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There's not a soul in the whole place to see or ask me why
And with my senses in shreds
There I go to pick up the loose threads
Away from your hungry eyes
And in that infinite place
You'll see a smile on my blank face
Because you can't get there
It's not just being alone
It's more like a view that I've half known
From hills but I don't know where
Imagination
Living mental isolation
Imagination
Imagination
Far from your contamination
Drifting in my inner space
Imagination
And when I look outside
There's a world with nowhere to hide from the cold reality
I've chased innumerable friends
Filled my life with innumerable trends
But it didn't make me see
Imagination
Living mental isolation
Imagination
Imagination
Far from your contamination
Drifting in my inner space
Imagination
But in the depth of a dream
Where the grass is always so green
And the sky is always blue
I'm escaping silently
I'm rejecting violently
This world for something new
Imagination
Living mental isolation
Imagination
Imagination
Far from your contamination
Drifting in my inner space
Imagination
The initial guitar reminds me of U2's Electric Co
Everything about this song reminds me of U2
The intro reminds me of 'Dear Prudence' by the Beatles.
The initial guitar reminds me of U2's Electric Co
Then throw in a dash of jangley gitar!
A lot if the comments seem to be vices and virtues of the 70s/80s. For me RP is the FM radio station that came into itself in the 70s all over the country. That was the golden age of FM radio. I started RP 2003 and it has gotten better with outstanding audio quality and usually,
Yes! RP is from a bygone era called Freeform FM Radio.
A lot if the comments seem to be vices and virtues of the 70s/80s. For me RP is the FM radio station that came into itself in the 70s all over the country. That was the golden age of FM radio. I started RP 2003 and it has gotten better with outstanding audio quality and usually,
have to add: quality reception even with 3/4G almost every where available.
I am 54 and every generation has some great gems and some not so much. The 80's gave us so many incredible bands such as U2, Elvis Costello, Talk Talk, Icehouse, Crowded House (Split Enz), Madonna (hate her or love her), Roxy Music, The Cars, Duran Duran, Tears For Fears, The Cure, The Church, Depeche Mode, INXS, The Pretenders and MJ of course, and the list goes on and on. Nobody can call the 80's bad musically, unless of course you got stuck in the 70's.
-Molson
It sounds more like Joy Division to me.
that's what i was thinking.
The early guitar play of this song reminds me of "Be Good Johnny" by Men At Work.
Thank you for saying what I was just about to post! :)
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The upsetting thing that I have learned now, is that most of the bands you listed (likely all), signed a deal with the dark side which means Freemasons. Makes me sad that I supported their satanic religion.
Whut?
Thank you so much, you made my day!
I am 54 and every generation has some great gems and some not so much. The 80's gave us so many incredible bands such as U2, Elvis Costello, Talk Talk, Icehouse, Crowded House (Split Enz), Madonna (hate her or love her), Roxy Music, The Cars, Duran Duran, Tears For Fears, The Cure, The Church, Depeche Mode, INXS, The Pretenders and MJ of course, and the list goes on and on. Nobody can call the 80's bad musically, unless of course you got stuck in the 70's.
-Molson
The upsetting thing that I have learned now, is that most of the bands you listed (likely all), signed a deal with the dark side which means Freemasons. Makes me sad that I supported their satanic religion.
the cure want their sound back
It sounds more like Joy Division to me.
This must be the only radio station where you can hear a song you have never heard before, find it pretty good, and then discover it is already 29 years old.
And 10 years later this is still true
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I thought this was a song by Icicle Works that I'd never heard before. Good one.
Same Here!
I always love hearing this -- its wildly frenetic beat reminds me of U2 (Stories for Boys; Electric Co.), Men at Work (Be good, be good...), English Beat (Mirror in the Bathroom), and I love how they take that amazingly crisp guitar, fluid bass, stellar drumming, and quirky, impassioned vocals to the next level and weave it into a magic spell!
I hear the similarity to U2/Electric Co. - some Flock of Seagulls too. I like it.
I'm not prone to sweeping generalizations, but anyone 60 or over who makes broad generalizations about entire decades that don't fit their personal tastes is full of crap.
Don't think the age restriction is necessary to be honest.
I am 54 and every generation has some great gems and some not so much. The 80's gave us so many incredible bands such as U2, Elvis Costello, Talk Talk, Icehouse, Crowded House (Split Enz), Madonna (hate her or love her), Roxy Music, The Cars, Duran Duran, Tears For Fears, The Cure, The Church, Depeche Mode, INXS, The Pretenders and MJ of course, and the list goes on and on. Nobody can call the 80's bad musically, unless of course you got stuck in the 70's.
-Molson
This comment has aged well 🤟
How true! There's more than one song on an album or a CD.
-Molson
Psychedelic Furs, Echo & the Bunnymen, Joy Division, New Order, Blondie, Talking Heads, Bauhaus, Devo. Bowie, Joe Jackson, Graham Parker, Dream Syndicate, Sex Pistols, The Clash, ......etc....etc....etc...................
Ha! I just thought the exact same thing. But now for me it's over 37 years old. Geez! LLRP!!
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And Echo & The Bunnymen ... not just another drop in the ocean ...
I was actually hearing instrumentally and vocally, Flick of Seagulls. Top notch tune, any of the mentioned AND this tune!!
I'm not prone to sweeping generalizations, but anyone 60 or over who makes broad generalizations about entire decades that don't fit their personal tastes is full of crap.
