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Grandaddy — The Warming Sun
Album: Sumday
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Released: 2003
Length: 5:40
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In a dream
You were sitting there waiting by the door for me
And I got the opportunity
To experience the experience once again
How it could have maybe been

But in real life
You're in another world
You're with another guy
Who doesn't have to cheat
And never has to lie
And all that stuff I didn't get
Comes so easy to him
He doesn't even have to try

But do you ever ask yourself
How it could have maybe been

I haven't been that bad
But I haven't been that good
Overmisunderstood
Oh I wish I really could
Enjoy the warming sun
Enjoy a warm someone
And end the need to hide
Away alone inside

No I haven't been that bad
But I haven't been that good
Overmisunderstood
Oh I wish I really could
Enjoy the warming sun
Enjoy a warm someone
And end the need to hide
Away alone inside

In a dream
You were sitting there waiting by the door for me
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This reminds me so much of that old Fruit of the Loom commercial, where a band of fruit is playing a song about blue underwear: 
Posted 14 years ago by ninjacatpuppet    [ Reply ]
Is that Funeral for a Friend playing in the background? {#Ask}
Posted 14 years ago by crockydile    [ Reply ]
If this was my grandaddy I'd put him in a home. A soundproof home.
Posted 14 years ago by vit    [ Reply ]
Kermit needs an antidepressant.
Posted 14 years ago by ick    [ Reply ]
...reminds me of paul cusick...
Posted 14 years ago by mandolin    [ Reply ]

The sound reminds me of Klaatu.  BTW, for those who are wondering, that's not a good thing. {#Eh}


Posted 14 years ago by zander    [ Reply ]
Blech....!
Posted 14 years ago by PinkFlamingo69    [ Reply ]
I can picture Kermit the Frog singing this song in some swamp somewhere...with Miss Piggy.  {#Puke}
Posted 14 years ago by marc1980    [ Reply ]
 paulpaar wrote:
this is NOT great! Its the lame kids of today. And they're from the land of milk, honey  and  insects where you can sleep in parks at night. get it?! A friend described these places as places of vermin (snip)

Dude, you're cracking me up with your "the younger generation is going to the dogs" rants, but I'm sorry, an album made 7 years ago by guys in their 30's doesn't count as "lame kids of today".

Posted 15 years ago by smdeeg    [ Reply ]
 FeralChihuahuas wrote:
Not liking something is fine.  Isn't that what the rating thing is all about.  But there's actually some deep poetic songwriting from Jason Lytle and Grandaddy.  Yes it's rather melancholy, and yes it's slow and low in its sound, but give another listen and perhaps find something you didn't expect in this music.
 
Totally with you! This song is actually pretty moving.

Posted 15 years ago by peter_james_bond    [ Reply ]

I had a grandfather I called Grandaddy.  I miss him a lot.  He was a great guy that had an incredible life.  He helped liberate Mauthausen as a doctor in the US Army.


Posted 15 years ago by flyboy    [ Reply ]
 superfido wrote:

Too disharmonic at times for my taste. Listenable, but too uninteresting at best for any real staying power. generally just kind of ho hum{#Cry}


 
You must also have yawned at Echoes off Pink Floyd's Meddle album. Try lovemaking during such songs instead and you may finally unlock their staying power.


Posted 15 years ago by nate917    [ Reply ]
Not liking something is fine.  Isn't that what the rating thing is all about.  But there's actually some deep poetic songwriting from Jason Lytle and Grandaddy.  Yes it's rather melancholy, and yes it's slow and low in its sound, but give another listen and perhaps find something you didn't expect in this music.
Posted 15 years ago by FeralChihuahuas    [ Reply ]
How does this crap ever make it to a recording?  Simply awful.  Reedy voice, depressing melody, ponderous and whiney.  {#Frustrated}  I gave it a 1, and that's too high.
Posted 15 years ago by George_Tirebiter    [ Reply ]
Truly Horrible.
Posted 15 years ago by glassman    [ Reply ]
this is NOT great! Its the lame kids of today. And they're from the land of milk, honey  and  insects where you can sleep in parks at night. get it?! A friend described these places as places of vermin: some  with six legs some with two. Seee: it takes little energy and verve and guts and schmaltz to survive in lands of milk and sunny. sad ain't it? Or is it.?

try some truth! but you are probably a kid too. So not now. Maybe in forty fifty years.. . .

Again: maybe the beef and good ice cream is depressing me. (The local sunflower food store had  a killer weekend sale and i bought it or rather the state bought it.)  .  

