World Party - Is It Like Today? (Live on 2 Meter Sessions)

[@mollycountermine1314]

Rest easy, Karl...and thanks for the amazing music.

[@ianthomson3288]

Always believe what makes a good song is one that you never tire of listening too. I will listen to this one until the end. RIP Karl x

[@belturbet4]

Plays his guitar upside down. Literally. Absolutely brilliant songwriter.

[@smithy280663]

and he doesn't invert his strings!!! Just like Jimi Hendrix & Albert King.........

[@Tiger924s]

I simply can not believe that this video has less than 2,000 views and only 14 likes. Karl Wallinger is a legend.

[@mongofaya]

How right you are! It was crossing my mind too!

[@tomdewilde1]

Hi, may I give my thought about your comment? "One can recognize something-worth-to-watch/listen by the absence of dislikes, more then by the volume of the likes"

[@phogue1]

Probably my favorite song from the band, though it’s so hard to choose. Gone too soon for sure.

[@lukejohnson2820]

What other songs do you like by them? I love this song but I can’t find any more other songs like this one.

[@rickb.4168]

R.I.P. Karl ❤

[@justl0ew437]

such a brilliant song by such an underrated, authentic alternative band. I love and i hate the lack of recognition it gets, but i´m glad it never became one of them overplayed pop tunes 🙌

[@michaelgoldwyn2182]

There are simply not enough words in the English language to describe this mans music

[@nthperson]

One of the great songs. Never tire of listening to it.

[@gratefuldead2379]

I once met Karl in Louisville ky. It was before a gig of theirs. There was a couple acts there but world party is what brought us out. Anyway there was a big white bus parked out front we noticed as we arrived early in the evening. Well we found our seats and then I popped out front for a smoke. There was a band playing on the corner four black girls were playing and I mean laying it down. As I surfed the street with my eyes I noticed a big head of hair leaning out a window of that white bus. Even though I had been listening to world party my whole life I had only been shown what Karl looked like a week or so before the concert when my dad had showed me their ship of fools video. Anyway I was amazed that the head of hair was Karl. Lol I didn’t want to run directly over like some idiot so I strolled over easily and looked up at him. I smiled and said wow Karl nice to meet you. He greeted me and said what brings you out today and I replied you. He sweetly nodded and smiled as he seems very humble. No really what brings you out. I new then that I had to think of something to show the man he really was the reason I was their. Me my mom and dad. All I could say was “you and I could light a fire with all the love that’s wasted”. He smiled and so did I. At this point my mother had stepped outside and approached I introduced her to Carl and then she took our picture together. It was one of the coolest experiences I ever had. But wait the biggest thing was my dad was the one who turned me on to world party and he never came out which made me sad. I even told Karl I wish my dad was out here to greet you. Well after the show the band did a meet and greet and my dad got to take his Egyptology album and have it signed by Karl. What a great night that was. Love and happiness to all. Even in these trying times. Keep putting JAH first and he shall surely smile upon you with favor. Agape love

[@tonybarnes9194]

This is why the best rock and roll is so important. Karl and WP have always put the heavy into the light, the fun into the fright, the party into the politics, the power into the people. (I'm 62 and turned my son, 22, on to WP. He's shown me some cool new music too.)

[@gratefuldead2379]

I’m 33 and my dad is 60. Groovy my friend. Love is the way forward. ✌🏼🐸

[@tonybarnes9194]

@@gratefuldead2379 As always--truth from the youth.

[@FungusMossGnosis]

Beautiful, so underrated.

[@johnbarry1965]

Karl Wallinger, the greatest thing to ever come out of Prestatyn, Neil Aspinall second!!

[@janethalley2154]

I love this..

[@foodforthoughtchef]

Outstanding band...

[@filipdemeyst8842]

Pure beauty

[@RSVTuono]

Bang!

[@veronicaleal1187]

Que temazo

[@noone-g8p]

I'm left-handed and that's my natural feel, but I couldn't get anybody to restring the guitar right-side up for me or teach me to play. So, you had to figure it out yourself. I couldn't exactly.

[@boathemian7694]

Wow sure miss KW

[@bakerbevcam4736]

Damn. I always thought this was Ray Davies.

[@livenhfree]

If you listen to the studio cut of Ship Of Fools, (I think) you'll also hear a little Dr. John. ;-)

[@hannuijten4700]

❤❤ rec by me

[@yournamehere7182]

Guitar 101

[@horsenbuggy]

Can anyone translate or at least give the gist of what he's saying? I keep hearing Prince and the New Power Generation, but what's he saying about them?

[@FungusMossGnosis]

There's no direct translation, or any one right interpretation. It's one of the most profound pop songs to me, largely because it plays in ambiguity and layers of cultural references that mirror mankind's advances that give us domination over nature, not treating the subjects literally so much as in a day-dreaming manner.... yet bewilder us to the sensations of when man's consciousness was imbued with more imagination and wonder, searching for truth beyond the myths and filter of oral history. When I first heard it, I though it one of the most astoundingly "visual" songs ever. I could see it in my head like an experimental film short, hard to put into words the feeling of sadness it gave me. But I don't know if it was intended to overwhelm the listener, maybe just tease them into thinking more about their relationship with our ancestors and where we're headed. I believe Jarvis Cocker does something similar in playing with the themes of the cycles of history rhyming from the past to present in "From Auschwitz To Ipswich". The penultimate stanza is a knockout, not so much a call to action (as some lesser post-9/11 songs have that try to reckon with how world-shaping events come about and what they do to us), as it is to introspection: "Well, if your ancestors could see standing there They would gaze in wonder at your Frigidaire They had to fight just to survive So can't you do somethin' with your life?"