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Throwing Muses — Not Too Soon
Album: The Real Ramona
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6.7

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Total ratings: 2211









Released: 1991
Length: 3:06
Plays (last 30 days): 4
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She colourblind tired eyes
Her hallway aching
She'll never move him - likes it that way
He's just a walker and he'll never stop walking away
It's not too soon he said
It's not too soon at all
You might as well be dead he said
If you're afraid to fall
I said -
I know her
She said -
Why do you stare so hard
Wrapped up like a doll in bad dreams and broken arms
Make these old bones shiver
It's not too soon he said
It's not too soon at all
You might as well be dead he said
If you're afraid to fall
I said -
I know her
The last time I saw you,
You were standing in the dark
And with a freezing face,
I watched you fall apart
It's not too soon he said
It's not too soon at all
You might as well be dead he said
If you're afraid to fall
I said,
done your time
been in your place
I couldn't look you in the face
and tell you that it turns me on
it makes my stomach turn
I know her
Comments (168)add comment
 timmus wrote:

I feel shortchanged that I didn't find these awesome bands in 1991.  The radio station just kept slinging endless Jesus Jones, Divinyls, and Red Hot Chili Peppers at me, and not much else.



Right?! So much great talent that was somehow overlooked.
Sure glad to have been aquainted with much of it here on RP.
Posted 3 weeks ago by DigitalJer    [ Reply ]
I hear "Meow meow meow" in places.
Posted 1 month ago by jimboballard    [ Reply ]

Posted 3 months ago by Sofa_King    [ Reply ]
 Steely_D wrote:

OK, this is a banger. Raising my rating.



It's that's crazy drumming.  There's a jazz theme somewhere in it.  
Posted 4 months ago by idiot_wind    [ Reply ]
About the only thing I got out of my college experience around this time ('89-"91) was exposure to incredible underground and alternative music. It has served me much better than anything I got from class.
Posted 5 months ago by Kingsized    [ Reply ]
OK, this is a banger. Raising my rating.
Posted 5 months ago by Steely_D    [ Reply ]
 timmus wrote:

I feel shortchanged that I didn't find these awesome bands in 1991.  The radio station just kept slinging endless Jesus Jones, Divinyls, and Red Hot Chili Peppers at me, and not much else.



OH how I miss Jesus Jones!
Posted 6 months ago by ZenAce    [ Reply ]
I feel shortchanged that I didn't find these awesome bands in 1991.  The radio station just kept slinging endless Jesus Jones, Divinyls, and Red Hot Chili Peppers at me, and not much else.
Posted 9 months ago by timmus    [ Reply ]
WAIT - this is NOT The New Pornographers ?!
Posted 11 months ago by dsilvasi    [ Reply ]
We convinced (bribed) the guy at the door to let us into a Throwing Muses show at The Bottom Line when I was in college (1989). I had a music crush on Kristen Hersh, but a *crush* crush on Tanya Donnelly. Love this tune! 
Posted 1 year ago by jkamm14    [ Reply ]
Amongst Tanya Donnely's best, though the cat growling reminds me of her cover of 'Josie and the Pussycats' {#Bananajam}
Posted 1 year ago by mugwumpgeo887    [ Reply ]
Posted 1 year ago by Jayesea    [ Reply ]
Transported 30+ years instantly. Was a great time to be alive, I'm grateful.
Posted 1 year ago by murrayn    [ Reply ]
ahhhh...muses

Polyanna
Casandra
Pandora

That's alot of trouble, ya know 

Posted 1 year ago by idiot_wind    [ Reply ]
 phlattop wrote:

I think this precedes Liz by a few years


it sure does.
Posted 1 year ago by lily34    [ Reply ]
 Steely_D wrote:

Good, but sounds so much like Liz Phair.