2.1 is my rate

 
Posted 15 years ago by paulpaar    [ Reply ]
Yah, this is great.  And the synth chord changes hark back to Kansas... actually several have that sort of slow "exposition from one theme to another" quality.  It was so immediate an impression that I kept expecting Steve Walsh to start singing.
Posted 15 years ago by greyfin10    [ Reply ]
Me likey.
Posted 15 years ago by mrmojorisin    [ Reply ]
I, too, have liked Grandaddy for several years now thanks to RP. My fave is Crystal Lake which, while it's in my own rotation on my DAP, I haven't on RP for many a moon now.
Posted 15 years ago by jagdriver    [ Reply ]

Too disharmonic at times for my taste. Listenable, but too uninteresting at best for any real staying power. generally just kind of ho hum{#Cry}


Posted 15 years ago by superfido    [ Reply ]
Sounds like Pink Floyd jamming on Imagine with some throw-away vocals thrown in for good measure.
Posted 16 years ago by tomis    [ Reply ]
thought westerberg was involved in grandaddy?
Posted 16 years ago by lily34    [ Reply ]
Holy Alan Parsons Batman!
Posted 16 years ago by snowcat    [ Reply ]
Reminds me of The Beatles, with some hints of Pink Floyd
Posted 16 years ago by tomis    [ Reply ]
More_Cowbell wrote:
Just like Al Gore.
No. These guys are way better. They're from Modesto for crying out loud!
Posted 16 years ago by KurtfromLaQuinta    [ Reply ]
Any chance of some Sparklehorse?
Posted 16 years ago by garthwb    [ Reply ]
xc_para_puravida wrote:
Boring.
Just like Al Gore.
Posted 16 years ago by More_Cowbell    [ Reply ]
Boring.
Posted 16 years ago by xc_para_puravida    [ Reply ]
Kind of sounds like the theme for the movie Scarface.
Posted 16 years ago by kindermanltd    [ Reply ]
forgot all about grandaddy! thanks for playing this to remind me.
Posted 16 years ago by lily34    [ Reply ]
Sounds like the Flaming Lips meets John Lennon. Still pretty cool though.
Posted 16 years ago by leathepea    [ Reply ]
Posted 17 years ago by Mari    [ Reply ]
they are just so good...
Posted 17 years ago by fissmoll    [ Reply ]
Thats so many good songs in a row now - we need something to hate soon?
Posted 17 years ago by arserocket    [ Reply ]
Sounds like eels singing on top of Hoverphonic music. With John L on the piano, as others have mentioned.
Posted 17 years ago by smackiepipe    [ Reply ]
govna wrote:
very floydian chord changes for a minute in there. not bad.
i am hearin APP
Posted 17 years ago by C57BL6    [ Reply ]
very floydian chord changes for a minute in there. not bad.
Posted 17 years ago by govna    [ Reply ]
Bad_Art wrote:
She dumped your ass - probably for being whiney. Get over it!!
...and apparently he was a liar and cheat! I'm jus sayin'.
Posted 17 years ago by dc_zee    [ Reply ]
possibly the worst song i have ever heard on RP. truly execrable. and to top it all off they actually named their album 'sumday'. you must be kidding me.... they receive a 2 for being indistinguishable from an act in a junior high school talent show, and this as i am feeling generous and lighthearted.
Posted 17 years ago by gormeister    [ Reply ]
She dumped your ass - probably for being whiney. Get over it!!
Posted 17 years ago by Bad_Art    [ Reply ]
Posted 17 years ago by weevilkinevil    [ Reply ]
A couple of things I want to say about this track: the dude who said it was like 'imageine' -ok. The piano chords are a bit like the first three in that track, but that's about it. This band is great. They're certainly not 'bubblegum' -a lot of it's innovative, challenging and inaccessible. Kind of like how The Eels were a band loved by geeks and Primus a band loved by musos, so this band is loved by muso geeks. Heartbreaking.
Posted 17 years ago by furiousgopher    [ Reply ]
hideousness! make it stop.
Posted 17 years ago by scruzer    [ Reply ]
It takes great songwriting courage to discuss your failings. It is not easy. Unless you're so depressed that you always feel this way. But if one is always depressed, then songwriting, working a band, and producing music must be even more of an uphill challenge. Artists make it look easy to the rest of us. We are deceived and criticize.
Posted 17 years ago by gjeeg    [ Reply ]
another whiny "misunderstood" dude. what a bore.
Posted 17 years ago by babyjuice    [ Reply ]
I like Grandaddy for years now. I heared that they broke up? That's bad news if it is true... I'm suprised that they are not famous here!?
Posted 17 years ago by Kaw    [ Reply ]
A Masterpiece.
Posted 17 years ago by fuh2    [ Reply ]
The song was good, but not from their best album...
Posted 17 years ago by mirkolazza    [ Reply ]
how cool that that have John Lennon on keyboards!!
Posted 17 years ago by yclept    [ Reply ]
Wow, that was good. Never heard these guys. Thanks Bill.
Posted 18 years ago by splooge    [ Reply ]
bajafisher wrote:
In a dream You were sitting there waiting by the door for me And I got the opportunity To experience the experience once again How it could have maybe been But in real life You're in another world You're with another guy Who doesn't have to cheat And never has to lie And all that stuff I didn't get Comes so easy to him He doesn't even have to try But do you ever ask yourself How it could have maybe been I haven't been that bad But I haven't been that good Overmisunderstood Oh I wish I really could Enjoy the warming sun Enjoy a warm someone And end the need to hide Away alone inside No I haven't been that bad But I haven't been that good Overmisunderstood Oh I wish I really could Enjoy the warming sun Enjoy a warm someone And end the need to hide Away alone inside In a dream You were sitting there waiting by the door for me
