Dance of the Clairvoyants

[Homeboyd]

Some folks on Twitter are not happy with a new sounding Pearl Jam: "Hopefully the rest of the album are guitars bass drums not dance techno z100 stuff..disappointed big time right now"

[Owl]

Dance of the Clairvoyants:

Confusion is to commotion
What love is, to our devotion
Imperceptibly big, as big as the ocean?
And equally hard to control

So save your predictions
And burn your assumptions
Love is friction
Ripe for comfort
Endless equations
In tugging persuasions
Doors open up
To interpretation

Expecting perfection leaves a lot to ignore
and the past is the present and the future's no more
When every tomorrow is the same as before

The looser things get, the tighter they become
The looser things get tighter

Not one man can be greater than the sum
It's like a negative thought, I’m positive.
Positive, positive.

Fallin down, not staying down
Coulda help me up, brother, tear me down
Drown in the river

Expecting perfection leaves a lot to ignore
when the past is the present and the future's no more

Numbers keep fallin’ off the calendar's floor
We're stuck in our boxes, windows no more.

Collecting up the forget-me-nots,
Not recalling what they’re for

I'm in love with clairvoyants ‘cause they're out of this world

I know the girls wanna dance
away their circumstance
I know the boys wanna grow

I know the girls wanna dance
Clairvoyants in a trance
I know the boys wanna grow
Their dicks and file things

Stand back back when the spirit comes X2
Stand back

Stand back back when the spirit comes X3
Stand back

I know the girls wanna dance
away their circumstance
I know the boys wanna grow
Their dicks and file things

Stand back when the spirit comes x3

[scrub12]

I saw someone say it was a betrayal to grunge fans. Yikes.

[tragabigzanda]

pearl jam sucks now

[Vindicator]

I saw someone say it was a betrayal to grunge fans. Yikes.

hahahaha

[spike]

Off to bed. Wonder if tomorrow I’ll feel less enchanted by the heavily influenced nature of the song, and will return to nestling in the arms of innovative originals like Given to California and Off Neil Goes.

[PHATJ]

I saw someone say it was a betrayal to grunge fans. Yikes.

Lol. Fuck “grunge fans”. Be a music fan. This shit is fire.

[verb_to_trust]

Some folks on Twitter are not happy with a new sounding Pearl Jam: "Hopefully the rest of the album are guitars bass drums not dance techno z100 stuff..disappointed big time right now"

Perfect!

[verb_to_trust]

THe ending lyrics say "Boys wanna grow their dicks and fix and FILE things" not fire, according to Apple Music lyrics

Yeah this could definitely be the case. Will have to hear it live.

One of those things isn't like the other. Nobody associates filing things with growing their dicks. See: Virginia gun lunatics

Eh, "filing things" could a reference to court motions and such. I'm open to it.

Such a Montana thing to say

[evenslow]

The chorus sounds like a pre-chorus. You think it's going to take you somewhere and then it just... doesn't

This is precisely what I like about it. It's like a tease before you get to the melodic second half of the song.

Yeah the chorus of this is kinda besides the point - like NAIS. That’s not the most memorable part of the song. It’s about the style and groove above all else aka their famed mid period right theplatypus.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Has Joey heard this yet?

[evenslow]

Some folks on Twitter are not happy with a new sounding Pearl Jam: "Hopefully the rest of the album are guitars bass drums not dance techno z100 stuff..disappointed big time right now"

They should use this in the marketing materials.

[verb_to_trust]

Has Joey heard this yet?

He's going to be into it. He liked NYC Freaks

[LoathedVermin72]

[WtOB?]

if it’s upsetting people on twitter it must be good.

[Jorge]

Last thoughts before going to bed, after having listened to it a good dozen times (putting it behind a spoiler because I'm definitely starting to aggravate some people):

Spoiler: show

I like the idea of the song, the aesthetics of the song, the production, the spirit that sparked it, the trying-out-new-things, the individual performances. Ed sounds great. The guitar is tasty. The drums have a nice crunch to them. But I think the song is really lacking in terms of interesting musical ideas: the chorus is a huge let-down, the bridge is is very static, it feels like it needs more parts to elevate it out of molasses territory. It feels half-baked in the songwriting department, and so to fill out its runtime it has no recourse other than repeating itself a lot and becoming really tedious. People are really digging the outro, but I'm not getting anything out of it, even if the layering of the vocal parts is superficially cool.

That said, even though I'm unfulfilled by the song, if the rest of the album is guided by the same spirit of creative curiosity, that's encouraging. Hopefully there will be some keepers in there.

[scrub12]

I wonder if we get the Stone on bass, Jeff on keyboard setup live, or on the rumored SNL appearance. Boom is out of a gig.

[Jorge]

The chorus sounds like a pre-chorus. You think it's going to take you somewhere and then it just... doesn't

This is precisely what I like about it. It's like a tease before you get to the melodic second half of the song.

Yeah the chorus of this is kinda besides the point - like NAIS. That’s not the most memorable part of the song. It’s about the style and groove above all else aka their famed mid period right theplatypus.

What no

[Strat]

Last thoughts before going to bed, after having listened to it a good dozen times (putting it behind a spoiler because I'm definitely starting to aggravate some people):

Spoiler: show

I like the idea of the song, the aesthetics of the song, the production, the spirit that sparked it, the trying-out-new-things, the individual performances. Ed sounds great. The guitar is tasty. The drums have a nice crunch to them. But I think the song is really lacking in terms of interesting musical ideas: the chorus is a huge let-down, the bridge is is very static, it feels like it needs more parts to elevate it out of molasses territory. It feels half-baked in the songwriting department, and so to fill out its runtime it has no recourse other than repeating itself a lot and becoming really tedious. People are really digging the outro, but I'm not getting anything out of it, even if the layering of the vocal parts is superficially cool.

That said, even though I'm unfulfilled by the song, if the rest of the album is guided by the same spirit of creative curiosity, that's encouraging. Hopefully there will be some keepers in there.

This is great. And considering all you enjoyed about it I’m surprised you don’t like all that much.

Nobody is aggravated by someone not liking the song. People get aggravated by trolling. You don’t troll

[Vindicator]

Last thoughts before going to bed, after having listened to it a good dozen times (putting it behind a spoiler because I'm definitely starting to aggravate some people):

Spoiler: show

I like the idea of the song, the aesthetics of the song, the production, the spirit that sparked it, the trying-out-new-things, the individual performances. Ed sounds great. The guitar is tasty. The drums have a nice crunch to them. But I think the song is really lacking in terms of interesting musical ideas: the chorus is a huge let-down, the bridge is is very static, it feels like it needs more parts to elevate it out of molasses territory. It feels half-baked in the songwriting department, and so to fill out its runtime it has no recourse other than repeating itself a lot and becoming really tedious. People are really digging the outro, but I'm not getting anything out of it, even if the layering of the vocal parts is superficially cool.

That said, even though I'm unfulfilled by the song, if the rest of the album is guided by the same spirit of creative curiosity, that's encouraging. Hopefully there will be some keepers in there.

nice thoughts. I'm really surprised that chorus isn't hitting the way it hits me. I think the melody of it is perfect, especially the layered synth underneath it. And I love the lyrics there too.