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"Then in your life comes the darkness." In winter 2016, my wife had just lost a long battle with cancer. I was still processing the loss and dropped my 3 young kids at my folks' house and went to grieve for a weekend on my own. On a cold, snowy afternoon, driving from Port Huron to Pentwater, Michigan, I discovered that Radiohead had put out this album that I'd never heard, despite being a forever fan. It saved me. Still gives me chills.
two great injustices in our world:
The ratings and my volume control only go to 10 for this song.
islander wrote:
All kinds of awesome here. Love that bass line.
islander wrote:
This is such a fantastic tune. The feel, the sound, the memories. Just a perfect song.
islander wrote:
Synchronicity has an era feel that is not my favorite, but as a whole I totally agree. Every time this or other early stuff on I look at the ratings and thing "man, this is just a little better than most of the other stuff I've rated a 10".
islander wrote:
The opening bass line of this song is epic. I think we should all get 5 votes for "epic" that we could use for our ultra-favorite songs. This would get two of mine.
islander wrote:
This gets one of my very limited votes for 'Epic'. A tune that always gets turned up.
The police post punk/pre-synchronicity were just about perfect.
islander wrote:
10+. This is another 'Epic' tune for me. from the opening note - where I go scrambling to turn up the volume, all the way through - when nothing else gets done.
islander wrote:
Just coming back to re-affirm this statement. 6 years later and I still crank it up every time I hear the intro. I'll sit in the car and finish this one out and skip phone calls as well.
islander wrote:
20 years of commenting on this song on RP. Still Epic, still a 15/10, Still hard to get it loud enough. This may be the perfect song.
I do realize that posting anything currently topical here in the comments on RP can be meaningless when you scroll through song comments that are marked 12 years ago, 10 years ago, etc., but here goes anyway.
Recently the Black Keys had to cancel their big stadium tour for 2024. Some people blamed it on their current album (this one) not being very good or generating many sales. And then others stated it was due to the outrageous prices some of these groups are charging for tickets to these shows. Last year, the average ticket price for one of the top 100 tours around the world was $131, up 23 percent from the year before, according to Pollstar. I'm with those blaming the ticket prices. Here in the States, we've managed to get inflation down from over 9% to just a little over 3% in a little under 4 years since the dreadful COVID outbreak. And yet Greedflation continues to soar. I'm glad people are refusing to pay these insane prices just to see a musical act for a couple of hours, because it's forcing the corporations like Ticketmaster and LiveNation to reevaluate their greedmongering ways. It's working with fast food joints like McDonald's and Burger King having to offer $5 specials to lure customers back who were fed up with paying nearly $10 bucks for a Big Mac. That's the only way greedflation goes away.
So it will be interesting to see if this strategy plays out. Otherwise, in another 10 or 12 years when someone reads this comment, they'll think, Aw, isn't that cute, this guy thinking $130 was a high price to pay to see the Black Keys way back in 2024.
So cheesy great. The only Queen song I ever liked. Queen brings up battles royale of '79, when my bestie, who had the fastest car in the county (ok, one of 'em) because her daddy worked on muscle cars, would insist on playing Queen at insane volumes in her Radio Shack's finest 8-track because it made her, well, totally insane. She could hit a road sign to her right at 80MPH with an empty Malt Duck bottle with Bohemian Rhapsody at 12... FROM THE DRIVER'S SIDE SEAT! Lobbed over the roof of the car. I was wingman who insisted on more Peter Frampton less Queen. Never won any of those battles when she was at that helm. We never wore seat belts, either. Jeez we were totally bonkers.
To those who said "she sounds like Adele!" â you're frighteningly close to the truth.
Like Adele in her early career, her singing is occasionally breathy and she yodels a bit; also, the breath support is inadequate on the high notes, and she is putting too much pressure on the vocal cords.
If she's not careful, she's gonna blow out her voice like Adele did in a few years. Adele had surgery for a node and needed coaching after. Most singers never need to do that.
Is it only me and my musical tastes, or does Radio Paradise play 'better songs' just as I am getting ready to hit the sack? I find it harder and harder to turn off this radio and get to bed, the longer that I stay awake!
Thank you, Bill!
ha. yesterday my phone rang. it was a lady I've begun dating. I couldn't answer it because there was a really good song on here.. and it was... way............. too loud to have a phone conversation (and I wasn't ABOUT to turn it down.. no no).
unfortunately after that ANOTHER banger came on.. I called her like 20 mins later and said "yea sorry I couldn't answer the phone, had to finish listening to this song".. she asked "what song?" I told her.. I think was James Gang.. she replies "understandable". I dunno guys what do you think? KEEPER!
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May 22, 2026 - 6:43am
ScottFromWyoming wrote:
And I know you know exactly where it happened.
I do.
Been on the road many times. And on a clear day you can see San Miguel, Santa Rosa and Santa Cruz Islands.
Oh... and you can drive by close to Neverland.
This may have been reposted here a while ago, but it's a good one:
Dean Ween: I donât remember where I was, or what I was doing, but I remember hearing it and thinking, âThis is the most obnoxious f@cking hollering Iâve ever heard in my life.â I could envision the horrible, horrible female that was singing it, and I knew that it was gonna be a hit, just by how bad I hated it. I knew that it was going to be played for years by every f@cking bad girl band that came through my local bar, and sung on every karaoke night for the rest of time. I was just instantly overcome with a sense of dread, and of course itâs all come to pass. Then I saw the video for it, and the people that I imagined would be so loathsome as to make such a piece of shit of a song looked identical to what I imagined them to be in my mind. What's Up : 4 Non Blondes
