diggyduffy
Naas, Ireland
Designer & Novelist
Jan 7, 2019
Favorite Song: Life on Mars by David Bowie
Favorite Band: Tom Waits (not a dodgy song in his extensive canon)
Favorite Album: Graceland by Paul Simon
First Concert: Warren Zevon, National Stadium, Dublin, Ireland 1980
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The Main Mix
Vinyl. Sonny Rollins, Miles, John Coltrane, Bird and many others.
Maybe 'cos I've been watching' Bosch or just a sign of my age.
Anyways, for me jazz is more than music, it's a feeling, a groove into which I slip and slide - emotional music at it's very finest.
I just had a thought!
RP could be just one notch better than it's usual brilliant best.
A jazz station?
Whatcha think, Bill and Rebecca? A Radio Paradise jazz station?
Wow. The best would get a little better!
12 years ago at the graduation mass the students were allowed to pick the music. They chose this song. The music teacher refused permission because she misunderstood the first line of the song.
On Saturday my son and his beautiful new wife left the same church to A Day Like This. Their music teacher wasn't at the wedding.
One day like last Saturday a year will see me right.
You know I dreamed about you
For 29 years before I saw you
You know I dreamed about you
I missed you for, for 29 years
I don't understand it. I respect their opinions, but oh, to read them...especially when they're aimed at a song I like (this is MY opinion, and I'm not speaking for the masses here) makes me wonder if I'm lacking somehow. Maybe I missed the memo that said "Hate this song - attack this song - attack this artist and everything he/she has ever done." I know I'm not well-educated or well-versed in PearlJam-dom - or any "dom" for that matter. I know what I love. To see such hatred of a song is scary to me.
Maybe I don't belong here. I love the music played here, even if at times I don't understand it and can't embrace it. It's still music, and I'm grateful for it. I fear there will come a time when we won't have music at all, and we'll have to remember all the songs we've heard here - for good or for bad - and call upon them when we'd otherwise have empty air fit only for breathing and not for grabbing wonderful music from out of the everywhere into the here.
Uh, shutting up now.
Great post Cynaera
My thoughts on the subject:
Music snobs are exactly that - Snobs.
Music is music.
You don't like country? Great.
You don't like jazz? Great.
Don't like this band or that singer? Great.
Who cares?
Music snobbery makes no sense to me and possibly annoys me a bit!
Music is music.
Sss...NOB..bery is Snobbery. I don't care for your snobbish opinion.
Thanks Cynaera for a considered and long overdue post.
I have true catholic tastes. I love music.
Will work a sub-woofer into a frenzy of sweet lowness.
Absolutely. I've been paying about $8/month for over a year now. It's the best $8 on music I spend, and I subscribe to Tidal, Spotify and even considered Roon.
I would hate to think RP would go the same way of 97X (woxy.com) or other great now lost music outlets.
If you regularly enjoy this free fabulous service do consider a few bucks a month.
What would you do if there was no RP?
ALSO - I am only a fan.
Regards from rainy-work-from-home-Covid 19-lockdown Ireland.
Just Mr. Zevon and his guitars. Unplugged long before unplugged was a thing. Some of the people there were not happy and made it clear.
It didn't bother Warren or me (or Sean).
Music is music and Warren was Warren. Excellent.
I wish I'd bought the programme.
I wonder how Sean is. He moved away. Haven't spoken to him in best part of forty years.
Outstanding.
It gets better every listen. Mooooody.
So funny - so Tom Waits
Love it.
Solid 8 here.
Such a simple wonderful song - perfect.
Great fan of both TH and PG. I think PG nails this song and, a rarity, improves what already was a very good TH piece. IMHO, his production and instrumentation intensifies the chilling lyrics. "Listening Wind" could easily be mistaken for one of PG's own original works.
I like PG but David Byrne's original version has an ironic edge, which this song needs and, I imagine, was intended, an edge that PG's mellow voice can't match. Also, an American singing this give it added strength.
Such a creepy song - pun not intended.
A solid 9 though.