Listening to Jim's Big Ego on Radio Paradise

Sounds a bit too much like the type of song you play loudly at a building illegally occupied, and you want them out, like Gregorian chants or Van Halen.
Like that scene in Walking Dead season 7 episode 3 where they are trying to break Daryl by blaring 703 Easy Street.
Makes me feel a little like a prisoner at Guantanamo being forced into sleep deprivation.
Hooray for the beloved "skip" button!!!

Posted 3 months ago by Emperors_Spork [ Reply ]

Love these guys!

Posted 3 months ago by DW4554 [ Reply ]

hilarious this

those first two lines are like someone suddenly and violently grabbing your collar, COME LOOK OVER HERE!

a good song

Posted 4 months ago by Exebeche [ Reply ]

I'm a militant environmentalist
In a Ford Exploder
Or a decade later...

I'm driving around in Virtuous EV
No concern for African Kids diggin' Deep
In Chinese owned mines to build my Battery ....
These lyrics need an update on the Hypocrisy

They're everywhere!
They're everywhere!

:)

Posted 9 months ago by pyrateparadox988 [ Reply ]

Feels like this should be followed by The Tubes' "Attack of the 50-ft Woman"...

Posted 10 months ago by IvanTheMediocre [ Reply ]

natural_tools wrote:

Wow, lots of negatives on this one. Come on people, it's ok to like a song because it's silly and fun.

Well said.

Posted 1 year ago by kcar [ Reply ]

This is a nice, easy song.
I liked it a lot and it'll probably be ringing in my head for some time.

Posted 2 years ago by webmaster2 [ Reply ]

I love his song Stress:. "But I'm fine! I'm fine! I'M FINE!" Lol!

Posted 2 years ago by kcatalina [ Reply ]

There are some great songs on this album.

Posted 2 years ago by 1jerry [ Reply ]

kazoo wrote:

GW has nothing on President Tweety!

yeah, he was a mean daddy!

Posted 2 years ago by Wonderloaf [ Reply ]

chris32 wrote:

Really reminiscent of TMBG.

I just came back to see if it was a TMBG side project.

Posted 3 years ago by olea [ Reply ]

Really reminiscent of TMBG.

Posted 3 years ago by chris32 [ Reply ]

RacerX69 wrote:

The last few years make me think we are living the movie Idiocracy.

Oh yeah they are

Posted 3 years ago by noe.architecte169 [ Reply ]

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that no one's out to get you

Posted 3 years ago by milleronic [ Reply ]

That fine line between everybody is out to get you and nobody getting you. :-)

Posted 4 years ago by theralph [ Reply ]

ScottishWillie wrote:

An average rating of 5 seems more than a little mean for this song.

Ochh, laddie.
I suspect that 5 is in fact the mean is the calculated version of average for this song.
It could be the median value, though hard to tell from the tabulated data.
The mode appears to be 7.

(I couldn't find a mathnerd emoji, so this will have to suffice.)

Posted 4 years ago by hifigreg [ Reply ]

I am retired for this , sorry 🙄

Posted 4 years ago by Pilsenaaa [ Reply ]

An average rating of 5 seems more than a little mean for this song.

Posted 5 years ago by ScottishWillie [ Reply ]

Pyro wrote:

philarktos wrote:

Unfortunately schizophrenia can be extremely difficult to properly medicate, and the side effects can be so bad as to constitute living with a whole other illness. If you can laugh at past states of paranoia (or worse, horrifying visual hallucinations, or mocking auditory hallucinations) you are doing far better than many survivors. Now I worked with schizophrenics in a group home preparing folk who had, since they became ill, been cared for by family or in and out of hospitals (and homelessness) for semi-independent living in subsidized apartments. Actually, some of the guys who listen to rock down in the smoke room found this funny. But they got a right. Personally,my experience is with manic states and psychedelic induced psychosis. Now some of that was pretty funny. I achieved what Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche referred to as "the anti-nirvana of complete ignorance", a state of meglomaniacal grandiosity where the ego fancies itself a diety(or bodhisattva or whatever), where everything is perceived as solid and dualistic, good or evil, for me or against me. But some insight, pure Dharma, and some very negligible side effect medication(once I convinced them I didn't need anymore Haldol

) settled all that. Having a very clear and graphic idea of what Enlightenment "IS NOT" can actually be pretty valuable. See: Peter Gabriel/Afrocelt "When You're Falling" and Laurie Anderson's "Gravity's Rainbow"

I found your post MOST interesting. Did Rinpoche describe George W, or what?

