s trife do you like "BAKER STREET?"

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do you? I think the sax part is awesome.

― hstencil, Monday, 25 November 2002 19:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

i do!!

― s trife (simon_tr), Monday, 25 November 2002 19:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

me too! Now, will the rest of ILM tell us what they think of "BAKER STREET?"

― hstencil, Monday, 25 November 2002 19:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

never heard of it till yesterday.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 25 November 2002 19:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

I have always loved this song a whole lot

― J0hn Darn13ll3 (J0hn Darn13ll3), Monday, 25 November 2002 19:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

Love it very much. It's its own little world. Not even the sax can kill that song for me.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Monday, 25 November 2002 19:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

Never knew who sang it or what it was called until 2000 when someone earnestly described it to me. So when I asked for an mp3 and heard the sax break I went, "Oh, THAT song!"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 25 November 2002 19:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ned, you're so "complicated." And "racial." And "American."

Can someone "act American?" Besides Nicole Kidman sans Aussie accent, of course.

― hstencil, Monday, 25 November 2002 19:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

i like "Right Down the Line" 10 times better.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Monday, 25 November 2002 19:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

i like "Right Down the Line" 10 times better.

I'd agree, but I hate the way that d00d pronounces "woman" in that song.

― hstencil, Monday, 25 November 2002 19:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

womang

― Chris V. (Chris V), Monday, 25 November 2002 19:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

For all you Blockbusters fans out there, the session musician who did the sax on 'Baker Street' was none other than Bob Holnes.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Monday, 25 November 2002 19:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

bob holness wz also the first james bond (on SA radio in the 50s)

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 25 November 2002 19:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

Wasn't that a joke that appeared in the NME's Thrill's section in the early 90's, and then started to crop up everywhere is fact? (Much like the report that Billie Piper was due to appear in a theatrical adaptation of the story of Joan Of Arc, which then appeared in newspapers)

― Matthew (faster), Monday, 25 November 2002 19:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

Blimey, you're right! I've been living a lie! Don't rememeber the Thrils piece though, but whoever told me this "nugget" was obviously taken in.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Monday, 25 November 2002 20:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

Raf Ravenscroft also did the sax on that Hazel O'Connor song ('you drink your coffee'..etc etc...can't recall the title)

― David (David), Monday, 25 November 2002 20:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

This song and "Le Freak" were blowing up AM radio when I was in 6th and 7th grade. My musical tastes can be located somewhere directly between the two.

― Matt C., Monday, 25 November 2002 20:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

i'm pretty sure that's the guy who did the outro solo for "two suns in the sunset" off the final cut.

what next Quarterflash?

― gygax!, Monday, 25 November 2002 20:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

I think I remember not liking it.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 25 November 2002 20:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

that song is blurred into stephen bishop's "on and on" for me. somebody tell me why.

― dan (dan), Monday, 25 November 2002 21:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

The guitar solo is better than the sax part.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 25 November 2002 21:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

bob holness invented the mobile phone

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 25 November 2002 21:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Night Owl" was far far better

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Monday, 25 November 2002 21:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

Gerry Rafferty, Mr. Baker Street himself, actually produced the original "Shoot Out the Lights" sessions for Richard & Linda Thompson. (They ultimately nixed the recordings.) In turn, R&L provide backing vocals on "Night Owl."

I used to own both "Night Owl" and "Snakes and Ladders" when I was 13. Both had good songs, I recall.

― mike a (mike a), Monday, 25 November 2002 22:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

Bob Holness invented the mobile phone

Now this I know to be true.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Monday, 25 November 2002 23:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

How ironic, earlier today I was racking my brain trying to think of the name to this song.

ssssank you

― Curtis Stephens, Tuesday, 26 November 2002 00:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

I only just now found out that the Foo Fighters covered this. The substitution of guitar-for-saxophone is a grievous, grievous mistake.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 30 November 2002 04:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

one year passes...

revive because Right Down the Line just came on!

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 25 June 2004 11:54 (nineteen years ago) link

woooooooooooooooh-maaahn.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 25 June 2004 12:49 (nineteen years ago) link

I only know the 1991 house versh. Was Baker St a happening locale in the 70s? Jonathan King used to pick up there, so -- perhaps.

― Enrique (Enrique), Friday, 25 June 2004 14:19 (nineteen years ago) link

None of the covers have approached the glory of the original. The Pathos. The Flanger. Oh be still my emo heart....

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 26 June 2004 07:36 (nineteen years ago) link

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Film/Pix/pictures/2000/02/03/ReservoirDogs.jpg

I just want to say this is my way of telling you everything I can never say before.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Saturday, 26 June 2004 15:44 (nineteen years ago) link

"baker st." is one of those songs where everyone remembers the chorus but never really remembers the more intricate verses.. kinda like beach boy's "good vibrations" (to non beach boys fans that is). what sets "baker st." apart is that very memorable chorus has NO WURDS!

