I spent 47 years begging people not to play with other peoples emotions. I failed and I will soon be with God.....I wish all my love on those who need or deserve it....I failed you.
If I had ever met a woman who had a soul and was not a cheat.......I would kill myself today. I am in the pits of despair and I cannot be dying with anyone other than these beautiful ladies and songs. Thankyou ladies for helping me for 30 years..........goodbye ladies you sang like angels. My eyes are squirting tears and I cannot bear it. Bye and thankyou for the love
@EyecareBacklog1 that is MY request... have seen them dozens of time in NYC and elsewhere; their first two albums are ingrained in my DNA. What a special gift they are. It is sad that they have stopped doing their Christmas show but this time of year especially, their voice is sorely mised. We love you Maggie, Terre and Suzy!!!
Of course their harmonies are brilliant, but what I always loved was when they sang in unison. Only sisters could sing in that kind of perfect unison. I love these girls.
@MartyChilla No Hammond Organ here. The song refers to the town of Hammond Louisiana and a young woman's choice to follow a man there. I think the guy was attending Southeastern Louisiana University there.
In the early 1970's my late brother, Greg Ellison, came to visit with me in Hammond, Louisiana. He founded the Lotus Temple to teach Tai Chi and Kung Fu. Maggie and Terre came for a visit. They stayed many months, thus the "You'll never come back!" I can be reached at sales@mrtool.net. Keith Ellison
Hammond, Oregon, a lovely brutal spot near the Cape Dissapointment, in Oregon, where the Columbia river meets the Pacific Ocean. There's an old shipwreck there on the beach.
@Jojoseahorse Good luck. I knew of the Roches thru Robert Fripp, but didn't get hooked until I saw this very Soundstage broadcast. It was "The Married Men" that got me. Being a man, I recognized the truth in those lyrics. Last saw them at the Bottom Line in the late 90's. One day I'll be in my late 90's....
@NickleLark That's so true! Believe it or not, I first heard this song on the radio in Scotland in 1980 and was mesmerised. I was a teenager then and no-one had heard of the Roches. Now I live in NY with teen daughters, and I'm living those lyrics :)
If you go down to Hammond you'll never come back In my opinion you're on the wrong track We'll always love you but that's not the point If you go with that fella forget about us As far as I'm concerned that would be just throwing yourself away not even trying Come on you're lying to me Well I went down to Hammond I did as I pleased I ain't the only one who's got this disease Why don't you face the fact you old upstart We fall apart You'd be okay if you'd just stay in school
The theme of the song is an old one - stay away from him, he's bad for you vs I'll do what I please. "Hammond" is just some place where she's going to meet him; it echoes innumerable old folk-blues songs about going down to this place or that (usually no more meaningful to non-Southerners than Hammond).
Yes, "somewhat weird harmonies" of theirs give us two contradictory feelings; one comes from the lyrics with its straight or tame understanding, the other is implied also in the lyrics but with ironic understanding.
Their song lyrics and harmonies always worked on us in this way.
One of the most intelligent groups in NYC around 1980!
Terre did all the female vocals on that album: Exposure, well worth a listen to. Fripp produced the album Hammond is from and laid guitar parts that are obviously Fripp.
@zabman23 - Fripp also produced the Roches' 3rd album "Keep On Doing" while Adrian Belew was working on a solo album. During a few songs, such as the title track, Fripp brought in Tony Levin and Bill Bruford to do some bass and incidental percussion. It's wild to think that behind the beautiful and quirky Roches, lurks King Crimson. I love knowing that when I listen to that CD.
I hate to say it, but I heard them do this when I was 20 in 1981 sitting in a big tent at the Winnipeg Folk Festival swooning at their feet when they just brought the album out with 250 other people falling in love with each of them i rapid fire while they sang and played guitars and sang
Maggy, no Terre, no Suzzy, no Maggie, no
Terre...
I learned it, and have played it every year since,
I was once working at a hotel in London when I was called up to Suzi Roach's room. Her radiator had devleoped a slight leak from the top valve. It was August and the weather was mild, so I turned the radiator off and offered a change of room.