Thanks for posting these. Impressive lyrics. Who are these guys?
Posted 18 years ago by softjeans    [ Reply ]
Jeez . . . I still can't believe how good The Sophtware Slump is. Never liked anything else by them nearly as much. "Good Luck!"
Posted 18 years ago by QualityPie    [ Reply ]
rascal420 wrote:
This sounds like something that would be featured on "The O.C."
Oh god noooo!!!!! I rather have it on "CSI" or "Cold Case" (GREAT use of music on the late) (Ok, I don't find anything interesting on The O.C.)
Posted 18 years ago by Cesarius    [ Reply ]
Unique sound. Well done chaps!
Posted 18 years ago by fuh2    [ Reply ]
I was guessing this was either The Flaming Lips or My Morning Jacket.
Posted 18 years ago by okelle    [ Reply ]
... ...
Posted 18 years ago by Mari    [ Reply ]
Very cool indeed. Yep its a mix of floyed and many outhers but its a good mix :) I like this stuff... Going to look out for thgis album
Posted 18 years ago by NutsyUK    [ Reply ]
beautiful song, great album...
Posted 18 years ago by stratrjb    [ Reply ]
John, Floyd, Lips - yeah it's all there. it's nice to hear what the kids weaned on this stuff are coming up with. kind of like enjoying grandchildren, in the musical sense.
Posted 18 years ago by tammaye    [ Reply ]
I was convinced this was Mercury Rev before I checked
Posted 18 years ago by ladainty    [ Reply ]
Sounds like something from off-Broadway
Posted 18 years ago by rascal420    [ Reply ]
A bit Mercury Rev?
Posted 19 years ago by Cruithne3753    [ Reply ]
I have to agree with most everyone here - I definitely picked up on a John Influence, and to a certain extent also the Flaming Lips, at least in regards to the vocal styling. What has me puzzled though is why the song is only a 6.9? I think it's pretty snazzy.
Posted 19 years ago by DMay    [ Reply ]
Hub wrote:
for those wondering who this band reminds them of, it's so clear to me. even my high schooler heard "Imagine"-John Lennon in it
See, now I would have thought this was Flaming Lips. Hmmmm.... and I love John Lennon, just never crossed my mind on this one though.
Posted 19 years ago by Justafan    [ Reply ]
This sounds like something that would be featured on "The O.C."
Posted 19 years ago by rascal420    [ Reply ]
Definitely a Pink Floyd influence in there.
Posted 19 years ago by Logical    [ Reply ]
ANNE_MARIE wrote:
they don't really remind of of any other group...a very good thing imho. i agree...nice sound!
Musically they remind me of Coldplay, obviously with a different singer, which is another "scratch your head", trying to determine who the singer reminds me of.
Posted 19 years ago by fusionmuze    [ Reply ]
Good song from a great album by an excellent band. These guys' melodies haunt me in my waking hours.
Posted 19 years ago by Vogelfrei    [ Reply ]
for those wondering who this band reminds them of, it's so clear to me. even my high schooler heard "Imagine"-John Lennon in it
Posted 19 years ago by Hub    [ Reply ]
really fitting for those of us who are not having a happy valentines day
Posted 19 years ago by LLMikeJ    [ Reply ]
and from Built To Spill to Pavement ;)
Posted 19 years ago by R_P    [ Reply ]
Nice, and may I suggest a crushing segue to Built to Spill :)
Posted 19 years ago by philm    [ Reply ]
love this! Makes up for the ELP played before (well, almost)
Posted 19 years ago by Brandon    [ Reply ]
more g-daddy please
Posted 19 years ago by LLMikeJ    [ Reply ]
Excellent stuff! They have a unique sound as a band. Very rare these days. Wonder what they're like live - anyone seen them?
Posted 19 years ago by saturnine    [ Reply ]
In a dream You were sitting there waiting by the door for me And I got the opportunity To experience the experience once again How it could have maybe been But in real life You're in another world You're with another guy Who doesn't have to cheat And never has to lie And all that stuff I didn't get Comes so easy to him He doesn't even have to try But do you ever ask yourself How it could have maybe been I haven't been that bad But I haven't been that good Overmisunderstood Oh I wish I really could Enjoy the warming sun Enjoy a warm someone And end the need to hide Away alone inside No I haven't been that bad But I haven't been that good Overmisunderstood Oh I wish I really could Enjoy the warming sun Enjoy a warm someone And end the need to hide Away alone inside In a dream You were sitting there waiting by the door for me
Posted 19 years ago by bajafisher    [ Reply ]
RobGraham wrote:
I love the sound. Trying to think of who they remind me off. A little really early Pink Floyd...maybe some ELO. Hard to peg
Maybe some old slow Beach Boys?
Posted 19 years ago by bajafisher    [ Reply ]
I love the sound. Trying to think of who they remind me off. A little really early Pink Floyd...maybe some ELO. Hard to peg
Posted 20 years ago by RobGraham    [ Reply ]