I think this precedes Liz by a few years
Posted 2 years ago by phlattop    [ Reply ]
This is a great album overall if you like this track - check it out. They have many great albums actually. I love their second album - House Tornado, and also University. These 3 albums are the place to go.
Posted 2 years ago by aspicer    [ Reply ]
Tanya Donelly is a great songwriter.
Posted 2 years ago by Phlegmaticman    [ Reply ]
Posted 2 years ago by odoisneau    [ Reply ]
Good, but sounds so much like Liz Phair.
Posted 2 years ago by Steely_D    [ Reply ]
still a mystery to me. I wonder where you ended up?
Posted 2 years ago by mach-hog    [ Reply ]
Was incredibly fortunate to have seen these folks a handful (I think 4 or 5) times, back in the day. The shows were just incredible -- among my all-time favorites out of 50 years of fairly avid concertgoing.
Posted 2 years ago by moto848    [ Reply ]
Good Tune! I never heard of this band before. Thank You RP!
Posted 2 years ago by eileenomurphy    [ Reply ]
Solid.  Home runner hitter.  
Posted 2 years ago by sfoster66    [ Reply ]
thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you

I had forgotten about The Throwing Muses, what brilliant music, I need to leave now.......
Posted 3 years ago by jkforde    [ Reply ]
Strong vibes of "Girl from Mars" by Ash. I think it's even in the same key if my ears are to be trusted...

ETA: whoops - this came first. Sorry! Ash's '1977' album came out in '96. I'll get my coat...
Posted 3 years ago by alltherightnotes    [ Reply ]
Love this! Apropos of nothing, I picked up this cd from Cheap Thrills, a used record/cd store hole-in-the-wall in downtown Montreal before saying goodbye to my friends and family and making the move to western Canada. I recall that not many of my friends seemed to like it like I did, but when I first listened to them, it was like nothing else out there on the airwaves. Thanks RP for bringing back fond memories!
Posted 3 years ago by johnalexford    [ Reply ]
This wins "Best Angry Cat Impersonation in a Musical Composition" Award.

Fun!  
Posted 3 years ago by dmcanany    [ Reply ]
Posted 3 years ago by kcar    [ Reply ]
 sjccroquet wrote:
 
Up-to-11


Nobody's said "turn it up to 11"? Dibs!
Posted 3 years ago by bahalana    [ Reply ]
 haljordan wrote:
Never seem to be able to play this one loud enough, but I'm going to keep trying. 
Up-to-11
Posted 3 years ago by sjccroquet    [ Reply ]
 gleongelpi wrote:
Two questions: Would you buy the album? And if you were on a site where you could choose what to play, would you put it in your rotation? If you wouldn't, it shouldn't be higher than a six.
 
1. Possibly / probably...depending
2. Yes

I had it as a 7 already - means I'm all good - right? 
Posted 3 years ago by rtrt    [ Reply ]
Two questions: Would you buy the album? And if you were on a site where you could choose what to play, would you put it in your rotation? If you wouldn't, it shouldn't be higher than a six.
Posted 3 years ago by gleongelpi    [ Reply ]
The high bar for power pop.
Posted 4 years ago by ace-marc    [ Reply ]
Just noticed they have a new album out "Sun Racket" anyone heard it?!
Posted 4 years ago by aspicer    [ Reply ]
They were just plain fierce live -- what a tremendous band. 
Posted 4 years ago by moto848    [ Reply ]
Fun song!
Posted 4 years ago by Dave_Mack    [ Reply ]
 LoudshirtsBand wrote:

Bill says it quite a lot, albeit mainly in English! 
 

I hear it all the time in english, first time I heard it in my language, thought I imagined it!
Posted 4 years ago by zitherica    [ Reply ]
 zitherica wrote:
Did I just hear them say: "Hvala na slušanju" before this song? 
 
Bill says it quite a lot, albeit mainly in English! 
Posted 4 years ago by LoudshirtsBand    [ Reply ]
Did I just hear them say: "Hvala na slušanju" before this song? 
Posted 4 years ago by zitherica    [ Reply ]
Very Catchy
Posted 4 years ago by Internazionale    [ Reply ]
Haven't heard this song in years. Brings a smile to my face. 
Posted 4 years ago by esopher    [ Reply ]
Those drums, that snarl!! Man, I wish I'd paid more attention the this band!!
Posted 4 years ago by keenevision    [ Reply ]
 RadioDoc wrote:

Just a bit farther than you can toss a mime.