She declined and instead asked me if I could recomennded a good restaurant nearby.
I sent her to the Pink Oboe on Fulham Palace Road.
The following day she told the meal was wonderful. She had the shrimp and the steak.
This song takes me way back to 1980 when I disovered them. Glad to see other fans out there. The harmonies are ground breaking IMHO. Singing with them is like a spiritual experience.
@WhatWouldZappaSay You're happily lucky, I guess. I only discovered The Roches yet (I mean recently!) after reading the sleeve of Exposure by Robert Fripp. Some things I missed in the '70's and '80s, so I'm glad I've opportunty enough to (re)discover now. The Roches represent (a.o.) things I missed: it makes me melancholic and wistful: the Hammond Song will be on my funeral shortlist...
@HSMSTAR so sad that the artists recorded their songs on 70s warner bros. not knowing that they would use them on some dumb hollywood movie 30 years later
I saw them in Port Dover Canada this year, small hall, 4th row, they seem to have only deepened as people and they could still sing lovely. Suzzy's daughter (with Louden Wainright 3), has a fantastic pure voice and spirit, she opened for them, Lucy Wainright Roche - check her out. I also saw them in a tent at the Winnipeg Folk Festival in 1982, just after "The Roches" came out.
"Where is 'on down the line?'-How far away?" Great song & live rendition though I do miss Robert Fripp's guitar line from the album. Refresh my memory-which sis is which??? Love ya Roches!
Hey Holdenon3 - Yeah, you're right. I must have been dyslexic when I wrote that. Thanks. I've seen them 4 times, so I DO know. I even fell in Love with Suzzy one night at the Bottom Line . . . not that SHE noticed. LOL
I saw the Roches at the Bottom Line at least twice--wow, did I love them! Once Suzzy was way pregnant with Lucy, and took a rest under the piano while Maggie and Terre sang.
syr1811--Saw them once at Town Hall or City Center (it was a long time ago, maybe 1983), with Fripp, the best show by far of the four or five I saw, even though it wasn't as intimate as the Bottom Line ones. Remember how you could barely see the stage at the Bottom Line bec. of all the cigarette smoke?
"We'll always love you, but..." Beautiful, heart-piercing song, one of my favorites. Their vocal control is astounding. I'd never seen them perform live; thank you for posting.
Ok so I like the song .I've listened to it like a dozen times watching the trailer of "How to be" .... But I am sure I'll appreciate it more if someone can tell us more about the lyrics? ..What they actually mean ?
I would really be grateful if someone can tell me who is Hammond ? " I know ..It's pathetic" but I've already googled the song trying to figure it out ...I just didn't find anything ..
@MissEnas as i understand it, it's a relatively true story about how one of the sisters left the group to be with a man, and after she came back they wrote this song about the whole affair.
To me, understanding it precisely isn't required. I enjoy that it's an obscure, snapshot of two people's personal communication. It's lines could be found in any of our personal expostulations with loved ones, small details shifted.
To me, understanding it precisely isn't required. I enjoy that it's an obscure, snapshot of two people's personal communication. It's lines could be found in any of our personal expostulations with loved ones, small details shifted.
To me, understanding it precisely isn't required. I enjoy that it's an obscure, snapshot of two people's personal communication. It's lines could be found in any of our personal expostulations with loved ones, small details shifted.
i saw it a while back at the rhode island film festival. but no need to fret, the movie was recently picked up by ifc and its going to be distributed here in the states =]
I like this song alot, and i love "losing true" even more.. but seriously how do you pronounce the last name? I've heard it said like Rock, Roach, and Rosh. How does it work?!
This brings back so many memories. I first heard them in Santa Fe in 1979 and became a big huge fan fast. We called them "punk folk" at that time, not knowing what else to call their music. I saw them play in Oberlin Ohio a few years later, and met them backstage. They autographed my copy of the "Keep On Doin'" album, which I still have. I saw them 5 or 6 (or 7) times after that --- I lost count --- and met them once or twice more. The Roches will always live in my heart and mind. Great group.
theis harmony is simply irrestible as well as the purity of their voices. their music is timeless, the first time i heard it i though it was some new group i'd never heard of.
