Match DW: Around the Bend vs. Just Breathe

Post by **stip** » Wed March 19, 2014 1:21 am

I only started to kind of enjoy Around the Bend fairly recently. I've liked Just Breathe a lot from the beginning, and the 'I'm a lucky man to count on both hands the ones I love' is one of my favorite lyrics

PHATJ · Post by **PHATJ** » Wed March 19, 2014 1:22 am

Around the Bend is a beautiful sounding track.

CopperTom · Post by **CopperTom** » Wed March 19, 2014 2:13 am

Around The Bend

Simple Torture · Post by **Simple Torture** » Wed March 19, 2014 2:17 am

Let's bring "Just Breathe" out to pasture.

Post by **Sgt. Crackpot** » Wed March 19, 2014 2:25 am

To me, AtB has a lot of real feeling and depth. It's beautiful without being nauseatingly sappy. JB isn't a bad song, but it feels too forced and saccharine.

McParadigm · Post by **McParadigm** » Wed March 19, 2014 2:55 am

I don't know that any other Pearl Jam track captures a timeless, postureless gentleness the way Bend does. The most remarkable playing I can think of on any PJ album, and in some ways the most Exile on Mainstreet they ever were.

William Bloke · Post by **William Bloke** » Wed March 19, 2014 2:56 am

Go Just Breathe!!

Kaius · Post by **Kaius** » Wed March 19, 2014 3:56 am

Around the Bend without a question. I have always loved the sound of Stone's(?) fingers sliding across the strings through the chord changes. It's audible throughout the entire song.

BurtReynolds · Post by **BurtReynolds** » Wed March 19, 2014 3:59 am

LetMeSleep · Post by **LetMeSleep** » Wed March 19, 2014 5:12 am

Sgt. Crackpot wrote:To me, AtB has a lot of real feeling and depth. It's beautiful without being nauseatingly sappy. JB isn't a bad song, but it feels too forced and saccharine.

malice · Post by **malice** » Wed March 19, 2014 5:31 am

Post by **stip** » Wed March 19, 2014 9:59 am

LetMeSleep wrote:
Sgt. Crackpot wrote:To me, AtB has a lot of real feeling and depth. It's beautiful without being nauseatingly sappy. JB isn't a bad song, but it feels too forced and saccharine.

That's a fair complaint. I don't agree, but I can easily see it. I guess I've never found much compelling or beautiful about around the bend

Kevin Davis · Post by **Kevin Davis** » Wed March 19, 2014 12:45 pm

stip wrote:
LetMeSleep wrote:
Sgt. Crackpot wrote:To me, AtB has a lot of real feeling and depth. It's beautiful without being nauseatingly sappy. JB isn't a bad song, but it feels too forced and saccharine.
That's a fair complaint. I don't agree, but I can easily see it. I guess I've never found much compelling or beautiful about around the bend

Saccharine I can buy, but forced? Honestly I think "Just Breathe" feels like one of the least forced songs in their catalog--if ever there was a song that felt like it just rolled off Eddie's fingers in five minutes, it's that. The sappiness is offset by the lack of drama in the vocal performance; Eddie sounds truly relaxed and content in it, and it's to the song's advantage.

But of course my vote goes to "Around the Bend" without a second thought.

Post by **stip** » Wed March 19, 2014 1:04 pm

I think the forced comment applies more to the chorus, with the somewhat jarring influx of drama, given how relaxed the verses are.

LetMeSleep · Post by **LetMeSleep** » Wed March 19, 2014 1:06 pm

The production feels forced. Jeff doesn't do that bassline well and the keys are awful. Ed sounds like he's done one take too many. I'm not the best judge as I haven't heard it for years as I always skip it.

Post by **stip** » Wed March 19, 2014 1:08 pm

I love Jeff's bass in this song.

LetMeSleep · Post by **LetMeSleep** » Wed March 19, 2014 1:11 pm

Post by **stip** » Wed March 19, 2014 1:15 pm

you should go LAL to it.

Post by **stip** » Wed March 19, 2014 1:15 pm

look, I trash a lot of sacred cows, but at least I give them the courtesy of listening to them before I do.

Red Mosquito

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