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Morcheeba — Trigger Hippie (remix)
Album: Who Can You Trust?
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Released: 1996
Length: 3:39
Plays (last 30 days): 2
Tune in, drop out of love,
Pull the trigger, I'm a hippie,
So said a truth, and blood,
Alive and well,
You push the buttons.

Standing in line of fire,
For the whole,
My soul,
Step codes,
The drums,
And sing,
Love the children,
Learn to live with everything.

Love love love, i'm a trigger hippie, yeah
Love love love, we're trigger hippies, yeah.

Zoom in, cut out at sound,
Make it feel so trippy
Hung up, let down to ground,
Forget the kill it's far to sticky

Love love love, i'm a trigger hippie, yeah
Love love love, we're trigger hippies, yeah.

Love love love, i'm a trigger hippie, yeah
Love love love, we're trigger hippies, yeah.

Love love love, i'm a trigger hippie, yeah
Love love love, we're trigger hippies, yeah.
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 Kajukenbo wrote:

This is the song that introduced me to Morcheeba, as well as whole trip hop genre.  To me, this song and Morcheeba have aged quite well.  I always have to pause and listen whenever Morcheeba gets played on RP.  By the way, Bill followed this up with Morphine.  In the late-90's those were my two favorite groups and my car usually had a CD from one of the two!



same. i'm with you. and i really needed to hear this today. (and it was followed up by Peter Murphy All Night Long this time, and i'm loving that so much. memories!)

i love skye's voice, but the other vocalist after her departure is just as great.
 Kajukenbo wrote:

This is the song that introduced me to Morcheeba, as well as whole trip hop genre.  To me, this song and Morcheeba have aged quite well.  I always have to pause and listen whenever Morcheeba gets played on RP.  By the way, Bill followed this up with Morphine.  In the late-90's those were my two favorite groups and my car usually had a CD from one of the two!



10 months late Bill still follows this up with Morphine - something must be working!
This is the song that introduced me to Morcheeba, as well as whole trip hop genre.  To me, this song and Morcheeba have aged quite well.  I always have to pause and listen whenever Morcheeba gets played on RP.  By the way, Bill followed this up with Morphine.  In the late-90's those were my two favorite groups and my car usually had a CD from one of the two!
 ziggytrix wrote:
I boought this CD in 1996.
24 ago - still listening to it saw them life twice!



6 years down, 44 to go...

Oh boy, I can't wait to show you! 
 

 Proclivities wrote:

Are musicians now supposed to compose music for audiences fifty years in the future? Why should anyone care what people would be listening to fifty years hence?  We'll probably be dead anyhow.
 

Certainly HOPE I'm dead in 50 yrs!!....Hoping to not have to endure much more of this "modern" world.....MANY times quoted...take me back to simpler day in time....30's would be fine....gr8 depression & all included!! Some things, like RP, they are nice in this day/age but, all else "electronic"/'net related....garbage. IMHO.
 Proclivities wrote:

I don't think most people even look at CD covers anymore, much less make purchasing decisions based upon them.  It's sad, really.  Anyhow, it's not a very impressive cover - not bad, but it looks like the Adobe noodlings of someone who probably never attended art school.
 
Oh....it's not doodlings!....by ANY stretch!.... And, no matter if bought on cover art or not, that's one tasty lookin bud!! 😁
 ziggytrix wrote:


6 years down, 44 to go...

Oh boy, I can't wait to show you! 
 
HI-larious!  Although, in sticking with the "HI" aspect of this tune, you know with the album cover photo and all, I wonder how many stoners will be able to remember to follow-up in 44 years from now....mental note made (SMOKE MORE WEED!) 
 window wrote:
You know, I just can't imagine anyone listening to this 50 years from now.
 

6 years down, 44 to go...

Oh boy, I can't wait to show you! 
Thanks Morcheeba.
That was G R E A T
         
{#Clap}
 Jack_Jefferson wrote:
This is the kind of music I'd play at my gogo or strip club, if I had one.
 


