Dance of the Clairvoyants

[tragabigzanda]

pearl jam sucks now

[Rangi Guy]

So after a couple of days of this having been out there - I still really enjoy it, but I'm not finding myself compelled so much to come back to this often.

I understand you've actually been making some room for Can't Deny Me. Which, man...wtf.

Oh come on - I gave it one listen cause I couldn't remember it.......and didn't hate it

Still this was vital time that could have been given to DOTC. Or at least the first few minutes of it.

You raise a good point. I'll give it another listen now

[tragabigzanda]

pearl jam sucks now

[evenslow]

that cover version was nice and all but let's take it down like 10,000 notches it pales in comparison to the real thing i can't believe i have to say this.

[Monkey_Driven]

The cover is good in the sense it was performed so quickly after the initial release, but it's nowhere near as good.

[McParadigm]

So after a couple of days of this having been out there - I still really enjoy it, but I'm not finding myself compelled so much to come back to this often.

I understand you've actually been making some room for Can't Deny Me. Which, man...wtf.

Oh come on - I gave it one listen cause I couldn't remember it.......and didn't hate it

Harder still than a lifetime in hell is the pain of bearing witness to those who turn down the rewards of heaven.

[evenslow]

So after a couple of days of this having been out there - I still really enjoy it, but I'm not finding myself compelled so much to come back to this often.

I understand you've actually been making some room for Can't Deny Me. Which, man...wtf.

Oh come on - I gave it one listen cause I couldn't remember it.......and didn't hate it

Harder still than a lifetime in hell is the pain of bearing witness to those who turn down the rewards of heaven.

[tragabigzanda]

pearl jam sucks now

[darth_vedder]

Holy shit man, that cover is AWESOME. It's actually better than the real thing because I love how they replaced the cheapish synth with a real guitar. Sounds way better.

This was one of the things I hated about it.

Watching it just really bummed me out.

Seems like an enormous waste of time.

wait, wut?

I hated that cover.

Way to take a great song and make it boring.

The guy did sound remarkably like modern day Eddie Vedder, so I guess that's a curious novelty.

Interesting. I thought they did a pretty good job for learning it like that over the course of a few days. I also thought it gave us a decent glimpse of how this song may sound live (without the bigger PJ production machine behind it of course).

that cover version was nice and all but let's take it down like 10,000 notches it pales in comparison to the real thing i can't believe i have to say this.

I thought it was good, but good like in a cover band way doing a solid version of a song I like (and it's impressive they got it down so quick).

[stip]

I could do without the line by line lyrical breakdown but it was nice seeing two people seem genuinely excited by the song

So I watched this, and there is a moment where the guy says "maybe I haven't listened to the last five years of Pearl Jams, but I don't know that I've heard a band reinvent their sound to this extreme a degree where it ended up sounding good" and I realized that it's basically Can't Deny Me. And so if that's your benchmark he might be right

[Rangi Guy]

So after a couple of days of this having been out there - I still really enjoy it, but I'm not finding myself compelled so much to come back to this often.

I understand you've actually been making some room for Can't Deny Me. Which, man...wtf.

Oh come on - I gave it one listen cause I couldn't remember it.......and didn't hate it

Harder still than a lifetime in hell is the pain of bearing witness to those who turn down the rewards of heaven.

"Can't Deny Me sucks." -Leviticus 4:11

I have bought shame upon myself and this board.....

[stip]

I'm gonna start slowing down my listening (he says probably with no intention to actually do it) but the outro of this is one of my favorite non go for broke moments in their catalog.

[blueviper]

I'm gonna start slowing down my listening (he says probably with no intention to actually do it) but the outro of this is one of my favorite non go for broke moments in their catalog.

Yeah, this outro is pretty awesome.

if only it would fade out instead.....

[bodysnatcher]

i can't imagine anything worse than someone on youtube critiquing lyrics and a song

[bodysnatcher]

ok, maybe the holocaust, but that's it.

[tragabigzanda]

pearl jam sucks now

[lecherouslittlestump]

And yes, by the way, i DO have a Dance of the Clairvoyants tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid

[96583UP]

had a chance to listen to this on headphones, better rested, and finally read through this whole thread. Thoughts:

- Happy for all those who are happy

- People may want to temper expectations about the rest of the album bc it sounds like this was an outlier track stylistically

- That said, the fact it was included and based on Stone’s description I think it bodes well for the overall fate of the album. I think of the Avocado sessions and how much the band sounded at ease exploring new tracks and the how much was actually left off that album. I think the story here may be one where they were more open to trusting their instincts and including stuff they enjoyed rather than overthinking it and maybe poor tracking choices

- I want to commend jorge for his level moderate-contrarianism in the face of many, many posters raising their skirts in pubescent excitement

- I think Mike’s guitar riffs are interesting

- I think Ed sounds terrible, but not as bad as most of his other work of the last 10 years. I think this is out of his range but not as bad as CDM, but interested to see how it pans out live

- I understand that the outtro layered vocals appeals to many. I never fell into the hipster/Arcade Fire movement of the last 15 years where a half dozen white people start singing in unison and little girls in the crowd feel epic. Interesting to see that PJ finally chose to mimic that tactic. Not surprising so many people like it bc so many people have terrible taste in music and enjoyed that whole hipster white privilege movement

- I give this a 6.5/10 overall - it could have been way worse. If it came on in the backround I probably wouldn’t turn it off. But other than curiosity I probably wouldn’t seek it out. I think this would have made a much better lurker/ pleasant surprise track on the album than the featured single; assuming the rest of the album doesn’t sound like this

- Gigaton Squad remains in tact, but is on momentary hiatus pending release of the track with ‘monster mccready solo’

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[Strat]

hey numbers

[Birds in Hell]

I hate Arcade Fire. I don’t hear that kind of thing in the song at all.