Song of the Moment: My Father's Son

[WaitingForBluey]

This was originally my fav on the album but hasn't aged as well as I thought it would. Much prefer the latter half of the album (Swallowed Whole > Yellow Moon)

[Leatherhead]

What's the absolute best live version of this song?

[ridleybradout]

What's the absolute best live version of this song?

Denver 2014-10-22

[tragabigzanda]

pearl jam sucks now

[JuanHamm]

Jorge loved this song.

[Jorge]

I still really like it, I think. I don't know. I haven't listened to it in a few years

[rick malone]

It's pretty good. Jagged musically and interesting lyrics.

[VinylGuy]

yeah i love this one

i just put it because of this thread. Love it. Jeff is great here

[Ms Harmless]

we need a third song for a cringey ableism trilogy

amputee
siamese twins
?

[Ms Harmless]

personally I think this is the song MOST ruined by the album's production

[VinylGuy]

mmm because its a very good song? maybe yeah.

But the production is mainly awful in the whole album.

[Jaeti]

we need a third song for a cringey ableism trilogy

amputee
siamese twins
?

Dead Man

[tragabigzanda]

pearl jam sucks now

[McParadigm]

personally I think this is the song MOST ruined by the album's production lyrics

[Jorge]

There are worse lyrics on Gigaton, tbh

[Ms Harmless]

yeah the lyrics

"can I volunteer amputee"????

Ed was at the peak of his "you can literally cut out words and make it make no sense as long as it scans, it's fine"

I don't find anything on Gigaton that does that, SBWM gets cringe but it doesn't cut out

[Jorge]

I don't think that's what he's singing

[RockPusher]

This has been one of my least favorite Pearl Jam songs for a long time. To me it just sounds very affected, both in terms of Eddie and the band.

(it does have a nice bridge)

[Ms Harmless]

I don't think that's what he's singing

one time it is, which kinda makes it worse (knowing the line makes sense the first time, so the change is CALCULATED)

https://pearljam.com/music/song/my-fathers-son/lyrics

[Jorge]

Oh yeah

Well this just strengthens my overall belief that Ed is generally a bad lyricist. Or at least modern-age, excessively verbose Ed.

For a song as obviously silly as this it doesn't bother me much, but when a song is shooting for poignancy and he does that clunky, awkward grammatical restructuring to fit a rhyme pattern ("Comes Then Goes" has several examples of this) it stands out much more to me