 

That's because a mime usually crashes into one of those invisible walls.
Posted 4 years ago by Proclivities    [ Reply ]
Thought this was Liz Phair at first.
Posted 5 years ago by mrselfdestruct    [ Reply ]
This comes to mind.
Posted 5 years ago by clickfaster    [ Reply ]
And just like that, big smile on my face.
Posted 5 years ago by komainu    [ Reply ]
Fun factoid about the actual CD itself is it looks like a 1/2 of grapefruit.
Posted 5 years ago by aspicer    [ Reply ]
 RadioDoc wrote:

Just a bit farther than you can toss a mime.

 
At least mimes make a lot less noise when you toss them.
Posted 5 years ago by Proclivities    [ Reply ]
Wackodd job, I like it 😊 Thx
Posted 5 years ago by Egctheow    [ Reply ]
Got to see them live in Vancouver in 1991 just as we were really digging that album. (Love when that happens - like the Cracker show in Winnipeg a few years later.) She was pregnant but still rocked! Wish I could remeber more of the concert
Posted 5 years ago by ace-marc    [ Reply ]
They were a good band! has a moment and then it went away. 
Posted 6 years ago by idiot_wind    [ Reply ]
great blast from the past. 
Posted 6 years ago by niseywee    [ Reply ]
Great song, great album !!!!

            
Posted 6 years ago by Michael_in_Paradise    [ Reply ]
This is an expert blend of genres. 
Posted 6 years ago by haljordan    [ Reply ]
Superfluous:)
Posted 6 years ago by Thomjas    [ Reply ]
Influences of Poly Styrene and Cindi Lauper. About time for a Punk revival - why not?
Posted 7 years ago by Stephen_Phillips    [ Reply ]
lordy, that was weird. I was in the middle of reading an article about a plan to reintroduce tigers into the wild in Kazakhstan and this woman in the background starts morphing into a tiger. 
Posted 7 years ago by NoEnzLefttoSplit    [ Reply ]
Blondie ;)  6
Posted 7 years ago by whomhow    [ Reply ]
Can't decide which I like better- the guitar riff or the snarling chorus?  :)
Posted 7 years ago by FluorideFreeMN    [ Reply ]
Sounds like Chris Whitley. Very Nice.
Posted 8 years ago by zbraspear    [ Reply ]
I'm liking this.
Posted 8 years ago by SeriousLee    [ Reply ]
Favorite Throwing Muses tune. Tanya Donelly is a goddess.
Posted 8 years ago by sameritech    [ Reply ]
Never seem to be able to play this one loud enough, but I'm going to keep trying. 
Posted 8 years ago by haljordan    [ Reply ]
LOVE! {#Bananajam} {#Dancingbanana}
Posted 8 years ago by skindy    [ Reply ]
chorus sounds like cat in heat fighting.
Posted 8 years ago by michaelc    [ Reply ]
easy 7,....8?
Posted 8 years ago by Skydog    [ Reply ]
 Kaisersosay wrote:
Has a nice Juliana Hatfield quality. Mixed in with some 80's stuff...

 
Only MUCH better!  {#Wink}   ...this is such a great album overall.
Posted 8 years ago by aspicer    [ Reply ]
 Ableragtacker wrote:
Bitching {#Cheesygrin}

 
That's "Bitchin' "   {#Beat}
Posted 8 years ago by stalfnzo    [ Reply ]
Has a nice Juliana Hatfield quality. Mixed in with some 80's stuff...
Posted 8 years ago by Kaisersosay    [ Reply ]
Not sure I like it (yet) but it is an interesting song.
Posted 9 years ago by westslope    [ Reply ]
 bill-1956 wrote:
This is awful (to me). I can't understand at all how it gets an overall 7 rating.

However - Different music for different people I guess.
 

 
Another case of PSD, at least for me. 
Posted 9 years ago by Bibaboffel    [ Reply ]
This song confuses me.

I like being confused.
Posted 9 years ago by CaffeineSam    [ Reply ]
This is awful (to me). I can't understand at all how it gets an overall 7 rating.

However - Different music for different people I guess.
 
