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Savoy Brown — I'm Tired
Album: A Step Further
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Released: 1969
Length: 3:17
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I'm tired of being a fool
And my mind going from hot to cool
And trying to conform to others ideas
And someone else's rules

The life I'm living ain't mine
I'm supposed to feel that's fine
I didn't make the world I'm living in
And I ain't gonna toe the line

I'm tired of trying to be something I know ain't me
I'm tired of living up to what people expect me to be
You know some people are different
Now ain't that a crying shame
Now wouldn't be a real drag if we were all the same

And I'm not going to try to please
Eyes that just don't see
If I get myself together
You'll have the blues not me

I'm tired of trying to be something I know ain't me
I'm tired of living up to what people expect me to be
You know some people are different
Now ain't that a crying shame
Now wouldn't be a real drag if we were all the same

And I'm not going to try to please
Eyes that just don't see
If I get myself together
You'll have the blues not me

You'll have the blues not me
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Got that Lady Marmalade brass rift
Posted 1 month ago by Pioneer_Sing    [ Reply ]
Posted 1 month ago by Rozsa    [ Reply ]
 Chwkbud wrote:
This band..this album..so many good memories from early '70s. And SB was first concert I saw in a larger (arena type) venue.  Savoy Brown and...Uriah Heep. (I know, I know...) 
 

NICE!!
Posted 2 months ago by countyman    [ Reply ]
Chris Youlden on vocals, oh my.
Posted 5 months ago by LYS    [ Reply ]
Hendrix tones detected :)
Posted 7 months ago by pawelcitak83    [ Reply ]
This band..this album..so many good memories from early '70s. And SB was first concert I saw in a larger (arena type) venue.  Savoy Brown and...Uriah Heep. (I know, I know...) 
Posted 9 months ago by Chwkbud    [ Reply ]
My husband turned me on to Savoy Brown 41 years ago (omg I'm getting old) - loved them ever since.
Posted 1 year ago by OggieDogness    [ Reply ]
That's the spirit we all need.
Posted 1 year ago by Ohmsen    [ Reply ]
DERAM Records!  Yippee!

Early Bowie, Whiter Shade of Pale, and maybe Days of Future Passed (?)
Posted 1 year ago by unclehud    [ Reply ]
I had to think a moment about what that intro reminds me of. It's probably Breeders - Cannonball.
Posted 1 year ago by ce    [ Reply ]
A nice one from the Way Back Machine!
Posted 1 year ago by unclehud    [ Reply ]
 Sweet_Virginia wrote:
A touch of Jimmy?
 
a very big touch!
Posted 1 year ago by dylan46    [ Reply ]
If Jimmy & Lenny had a little white baby....yeah, that sums it up.
Posted 1 year ago by Larrygrrl    [ Reply ]
A little Jimmy vibe going on!
Posted 1 year ago by Jolouis    [ Reply ]
Dat brass section
Posted 1 year ago by ExploitingChaos    [ Reply ]
Posted 1 year ago by gonzo4disc    [ Reply ]
Groovy!
Posted 2 years ago by thewiseking    [ Reply ]
{#Bananasplit}
Posted 2 years ago by On_The_Beach    [ Reply ]
Saboooooorrrr. XD
Posted 2 years ago by haldrik    [ Reply ]
 That man is one of the few who looks unenthusiastic while tappin the cowbell.  Why?

frecko wrote:

Bildresultat för cowbell gif

Let's hear some cowbell...



 


Posted 2 years ago by dc_zee    [ Reply ]

Bildresultat för cowbell gif

Let's hear some cowbell...


Posted 3 years ago by frecko    [ Reply ]
We got to see Savoy Brown in Grass Valley CA a few years ago...fantastic show!!! and just what I remembered from 1973
Posted 3 years ago by fatcatjb    [ Reply ]
 ScottishWillie wrote:
Never heard of this band/person. So glad that Radio Paradise plays so much educational material! 

 

OH YEAH!!!!!!!!!!! MORE COWBELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted 3 years ago by Segue    [ Reply ]
Never heard of this band/person. So glad that Radio Paradise plays so much educational material! 
Posted 3 years ago by ScottishWillie    [ Reply ]
SO WICKED  : )
Posted 3 years ago by hayduke2    [ Reply ]
Wikipedia says A Step Further came out in 1969.