Kinda weird, but with some likeable lyrical twists.
 window wrote:
You know, I just can't imagine anyone listening to this 50 years from now.

 
Rock n Roll was never music that was meant for posterity. RNR was/is/will be ALWAYS about that point in time in which was made. It's an artist's reflection of the times in which they live. Why can't you and those like you accept that?
one of my favorites. first song i ever heard by them.
I'd pull that trigger. 
 ailanthushouse wrote:

Isn't the paucity of talent under major label (studio) cooptation of campy folk music the stuff of the most recent Cohen Bros. flick about a struggling singer - songwriter falling down at the time of Dylan's emergence? 
 
Cooptation?
 Poacher wrote:

Zoom in, cut out, add sound, 
Make it feel so trippy
Hung up, let down to ground,
Forget the kill it's far to sticky

Love love love, i'm a trigger hippie, yeah
Love love love, we're trigger hippies, yeah. 

 
Thank you.
 jimj wrote:




I guess we'll just have to wait 50 years to see if you are correct.

Let's see what was popular 50 years ago: May 1963:

"If you Wanna Be Happy" by Jimmy Soul
"Foolish Little Girl" by The Shirelles
"Can't Get Used to Losing You" by Andy Williams - (that's still on everyone's playlist).
"Puff (the Magic Dragon)" by Peter, Paul & Mary.
"Linda" by Jan and Dean.
"Reverend Mr. Black" by the Kingston Trio.
and many more familiar tunes, but don't know who is still listening to them.



 
Isn't the paucity of talent under major label (studio) cooptation of campy folk music the stuff of the most recent Cohen Bros. flick about a struggling singer - songwriter falling down at the time of Dylan's emergence? 
 westslope wrote:
What do people think of the CD cover?  Helped or hindered sales? 

Not one of my favourite songs of theirs.

 
I don't think most people even look at CD covers anymore, much less make purchasing decisions based upon them.  It's sad, really.  Anyhow, it's not a very impressive cover - not bad, but it looks like the Adobe noodlings of someone who probably never attended art school.
Never a bad time for Morcheeba
Reminds me of Niel young's comment " I saw the middle of the road and headed for the gutter"
 
What do people think of the CD cover?  Helped or hindered sales? 

Not one of my favourite songs of theirs.
TOTALLY STUPID SONG!
 zoopmama wrote:
And the point is?  Bored...

 
Maybe (I like it). But you gotta admit it's a relieved kind of bored after Smashing Pumpkin Guy's voice...
 window wrote:
You know, I just can't imagine anyone listening to this 50 years from now.

 
Are musicians now supposed to compose music for audiences fifty years in the future? Why should anyone care what people would be listening to fifty years hence?  We'll probably be dead anyhow.
And the point is?  Bored...
 window wrote:
You know, I just can't imagine anyone listening to this 50 years from now.

 
I'll likely be dead .... so I won't be.
 window wrote:
You know, I just can't imagine anyone listening to this 50 years from now.
 
Maybe so, but I like listening to it now.  Lots of stuff I like will have no value (or be popular, whichever you mean) fifty years from now.  Hell, my favorite bell bottoms fell out of favor way faster than fifty years.  "Hippies" -- from the title -- didn't remain in favor fifty years either, but that doesn't invalidate our worth then or now.

Interesting comment.  Made me think, and I'm sure I'll be thinking about it long after I log off tonight.
 window wrote:
You know, I just can't imagine anyone listening to this 50 years from now.

 



I guess we'll just have to wait 50 years to see if you are correct.

Let's see what was popular 50 years ago: May 1963:

"If you Wanna Be Happy" by Jimmy Soul
"Foolish Little Girl" by The Shirelles
"Can't Get Used to Losing You" by Andy Williams - (that's still on everyone's playlist).
"Puff (the Magic Dragon)" by Peter, Paul & Mary.
"Linda" by Jan and Dean.
"Reverend Mr. Black" by the Kingston Trio.
and many more familiar tunes, but don't know who is still listening to them.


 window wrote:
You know, I just can't imagine anyone listening to this 50 years from now.