Roches gave us a strange feeling with their beautiful but curious harmony and with their ironical double-meaning lyrics, that we were growing up but also were losing something under the growth. This strange feeling was widely being understood among young 'Village' residents of NYC, who were definitely not born in the place. It was an era that US was looking for new directions to go, leaving the old era behind.
Yes, a thousand times, yes! I am testament to Your theory. Born elsewhere, moved to NYC in '86, discovered the "Roches" through friends I made, and never really appreciated them until now, 2007-8. Although I bought their albums then, and listened , I don't think I had the respect then that I have now. Funny, how how time plays on the psyche!
for pure 'lights off , bazoom' experience , you have to try the Colourfield cover - quite hard to listen to sometimes when things are tough , almost too much...
they are so good.
epplehead 3 days ago
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I wish I could have kissed Terre on her cheek. I would have paid a million for that. Beautiful voices from beautiful women. Such talent
blessyourheart46 4 days ago
I spent 47 years begging people not to play with other peoples emotions. I failed and I will soon be with God.....I wish all my love on those who need or deserve it....I failed you.
blessyourheart46 4 days ago
If I had ever met a woman who had a soul and was not a cheat.......I would kill myself today. I am in the pits of despair and I cannot be dying with anyone other than these beautiful ladies and songs. Thankyou ladies for helping me for 30 years..........goodbye ladies you sang like angels. My eyes are squirting tears and I cannot bear it. Bye and thankyou for the love
blessyourheart46 4 days ago
I used to listen to them over and over and over as young boy. 42yrs young this Feb. Such great, powerful melodies/messages.....love them.
Awareness4humanity 2 weeks ago
one of my favourite songs of all time loved these brilliant irish american ladies for the last 35 years or so
jacquesbrelfan 3 weeks ago
30 years later........wow
blessyourheart46 3 weeks ago
There's no B3 on this whole thing. I want my 4:48 back. Cool intentional 1/4 tone dissonance though.
Werdo121 2 months ago
This'll be played at my funeral - for everyone who's said goodbye to someone.
EyecareBacklog1 3 months ago
@EyecareBacklog1 that is MY request... have seen them dozens of time in NYC and elsewhere; their first two albums are ingrained in my DNA. What a special gift they are. It is sad that they have stopped doing their Christmas show but this time of year especially, their voice is sorely mised. We love you Maggie, Terre and Suzy!!!
nylawyer55 1 month ago in playlist Roches
I remember my older sister playing this song as a child and for years googled "If you go down to heaven" , it's nice hearing the correct version!
SlushPile 3 months ago
Saw them in '86,here in Philly...was hanging out with them backstage,after the show...Cool as Shit man....They're really down to earth...
HippieJimi 3 months ago
How about someone providing tha album version with the searing guitar solo by Robert Fripp, who also produced the record.
aprilglaspieable 3 months ago
Of course their harmonies are brilliant, but what I always loved was when they sang in unison. Only sisters could sing in that kind of perfect unison. I love these girls.
KristyB5 4 months ago
After reading all the debate on here regarding what the song's about...it's very obviously about Reggie Hammond, sung from Ganz's point of view
ancientpagoda 4 months ago
IS this song about someone going to the Hammond Rugby tournament or simply about a girl going to visit someone at SE Louisiana State? Anyone?
yaknbo 4 months ago in playlist Roches
holy fuckin shit.... awesome
DALSU 5 months ago
Tears in my eyes. Takes me back and what fabulous singing
SarahJonestoo 5 months ago 3
I like Hammond (Luisiana) and the Song!
glaeken14 5 months ago
they are a bit off key at times arent t hey...
hellozio 5 months ago
I guess I can relate being I've lived in Hammond my whole life
robosane 5 months ago
It sounds like they don't have a very high opinion of that guy in Hammond.
FoolDoolMoolDool 6 months ago
Absolutely extraordinary.
amerikanprincess 6 months ago
AWH!!!! Brings me back to the sixties in Hanford Bay!!! Fantastic!!!!
stcourtney 6 months ago
@stcourtney OOOPPPPS THUNDAR BAY!!!!!!
stcourtney 6 months ago
I'm not sure if I someday want to understand this music, or not.
