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Mike Doughty — Looking at the World from the Bottom of a Well
Album: Haughty Melodic
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Released: 2006
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That Cuban girl
That brought me low
She had that skin so fine and red lips
Roselike now
Her mouth was wide
And sweet as well
And now relentless hours of
Dreaming up her smell, and

I feel
as if I'm looking at the world from the bottom of a well
I feel
as if I'm looking at the world from the bottom of a well

Lonely
And the only way to beat it is to bat it down
And the only way to beat it is to bat it down
And the only way to beat it is to bat it down
beat it.
Lonely
And the only way to beat it is to bat it down
And the only way to beat it is to bat it down
And the only way to beat it is to bat it down
beat it.

Oh all the days
That I have run
I sought to lose that cloud that's blacking out the sun
My train will come
Some one day soon
And when it comes I'll ride it bound from night to noon.

I feel
as if I'm looking at the world from the bottom of a well
I feel
as if I'm looking at the world from the bottom of a well

Aimless days,
Uncool ways
Of decathecting
Painless phase,
Blacked out thoughts
You be rejecting.

Lonely
And the only way to beat it is to bat it down
And the only way to beat it is to bat it down
And the only way to beat it is to bat it down
beat it.
Lonely
And the only way to beat it is to bat it down
And the only way to beat it is to bat it down
And the only way to beat it is to

We'll let's get down to business now
I feel
as if I'm looking at the world from the bottom of a well
I feel
as if I'm looking at the world from the bottom of a well
I feel
as if I'm looking at the world from the bottom of a well
I feel
as if I'm looking at the world from the bottom of a well

Lonely
And the only way to beat it is to bat it down
And the only way to beat it is to bat it down
And the only way to beat it is to bat it down
beat it.
Lonely
And the only way to beat it is to bat it down
And the only way to beat it is to bat it down
And the only way to beat it is to bat it down
Comments (167)add comment
love me some MD and/or soul coughing.

thank goodness for the My Favorites mix.
Posted 2 months ago by lily34    [ Reply ]
Verse reminds me of Running Down a Dream
Posted 1 year ago by owchita    [ Reply ]
This is Mike back in fine form. The first Soul Coughing album was brilliant, the second pretty good. After many years I recently popped the last one (El Oso) into my car's CD player, and after a good start, it gradually descended into self--indulgent boredom. This is the Soul Coughing album that should have been, but never was.
Posted 2 years ago by MM_Prague    [ Reply ]
I love this tune on a Friday morning in Berlin - looking at the world from the bottom of my well…
Posted 2 years ago by tm    [ Reply ]
You know, I have a nice live version of this song and along with 27 Jennifer's and I really like them.
I couldn't quite get some of the negative comments. After hearing this studio version I can sympathize!
Posted 2 years ago by WWWillie    [ Reply ]
Does anyone here rate songs with the hope you actually change the average rating number, giving you a false sense of power and security? Anyone? Just me? Ok. 
I love this song btw. 
Posted 2 years ago by DanielHLloyd    [ Reply ]
...never heard him before here in Austria, I like this song
Posted 3 years ago by GünterNesler    [ Reply ]
 ziggytrix wrote:
"Also, do those guitar licks sound like Girlfriend-era Matthew Sweet to anyone else?"


absolutely! (and this is another reason that I love the song... and the album)

PLEASE play more tracks from this album on RP 
 

Posted 4 years ago by RoaringMouse    [ Reply ]
 such an annoying voice...
Posted 4 years ago by rhlrstn    [ Reply ]
His soul was coughing. That is  why he was in a dark place.
Posted 5 years ago by jacopo777    [ Reply ]
 kcar wrote:

I get the impression that Mike was in a pretty dark place towards the end of his time with Soul Coughing and he does not wax nostalgic. From a 2012 article: 

https://clatl.com/cribnotes/archives/2012/02/03/mike-doughty-comes-clean-about-heroin-addiction-in-new-memoir 

His just-released memoir, "The Book of Drugs," pulls the curtain back on this enigmatic songwriting gem and reveals a Doughty many people may not recognize. It's an often uncomfortable though delightful read, in the sense of what you might expect from one’s detailing their own heavy drug use. Doughty is open about everything: his upbringing, his family, and his stinging accounts of his past and present hatred for Soul Coughing. “If somebody says they love Soul Coughing, I hear fuck you,” he writes. 
 

