Dark Matter (song)

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:peace:
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VinylGuy wrote:yeah, i could understand if they wrote DM during Vs
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167 pages?

wowsers

DM thread has passed the poop thread!
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spike wrote:Each song captures a different classic PJ we all embraced.

DM the intense PJ of the early 90s that hooked us.

Dance the weird PJ of the late 90s into the 00s that kept us hooked.

Both iterations of the band are essential.
I like this.
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guitar_davey wrote:
spike wrote:Each song captures a different classic PJ we all embraced.

DM the intense PJ of the early 90s that hooked us.

Dance the weird PJ of the late 90s into the 00s that kept us hooked.

Both iterations of the band are essential.
I like this.
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spike wrote:
Ms Harmless wrote:I hope they bring a bit of both to the album
Always the hope.
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VinylGuy wrote:I like the lyrics, specially the chorus. Resonates a lot these days.
Pet peeve for me.
Everybody else paying for someone else's mistake is not exclusively a "these days" problem.

Tiny pet peeve maybe. Other than that, I love it.
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Buby wrote:
VinylGuy wrote:I like the lyrics, specially the chorus. Resonates a lot these days.
Pet peeve for me.
Everybody else paying for someone else's mistake is not exclusively a "these days" problem.

Tiny pet peeve maybe. Other than that, I love it.
I'll bite. I imagine it referring to consolidation of power. With the media in just a few hands, a two-party system, the power of the 1%, etc., it's far easier for a situation to emerge where the many pay for the few's mistakes. These days could mean "in this era."
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experientially these days (the days you are living through) are the ones that matter
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RockPusher wrote:
Buby wrote:
VinylGuy wrote:I like the lyrics, specially the chorus. Resonates a lot these days.
Pet peeve for me.
Everybody else paying for someone else's mistake is not exclusively a "these days" problem.

Tiny pet peeve maybe. Other than that, I love it.
I'll bite. I imagine it referring to consolidation of power. With the media in just a few hands, a two-party system, the power of the 1%, etc., it's far easier for a situation to emerge where the many pay for the few's mistakes. These days could mean "in this era."
I think it kind of makes sense and I think it resonates with the contemporary joke that goes "Remember before the internet when we thought that people were stupid because they didn't have free access to information? yeah, well, it wasn't that."
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I dig it.
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pearl jam sucks now
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tragabigzanda wrote:
RockPusher wrote:
Buby wrote:
VinylGuy wrote:I like the lyrics, specially the chorus. Resonates a lot these days.
Pet peeve for me.
Everybody else paying for someone else's mistake is not exclusively a "these days" problem.

Tiny pet peeve maybe. Other than that, I love it.
I'll bite. I imagine it referring to consolidation of power. With the media in just a few hands, a two-party system, the power of the 1%, etc., it's far easier for a situation to emerge where the many pay for the few's mistakes. These days could mean "in this era."
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pearl jam sucks now
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Coach wrote:167 pages?

wowsers

DM thread has passed the poop thread!
let's convince the mods to merge them.
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already 20 pages ahead of Dance’s lifetime total
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Val wrote:
RockPusher wrote:
Buby wrote:
VinylGuy wrote:I like the lyrics, specially the chorus. Resonates a lot these days.
Pet peeve for me.
Everybody else paying for someone else's mistake is not exclusively a "these days" problem.

Tiny pet peeve maybe. Other than that, I love it.
I'll bite. I imagine it referring to consolidation of power. With the media in just a few hands, a two-party system, the power of the 1%, etc., it's far easier for a situation to emerge where the many pay for the few's mistakes. These days could mean "in this era."
I think it kind of makes sense and I think it resonates with the contemporary joke that goes "Remember before the internet when we thought that people were stupid because they didn't have free access to information? yeah, well, it wasn't that."
I think it makes sense for these days in particular when you think of where we are now in terms of climate change; we are careening towards the end of the planet; a handful of billionaires are causing it, and the same handful of billionaires could fix it, but instead they're blaming the poor for using plastic bags and the disabled for needing single-use plastic straws (and other products)
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Ms Harmless wrote:
Val wrote:
RockPusher wrote:
Buby wrote:
VinylGuy wrote:I like the lyrics, specially the chorus. Resonates a lot these days.
Pet peeve for me.
Everybody else paying for someone else's mistake is not exclusively a "these days" problem.

Tiny pet peeve maybe. Other than that, I love it.
I'll bite. I imagine it referring to consolidation of power. With the media in just a few hands, a two-party system, the power of the 1%, etc., it's far easier for a situation to emerge where the many pay for the few's mistakes. These days could mean "in this era."
I think it kind of makes sense and I think it resonates with the contemporary joke that goes "Remember before the internet when we thought that people were stupid because they didn't have free access to information? yeah, well, it wasn't that."
I think it makes sense for these days in particular when you think of where we are now in terms of climate change; we are careening towards the end of the planet; a handful of billionaires are causing it, and the same handful of billionaires could fix it, but instead they're blaming the poor for using plastic bags and the disabled for needing single-use plastic straws (and other products)
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stip wrote:already 20 pages ahead of Dance’s lifetime total
And they thought that tune was polarizing!
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guitar_davey wrote:
stip wrote:already 20 pages ahead of Dance’s lifetime total
And they thought that tune was polarizing!
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