Dance of the Clairvoyants

General Pearl Jam discussion.

Initial Thoughts

I just fell in love all over again
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38%
Maybe there's still some life left in these guys after all
140
54%
Ehhh, still excited for the new album
8
3%
I stayed up for this?
10
4%
I hated pearl jam before it was cool
3
1%
 
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Re: Dance of the Clairvoyants

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But what about "the boys wanna grow" lyrics? Surely we can crap on that?
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it is a bad lyric in a great song.
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pearl jam sucks now
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Consensus broken!

The line about the clairvoyants is the real stinker.
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I'm okay with it, since the delivery is kind of playful
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Birds in Hell wrote:Consensus broken!

The line about the clairvoyants is the real stinker.
Yeah!
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Re: Dance of the Clairvoyants

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I hope Dance goes all the way this year
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Ok I need to understand something, specifically from Trag: what is going on with the drums on this song? You said they’re great, but they too have a weird, digitized sound to them. What’s technically going on with the drums on DOTC compared to DM? And what is it about them that you like?
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pearl jam sucks now
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I love the dicks line.
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tragabigzanda wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:How are the drums in this? I can’t remember
they sound great!
some of them are electronic (in canon) but they're mostly good
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stip wrote:I hope Dance goes all the way this year
Will The Gigaton winner face the Dark Matter winner in the quarterfinals?
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Mike's aggressive, janky guitar in the verse is the highlight of the song. Sounds like he's channelling some art rock shit.

Stone playing a bass with a mudbucker pickup is a strange choice but it... works?
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didn't matt write the drum part on a drum machine? and klinghoffer plays extra drum stuff live?

i agree about mike being the highlight. i remember thinking of prince when i first heard him. i think josh evans compared him to niles rodgers.
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Re: Dance of the Clairvoyants

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I kinda wish Mike's guitar was even louder. He's probably MVP of this song. Maybe Eddie though.
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Re: Dance of the Clairvoyants

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Eddie is the mvp of this one
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It’s an instant classic.
I can’t point out an MVP.
It’s whoever came up with this tune.
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pearl jam sucks now
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