GW has nothing on President Tweety!

Posted 5 years ago by kazoo [ Reply ]

I'll give this an 8.5 for Most Enjoyable!

Posted 5 years ago by MrStatenIsle [ Reply ]

This is definitely ~NO HASHPIPE!
: <

Posted 5 years ago by surfrider4life [ Reply ]

They are indeed.

Posted 5 years ago by dwhayslett [ Reply ]

jocelynsart wrote:

WtH?! lol!!!! it's actually quite cute and funny lol!

Yes. Yes, this works for me. A 4.9 rating? Such a bunch of haters.

Posted 5 years ago by kcar [ Reply ]

WtH?! lol!!!! it's actually quite cute and funny lol!

Posted 6 years ago by jocelynsart [ Reply ]

deja vu?

Posted 6 years ago by LaurieinTucson [ Reply ]

sans wrote:

always thought this was They Might Be Giants...

Not quite as clever or musically talented as John & John (IMHO), but this song isn't bad. Some funny lyrics; apparently there is a humor-deficiency among some of the critics here. Cool cover art too.

Posted 14 years ago by Proclivities [ Reply ]

Wow, lots of negatives on this one. Come on people, it's ok to like a song because it's silly and fun.

Posted 14 years ago by natural_tools [ Reply ]

Here's to all those tapioca-phobes, who are indeed under every rock!

Posted 14 years ago by tnt_thomas [ Reply ]

Maybe it's me, but this sounds like an electrified Loudon Wainwright III. Not that that's a bad thing....

Posted 14 years ago by akousa [ Reply ]

Funny....but its not the Aliens.....It's the government and BIG CORPORATIONS.....

Posted 14 years ago by Shesdifferent [ Reply ]

Wow...over five years between plays. Can hardly hear the vocal over the dust cloud. Just as well.

5

Posted 14 years ago by RadioDoc [ Reply ]

Cellocaster_Paul wrote:

Schizophrenia is not something to be taken lightly, except maybe after being properly medicated and you can laugh at the absurdity of that mental state...I know what it's like. Maybe this guy really has suffered from mental illness but has that retrospective perspective. If he hasn't suffered though, you're right, he does not have the proper experience to make a joke of it.

Gracious! Lighten up people. This is hysterically funny.

Posted 19 years ago by kimmer [ Reply ]

Tux wrote:

Mike Oldfield & Maggie Reilley Not much different. Nice anyway

Non-sequitor alert!!!

Posted 19 years ago by meatbee [ Reply ]

philarktos wrote:

Unfortunately schizophrenia can be extremely difficult to properly medicate, and the side effects can be so bad as to constitute living with a whole other illness. If you can laugh at past states of paranoia (or worse, horrifying visual hallucinations, or mocking auditory hallucinations) you are doing far better than many survivors. Now I worked with schizophrenics in a group home preparing folk who had, since they became ill, been cared for by family or in and out of hospitals (and homelessness) for semi-independent living in subsidized apartments. Actually, some of the guys who listen to rock down in the smoke room found this funny. But they got a right. Personally,my experience is with manic states and psychedelic induced psychosis. Now some of that was pretty funny. I achieved what Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche referred to as "the anti-nirvana of complete ignorance", a state of meglomaniacal grandiosity where the ego fancies itself a diety(or bodhisattva or whatever), where everything is perceived as solid and dualistic, good or evil, for me or against me. But some insight, pure Dharma, and some very negligible side effect medication(once I convinced them I didn't need anymore Haldol

) settled all that. Having a very clear and graphic idea of what Enlightenment "IS NOT" can actually be pretty valuable. See: Peter Gabriel/Afrocelt "When You're Falling" and Laurie Anderson's "Gravity's Rainbow"

I found your post MOST interesting. Did Rinpoche describe George W, or what?