― donut bitch (donut), Saturday, 26 June 2004 16:09 (nineteen years ago) link

I found a 45 of it a couple of weeks ago going thru a pile of discarded records. 'Twas a happy occasion. The B-side is awful, though.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Saturday, 26 June 2004 19:30 (nineteen years ago) link

I like the verse a lot and remember it as easily as the "chorus" !

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Saturday, 26 June 2004 20:57 (nineteen years ago) link

one year passes...

2 buskers (sax and guitar) were doing a pretty great version of this last night in the Powell station.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 13 October 2005 14:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Ever look at an old post that you've made and go "what the fuck was coarsing through my head on that day?"

That's just what happened to me.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 13 October 2005 16:39 (eighteen years ago) link

people forget that the intro is as great as the chorus.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 13 October 2005 16:41 (eighteen years ago) link

not sure if that's right calling it the intro as it pops up again about midway thru.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 13 October 2005 16:44 (eighteen years ago) link

not sure if it's right calling it the chorus since there is no real chorus.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Thursday, 13 October 2005 16:47 (eighteen years ago) link

Refrain?

Foo Fighters cover is fun too! (Aside from one significant and infelicitous lyrical substitution...)

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 13 October 2005 16:52 (eighteen years ago) link

i freaking love this song so much.

― maura (maura), Thursday, 13 October 2005 16:56 (eighteen years ago) link

Shit, I didn't realize the Foo Fighters did a version of Baker Street. I've been trying to talk my band into covering this song for a while now. Not sure if we could do it justice anyway.

HE'S ROLLIN' HE'S THE ROLLING STONE!!!

― darin (darin), Thursday, 13 October 2005 17:10 (eighteen years ago) link

We're not going to cover this song.

― righteousmaelstrom (righteousmaelstrom), Thursday, 13 October 2005 19:45 (eighteen years ago) link

one significant and infelicitous lyrical substitution...

What was that? I've only hear the Foofs version once, and I wasn't paying close attention.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Thursday, 13 October 2005 23:36 (eighteen years ago) link

BAKER STREET IS RACIALIST ITS SAX BRAEK IS A MOCKERY OF JAZZ MUSIC GARY RAFFERY Is A GINGER RACIALIST SUPREMASIST CONT

― The Blunnet Boy Wonder (noodle vague), Thursday, 13 October 2005 23:43 (eighteen years ago) link

Dammit, I meant to half-heartedly disguise my ID before I did that.

― The Blunnet Boy Wonder (noodle vague), Thursday, 13 October 2005 23:44 (eighteen years ago) link

I hear Ned is a big fan of Baker Street.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 13 October 2005 23:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Fan? He practically LIVES there!

― donut hallivallerieburtonelli omg lol (donut), Friday, 14 October 2005 00:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Ned lives on Arthur Baker Street.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Friday, 14 October 2005 00:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Baker's Revenge

― donut hallivallerieburtonelli omg lol (donut), Friday, 14 October 2005 00:39 (eighteen years ago) link

In the Foos version, the lines "He's got this dream about buyin' some land
He's gonna give up the booze and the one night stands" "Booze" is replaced with "Crack."

― Marxism Goes Better With Coke (Charles McCain), Friday, 14 October 2005 00:43 (eighteen years ago) link

...or "Junk." I forget.

― Marxism Goes Better With Coke (Charles McCain), Friday, 14 October 2005 00:43 (eighteen years ago) link

It was definitely "crack." Always thought that a little bit weird, but I do like the Foo version, one of the last decent things they put out. Their cover of "Down in the Park" is also IMO unreasonably maligned - it's fun.

― Doctor Casino, Friday, 14 October 2005 00:50 (eighteen years ago) link

I lived on Baker Street once, while trapped behind the Orange Curtain. I didn't have a dream about buying some land, though.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 14 October 2005 04:03 (eighteen years ago) link

The substitution of "crack" for "booze" is painfully affected.

Foos' "Down In The Park" is indeed fun. The original pwns, is all.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 14 October 2005 06:10 (eighteen years ago) link

one year passes...

i never switch stations when i'm flipping and this song comes on

― bobby bedelia (van dover), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 08:22 (seventeen years ago) link

I remember there was a Thrills piece that alleged that Robbie Williams was to make a double concept album called "The Prison" that was to have a a 14 minute monologue about the life of Rudolf Hess. Sadly that wasn't true either.

Weird thing about Baker Street is it seems to follow DBC Pierre's concept of the "fate song". It always seems to pipe over the radio when I'm

a)on my own
b)feeling vaguely melancholy, and
c)in a smoky pub or otherwise atmospheric location that perfectly suits the sax intro.

― Phil Knight (PhilK), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 11:05 (seventeen years ago) link

my brother never believed me about bob holness being the first james bond

― Frogm@n Henry (Frogm@n Henry), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 11:57 (seventeen years ago) link

i never switch stations when i'm flipping and this song comes on

...And everytime this thread revives, I have no choice but to immediately play it, often twice. (I just did.) Unforgettable song (whether you love or hate it).