Posted 5 years ago by jacopo777    [ Reply ]
an amateur. right down there with Hootie and The Blowfish
Posted 5 years ago by thewiseking    [ Reply ]
 pfwashburn9485 wrote:

I disliked this but after three times , it's now getting me likeing it very much. Thanks Bill   & Rebecca .

 
That's the way it goes sometimes.  {#Cheers}
Posted 6 years ago by SeriousLee    [ Reply ]




                             Can think of absolutely nothing good to say. 






 
Posted 6 years ago by sfyi2001    [ Reply ]
I kind of wish I hadn't read the lyrics.  They start out interesting but then go deep on the redundancy.
Posted 7 years ago by Typesbad    [ Reply ]
Bad.
Posted 7 years ago by Shmelo    [ Reply ]
 ziggytrix wrote:
This is a song about a whale!

No!

This is a song about being happy!

 
I'll teach your grandmother to suck eggs!
Posted 7 years ago by nutrod42    [ Reply ]
Dammit! I just got this song out of my head from the last time I heard it in 2008. 
Posted 8 years ago by Wilfrue    [ Reply ]
 drekar wrote:
This is good and all, but...

I MISS SOUL COUGHING!!!!  :(

 
I get the impression that Mike was in a pretty dark place towards the end of his time with Soul Coughing and he does not wax nostalgic. From a 2012 article: 

https://clatl.com/cribnotes/archives/2012/02/03/mike-doughty-comes-clean-about-heroin-addiction-in-new-memoir 

His just-released memoir, "The Book of Drugs," pulls the curtain back on this enigmatic songwriting gem and reveals a Doughty many people may not recognize. It's an often uncomfortable though delightful read, in the sense of what you might expect from one’s detailing their own heavy drug use. Doughty is open about everything: his upbringing, his family, and his stinging accounts of his past and present hatred for Soul Coughing. “If somebody says they love Soul Coughing, I hear fuck you,” he writes. 
Posted 8 years ago by kcar    [ Reply ]
 Xeric wrote:
Good Lord that's an irritating chorus.  

 
My thoughts exactly!
Posted 8 years ago by 2020sk    [ Reply ]
Everybody in my mushrooming multitude of churches be dancing buck ass naked all across the holy moly world like bowlegged gypsy muleskinners and B.F. Skinner...  we love this splendiferous song...  love sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll...
Posted 9 years ago by Lazarus    [ Reply ]
Love this one...Wow Bill 2 MD tunes in one day - nice!
Posted 10 years ago by aspicer    [ Reply ]
As far as RP music goes...this is a happy upbeat tune..I like
Posted 10 years ago by rdo    [ Reply ]

Loved Soul Coughing. Loved Mike Doughty's early, less production-heavy albums. Have seen him about 5 times in Seattle since the early 2000s. I'm done with that. He was such a jerk to one of the audience members at the last show i saw him that i can hardly enjoy his music anymore. Sad, 'cause he lost a true fan.


Posted 10 years ago by scrubbrush    [ Reply ]
Good Lord that's an irritating chorus.  
Posted 12 years ago by Xeric    [ Reply ]
Also, do those guitar licks sound like Girlfriend-era Matthew Sweet to anyone else?
Posted 13 years ago by ziggytrix    [ Reply ]
This is a song about a whale!

No!

This is a song about being happy!
Posted 13 years ago by ziggytrix    [ Reply ]
This song has never "hit the spot".
Posted 13 years ago by AMH    [ Reply ]
The song grows on me: 7 ....... 8.
Posted 13 years ago by PeeBee    [ Reply ]
 Jelani wrote:
I saw him do this concert in my town with less than a hundred people in the room,just before he went on tour with that icky Dave Matthews guy.
It was awesome. 

 
Uh.. icky?

Posted 13 years ago by Gryn    [ Reply ]
I saw him do this concert in my town with less than a hundred people in the room,just before he went on tour with that icky Dave Matthews guy.
It was awesome. 

Posted 13 years ago by Jelani    [ Reply ]
 romeotuma wrote:


This song be cool...

 
 
Yup..I just caught onto it in the last minute.

Posted 13 years ago by Huey    [ Reply ]
 romeotuma wrote:


This song is awesome...
 