Hister333 7 months ago
they r badass
blueberryman 9 months ago 2
Stunning, beautiful voices. I kinda miss the wonderful Robert Fripp guitar part, but even without it this is awesome
SelwynJ33 9 months ago 2
Wow, great singing from Suzy.
mayakane 10 months ago
The Roches are sublime! These three sisters are GODDESSES, pure and simple!
Friendulum 11 months ago
The Hammond song. I bet they got the name from using a hammond organ on it. They started off with that as a working title/nick name, and it stuck.
MartyChilla 11 months ago
@MartyChilla No Hammond Organ here. The song refers to the town of Hammond Louisiana and a young woman's choice to follow a man there. I think the guy was attending Southeastern Louisiana University there.
DoubleCComedy 10 months ago
Wow
PaulDcDavidson 1 year ago
Hammond Indiana< where the music school is.
shirlzwrld 1 year ago
In the early 1970's my late brother, Greg Ellison, came to visit with me in Hammond, Louisiana. He founded the Lotus Temple to teach Tai Chi and Kung Fu. Maggie and Terre came for a visit. They stayed many months, thus the "You'll never come back!" I can be reached at sales@mrtool.net. Keith Ellison
mrtoolnet 1 year ago
Hammond, Oregon, a lovely brutal spot near the Cape Dissapointment, in Oregon, where the Columbia river meets the Pacific Ocean. There's an old shipwreck there on the beach.
sothewind 1 year ago
definitely spiritual
Idysseus 1 year ago
That chord they sing (at around the 2:57 mark) on the line "if you go with that fella" gives me the chills
mordecaicarroll 1 year ago 2
@mordecaicarroll, I get goosebumps and teary at that same place EVERY TIME. What remarkable talent!
anneonymousone 4 months ago
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@mordecaicarroll, I get goosebumps and teary at that same place EVERY TIME. What remarkable talent!
anneonymousone 4 months ago
best live show I've ever seen.
Forestski 1 year ago
@Forestski I can second that.
elfcounsul 1 year ago
@Jojoseahorse Good luck. I knew of the Roches thru Robert Fripp, but didn't get hooked until I saw this very Soundstage broadcast. It was "The Married Men" that got me. Being a man, I recognized the truth in those lyrics. Last saw them at the Bottom Line in the late 90's. One day I'll be in my late 90's....
NickleLark 1 year ago
@NickleLark As will we all! Peace :)
Jojoseahorse 7 months ago
The lyrics are a conversation between parents and daughter. If you've raised a daughter, understanding it comes naturally.
NickleLark 1 year ago
@NickleLark That's so true! Believe it or not, I first heard this song on the radio in Scotland in 1980 and was mesmerised. I was a teenager then and no-one had heard of the Roches. Now I live in NY with teen daughters, and I'm living those lyrics :)
Jojoseahorse 1 year ago
Rhonda, I went in 1981 and have never been able to forget you.
relopez100 1 year ago
Unbelievable. Such harmony is rare to come across. Thanks. Outstanding!
BallisticToilet 1 year ago
nbutlerdidit 1 year ago
I'm a teenager and am in LOVE with the Roches. Who spell their last name R-O-C-H-eeeeeeeeeeee
yuigirl1 1 year ago
their lyrics always make me sort of feel like i'm reading someone else's diary.
aMangledBook 1 year ago
The theme of the song is an old one - stay away from him, he's bad for you vs I'll do what I please. "Hammond" is just some place where she's going to meet him; it echoes innumerable old folk-blues songs about going down to this place or that (usually no more meaningful to non-Southerners than Hammond).
tintosangre 1 year ago
Beauty...
quieterrps 1 year ago
MegDragonfly13 -- listen to their song "We." They pronounce it themselves.
radam238 1 year ago
i wore this record OUT in high school. the whole thing was genius. love them so much. thanks for posting this clip.
nickbigd 1 year ago 6
utterly incredible
how wonderful
martinevans123 1 year ago
maggie, terri, and suzzi, wow, always the best, just wish the sound quality was better
fubar50cat 1 year ago
They make the Mormon Tabernacle Choir sound like Tiny Tim.
bobbyt65 1 year ago
If this is the band that started out as "White Women" I played drums for them in the late seventies.
gitchigoomi 1 year ago
love those somewhat weird harmonies.
swampzoid 1 year ago
@swampzoid
Yes, "somewhat weird harmonies" of theirs give us two contradictory feelings; one comes from the lyrics with its straight or tame understanding, the other is implied also in the lyrics but with ironic understanding.
