Song of the Moment: Future Days

[bodysnatcher]

I hope it's a live version of Ed performing on The Ellen Degeneres Show

[Lament]

I hope it's a concept video where Ed literally sees future days by getting into a time machine. He goes to a robot strip joint and bumps into Bruce Springsteen's grandkid or some shit and has future champagne sprayed all over him while he parties and gets a back room handsky from some girl who won't even be born for like 25 more years and then a virtual newsbreak jumps in and is all "I'M CYBORG DAN RATHER AND THIS IS JUST IN. ALL OF THE REPUBLICANS ARE DEAD. I REPEAT, ALL OF THE REPUBLICANS ARE DEAD." Then they go ride flying surfboards all up and down the coast before finally finally stopping at Mt. Pearl Jam and rolling some joints filled with super future marijuana that makes him be able to see ghosts and so all of the Ramones are all of the sudden there too.

Then in a twist ending, Jill wakes him up to reveal it's all been a dream. But as he gets up from his bed, he sees some confetti from the strip club is still on the shoulder of the flannel shirt he's wearing SO MAYBE IT WASN'T JUST A DREAM and then it ends with Ed looking right into the camera making a face like...

:-O

[gems and rhinestones]

then it ends with Ed looking right into the camera making a face like...

:-O

I'd rather it end with Ed having zombie eyes like Michael Jackson.

[Lament]

Maybe it'll just be Stone & Mike re-creating the Schmitt's Gay ad from SNL back in the day...

[stip]

I hope it's a live version of Ed performing on The Ellen Degeneres Show

I laughed

[Strat]

Wait. What? What happend to getaway? or lightning bolt as the single?

What is happening? Sirens to Future Days? Good lord.

At least they are owning the Dad rock! Gotta respect that. Can't do something 1/2 assed!

I hope ed cries every morning he wakes up and every night he goes to sleep.

[McParadigm]

Wait. What? What happend to getaway? or lightning bolt as the single?

LB is at rock radio, this one looks to be limited to a Triple A push.

I hope ed cries every morning he wakes up and every night he goes to sleep.

I pin all my hopes on Jeff's tears, personally. I've given up on Ed. I picture him calling the others up late at night with threats and warnings.

"You'll stay in the fucking band! Hare Krishna!"

[Strat]

[bodysnatcher]

I hope ed cries every morning he wakes up and every night he goes to sleep.

I pin all my hopes on Jeff's tears, personally.

agreed. Ed goes to bed happy as can be, sleeping on a pile of money.

Jeff on the other hand... someone might wanna put that guy on suicide watch.

[Strat]

No, i just mean he is crying tears of happiness. he is so over.....whelmed by how amazing life is.

And I hope he drowns in his tears of lies!

[Heathen]

I hope he chokes on his own happiness-induced vomit.

[dprival78]

i wonder what the "future days" that guy is pondering are like, and where they went.

[stip]

Guys, as a 36 year old person I am sort of embarrassed by what my 15 year old self thought was really cool.

[Heathen]

Guys, as a 36 year old person I am sort of embarrassed by what my 15 year old self thought was really cool.

Pearl Jam?

[Birds in Hell]

Guys, as a 36 year old person I am sort of embarrassed by what my 15 year old self thought was really cool.

I don't think a lessened focus on anger or dissatisfaction in the band's output is necessarily a sign of maturity, though. It's hardly as though Ed was a teenager when Pearl Jam were making violent, visceral, impassioned music either; they were grown men in their late 20s/early 30s.

I couldn't find the quote online but there was a Robert Smith radio interview I recall listening to once where he said (and I paraphrase liberally): "I remember being told that all the angst I had when I was young would lessen as I got older. It wasn't true - it got much, much worse."

[hlniv]

i wonder what the "future days" that guy is pondering are like, and where they went.

I wonder what that guy would think if he heard back to back Sirens-Future Days singles and somebody told him it that it rose from the ashes of Mookie Blaylock.

[stupidmop]

i wonder what the "future days" that guy is pondering are like, and where they went.

This guy? Look at that outfit, look at that fucking necklace. If there was ever an Eddie Vedder that was gonna blather on about waves and like playing music with friends man near the ocean with the waves bringing people together under the moon it's this guy.

[McParadigm]

I couldn't find the quote online but there was a Robert Smith radio interview I recall listening to once where he said (and I paraphrase liberally): "I remember being told that all the angst I had when I was young would lessen as I got older. It wasn't true - it got much, much worse."

It's not like the only alternative to Future Days is to still be the Animal guy, either. Tom Waits found ways to feel more explosive and earthy in his 50's and 60's than he ever had in his younger days, and he did it by embracing the grit of age in the same way Ed once embraced the fire of youth. Nick Cave did it, too, by turning into some kind of well-dressed door-to-door bible salesman who might just kick your window out and hit on your wife, if he thought it might be fun, but come on won't you just buy one Bible from me buddy?

Ed, meanwhile, used to be so great at tapping directly into the emotional core of a moment. And now he sounds like he thinks the most presentable way to grow old is not to find new ways to tap into that core, but to keep yourself steered well clear of it. Oh, you still write about emotions, of course...but you do it with an appropriate level of distance. That's his understanding of maturity.

[EJ]

Ed, meanwhile, used to be so great at tapping directly into the emotional core of a moment. And now he sounds like he thinks the most presentable way to grow old is not to find new ways to tap into that core, but to keep yourself steered well clear of it. Oh, you still write about emotions, of course...but you do it with an appropriate level of distance. That's his understanding of maturity.

Unfortunately, now it just comes across as if he's writing in a way his 9 year old daughter can understand.

[Wendy Carlos's Twin]

Guys, as a 36 year old person I am sort of embarrassed by what my 15 year old self thought was really cool.

Really? I'm not. Maybe you really do have shitty taste.