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Superblood Wolfmoon

5 Stars: Gigaton is gonna be fucking amazing
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4 Stars: I'll keep staying up for these, even though I have to get my ass up for work tomorrow
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3 Stars: It's no DotC
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2 Stars: Good night
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1 Star: Pearl Jam sucks
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This may have been mentioned already in the 50-odd pages of this thread I haven't read, but I think this is more a song about harassment of a stranger than unrequited love.

There's nothing in the lyrics to suggest he ever had any kind of connection/relationship with the object of his obsession, but rather saw her from afar and developed an infatuation ("singin' in the distance").

The only reference to any interaction between them is that she punched him ("hoping that I hurt your fist") and that he is now locked up ("prisoner of keys and cuffs / fortunate to be locked up")

I think he possibly has mental/developmental issues ("a life of hopelessness, focus on your focusedness") and there is confusion over whether he is aware that approaching the woman is inappropriate ("right now I feel, a lack of innocence searching for reveal") or he simply wants to take what he sees as rightfully his ("could be the one", "I'm feeling selfish and I want what's right").

It might be a stretch, but "Once you were somewhere, and now you're everywhere" could refer to the story being in the news (Headline: "Woman punches would-be rapist").

Thoughts?
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ridleybradout wrote:This may have been mentioned already in the 50-odd pages of this thread I haven't read, but I think this is more a song about harassment of a stranger than unrequited love.

There's nothing in the lyrics to suggest he ever had any kind of connection/relationship with the object of his obsession, but rather saw her from afar and developed an infatuation ("singin' in the distance").

The only reference to any interaction between them is that she punched him ("hoping that I hurt your fist") and that he is now locked up ("prisoner of keys and cuffs / fortunate to be locked up")

I think he possibly has mental/developmental issues ("a life of hopelessness, focus on your focusedness") and there is confusion over whether he is aware that approaching the woman is inappropriate ("right now I feel, a lack of innocence searching for reveal") or he simply wants to take what he sees as rightfully his ("could be the one", "I'm feeling selfish and I want what's right").

It might be a stretch, but "Once you were somewhere, and now you're everywhere" could refer to the story being in the news (Headline: "Woman punches would-be rapist").

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hmmmmmmmmmmmm this is worthy of consideration
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Leatherhead wrote:
Vindicator wrote: I can't deal with this "I see you in the deeestance" shit
Shit like "I see you in the deeestance" is part of what I like about it.
I really like that section and delivery too.
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Ms Harmless wrote:that's mainly the issue, it suits Undone better
it is also on the Again Today cover that we don't talk about enough. It's great!
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Ms Harmless wrote:
Vindicator wrote:
Ms Harmless wrote:
Vindicator wrote:
EJ wrote:Just take a long break from listening to it. Or wait till the album's released. It might be less offensive to you in the context of the album.
Yup, tried that. Woke up the next morning after it dropped, and hated it less. There's FLASHES of parts that I kinda like you know? I nod my head along a bit here and there, only for Ed to shit all over it with some weird vocal line or some boring riff. Man, it shouldn't be this hard to like a song lol.

You're right, holding hope for the album and it's just a dud.
it's been hard for me to like PJ songs since Vitalogy, I'm still here because they usually grew on me
some songs yeah other are instant love. You have a song like Do The Evolution that I remember going nuts for when I first saw the video. Then there's the entirety of Avocado which maybe took me a few years to appreciate. Or a song like Who You Are that I dont really like til this day lol
I remember *hating* the vocal style of DTE when I first heard it, like "why can't he sing NORMALLY anymore?" it's weird that I'd already started to feel he sounded old and tired by then
Both Habit and DTE were scary first listens because I thought Eddie had totally killed his voice.
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ridleybradout wrote:This may have been mentioned already in the 50-odd pages of this thread I haven't read, but I think this is more a song about harassment of a stranger than unrequited love.

There's nothing in the lyrics to suggest he ever had any kind of connection/relationship with the object of his obsession, but rather saw her from afar and developed an infatuation ("singin' in the distance").

The only reference to any interaction between them is that she punched him ("hoping that I hurt your fist") and that he is now locked up ("prisoner of keys and cuffs / fortunate to be locked up")

I think he possibly has mental/developmental issues ("a life of hopelessness, focus on your focusedness") and there is confusion over whether he is aware that approaching the woman is inappropriate ("right now I feel, a lack of innocence searching for reveal") or he simply wants to take what he sees as rightfully his ("could be the one", "I'm feeling selfish and I want what's right").

It might be a stretch, but "Once you were somewhere, and now you're everywhere" could refer to the story being in the news (Headline: "Woman punches would-be rapist").

