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The eyes of Lucy Jordan
In a white suburban bedroom
In a white suburban town
And she lay there 'neath the covers
Dreaming of a thousand lovers
'Til the world turned to orange
And the room went spinning round
At the age of 37
She realized she'd never ride
Through Paris in a sports car
With the warm wind in her hair
So she let the phone keep ringing
As she sat there softly singing
Pretty nursery rhymes she'd memorized
In her Daddy's easy chair
Her husband he's off to work
And the kids are off to school
And there were oh so many ways
For her to spend her days
She could clean the house for hours
Or rearrange the flowers
Or run naked through the shady street
Screaming all the way
At the age of 37
She realized she'd never ride
Through Paris in a sports car
With the warm wind in her hair
So she let the phone keep ringing
As she sat there softly singing
Pretty nursery rhymes she'd memorized
In her Daddy's easy chair
The evening sun touched gently on
The eyes of Lucy Jordan
On the rooftop where she climbed
When all the laughter grew too loud
And she bowed and curtsied to the man
Who reached and offered her his hand
And he led her down to the long white car that waited past the crowd
At the age of 37
She knew she'd found forever
As she rode along through Paris
With the warm wind in her hair
Would be much better with a real rhythm section. Click tracks kill music
I've felt like this for a while. This track is a tease. Just waiting the beat to drop, but it never comes. A house remix would make this track really slap.
Would be much better with a real rhythm section. Click tracks kill music
A pedant writes - it's unlikely to be a click track. More likely a Linn or a Roland Drum machine.
OK. I'll say it. I'm with those who see no value whatsoever in posts like this.
If you think it'll influence my choices, you're wrong. I pay attention to the 72.5% of 1801 raters (as of this post) who give it a 6 or better. And I pay attention to how it sounds to my ears, and fits with the current flow and mood.
That's it.
@William I get it. I respect your opinion and of course it is your station so you should play what you want, but this particular song instantly strikes me the wrong way. It's not even an intellectual reaction, more of a physical one.
That said, I've been an RP listener for a long time and a longtime supporter as well. I think we're both entitled to our opinions.
Peace.
Sad to think the protagonist of the song is now 80 years old. Makes 37 seem like the early adult years... and it kind of is.
According to my interpretation of this song, the protagonist's phyiscal being didn't make it past 37. But the rest of your comment is dead on for me.
the Wikipedia page about the song gives a different interpretation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Well I guess I like that better, but I'd sure like to know what Shel would have said.
Thanks for the link.
I guess you’ve never watched C’était Un Rendez-vous . . .
Cheers, pxd
So I'm not wrong - she kills herself, right? She jumps?
the Wikipedia page about the song gives a different interpretation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Instant PSD
OK. I'll say it. I'm with those who see no value whatsoever in posts like this.
If you think it'll influence my choices, you're wrong. I pay attention to the 72.5% of 1801 raters (as of this post) who give it a 6 or better. And I pay attention to how it sounds to my ears, and fits with the current flow and mood.
That's it.
Thanks.
Love you guys! Best radio station ever!
Inside her head,
Gets switched to 'overload'
And nobody's going to go to school today
She's going to make them stay at home.
Similar vibe to this, though a bit less extreme.
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Always reminds me of my bestie, driving through Normandy in her Miata one November a few years ago: roof down and woolly hats keeping our ears warm. Close, and yet so far - especially when you consider that we were returning from a visit to a hardware shop to buy some nails...
There's gotta be a ballad in that story somewhere.
She'd realised that she'd never drive through Normandy
in a sportscar
with a cold wind freezing her ears
and a bag of nails in the boot.
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Sofa_King...hot.
Kraftwerk should be proud.
mach-hog wrote:
No, Steve Wineood should be 🙏
He should be!
He did a brilliant channeling of Kraftwerk's synth style for most of his late 70s and 80s career.
Listen to something like "Autobahn" -- the first 2-3 minutes is enough -- or "The Model", from The Man-Machine; or "Europe Endless", or "Franz Schubert", from Trans-Europe Express, and it becomes pretty clear.
Not saying it's wrong, far from it. It's hauntingly perfect on Broken English.
