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And what is on my mind
Don't look down cause it's far to fall
Count the hours, face the fear
It's haunting me these days
We're past the post and through the door
We hail commercial suicide
Kiss the life you left behind
Don't let it bother you
You do what it takes to get what you can
Last night I thought about
Another life and what I'd do
It's hanging over me
I'm sure to break your loving heart
I'm dying to take a walk
Down this sugar coated sonic path
Cause I've been hanging around for hours
Staring at your hologram
Outside a northern harbour
Digging up the harder times
I might have known that you'd been
Tearing up the photographs
Standing on your holy ground
Lost sight of all I've done
Picking round for higher ground
Guests out in paradise
With China dolls and better times
The satellite is always overhead
It's watching you
You know it's living hell
I'm solid gone, coming for no-one, no-one, no-one
Distant cousin?... Trampled under foot - Led Zep
100%,also came here to suggest they're channeling led zeppelin with this one
Supergrass absolutely nailed it with this album. There weren't many indie classics in the 2000's, but this is definitely one of them.
philonair wrote:Not many Indie Classics in the 2000´s?? How about Calexico, Airbourne Toxic Event, The Killers, Midlake, Ana Ternheim, Travis, Eels, Flaming Lips, The Divine Comedy, Snow Patrol, Belle and Sebastian, Mando Diao, Wilco .... and i will remember more and more the longer i think about that!
If we just count the first decade, yeah I can't think of anything. Except maybe...
Kill The Moonlight - Spoon
Rubber Factory - The Black Keys
Is This It - The Strokes
Twin Cinema - The New Pornographers
Turn On The Bright Lights - Interpol
Oh, Inverted World - The Shins
White Blood Cells - The White Stripes
Funeral - Arcade Fire
The Woods - Sleater-Kinney
Transatlanticism - Death Cab For Cutie
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not - Arctic Monkeys
Fever To Tell - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Illinois - Sufjan Stevens
😜
why does this remind me a little bit of "Take Me Out?"
HAHA so it does. Same chord progression. Love how strong that progression hits in this variation though. The chords are C maj-Dmaj and not very simple transition to play at that speed.
Also, The breakdown sounds just like Jimmy Page on the Les Paul.
What a tune!
Love it! 😎🚀
Bill's just showing off now... and I love it!
Awesome song to crank at any time, but especially as the sun comes blasting through the last shreds of a snowstorm and shines forth! I dig the multilayered guitar-jamming, the wicked keyboards, and the killer percussion throughout and the way it builds, flows and ebbs.
Whammer jammer, let me hear ya!
(source: J. Geils Band)
Supergrass absolutely nailed it with this album. There weren't many indie classics in the 2000's, but this is definitely one of them.
Not many Indie Classics in the 2000´s?? How about Calexico, Airbourne Toxic Event, The Killers, Midlake, Ana Ternheim, Travis, Eels, Flaming Lips, The Divine Comedy, Snow Patrol, Belle and Sebastian, Mando Diao, Wilco .... and i will remember more and more the longer i think about that!
Shackleton
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opens like an Al Stewart song
ce wrote:opens like an Al Stewart song
Yes, when he did the "Jason Bourne" soundtrack ;-)
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Its a bit meh. Doesn't seem to do anything once it's started.
Look, the kids are dancing to it. I'll give it a 7, Dick.
Their best album since Breakfast In America!
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bumped to a 9 now that my headphones have fully burned in.
Great tune! I had not heard of them before. Thank You RP!
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Argh - someone find all the missing lyrics
Fixed
Their best album since Breakfast In America!
lolz as the kids say...
Not hearing it...
Led Zep much?
Not hearing it...
I thought all the indie classics came from the 2000's...
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I have SuperGrass everyday.
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To my 50-something year old ears this sounds like rock and roll.
but whatever you call it, I agree it is excellent
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C'mon you should rethink this
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Clear 10.
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So smooth I didn’t realize it had even happened...
I'm surprised more ppl didn't make similar comments.
Audacity is available for Mac & Linux also. Excellent open source audio editor.
Gaz Coombes solo album, which is terrific - will have to do.
I didn't know Audacity was available for Windows; I''ve been using it for years in Linux.
The introduction does sound like Supertramp but the rest? Much better.
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I had some tales of endurance,...first!
Audacity is available for Mac & Linux also. Excellent open source audio editor.
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EPIC!
''Excrementa'' would be more accurate
Doctor Sigmund has expressed his concerns regarding the way you systematically twist conversations around to focus on
your excreta...
EPIC!
''Excrementa'' would be more accurate
naaaa, not so much
EPIC!
''Excrementa'' would be more accurate
EPIC!
I agree, there are tremendous echoes of the early Supregrass in here and yet it isn't dated; damn catchy bass line and riff too.
Yeah, sure, all of that...but do you like it?
I hope you're trying to be funny... someone else was trying to make something interesting.
Yeah, sure, all of that...but do you like it?
Although Bill plays tracks from the "Road To Rouen" album often, I like their other albums much better!
aspicer wrote:
Road To Rouen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supergrass_(album)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_on_Other_Planets
aspicer wrote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supergrass_(album)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_on_Other_Planets
aspicer wrote:
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Saw them twice over the years - what a great band!
peter_james_bond wrote:
Amen to that!
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Would be great to have a new CD by them this Spring - to blast in the car on a beautiful day with the windows down.
Amen to that!
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Not so much for me- I only heard the sound of cameras clicking and llamas munching.
good idea
Would be great to have a new CD by them this Spring - to blast in the car on a beautiful day with the windows down.
This is how you do it.
skybreakers wrote:
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Please Bill, no more of this..
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Please Bill, no more of this..
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Its the best one on there for sure.....
Bridieboo wrote:
I'd settle for weed.
The British satirical cartoonist Steve Bell drew the strip below in 1982 which nicely combines both meanings of supergrass, in the context in which the term was coined:
![Steve Bell cartoon](https://www.belltoons.co.uk/bellworks/var/albums/If/1982/0246_p029-MONKEY.jpg?m=1266505566)
I'll be hitting the road soon for a longish trip.
Think I'll bring this CD along, but hope I don't end up in Rouen!
That's hot...I heard it too. Just got one of their albums (the self titled one) after hearing it on RP (its great), so I'll try and find the RtR one as well...
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Technically BMG still exists...they're called yourmusic.com. They sell CD's for 6 bucks shipped (5 bucks when there's a sale). Alas, they're closing shop in the next few weeks to a month. But it's a decent place to get mainstream titles on the cheap.
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I'd settle for weed. But I have to say that I was in the middle of a really great Live Journal update when this came on, and I immediately thought, "Geez - this is SUCH a 10!) So, I'm bumping it from 9 to 10 - not just because of the name, but because the song itself pulled me out of a very deep and serious mind-space. Any song that can do that deserves a 10, in my opinion....
Having been married over seven years to my wife who has a DMA tends to make me a stickler for proper attribution and an appreciator of music history to boot. For those who don't know, yes, we are in the middle of nowhere, but there are a couple of great little universities here!
Supergrass; good name for a cannabis dispensary?
A "grass" is a police informant, When I was a kid back in the 70s there were some high-profile criminal cases, and as I recall the press termed the unknown informant a supergrass. Obviously as kids we adopted the term for anyone who shopped us to adult authority.