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Julie Driscoll — Flesh Failures (Let the Sunshine In)
Album: Streetnoise
Avg rating:
5.2

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Total ratings: 743









Released: 0
Length: 2:59
Plays (last 30 days): 3
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We starve-look
At one another
Short of breath
Walking proudly in our winter coats
Wearing smells from laboratories
Facing a dying nation
Of moving paper fantasy
Listening for the new told lies
With supreme visions of lonely tunes

Somewhere
Inside something there is a rush of
Greatness
Who knows what stands in front of
Our lives
I fashion my future on films in space
Silence
Tells me secretly
Everything
Everything

(Seal with a righteous kiss)
That's me, that's me, that's me
(The rest is silence
The rest is silence
The rest is silence)

Singing our space songs on a spider web sitar
Life is around you and in you
Answer for Timothy Leary, dearie

Let the sunshine
Let the sunshine in
The sunshine in
Let the sunshine
Let the sunshine in
The sunshine in
Let the sunshine
Let the sunshine in
The sun shine in...
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 nutrod42 wrote:

Great song, but why not just play the original version (i.e., from the Broadway soundtrack album)? It's much better.



Agreed! Listening to this version just sent me hunting for my original Broadway album.
Posted 4 months ago by dris    [ Reply ]
Yeah, no.... not feeling it.  I find it abrasive.
Posted 5 months ago by waterwench21    [ Reply ]
I think I've bumped this 4 times now. I can't listen to it without a smile on my face! It's just so... groovy! Thanks for the giggles Bill and Rebecca. 
Posted 3 years ago by tlbritton    [ Reply ]
Wow, my favourite version of a show tune. I used to play this and ask my friends "can you guess what it is yet"
Posted 4 years ago by Kelvinclifford    [ Reply ]
Delightfully bloody awful.
Posted 4 years ago by sfyi2001    [ Reply ]
I heard 'wearing smells from lavatories'...

Of its time, and a tad harsh to my ears. Ripe for a remix I think. 
Posted 4 years ago by kbs    [ Reply ]
Where did you find this Bill?
awesome and cool 
Posted 4 years ago by jmsmy    [ Reply ]
I don't recall ever seeing a more diverse range of ratings than for this song.
Posted 4 years ago by jonathansteven    [ Reply ]
Nice shouting Julie.
Posted 4 years ago by HectorPascal    [ Reply ]
Le putain de carnage !
Posted 5 years ago by Thirdrose    [ Reply ]
I feel like I have just been scolded to let the sunshine in.  
Posted 5 years ago by Hendon2    [ Reply ]
Awesome piece of music!!!   (hey  kcar  there were a few dangerous stink-pots back then, like George Wallace, Barry Goldwater and young tRump's Master Roy Cohen eccchh  pure crap)
Posted 5 years ago by hayduke2    [ Reply ]
Great song, but why not just play the original version (i.e., from the Broadway soundtrack album)? It's much better.
Posted 5 years ago by nutrod42    [ Reply ]
 Cynaera wrote:
She's got SUCH a powerful voice - but I find she has the same trouble Mariah Carey has - learning when to dial it down. Nuance is a good thing. Overkill is not. I'm not rating it, because it's not so awful that I'd switch from RP to anything else, but I can't give it anything above a 4 at this point. Maybe one of these days, when the sun's shining, I'm stoned as a goat on good gin and all the dishes are done, I might feel differently! {#Mrgreen}
 

One of my favorite people on RP, regardless of current residence on any given plane of existence.

First time I've heard Julie Driscoll sing. Yes, a powerful voice but better than one would heard on plastered karaoke night, Dfitz. Definitely of a time and place but the little boy in me who barely remembers that era of hope and positivity gives this at least a 6.