BTW, love this song! 
Posted 3 years ago by Solanus    [ Reply ]
Great way to end the work day!
Posted 3 years ago by skyguy    [ Reply ]
Deee-troit Friday nite rock-n-roll!!!
.
(yeah i know where they are from) 
Posted 4 years ago by Skydog    [ Reply ]
 trailhead wrote:

It's only pronounced "Wistah", unless you are from out of state.  And the state U is in Amherst, further west.

 
I believe that Proclivities is also correct about there being a UMass campus in Worcester - the medical school, if memory serves. It is true that the main campus is in Amherst however.
Posted 4 years ago by JIan    [ Reply ]
 Proclivities wrote:

I think he meant Worcester, which is pronounced more like "Wooster" (or sometimes "Wistah"). There is a State University in Worcester, Mass.

 
It's only pronounced "Wistah", unless you are from out of state.  And the state U is in Amherst, further west.
Posted 4 years ago by trailhead    [ Reply ]
Thought this was an archive release of Hendrix.... pleasant surprise....
Posted 4 years ago by ckcotton    [ Reply ]
 bam23 wrote:

Are you certain it was spelled "Wooster" and was in Mass? Maybe pronounced that way, but unless you mixed up Ohio and Massachusetts, I think a detail may be off!

 
I think he meant Worcester, which is pronounced more like "Wooster" (or sometimes "Wistah"). There is a State University in Worcester, Mass.
Posted 4 years ago by Proclivities    [ Reply ]
 scadawizard wrote:
Sky dog don't worry about age it's just a number. Just think of all the music you have absorbed in that time and WALLOW my fellow RP listener, WALLOW



 


Posted 4 years ago by Soundman2112    [ Reply ]
Savoy Brown. Here in the UK they ought to have a medal for services to the music industr. They supported more headline acts than anyone I can think of. Pure toon.
Posted 4 years ago by Soundman2112    [ Reply ]
 scadawizard wrote:




 


Posted 4 years ago by Soundman2112    [ Reply ]
{#Guitarist}pretty much their breakout album for the usa / chris youdlen era ZESTY!
Posted 4 years ago by primm    [ Reply ]
soulful and it rocks
all good 
Posted 4 years ago by Skydog    [ Reply ]
great stuff ! pretty much their breakout hit in the usa
Posted 4 years ago by primm    [ Reply ]
great band
Posted 4 years ago by gwyllwm    [ Reply ]
you know you're getting old when you look at the album cover and think 'Rhododendrons'
Posted 4 years ago by jbjnr    [ Reply ]
Follow this gem with something from Spooky Tooth II as I did in the sixties!!       {#Smile}
Posted 5 years ago by dew34    [ Reply ]
 Ha!!!  I loved this song when I was in my 20s in the 60s, sounds good to me.

Skydog wrote:
I loved this album when I was a teen in the '60's,.....opps I shouldn't have said it that way because it'll just get laughed at for being an old man, let me try again.

Back in the day this album was dope. 

Now that's cred.

 


Posted 5 years ago by scadawizard    [ Reply ]
 Tpman wrote:
Love Chris Youlden
 

Posted 5 years ago by Tpman    [ Reply ]
A touch of Jimmy?
Posted 5 years ago by Sweet_Virginia    [ Reply ]
Perfect song for today's events.
Posted 5 years ago by ferwoman    [ Reply ]
takes me WAY back love it TYVM RP jamming{#Bananajam}
Posted 5 years ago by willmcnaught    [ Reply ]
Kind of sounds like Jimi H. 
Posted 5 years ago by idiot_wind    [ Reply ]
This should be followed by Lili Von Stupp.
Posted 5 years ago by Hannio    [ Reply ]
 jagdriver wrote:
I never tire or hearing old Savoy Brown. Saw them at Wooster College (MA) in 1970, Chris Youlden still doing lead vocals.

 
Are you certain it was spelled "Wooster" and was in Mass? Maybe pronounced that way, but unless you mixed up Ohio and Massachusetts, I think a detail may be off!
Posted 5 years ago by bam23    [ Reply ]
Sounds so groovy, that wicked bass and twangy guitar, perfectly interwoven by the cool yet disgruntled vocal style; just a KILLER jam!
Posted 5 years ago by coloradojohn    [ Reply ]
EXACTLY. 

wtango wrote:
Elvis' Little Less Conversation meets Jimmi Hendrix! 
LoveIt.

