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Tumbling and falling down the avalanche, ooh
So be quiet tonight
The stars shine bright
On this mountain of new fallen snow
But I will raise my voice into the void
You have left me nowhere to go
I love you so much and it's so bizarre
A mystery that goes on and on and on
This is the best thing and the very most hard
And we don't get along
After countless appeals
We keep spinning our wheels
On this mountain of new fallen snow
So I let go the catch and we are over the edge
You have left me nowhere to go
I'm riding shotgun down the avalanche
Sometimes you make me lose my will to live
And just become a beacon for your soul
But the past is stronger than my will to forgive
Forgive you or myself, well I don't know
I'm riding shotgun down the avalanche, ooh
Tumbling and falling down the avalanche, ooh
So be quiet tonight
Be sure to step lightly
On this mountain of new fallen snow
But I will raise up my voice into the void
You have left me nowhere to go
I'm riding shotgun down the avalanche
I really don't understand how this song didn't make even a ripple in the music charts. Seeing as it's from 1989 I guess it just couldn't compete with the likes of New Kids On The Block and Paula Abdul.
Not all people want to be famous doing what they do like shawn
The electric guitar on this track sounds very Dire Straits...Its a nice sound
On Every street
Yikes 1989!
This is an example of a "timeless" song - very hard to pick the decade never mind the year from listening to it so proves that it is quality.
Sounds like 1989 to me exactly, hard to explain why but it really does.
birdland wrote:
Any of todays pop artists could take a page from this book and learn something.
The wonderful John Leventhal has been her long time producer.
'Scuse me - gotta go fish out my "Steady On" CD and listen to it through the headphones. I feel a story brewing...
"Fat City", the following record, was equally strong. I see AMG picked "A Few Small Repairs" as it's top pick of her work. That was her closest thing to a mainstream hit but weaker than Steady On and Fat City.
'Scuse me - gotta go fish out my "Steady On" CD and listen to it through the headphones. I feel a story brewing...
Ahh I miss your insights
Listen to nothing but RP every day. Take it in the car. Take it on long motorcycle trips. Plan to add a stream payment in my will for my coffin.
Hope I don't outlive it. Life would become so tedious. Don't see anything on the horizon to lure me away.
#LLRP!
Bruce between this and WFMU out of jersey city been turned on to so much fantastic music, have given up on commercial rock radio
Oh boy is that ever an apt description of a love relationship gone volatile, eh? Something about which I suppose most can identify.
Highlow
American Net'Zen
Listen to nothing but RP every day. Take it in the car. Take it on long motorcycle trips. Plan to add a stream payment in my will for my coffin.
Hope I don't outlive it. Life would become so tedious. Don't see anything on the horizon to lure me away.
#LLRP!
Timeless masterpiece,clean as a mountain air
I'm from Head Office ... I'm here to help
EagleAB wrote:
This is an example of a "timeless" song - very hard to pick the decade never mind the year from listening to it so proves that it is quality.
One unique collaboration and a timeless album.
Thanks, RP!!
5:55 amShawn Colvin
Shotgun down the AvalancheSteady On (1989)7
.5 5:52 amGus Black
The New NormalThe Day I Realized (2011)6.5
5:48 amRea Garvey
Take Your Best ShotCan't Stand the Silence (2011)6.6
5:45 amPeter Gabriel
Of These, HopePassion (soundtrack) (1989)
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I could use a double expresso with this set
Hey Ol' Dirty Bastard - you inept dingle-berry. Where are you? Jail, the ghetto, dead from a self inflicted gun shot?
No just dead from a drug over-dose. Go figure...
Cynaera wrote:
'Scuse me - gotta go fish out my "Steady On" CD and listen to it through the headphones. I feel a story brewing...
'Scuse me - gotta go fish out my "Steady On" CD and listen to it through the headphones. I feel a story brewing...
Cynaera, how can it be that you still inspire me? Empathy, methinks.
First Dar Williams:
"As I start to wake, a vision of Dar driving the Shawn Colvin bus over to The Nields House of Ho-hum appears before me, and back to sleep I go....."
Did I conjure this? Are the Nields next? The Ambien isn't working....
Yep, a model 698 I bought new back in '77.
DaveInVA wrote:
Sounds great on audiophool quality vinyl also!
Leventhal the genius behind the genius.
OMG I have that same amp sitting on my desk! My Dad bought it new sometime in the late 60's? Did a deep clean on it a couple of years ago and listening to RP on it now. Still sounds great.
Its a Sony STR-7065 I bought back in the early 70's...Great sounding receivers.
Sounds great on audiophool quality vinyl also!
OMG I have that same amp sitting on my desk! My Dad bought it new sometime in the late 60's? Did a deep clean on it a couple of years ago and listening to RP on it now. Still sounds great.
Listening to this. 1991.
Thinking about our entire future lives.
"This is the best thing, and the very most hard."
Chills.
The entire CD is unparalleled
'Scuse me - gotta go fish out my "Steady On" CD and listen to it through the headphones. I feel a story brewing...
Strong artist shares and inspires beautiful spirit
Emwolb wrote:
birdland wrote:
Any of todays pop artists could take a page from this book and learn something.
Any of todays pop artists could take a page from this book and learn something.
So did I. After about an hour and a half, out comes Mary Chapin Carpenter, and the two of them go on for another 45 minutes. Amazing concert.
this is the song that got me interested in her CD when it first came out. played it to death. love me some shawn...
Fantastically strong, yet somehow understated.
Saw her with John Hiatt on that tour, too - they did a fantastic duet on a song that I didn't recognise. Do you remember what it was?
Yeah, moron.
Sounds great on audiophool quality vinyl also!
'Scuse me - gotta go fish out my "Steady On" CD and listen to it through the headphones. I feel a story brewing...
Lotion for my hangovers
First time hearing for me. Makes me feel good as well 8.
This is the song that introduced me to Shawn! It's beautiful, melancholy, thoughtful, crisp... absolutely a PERFECT 10!
tits are OK, though!
How old are you again? Twelve? Grow some maturity and come back when you can make an intelligent comment. Sheesh.
tits are OK, though!
I've heard this is the BEST way to see SC perform. 15 years after becoming a fan, I'm still waiting for an opportunity to see her LIVE.