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The Thrills — Big Sur
Album: So Much For The City
Avg rating:
5.8

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Total ratings: 241









Released: 2003
Length: 3:04
Plays (last 30 days): 0
So much for the city
Tell me that you'll dance to the end
Just tell me that you'll dance to the end

Hey, hey, you're the Monkees
And people said you monkeyed around
But nobody's listening now

Just don't go back to Big Sur
Hangin' around
Lettin' your old man down
Just don't go back to Big Sur
Baby, baby, please don't go
Aw, baby, baby, please don't go

So much for the streetlights
They're never gonna guide you home
No, they're never gonna guide you home

Down at the steamboat show
Yeah, all the kids start spittin'
I guess it didn't live up to the billing

Just don't go back to Big Sur
Hangin' around
Lettin' your old man down
Just don't go back to Big Sur
Baby, baby, please don't go
Aw, baby, baby, please don't go

Just don't go back to Big Sur
Hangin' around
Lettin' your old man down
Just don't go back to Big Sur
Baby, baby, please don't go
Aw, baby, baby, please don't go
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Hey Bill, these guys put out a new album, why don't you get a copy of it, instead of wearing this one out?
pittsburgh!?!?!! not as nice as the central coast of california! you can spread my ashes there. right near pierdras blancas. :nodhead:
AliGator wrote:
I'm from Pittsburgh...and I never heard them saying that! And wait! Pittsburgh is a nice place!
:nodhead:
edechewe wrote:
This song would be a sweet, great AM radio hit. Like 93 KHJ. Does such a thing exist anymore?
wow! khj! i used to listen to them from about '60 to '67. does anyone remember "humble harv"? i think he got thrown into prison for killing his wife!
bluedot wrote:
i love big sur, too, but it needs a better song than this to represent it.
i got one... "california" by the beach boys. i uploaded it and it got "the boot". it is a great tribute to a great state.
My rating on this song just keeps droping everytime I hear it..
Wow, this is awful.
Its either the venue or a matter of taste :D At the Fox (in Atlanta) the sound was very distorted and washed out, so you couldn't really hear the cool sound of his voice. mrselfdestruct wrote:
So what's the verdict? Good live, or shitty?
Just got back from vacation along the California coast where I spent a night in Big Sur. This song was stuck in my head the entire time I was there. Stupid catchy songs!
This song would be a sweet, great AM radio hit. Like 93 KHJ. Does such a thing exist anymore?
999_99_999 wrote:
I saw these guys open up for the Pixies, last night. They sound pretty good live.
jbtidwell wrote:
Great Song, Great Sound - but they opened for the Pixies in Atlanta... it didn't translate well live.
So what's the verdict? Good live, or shitty?
Great Song, Great Sound - but they opened for the Pixies in Atlanta... it didn't translate well live.
wxman wrote:
Boosiewolf wrote:
I like this song! And who WOULDN'T want to go back to Big Sur? I mean, LOOK at it? I first heard this song right after I had visited Big Sur and thought the same thing. Definitely one of the most beautiful places I've been too. The temperature will vary by 30 degrees or so as you meander up highway one. A half mile or so inland it'll be 90 degrees and quickly go back down to 60 as you get closer to the Pacific. Being from the East Coast, I had never experienced a micro climate like that. Despite what The Thrills are saying, I will try to get back there.
i love big sur, too, but it needs a better song than this to represent it.
Boosiewolf wrote:
I like this song! And who WOULDN'T want to go back to Big Sur? I mean, LOOK at it? I first heard this song right after I had visited Big Sur and thought the same thing. Definitely one of the most beautiful places I've been too. The temperature will vary by 30 degrees or so as you meander up highway one. A half mile or so inland it'll be 90 degrees and quickly go back down to 60 as you get closer to the Pacific. Being from the East Coast, I had never experienced a micro climate like that. Despite what The Thrills are saying, I will try to get back there.
phineas wrote:
Why don't they want me to go back to Pittsburgh? Oh, wait...nevermind.