His voice isn't great but it is compelling. I bought this song on iTiunes right after the first time I listened to it. 
Posted 14 years ago by kcar    [ Reply ]
Had to go from an 8 to a 9
Posted 14 years ago by Al_Koholic    [ Reply ]
Feet involuntarily tapping!  :-)
Posted 14 years ago by kilroyjoe3    [ Reply ]
This is good and all, but...

I MISS SOUL COUGHING!!!!  :(
Posted 14 years ago by drekar    [ Reply ]
His live shows are awesome.  He even plays Soul Coughing tunes here and there.  A must see if you get a chance. 
Posted 14 years ago by zoomzip    [ Reply ]
The bad are down and they only wear Adidas.
Posted 14 years ago by GINRUSH    [ Reply ]
 pinklife wrote:


Next time he comes around...instant replay of our ATL trip?  {#Bananapiano}
 

Absolutely!  We can get "Down in Marietta!"  Just need to find a nicer hotel.  The drag queens were too noisy last time.
Posted 14 years ago by viciousfishes    [ Reply ]
 romeotuma wrote:


This really is a very good song...
 

really? are you sure?

That Cuban girl

That brought me low

She had that skin so fine and red lips 

Roselike now

Her mouth was wide

And sweet as well

And now relentless hours of

Dreaming up her smell, and



I feel

as if I'm looking at the world from the bottom of a well

I feel

as if I'm looking at the world from the bottom of a well



Lonely

And the only way to beat it is to bat it down

And the only way to beat it is to bat it down

And the only way to beat it is to bat it down

beat it.

Lonely

And the only way to beat it is to bat it down

And the only way to beat it is to bat it down

And the only way to beat it is to bat it down

beat it.



Oh all the days

That I have run

I sought to lose that cloud that's blacking out the sun

My train will come

Some one day soon

And when it comes I'll ride it bound from night to noon.



I feel

as if I'm looking at the world from the bottom of a well

I feel

as if I'm looking at the world from the bottom of a well



Aimless days,

Uncool ways

Of decathecting

Painless phase,

Blacked out thoughts

You be rejecting.



Lonely

And the only way to beat it is to bat it down

And the only way to beat it is to bat it down

And the only way to beat it is to bat it down

beat it.

Lonely

And the only way to beat it is to bat it down

And the only way to beat it is to bat it down

And the only way to beat it is to 



We'll let's get down to business now

I feel

as if I'm looking at the world from the bottom of a well

I feel

as if I'm looking at the world from the bottom of a well

I feel

as if I'm looking at the world from the bottom of a well

I feel

as if I'm looking at the world from the bottom of a well



Lonely

And the only way to beat it is to bat it down

And the only way to beat it is to bat it down

And the only way to beat it is to bat it down

beat it.

Lonely

And the only way to beat it is to bat it down

And the only way to beat it is to bat it down

And the only way to beat it is to bat it down

Posted 14 years ago by SmackDaddy    [ Reply ]
M. Doughty, and Soul Coughing, always worth a listen.
Posted 14 years ago by nagsheadlocal    [ Reply ]
....And the only way to beat it is to bat it down....{#Crashcomp}

Posted 14 years ago by robb104    [ Reply ]
 viciousfishes wrote:
{#Good-vibes} Love, love, love, this album.  Great live performances, too.
 

Next time he comes around...instant replay of our ATL trip?  {#Bananapiano}
Posted 15 years ago by pinklife    [ Reply ]
{#Good-vibes} Love, love, love, this album.  Great live performances, too.
Posted 15 years ago by viciousfishes    [ Reply ]
 natural_tools wrote:
This really catches my ear tonight. Good play!
 
It's got a nice little hook there, let's see how it wears.
Posted 15 years ago by rdo    [ Reply ]
{#Music}Best thing since his Soul Coughing days.  {#Puke}←Soul Coughing (get it?)
Posted 15 years ago by almafi    [ Reply ]
 thewiseking wrote:
kinda like a male version of Cheryl Crow.

manufactured pre-packaged pablum
 

You're on crack!

Be careful as either side leads to the abyss that is good taste.
Posted 15 years ago by horstman    [ Reply ]
This really catches my ear tonight. Good play!
Posted 15 years ago by natural_tools    [ Reply ]
 Odyzzeuz wrote:


You should remove the monstrous stuff from your list. It'll save you a lot of money. Not one dime should be wasted on Soul Coughing, Radiohead, Sufferyawn Stephens, Counting Crows, Cake or Deathcab for Cutie.