Their song lyrics and harmonies always worked on us in this way.
One of the most intelligent groups in NYC around 1980!
radiocommander 1 year ago
I opened a show for them in 1980. they were not really very nice people. but god, they sure could write and sing!
7Ritadogs 1 year ago
You opened for them in 1980?... You were seven years old! WOW!!
BeeZee2 1 year ago
I was 28 years old when I opened for them in Syracuse NY.
7Ritadogs 1 year ago
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zardoz234me 1 year ago
Robert Fripp did a song with Terre singing on it called Mary. Just beautifully transcendent.
CorsiniVision 2 years ago
Terre did all the female vocals on that album: Exposure, well worth a listen to. Fripp produced the album Hammond is from and laid guitar parts that are obviously Fripp.
zabman23 1 year ago
@zabman23 fripp the best
armandsdamanhoo 1 year ago
@zabman23 - Fripp also produced the Roches' 3rd album "Keep On Doing" while Adrian Belew was working on a solo album. During a few songs, such as the title track, Fripp brought in Tony Levin and Bill Bruford to do some bass and incidental percussion. It's wild to think that behind the beautiful and quirky Roches, lurks King Crimson. I love knowing that when I listen to that CD.
mdstmprs 1 year ago
@mdstmprs I didn't know that, but you're right, it is great knowing there's a bit of Crimson in The Roches.
zabman23 1 year ago
i wish i lived in the 1980s.
classicdisaster09 2 years ago
I hate to say it, but I heard them do this when I was 20 in 1981 sitting in a big tent at the Winnipeg Folk Festival swooning at their feet when they just brought the album out with 250 other people falling in love with each of them i rapid fire while they sang and played guitars and sang
Maggy, no Terre, no Suzzy, no Maggie, no
Terre...
I learned it, and have played it every year since,
once in Mabou Harbour Cape Breton for dinner
once to get laid
and so many times just for joy
ben909ben 2 years ago
Loved that.
NeverSayNeverToAlway 2 years ago
I was once working at a hotel in London when I was called up to Suzi Roach's room. Her radiator had devleoped a slight leak from the top valve. It was August and the weather was mild, so I turned the radiator off and offered a change of room.
She declined and instead asked me if I could recomennded a good restaurant nearby.
I sent her to the Pink Oboe on Fulham Palace Road.
The following day she told the meal was wonderful. She had the shrimp and the steak.
KingofClothFair 2 years ago 4
Awesome!
shazam15 2 years ago
love you Roche sisters,
with or without Robert Fripp;
you groove me to tears.
PterodactylmanTV 2 years ago
Tempo a bit fast, still brilliant. Love it!
adobod 2 years ago
love, love, LOVE these gals
sweetelesue 2 years ago 4
This song takes me way back to 1980 when I disovered them. Glad to see other fans out there. The harmonies are ground breaking IMHO. Singing with them is like a spiritual experience.
WhatWouldZappaSay 2 years ago 18
@WhatWouldZappaSay You're happily lucky, I guess. I only discovered The Roches yet (I mean recently!) after reading the sleeve of Exposure by Robert Fripp. Some things I missed in the '70's and '80s, so I'm glad I've opportunty enough to (re)discover now. The Roches represent (a.o.) things I missed: it makes me melancholic and wistful: the Hammond Song will be on my funeral shortlist...
rvandramme 1 year ago
the tempo is a bit too fast but they still sound exactly the same as the album.
great song to play on guitar ^___^
ocean4edward 2 years ago
:) ...
