Had to check if this was Chick Corea, which I think is a compliment to the piano player.

(whispering) I thought this was Lucinda Williams. 

Huh...  That DebbieH person below is quite um  unhinged...  I hope they got the help they needed.

HOly COw!

I don't read a lot of these threads but I think this one definitely takes the prize in some category. Just like the RP playlist, there are always a few surprises! I love this station.

 dwhayslett wrote:
welcome to healthcare during times of COVID...

 BillG wrote:

Not from the lyrics, eh:  how could you possibly know?

Wow - just spotted the newer comments, referring to the older comments...

As for the song, I like it, solid 7

And everyone's entitled to my opinion! 

 

Ihatethissong wrote:
 

From Camel - Rhayader to this... what a clever transition in the key of C-minor.

I like it.

Wow, just WTF was going on below into this thread O_o

Wow.   Read all the stuff below three times.  Not really sure why.  The odd rant took me to the book "The Girl on the Train."  Not sure why I read that either.

 markybx wrote: 
That person is free to not listen to it.  But even if one person's outrage was a reason to not play this ... that whole set of posts rings false anyway, at least to me.  NASA?  Tortured?  Even taken at face value, I see nothing in the song remotely related to that weird rant.

Pardon me for being a dumbass, but the comments below are a little confusing.  Can anyone please enlighten me about this rampage?

I would not normally suggest that a song should not be played on RP, but in this case, maybe that is for the best. Clearly one person (I assume the subject of the song) is VERY upset that it is being streamed across the internet.

Sorry but I can't stand this, or that the entire song is about who the song is for

 dwhayslett wrote: 
Not sure but kinda glad it was her last post......

 DebbieH wrote: 
Holy shit.  What the hell was that?

 BillG wrote:
Don't play stupid with me, I'm only putting NASA in hell right now, and after 20 years of my government allowing them to do their best to ruin my health and my life, I REALLY don't have any tolerance or patience for this kind of bullsh!t now. You either get it or you don't. And to Bill the DJ: there is absolutely NO comparison here to "The Sound Of Silence." NEVER belittle a woman's life that has been an absolute HELL. I am not some 20-something girl who gets too drunk at parties. I have constant muscle spasms n my neck and back that are extremely painful and they make avoiding painkillers extraordinarily difficult. Couple that with the NASA mnkeys jumping all over my head while screaming 24 hours a day and I just can't see hoe some stranger, a white male musician who has never suffered torture, sexual assault or a life of poverty can be so cavalier about the language he uses to descrbe  stranger he is not likely to ever have to look in ithe eye and answer to. This monosyllabic, sexist and clearly ignorant accou of Jack and my incredibley painful life just doesn't belong here, or anywhere for that matter. If your own selfishness is to blame for continuing to play this insulting and hurtful song while my head continues to be kicked in by monsters so that you all may be free of their weather manipulation and flat out mass murder of innocents, then I have to make the decision to never come back here, even though I've been a listener for at least five years and you seem to care what happens to us,0. Maybe you're just clueless, but I don't need to ruminate upon this subject matter for the next couple weeks like I always do every time I here this sh!tty song. Life is already a struggle I can scarcely keep myself together for. Does this answer your stupid question "Bill G?" 

 DebbieH wrote: 
What? Who? Where?

Like, where are you getting that info?  Not from the lyrics...

Referring to a woman who has been sexually assaulted and tortured for over a DECADE as a "train wreck beauty queen" is both extremely sexist and insulting. I HATE this song and no, it will never grow on me "in a positive way." Matter of fact, I'm probably not going to listen to this radio station anymore.

 ScottN wrote: 
When you listen to music with friends, is discussion of other topics like beer forbidden? Think of these pages like that. 

This song feels like something from a soundtrack to a David Lynch movie set in the American West. It's one of those tracks that works as part of a set of music that the Goldsmiths string together so well, but I think if I listened to it on my own I might get a bit impatient. The guy sounds a bit tired, and possibly related to Beth Horton.  

Would you like vocal fries with that?

 Jota wrote: 


A friend of mine drunk her tea so weak that she called it Lighthouse Tea, because it was blinking near water.

 kcar wrote:......
Yes, but how about a song comment?  The forum beckons for your opinions on beer.
I really like this particular cut from TM.  Really came to grow on me...positively.

Easy listening track there.

As for Bud, we call it 'sex in a canoe' because it's f'ing close to water.

Have i mentioned yet tonight i hate jazz?  Seems like my stalker is back.

I hate jazz. 

i hate jazz.

I hate jazz.

I hate jazz.

I hate jazz

i hate jazz

I hate jazz

I hate jazz

I hate jazz

I hate jazz

I LOVE BUD 

 Byronape wrote: 
Couldn't agree moe........

Now what does this song have to do with Budweiser? 

''She'' ??


nightdrive wrote: 

 oldsaxon wrote: 
Nuttin like a bud and a good ole ball game...that's baseball not that freaky game u call cricket

 rdo wrote: 
America's Bud is a NAIL (North American Industrial Lager)...It's crap, it's crass and it's cheap. That's why it sells billions of bottles. Saying that it's admired by brewers is just laughable unless you are talking about admiring the sales figures. I brew my own beer, I know many brewers of small batch beer and many brewers of real, craftsman made beer that sell many barrels of the stuff. 

