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epilogue wrote:Legit my favorite part of the song is "let the fucking water running"

It makes me so happy
Ed’s dad perspective, just watching money go down the drain when one of his kids leave a sink on.

Maybe “Dark Matter” is about one of his kids leaving the lights on when no one is home. “It’s strange these days when everybody pays for someone else’s mistake”
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Big Sandy Punk would be a fantastic song title…not sure this song could live up to that moniker though…
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bodysnatcher wrote:
epilogue wrote:Legit my favorite part of the song is "let the fucking water running"

It makes me so happy
Ed’s dad perspective, just watching money go down the drain when one of his kids leave a sink on.

Maybe “Dark Matter” is about one of his kids leaving the lights on when no one is home. “It’s strange these days when everybody pays for someone else’s mistake”
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epilogue wrote:Legit my favorite part of the song is "let the fucking water running"

It makes me so happy
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tree_ wrote:anybody else struggle to not read the song title in a Forrest Gump voice?
No, but I can't hear 'fuckin left the water runnin' without thinking of these guys:

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bodysnatcher wrote:
epilogue wrote:Legit my favorite part of the song is "let the fucking water running"

It makes me so happy
Ed’s dad perspective, just watching money go down the drain when one of his kids leave a sink on.

Maybe “Dark Matter” is about one of his kids leaving the lights on when no one is home. “It’s strange these days when everybody pays for someone else’s mistake”
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Jorge wrote:Pages 47-59 were intense, I can't believe I read it all
i can’t believe i missed another harmless personality flare-up.
Dev wrote:i love listening to the leaked pj song "last word".
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WtOB? wrote:
Jorge wrote:Pages 47-59 were intense, I can't believe I read it all
i can’t believe i missed another harmless personality flare-up.
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I think I’ve settled into the 2.5 range, but the vocal melodies are catchy and I can’t get them out of my head.
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I think that Running is doing what Supersonic (and maybe Backspacer in general) tried to do but is doing it way, way better. Supersonic is a bad song with a decent bridge. Running is a decent song with a fantastic bridge.
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I love supersonic and its much easier to listen to and crank super loud! Love the guitars.
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Strat wrote:I love supersonic and its much easier to listen to and crank super loud! Love the guitars.
If you can imagine a Josh Evans produced version of Running, how would you relate it with Supersonic?
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stip wrote:
VinylGuy wrote:
stip wrote:
Strat wrote:Super happy for Watt invigorating Ed the past couple of years.

Really wish theyd just hand the raw tracks over to Josh Evans though!
he is doing a mix!
really?
yeah, its cd 2 of the deluxe packaging
Not really. Unless I've missed it, there's no version with a second CD.

There's a version with Evans's Atmos mix on a second disc, which is a Blu-Ray and won't be playable on a regular CD player.

I wouldn't think Evans could work any miracles, as I expect the album mixes are pretty reflective of how Wotman's raw tracks sounded at the recording stage.
brisk wrote:I listen to so many tiny math rock bands with 200 followers and their studio production is 9000 trillion times better than any of Pj's last few records, don't get it. No character, texture, warmth or anything in them, all sounds like it was made in a macbook...oh wait.
Hey, it costs a lot of money and a few Grammy award winners to make records that sound this bad!

It's flippant but there's some truth in it. It's a sound geared towards commercial success - it's meant be overwhelming and immediately appealing, like the first bite out of a donut. It's not designed to sound good to someone who's listening critically on a great system, it's for people blasting 'modern rock' in their car or soundtracking football highlights.

No band is going to chase that sound unless they're playing in that commercial space, which is really only a tiny fraction of bands. It's definitely an apparent irony that your average local rock band will probably make better sounding records than those being churned out of expensive LA studios by professional award-winning producers and engineers, but they're not ultimately trying to achieve the same things.

Anyway, the last Mudhoney album sounds great and I'd prefer Pearl Jam records to sound much closer to this:

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RockPusher wrote:
Strat wrote:I love supersonic and its much easier to listen to and crank super loud! Love the guitars.
If you can imagine a Josh Evans produced version of Running, how would you relate it with Supersonic?
Oh i think there is more meat on Running for sure. Lyrically speaking.