 

Thanks for reminding me why I left Texass all those many years ago.  Troll!
Posted 15 years ago by Ulises    [ Reply ]

 egruben wrote:
Is this the guy from Soul Coughing? They really sound like them.

 
Yes, and I wish they would have NEVER broken up.
Posted 15 years ago by leathepea    [ Reply ]
Are you sure that is the only way to beat it? There has got to be a better way....that's all I'm sayin'.
Posted 15 years ago by FallenMissAmerica    [ Reply ]
kinda like a male version of Cheryl Crow. manufactured pre-packaged pablum
Posted 15 years ago by thewiseking    [ Reply ]
Yes. Yes. Yes. For so many reasons.
Posted 15 years ago by allisonscola    [ Reply ]
This is shite. It sounds like everything that was played on Top 40 radio back in the mid 90's. Spare us.
Posted 15 years ago by esotericderek    [ Reply ]
Wearing thin. 5->4
Posted 15 years ago by RadioDoc    [ Reply ]
uhm.... maybe like Soul Coughing?
Posted 15 years ago by ick    [ Reply ]
Fun music. I just have this feeling that I've heard this or something like this before, I just can't place it.
Posted 15 years ago by Ericac    [ Reply ]
this is growing on me... up another point.
Posted 15 years ago by rickhoran    [ Reply ]
horstman wrote:
Good question! I loved it so much that I found it a few months later in the used cd bin at Soundgarden (local music store). So yes, I did buy it eventually, but I did do a "free" review prior to plunking my dollars down on the music. Is that a crime?
I don't think so, but it is a tort.
Posted 15 years ago by Ag3nt0rang3    [ Reply ]
meydele wrote:
Dammit, another cd to add to my monstrous wish list.
You should remove the monstrous stuff from your list. It'll save you a lot of money. Not one dime should be wasted on Soul Coughing, Radiohead, Sufferyawn Stephens, Counting Crows, Cake or Deathcab for Cutie.
Posted 16 years ago by Odyzzeuz    [ Reply ]
I'm with the guy who recently joined...fabulous distraction
Posted 16 years ago by jmiddleton    [ Reply ]
Great show Monday @ the Variety Playhouse here in ATL. Mike and his band were on point. This song is even better live.
Posted 16 years ago by bigB_3    [ Reply ]
squidish wrote:
What is soul-coughing, anyway? Somebody 'splain it to me, please. And don't just say, "It's a band"
They are awsome!!! "Ruby Vroom" is my favorite album...
Posted 16 years ago by egruben    [ Reply ]
Is this the guy from Soul Coughing? They really sound like them.
Posted 16 years ago by egruben    [ Reply ]
stinkycheese wrote:
So... you actually did *buy* the album, right?
Good question! I loved it so much that I found it a few months later in the used cd bin at Soundgarden (local music store). So yes, I did buy it eventually, but I did do a "free" review prior to plunking my dollars down on the music. Is that a crime?
Posted 16 years ago by horstman    [ Reply ]
RP turned me on to this CD and it's definitely now one of my favorites from the last few years. He has a bunch of other little odds-and-ends CDs as well. Hit and miss, but the hits are worth it. I would recommend Rockity Roll after this CD.
Posted 16 years ago by Shimmer    [ Reply ]
meydele wrote:
Dammit, another cd to add to my monstrous wish list. RP, you make my ears happy and my wallet cry.
Exactly!! I joined RP only 2 days ago... and have problems to concentrate on my work from this day onwards...
Posted 16 years ago by Nabla    [ Reply ]
Bruce Hornsby rocks harder now... Impressive voice and great guitars!!
Posted 16 years ago by Nabla    [ Reply ]
Dammit, another cd to add to my monstrous wish list. RP, you make my ears happy and my wallet cry.
Posted 16 years ago by meydele    [ Reply ]
yesssssssssss!!
Posted 16 years ago by enidualc    [ Reply ]
sounds like the singer in Cake to me
Posted 17 years ago by rocco1207    [ Reply ]
Baby_M wrote:
If it weren't for the "beat it to bat it to beat-a da batter" chorus, I'd like it.
I agree. That makes it sound like Dave Matthews
Posted 17 years ago by cherylg4    [ Reply ]
How about playing "27 Jennifers"? A wonderful song. Being a Jennifer I understand the sentiment.
Posted 17 years ago by starfishNcoffee    [ Reply ]
Baby_M, on August 17, 2005, wrote:
If it weren't for the "beat it to bat it to beat-a da batter" chorus, I'd like it.