 
Ha. I really like the validity of that comment. Great stuff.
You know, I just can't imagine anyone listening to this 50 years from now.
 SweTex wrote:

You mean that would be a bad thing?
 
{#Clap}
Dig baby dig
 Byronape wrote:

If that was a way to measure a band's talent, no one would ever listen to the Stones. 

 
You mean that would be a bad thing?
I was a student living in Bristol at the time of triphop 94/97 i think it was, saw these guys at the uni.    the songs are still in my regular playlist.  Im just dissapointed that RP choose to play this remix.  it doesn't have the simplicity or finess of he first cut.
I just love this album! Still play it all the time.
 Poacher wrote:

. . . As noted by the most childlike poster on this site.
 

Brighton rocks - remember Woodgate?

Tex Watson?
 Stingray wrote:


UGLIEST BAND ON THE PLANET!!!

Uuuurgh!!!
  Just put a bag over their heads while their music makes love to your ears.


 joe-1 wrote:
Playing this song is exactly why i LOVE Radio Paradise so much. I never ever had any relationship with any other Radio station, heck not even with my own music collection as I do today with Radio Paradise.

 

Word !
 Shesdifferent wrote:
So whats the scoop with this vocalist? Loved their sound when they had her but didn't they hire someone new to replace her and go in a different direction? Anyone?
 
You are right, they did but on their latest release Skye is back....
 Stingray wrote:


UGLIEST BAND ON THE PLANET!!!

Uuuurgh!!!
 
If that was a way to measure a band's talent, no one would ever listen to the Stones. 

 Stingray wrote:


UGLIEST BAND ON THE PLANET!!!

Uuuurgh!!!
 
. . . As noted by the most childlike poster on this site.
 Stingray wrote:


UGLIEST BAND ON THE PLANET!!!

Uuuurgh!!!
 
I don't listen to them for how they look.

Nice transition from Rachid Taha to this one.
Playing this song is exactly why i LOVE Radio Paradise so much. I never ever had any relationship with any other Radio station, heck not even with my own music collection as I do today with Radio Paradise.

 Respect!
 Shesdifferent wrote:
So whats the scoop with this vocalist? Loved their sound when they had her but didn't they hire someone new to replace her and go in a different direction? Anyone?
 
...perhaps you're thinking of the sneaker pimps?..i know i was...
So whats the scoop with this vocalist? Loved their sound when they had her but didn't they hire someone new to replace her and go in a different direction? Anyone?
always a good time for morcheeba {#Devil_pimp}
 ick wrote:
this song always seemed to define the term "Trip Hop" for me...
 

whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat...???
 Otomi wrote:

I hear Skye's back for the first time since 2003! I hope to hear some of Morcheeba's new album on RP!



See: https://www.morcheeba.co.uk/2010/04/20/sounds-like-morcheeba/

Video: https://www.morcheeba.co.uk/2010/05/25/the-beautiful-video-for-our-new-single/


 

UGLIEST BOYS ON THE PLANET!!!


"1", but nothing against the good Morcheeba

Timeless classic.

I hear Skye's back for the first time since 2003! I hope to hear some of Morcheeba's new album on RP!



See: https://www.morcheeba.co.uk/2010/04/20/sounds-like-morcheeba/

Video: https://www.morcheeba.co.uk/2010/05/25/the-beautiful-video-for-our-new-single/

Photo source: https://www.morcheeba.co.uk/wp-content/gallery/cache/28__320x240_l_dd154d01b9d045bea7277ee4f8caa5b0.jpg


 4merdj wrote:


I was just looking to see if somebody else noticed this ...

Sneaker Pimps: 6 Underground (Nellee Hooper Edit) (Becoming X )

Je prefer the latter {#Cheers}
 
This album's release preceded that of Becoming X by a few months.
 coolpeople_rule wrote:
I like this song, they remind me a little of Sneaker Pimps.
 

