Beck — Gamma Ray
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If I could to hold hold out for now
With these ice caps melting down
With the transistor sound
And my Chevrolet terraplane
Going around around around
Come on little gamma ray
Standing in a hurricane
Your brains are bored
Like a refugee from a house that's burning
And the heat wave's calling your name
She's got on a cactus crown
With a dot dot dot on her brow
And she speaks inside a cloud
With her countenance turning around
Hit me like a gamma ray
Standing in a hurricane
And I'm pulling out thorns
Smokestack lightning out my window
I want to know what I've lost today
Come on little gamma ray
Standing in a hurricane
And your body's bored
Like a refugee from a house that's burning
And the backwater's calling your name
With these ice caps melting down
With the transistor sound
And my Chevrolet terraplane
Going around around around
Come on little gamma ray
Standing in a hurricane
Your brains are bored
Like a refugee from a house that's burning
And the heat wave's calling your name
She's got on a cactus crown
With a dot dot dot on her brow
And she speaks inside a cloud
With her countenance turning around
Hit me like a gamma ray
Standing in a hurricane
And I'm pulling out thorns
Smokestack lightning out my window
I want to know what I've lost today
Come on little gamma ray
Standing in a hurricane
And your body's bored
Like a refugee from a house that's burning
And the backwater's calling your name
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B52's rythm. Not bad.
man, I loooooove this whole album, Beck at his most playful, melodic, fun... talented bastard!![music](https://img.radioparadise.com/emoji/icon_music.gif)
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aspicer wrote:
True and beautiful applomb.
Perhaps one of the most underrated artists of the past 20 years...
True and beautiful applomb.
aspicer wrote:
Not really. He's rated quite well. Maybe not in your circles. I always jump on this comment...when one decides whether a band or artiste is under or over rated. Totally subjective.
Wiki-" Beck has won 7 Grammy Awards from 17 nominations, including Album of the Year in 2015 for Morning Phase..." and.....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Beck
Not under rated at all.
Perhaps one of the most underrated artists of the past 20 years...
Not really. He's rated quite well. Maybe not in your circles. I always jump on this comment...when one decides whether a band or artiste is under or over rated. Totally subjective.
Wiki-" Beck has won 7 Grammy Awards from 17 nominations, including Album of the Year in 2015 for Morning Phase..." and.....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Beck
Not under rated at all.
Perhaps one of the most underrated artists of the past 20 years...
Somebody has to explain to me where the magic and genius is in this guy rather than any teen playing comparable stuff with neighbors in his garage for his neighborhood.
kcar wrote:
Maybe the Scientologist Proctologists got him; ouch!
Hey RPers, where's our Teutonic capslock ranter these days? Stingray hasn't commented since sometime in September '15. Have the Thetans rounded him up?
Maybe the Scientologist Proctologists got him; ouch!
drewd wrote:
If Beck's fumbling down at the back end these days, it's probably difficult for him to be "Clear"...
Hey RPers, where's our Teutonic capslock ranter these days? Stingray hasn't commented since sometime in September '15. Have the Thetans rounded him up?
PROCTOLOGIST
If Beck's fumbling down at the back end these days, it's probably difficult for him to be "Clear"...
Hey RPers, where's our Teutonic capslock ranter these days? Stingray hasn't commented since sometime in September '15. Have the Thetans rounded him up?
LPCity wrote:
Beck's lyrics make more and more sense every time you listen to a song. Or is it just me?
Love hearing Beck, but I have to ask; do his lyrics make any kind of sense to anyone but him?
Beck's lyrics make more and more sense every time you listen to a song. Or is it just me?
Freaking love this song!!! Reminds me of a library in Bend Oregon
drewd wrote:
MAILBOX
wait, what?
PROCTOLOGIST
MAILBOX
wait, what?
PROCTOLOGIST
Again!?!?!?!?!?!
Yuck!!!
Love hearing Beck, but I have to ask; do his lyrics make any kind of sense to anyone but him?
It's 1960's Rock N Roll. Luv it.
GawgaBoy wrote:
I'm SHOCKED ! Where's the pod? This is not the romeotuma we have come to know and love?.
No comment... I hope you are having a marvelous time right now...
I'm SHOCKED ! Where's the pod? This is not the romeotuma we have come to know and love?.
No comment... I hope you are having a marvelous time right now...
Bill... You are messing with our minds.
great track from a great album!
love it
love it
Makes me feel like I'm in a small boat on very wobbly water!
I suffer from severe beckophobia.
Kind of a groovy 60s sound.
romeotuma wrote:
No comment... well, almost no comment... no comment is actually something of a comment...
no comment...
I'm SHOCKED ! Where's the pod? This is not the romeotuma we have come to know and love?.
No comment... well, almost no comment... no comment is actually something of a comment...
no comment...
I'm SHOCKED ! Where's the pod? This is not the romeotuma we have come to know and love?.
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We're kidding, right?
Somebody has to explain to me where the magic and genius is in this guy rather than any teen playing comparable stuff with neighbors in his garage for his neighborhood.
Point me to one of those teenagers making music I want to listen to and I’ll agree with you.