Take the Long Way

Birds in Hell · Post by **Birds in Hell** » Sat March 21, 2020 12:08 am

Hard to form any views about the mix with such a poor quality rip.

Ms Harmless · Post by **Ms Harmless** » Sat March 21, 2020 12:11 am

that's a good point

Habitman · Post by **Habitman** » Sat March 21, 2020 12:52 am

Really nice chorus... This song will be a riser for many on this board. A lot to like.

vedder316 · Post by **vedder316** » Sat March 21, 2020 1:03 am

Another grower on 3rd listen. Cool Matt tune, wonder what parts he plays on the guitar for this one

Farmer John · Post by **Farmer John** » Sat March 21, 2020 1:05 am

Does this song have the best guitar solo?

RAG319 · Post by **RAG319** » Sat March 21, 2020 3:54 am

God damn, this song rocks. Well done, Pearl Jam. Well fucking done.

pjfanman · Post by **pjfanman** » Sat March 21, 2020 5:12 am

I know the have done a few Soundgarden-ish songs in the past that may have went sideways for some, but they nail this one perfectly, imo. Ed’s tone/range are great, top notch production along with a killer chorus + some nice twists and turns.

guitar_davey · Post by **guitar_davey** » Sat March 21, 2020 6:22 am

This song is great. The outro elevates it, and it was already great to that point.

Anders · Post by **Anders** » Sat March 21, 2020 7:28 am

Birds in Hell wrote:Hard to form any views about the mix with such a poor quality rip.

I think this song suffers the most from it.

Post by **Mike** » Sat March 21, 2020 9:46 am

I think you overestimate how much difference the leak quality makes. Sure, the real thing will sound a little bit better but it won't magically make the guitars sound fuller. Even a 128kbps mp3 gives you a pretty full picture of the production of an album.

Post by **Mike** » Sat March 21, 2020 9:49 am

Try and listen to Vs. or Vitalogy in 128kpbs, they will still sound great and the guitars won't sound think.

Birds in Hell · Post by **Birds in Hell** » Sat March 21, 2020 11:01 am

It's not a matter of the bitrate here, though.

If this was ripped in 128kbps directly from a lossless source, it would sound better (though not ideal).

The problem is that it sounds transcoded, i.e. ripped from a CD to MP3, burned to a CD-R and then ripped again to MP3.

In doing so, it sounds much worse than a straight MP3 conversion would as the double-encoding introduces lots of phasey sonic weirdness. There's a noticeable lack of clarity compared to even a regular MP3.

Compare the singles here to the official audio on Spotify (on high quality) or YouTube (on HQ audio), it's a pretty big difference.

Post by **Mike** » Sat March 21, 2020 11:17 am

That makes sense

Kevin Davis · Post by **Kevin Davis** » Sat March 21, 2020 12:23 pm

stip wrote:Definitely the song I like the least.

It's going to be like this forever, isn't it?

This, "Buckle Up," and "Dance" are the big three for me on this album.

Release_Me · Post by **Release_Me** » Sat March 21, 2020 12:27 pm

Really like the song though this isn't the kind of song that I would usually say I love. The newness has me leaning 5 stars but it will probably settle at 4-4.5 stars. Love the outro.

Post by **stip** » Sat March 21, 2020 12:28 pm

Kevin Davis wrote:
stip wrote:Definitely the song I like the least.
It's going to be like this forever, isn't it?

This, "Buckle Up," and "Dance" are the big three for me on this album.

I do love buckle up, so there’s that

Ms Harmless · Post by **Ms Harmless** » Sat March 21, 2020 12:33 pm

I love this

Royalearth · Post by **Royalearth** » Sat March 21, 2020 5:28 pm

Not a fan of this one. But certainly can appreciate it.

Post by **stip** » Sat March 21, 2020 5:34 pm

I like the outro and the solo - I think one of my issues right now is I don't think it fits in well with the rest of the album as an album, and I'm still in album mode rather than just listening to songs. When I play this on shuffle it works better for me.

Ms Harmless · Post by **Ms Harmless** » Sat March 21, 2020 6:10 pm

the "what's yours is mine" section / outro is so Soundgarden, I love it

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