 


Posted 5 years ago by Rebis    [ Reply ]
fab-you-lowso rockin baby
Posted 6 years ago by hayduke2    [ Reply ]
Haven't heard this band in years..............forgot about them, excellent
Posted 6 years ago by GeminiGirl    [ Reply ]
Thanks for this discovery
Posted 6 years ago by songofJoy    [ Reply ]
Savoy Brown soundin a lil like Tom Jones
Posted 6 years ago by thewiseking    [ Reply ]
 fredriley wrote:
"Wouldn't it be a real drag if we were all the same?" - amen to that! Sadly, there are strong social, political, economic and institutional pressures which are steadily forcing us into increasingly restrictive roles and personalities. (As a for instance, travelling around in a caravan or campervan looking for work, or for the sheer travelling hell of it, has now become a suspicious activity inviting cop harrassment.) It suits governments and corporations to homogenise us, to make for easier management and consumption. It's up to us to fight back against that homogenisation and to reassert our natural variety and individuality. Vive les différences!

 
I don't always agree with you, Fred, but you're right on this.
Posted 6 years ago by LowPhreak    [ Reply ]
oh yeah
Posted 6 years ago by Giselle62    [ Reply ]
I never tire or hearing old Savoy Brown. Saw them at Wooster College (MA) in 1970, Chris Youlden still doing lead vocals.
Posted 6 years ago by jagdriver    [ Reply ]
In the days of my youth I....

Oh, wait, different tune and band.  
Posted 6 years ago by kingart    [ Reply ]
Elvis' Little Less Conversation meets Jimmi Hendrix! 
LoveIt.
Posted 6 years ago by wtango    [ Reply ]
"Wouldn't it be a real drag if we were all the same?" - amen to that! Sadly, there are strong social, political, economic and institutional pressures which are steadily forcing us into increasingly restrictive roles and personalities. (As a for instance, travelling around in a caravan or campervan looking for work, or for the sheer travelling hell of it, has now become a suspicious activity inviting cop harrassment.) It suits governments and corporations to homogenise us, to make for easier management and consumption. It's up to us to fight back against that homogenisation and to reassert our natural variety and individuality. Vive les différences!
Posted 6 years ago by fredriley    [ Reply ]
I'm tired of living up to what people expected me to be. -- Savoy Brown 

After the bars on that sax, I expect to hear 

WAR! Ain't nothin' but an undertaker -- Edwin Starr 


Sorry, mixing up my the melody hooks in songs...
 
Posted 6 years ago by kingart    [ Reply ]
Nice to hear SB after years without  hearing.  Anything from Streetcorner Talking would also be appreciated as would a little Capt Beefheart to go along with the yin of Tim Buckley
Posted 6 years ago by oliverraindrop    [ Reply ]
Great pick.  Would love to hear "Stay while the night is young" sometime.
Posted 7 years ago by marklaw    [ Reply ]
Mmmhmm, yup stingray, way excellantay!

Happy New Year! 
Posted 7 years ago by hayduke2    [ Reply ]
Very good band! XXXelent!
Posted 7 years ago by Stingray    [ Reply ]
I miss Chris Youlden's vocals on top of this excellent English blues band!
Posted 7 years ago by jagdriver    [ Reply ]
Can I go back to those days?
Posted 7 years ago by Shesdifferent    [ Reply ]
Wasted late nights in Robinson dorm with a wild assortment of Bogarts.  Savoy Brown still sounds good, though.
Posted 7 years ago by unclehud    [ Reply ]
Oh Yeah! The beginning of that was sampled in Transglobal Undergrounds "International times" album! 
Posted 7 years ago by WaxHorse    [ Reply ]
Just caught the end of this beauty......Damn...
Posted 7 years ago by Jazbo    [ Reply ]
Just finished teaching "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and this song reminds me of the scene with old Pete: "I said I'm TIRED! Awful tired!" This could be Pete's theme song.
Posted 7 years ago by d-don    [ Reply ]
OUTSTANDING!!!              {#Bananapiano}
Posted 8 years ago by dew34    [ Reply ]
Great rhythm!!!!
Posted 8 years ago by By_The_River    [ Reply ]
Such a groovy find!!!
Posted 8 years ago by amprich    [ Reply ]

This is SAVOY BROWN...?