Planetsp00n 2 years ago
goosebumps
chriscarlonemusic 2 years ago 3
Really. Beautiful vocal arrangement, marvelous voices. Always loved this song. I kind of miss the Fripp guitar solo, but what the heck? Great post.
chowderhead 2 years ago
Wow, thanks for posting! I'm somewhere in that audience!
GARYSTELLA 2 years ago 2
Such pure voices...
blargoid 2 years ago 3
yay, How to Be!
Great song, thanks for uploading!
Evieandauzie 2 years ago
That song is in the movie "How to be" Robert Pattinson is in it
HSMSTAR 2 years ago 17
no duh!
ocean96113 2 years ago
@HSMSTAR so sad that the artists recorded their songs on 70s warner bros. not knowing that they would use them on some dumb hollywood movie 30 years later
armandsdamanhoo 1 year ago
I saw them in Port Dover Canada this year, small hall, 4th row, they seem to have only deepened as people and they could still sing lovely. Suzzy's daughter (with Louden Wainright 3), has a fantastic pure voice and spirit, she opened for them, Lucy Wainright Roche - check her out. I also saw them in a tent at the Winnipeg Folk Festival in 1982, just after "The Roches" came out.
ben909ben 2 years ago
Rutgers University 1982
modelleg 2 years ago 2
i love that song!!!
LostPrty 2 years ago
"Where is 'on down the line?'-How far away?" Great song & live rendition though I do miss Robert Fripp's guitar line from the album. Refresh my memory-which sis is which??? Love ya Roches!
HeartoftheDragonColo 2 years ago
From left to right: Terre, Maggie, Suzzy. Will always Love the girls. Thanks for posting carolly2k.
syr1811 2 years ago
No. From left to right: Terre, Suzzy, Maggie on guitar.
Close but no guitar. ;-)
Holdenon3 2 years ago 2
Hey Holdenon3 - Yeah, you're right. I must have been dyslexic when I wrote that. Thanks. I've seen them 4 times, so I DO know. I even fell in Love with Suzzy one night at the Bottom Line . . . not that SHE noticed. LOL
syr1811 2 years ago 2
I saw the Roches at the Bottom Line at least twice--wow, did I love them! Once Suzzy was way pregnant with Lucy, and took a rest under the piano while Maggie and Terre sang.
jimmy605 2 years ago 2
Hey jimmy605,
Cool - I might have been at one of those shows! Saw then twice at the Bottom Line myself. Fripp even sat in for a couple songs at one of them.
syr1811 2 years ago
syr1811--Saw them once at Town Hall or City Center (it was a long time ago, maybe 1983), with Fripp, the best show by far of the four or five I saw, even though it wasn't as intimate as the Bottom Line ones. Remember how you could barely see the stage at the Bottom Line bec. of all the cigarette smoke?
jimmy605 2 years ago
"We'll always love you, but..." Beautiful, heart-piercing song, one of my favorites. Their vocal control is astounding. I'd never seen them perform live; thank you for posting.
astrotter 2 years ago
Terre Roch taught me how to play the guitar! Pretty cool to see a renewed interest in The Roches as a result of a little indie film.
NeverNikki 2 years ago
Aren't you the lucky duck!
Sorry to hear that they aren't performing much anymore.
hoopjnky 2 years ago
how to be was amazing and this song is pure gold :) <3 wow.
FloopySocks 2 years ago
Great great song...reminds me of ABBA in seventies...
sagna17 2 years ago
i love this song, every time i listen to it i get How To Be movie flashbacks .
stellastarr3 2 years ago 3
me too
qmirassalame 2 years ago
Its really cute song and its in the movie with robert pattison How To Be is a friggen awesome!
Iloveknives 2 years ago 3
Stunning
katterfelto 2 years ago
Wow, they just sound amazing together. Extremely talented.
WickedxxBella 2 years ago
i love this song with a passion.
moderngenevieve 2 years ago
AMAZING.
neoflowers1234 2 years ago
This is pretty amazing.
2write2sing2dance 2 years ago 2
i miss the time when bands were valued based on substance instead of looks.
