Song of the Moment: The Fixer

[digster]

It's strange how much this song has dropped out of their live show in previous years; since 2013, it's been played less than Sleight of Hand, Thin Air, Thumbing My Way and other album cuts from some of their darker, less commercial records. For being an up-tempo, sing-songy first single, they really don't play it for the most part.

[stip]

that is surprising. It worked well live, too, so it's not like it fell flat or they couldn't reproduce it.

[VinylGuy]

Maybe they got tired? it got played a lot during 2009 and 2010.

[Habitman]

really good intro

[Ms Harmless]

it has great lyrics!

hey Stip!

hey there! how are things?

up and down, but better than in my Harmless days - thank you

[Ms Harmless]

one thing I really like about the way this song is produced, unlike so many in the post-Riot Act era, is how much attention is paid to layered percussion - just the off-kilter hand claps are super cool, I think there's a triangle in there somewhere? it has more groove than most latter day songs; SBWM would have benefitted from some of that layering of things-to-hit over its bland drumbeat

[stip]

I really enjoyed that drum thread you did for Backspacer back in the day

[Ms Harmless]

thanks

I wouldn't really have it in me to do that kind of thing now, but I did have my moments, hehe

[stip]

that kind of posting is a young person's game

[Ms Harmless]

[guitar_davey]

The Fixer makes me happy. I know some of you hate it, but I think it's great for what it is, and I'm glad it exists.

[LetMeSleep]

The Fixer makes me happy. I know some of you hate it, but I think it's great for what it is, and I'm glad it exists.

[smallest_oceans]

It’s not like they wrote a hundred of these and you sit through them every night. It’s stupid, it thinks it’s beautiful, and it’s fine.

The Fixer makes me happy. I know some of you hate it, but I think it's great for what it is, and I'm glad it exists.

Yes!

What even comes close to this as a style in their catalog? Big wave? Get right? I don't see it. It is unique to PJ and adds to the diversity of the band as much as anything else.

[Monkey_Driven]

It’s not like they wrote a hundred of these and you sit through them every night. It’s stupid, it thinks it’s beautiful, and it’s fine.

The Fixer makes me happy. I know some of you hate it, but I think it's great for what it is, and I'm glad it exists.

Yes!

What even comes close to this as a style in their catalog? Big wave? Get right? I don't see it. It is unique to PJ and adds to the diversity of the band as much as anything else.

Not enough angst. 1 star

[lecherouslittlestump]

It's strange how much this song has dropped out of their live show in previous years; since 2013, it's been played less than Sleight of Hand, Thin Air, Thumbing My Way and other album cuts from some of their darker, less commercial records. For being an up-tempo, sing-songy first single, they really don't play it for the most part.

I'm glad this floating turd finally got flushed.

[Leatherhead]

This song is good. Definitely not what I wanted from Pearl Jam when I was 20, but at 32 I dig it quite a bit.

[BurtReynolds]

A truly 1 star song

[Wendy Carlos's Twin]

Parts of it are good, parts are okay and the middle 8 is complete shit. It's an unsatisfying hodge-podge written by multiple band members and it shows.

[dad]

it suffers from target.

[coptheriotact]

Just like how when CC released scream, it wouldn’t have got such a bad reception if he said “hey, I’ve made this album but soundgarden will be back in a year or so, so just chill”

I can appreciate a song like this a bit more now that gigaton is out and the jams and more organic arrangements are back, In saying that, I’m probably not going to be listening to the fixer/ backspacer/lightning bolt anytime soon though.