Listening to Moby Grape on Radio Paradise

Moby Grape — Omaha

Album: Moby Grape
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6.3

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Total ratings: 230

Released: 1968
Length: 2:41
Plays (last 30 days): 0

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Listen, my friends!
Listen, my friends!
Listen, my friends!

You thought never but
I'm your's forever
Won't leave you ever

Now my friends
What's gone down behind
No more rain
From where we came

Get under the covers, yeah!
All of your lovin'
Beneath and above ya
Bein' in love!

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kevinpobrien wrote:

And of course there's Vanilla Fudge.

If this were a Vanilla Fudge song, it would be three times as long.

Posted 4 years ago by Dave_Mack [ Reply ]

amcallis wrote:

I didn't catch how this song is about Omaha, but I'm from there!

It's a secret

Posted 4 years ago by SmackDaddy [ Reply ]

And of course there's Vanilla Fudge.

Posted 4 years ago by kevinpobrien [ Reply ]

This is one of the groups that reminds me of how fortunate I was to come up when I did. Remember hearing this record played by my friends "cool" older brother in the summer between 8th and 9th grade.

Posted 4 years ago by kevinpobrien [ Reply ]

And next up on flashback whatever day we have the Electric Prunes! Yes that is a real band name, check it out nonbelievers.

Posted 5 years ago by bh1 [ Reply ]

Oh wow, I never knew the Michael Stipe-led song on the Golden Palominos album was a cover of this song. Mind-blown!

Posted 5 years ago by SmackDaddy [ Reply ]

For only 81 ratings, there is quite a bell curve on the ratings chart.

Posted 5 years ago by the_jake [ Reply ]

Why did they pick that name for the band?

Here is how it might have happened... originally they wanted Moby Dick (the name of the whale in Herman Melville's book of the same name) but the record company said..."You can't have the word Dick in your name" so the band looked at each other with blank faces and when no drug inspired ideas emerged they let a dictionary fall open on the floor and the first word on the page it opened on was "Grape" - so Moby Grape it was!

Could there be any other rational reason?

Posted 5 years ago by Stephen_Phillips [ Reply ]

Since you played 6:08 a while ago, and I didn't get it, I started researching Moby Grape a bit.... I read all the Wikipedia articles, and found that Omaha is one of Rolling Stone's top songs ever, near 100 out of 500. So I hit YouTube, and was really very underwhelmed.... until I found this:

In 2010, they were playing in Austin, and someone recorded this cut of their live performance: NOW I get it.... they ROCK!! Check out the guitar riff starting especially at 2:00 in... one of the best ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNqPwL2jbhU BillG, I'd like to hear your version, and hope your cut is half as good as this. I've now listened to it about 5 times in a row....

Posted 7 years ago by freemusic [ Reply ]

Holy cow, i haven't heard this in over 30 years!! What a great suprise.

Posted 19 years ago by dedawson [ Reply ]

I didn't catch how this song is about Omaha, but I'm from there!

Posted 19 years ago by amcallis [ Reply ]

Johray63 wrote:

I'm afraid that won't happen, Kurt. I've uploaded it, but it was rejected.

What do you mean rejected? Shall I try to do it tonight?

Posted 19 years ago by bolly333 [ Reply ]

Great to hear Moby Grape on the radio. One of the best groups ever!!!

Posted 19 years ago by bolly333 [ Reply ]

Bill, please don't talk over the music. One hears that on the radio and it is horrifying, IMO. Thanks!

Posted 19 years ago by Enrique [ Reply ]

Johray63 wrote:

I'm afraid that won't happen, Kurt. I've uploaded it, but it was rejected.

UPLOAD MORE!!! MORE!! MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted 19 years ago by JokesandJokesandJokes [ Reply ]

A fine day to be in Omaha today...

Posted 19 years ago by GregX59 [ Reply ]

The Golden Palominos cover of this (featuring Michael Stipe) would be cool to hear too.