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Vindicator wrote:this is an amazingly beautiful song. Delicate and simple. Among their best in this style, Present Tense, Parting Ways, Strangest Tribe, Thin Air.
And those are some of my favourite PJ songs. No wonder I like it :D
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chadisme417 wrote:
Ms Harmless wrote:
Juvenal wrote:
PHATJ wrote:This is a beautiful song. I pretty much like everything about you it. And it’s still in my bottom three. It’s crazy.
While I disagree with your placing (this could be my favourite), it's great having an album with no crap songs on it, isn't it? :)
this song made me cry on first listen

I'm not sure that's *ever* happened before

Low Light is the first song to make me cry.

And I'm pretty sure it was the song and not the 2 hour download time on 1998 dial up internet.
"Release" has also made me bawl but not until... 2019 I think?
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This song is so fucking great.
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durdencommatyler wrote:This song is so fucking great.
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I had goosebumps
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when all this shit is over, and those opening notes come out from the dark stage as the first song at whatever show i get to, as i stand in the crowd, i will certainty cry like a baby.
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durdencommatyler wrote:This song is so fucking great.
The run of DOTC>QE>Alright>7oC is just fantastic. This is what I want from PJ.
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Wish this one hung around just a bit longer. Wanted to get lost in its vibe, and it was over
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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LetMeSleep wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:This song is so fucking great.
The run of DOTC>QE>Alright>7oC is just fantastic. This is what I want from PJ.
Yes!
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still probably my favourite Gigaton song
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This is a beast of a song and I love it
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I straight up cringe at the acid trip line.
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cutuphalfdead wrote:I straight up cringe at the acid trip line.
Me too, buddy. Also, "If you tire of the game/Hit the road toward the clouds/Find the groove in the sound."

This song is to the PJ "spiritual escape" theme what "Gone" was to their "car escape" theme -- the moment at which a subject overspends its conceptual potential and can only be expressed through uncreative cliches.

It's a nice sounding song though, and the lyrics kind of fade into the soundscape if you don't listen to them too closely.
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I'm fine with the lyrics being fluffy, spacey Ament-isms.

If Ed had written the lyrics, I think they'd probably be more heavy-handed and drag the song down for me (see: Pendulum).
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Ignore the lyrics and enjoy the tune.
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i just think the vocal melody (+ lyrics) isn't as interesting as what's going underneath, might like it more as an instrumental maybe, but it's still a nice song, i appreciate it
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LetMeSleep wrote:Ignore the lyrics and enjoy the tune.
I do enjoy the tune, I haven't been skipping it, but the lyrics are a stumbling block.

Lyrics are a major foreground element of most popular music. If you can tune them out and enjoy more music as a result, great, but the prevalent tone on RM that that should be every listener's default mode when listening to music is not something I identify with.

That said, I did say It's a nice sounding song though, and the lyrics kind of fade into the soundscape if you don't listen to them too closely.
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I do think these lyrics are pretty weak, and this is one of those rare times I seem to be able to ignore it (as opposed to quite a few other songs where I like the music and the lyrics end up hurting the song - thin air, no way, lowlight come to mind)
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These are not "Inside Job" level bad. A couple of groaners here and there sure
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I think the lyrics are being unfairly maligned here, maybe because some of us have no need for the message
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