Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand

Primitive Radio Gods | Format: MP3 Download
From the Album Rocket

Product Details

• Original Release Date: June 18, 1996
• Label: Columbia
• Copyright: 1996 Sony Music Entertainment (UK) Ltd.
• Duration: 5:36 minutes
• Genres:
• ASIN: B00137RCEQ
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,140 Paid in MP3 Songs (See Top 100 Paid in MP3 Songs)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great atmospheric song that almost says something, November 29, 2008

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Alex Riggle (Seattle, WA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand (MP3 Download)

I got this song (bought the CD) because it takes its name from a Bruce Cockburn song on his 1978 album "Further Adventures Of." It's quite a different song but well worth the money I spent for the CD (I didn't care for the rest of the CD). Dark and atmospheric, it has a slow shuffle beat and samples BB King saying "I been downhearted baby ever since the day we met." It tells a simple tale of flying to New Orleans to argue with good friends about the existence of God. With lines like "The plane take off from Baltimore and touches down on Bourbon Street" and "The seconds ticking killed us all a million years before the fall," it is worth listening to the words, even though the overall sound would be enough to make it a great song if it were an instrumental. The piano solo is almost trance-like in its unfocusedness, but it somehow works. The only drawback for me is the odd line "you swim like lions through the crest and bathe yourselves in zebra flesh" which I can't make heads or tails out of.

Definitely worth 99 cents if you like a moody, atmospheric song with a semi-philosophical theme. The video, which is on You Tube, is very bizarre, but the song is great.