I have to tell you that this comment of yours has clouded my listening of this song. Forever and ever, Amen. Not that it's a great song, but every time I hear it, I think of your comment. So, uh, thanks. Not.
Posted 17 years ago by AliGator    [ Reply ]
Nice. I always liked SC's Irresistible Bliss album. Never followed up on what the band or band members did though...
Posted 17 years ago by LazyBoy    [ Reply ]
I flew out to Denver last week and this cd was reviewed in the in-flight magazine for Frontier airlines. I took pride in knowing it already from being hooked up at RP.
Posted 17 years ago by Geecheeboy    [ Reply ]
plaidchocobo wrote:
Ah, hearing this song just made my day. Repetitive? Like corn bread -- ain't nuthin' wrong with that.
It is a good song, but I heard it every day when we listened to fm radio before switching to RP. I just want a break from it.
Posted 17 years ago by milehighYinzer    [ Reply ]
Ah, hearing this song just made my day. Repetitive? Like corn bread -- ain't nuthin' wrong with that.
Posted 17 years ago by plaidchocobo    [ Reply ]
Yeah, the lyrics are repetitive, but the tune cooks right along nicely.
Posted 17 years ago by LowPhreak    [ Reply ]
If you arent into repeated phrases repeated phrases repeated phrases, this guy isn't for you. I like this album a lot. I can especially appreciate "tremendous brunettes" For trivia's sake the album name is an anagram (play on the letters of doughty's name.) Get your own at (click here)
Posted 17 years ago by celadonstone    [ Reply ]
Solid pop music with lyrics that exude durability. Dig it. Groovy. Word.
Posted 17 years ago by moocray    [ Reply ]
Nah, dont think so.
Posted 17 years ago by bjl000    [ Reply ]
horstman wrote:
I ripped this from a friend of mine a few months ago and although never a fan of soul coughing, this is really good, jamming music... Highly recommend this album.
So... you actually did *buy* the album, right?
Posted 17 years ago by stinkycheese    [ Reply ]
great lyricist, witty and clever....for over a decade now
Posted 17 years ago by JayA1969    [ Reply ]
I ripped this from a friend of mine a few months ago and although never a fan of soul coughing, this is really good, jamming music, if not a bit repetitive. I put this on my mp3, went to the skating rink with my closed cell headphones (to block out their horrendous music) and totally jammed out. Awesome album for any speed sports. This music, the huge crowds of people on the rink made the experience close to driving fast in traffic or trying to commute on foot in crowded, narrow European streets. Find the open lane, downshift and take on any comers. Highly recommend this album.
Posted 17 years ago by horstman    [ Reply ]
hrrrmmmmmmmm decathecting ....what a great word. gonna try to do that.
Posted 17 years ago by enidualc    [ Reply ]
This is pretty good...interested in hearing more
Posted 17 years ago by eastcoast    [ Reply ]
lmic wrote:
Magic Eightball (aka Wiki) says.... slang for blowing chunks.
Lovely. Thanks.
Posted 17 years ago by squidish    [ Reply ]
A friend of mine just introduced me to Doughty's solo stuff a few months ago. This is a great track and a great album, but I think a lot of the stuff on Rockity Roll and Skittish is much cooler, too bad those albums don't get more rotations around here.
Posted 17 years ago by zarvok    [ Reply ]
squidish wrote:
What is soul-coughing, anyway?
Magic Eightball (aka Wiki) says.... slang for blowing chunks.
Posted 17 years ago by lmic    [ Reply ]
What is soul-coughing, anyway? Somebody 'splain it to me, please. And don't just say, "It's a band"
Posted 17 years ago by squidish    [ Reply ]
Odyzzeuz wrote:
What I want to know, though, is the only way to beat it.
Why, to bat it down, of course.
Posted 17 years ago by lmic    [ Reply ]
10:32 am - Mike Doughty - Looking at the World from the Bottom of a Well 10:28 am - Underworld - Ballet Lane 10:22 am - Steely Dan - The Royal Scam 10:17 am - Massive Attack - Teardrop 10:13 am - Screaming Trees - Sworn and Broken ^------hell yes!
Posted 17 years ago by misterclaw    [ Reply ]