Thoughts?
I can get on board with this. Could be some leftover thoughts/lyrics from when Ed had a stalker. Maybe none of those thoughts/words were ever fully fleshed out.
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Ms Harmless wrote:
ridleybradout wrote:This may have been mentioned already in the 50-odd pages of this thread I haven't read, but I think this is more a song about harassment of a stranger than unrequited love.

There's nothing in the lyrics to suggest he ever had any kind of connection/relationship with the object of his obsession, but rather saw her from afar and developed an infatuation ("singin' in the distance").

The only reference to any interaction between them is that she punched him ("hoping that I hurt your fist") and that he is now locked up ("prisoner of keys and cuffs / fortunate to be locked up")

I think he possibly has mental/developmental issues ("a life of hopelessness, focus on your focusedness") and there is confusion over whether he is aware that approaching the woman is inappropriate ("right now I feel, a lack of innocence searching for reveal") or he simply wants to take what he sees as rightfully his ("could be the one", "I'm feeling selfish and I want what's right").

It might be a stretch, but "Once you were somewhere, and now you're everywhere" could refer to the story being in the news (Headline: "Woman punches would-be rapist").

Thoughts?
hmmmmmmmmmmmm this is worthy of consideration
yeah - I want to wait for official lyrics before I delve too much more deeply into this but this is totally plausible. The main character knows, to a point, that they are being entitled and ridiculous - they just can't help themselves. It's why I steer away from the grief read, at least for now.
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It COULD be that this would be like Evacuation being the a single. Probably would have hated it when listening on its own, especially knowing it was coming for a couple of weeks, but it's fine and even enjoyable when i listen to Binaural.
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I just want to make the request that people stop using the word cringe and any of its variants (especially the dreaded cringe worthy) to describe hearing music they don't like. No one should be cringing. Also, almost everyone is using it wrong.
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stip wrote:I just want to make the request that people stop using the word cringe and any of its variants (especially the dreaded cringe worthy) to describe hearing music they don't like. No one should be cringing. Also, almost everyone is using it wrong.
can we use "wince"? wince worthy
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stip wrote:
Ms Harmless wrote:that's mainly the issue, it suits Undone better
it is also on the Again Today cover that we don't talk about enough. It's great!
cover?

and yes it's great.
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Wince McMahon
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dad wrote:Wince McMahon

This made me cringe. :lol:
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guitar_davey wrote:
dad wrote:Wince McMahon

This made me cringe. :lol:
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guitar_davey wrote:
dad wrote:Wince McMahon

This made me cringe. :lol:
Then I’ve done my job.
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Askance worthy
We still make records to be listened to — not that everyone will listen to a record track one to twelve in a row or side A or Side B — but we still make 'em in case somebody does want to listen to it like that, that's how we make em…
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pnjguy wrote:It COULD be that this would be like Evacuation being the a single. Probably would have hated it when listening on its own, especially knowing it was coming for a couple of weeks, but it's fine and even enjoyable when i listen to Binaural.
Solid thought. It took me a long time to warm to Evacuation, so, yeah, if I'd gotten that after NAIS... I can see some similarity here.
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stip wrote:
Ms Harmless wrote:
Vindicator wrote:
Ms Harmless wrote:
Vindicator wrote:
EJ wrote:Just take a long break from listening to it. Or wait till the album's released. It might be less offensive to you in the context of the album.
Yup, tried that. Woke up the next morning after it dropped, and hated it less. There's FLASHES of parts that I kinda like you know? I nod my head along a bit here and there, only for Ed to shit all over it with some weird vocal line or some boring riff. Man, it shouldn't be this hard to like a song lol.

You're right, holding hope for the album and it's just a dud.
it's been hard for me to like PJ songs since Vitalogy, I'm still here because they usually grew on me
some songs yeah other are instant love. You have a song like Do The Evolution that I remember going nuts for when I first saw the video. Then there's the entirety of Avocado which maybe took me a few years to appreciate. Or a song like Who You Are that I dont really like til this day lol
I remember *hating* the vocal style of DTE when I first heard it, like "why can't he sing NORMALLY anymore?" it's weird that I'd already started to feel he sounded old and tired by then
Both Habit and DTE were scary first listens because I thought Eddie had totally killed his voice.
yes! completely; I thought he was gonna hack-cough himself to death

he doesn't bellow like he could once, even then; what he does is restrain his screams so that they don't tear up his vocal chords, like he does here
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pnjguy wrote:It COULD be that this would be like Evacuation being the a single. Probably would have hated it when listening on its own, especially knowing it was coming for a couple of weeks, but it's fine and even enjoyable when i listen to Binaural.
I'm not putting money on it but this is my feeling too
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there should be five more versions of the video where they gradually replace each member of the band + some of the background with a live-action version, the last one being completely live.
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