Song of the Moment: Hail Hail

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Re: Song of the Moment: Hail Hail

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stip wrote:those are night and day records for me.
It's interesting because some of us hear them as very close and some see them as night and day.

Why i think i perceived them as so related to each other (from the 1st listen in 2005 when i knew absolutely nothing about the band) is because of the same "dictatorial" voice driving them. To me ITW is related to them for the same reason. This are 3 different moods/contexts the same guy turned into records. This is hard to articulate because is a sum of subtleties in a way.
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harmless wrote:
Mine wrote:
harmless wrote:I think it's deliberately ambiguous, gender-wise. One of Ed's more interesting lines.
I think you're right even the way is performed and the music around it seems to accentuate that.
I wish Ed was being a dictator for at least one more album when I think about No Code :(
I love the way all those ideas from the whole band turned into the albums that Vitalogy and No Code are under Ed's control.
Well, you have Backspacer and Lightning Bolt.
I meant a the time obviously.
I'm not that attracted to Eddie Vedder : Songs of Love and Death or whatever those 2 albums may hint at to tell you the truth.
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Mine wrote:
harmless wrote:
Mine wrote:
harmless wrote:I think it's deliberately ambiguous, gender-wise. One of Ed's more interesting lines.
I think you're right even the way is performed and the music around it seems to accentuate that.
I wish Ed was being a dictator for at least one more album when I think about No Code :(
I love the way all those ideas from the whole band turned into the albums that Vitalogy and No Code are under Ed's control.
Well, you have Backspacer and Lightning Bolt.
I meant a the time obviously.
I'm not that attracted to Eddie Vedder : Songs of Love and Death or whatever those 2 albums may hint at to tell you the truth.
That's a good summation :lol:
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harmless wrote:
Mine wrote:
harmless wrote:
Mine wrote:
harmless wrote:I think it's deliberately ambiguous, gender-wise. One of Ed's more interesting lines.
I think you're right even the way is performed and the music around it seems to accentuate that.
I wish Ed was being a dictator for at least one more album when I think about No Code :(
I love the way all those ideas from the whole band turned into the albums that Vitalogy and No Code are under Ed's control.
Well, you have Backspacer and Lightning Bolt.
I meant a the time obviously.
I'm not that attracted to Eddie Vedder : Songs of Love and Death or whatever those 2 albums may hint at to tell you the truth.
That's a good summation :lol:
I wonder how far is he from covering this

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Mine wrote:
harmless wrote:
Mine wrote:
harmless wrote:
Mine wrote:
harmless wrote:I think it's deliberately ambiguous, gender-wise. One of Ed's more interesting lines.
I think you're right even the way is performed and the music around it seems to accentuate that.
I wish Ed was being a dictator for at least one more album when I think about No Code :(
I love the way all those ideas from the whole band turned into the albums that Vitalogy and No Code are under Ed's control.
Well, you have Backspacer and Lightning Bolt.
I meant a the time obviously.
I'm not that attracted to Eddie Vedder : Songs of Love and Death or whatever those 2 albums may hint at to tell you the truth.
That's a good summation :lol:
I wonder how far is he from covering this

I don't know, why fill one space on the album when you can fill two?
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harmless wrote:
Mine wrote:
harmless wrote:
Mine wrote:
harmless wrote:
Mine wrote:
harmless wrote:I think it's deliberately ambiguous, gender-wise. One of Ed's more interesting lines.
I think you're right even the way is performed and the music around it seems to accentuate that.
I wish Ed was being a dictator for at least one more album when I think about No Code :(
I love the way all those ideas from the whole band turned into the albums that Vitalogy and No Code are under Ed's control.
Well, you have Backspacer and Lightning Bolt.
I meant a the time obviously.
I'm not that attracted to Eddie Vedder : Songs of Love and Death or whatever those 2 albums may hint at to tell you the truth.
That's a good summation :lol:
I wonder how far is he from covering this

I don't know, why fill one space on the album when you can fill two?
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harmless wrote:
Mine wrote:
harmless wrote:
Mine wrote:
harmless wrote:
Mine wrote:
harmless wrote:I think it's deliberately ambiguous, gender-wise. One of Ed's more interesting lines.
I think you're right even the way is performed and the music around it seems to accentuate that.
I wish Ed was being a dictator for at least one more album when I think about No Code :(
I love the way all those ideas from the whole band turned into the albums that Vitalogy and No Code are under Ed's control.
Well, you have Backspacer and Lightning Bolt.
I meant a the time obviously.
I'm not that attracted to Eddie Vedder : Songs of Love and Death or whatever those 2 albums may hint at to tell you the truth.
That's a good summation :lol:
I wonder how far is he from covering this

I don't know, why fill one space on the album when you can fill two?
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Am I the only one who this song does basically nothing for me? Its one of my least favorite PJ songs from an era I like. Its just....boring I think. I dont really get it. There's a cool part after "The one the one the one the onnnnnnnnnnne" and the sounds of the background music there, but otherwise...ehhhhhh
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Also "Are you woman enough to be my man?" What does that even mean?
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I think it's probably their best ever song.
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Why? what do you like about it? I dunno I just think it sounds kind of boring. UNIQUE sure but boring and not very pleasant to the ears. I dunno, just don't really get it.
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mikejasond wrote:Why? what do you like about it?
Everything.
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The chord progression in the chorus is fucking sick.
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Yeah, this is top 10 PJ easily. Their powerful rawkage has never been more harmoniously married to their eccentric, experimental tendencies. It's such a playful, thoughtful, warm, rocking, wonderful song. Listening to it makes me love life.
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So this new guy doesn't like Hail Hail or Faithfull? :?
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LoathedVermin72 wrote:Yeah, this is top 10 PJ easily. Their powerful rawkage has never been more harmoniously married to their eccentric, experimental tendencies. It's such a playful, thoughtful, warm, rocking, wonderful song. Listening to it makes me love life.
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cutuphalfdead wrote:So this new guy doesn't like Hail Hail or Faithfull? :?
yeah, he's great!

Actually I like hail hail quite a bit, but I think it's tremendously overrated round these here parts
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Again, another atypical chord progression and time signature...too hard...brain hurts.

Somebody lock this guy in a room and play Trout Mask Replica on repeat until he understands what truly difficult music is.
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mikejason is making a serious run to overtake stip as "the person on RM i most disagree with"
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mikejasond wrote:Am I the only one who this song does basically nothing for me? Its one of my least favorite PJ songs from an era I like. Its just....boring I think. I dont really get it. There's a cool part after "The one the one the one the onnnnnnnnnnne" and the sounds of the background music there, but otherwise...ehhhhhh
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