― Monty Von Byonga (Monty Von Byonga), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 17:55 (seventeen years ago) link

haha Phil reads DBC Pierre

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 17:59 (seventeen years ago) link

My first and last names are spelled out in the song title.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:06 (seventeen years ago) link

is your name "Berserk Teat?"

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Bark Teeters, actually.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I read one novel a decade.

― Phil Knight (PhilK), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:52 (seventeen years ago) link

I have to listen to this song at least a dozen times in a row.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:54 (seventeen years ago) link

one year passes...

Great song.

― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Sunday, 3 August 2008 08:35 (fifteen years ago) link

Right Down The Line is great, too, except for that awkward part where I think he's trying to squeeze the lyric ''You've been as constant as the Northern Star (the brightest star that shines),'' into too short a period of time in the song. So I always hear it as ''You've been as const as the Northern Star.'' Otherwise, aces.

― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 3 August 2008 09:12 (fifteen years ago) link

I may have started a "versus" thread with Rafferty's two hits facing off.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 3 August 2008 13:17 (fifteen years ago) link

I dislike this song. it's too inoffensive to be hated, but it's too boring to be liked.

― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Sunday, 3 August 2008 14:06 (fifteen years ago) link

Always way more fucking EPIC than I remember.

I have never passed thru Baker Street tube and not thought of this song.

― Raw Patrick, Sunday, 3 August 2008 18:14 (fifteen years ago) link

^this

― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Sunday, 3 August 2008 18:18 (fifteen years ago) link

I like the song, but it would have been better with something else instead of the sax.

― Geir Hongro, Sunday, 3 August 2008 18:20 (fifteen years ago) link

Yeah, some sort of drum break.

― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Sunday, 3 August 2008 18:22 (fifteen years ago) link

I like the song, but it would have been better with something else instead of the sax.
-- Geir Hongro, Sunday, August 3, 2008 6:20 PM

How does this fit your theory?

― I know, right?, Sunday, 3 August 2008 18:33 (fifteen years ago) link

Geir would have preferred barbershop vocal harmonies there instead

― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Sunday, 3 August 2008 20:55 (fifteen years ago) link

yeah this is an OK song.

dont like the sax solo though!

― bakerstreetsaxsolo, Sunday, 3 August 2008 23:48 (fifteen years ago) link

thread with Rafferty's two hits facing off.

There's also "Stuck In The Middle With You."

Like all three, but I'd still vote for "Baker Street," no contest.

― xhuxk, Monday, 4 August 2008 00:27 (fifteen years ago) link

Baker Street is awesome

― Herman G. Neuname, Monday, 4 August 2008 00:30 (fifteen years ago) link

great song

― rockapads, Monday, 4 August 2008 00:53 (fifteen years ago) link

Rafferty hits vs. Boz Scaggs hits

― Eazy, Monday, 4 August 2008 01:20 (fifteen years ago) link

two years pass...

RIP

― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:27 (thirteen years ago) link

RIP s trife

― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:27 (thirteen years ago) link

RIP s trife

― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:27 (thirteen years ago) link

RIP hstencil

― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:28 (thirteen years ago) link

I like Baker Street. Carry the torch.

― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:30 (thirteen years ago) link

I like the song, but it would have been better with something else instead of the sax.

― Geir Hongro, Sunday, 3 August 2008 18:20 (2 years ago)

?!?!?!?!??!?!??!

Great great song anyway, one of the greatest guitar solos on a hit single ever

― Satantango! (Matt #2), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:52 (thirteen years ago) link

gear wanted beatboxing there i think

― zvookster, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:53 (thirteen years ago) link

geir i mean

― zvookster, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:54 (thirteen years ago) link

geir prefers the foo fighters version

― Hans Peter Cutlassin' (crüt), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:56 (thirteen years ago) link

three years pass...

The musician behind one of the most recognisable saxophone solos - on Gerry Rafferty's hit Baker Street - has died.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-devon-29700432

Raphael Ravenscroft, 60, who found fame almost overnight following the release of the 1978 track, died following a suspected heart attack early on Sunday.

He was reportedly paid only £27 for the session with a cheque that bounced while the song is said to have earned Rafferty £80,000 a year in royalties.

In a radio interview in 2011, Ravenscroft said the song annoyed him.

"I'm irritated because it's out of tune," he said.

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 15:11 (nine years ago) link

I prefer the Foo Fighters version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO1qcWa6blQ

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 21:35 (nine years ago) link

flag post

― polyphonic, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 21:37 (nine years ago) link

no kidding

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 21:39 (nine years ago) link

You'll get over it.

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 21:39 (nine years ago) link

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/a/img904/8673/J866yB.jpg

― mattresslessness, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 21:42 (nine years ago) link

xp I think the out-of-tuneness kind of makes it

― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 21:47 (nine years ago) link

It's no 'Baker Dick'

― Welcome To (Turrican), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 22:04 (nine years ago) link

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