Dark Matter (song)

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Anders wrote:Love how the band sounds on this song.
they’re so well balanced against each other
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Yeah they sound inspired

Again, Ed’ delivery is fantastic. The last two albums from him were great ( talking about Gigaton and Earthling) so I’m really happy we are getting more stuff now.
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pearl jam sucks now
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it does seem like he has settled into how to use his more aged voice effectively. I love his vocals on both records
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stip wrote:it does seem like he has settled into how to use his more aged voice effectively. I love his vocals on both records
Yeah he needed this approach in ST and Backspacer I guess. I still like what he did in both of those but he sounds awesome in the last ones.
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he could've easily excluded the artificially high-pitched "someone else's mistake!!" lines in the two places where they showed up, and stuck with old-man, snarly way he delivers that line in the other places.
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Anders wrote:I do not have a «neoliberal assessment of geopolitics», so please stop writing that I do.
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pearl jam sucks now
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Is Dark Matter the most over analyzed Pearl Jam song ever? I mean, it sounds like Pearl Jam and it fucks. What more could you ask for?
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pearl jam sucks now
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oftheearth wrote:What more could you ask for?
Oh no, you didn't just go open that door... too late
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BTW, "it fucks"?
Is that what the kids are saying these days?
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Monkey_Driven wrote:Sounds like Riot Act and DoTC had a baby.
Agree with this! First thing I thought.
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bluestate wrote:BTW, "it fucks"?
Is that what the kids are saying these days?
Do you really need me to explain “it fucks” to you? Yeah, you’re right should have left that end part off. Of course people are going to ask for more.
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Watch Matt Cameron's incredible interview with Rick Beato on the Youtubes...Actually sits behind a kit and demonstrates a number of things.
All of your answers about his current mindset and drum head choices will be made clear. There will be no Helmet-esque snares here.
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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pearl jam sucks now
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tragabigzanda wrote:
oneway23 wrote:Watch Matt Cameron's incredible interview with Rick Beato on the Youtubes...Actually sits behind a kit and demonstrates a number of things.
All of your answers about his current mindset and drum head choices will be made clear. There will be no Helmet-esque snares here.
Until Serban Ghanea adds a herpes drum sample under each snare hit
Keep it in your pants this time, Trag.
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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Jorge wrote:
You have me going down a new wormhole, Jorge. I had no idea Justin Hawkins had this delightful channel. Three videos in already
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Jorge wrote:
this is a nice analysis, I thought he'd trash it
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Fattie_Vedder wrote:
You have me going down a new wormhole, Jorge. I had no idea Justin Hawkins had this delightful channel. Three videos in already
Love his channel. One of the first I look for when something new and of note comes out.
Kinda gets grating sometimes when he stops a song every six seconds to comment, but, the way he breaks things down is great.
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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