Song of the Moment: Infallible

[IlluminEddie]

About Obama?

[jforte20]

Cant get enough of Infallible

[Jorge]

Wait, so this was the [in]famous sound check song that everyone was having a collective orgasm about?

Yes.

Pretty hilarious, in hindsight.

"SOUNDS LIKE LED ZEPPELIN"

[jforte20]

Wait, so this was the [in]famous sound check song that everyone was having a collective orgasm about?

Yes.

Pretty hilarious, in hindsight.

"SOUNDS LIKE LED ZEPPELIN"

It's hard not to jump the gun. I listened to the soundcheck and liked it. And after a ton of listens of Infallible, I still like it.

[Neo]

While listening to it for the first time: (intro) (Ed starts to sing) (chorus) ..... (after the end of the song)

After 10 more spins: Nice song, some cool guitar patterns, lyrics seem great.

Anyway, of the 4 new songs we got to hear today, i like this one the least and i surely wasn't expecting that after hearing that cool QOTSA-like guitar intro that was on Stone's vignette.

I hope i get to like it more with time, i am kinda dissapointed that this one turned out poppy instead of rockin'.

[BurtReynolds]

I was really expecting it to sound like a Tool song after hearing the phone recording that sounded like someone banging on a trashcan five stories underground. But then I remembered that this is the same band that just made Backspacer and adjusted my expectations because I'm not an idiot.

[WtOB?]

nowhere near as dark as i was expecting it to sound but i'm not disappointed at all. this song is prettaaaay prettaaay gud.

[CupidStunt]

Really like this. Only gripe is that it goes on a bit too long, not sure we need to go back to the first verse at the end. I'd have chopped a minute off of this and put it on the end of Pendulum.

[stip]

Wait, so this was the [in]famous sound check song that everyone was having a collective orgasm about?

Yes.

Pretty hilarious, in hindsight.

"SOUNDS LIKE LED ZEPPELIN"

I actually didn't care at all about that soundcheck. I got excited for this song when I heard the promo video.

It did not disappoint.

No, that's not true. It disappointed on the first listen, and rallied on the second

[flannelking]

I love this. It does have that incubus/Our lady Peace/pop chorus but I enjoy pop melodies.

damn it. i really like the music in the verse, but eddie vedder sounds like he's trying to make it a classic rock song in the chorus, when thats not really what it needs.

These are opposite. So which is correct?

[Vindicator]

Fuck the chorus man . This song could have been the one I've been waiting for. They destroyed it with the poppy chorus. As it is, I sit here trying to FORCE myself to like it.

A shame. I really LOVE the solo and the vocal harmony going on. God I hope this is better live.

[Thejambi]

Fuck the chorus man . This song could have been the one I've been waiting for. They destroyed it with the poppy chorus. As it is, I sit here trying to FORCE myself to like it.

A shame. I really LOVE the solo and the vocal harmony going on. God I hope this is better live.

Really it's the vocal melody that makes the chorus poppy.

[stip]

I like that the vocal melodies tend to go in a less dark direction. It makes the record less judgmental, and oddly more mature, I think

[Mike]

Fuck the chorus man . This song could have been the one I've been waiting for. They destroyed it with the poppy chorus. As it is, I sit here trying to FORCE myself to like it.

A shame. I really LOVE the solo and the vocal harmony going on. God I hope this is better live.

Really it's the vocal melody that makes the chorus poppy.

This is probably one of the things they talked about in the interview. Writing a song without Eddie and then him coming in and pulling the song in a totally different direction. This could have gone in a completely different direction but I enjoy the result.

[Vindicator]

Ahhhhhhhhhh. IT IS CHRISTINA AGUILERA.



You are beautifuuuul, no matter what they saaay...


Oh my god no wonder I fucking hated the chorus, I couldn't pinpoint just quite why. I blame trying to fit the dumb word Infallible in the chorus and rhyming with Possible.

Holy shit Ed really fucked the song for me with that chorus, I like everything else about it.

[Mike]

Maybe the only music Ed listens to nowadays is the music his daughter likes and that's where all his inspiration comes from.

[Thejambi]

Seems like a logical extension of Force of Nature.

[stupidmop]

Yeah, NOPE.

I don't know how ed heard that music and decided to do this over it.

I like that the vocal melodies tend to go in a less dark direction. It makes the record less judgmental, and oddly more mature, I think

I kinda hear it as a refusal to commit to the idea of the songs.

Everything will be ok, weeeee.

Bleh.

Even lyrically its bleh. Hey thinking youre infallible isn't good ooh. Though its actually not all that optmimistic sounding. And that dark lyrics/ happy music thing only works if the melody isn't banal see: sleeping by myself. He could be singing about saving the world with cuddles for all I care if it sounded good.


It's not even catchy or sing alongable, Idk what he was going for.

I'm just BAFFLED

Maybe the only music Ed listens to nowadays is the music his daughter likes and that's where all his inspiration comes from.

I had that thought a few weeks ago

[stip]

Yeah, NOPE.

I don't know how ed heard that music and decided to do this over it.

I like that the vocal melodies tend to go in a less dark direction. It makes the record less judgmental, and oddly more mature, I think

I kinda hear it as a refusal to commit to the idea of the songs.

Everything will be ok, weeeee.

Bleh.

Even lyrically its bleh. Hey thinking youre infallible isn't good ooh. Though its actually not all that optmimistic sounding. And that dark lyrics/ happy music thing only works if the melody isn't banal see: sleeping by myself. He could be singing about saving the world with cuddles for all I care if it sounded good.


It's not even catchy or sing alongable, Idk what he was going for.

I'm just BAFFLED


he's hardly saying everything will be okay. But it is more accepting of human weakness, and inviting the possibility that things could someday be okay.

And lyrically it seems fine (this is based on listens, not reading lyrics), and its perfectly sing alongable.

[Birds in Hell]

I like that the vocal melodies tend to go in a less dark direction. It makes the record less judgmental, and oddly more mature, I think