Sounds sooo modern and fresh!

WONDERFUL!!!

 

PS

BLACK KEYS someone?


Posted 8 years ago by Stingray    [ Reply ]
This is a funky song, very cool, but I don't think it sounds like Hendrix at all.
Posted 8 years ago by rotten    [ Reply ]
scrubbrush
(Sea of Calm)
Posted: Aug 08, 2011 - 14:08 
 fredriley wrote:

Reminds me a lot of Jimi Hendrix - I honestly thought this was one of his songs. Ver' nahce - 7 from the bluesy Nottingham jury.

 

agreed. total Jimi vibe.

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Totally agree......
Posted 8 years ago by DD gypsyman    [ Reply ]
 Shesdifferent wrote:
Yep, this confirms it...RP does play better stuff at night. Love it!
 

Its always night somewhere ...
Posted 8 years ago by kurtster    [ Reply ]
Definitely worthy of cranking the volume!
Posted 9 years ago by IPA    [ Reply ]
 Shesdifferent wrote:
Yep, this confirms it...RP does play better stuff at night. Love it!
 

...seems to be true!
Posted 9 years ago by Stingray    [ Reply ]
VERY!!!! underrated band, indeed!

Great musicians playin'  real music!

Posted 9 years ago by Stingray    [ Reply ]
Always loved this one.  An underrated group.
Posted 9 years ago by bachbeet    [ Reply ]
 maxmox wrote:

Wot? one song you don't dig and you flip out to another mob......where's ya loyalty

 
Nnaaa there's a..loyalty...rare as the silence of a windless snowstorm in
  the dark of bunny fur knight on snowshoes...."whistling under a washtub
    in the silence of windlesslass snow...storm..at night " mmm....loyalty"...
            

Posted 9 years ago by Centabor    [ Reply ]
 maxmox wrote:

Wot? one song you don't dig and you flip out to another mob......where's ya loyalty

 
Nnaaa there's a..loyalty...rare as the silence of a windless snowstorm in
  the dark of bunny fur knight on snowshoes...."whistling under a washtub
    in a silent snow...storm..at night " mmm....            

Posted 9 years ago by Centabor    [ Reply ]
B&R, More Savoy Brown please!!!?

Posted 9 years ago by ronniegirl    [ Reply ]
 mikeatlarge wrote:
Well, for 4+ hours this morning Bill was on a roll with amazing music. Then he had to play THIS. Time to change the channel...
 
Wot? one song you don't dig and you flip out to another mob......where's ya loyalty

Posted 9 years ago by maxmox    [ Reply ]
 fredriley wrote:

Reminds me a lot of Jimi Hendrix - I honestly thought this was one of his songs. Ver' nahce - 7 from the bluesy Nottingham jury.

 

agreed. total Jimi vibe.
Posted 9 years ago by scrubbrush    [ Reply ]
Oh man that opening riff on the left channel. I gotta learn the tabs to that!
Posted 9 years ago by Zytozux    [ Reply ]
Saw them way back in the 70's with Manfred Mann opening. Great show, no horns just guitar band and guitar playing. Hellbound Train was a highlight
Posted 9 years ago by martinc    [ Reply ]
I love Chris Youlden on vocals for SB.
Posted 9 years ago by jagdriver    [ Reply ]
 peter_james_bond wrote:
Reminds me a little bit of Blood, Sweat and Tears. {#Music}
 
Reminds me a lot of Jimi Hendrix - I honestly thought this was one of his songs. Ver' nahce - 7 from the bluesy Nottingham jury.

Posted 9 years ago by fredriley    [ Reply ]
Reminds me a little bit of Blood, Sweat and Tears. {#Music}
Posted 9 years ago by peter_james_bond    [ Reply ]
 Jelani wrote:
Goo goo goo goo barabjagal....
 

Hmmm.  Not so much.
Posted 10 years ago by Hannio    [ Reply ]
Goo goo goo goo barabjagal....
Posted 10 years ago by Jelani    [ Reply ]
 Yamson wrote:
Wow, that intro sounded a lot like the intro on Cake's "Love You Madly."  Think they borrowed it?
 
