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14 Dec 2018, 3:38 pm

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I remember exactly where I was when I heard this song for the first time: 1992 working at a casino/restaurant on an Ojibwe Indian reservation near the Canadian border. As staff, we were housed in hotel rooms. I shared a single hotel room with a friend of mine and my female cousin. She had one of the two beds in the room and I shared the other bed with my friend. It was funny-two hetero male friends, dudes, sharing the same bed for months.

It was a microcosmic education in the good and bad, the tragedy and reality of the human condition. I will always remember drinking in the hotel bar with one of the older waitresses who kept her tip money in her bra just like something you'd see in an Old West film. She was tough and enjoyed sipping her Canadian Whisky neat.

After shift, it was a fun progressive low key party from staff hotel room to hotel room drinking and talking. One of the other waiters from Minneapolis played this song on a boombox. I was riveted and absolutely blown away. I loved it.

Great story

I love how they sampled "Roundabout" by Yes!!

Me too. A great way to start a song. I like to this it was an homage to Yes.

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14 Dec 2018, 3:47 pm

Now I have Yes on the brain......

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14 Dec 2018, 3:51 pm

Yes rules Keith Levene was one of their roadies!

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14 Dec 2018, 4:01 pm

Still fly after all these years.

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14 Dec 2018, 4:04 pm

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Still fly after all these years.

This song fits a girl I dated for a few years so closely it's unreal.

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14 Dec 2018, 4:05 pm

^^ I had a girlfriend like that, too. That was in Olympia, WA, which seemed pretty fitting, considering its hippie/indie culture.

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14 Dec 2018, 4:06 pm

Also enjoying the love for Yes on this thread. I saw them in concert, possibly the best concert I went to.

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14 Dec 2018, 4:10 pm

The Beck album Stereopathetic Soul Manure seems to be fading into more obscurity, but for be there are enough songs on there, perhaps even more than Mellow Gold, that make it probably my favorite Beck album. There are a few noise songs that I can take or leave, but many amazing songs.....

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14 Dec 2018, 4:11 pm

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Also enjoying the love for Yes on this thread. I saw them in concert, possibly the best concert I went to.

What's your favorite Yes album? Do you like Wakeman's The Six Wives of Henry VIII? I love that album.

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14 Dec 2018, 4:13 pm

"Don't go throwin' no coupons on my grave. Don't go carvin' no happy face on my tombstone."

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14 Dec 2018, 4:16 pm

Wow, Magna...I haven't heard that ("Puttin It Down") since high school, but remembered it instantly. A friend burned that album for me. I need to pick up a real copy sometime. It probably is one of Beck's most obscure releases, but had some awesome tunes. I also love One Foot in the Grave, which seems to have at least a slightly bigger following.

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14 Dec 2018, 4:17 pm

"What does it mean when the fire is green and the demons go straight for the window?"

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14 Dec 2018, 4:19 pm

One of my favorite Beck tracks. Has a touch of Sonic Youth.

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14 Dec 2018, 4:20 pm

How flattered would you be if as a "new" artist you had Johnny Cash cover one of your songs? How great would that be?

Beck has a voice, even his speaking voice that fascinates me. It's like it's slowed down. It's hard to describe, but there's some similarity in a way to Nico's speaking voice, although Nico's voice is so much more so in what I'm talking about. I'm drawn to listening to both of them.

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14 Dec 2018, 4:23 pm

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"What does it mean when the fire is green and the demons go straight for the window?"[/youtube]

That song still cracks me up.

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