"Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand" : C/D

CLASSIC. great song.

NICE SAMPLE!

Predates Moby's Play by three years.

what an accomplishment

also predating play by 3 years:

- all eyez on me
- antichrist superstar
- backstreet boys (s/t)
- bringing down the horse
- crash
- kiss unplugged
- reasonable doubt
- 311
- "one sweet day"

Primitive Radio Gods

Radioative Gidi Pros

Classic. I have conflicted feelings about this, because the song seems crassly manipulative (about nothing in particular, thankfully). But then I just listened to it again, trying to put my finger on it. I think it's the bass line, which is kind of mopey and "deep". I wondered why I found that crass when I don't find it crass on say "Murder Was The Case". I then decided there was no reason, and just went with classic.

I cried sad sad tears when my friends would talk about "the old man who sings the chorus."

i have no idea who sings the chorus.

(Wikipedia)

Oh, BB King. I've never listened to any of his music. Except for that Arby's commercial.

I grew up listening to BB, so hearing his blues shoehorned into (what I thought was) an awful trip-pop song was really depressing.

BB King made his recording debut on a late 80s U2 record after Bono found him on a plantation he bought from a southern tobacco farmer. King exploded onto the blues music scene soon afterwards, and the rest, like the glorious Arby's commercial and the sample on the legendary Primitive Radio Gods album, is history. It's truly amazing that someone like BB King could come from such humble beginnings.

someone played this on the radio early and i had to wiki it:

guy fronts forgotten jangle-pop band called The I-Rails, leaves band after little success and starts working at an airplane hanger, starts sending out demo tape after demo tape in hopes of landing another deal. still he sees little success.

hopeless at this point... he sends out one last batch. and the record executives eat up the blatant Gen X cynicism and trip hop mish mash of this one particular track. it goes on to be a hit. guy records an album for label and it's a complete flop. goes back to job.

what's endearing about it is you can kinda imagine the protagonist of the song tearing his hair out in whatever low-rent apartment. searching for the magic, completely miserable, looking for that hit... the one that will land him somewhere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XJxFAoiWSY

god i fucking hate this song

i fucking love this song

classic

i have cried to the noisy outro <-- most embarrassing thing i will ever tell anyone

classic. not sure why, but good song by BLUR always makes me think of this song

real period piece, this one. i like it more when i think about it than when i actually listen the whole way through, probably because of the wannabe gen x slacker profundity of most of the lyrics. can't deny the effectiveness of the sampling though.

Mother Theresa's joined the mob and happy with her full-time job

Now it's, what, "Standing Next To a CitiBike Station Checking My Bitcoin"?

they have *six* albums?

lol the song title is also sampled

The song's title is a reference to the otherwise unrelated song "Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand" by Bruce Cockburn, from his 1978 album Further Adventures Of.[1][2]

Depression and what it’s really like

“It took five years for the first record to come out, and now four years later here we are again," a relieved O'Connor said. "Whether it's the greatest record in the world, who knows, but it's as good as most stuff out there.”

Bring back Dick Wood imo

they have *six* albums?

And apparently they went shoegaze?

This song is fine. I agree it's proto moby "play." The subsequent post listing 10 artists who don't sound like this song is stupid.