"Singing our space songs on a spider web sitar
 Life is around you and in you
 Answer for Timothy Leary, dearie"


Snicker all you want, but at least the 60s didn't vomit forth someone as awful as Trump.
Posted 5 years ago by kcar    [ Reply ]
Reel it in a bit, Julie. Ouch.
Posted 5 years ago by zenhead    [ Reply ]
Posted 5 years ago by cptbuz    [ Reply ]
I rarely post negative things but Julie Driscoll's voice on this track is so annoying that I couldn't help myself. Really really don't want to hear this again!!!!
Posted 5 years ago by tamang3    [ Reply ]
Its very fitting that "Streetnoise" is the name of this album because my ears kinda hurt.  She sounds reminiscent of a plastered karaoke Friday night where everyone says "quite a voice".
Posted 5 years ago by Dfitz    [ Reply ]
 Cynaera wrote:
She's got SUCH a powerful voice - but I find she has the same trouble Mariah Carey has - learning when to dial it down. Nuance is a good thing. Overkill is not. I'm not rating it, because it's not so awful that I'd switch from RP to anything else, but I can't give it anything above a 4 at this point. Maybe one of these days, when the sun's shining, I'm stoned as a goat on good gin and all the dishes are done, I might feel differently! {#Mrgreen}
 
This comment by Cynaera gets a 10. I'll agree and give song a 4.
Posted 5 years ago by BigIslandBlues    [ Reply ]
Sometimes RP just has clunkers and this is one of them. We won’t hold it against you bill
Posted 5 years ago by jp33442    [ Reply ]
They did some great music but this isn't one of them.
Bill, can't we hear a better selection?
Posted 5 years ago by Canadese    [ Reply ]
Just...not good.
Posted 5 years ago by DHoff    [ Reply ]
Wow. Have not heard this for decades and could easily go that before hearing it again. Truly awful.
Posted 5 years ago by merobreno    [ Reply ]
Ouch
Posted 6 years ago by newbolddrive    [ Reply ]
 Clarentine wrote:
Okay until all the screaming at the end.  ::wince::

 
yep. i was groovin along and then it just became grating as all heck.

no i will not let your sun shine in. {#Snooty}
Posted 6 years ago by ziggytrix    [ Reply ]
I saw the musical Hair at the Fisher Theater in Detroit 20+ years ago. It was the uncensored version -- at one point the cast stands on the stage in the nude and performs a song. 

About a half hour after the performance, the entire cast came into the restaurant where my wife and I were having dinner. My wife pointed them out taking as they were sitting down at the next table. I guess I didn't recognize them with their clothes on... 
Posted 6 years ago by Grammarcop    [ Reply ]
 Cynaera wrote:
She's got SUCH a powerful voice - but I find she has the same trouble Mariah Carey has - learning when to dial it down. Nuance is a good thing. Overkill is not. I'm not rating it, because it's not so awful that I'd switch from RP to anything else, but I can't give it anything above a 4 at this point. Maybe one of these days, when the sun's shining, I'm stoned as a goat on good gin and all the dishes are done, I might feel differently! {#Mrgreen}

 
Previous to today this song was last played on Nov 26, 2013. Long enough ago that this comment from Cynaera is still close to the top. I really miss her contributions to the RP community.
Posted 6 years ago by cosmiclint    [ Reply ]
Okay until all the screaming at the end.  ::wince::
Posted 6 years ago by Clarentine    [ Reply ]
Nice to hear this.  This is from a great double album.  I had a hard time finding it back in the day in New Hampshire, but I'll have to dig it out and give it a play this weekend.
Posted 6 years ago by bstjames    [ Reply ]
 Proclivities wrote:

Julie Driscoll

 




She looks more like Father Jack from Father Ted these days...
Posted 10 years ago by DaveInSaoMiguel    [ Reply ]
4.5? really it's not that bad...I give 6
Posted 11 years ago by Helmholtz    [ Reply ]
Groovy, daddy-oo!!
Posted 11 years ago by Boy_Wonder    [ Reply ]
 Zep wrote:
Greetings from the Fifth Dimension!

Is she singing? Or shouting?  

