Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Backspacer

aurynsdad · Post by **aurynsdad** » Mon February 10, 2014 7:04 pm

Yeah, to me Riot Act is all about rediscovery in light of personal tragedy (Roskilde) and societal crumble (Bush). And Backspacer is all about rediscovery of the positives and the light and the fun.

bodysnatcher · Post by **bodysnatcher** » Mon February 10, 2014 7:45 pm

guys, this is the Backspacer thread

bada · Post by **bada** » Mon February 10, 2014 8:14 pm

Let's be crazy and let the conversation go where the conversation goes.

Lament · Post by **Lament** » Mon February 10, 2014 8:22 pm

I'd rather have my body snatched than my back spaced.

Post by **stip** » Mon February 10, 2014 8:22 pm

you just haven't been back spaced properly

Lament · Post by **Lament** » Mon February 10, 2014 8:26 pm

What's the proper way to have your back spaced?

harmless · Post by **harmless** » Mon February 10, 2014 9:10 pm

Is that what's happening to Ed here?

IlluminEddie · Post by **IlluminEddie** » Tue February 11, 2014 2:30 pm

stip wrote: I'm not sure it makes sense to necessarily try and figure out whether the personal or the political is dominant. They're just hopelessly intertwined and reinforcing (again, as opposed to S/T, which is telling stories about people who aren't Ed). Songs like Can't Keep, All or None, Save you, Ghost, Cropduster, even I am Mine and LBC, can probably cut both ways, and Help Help, Bushleaguer, 1/2 Full, Green Disease are definitely primarily political. Even Thumbing My Way, which is an intensely personal story is still about feeling lost with no where to go, in a geographic sense as much as an emotional/mental one.

Let me pick one...

Not sure if you're saying Cropduster (for example) is or is not political, or it's personally political or not. I don't really think that matters. It could actually be both, but it's blatantly political. Regardless of how one approaches that song, it is overwhelmingly political. Not only can you see the 9/11 line in the second verse... but the title, "cropduster" was so alarming back then. You may recall a major threat spiraled down from our government following 9/11 was terrorists occupying small cropdusters to enact chemical warfare.

Regardless of the merits of such threats, the fact that the band named that song Cropduster at that time... was an enormous political message in and of itself. Ed, in my opinion, was trying to flip that threat (cropduster) on it's head, he basically says it in the lyrics - it's all the other way round, we're upside down.

Cropduster is probably the best song on Riot Act, by the way.

Kaius · Post by **Kaius** » Tue February 11, 2014 2:45 pm

IlluminEddie wrote: Cropduster is probably the best song on Riot Act, by the way.

I might agree with that.

VinylGuy · Post by **VinylGuy** » Tue February 11, 2014 2:46 pm

I prefer Cant Keep, I am Mine or You Are.

Thejambi · Post by **Thejambi** » Tue February 11, 2014 5:42 pm

VinylGuy wrote:I prefer Cant Keep, I am Mine or You Are.

Kaius · Post by **Kaius** » Tue February 11, 2014 6:12 pm

I wouldn't argue against those either

Kaius · Post by **Kaius** » Tue February 11, 2014 6:12 pm

Except IAM. It's below the others

hlniv · Post by **hlniv** » Tue February 11, 2014 6:52 pm

bodysnatcher wrote:guys, this is the Backspacer thread

warehouse · Post by **warehouse** » Tue February 11, 2014 6:54 pm

pearl jam's "fun" record

malice · Post by **malice** » Tue February 11, 2014 7:09 pm

warehouse wrote:pearl jam's "fun" record

argue with me about the fake bob seger thread, pls

hlniv · Post by **hlniv** » Tue February 11, 2014 7:40 pm

warehouse wrote:pearl jam's "fun" record

pearl jam's "target" record

pearl jam's "pimp" record

pearl jam's "bright" record

pearl jam's "yeah yeah yeah" record

pearl jam's "short" record

pearl jam's "crap" record

WtOB? · Post by **WtOB?** » Tue February 11, 2014 7:44 pm

hlniv wrote:
bodysnatcher wrote:guys, this is the Backspacer thread

i think people would rather talk about an album where there's something to talk about.

Thejambi · Post by **Thejambi** » Wed February 12, 2014 10:16 pm

I enjoyed in on Rock Band for those couple of months.

aurynsdad · Post by **aurynsdad** » Wed February 12, 2014 10:39 pm

Thejambi wrote:I enjoyed in on Rock Band for those couple of months.

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