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After about 50 listens I've gotta say this song is probably one of their 10 best. Powerful lyrics and just a treat to listen to day after day. Anyone else love this song as much as me?

I love the whole album, and I really can't place Hip songs in any kind of order. They all mean something entirely different to me at different times. However, I do believe Goodnight Josephine was a spectacular choice for the album closer.

Great, great song.
I liked it - but the live version made me fall for it.
Damn it is great live.

Not my fave on the album, but live is amazing!!

I remember loving Joe live... then got IBE, read the raving reviews of how much people here loved Goodnight Josephine, but I couldn't really get into it enough... and now I put in IBE just to skip to the last song. It's crazy how often Hip songs are like that for me.

I'll put my name down for this. It really is a beautiful song. All of IBE is awesome. I wonder who Josephine is though. Fiction or somebody real?

I was absolutely amazed by how much I liked this song. It was completely unexpected because I did not like the live version from Sarnia... I always loved Ballroom because it was so dark and mysterious, but Josephine never did anything for me and I only listened to it a few times. Now it is one of my top three songs on this album, along with New Orleans and Summer. I LOVE the album version... I haven't heard any other live versions since then so I can't say if I would like it live now that I'm used to it, but I agree with you 100% about the album version being amazing.

One of my faves on the album and perhaps over all! Even if it's an upbeat song it's still beautiful and haunting.

I like the album version better than the bootleg that was making the rounds before the album came out.

It is amazing seeing them peform this live. Wish they would release it as a single.

This is such a fantastic song! It just isn't long enough for me. I put it on repeat until I finally get my fill; before the song's over I already want to hear it again. I love the horns at the end, my favorite part. I can't wait to hear it live!!!!

akoso Wrote:I remember loving Joe live... then got IBE, read the raving reviews of how much people here loved Goodnight Josephine, but I couldn't really get into it enough... and now I put in IBE just to skip to the last song. It's crazy how often Hip songs are like that for me.

I'm the same...
I DO like it, but the barrie version that I was hooked on was better for me.


Ballroom (You're everywhere) is like that for me too. I am REALLY missing "Here comes a country are you in or you out?"

...but this is entirely different from the rest of the subject.
SORRY

No, I agree with you...the lyrics to what we know as Ballroom are much better than those to You're Everywhere. The primary difference is that the title of You're Everywhere - and the repetition of same within the song - is way too literal, and way too pop sounding. There's hundreds of brainless country and pop songs with similar titles and phrasing. That first line was awesome, and I miss it.

I got totally hooked on Ballroom and Joe at Edgefest, and repeated listens/views of the bootleg.

I still sing the "original" lyrics in my head when I listen to the album.

Both versions, of both songs are great, but Goodnight Josephine is climbing to the top of my Hip favourites list.