I hate this song with the white-hot thermonuclear intensity of 1,000 suns, but maybe (?) it's existence is redeemed by the fact that it s l o w l y creeped into the musical terroir enough to where Mike Rutherford's guitar rhythm in the intro, via a crazy butterfly-effect that in all likelihood never happened (but stay with me), eventually bubbled up at random occurrences (dentist offices, Ralph's aisles, oil-change outlets) just often enough to inspire the intro to a damn good song ("So Special") from one of my favorites of '16 (The Loudspeaker EP) by MUNA. https://open.spotify.com/album/05QlkSlB3MxfqtjiurXxe0
Or, MUNA may simply be fans of Genesis/Rutherford (I hear an echo of "Throwing it All Away" from "Invisible Touch" in their "Promise")
― Prefecture, Wednesday, 20 March 2019 15:09 (five years ago) link
It's too LATE when we DIEEEE
― Buttigieg comes right from the source (Neanderthal), Saturday, 6 April 2019 21:14 (five years ago) link
die listening to this song more like
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 6 April 2019 21:18 (five years ago) link
Have to admit we dont see eye to eye here
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Saturday, 6 April 2019 21:30 (five years ago) link
I do not like this song, also it's of the same level of quality as Africa by Toto and lots of people seem to like that for some reason.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 6 April 2019 21:34 (five years ago) link
cmon, Africa is fuckin' When The Levee Breaks compared to The Living Years
That said I recently read Rutherford's memoir of the same name and it was pretty good
― Paul Ponzi, Saturday, 6 April 2019 22:46 (five years ago) link
well, parents put their kids in British public schools with the expectation that those kids can form paragraphs.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 6 April 2019 22:50 (five years ago) link
Every generationHates this fuckin song
― Buttigieg comes right from the source (Neanderthal), Saturday, 6 April 2019 23:23 (five years ago) link
There's no song I hate more in the world. My friend Adam knows this and used to call my answering machine and singing it softly every six months or so. It is so awful.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 8 April 2019 14:23 (five years ago) link
I was about to fulminate on how Paul Carrack has never sung or played on anything decent whatsoever, then I remembered he sang on Squeeze's "Tempted". Apart from that it's been a 50-year reign of terror. Even his early 70s prog band (Warm Dust) were shit. Checking him on Discogs, it seems he has over 50 releases (albums, singles and DVDs) on his own label since 2000 or thereabouts. 50! Who the fuck needs 50 Paul Carrack records?!
― Zeuhl Idol (Matt #2), Monday, 8 April 2019 15:06 (five years ago) link
I do not like this song, also it's of the same level of quality as Africa by Toto and lots of people seem to like that for some reason.― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, April 6, 2019 9:34 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, April 6, 2019 9:34 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
otm.
― ☮ (peace, man), Monday, 8 April 2019 15:21 (five years ago) link
I have childhood fondness for both this and Silent Running, but Over My Shoulder was the bane of my ITV Chart Show-watching existence for what seemed like an eternity when I was a teenager.
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 8 April 2019 15:25 (five years ago) link
i kind of like 'how long' tbh xxp
― kolarov spring (NickB), Monday, 8 April 2019 15:26 (five years ago) link
so do grocery stores
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 8 April 2019 15:31 (five years ago) link
i actually like over my shoulder
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Monday, 8 April 2019 16:46 (five years ago) link
weird to google and see that over my shoulder didn't even get into the top 10 in the uk because it felt like it was on the radio all the time for a couple years
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Monday, 8 April 2019 16:47 (five years ago) link
M&tM are opening for Phil Collins in June? Oh, the unfulfilled expectations of deluded Genesis fans
― doug watson, Monday, 8 April 2019 18:06 (five years ago) link
silent running is miami vice rock, so much better than this
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 8 April 2019 20:24 (five years ago) link
Predicted Brexit.
― dinnerboat, Monday, 8 April 2019 20:34 (five years ago) link
I was a kid when this song came out, my mom always played the Adult Contemporary stations in the car growing up, IDGAF I love this song, come at me
― thewufs, Friday, 15 November 2019 04:13 (four years ago) link
Only wish ya coulda told us
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Friday, 15 November 2019 04:41 (four years ago) link
IT'S TOO LATE WHEN WE DIE
― muntjac wagner (Neanderthal), Monday, 17 August 2020 23:39 (three years ago) link
I liked the pre-chorus to this song better when Linkin Park stole it for "Breaking the Habit"
I would shoot this song if I could.― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, June 27, 2005 1:04 PM bookmarkflaglink
SHOOT IT LOUD
― muntjac wagner (Neanderthal), Monday, 17 August 2020 23:44 (three years ago) link
Remember first knowingly hearing this in the early 00s as I "faced-up" the paint isle in the mount vernon b&q. Dont understand why that's stuck with me so much, maybe because the combination was so dispiriting
― Temporary Erogenous Zone (jim in vancouver), Monday, 17 August 2020 23:55 (three years ago) link
Aisle even, cripes.
Honestly dont mind "over my shoulder" mind you
― Temporary Erogenous Zone (jim in vancouver), Monday, 17 August 2020 23:58 (three years ago) link
The BBC dubbed Carrack "The Man with the Golden Voice",[3] while Record Collector remarked: "If vocal talent equalled financial success, Paul Carrack would be a bigger name than legends such as Phil Collins or Elton John."[4]
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Thursday, 20 July 2023 19:00 (nine months ago) link
say it louuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuud
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 29 February 2024 17:36 (one month ago) link