She reminds me of Jesse Sykes.

Angry beer talk aside, this is good song, yes?

 Poacher wrote: 

Did you actually read the article I posted?  It quotes highly reputable brewers in Belgium who admire Bud. Plus the long history of Bud's high reputation by credible sources.  Not propaganda like your idiotic statement.  Do you have any idea what you are saying by your comment? Disagree with me all you want, but I never comment seriously without facts to back me up.  Can we just stick to facts here please?  I like your contributions, but you are seriously starting to piss me off.  You don't like Bud, fine.  Claiming people are brainwashed by advertising is a form of propaganda on your part.  By the way, I find English ale to be fucking crap.

Quite nice... Rated an "*" and still there... Too bad rest of album isn't the same level of quality... Why did iTunes succeed because record companies and consultants kept ripping off buyers...

 Stingray wrote: 
Yes, back to song comments.  One of his best, imo.

 AndyJ wrote: 
Er, no, that's just plain wrong. The essence of capitalism is capital and hired labour. Markets existed long, long before capitalism, and will exist after it. Stone and Bronze Age peoples had sophisticated national and international trading networks in place, and marketplaces (ie physical places where markets were held). Capitalisms have existed that had little or no market relations. Market relations are neither a necessary or sufficient component of capitalisms. SE Asian and Chinese capitalisms (sorry, 'socialism with Chinese characteristics') have markets so highly managed by the State that they're not markets in the Adam Smith sense.

It is quite tricky to define capitalism as there are so many capitalisms, including highly managed (fascism, dirigisme), corporate (current US) imperialist (20th century European powers, also current US), laissez-faire (hard to find these days, common in the 19th century), and more. I remember that the first whole lecture of my economics module, 2 hours worth, was spent simply trying to define capitalism. In the end, all you can do is define necessary characteristics - capital and labour - but then those also apply to non-capitalist but still exploitative sytems (soviet socialism, for instance).

That was a public information announcement. We now return you to your usual sucks/blows/rocks debate :o)

 rdo wrote: 
Well. . . you have certainly swallowed the advertising if not decent beer.

 rdo wrote: 
https://www.fearlesscritic.com/beer/19/budweiser

Bud is nasty piss water.  If Bud was so fantastic, why is the market for artisan beers booming?  It's basically beer for people that don't like beer.  As the above linked review states, " all the alcohol of beer with none of those pesky beer flavors."

I'm sorry, I like the "pesky beer flavors."

Sounds like Gary Jules but sharper and even more annoying.

...lovely!

 arserocket wrote: 
Nyahh.

Somebody please give this guy a throat lozenge

The music was nice, but I found his voice somewhat annoying.

First saw Tom McRae supporting Matchbox 20 who were playing some kind of Hard Rock Café anniversary gig, back in 2000. That was certainly an odd combination. I don't expect there's many Matchbox 20 fans here, but it was a good show, and Tom certainly kept the audience quiet - much more powerful live, just him and a guy with a cello...

Liked it until the whining began. #4

Maybe some better beer should have been served in the studio.

Good song, great voice !

Pure magic!

 rdo wrote:  
'most people love ...... Bud'? on every continent, under the oceans, on Mars...... even the Klingon's.....

 fredriley wrote:  
No, we can't have that.  

You deserve a nice bust in the chops for that inanity (with a haddock, of course).  Bud is actually quite admired by brewers of all stripes for its quality, has always been highly esteemed in fact.  You may not like it, that's up to you, but you do not have the facts straight here, bud.


BTW, most people love it, it's why it's the best selling beer in the US. 

https://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/11/24/081124fa_fact_bilger

Sounds like Ferron.

Had to turn this up... at first I thought it was Janis Ian !  

Give a listen to Sao Paulo Rain; better listening, methinks.

Was that The Edge playing lead guitar?

 MojoJojo wrote:
Thanks for the laugh!  I'm with you on that one..

For me, a bit better than the ones before, but only a little bit!! Next lady is coming up soon!

 More_Cowbell wrote: 
 

"This music is good for my liking"

GOOD MUSIC! REALLY GOOD!!!!
MOVING!!!

Great beat, cool sound.  Thanks for turning me on to it!

Cool music. Terrible voice.

 Sloggydog wrote: 
And why shouldn't this be the beer chat room?  Agree, re Pilsener Urquell. Fabulous brew.

 MojoJojo wrote:
That's fascinating because the whole family went to Ireland last year, and we were a bit (not greatly, mind you) taken aback that American beers were in generally short supply. We asked in several places—mostly in Dublin and Galway—and were told that American beers are way too expensive for what they are (generally thin lagers and pilseners), and the domestic beers are less expensive and tasted better. By the time we left, I'd grown very fond of Smithwick Ale. BTW, tho' this is off point, I used to tend an Irish bar in San Francisco, where we served Guiness on tap—about the only way you want to drink it. The Guiness in Ireland was very different: smoother, finer foam, less bitter, almost a sweet nuttiness to the finish. Can't explain it.

 dboseman wrote: 
It is avbl now,  I just bought it.  Great song.

 punkbot wrote: 

A load of subjective crap...

