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Joan Osborne - Unplugged at KBCO Studio C - One of Us
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Posted on 05/26/2024 7:54:42 PM PDT by MtnClimber

"One of Us" is a song written by Eric Bazilian (of The Hooters) and originally released by Joan Osborne. Released in March 1995 on the album Relish and produced by Rick Chertoff, it became a Top 40 hit in November of that year. The song is the theme song for the American television series Joan of Arcadia.


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1 posted on 05/26/2024 7:54:42 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Recorded at KBCO, Boulder, Colorado.


2 posted on 05/26/2024 7:54:55 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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I like the song but can’t unforget when I saw her in concert many, many years ago. She was a rude drunk saying she regretted writing and performing the song as that was all that anyone wanted to hear from her.


3 posted on 05/26/2024 7:57:51 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Build the Wall, Deport Them All. No amnesty for anyone.)
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To: MtnClimber

And correction, she didn’t write the song. Sorry.


4 posted on 05/26/2024 7:59:22 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Build the Wall, Deport Them All. No amnesty for anyone.)
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I could never get past that stupid nose ring. Also the lyrics are blasphemous.


5 posted on 05/26/2024 8:18:51 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: MtnClimber

For some reason, the lyrics have always been stuck in my head, “What if God was Snagglepus.”


6 posted on 05/26/2024 8:26:34 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: MtnClimber

Rush Limbaugh plugged this song during one of his broadcasts. He was impressed that a song about God was getting such good airplay.


7 posted on 05/26/2024 8:34:01 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain (Apt pupil of Laz)
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To: Blue Highway

It might be a little earthy, but I like the way it brings God to Earth as a man in the modern era. God did it once before a few thousand years ago. Blasphemous - marginally?


8 posted on 05/26/2024 8:38:01 PM PDT by oldplayer
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The best “version” of this song is

Bob Rivers—What If God Smoked Cannabis


9 posted on 05/26/2024 8:43:08 PM PDT by RightWingNutJob69
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To: oldplayer

Reading the lyrics, I wouldn’t call it “marginally” myself.


10 posted on 05/26/2024 8:44:28 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Reno89519
Eric Bazilian wrote it:

American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, arranger and producer. Bazilian is a founding member of the rock band The Hooters. He wrote "One of Us", a song first recorded by Joan Osborne in 1995.

11 posted on 05/26/2024 8:44:35 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: oldplayer

She’s trying to dumb down God into the form of man. “Just a slob like one of us”. I remember women at that time thinking this was very “spiritual” AKA new age. I had disdain for this before I formally became a born again Christian, but even then I knew this was not coming from a good place. Trying to make Good more secular. Sounds like the very thing Satan would want is to believe.


12 posted on 05/26/2024 8:45:17 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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*Trying to make God more secular. Sounds like the very thing Satan would have us believe to deceive us.


13 posted on 05/26/2024 8:47:58 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: MtnClimber
I've seen a couple of videos of her covering Motown hits some years back...”Heat Wave” and “What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted”. She did a good job with both...I was quite surprised.
14 posted on 05/27/2024 4:18:38 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Proudly Clinging To My Guns And My Religion)
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Never was all that keen on the song, but liked the intro which was written by John Sutter:

One of these nights about twelve o’clock
The old world’s goin’ to reel and rock;
The sinners gonna tremble and cry for pain
And the Lord will come in His aeroplane

Ho, ye weary of ev’ry tribe
Get your ticket for an aeroplane ride
Jesus the Savior is coming to reign
And take you up to glory in His aeroplane

Talk about your joyrides in automobiles
Of lightning speed on your motor wheels;
We’ll break all records as up we’ll fly
On an aeroplane joyride thru the sky

Ho, ye weary of ev’ry tribe
Get your ticket for an aeroplane ride
Jesus the Savior is coming to reign
And take you up to glory in His aeroplane

You’ll have to get ready if you take this ride
Quit all your meanness and humble your pride;
You must furnish a light both bright and clean
And a vessel of oil to run the machine

Ho, ye weary of ev’ry tribe
Get your ticket for an aeroplane ride
Jesus the Savior is coming to reign
And take you up to glory in His aeroplane.


15 posted on 05/27/2024 4:45:41 AM PDT by kawhill (kawhill)
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To: MtnClimber

During the “Motown Special” featuring their studio band (Funk Brothers), Joan Osbourne does an extraordinary cover of “What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted”

Such an amazing arrangement delivered with incredible passion, it far surpasses Jimmy Ruffin’s great original version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rG5FGjnp_yU&ab_channel=MusicMike%27s%22FlashbackFavorites%22%2CKVKVI%26GROOVY


16 posted on 05/27/2024 4:59:38 AM PDT by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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To: oldplayer

“Blasphemous - marginally?“

I’d say totally. “I AM”. God transcends Man. Reducing Him to a mere man destroys the equation it doesn’t create a new one. It’s an exercise in stupidity and self serving mental masturbation.


17 posted on 05/27/2024 5:43:08 AM PDT by TalBlack (I We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: MtnClimber
He DID become "One of Us", 2000 years ago in Bethlehem.

For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things just as we are, yet without sin. (Hebrews 4:15 NASB)


18 posted on 05/27/2024 6:04:31 AM PDT by left that other site (For what is hidden is meant to be disclosed, and whatever is concealed ...to be brought out. Mk 4:22)
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To: Gay State Conservative

I seem to remember seeing her in a Motown documentary years ago doing those songs with what was left of the Funk Brothers. They were true to the original recording as you can get.


19 posted on 05/27/2024 6:48:53 AM PDT by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.)
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Heat Wave
20 posted on 05/27/2024 7:18:50 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Proudly Clinging To My Guns And My Religion)
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