!!

"1"


Posted 12 years ago by Stingray    [ Reply ]
 fingerpin wrote:
Greg Laswell? {#Eh}
 
Yes, Greg Laswell.  He apparently recorded it when he was three.
Posted 12 years ago by ptooey    [ Reply ]
Reminds me of the time I really listened to this song in its entirety for the first time, Christmas of '82 or so as I drove along the coast through the trippy and exquisite area of Rancho Palos Verdes known as Portuguese Bend with a good SoCal buzz on and looked longingly and lovingly out at Catalina from new angles and knew I just had to get myself over there, and so I did, the very next day...and I know a lot of it got overplayed especially in subsequent years and decades, but I did feel like the album Fly Like an Eagle, which was a tape my brother had left in the car, was an excellent soundtrack for that and so many of those early explorations, and I am happy to say that for me this song does indeed still hold up well after all these years...
Posted 12 years ago by coloradojohn    [ Reply ]
 JBC75 wrote:
As much as I despise Steve Miller, I gotta admit that this is one song I like.
 
My sentiments exactly.  I don't like this song but it doesn't make me run to change the station.
Posted 12 years ago by asusinskas    [ Reply ]
Greg Laswell? {#Eh}
Posted 12 years ago by fingerpin    [ Reply ]
More Miller, please.

Nice segue into Jet Airliner, too !.

#5 has to be my favorite album.
Posted 12 years ago by kurtster    [ Reply ]
 ladybinnath wrote:
Sorry, I can't listen to this. To me Steve Miller and all the boring crap on this greatest hits CD represent all that is wrong with classless schlock radio. I've heard he used to be interesting, but I don't believe it.
 
+1

Posted 12 years ago by lennox60    [ Reply ]
One piece of a most excellent song. Great haunting voice.

Posted 12 years ago by ovidiu    [ Reply ]
One of my Steve Miller favs! 8
Posted 13 years ago by sirdroseph    [ Reply ]
 Proclivities wrote:
It's funny that there are 8 and 9 year-old comments for a song that has apparently hadn't been played until today.

 
Um, those comments were from the last time the song was played. BTW, I just don't get all the Steve Miller hate. What's up with that? Miller's first three albums (Children of the Future, Sailor, and Brave New World) were considered on a par with anything released by San Francisco bands in the '60s—including the Airplane, Dead, Quicksilver, Country Joe, and so on. And he reinvented himself successfully after breaking his neck in an automobile accident with three pretty good albums, The Joker, Fly Like an Eagle, and Book of Dreams. Y'know, popular doesn't mean bad; it just means popular.

And so what if he covered Paul Pena's "Jet Airliner?" It was a huge hit, and my guess is that Pena rather enjoyed the royalties.

Posted 13 years ago by WonderLizard    [ Reply ]
It's funny that there are 8 and 9 year-old comments for a song that has apparently hadn't been played until today.

Posted 13 years ago by Proclivities    [ Reply ]
Excellent...

Posted 13 years ago by macpeck    [ Reply ]
Hmmm, in the reverse of how Siouxsie & the Banshees did a horrible cover of Dear Prudence, someone might be able to breath some life into this tune...
Posted 21 years ago by ksb    [ Reply ]
Sorry, I can\'t listen to this. To me Steve Miller and all the boring crap on this greatest hits CD represent all that is wrong with classless schlock radio. I\'ve heard he used to be interesting, but I don\'t believe it.
Posted 21 years ago by ladybinnath    [ Reply ]
My all time favorite Steve Miller Band song.
Posted 21 years ago by Art_Carnage    [ Reply ]
It\'s too bad Steve Miller has been overplayed so much cause they guy has some great tunes. Like this one.
Posted 21 years ago by basstooner    [ Reply ]
This song isn\'t bad, but I always expected it to lead somewhere that it doesn\'t. I rather hear any other song on this disc.
Posted 21 years ago by FeatFanMike    [ Reply ]
HA! This is such a high school song for me.. we loved Steve Miller..creepy.
Posted 21 years ago by gypsy222    [ Reply ]
Its finally happened. A song on radioparadise that makes me want to browse to another another site. Nightmares of KPOP "The number ONE choice among Neanderthals"
Posted 22 years ago by Analeptic    [ Reply ]