The more I listen, the more I love Elbow, and their grandiose, lyrical, sweet and altogether human song cycles. Bump to an 8 from Raleigh-town, currently in New Hampshire.

Love love. U2 suffers the fate of almost all musicians who hit the huge-time as they do any more - scorn and ridicule. Whatev. See you guys in Philly in June, playing this song and the whole album! Thanks for continuing to be a U2 fan Bill.

Great joyous PG - Afro Celt song. The video for this is super fun also.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvJYgkBbCbs

Ha! Love it. Actually, it's not even close to my favorite song of theirs. But in your faces, Rush-haters! Hall of Fame AND kicking great, cohesive, intelligent, soulful, technically demanding music long past the shelf-life of most bands you (and me) have on our radar. Long live the Holy Triumvirate!

A very good song, made even better for me in that it's a pretty edgy theme, and darkly disturbing in spite of the pop sensibility. Sure it was overplayed in the day, but that doesn't detract from it's goodness. You'll recall that Hey Jude was perhaps a bit overplayed in it's time? (Not that I'm making comparisons here). Thanks Bill for playing such a great, always interesting variety.

I love how Bill still plays this a lot, even with the low rating and all the h8rs here. Midge Ure (the other mastermind behind Live Aid) and Ultravox are great. Keep up the good work sir. 

And those of us who are Tori fans will think that this is awesome too. Yes, she can grate after a bit. Yes, hasn't done a really good album since maybe Scarlet's Walk. But still with the talent and the soul and the strange, pixie poet woman lyrics and the piano oh that piano. So you know, she's aw'right.

More APP Bill! All good, any time.

Joni, sky goddess, soaring song.of love.

The lyrics perfectly describe the fleeting, racing thoughts that go through one's head when tripping on LSD, which is, indeed, what the events in the song are based on.

Or so I've heard.

Great Lennon classic.

Four months to the day today since the Atlanta show we saw. Everything now is different, in a hundred ways. I wish for that time before back. Sad days. The future is unwritten.

Are we playing it today, and if so, when??

No guilt. I love Toad. Saw them a few times in the mid-90's, a really good band.


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I love this song and album, and will argue with anyone that Risky Business is one of the best movies of the 80's. 

Anyone on RP who doesn't think this song a slinky, sexy piece of silky good music officially shouldn't be here. Perfect play. She's channeling lusciousness.

Changing my 9 to a 10, now that they are in the R&R Hall of Fame and All. All hail the Holy Triumvirate!

I may have said this before about a song or two, but there are a small number of songs (perhaps not THAT small, but small in relation to the total size of the playlist on RP) that, while they perhaps ARE way overplayed commercially in the world 'out there', are still wonderful, excellent tunes by great artists of one stripe or another. This (and many, many songs by Fleetwood Mac), to me, fall into this category. Additionally, I think that occasionally playing a song like this on RP actually serves to enhance a tune that might have been otherwise considered dull or ordinary, overplayed and milquetoast if heard on the freeway or while taking the kids to school on FM-schlock radio. If a song like Rhiannon had never made it big commercially, most of the 'tuned in' world would consider it an exceptional, wonderful song, the more special also for not being so over commercialized and exposed. The music is still great, and RP dusts it's music off like a little gem to show off, even the Hope Diamonds that everyone has seen. Just a thought.

Such a great video for this excellent song. Can't post:

Boxer Rebellion Semi-automatic

One of his best albums.

Couldn't have said it better.

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