Line Out - Comments on Bell Bottom Bliss: "Baker Street" by Gerry Rafferty

Comment by dc

dc — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:55:22 -0800

and what about Garth Hudson on It Makes No Difference - a beautiful soprano solo - here's the link:

Comment by jz

jz — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:08:30 -0800

great call, dc. my morning jacket has been covering "makes no difference" on their last few tours, sans sax. its good, but needs sax.

Comment by segal

segal — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 20:11:02 -0800

Where is Baker Street?

I'm living on it, in strip-malled-out Costa Mesa, CA. That song makes a lot of sense if you drive on this shit.

Also, you may want to correct �Stunk in the Middle With You.� Although your version has more funk...

Comment by reverend dr dj riz

reverend dr dj riz — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 03:38:27 -0800

i was in kenya about six, seven years ago. the song i heard most often was baker street. i was there for about a month and i swear i heard it every day. i heard it in nairobi, i heard it in mombassa. i heard it on safari on the mara. i heard two seperate bands play it in two seperate bars. i heard a band play it except they used a keyboard synth for the sax part. and not a good keyboard neither but one of them kind you get up in toy 'r' us. the onliest other song i heard more than twice was madonna's version of american pie.
in kenya ..in africa..
i also visited an old folks home and met a guy, surviving member of the mau mau uprising, and he collected tapes of american country music..like ernest tubb and red sorvine. but that's another story

Comment by matthew fisher wilder

matthew fisher wilder — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 09:48:06 -0800

Jonathan, I love that you're talking about stuff like Exile's "Kiss You All Over" and Gerry Rafferty's "Baker Street" -- but the 90's are over. You don't have to take the "it's flashy and in the past therefore it's CHEESE" angle on stuff like this EVERY TIME.

Comment by jz

jz — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 10:29:12 -0800

matthew @6--i havent taken the cheese route every single time. some of these songs have a higher cheese quotient than others, exile and gerry rafferty both being close to overload. some of this music is far grittier and less cheesy.

cheese is like porn: im not sure what its defining characteristic is, but i know it when i hear it. and a lot of times i like it.

Comment by Jiff

Jiff — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 13:50:55 -0800

Great song on a great album,, including the cover art. Seems like everyone had it. Wish someone was making albums like that nowadays.

Comment by scary tyler moore

scary tyler moore — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 18:29:26 -0800

as regards the real baker street: it is very VERY posh. madonna lives in the neighborhood, and flats go for a million dollars and up. it helps to be a bazillionaire if you wanna live there. maybe it was different in the 1970s. or maybe there is a baker street in glasgow (gerry is scottish). and he was once one half of the humblebums, a folk duo (other half was billy connolly) before he joined stealer's wheel. can we have 'stuck in the middle with you' on a future bell bottom bliss?

anyway, i love love LOVE the song!

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