I was just looking to see if somebody else noticed this ...

Sneaker Pimps: 6 Underground (Nellee Hooper Edit) (Becoming X )

Je prefer the latter {#Cheers}
{#Dancingbanana}This song got my younger house guest singing...love love love
moor cheese baa {#Lol}

I'll never forget that.

 walk wrote:
 mor' cheeba - mo' betta!
 
{#Motor}{#Bananasplit}
 mor' cheeba - mo' betta!
 supermec wrote:
Slick. Big fan or Morcheeba already. Is this new material or oldie?
Says 1994 at the top of this page. 


 handyrae wrote:
Ok — I'll admit my ignorance (or naivete). What is a trigger hippy?
 
Aside from the play on words (trigger happy) there is the background vocal saying "drop in," as well as the opening lyric "tune in, drop out."  All of that a bit of a play on Timothy Leary's "turn on, tune in, drop out."  Maybe it's an homage to hippies...  

Love this track, regardless.
 handyrae wrote:
Ok — I'll admit my ignorance (or naivete). What is a trigger hippy?
 
Zoom in, cut out, add sound, 
Make it feel so trippy
Hung up, let down to ground,
Forget the kill it's far to sticky

Love love love, i'm a trigger hippie, yeah
Love love love, we're trigger hippies, yeah. 
 handyrae wrote:
Ok — I'll admit my ignorance (or naivete). What is a trigger hippy?
 
A play on words.  Trigger happy -> trigger hippy. Something someone dreamed up while tripping?

Give it your own meaning. :)

Ok — I'll admit my ignorance (or naivete). What is a trigger hippy?
When did Nicole Kidman start a singing career? jk,  Morcheeba's a-ok w/ me.
 ick wrote:
this song always seemed to define the term "Trip Hop" for me...
 
The first times I heard hear, I could have sworn I had heard her before on Massive Attack's Protection.....

Too much echoing going on for me lalalaaaa!  
this song always seemed to define the term "Trip Hop" for me...

not for this song thread, but I am certain things I am posting are being deleted later. Makes me not want to post anything.



I've heard this a milion times, never knew who it was til now. I like it, sorta.
Reminds me of Astrud Gilberto, or Mazzy Starr. Catchy hook.
Slick. Big fan or Morcheeba already. Is this new material or oldie?
classic morcheeba...la la love it...{#Clap}
I like this song, they remind me a little of Sneaker Pimps.
Mmmm... Shirley Klarisse Yonavive Edwards, where are you now?

Blah, blah, blah ....  ( accent the last 'blah' )


Seen them in concert twice.  SO great.  What a perfect day for Morcheeba.  Well, that's most days...
I remember the Bang Bang Club in Milwaukee  (funny footprints facing eachother)

These guys are so great! My favorite band since...........ages!!!!!!!!
Love them! They are awesome! {#Dance}
ahhh. first morcheeba i'd ever heard.

feels good.
and who can you trust, really?
ya gotta move wida groove.. rKokon wrote:
What is the musical value, the authenticity, of mixes and remixes? That type of thing constitutes more engineering and less musicianship. I consider it illegitimate.

 