Posted 9 years ago by bill-1956    [ Reply ]
Throwing Mewses? 

kcar wrote:
CAT MUSIC!
 


Posted 9 years ago by ziggytrix    [ Reply ]
Sure didn't see this track coming- but I love the sheer randomness of it!
Posted 9 years ago by FluorideFreeMN    [ Reply ]
 EdEastridge wrote:
 Ok, shouldn't Willie be just right before this so we can pass around some of his favorite herbal supplements whilst staring at this gif when this song comes on? Or should we just pass around the catnip? ;)

 
While goofing off, I checked out his Wikipedia page and noticed this:

"In 2005 Nelson and his family hosted the first annual 'Willie Nelson & NORML Benefit Golf Tournament', leading to a cover appearance and inside interview in the January 2008 issue of High Times magazine."

Makes you wonder whether his handicap improves after lighting up...

Posted 9 years ago by kcar    [ Reply ]
 stalfnzo wrote:
Love Kristin! Thanks Bill

 
You're welcome.  But Tanya gets the credit for this one.
Posted 9 years ago by William    [ Reply ]
Love Kristin! Thanks Bill
Posted 9 years ago by stalfnzo    [ Reply ]
 kcar wrote:
CAT MUSIC!
frenetic psychedelic gif of cat's face 
(one of these days I'm going to crash the RP servers with all these gifs...) 

  Ok, shouldn't Willie be just right before this so we can pass around some of his favorite herbal supplements whilst staring at this gif when this song comes on? Or should we just pass around the catnip? ;)


Posted 10 years ago by eeastridge    [ Reply ]
{#Bananajam}{#Cheesygrin} {#Dancingbanana_2}
Posted 10 years ago by moodfood    [ Reply ]
most excellant!  cool cat too
Posted 10 years ago by hayduke2    [ Reply ]
CAT MUSIC!


frenetic psychedelic gif of cat's face 


(one of these days I'm going to crash the RP servers with all these gifs...) 
Posted 10 years ago by kcar    [ Reply ]
 TJS wrote:
Tanya Donelly, always awesome.

 
Hear, hear! (Or is it here, here?) Anyway, I agree completely. Love her.
Posted 11 years ago by skindy    [ Reply ]
 smackiepipe wrote:
Been about 20 years since I've heard that one. Thanks for that nice jolt, Bill!


Thinking '84 for me, still Meh.......
Posted 11 years ago by GINRUSH    [ Reply ]
Tanya Donelly, always awesome.
Posted 12 years ago by TJS    [ Reply ]
Been about 20 years since I've heard that one. Thanks for that nice jolt, Bill!
Posted 12 years ago by smackiepipe    [ Reply ]
 revsully wrote:
I love that weird noise!
 
me too

Posted 13 years ago by cohifi    [ Reply ]
awesome
Posted 13 years ago by cirruss    [ Reply ]
Hello RP-Listeners!

I wish all of you "MERRY CHRISTMAS",
wherever you are - whoever you wanna be!

Christmas is a sweet-naive tradition -
not a religious event! 

I like it anyway!

Still - I hope Bill takes the chance
to rock the christmas-tree to pieces tonight!

"Happy Christmas
your "BAD SANTA",
aka STINGRAY
-from Cologne/Germany-
PS
Sermon of the day (promise: I'm serious):

The "Three Wise Men" - Melchior, Balthasar + Caspar
are buried in a golden sarcophage in"our" dome, the famous 
"Cologne dome" - the third highest church-building
in the world - right in the very centre of town, next to the Rhine.
A gothic building of extra-class!

Have a look:
https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Koelner_Dom_bei_Nacht_1_RB.JPG&filetimestamp=20060517174554

The "grave" for the non-believers:
https://www.koelner-dom.de/17450.html?&L=1

+

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrine_of_the_Three_Kings

Posted 13 years ago by Stingray    [ Reply ]
I love that weird noise!
Posted 14 years ago by revsully    [ Reply ]
This is one of Tanya Donelly's songs! :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanya_Donelly 
Posted 14 years ago by warderblu    [ Reply ]
...twenty years apart and yet this sits so nicely up against arcade fire's half light, nearly contemporaneous...
Posted 14 years ago by mandolin    [ Reply ]
sounds like a Go-Go's rip off.... lame
Posted 14 years ago by ckcotton    [ Reply ]
 RadioDoc wrote:

Just a bit farther than you can toss a mime.