Also reminded me a lot of Finley Quaye's "Sunday Shining" (funny — Finley was born in 1974)

Posted 10 years ago by socalhol    [ Reply ]
Yep, this confirms it...RP does play better stuff at night. Love it!
Posted 10 years ago by Shesdifferent    [ Reply ]
{#Good-vibes}
Posted 10 years ago by glassbuteo    [ Reply ]
I'm NOT tired of this song! {#Bananajam}
Posted 10 years ago by nicolewe    [ Reply ]
Not my favorite Savoy Brown cut, but a good one. . .
Posted 10 years ago by vandal    [ Reply ]
WOW. I was uneducated on Savoy Brown. That was great relief and company in the misery of the heat. Thanks RP!
 
Posted 10 years ago by boatbyrd    [ Reply ]
Well, for 4+ hours this morning Bill was on a roll with amazing music. Then he had to play THIS. <sigh> Time to change the channel...
Posted 10 years ago by mikeatlarge    [ Reply ]
 keller1 wrote:
Slowed down Brand New Cadillac.  Didn't realize it until today.

 
Well, it's a pretty standard, R&B chord progression.


Posted 10 years ago by Proclivities    [ Reply ]
 cardinalfan wrote:
A K-SHE Classic...been a while.  I think the last time I heard this, A seed popped out of my pipe and burned a hole in my shirt.
 
I feel your pain... {#Lol}  When did we all become so respectable and stodgy? Maybe we need a blast of Savoy Brown to bring out the fun-child in us...  This is a good song. Thanks to whoever uploaded it for review, and thanks to Bill and Rebecca for bringing it on!

Posted 10 years ago by Cynaera    [ Reply ]
This song is great but it seems to be missing something....LIKE MORE COWBELL!
Posted 10 years ago by scraig    [ Reply ]
 paulmack wrote:

More correctly, Brand New Cadillac is a sped up "I'm Tired" since "I'm Tired" predates BNC by about 10 years.

 

Since Vince Taylor wrote Brand New Cadillac in 1958, that dates this at 1948.  Kim Simmonds was 1 year old.
Posted 11 years ago by keller1    [ Reply ]
 keller1 wrote:
Slowed down Brand New Cadillac.  Didn't realize it until today.

 
More correctly, Brand New Cadillac is a sped up "I'm Tired" since "I'm Tired" predates BNC by about 10 years.

Posted 11 years ago by paulmack    [ Reply ]
Slowed down Brand New Cadillac.  Didn't realize it until today.

Posted 11 years ago by keller1    [ Reply ]
Definitely a Hednrix-esque vocal delivery.  *thumbs up*

Posted 11 years ago by tomis    [ Reply ]
Old School Brother!!! Old School!!!!
{#Sunny}
Posted 11 years ago by pdjpirate    [ Reply ]
what a great band, put headliners on their A game they were such a tuff band to follow, tighter than a fleas arse Kim did alot of other stuff outside of Savoy some with John Mayall
Posted 12 years ago by stkman    [ Reply ]
SAVOY BROWN-I'm Tired

SHESDIFFERENT-I'm Wasted
Posted 12 years ago by Shesdifferent    [ Reply ]
A K-SHE Classic...been a while.  I think the last time I heard this, A seed popped out of my pipe and burned a hole in my shirt.
Posted 12 years ago by cardinalfan    [ Reply ]
lol! had this on 8track!! ah, the memories
Posted 12 years ago by acawtho    [ Reply ]
LOVE Savoy Brown.  This is not one of their best, IMHO.  For that, gimme almost any cut off of Raw Sienna.  Still, like it, like it, like it.
Posted 12 years ago by paraclete    [ Reply ]
The singer is really reminiscent of Hendrix. I approve.
Posted 12 years ago by tomis    [ Reply ]
I like how there're flashes of all sorts of smoldering jam in here; old Steve Miller, some rock-solid Jimi, hints of Lonesome Dave and Co.'s later Fool For The City... and all of it's ROCKIN' these rainy day blues away!

Posted 12 years ago by coloradojohn    [ Reply ]
if this was played in a club or similar i would definately launch myself at the dance floor
Posted 12 years ago by betsyroks    [ Reply ]
"Now wouldn't it be a drag if we were all the same?"
Posted 12 years ago by okelle    [ Reply ]

Posted 12 years ago by vonwienerhousen    [ Reply ]