MusicalAthlete0 2 years ago 5
the blond was hot back in the day tho
sonnydukes 2 years ago
Man, I love these girls.... I drove from Minnesota to Vermont with them on cassette in a Fiat 128 sedan.
26095 2 years ago 4
Maggie and Terre and Suzzy.
We'll always love you.
But -- that' not the point.
:~)
Cate
MCateCate 2 years ago
anyone know where i can download this song? im obsessed with it :)
xthisgirlhaslove 2 years ago 3
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I just bought it on iTunes :D
redcray0n 2 years ago
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You can get it on I Tunes
judgei39 2 years ago
WOW! This song is AmaZin!!! I can't wait to see How To Be, but I don't know where I can watch it.
dynamite2963 2 years ago 2
How To Be :)
i've fallen in love with this song.
Robert Pattinson!
198754329 2 years ago
Ok so I like the song .I've listened to it like a dozen times watching the trailer of "How to be" .... But I am sure I'll appreciate it more if someone can tell us more about the lyrics? ..What they actually mean ?
I would really be grateful if someone can tell me who is Hammond ? " I know ..It's pathetic" but I've already googled the song trying to figure it out ...I just didn't find anything ..
MissEnas 2 years ago
Hammond is a town in the state of Louisiana.
carrolly2k 2 years ago
I believe it was Suzzy who was romantically involved with a musician from the New Orleans area. Hammond is about an hour northeast of New Orleans.
micheljch 1 year ago
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@MissEnas yeah you dumb fuck
scienceslept 1 year ago
@MissEnas as i understand it, it's a relatively true story about how one of the sisters left the group to be with a man, and after she came back they wrote this song about the whole affair.
nbutlerdidit 1 year ago
@MissEnas Indiana...it's a place...Hammond, Indiana
unclebobunclebob 1 year ago
@MissEnas I think Hammond is a place.
atobia231 1 year ago
God, I love this song.
To me, understanding it precisely isn't required. I enjoy that it's an obscure, snapshot of two people's personal communication. It's lines could be found in any of our personal expostulations with loved ones, small details shifted.
Immortality for the Roches.
tectonictom 1 year ago
@MissEnas
God, I love this song.
To me, understanding it precisely isn't required. I enjoy that it's an obscure, snapshot of two people's personal communication. It's lines could be found in any of our personal expostulations with loved ones, small details shifted.
Immortality for the Roches.
tectonictom 1 year ago
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God, I love this song.
To me, understanding it precisely isn't required. I enjoy that it's an obscure, snapshot of two people's personal communication. It's lines could be found in any of our personal expostulations with loved ones, small details shifted.
Immortality for the Roches.
tectonictom 1 year ago
@MissEnas
haha i think i love you. hahaha i was thinking the exact same thing but i had the same problem as u....didnt wanna be thawt of as an idiot :| haha
Smallville357 1 year ago
ohmygahd this song was in how to be! i loved that movie! robert is pretty epic<3
great song btw. ive been looking for this song foreverr.
fifiandshanaynay 2 years ago 2
I'm still looking I can't find the album version :'(
lolipops5 2 years ago
where did you see it?! I AM DYING TO WATCH IT
hejjegermegasej 2 years ago
i saw it a while back at the rhode island film festival. but no need to fret, the movie was recently picked up by ifc and its going to be distributed here in the states =]
fifiandshanaynay 2 years ago
Aw okay, but I live in denmark. Guess I'll just have to wait D:
hejjegermegasej 2 years ago
how to beeee
that trailer made me cry :)
sugarcoatedtrashcan 3 years ago 4
I like this song alot, and i love "losing true" even more.. but seriously how do you pronounce the last name? I've heard it said like Rock, Roach, and Rosh. How does it work?!
MegDragonfly13 3 years ago
Sounds like the name of the bug plural.
carrolly2k 3 years ago
Oh thank you so much!