Posted 19 years ago by Pyro [ Reply ]

sans wrote:

always thought this was They Might Be Giants...

Me too, but I like them anyhow.

Posted 19 years ago by Marr [ Reply ]

always thought this was They Might Be Giants...

Posted 19 years ago by sans [ Reply ]

the lyrics are funny. i'm okay with funny music, but not often. i can appreciate these guys and what they do, it's just not a style i enjoy most of the time.

Posted 20 years ago by PattonFever [ Reply ]

Mike Oldfield & Maggie Reilley Not much different. Nice anyway

Posted 20 years ago by Tux [ Reply ]

Cellocaster_Paul wrote:

Schizophrenia is not something to be taken lightly, except maybe after being properly medicated and you can laugh at the absurdity of that mental state...I know what it's like. Maybe this guy really has suffered from mental illness but has that retrospective perspective. If he hasn't suffered though, you're right, he does not have the proper experience to make a joke of it.

Unfortunately schizophrenia can be extremely difficult to properly medicate, and the side effects can be so bad as to constitute living with a whole other illness. If you can laugh at past states of paranoia (or worse, horrifying visual hallucinations, or mocking auditory hallucinations) you are doing far better than many survivors. Now I worked with schizophrenics in a group home preparing folk who had, since they became ill, been cared for by family or in and out of hospitals (and homelessness) for semi-independent living in subsidized apartments. Actually, some of the guys who listen to rock down in the smoke room found this funny. But they got a right. Personally,my experience is with manic states and psychedelic induced psychosis. Now some of that was pretty funny. I achieved what Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche referred to as "the anti-nirvana of complete ignorance", a state of meglomaniacal grandiosity where the ego fancies itself a diety(or bodhisattva or whatever), where everything is perceived as solid and dualistic, good or evil, for me or against me. But some insight, pure Dharma, and some very negligible side effect medication(once I convinced them I didn't need anymore Haldol

) settled all that. Having a very clear and graphic idea of what Enlightenment "IS NOT" can actually be pretty valuable. See: Peter Gabriel/Afrocelt "When You're Falling" and Laurie Anderson's "Gravity's Rainbow"

Posted 20 years ago by philarktos [ Reply ]

not really listenting to the lyrics much, but...not crazy about these vocals.

Posted 20 years ago by epay34 [ Reply ]

Apparently I'm in the minority, but I like it....... Sounds like this would be a very fun group to see in person as well.

Posted 20 years ago by Steelhead [ Reply ]

Aztek wrote:

Plain and simple: ANNOYING!

That adolesent voice is a killer. It did help me discover a second mute button, so it's not all bad.

Posted 20 years ago by rulebritannia [ Reply ]

This song is mis-titled. It should be" It's Nowhere!"

Posted 20 years ago by ndanger666 [ Reply ]

This puts me in the mind of They Might Be Giants. Probably the vocals for the most part. I haven't made up my mind about it just yet, though. Upon scanning the other comments...apparently I'm not alone in my observation!

Posted 20 years ago by pixidrizzl [ Reply ]

For a novelty album, nothing beats Jack Black's Tenacious D. It's funny and it rocks.

Posted 20 years ago by Pandora [ Reply ]

Plain and simple: ANNOYING!

Posted 20 years ago by Aztek [ Reply ]

the more i hear this song, the more amatuerish it sounds.

Posted 20 years ago by Platypus [ Reply ]

Lame, easy, countruish..do not play again...

Posted 20 years ago by masterhead [ Reply ]

Sounds a lot like the Drive By Truckers, another band worth playing.

