Dud. This song is crap, and title is probably even more annoying than the tune itself.
― Richard Wood Johnson, Thursday, 2 August 2007 14:26 (sixteen years ago) link
CLASSIC. great song.
― sean gramophone, Thursday, 2 August 2007 14:55 (sixteen years ago) link
NICE SAMPLE!
― Tape Store, Thursday, 2 August 2007 15:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Predates Moby's Play by three years.
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 2 August 2007 15:45 (sixteen years ago) link
what an accomplishment
― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 2 August 2007 16:03 (sixteen years ago) link
also predating play by 3 years:
- all eyez on me - antichrist superstar - backstreet boys (s/t) - bringing down the horse - crash - kiss unplugged - reasonable doubt - 311 - "one sweet day"
― max, Thursday, 2 August 2007 16:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Primitive Radio Gods
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 2 August 2007 16:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Radioative Gidi Pros
― t**t, Thursday, 2 August 2007 16:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Classic. I have conflicted feelings about this, because the song seems crassly manipulative (about nothing in particular, thankfully). But then I just listened to it again, trying to put my finger on it. I think it's the bass line, which is kind of mopey and "deep". I wondered why I found that crass when I don't find it crass on say "Murder Was The Case". I then decided there was no reason, and just went with classic.
― Euler, Thursday, 2 August 2007 16:49 (sixteen years ago) link
I cried sad sad tears when my friends would talk about "the old man who sings the chorus."
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 2 August 2007 17:48 (sixteen years ago) link
i have no idea who sings the chorus.
(Wikipedia)
Oh, BB King. I've never listened to any of his music. Except for that Arby's commercial.
― poortheatre, Thursday, 2 August 2007 20:56 (sixteen years ago) link
I grew up listening to BB, so hearing his blues shoehorned into (what I thought was) an awful trip-pop song was really depressing.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 2 August 2007 22:12 (sixteen years ago) link
BB King made his recording debut on a late 80s U2 record after Bono found him on a plantation he bought from a southern tobacco farmer. King exploded onto the blues music scene soon afterwards, and the rest, like the glorious Arby's commercial and the sample on the legendary Primitive Radio Gods album, is history. It's truly amazing that someone like BB King could come from such humble beginnings.
― Richard Wood Johnson, Thursday, 2 August 2007 22:13 (sixteen years ago) link
someone played this on the radio early and i had to wiki it:
guy fronts forgotten jangle-pop band called The I-Rails, leaves band after little success and starts working at an airplane hanger, starts sending out demo tape after demo tape in hopes of landing another deal. still he sees little success.
hopeless at this point... he sends out one last batch. and the record executives eat up the blatant Gen X cynicism and trip hop mish mash of this one particular track. it goes on to be a hit. guy records an album for label and it's a complete flop. goes back to job.
what's endearing about it is you can kinda imagine the protagonist of the song tearing his hair out in whatever low-rent apartment. searching for the magic, completely miserable, looking for that hit... the one that will land him somewhere.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XJxFAoiWSY
― hackshaw, Monday, 31 August 2015 22:52 (eight years ago) link
god i fucking hate this song
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Tuesday, 1 September 2015 03:57 (eight years ago) link
i fucking love this song
― dyl, Tuesday, 1 September 2015 04:09 (eight years ago) link
classic
― james brooks, Tuesday, 1 September 2015 04:14 (eight years ago) link
i have cried to the noisy outro <-- most embarrassing thing i will ever tell anyone
― dyl, Tuesday, 1 September 2015 04:16 (eight years ago) link
classic. not sure why, but good song by BLUR always makes me think of this song
― In a slipshod style (Ross), Tuesday, 21 November 2017 05:12 (six years ago) link
real period piece, this one. i like it more when i think about it than when i actually listen the whole way through, probably because of the wannabe gen x slacker profundity of most of the lyrics. can't deny the effectiveness of the sampling though.
― gimme the beet poison, free my soul (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 21 November 2017 05:23 (six years ago) link
Mother Theresa's joined the mob and happy with her full-time job
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 21 November 2017 05:57 (six years ago) link
Now it's, what, "Standing Next To a CitiBike Station Checking My Bitcoin"?
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 21 November 2017 14:06 (six years ago) link
they have *six* albums?
― LaRusso Auto (Neanderthal), Sunday, 27 September 2020 01:51 (three years ago) link
lol the song title is also sampled
The song's title is a reference to the otherwise unrelated song "Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand" by Bruce Cockburn, from his 1978 album Further Adventures Of.[1][2]
― LaRusso Auto (Neanderthal), Sunday, 27 September 2020 01:52 (three years ago) link
Depression and what it’s really like
― brimstead, Sunday, 27 September 2020 01:57 (three years ago) link
“It took five years for the first record to come out, and now four years later here we are again," a relieved O'Connor said. "Whether it's the greatest record in the world, who knows, but it's as good as most stuff out there.”
― brimstead, Sunday, 27 September 2020 20:08 (three years ago) link
Bring back Dick Wood imo
― Mille scampeaux (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 27 September 2020 20:17 (three years ago) link
And apparently they went shoegaze?
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 28 September 2020 17:32 (three years ago) link
This song is fine. I agree it's proto moby "play." The subsequent post listing 10 artists who don't sound like this song is stupid.
― billstevejim, Monday, 28 September 2020 18:44 (three years ago) link