I was never really much of a MF fan, but this song took on special meaning for me and a dear bunch of Melbourne mates one wild weekend in November of 2000, down at Wye River past Lorne on the way to Apollo Bay, where Suzanne and Richard hosted my friends Geoff and Vicky and I at their amazing house on the hill, and we had feasted and drunk bottles and bottles of Shiraz, CabSav, and Pinot, and Suzanne played this, and — it was like The Big Chill came over us — and we all felt it too keenly, especially me, with my marriage back in the States having burned up on re-entry! and thankfully before I or anyone else could cry, she got up and put on some old Linda Rhondstat, which happened to be nearby, and the relief was all the more apparent as we all sang and danced our way down to put our toes in the icy water in the moonlight...
Without pain there is no joy; without undergoing some of life's heavy blues, there is no knowledge or appreciation of true merriment!
Linda Ronstsdat has the talent to heal... brother you just had a roller-coaster moment
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Kraftwerk should be proud.
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I was thinking the exact same thing....
Steve Winwood played the synths.
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Bumping 8 to 9 for the same reason :-)
Wow, these lyrics are amazing. Who know Shel Siverstein could write songs?! Impressed.
a boy name sue did ;)
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Totally agree... this song stops me in my tracks every time.
... as is consistent with the content.
Montenegro
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Wicked.
Paris is definitely NOT the best place to ride in a sports car...Especially if you're
Isadora Duncan...;-(
Tony in NJ
W.A.S.T.E.
I was thinking the exact same thing....
me too, but with video game music bed
"There was green alligators and long-necked geese, "
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Sing a few verses, poseur
Looks like you didn't understand the question
.... FYI it's not about you and your dumb tourist advice
Dumb as a sack of rocks!
A tragic story, well-told by Mr. Silverstein.
Not everyone's cuppa, but an 8 for me.
c.
Well at least it has an annoying musical track to match.... 🤮
D - G - A (I - IV - V) "folk" chord progression; it's been used in thousands of songs. This is an old Shel Silverstein song, not as old as "Desolation Row" though.
Same.
Thought so too. I like it
Get a bucket.
You could also try stomping your feet, crying, and sticking out your lower lip.
OMG had to stop and PSD as desperately as possible
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I'm with you, spacemoose!
This is a station for people that theoretically like "eclectic" music, but as soon as the music gets the least bit challenging, people immediately write such insightful comments as "This sucks!".
Kinda sad, IMO.
"This sucks!"
I'm with you, spacemoose!
This is a station for people that theoretically like "eclectic" music, but as soon as the music gets the least bit challenging, people immediately write such insightful comments as "This sucks!".
Kinda sad, IMO.
Yup. But then on the other hand, despite the large numbers who chant "This sucks!" or "Kill it!", the DJ persists with the assortment.
If I already knew and liked all the songs I hear on RP, I would have probably stopped listening a long time ago.
Not particularly enamoured with this number but it does sound a little better on subsequent listens. Who the singer is IS interesting.
Yes
The lyrics! And the voice - matching the lyrics
Outstanding
I thought using this song in the movie was great, it really fit.
I'm completely with you on this.
I seriously think that Montenegro might be the best movie ever made (if such a thing can be measured.) And I can't think of either the movie or this song without thinking of the other.
Always makes me stop dead and listen when it comes up on RP.
Or Eno-produced Talking Heads. I have no idea if Eno produced this track. If not, the producer was clearly a big fan of his.
I just checked into the comments to see if anyone knew if Brian Eno Or John Cale had something to do with this. Certainly sounds like it.
Play more of her material.
Graham
Somewhere in the sandbox called Kuwait.
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Millions of kids around the world who want to sing will be told "Don't - you do not have a good voice"!
I say SING! It cannot be worse than this!
If she would have gone as total nobody to a record company they would have asked her "seriously?" and told her to bugger off and would not have given her the time of day.
But then she could say "I shagged Mick Jagger in the last century" !
And all of a sudden its "oh its Marianne Faithful"!
Cant sing, can't nothing, but was Mick's squeeze at one time, so its alright, give her a record deal!
Reminds me of that Paul Weller song, what was it? Shagged to the top? Oh, sorry, no that was "shout to top" was it not?
Oh dear, my mistake!
YUCK!
I thought using this song in the movie was great, it really fit.
WOULD SHE?
It might be time to let it go, dude.
WOULD SHE?
Wow! I have not heard MF in a long time. I must say, I appreciate her more now.
Exactly what I was going to say!