Posted 20 years ago by GregX59 [ Reply ]

philarktos wrote:

Have been considering this song over several listens. Seems clever and essentially harmless, and I hate to come off as a politically correct killjoy. But I have known real schizophrenics and the reality of their pain, so as a subject of humor it leaves a faint bad taste.

Schizophrenia is not something to be taken lightly, except maybe after being properly medicated and you can laugh at the absurdity of that mental state...I know what it's like. Maybe this guy really has suffered from mental illness but has that retrospective perspective. If he hasn't suffered though, you're right, he does not have the proper experience to make a joke of it.

Posted 20 years ago by Cellocaster_Paul [ Reply ]

this guy has talent. too bad his humorous satire is so lame and dumb. i think he's trying to say something ironically incisive, but it's not working. maybe he'll grow into someone who can communicate a message to the general populace. that would be a good thang.

Posted 20 years ago by bluedot [ Reply ]

My first rating was a "6", mainly for the novelty effect. It dropped to 4 at the second listening, then to 2. It's now a 1. When are you adding negative notes Bill? ;)

Posted 20 years ago by K [ Reply ]

Hasty_Manic wrote:

I really don't like all this power pop......seems to be taking over college radio. Would you say ..... they're everywhere? 8O sorry.. couldn't resist. :D

Posted 20 years ago by cubsfreak [ Reply ]

Oh, I get it. It's very clever. How's that working out for you? - T. Durden

Posted 20 years ago by Platypus [ Reply ]

I really don't like all this power pop......seems to be taking over college radio. Am I supposed to think it's groovy.....it's funny......or maybe that it's witty? Well, I do not! 'Fountains of Wayne,' is a step above most though. :verymad: :grumpy.gif:

Posted 20 years ago by Hasty_Manic [ Reply ]

Blessed relief after that Blues Traveler crap.

Posted 20 years ago by drH [ Reply ]

8-<

They're everywhere! 8O

Posted 20 years ago by indigo_xia [ Reply ]

Aparently, trying to be clever is not enough to actually be clever.

Posted 20 years ago by gregorbill [ Reply ]

funny lyrics ...can relate....but the song sounds kind of so/so...oh well nice to have some off the cuff stuff in the mix

Posted 20 years ago by toastee [ Reply ]

Just trying too hard to be TMBG for me to rate it higher than a 4.

Posted 20 years ago by rcurrier [ Reply ]

Peyote wrote:

Was Constantinople....

Sure...a couple of centuries ago :P

Posted 20 years ago by rochefort [ Reply ]

saeys wrote:

I'm just waiting for Jim to sing about Istanbul...

Was Constantinople....

Posted 20 years ago by Peyote [ Reply ]

That's a 6 in my book just because of the opening lyrics...

Posted 20 years ago by iggy33 [ Reply ]

Posted 20 years ago by Peyote [ Reply ]

Great stuff! Heard this on NPR the other day.

Posted 21 years ago by Art_Carnage [ Reply ]

I want to listen to it again.

Posted 21 years ago by alanb [ Reply ]

Have been considering this song over several listens. Seems clever and essentially harmless, and I hate to come off as a politically correct killjoy. But I have known real schizophrenics and the reality of their pain, so as a subject of humor it leaves a faint bad taste.

Posted 21 years ago by philarktos [ Reply ]

sometimes you just gotta throw a little fun into the mix...loved it!!

Posted 21 years ago by schlumgolian [ Reply ]

ain't it the truth i like this.

Posted 21 years ago by mperry [ Reply ]

saeys wrote:

I'm just waiting for Jim to sing about Istanbul...

"...My room's comfortably small, with rubber lining the walls and there's someone always calling my name..."

Posted 21 years ago by rockasaurus [ Reply ]

Too funny!

Posted 21 years ago by indigo_xia [ Reply ]

This song is inTERMINable. "Stress" was ten times the song this is. "They're everywhere" is not something that should be repeated ad nauseum in a song. This is giving me a headache.