Baker Street

Gerry Rafferty | Format: MP3 Download
From the Album City To City

Product Details

• Original Release Date: September 2, 2008
• Release Date: September 2, 2008
• Label: EMI
• Copyright: (C) 1978 Capitol Records, LLC
• Duration: 6:08 minutes
• Genres: Alternative Rock/Singer-Songwriters
• ASIN: B001EDD39C
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,082 Paid in MP3 Songs (See Top 100 Paid in MP3 Songs)
  • #25 in MP3 Downloads > MP3 Songs > Alternative Rock > Singer-Songwriters

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Historic, phenomenal, high praise....., November 6, 2008

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Baker Street (MP3 Download)

One of the best songs ever written, period. Baker Street is a sweeping gesture, attempting and succeeding in bringing the banal, "I'm gonna give up the booze and the one night stands," in line with a sweeping sax line that transcends all. Will he "settle down, in a quite little town and forget about everything?" One doubts it, but there is salvation in music nonetheless, and a though "he's rollin', he's the rollin' stone" we have to give credit where effort is made. There is hope for our wounded hero. Gerry Rafferty has written an beautiful, haunting song.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rafferty's classic, September 29, 2010

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Brad Teare (Providence, Utah, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Baker Street (MP3 Download)

This song starts with some nice sustained guitar notes and bongo into which is blended a wailing, melancholy sax. At a minute the vocal enters. The vocal is well performed and I like the quality of Jerry Rafferty's voice which is a tenor with a very slight nasal quality that doesn't get irritating. The sax reenters the composition from time to time and is one of the really great aspects. There is also an orchestra that comes in along with continued persecution. Overall it is a moody yet invigorating performance.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Historic, Phenomenal, a Classic, November 6, 2008

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John C. Hill "Chumbah" (Philadelphia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Baker Street (MP3 Download)

Gerry Rafferty's song "Baker Street" introduces us to an everyman anti-hero. "And then you'll settle down, in a quiet little town and forget about everything." But not all is well and settled. "He'll always keep movin', you know he'll always keep moving, cause he's rollin', he's the rollin' stone." Despite the pedestrian-level encounter with one of ours, the saxophone lifts us and our hero higher, it transcends the bounds of these confines, and therein lies the genius of the song. A fabulous, exciting and relevant song even now...