I love Running, for the record. Having a great time with it just hate the sound. The difference between me and Trag is that i can still enjoy it with shit production. I respect he can't.
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Birds in Hell wrote:
stip wrote:
VinylGuy wrote:
stip wrote:
Strat wrote:Super happy for Watt invigorating Ed the past couple of years.

Really wish theyd just hand the raw tracks over to Josh Evans though!
he is doing a mix!
really?
yeah, its cd 2 of the deluxe packaging
Not really. Unless I've missed it, there's no version with a second CD.

There's a version with Evans's Atmos mix on a second disc, which is a Blu-Ray and won't be playable on a regular CD player.

I wouldn't think Evans could work any miracles, as I expect the album mixes are pretty reflective of how Wotman's raw tracks sounded at the recording stage.
brisk wrote:I listen to so many tiny math rock bands with 200 followers and their studio production is 9000 trillion times better than any of Pj's last few records, don't get it. No character, texture, warmth or anything in them, all sounds like it was made in a macbook...oh wait.
Hey, it costs a lot of money and a few Grammy award winners to make records that sound this bad!

It's flippant but there's some truth in it. It's a sound geared towards commercial success - it's meant be overwhelming and immediately appealing, like the first bite out of a donut. It's not designed to sound good to someone who's listening critically on a great system, it's for people blasting 'modern rock' in their car or soundtracking football highlights.

No band is going to chase that sound unless they're playing in that commercial space, which is really only a tiny fraction of bands. It's definitely an apparent irony that your average local rock band will probably make better sounding records than those being churned out of expensive LA studios by professional award-winning producers and engineers, but they're not ultimately trying to achieve the same things.

Anyway, the last Mudhoney album sounds great and I'd prefer Pearl Jam records to sound much closer to this:

And this is exactly why these songs sound better blasting through your built in computer speakers and iphone speakers.

But when played through good equipment and headphones - it doesnt hold up and its painful.

This is by design.
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Strat wrote:
RockPusher wrote:
Strat wrote:I love supersonic and its much easier to listen to and crank super loud! Love the guitars.
If you can imagine a Josh Evans produced version of Running, how would you relate it with Supersonic?
Oh i think there is more meat on Running for sure. Lyrically speaking.

I love Running, for the record. Having a great time with it just hate the sound. The difference between me and Trag is that i can still enjoy it with shit production. I respect he can't.
Goddamn I appreciate hearing you say that.
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RockPusher wrote:
Strat wrote:
RockPusher wrote:
Strat wrote:I love supersonic and its much easier to listen to and crank super loud! Love the guitars.
If you can imagine a Josh Evans produced version of Running, how would you relate it with Supersonic?
Oh i think there is more meat on Running for sure. Lyrically speaking.

I love Running, for the record. Having a great time with it just hate the sound. The difference between me and Trag is that i can still enjoy it with shit production. I respect he can't.
Goddamn I appreciate hearing you say that.
I know. you really need to have people on Team PJ for full enjoyment for yourself :haha: :luv:
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That Mudhoney song is SICK and yes, extremely well-produced to my ears
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Strat wrote:
RockPusher wrote:
Strat wrote:
RockPusher wrote:
Strat wrote:I love supersonic and its much easier to listen to and crank super loud! Love the guitars.
If you can imagine a Josh Evans produced version of Running, how would you relate it with Supersonic?
Oh i think there is more meat on Running for sure. Lyrically speaking.

I love Running, for the record. Having a great time with it just hate the sound. The difference between me and Trag is that i can still enjoy it with shit production. I respect he can't.
Goddamn I appreciate hearing you say that.
I know. you really need to have people on Team PJ for full enjoyment for yourself :haha: :luv:
HAHA I'll wear that
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RockPusher wrote:
Strat wrote:
RockPusher wrote:
Strat wrote:I love supersonic and its much easier to listen to and crank super loud! Love the guitars.
If you can imagine a Josh Evans produced version of Running, how would you relate it with Supersonic?
Oh i think there is more meat on Running for sure. Lyrically speaking.

I love Running, for the record. Having a great time with it just hate the sound. The difference between me and Trag is that i can still enjoy it with shit production. I respect he can't.
Goddamn I appreciate hearing you say that.
Ditto!! I can totally get behind this take!

I’m loving this song more each time I listen to it.
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