 
Julie Driscoll
Posted 11 years ago by Proclivities    [ Reply ]
The overclocked voice is bad enough; but the real atrocity is the lyrics taken from your Applied Postmodernism professor's LSD-influenced lecture notes.
Posted 12 years ago by Baby_M    [ Reply ]
Please, make it stop I beg of you!
Posted 14 years ago by TheBorgBuilder    [ Reply ]
 Cynaera wrote:
She's got SUCH a powerful voice - but I find she has the same trouble Mariah Carey has - learning when to dial it down. Nuance is a good thing. Overkill is not. I'm not rating it, because it's not so awful that I'd switch from RP to anything else, but I can't give it anything above a 4 at this point. Maybe one of these days, when the sun's shining, I'm stoned as a goat on good gin and all the dishes are done, I might feel differently! {#Mrgreen}
 
...Only it's good vodka on the lake!

Posted 14 years ago by df1489    [ Reply ]
She's got SUCH a powerful voice - but I find she has the same trouble Mariah Carey has - learning when to dial it down. Nuance is a good thing. Overkill is not. I'm not rating it, because it's not so awful that I'd switch from RP to anything else, but I can't give it anything above a 4 at this point. Maybe one of these days, when the sun's shining, I'm stoned as a goat on good gin and all the dishes are done, I might feel differently! {#Mrgreen}
Posted 14 years ago by Cynaera    [ Reply ]
Some times it's best to leave well enough alone.  This is one of those times.
Posted 14 years ago by dedawson    [ Reply ]
Greetings from the Fifth Dimension!

Is she singing? Or shouting?  

Posted 14 years ago by Zep    [ Reply ]
It is good to hear Jools again.
Posted 14 years ago by Colandrio    [ Reply ]
 handyrae wrote:
Good God, this is awful.
 
My exact thought, over and over until it was over.

Posted 14 years ago by greentini    [ Reply ]
Oooooh! Can we hear Up with People next?!! {#Rolleyes}
Posted 14 years ago by crockydile    [ Reply ]
More emotion in Hair soundtrack / stage. BTW which came first ?
Posted 14 years ago by Chumbawamba-1984    [ Reply ]
 crisssi wrote:
Oops, I uploaded this - not to everyones delight obviously {#Redface}

But I stand firm. In my ears it's a fascinating rendition of this beautiful song (Flesh Failures I mean), much better and sharper than the original version. And Julie's voice - I like it a lot, cool.
 
Don't take it personally.
We still like you.

Posted 14 years ago by KurtfromLaQuinta    [ Reply ]
I think it's ok. I like the Hair soundtrack, so doubtlessly there's some nostalgia value here. Nevertheless, not such a bad rendition.
Posted 14 years ago by gekkosan    [ Reply ]
Oops, I uploaded this - not to everyones delight obviously {#Redface}

But I stand firm. In my ears it's a fascinating rendition of this beautiful song (Flesh Failures I mean), much better and sharper than the original version. And Julie's voice - I like it a lot, cool.


Posted 14 years ago by crisssi    [ Reply ]
Good God, this is awful.
Posted 14 years ago by handyrae    [ Reply ]
{#Moon}{#Frustrated}{#Drunk}{#Puke}
Posted 14 years ago by DeeCee1109    [ Reply ]
 rtrudeau wrote:
Yikes ... this is some awful singing. (ears bleeding)
 
Yikes, indeed.

Posted 14 years ago by FlatCat    [ Reply ]
I jumped in here to give this listen, but it doesn't get it. There are better tracks off this LP, to be certain, that show off Julie's work with the Trinity. This simply is not representative.

Posted 14 years ago by jagdriver    [ Reply ]
Yikes ... this is some awful singing. (ears bleeding)
Posted 14 years ago by rtrudeau    [ Reply ]
Wow. It's been soo o o o o long.
Posted 14 years ago by Old_Pat    [ Reply ]
Good song, was going to upload this next slot I get as it didn't show up as being there already...
Posted 14 years ago by DaveInSaoMiguel    [ Reply ]