MegDragonfly13 3 years ago
Oh they're so good. I wish I wasn't born in the 90's. They're that good. Gah, I just ordered their first CD online and can't wait to get it.
cute12but12strange 3 years ago 2
This brings back so many memories. I first heard them in Santa Fe in 1979 and became a big huge fan fast. We called them "punk folk" at that time, not knowing what else to call their music. I saw them play in Oberlin Ohio a few years later, and met them backstage. They autographed my copy of the "Keep On Doin'" album, which I still have. I saw them 5 or 6 (or 7) times after that --- I lost count --- and met them once or twice more. The Roches will always live in my heart and mind. Great group.
mutualpea 3 years ago
Really great video, well produced. Good job Carrolly, thanks.
Swimdeep 3 years ago
Just amazing :)
skycladwow 3 years ago
got it from "How To Be"
amazing song
sugarsweet12345 3 years ago 4
(:
lovee it.
talkaboutme247 3 years ago
Incredible :)! they sound amazing!!!
jaimelotr4ever 3 years ago
on how to be trailer love it
funkymonkey892 3 years ago 2
This made me break out my copy of the first LP..on vinyl..start to finish. Thank you so much for posting this.
Babaziba 3 years ago
Found this out by 'How to be' trailer and its amazing!
IronButterfly89 3 years ago 3
How To Be is the Best Movie ^^
Looove Rob x3
JohnnyTarot 3 years ago
the tempo here is much faster than on the cd
imaginarychains 3 years ago
Just discovered them...I'm falling in love
moveefrk 3 years ago 3
love this album and esp this song! terrific upload - thanks ever so
angrylambie 3 years ago 2
One of my all-time favourites!
cocklesandmussels 3 years ago
They're incredible -- always have been, always will be.
UncleCharlieOakley 3 years ago
theis harmony is simply irrestible as well as the purity of their voices. their music is timeless, the first time i heard it i though it was some new group i'd never heard of.
meesh11p 3 years ago 3
such a haunting song. the first time i heard it, i think i teared up. love it.
Carwench 3 years ago
Roches gave us a strange feeling with their beautiful but curious harmony and with their ironical double-meaning lyrics, that we were growing up but also were losing something under the growth. This strange feeling was widely being understood among young 'Village' residents of NYC, who were definitely not born in the place. It was an era that US was looking for new directions to go, leaving the old era behind.
radiocommander 3 years ago
Yes, a thousand times, yes! I am testament to Your theory. Born elsewhere, moved to NYC in '86, discovered the "Roches" through friends I made, and never really appreciated them until now, 2007-8. Although I bought their albums then, and listened , I don't think I had the respect then that I have now. Funny, how how time plays on the psyche!
qutoobe 3 years ago
They are beautiful...musical weavers, the voices just twine in and out...lovely.
Chastalard 3 years ago
Forever True, The Roches! Beautiful music from beautiful people!
qutoobe 3 years ago
some of the best harmonies ever...i discovered them in 1986 in denver colorado...the blond was hot back in the day...
sonnydukes 3 years ago
Found this song on the HOW TO BE trailer, and loved it :D
camillalawson 3 years ago 2
Yeah, it really fits that trailer. ;D
lovelin123 3 years ago
babies roches babies
let's make some
seriously i've listened to this song like 70 times in my itunes alone
UhLawnUh 3 years ago
Really lovely harmonies - and incredibly well put together
123ThisIsMe 3 years ago
i heard this song on a trailer (how to be) and i fell in love with it!!!! their voices are persistent...i like that.
EisleyGirl 3 years ago
Criminallly underated band. Would love to hear them do 'runs in the family'.
stonefishter 3 years ago 3
fantastic
cstrother 3 years ago
Amazing and beautiful
superreverbking 3 years ago 2
It's like listening to angels
ram848 3 years ago 2
Great song! I was waiting for Fripp to start playing.
NASENT 3 years ago 2
they went to my school
RSRunePker 3 years ago
wow,i forgot about the coluorfield, the singer was in the specials
jamierourketen 3 years ago
Yes, Terry Hall was in The Specials, Fun Boy Three and then The Colourfield. He's always spoken of his liking for The Roches.
richardjgibson 3 years ago
for pure 'lights off , bazoom' experience , you have to try the Colourfield cover - quite hard to listen to sometimes when things are tough , almost too much...
cantsin 3 years ago