After a sleepless night, thank you for this song

Yup, Pilsner Urquell is fine stuff, we used to be able to get it in 2 litre tins, which was really good..........

still not sure why everyong is talking beer? i can say i have been accused of this.

 wrangler wrote: 

A friend of mine went to Ireland for a wedding. She is a beer snob, and she gladly admits it.  She was excited to see what kind of beer they would have.  To her utter dismay, it was nothing but Budweiser.  

I have to say, though - in a contest of Budweiser v. not beer, I'm gonna have to go with the Bud, bud.

 fredriley wrote: 

This song is not for me

Love the song and can't resist to add to the discussion of the Czech beer Budweiser Budvar which is far superior to its rubbish american descendant.  That said you actually want to get yourself a different czech beer and have a Pilsener Urquell from Plzen the home of pilseners.

 More_Cowbell wrote: 

she sure does 

 punkbot wrote: 

Not acceptable if you enjoy real beer, rather than ersatz plastic tasteless corporatised overpriced oversold p1sswater that punters are foolish enough to pay extra money to drink out of a bottle. Did you know that Budweiser had the sheer chutzpah to sue the Budvar Brewery, based in the town of Budvar from which the name Budweiser (meaning 'from Budvar') comes, for trademark infringement? They lost, luckily, and you can still get proper budweiser beer produced in Budvar in more discerning bars and pubs. Seek it out, and ignore the plastic pap that the megacorp pushes.

Sorry, real beer is a bit of a hobbyhorse for me :*)

Please, and this goes for all songwriters, never deign to use the phrase 'This song's for you' ever again.
"This note's for you" - ok.
"This Bud's for you" - acceptable.
"I would die 4 u" - flattering.
"This song's for you" - whiney, egotistical slop.

She has a nice voice

oldman wrote:
good call.

I don't know what it is about this song, but it just makes me stop what I am doing and listen.
Thanks RP!!

This Bud's for you...

Can't decide if Jesse Sykes sounds like Tom McRea
or Tom McRea sounds like Jesse Sykes

This song it's and always was very good ... never get tired of it ..
OScar 

dboseman wrote: Try E-Music. I've found some great RP artists there, including Tom McRae. Too bad they don't work with RP the way Amazon does, but I do find plenty of RP-played tunes there.

dboseman wrote: damnit. i was just on my way to iTunes...

I love this song and cannot buy it on Itunes or Amazon. So frustrating.

i could've sworn this was Jesse Sykes. great song!

Everything this man has recorded thus far is stellar. It's too bad it takes so long for his music to be released in the states.

3 seems generous.

He still sounds more masculine than Michael Quercio from the Salvation Army/Three O'Clock.

nice of him to write a song about me! thanks Tom

nicolaluna wrote: sometimes it's okay not to know the difference.

hot! gonna be needing some soon...i really hope it\'s on itunes.

Nice nice sound, good for Friday morning.

Awesome set... Tom McRae - For The Restless Alejandro Escovedo - Wave Eric Bibb - Don\'t Ever Let Nobody Drag Your Spirit Down James McMurtry - Walk Between the Raindrops

LizDeines wrote: any of the above? none of the above? i don`t know! i don`t know if i care! gender-neutral make-out smilies to the rescue!

Honestly in parts of the song it sounds like there are two people singing. Either that or he recorded the same lyrics twice with different "voices"... I'm not sure what you call that.

it's getting warm in here!!

Had to change the rating from 7 to 8 when I listened to this one on the headphones and heard the wonderful sense of "space" in the production. Nicely done.

Good stuff! I'm almost sorry I found RP -- I've bought more CD's in the last 24 months than in the previous 15 years! May have to add this one... how's the rest of it sound?

he/she...the voice...omg

Is the rest of this album as good as this song? Some of the artists ive picked up from listening to RP have not lived up to my expectation. When this has happened the song played on rp was the odd song on the album. Any one with info on this, send me a private messge so I will get to read it.

handyrae wrote: I too thought it was a woman singing, and I'm still not convinced its a man, but I do like this song!

May have to pick this one up....pretty good stuff here.

If you think that is female you need to get out more. It could land you in a lot of trouble. I really liked it. Any comments on the rest of the album?

handyrae wrote: I think this is about the 100th time I've heard this, thanks to the overabundance of play time on RP, and had never looked at who it was until now, and am equally surprised that this is a man. Somehow I feel dirty. Hmm...

Wait--is this a man or woman singing? I like it, but thought it was a woman. In fact I was wondering if it was a Jesse Sykes song I hadn't heard before.

h2o wrote: Huh. It's not a female singer, is it?

mattt wrote: My apologies. DSM-IV.

This song is growing on me. I always think its a chica singing.

justlistening wrote: haaaaahahaha. You funny

Sing, don't grunt.

separated at birth with Janis Ian?

A Marianne Faithfull impersonator!!!

Should be titled, "For the Listless"

I don't know... I like the song, especially when he's not singing.

WonderLizard wrote: That must have been for the readers not the perusers