Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street: Yea or Nay?

[Deebank]

ANd did you know, that it's Bob Holnes on sax!

Nonsense

Say it ain't so!

[Dayodead]

Yikes....this is a bizarro poll....

[sloopjohnc]

Meh.

[pcqgod]

I dig it.

[toomanyhatz]

I went with good. The hook is undeniable, as is the world-weary lyrics/voice and the screamy guitar, but in the end there's also no denying its slickness.

As clean/sterile hits go, it's pretty high standard. But it's a clean/sterile hit.

[clive gash]

There’s plenty of life and movement in it, I don’t hear it as sterile at all.

[jimboo]

Apparently magnolia looks nice on the wall. Ffs bcb. IT IS UTTER PEBBLE MILL AT ONE SMASHY AND NICEY POPTASTIC BOLLOCKS. Come on people , you wouldn't even piss on this twenty years ago . It's ponce pop.

[C.]

OH JIMB

[clive gash]

WELL IT’S CERTAINLY NO NEKO CASE

[jimboo]

Honestly darlings , taste is not wot it used to be. Rose tinted and mediocre. What happens when we long for comfy slippers instead of running over hot coals.

It is , music for an advert . How anyone can not see Baker St as anything other than beige blancmange on a plate , needs to go to the offers page in the Daily Mail and order some elastic wasted slacks (available in three colours ) .
For people who miss Hepworths.

[C.]

[clive gash]

Fucking beatnik.

[jimboo]

Road to hell anyone? oh yeah , edgy, with a real message too! Great guitar work , puts knopfler to shame.

[clive gash]

Not the same.

Fool If You Think It’s Over though

[jimboo]

Fucking beatnik.

Finest compliment I have had in years.

[clive gash]

I got called it once, finest day of my life.

[Bent Fabric]

I went with good. The hook is undeniable, as is the world-weary lyrics/voice and the screamy guitar, but in the end there's also no denying its slickness.

As clean/sterile hits go, it's pretty high standard. But it's a clean/sterile hit.

Couldn't we just freshen it up with a couple of bum notes?

[clive gash]

Mmm, I like it but how about you go again with a Tubes feel

[toomanyhatz]

I went with good. The hook is undeniable, as is the world-weary lyrics/voice and the screamy guitar, but in the end there's also no denying its slickness.

As clean/sterile hits go, it's pretty high standard. But it's a clean/sterile hit.

Couldn't we just freshen it up with a couple of bum notes?

My band did that. It worked!

[Loki]

I'm not usually a large proponent of over-played Pop, but I've always found it magnificent, even when I was hearing it incessantly. As Charlie said, it's one of those that I can somehow never get tired of.

It reminds me of driving along on a summer day with the windows down. Ambience abounding.


And since reading his story, it makes me sad.