AGREED! And I'm 60!
Movement through mountains, next to roaring river, even going through tunnels.
-Molson
Stuck in the 70s?
U2 (76), The Cure (78), Roxy Music, Elvis Costello, The Cars (76), and the Pretenders (78) are all products of the 70's. Roxy and Elvis began their careers in 1970 proper. Even Madonna started out in the late 70's. ...And MJ (of course) is a product of the 1960's and, most certainly, rose to clear prominence in the 70's
The first extended guitar riff is screaming "Men at Work" to me.
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cool tune too I'll emoji it
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I expect it would not be so cool if they decided to call themselves the inverse "Happy Lovers & Dwarfs".
I can't explain why but sadness and melancholy seem to be preferable to happiness.
Also Giants seems to be preferable to Dwarfs.
Do people subconsciously prefer sadness and giants to happiness and dwarfs?
I am sure some of the learned philosophers on this forum have the answer...
I think Giants are more mythical, hence the impression we 'like' them more, and of course, some folks view being a dwarf as a disability. And maybe people understand that without sadness, happiness doesn't exist.....and I went +1 to 7 on hearing this one today...LLRP and short, tall, happy and sad people!!
I'm not prone to sweeping generalizations, but anyone 60 or over who makes broad generalizations about entire decades that don't fit their personal tastes is full of crap.
I expect it would not be so cool if they decided to call themselves the inverse "Happy Lovers & Dwarfs".
I can't explain why but sadness and melancholy seem to be preferable to happiness.
Also Giants seems to be preferable to Dwarfs.
Do people subconsciously prefer sadness and giants to happiness and dwarfs?
I am sure some of the learned philosophers on this forum have the answer...
Hmmm...
They Might be Giants...
The Pursuit of Happiness
And of course...
Stonehenge
Kidding of course. Man, I was a DJ in the 80s and never heard of this band. Me likey.
still... I like this.
me and my imaginations! Love you RP for keeping me keen and sometimes guessing! 123K
Yes! Definitely has that vibe at the beginning...thanks for pinning that down for me.
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still... I like this.
me and my imaginations! Love you RP for keeping me keen and sometimes guessing! 123K
I like it! Not sure why I'd never heard these guys.
-Molson
Nice surface scratch.
I expect it would not be so cool if they decided to call themselves the inverse "Happy Lovers & Dwarfs".
I can't explain why but sadness and melancholy seem to be preferable to happiness.
Also Giants seems to be preferable to Dwarfs.
Do people subconsciously prefer sadness and giants to happiness and dwarfs?
I am sure some of the learned philosophers on this forum have the answer...
Worked well sitting still in my room! Easy 8
The whole song sounds like that... Is this a cover?
It's just the intro that sounds very similar - same production sound; different chord progression by the way. The rest of this song sounds very little like U2's tune - different chords, different melodies, different tempos...
My thoughts exactly. This could fit in with the Boy album.
Actually this is very The Cure, early <1984 period. Can't hear anything U2 related.
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My thoughts exactly. This could fit in with the Boy album.
cool tune too I'll emoji it
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I'm not prone to sweeping generalizations, but anyone 60 or over who makes broad generalizations about entire decades that don't fit their personal tastes is full of crap.
me too
(oops. seems I made a similar comment a few years ago...at least I'm consistent. :-) )
I was about to type this exact comment, and saw you beat me to the punch. Agreed!
I think a lot of the bad memories most detractors of 1980s music have is because of the saturation from MTV, and some may also just be stuck in the '70s or '60s, as noted earlier.
-Molson
Totally agree!
-Molson
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Oh no sir, the 70s were no doubt much better, what with every musical act trying to be either Led Zeppelin or The Eagles. In fact, so many talented musicians were tired of 70s tropes that they spawned an entire generation of music designed to be an alternative to everything that was stale about the corporate - controlled industry up until that point. I could quibble and name all those great British and American bands but you'll likely hear them played on RP if you give it a chance. Maybe we're all a little sick of hearing the pop music generated during the 80s, but even the pop greats from that decade are as great as any.
The "80s were a dead decade" is as tired a cliché as hearing Hotel California on FM classic rock radio. It was a far more rich and diverse music decade than any other up until that point. Perhaps it's our collective hindsight of hearing "Thriller" a million times that leads us to cast aside the decade that brought us Prince, Husker Du, Crowded House, The Replacements, and New Order. Or, maybe MTV made us forget that music was still an art and not a commodity.
A lot of bands sometimes employed that sort of guitar sound, even in the '70s, especially the so-called "post-punk" bands like Echo & The Bunnymen, The Durutti Column, Teardrop Explodes, etc.
which, I believe originally came from people like John Martin using wem copycats before digital and analogue delays
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A lot of bands sometimes employed that sort of guitar sound, even in the '70s, especially the so-called "post-punk" bands like Echo & The Bunnymen, The Durutti Column, Teardrop Explodes, etc.
Perfect comparisons.... Sounds dated but in a really cool way!
Good call - I would say them and The Chameleons. That was the other band I couldn't place!
This post made me go to straight to YouTube and crank up Space Age Love Song.
Exactly what just happened to me. Radio Paradise FTW
...and me one year later
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i never have either, and i paid attention in the 80's to a lot of music. strange that i missed them.
This! BTW where is Men At Work on RP?! That there is good prog rock meets 80's new wave...before Colin Hay was Colin Hay...c'mon Bill give the whole band love and play some "Contraband"