Waiting For Stevie

[RockPusher]

Guys, we were going so well.

Have you heard the Last of Us version? It's a totally different, tonally different, song.

Is it this?



I'm not convinced.

What about Speed of Sound? I like that one.

That's the video game one. The trailer for season 2 of the show has a stripped down Ed version which is what I'm referencing.

[McParadigm]

The Last of Us was the only time I’ve ever liked the song. But it wasn’t just the performance, it was the context in which it was used. They injected it with a degree of earnestness and predictive loss that the song assumes but fails to deliver, otherwise.

I have no idea what that means to the show, because I find absolutely nothing of interest in the idea of TV creators beat-for-beat regurgitating a story that I already experienced in a more powerful format.

[Matters]

it's also, to be fair, my favorite lane of pearl jam. Big building catharsis

That and the alt country stuff, for me.

Which songs do you think fall into that latter category?

Off the top of my head:

Thin Air
Around the Bend
Elderly Woman...
Off He Goes
maybe Thumbing My Way

There are others but those are the ones that readily come to mind. There are a lot of other PJ tracks that just have that kind of western twang built into them but aren't as much in this category- I'm thinking of songs like Nothingman, Immortality...

I like all of those songs.

What about:

Angel
Driftin'
Strangest Tribe
Daughter
Indifference
Nothingman
Immortality
Smile
All Or None
Fatal

Crazy Mary
Let the Records Play

[stip]

The Last of Us was the only time I’ve ever liked the song. But it wasn’t just the performance, it was the context in which it was used. They injected it with a degree of earnestness and predictive loss that the song assumes but fails to deliver, otherwise.

I have no idea what that means to the show, because I find absolutely nothing of interest in the idea of TV creators beat-for-beat regurgitating a story that I already experienced in a more powerful format.

hasnt been used outside a trailer yet. they did make effective use of all or none in the trailer as a song someone listens to on headphones during gym, which captures both the essence of the song and the ideal way to experience it

[McParadigm]

The Last of Us was the only time I’ve ever liked the song. But it wasn’t just the performance, it was the context in which it was used. They injected it with a degree of earnestness and predictive loss that the song assumes but fails to deliver, otherwise.

I have no idea what that means to the show, because I find absolutely nothing of interest in the idea of TV creators beat-for-beat regurgitating a story that I already experienced in a more powerful format.

hasnt been used outside a trailer yet. they did make effective use of all or none in the trailer as a song someone listens to on headphones during gym, which captures both the essence of the song and the ideal way to experience it

I should have said “the video game was the only time I’ve ever…” etc, as that’s what I meant. The way the song was implemented in the second game was effective and wonderful.

The trailer just seems like very typical “take an existing song and make it sound ominous” shit to me.

[stip]

The Last of Us was the only time I’ve ever liked the song. But it wasn’t just the performance, it was the context in which it was used. They injected it with a degree of earnestness and predictive loss that the song assumes but fails to deliver, otherwise.

I have no idea what that means to the show, because I find absolutely nothing of interest in the idea of TV creators beat-for-beat regurgitating a story that I already experienced in a more powerful format.

hasnt been used outside a trailer yet. they did make effective use of all or none in the trailer as a song someone listens to on headphones during gym, which captures both the essence of the song and the ideal way to experience it

I should have said “the video game was the only time I’ve ever…” etc, as that’s what I meant. The way the song was implemented in the second game was effective and wonderful.

The trailer just seems like very typical “take an existing song and make it sound ominous” shit to me.

i only meant i dont know how it will show up in the tv show. i agree the trailer use felt typical

[RockPusher]

stip, IIRC an episode opened with All or None and the song played in pretty much its entirety.

[stip]

first episode, I think.

[lvc]

Has he showed up yet or no?

[mikejasond]

What!! is that clip from the last of us real?? How did I not know about this??? I wish I had played Last of Us 2 because that would have blown my mind completely when it started playing.

[McParadigm]

What!! is that clip from the last of us real?? How did I not know about this??? I wish I had played Last of Us 2 because that would have blown my mind completely when it started playing.

It’s central to a primary character’s emotional journey, and it gets peppered throughout the game.

[Matters]

I don’t care about its faults.

It’s their best song.

[Farmer John]

Nice of Andrew to agree to go along with Ed's version of events

[tragabigzanda]

pearl jam sucks now

[VinylGuy]

Liar!!!

[RockPusher]

I honestly think the story of this song is magical. You guys can have your cynical takes. I fucking love it.

[scrub12]

The Jeff part was cool.

[Birds in Hell]

This is something like origin story 9.02 for the song to date but the clearest admission of the obvious truth: Wotman wrote the riff wholesale and it vaguely reminded Ed of something he’d tinkered with at some point in the distant past.

[VinylGuy]

It’s always good to read the Spenno Remix of the real story

[Monkey_Driven]

I heard that Watt ghost wrote most of Vitalogy and No Code too. A 3-6 year old child prodigy.