 
I prefer to use a catapult for mimes — that way you don't have to grab around those invisible boxes that they protect themselves with.

Good tune - Tanya Donnely and Kristin Hersh.
Posted 14 years ago by Proclivities    [ Reply ]
...way way way way catchy!..
Posted 14 years ago by mandolin    [ Reply ]
 lmic wrote:
Like Liz Phair fronting for the Bangles.
 
I was convinced it was Liz Phair til I checked the playlist.

Posted 14 years ago by On_The_Beach    [ Reply ]
 DaveInVA wrote:
Just how far can you throw a Muse anyways? I like it...

 
Just a bit farther than you can toss a mime.

Posted 14 years ago by RadioDoc    [ Reply ]
Just how far can you throw a Muse anyways? I like it...

Posted 14 years ago by DaveInSaoMiguel    [ Reply ]
Nice one!  I heard this song years ago, really liked it but could never remember who it was.  Thanks RP!
Posted 15 years ago by Bridieboo    [ Reply ]
This album remains one of my favorites.  One gem after another all the way through. 
Posted 15 years ago by diazo    [ Reply ]
Gorsh!  What a pleasant surprise.    Put "Two Step (from the same album)" into circulation, and you will have truly moved beyond anything I could hope to hear on Ye Olde FM wireless radio contraption.
Posted 15 years ago by tpa29970    [ Reply ]
This song goes from good to great when she repeats the synth sound with her voice. That part makes the song.
Posted 16 years ago by jnhashmi    [ Reply ]
I agree with the Liz Phair/Bangles analogy, but... Heart?? wft?? trempel wrote:
I thought this was heart for a bit. Still, it's pretty cool
Posted 16 years ago by Krispian    [ Reply ]
lmic wrote:
Like Liz Phair fronting for the Bangles.
At least one of us doesn't know what you're talking about.
Posted 16 years ago by queenjill    [ Reply ]
kaupmees wrote:
My ass is on fire and I'm dancing around in reckless abandon again.
"Rectum? Damn near killed him!" Quite likeable tune from the Muses.
Posted 17 years ago by Roverfish    [ Reply ]
...heh, thought this was belly at first - love tanya donelly's voice...
Posted 17 years ago by mandolin    [ Reply ]
Posted 17 years ago by oppositelock    [ Reply ]
Like Liz Phair fronting for the Bangles.
Posted 17 years ago by lmic    [ Reply ]
oh my. you people know nothing!!!!
Posted 17 years ago by dogpound    [ Reply ]
Oh yea! Rawks!
Posted 17 years ago by Mari    [ Reply ]
I thought this was heart for a bit. Still, it's pretty cool
Posted 17 years ago by trempel    [ Reply ]
enidualc wrote:
it's good, but no one compares to my liz
ooooookay
Posted 17 years ago by davin    [ Reply ]
What's wrong with the Go-Go's? I have a hard time listening to RP at work any more, I listen too closely and don't get any work done! I need to find that smooth jazz channel zzzzzzzzzzzz
Posted 17 years ago by Helchat    [ Reply ]
Go-go's revisited. 'nuff said. (but I kinda like it too)
Posted 18 years ago by MtnGoat    [ Reply ]
This one incorporates some of the Sixties all-girl bands (singers only) with grit and cool.
Posted 18 years ago by steeler    [ Reply ]
davin wrote:
Yep this sounds like Liz PHair, or the other way around. She sounds, um, like someone's holding her down and she's trying to get away. Peculiar.
it's good, but no one compares to my liz
Posted 18 years ago by enidualc    [ Reply ]
Yep this sounds like Liz PHair, or the other way around. She sounds, um, like someone's holding her down and she's trying to get away. Peculiar.
Posted 18 years ago by davin    [ Reply ]
wow its been a long time!
Posted 18 years ago by meower    [ Reply ]
best of the Throwing Muses
Posted 18 years ago by pedro    [ Reply ]