Saw Morcheeba last week in Toronto. Fantastic. And the performance of this was superb(ly trippy)!
Love these guys! Thanks Bill.
Carl wrote:
Never heard of Morcheeba BRP (before Radio Paradise), but now one of my all-time favs. Thanks, Bill & Rebecca!
So now you have tons of wonderful new songs. Love nearly everything they published.
Never heard of Morcheeba BRP (before Radio Paradise), but now one of my all-time favs. Thanks, Bill & Rebecca!
greg6494 wrote:
Yes I will hang out for a martini.
I think I could marry this girl just for her voice. there is just something about it that settles into my bones.
I used to dig this band, for a while, then it got too predictable.... I think I was trying to latch on to some hip-hop I could 'understand'. It must be me; there are certain kinds of jazz and most classical opera that just don't penetrate. For background, I'd rather listen to the Cowboy Junkies or Lou Reed. Like they say, tastes are beyond dispute.
rKokon wrote:
What is the musical value, the authenticity, of mixes and remixes? That type of thing constitutes more engineering and less musicianship. I consider it illegitimate.
I recommend you try doing the task yourself before you judge how much of a musician one can be in the remix role.
talibanismurder wrote:
They remix songs so Abercrombie % Fitch can play it in the store, way to damn loud.
Who are they? Who did the remix?
Loopy, tripped out, atonal, tranced up vibe.
They remix songs so Abercrombie % Fitch can play it in the store, way to damn loud.
I used to have a girlfriend that...uh....really, really loved to dance to this song if you catch my drift.
greg6494 wrote:
Mighty fine.
Nice lungs.
Love her voice. Evocative.
I didn't realize this song was ten years old already. They used this song in 'Enemy of the State' in the scene where Will Smith is in the lingerie store but it doesn't appear on the soundtrack.
This is the kind of music I'd play at my gogo or strip club, if I had one.
jah_blessed wrote:
A good remix can improve a bad original. Not the case here, though.
agree 100% the "normal" version of this song is waaaay better
catmaven wrote:
What is the musical value, the authenticity, of mixes and remixes? That type of thing constitutes more engineering and less musicianship. I consider it illegitimate.
So where is the line between acceptable and overuse of engineering? By implication, your remark suggests only "live" recordings are most worthy of respect. Music is sound. Create the sound any way you can. Nice song. 7
Kinda seductive...
sh*t's cool
Great song. Great album. Great group (or they were until they switched out the chick)
catmaven wrote:
What is the musical value, the authenticity, of mixes and remixes? That type of thing constitutes more engineering and less musicianship. I consider it illegitimate.
A good remix can improve a bad original. Not the case here, though. Also, remixes are good for getting exposure in clubs.
What is the musical value, the authenticity, of mixes and remixes? That type of thing constitutes more engineering and less musicianship. I consider it illegitimate.
iMacomania wrote:
Who Can You Trust? Is that the question of these year?
nobody...especially the people who keep following me!
Who Can You Trust? Is that the question of these year?
diggit...
catmaven wrote:
so singsongy and sleepy--please, this is the worst time of day for that.
It's all relative...somewhere someone is falling asleep to it...
I think the original album mix is better. The extra synths are unnecessary and ruin the atmosphere somewhat. Still good, though.
coldwd wrote:
Wow, Skye Edwards (lead singer Mocheeba) sounds so incredibly like Kelli Dayton (lead singer Sneaker Pimps). I thought they were one in the same!
This was the first time we've heard this song - we thought for sure it was the Sneaker Pimps lead singer.. but I guess we're wrong. anyway this is a great song, we'll have to procure some Morcheeba. I've heard songs of theirs here and there but never gotten to know their music more.
I say goddam! How much do I love Morcheeba? It's hard to say. But this sure picked up my morning.
Trigger Hippie eh? Sounds more like Moose Factory.
Fat_Man_Flo wrote:
i like the cover! reminds me of something, I can't quite put my finger on.... mmmmmmmmm
Reminds me a little bit of Bjork's song Human Behavior. Could that be it maybe?
Trigger me psychedllic......day glo.........black lights......wow!
Fat_Man_Flo wrote:
i like the cover! reminds me of something, I can't quite put my finger on.... mmmmmmmmm
Hydrangea?
i like the cover! reminds me of something, I can't quite put my finger on.... mmmmmmmmm
radiojunkie wrote:
I see people complaining that they don't understand what I Am The Walrus means...but nobody complaining about what the hell a "Trigger Hippie" is. Seems to me they're getting a pass...
How are they getting a pass? That's the Beatles. These are "here today..." ... Oops. I think they're already gone.