I'm from Pittsburgh...and I never heard them saying that! And wait! Pittsburgh is a nice place!
SiniLMan wrote:
The music sounds like the Smiths to me. Neither good nor bad, just does to me.
Just does -to you- is right I would suspect.
....Well, can I at least go back to Little Miss?? :grumpy.gif:
Ok song but overplayed here.
they sound so much like the lightening seeds. that's who i thought it was in the beginning. Yes poppity goodness!
The music sounds like the Smiths to me. Neither good nor bad, just does to me.
I saw these guys open up for the Pixies, last night. They sound pretty good live.
Sweet pop goodness.... :) Makes my heart shine!
I like this song! And who WOULDN'T want to go back to Big Sur? I mean, LOOK at it?
So poppy it's teeny-boppery. But it's so happy. And happy is good. Especially when business day is almost over.
I thought it was Vicksburg... anti-(Civil) War song. This sickningly sweet London-pop song is one of the most successful ear-worms ever. Now I'm gonna humm this crappy tune all day.
who in their right mind wouldn't go back to Big Sur? It's heaven on earth!
Enrique wrote:
I agree, this is really getting old with too much airplay.
agree also, and after seeing them live (dead?) a few times doesn't do it for me. anyone else seen them live? so unimpressive and boring.
veegez wrote:
And lyrics don't do you! :)
I do lyrics, right in the bullocks!!
GolfRomeo wrote:
I agree: Lightning Seeds cover Rockville.
astute observation
joe1 wrote:
Great POP song!!!! Cracking............Love it.....and I don't do lyrics....
And lyrics don't do you! :)
Please make this song stop. Overplayed and over-rated
Platypus wrote:
a minor lyrical similarity (4 words?) at most.
I agree: Lightning Seeds cover Rockville.
I agree, this is really getting old with too much airplay.
POP - and wearing fast...
Businessgypsy wrote:
I liked this song better when it was REM's (don't go back to) Rockville. Is this RP's equal-time-for-plagaristic-hacks policy?
a minor lyrical similarity (4 words?) at most.
I liked this song better when it was REM's (don't go back to) Rockville . Is this RP's equal-time-for-plagaristic-hacks policy?
Terrible mix.
Leslie wrote:
This song is definitely getting old. Too much airplay for my taste.
Yup. Time for this cut to move on --- if it's The Thrills to be played, how about something different?
This song is definitely getting old. Too much airplay for my taste.
Love the Banjo.
phineas wrote:
Why don't they want me to go back to Pittsburgh? Oh, wait...nevermind.
I thought they didn't want us to go back to Whistler. And I thought "why not?" Why not indeed...
phineas wrote:
Why don't they want me to go back to Pittsburgh? Oh, wait...nevermind.
aaahahahaa that's what my husband thought they were saying, too. smillersmiller wrote:
This song sort of gets in your head like some sort of intersteller parasite that compels the ships captain, delirius with pain and loss of brain
it's true. i had this song in my head for a month, once.
llazare wrote:
Great tune. Sounds like a folkier version of The Flaming Lips.
My initial thought was this is Flaming Lips as well.
sergeant_x wrote:
I really like this song. Its the kind of song I would be in danger of playing too often however. At least that won't happen on here.
Ha ha! Good one!
I really like this song. Its the kind of song I would be in danger of playing too often however. At least that won't happen on here. Any more by these guys?
Make it stop!
Zulu, ahead Cheese factor 10!
Nice, I like some of these bands that are sliding a little poppish 60's into their sound, Rooney is another one I've enjoyed of late.
I dig it!
was that the partridge family?
This song sort of gets in your head like some sort of intersteller parasite that compels the ships captain, delirius with pain and loss of brain matter, to enter the airlock without a spacesuit to make a big mess of himself.
Great tune. Sounds like a folkier version of The Flaming Lips.
Why don't they want me to go back to Pittsburgh? Oh, wait...nevermind.
I hear the signature guitar riff from PF's "Fearless" in this song.
More Thrills, please :)
Hey, I like this song... I got it on a NOW That's... CD a friend from Scotland got me...
From the little I've heard from these guys they are great! I've just booked to see the live in Manchester on the 8th October so I'll fill you all in later on how they were...