Just surprising to me, since I like the soundtrack, but do not like the show. Too faux-zeitgeisty for me - maybe I'm just not in the correct demo? I'll take Scrubs, instead. jakeinprogress wrote:
Why is that surprising? I'd be more surprised if a popular, aspriring-to-grab-the-the-zeitgeist-in-one-way-or-another TV show DIDN'T roll out a soundtrack of carefully selected singles that, it is hoped, combine just the right amount of hipness and emasculated, authenticated (do I repeat myself?) irreverance.
Posted 17 years ago by lmic    [ Reply ]
lmic wrote:
This song - which I LOVE - is also on the surprisingly good Grey's Anatomy Soundtrack ("Original Soundtrack" = Season 1?).
Why is that surprising? I'd be more surprised if a popular, aspriring-to-grab-the-the-zeitgeist-in-one-way-or-another TV show DIDN'T roll out a soundtrack of carefully selected singles that, it is hoped, combine just the right amount of hipness and emasculated, authenticated (do I repeat myself?) irreverance.
Posted 17 years ago by jakeinprogress    [ Reply ]
This song - which I LOVE - is also on the surprisingly good Grey's Anatomy Soundtrack ("Original Soundtrack" = Season 1?). Pretty good collection of singles for $9.99 IMHO: Such Great Heights – Postal Service Ruby Blue – Roisin Murphy Song Beneath the Song – Maria Taylor Where Does the Good Go – Tegan and Sara Looking At the World from the Bottom of a Well – Mike Doughty Wait – Get Set Go Could be Anything – The Eames Era LOVE IT >> Portions for Foxes – Rilo Kiley The City – Joe Purdy REAL GOOD > End of the World Party – Medesky, Martin & Wood Catch My Disease (Live) – Ben Lee LOVE IT >> There's a Girl – The Ditty Bops Whatever Gets you Through Today –The Radio Fools in Love – Inara George REAL GOOD > Cosy in the Rocket - Psapp
Posted 17 years ago by lmic    [ Reply ]
This sounds exactly like a local Vancouver band called 'Brickhouse".
Posted 17 years ago by Krispian    [ Reply ]
artmarcia wrote:
This song is really speaking to me--love the rhythms!
foot tapping goodness!
Posted 17 years ago by kilroyjoe3    [ Reply ]
This song is really speaking to me--love the rhythms!
Posted 17 years ago by artmarcia    [ Reply ]
This entire disc is sooooo good!!! One of favs from last year. Thanks Bill!!!
Posted 17 years ago by Farquwaar    [ Reply ]
Love this much ... early soul-coughing was just sublime. and the switch into the John Hiatt tune is pretty cool too. and here's the word on decathecting - kinda interesting (thnx hcaudill - below): "What does "decathecting" mean? We get a lot of emails here at Mike Doughty HQ asking what the word "decathecting," from the bridge section of "Looking at the World from the Bottom of a Well," means. Our good friends at Dictionary.com define the verb "cathect" as meaning "To invest emotional energy in (a person, object or idea)." So "decathecting" would then be the divestment, or letting go, of said emotional energy. Geekin' out—FOR THE FANS!"
Posted 17 years ago by sbird    [ Reply ]
ampersand wrote:
Heh, that's my rating system, too. Hence very few ratings in the range of 3 to 6. If I bother to rate, it's because I either love it or never want to hear it again. Usually the former.
Mee three.
Posted 17 years ago by bobrk    [ Reply ]
MikeCloud wrote:
wait, I'm not sure I get this we are supposed to ... what was that again? um something about bats, and depression. The bats make him depressed? Well, something like that... maybe if he keeps repeating it I'll figure it out...
Posted 17 years ago by Austin2Florida    [ Reply ]
swoles wrote:
i dig this - if i look up from my work to check out who someone is, i always feel like that's worth at least a 7.
Heh, that's my rating system, too. Hence very few ratings in the range of 3 to 6. If I bother to rate, it's because I either love it or never want to hear it again. Usually the former.
Posted 18 years ago by ampersand    [ Reply ]
can't stand this guy - his voice is okay, but he over-pronunciates (sp?) everything and it really grates on my nerves. too repetitive as well.
Posted 18 years ago by shay_shay    [ Reply ]
"...and the only way to beat it is to bat it down...and the only way to beat it..." That, and serotonin re-uptake inhibitors. Good tune!
Posted 18 years ago by BPenni    [ Reply ]
