Song of the Moment: Yellow Moon

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Re: Yellow Moon

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Lowlight > Yellow Moon
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IlluminEddie wrote:Lowlight > Yellow Moon
It's not even close. Yellow Moon is all cheese. Low Light is one of the most beautiful songs they've ever done.
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Re: Yellow Moon

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Poor Yellow Moon... it's in the midst of a Brendan O'Brien shit sandwich (Sleeping By Myself & Future Days).
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Yellow Moon is good, but I couldn't compare it to Lowlight. That's my favorite PJ song.
Soulfire wrote:Poor Yellow Moon... it's in the midst of a Brendan O'Brien shit sandwich (Sleeping By Myself & Future Days).
I'm actually enjoying SBM a lot.
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Re: Yellow Moon

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I almost like this song. I hate the way Ed sings the chorus though. It should be "Yellow moon ON THE RISE" not "Yeeeaaaaaaaaallow moonontherise". Musically it's very Neil Youngy.
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Should've been the album closer
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Exactly my issue with the song. He easily could've come up with something better, there. Like "yehellow mooooooon on the rise." Such terrible phrasing.
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Re: Yellow Moon

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nah i think it's alright.
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Soulfire wrote:Poor Yellow Moon... it's in the midst of a Brendan O'Brien shit sandwich (Sleeping By Myself & Future Days).
it's a breath of fresh air in a room that smells like poop.
Dev wrote:i love listening to the leaked pj song "last word".
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i hear the similarities, but I don't care for lowlight and loved this song
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stip wrote:i hear the similarities, but I don't care for lowlight and loved this song
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i still have that fridge
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Re: Yellow Moon

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Acidfuel wrote:It it almost didn't make the cut
Yeah Mikey rescued it. He's has a few nice guitar parts on the record and he wrote "Sirens" (which I happen to like a lot). If it weren't for Mike this could be an even bigger pile of shit.

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Re: Yellow Moon

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I'm really not feeling this today, I feel like there's a song I could like in there somewhere, but between that fucking guitar, the piano towards the end and some of eddies vocals......I dunno

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Re: Yellow Moon

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Yeah this song just isn't doing it for me. Listening party said "haunting guitar ala nothing as it seems "

.....yeah no. The song is boring , the chorus is suuuper boring , and the Mike solo's aren't anything too great. It's just a whatever song, sounds like something from a soundtrack, kind of Into The Wild. It tries to soar, but it just can't. It reminds me of Long Road which is another song I never really liked either.
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When I first heard it I thought it sounded like something they were working on between Ten and Vs. It has a slight feel of Acoustic #2 or whatever that was on the PJ20 soundtrack. It's like he's still trying to work out a melody for the song and avoids some of the abrupt melodic intervals that Ed uses in his newer songs - that makes sense given that this is a Jeff song. If this was a Lost Dog from that era or Riot Act I wouldn't have been surprised.

This would have worked better in tandem with either MFS and Pendulum - the placement of it is odd but that may be due to its late inclusion.
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Blenheim Augustine wrote:When I first heard it I thought it sounded like something they were working on between Ten and Vs. It has a slight feel of Acoustic #2 or whatever that was on the PJ20 soundtrack. It's like he's still trying to work out a melody for the song and avoids some of the abrupt melodic intervals that Ed uses in his newer songs - that makes sense given that this is a Jeff song. If this was a Lost Dog from that era or Riot Act I wouldn't have been surprised.

This would have worked better in tandem with either MFS and Pendulum - the placement of it is odd but that may be due to its late inclusion.
I heard that acoustic demo right away in the vocals.
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This feels like a no code song, recorded at the wrong time.

I really dislike the production, its too busy.
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Hearing it again , it really reminds me of Hard Sun. I know it's a Jeff song, but this would have fit right on Into The Wild or a movie soundtrack.


It grew on me a little these past couple listens , but still don't think it's anything that great. Just kind of a middle of the (long) road PJ song .
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Re: Yellow Moon

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what is too busy about yellow moon. I'm listening for when Ellie wakes up and don't have any music on.
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