i dig this - if i look up from my work to check out who someone is, i always feel like that's worth at least a 7.
Posted 18 years ago by swoles    [ Reply ]
Thank you, RP! I've heard this song on local radio stations and loved it, but they'd never say who this was or the name of the song. I hate that - is it really too much to do for the listeners? Now I can add this to the collection.
Posted 18 years ago by cattgirl813    [ Reply ]
Isn't this Bruce Hornsby?
Posted 18 years ago by Idaho    [ Reply ]
Yep like this - never heard of of Mr D before - but this rocks!
Posted 18 years ago by highwindows    [ Reply ]
A lot - most actually - of the songs on RP grow on me. But not this one. It shrinks on me. That refrain is grating!
Posted 18 years ago by tictocsailor    [ Reply ]
Mari wrote:
Biography by Lee Meyer Before emerging as a solo artist, M. Doughty (first name: Michael) was best-known as the frontman of the unique avant-garde group known as Soul Coughing. Spawned in 1992, Soul Coughing was formed after Doughty met his bandmates (Yuval Gabay, Sebastian Steinberg, and Mark de Gli Antoni) while working as a doorman at the Knitting Factory, a staple of New York City's hip underground music scene. Soul Coughing signed to Slash/Warner in 1993 after making a name for themselves on the local scene and attracting the attention of music labels with their fusion of rock, Doughty's beatnik-inspired lyrics, and elements of hip-hop and electronic music. TOO MUCH INFO In July 2002, Doughty released the limited edition live album Smofe + Smang: Live In Minneapolis. It featured a large selection of solo material as well as Soul Coughing classics. A book of poetry entitled "Slanky," which was initially self-released in 1995, also coincided with the live album. In 2003, more solo work surfaced in the form of the Rockity Roll EP, which was then combined with the Skittish album and rereleased with a handful of bonus tracks when Doughty signed to Ato records in 2004. In 2005, Doughty released his first solo effort to feature a band, Haughty Melodic, which contained fleshed-out studio versions of several songs debuted on Smofe + Smang.
Posted 18 years ago by Luna2    [ Reply ]
Lovely, just lovely...
Posted 18 years ago by Sylvian    [ Reply ]
Love this guy's voice for some reason. I had heard his solo stuff, but never anything from Soul Coughing...so when a SC song played earlier today I kept thinking "Where have I heard that voice before?" Now it's all coming back to me.
Posted 18 years ago by StellarSwarm    [ Reply ]
Great lyrics.
That Cuban girl That brought me low She had that skin so fine and red lips rose-like now Her mouth was wide And sweet as well And now relentless hours of dreaming up her smell And I feel as if I am looking at the world from the bottom of a well Lonely And the only way to beat it is to bat it down Oh all the days That I have run I sought to lose that cloud that's blacking out the sun My train will come Some one day soon And when it comes I'll ride it bound from night to noon Aimless days, uncool ways of decathecting Painless phase, blacked out thoughts you be rejecting
And, if you're wondering what "decathecting" means: https://www.mikedoughty.com/news/show/56
Posted 18 years ago by hcaudill    [ Reply ]
wait, I'm not sure I get this we are supposed to ... what was that again? um something about bats, and depression. The bats make him depressed? Well, something like that... maybe if he keeps repeating it I'll figure it out...
Posted 18 years ago by MikeCloud    [ Reply ]
I'd like to bat dwn this song
Posted 18 years ago by dogpound    [ Reply ]
Is it that hard to understand... "Lonely - and the only way to beat it is to bat it down, and the only way to beat it is to bat it down..."
Posted 18 years ago by DBCinCA    [ Reply ]
He came to Kent April 2004 and it was amazing for me. Him and his guitar - acoustic really reveals the power of a voice and strength in lyrics. I really need the moola to purchase these cds.
Posted 18 years ago by whereitsat    [ Reply ]
oh mang, this song is definately getting stuck in my head, could be alot worse though, could be some commercial pop, phew, thanks rp
Posted 18 years ago by th3boon    [ Reply ]