Song of the Moment: Future Days

[Washed Away]

I wonder if they'll do a Greatest Hits 2004-2014.

I'd assume that, if anything, they'd be more likely to do like most long-lived bands and just do yet another full-career retrospect hits record (this time a little more concise, dropping some minor early successes to make room for bigger late-era hits). But I'd be a little curious to see how a 04-14 hits record would sell....some of these songs got more play than almost anything else they've ever done besides Daughter and Betterman, but is that initial impact translating into a lasting memory?

World Wide Suicide
Life Wasted
Gone (or perhaps they'd replace it with Severed Hand, since that got some live-tv plays?)
Brother
Love Reign O'er Me
The Fixer
Just Breathe
Got Some
Amongst the Waves
Unthought Known (another maybe, because of tv exposure and some mild radio attention)
Mind Your Manners
Sirens
Lightning Bolt
Future Days

that is a sobering list of songs. (Edited. Comment deleted. there's been enough bloodshed today).

Now more than ever, we need a PJ Harvey forum.

I'm not the biggest fan of the most recent Pearl Jam albums and this list scares me.

[Sgt. Crackpot]

I wonder if they'll do a Greatest Hits 2004-2014.

I'd assume that, if anything, they'd be more likely to do like most long-lived bands and just do yet another full-career retrospect hits record (this time a little more concise, dropping some minor early successes to make room for bigger late-era hits). But I'd be a little curious to see how a 04-14 hits record would sell....some of these songs got more play than almost anything else they've ever done besides Daughter and Betterman, but is that initial impact translating into a lasting memory?

World Wide Suicide
Life Wasted
Gone (or perhaps they'd replace it with Severed Hand, since that got some live-tv plays?)
Brother
Love Reign O'er Me
The Fixer
Just Breathe
Got Some
Amongst the Waves
Unthought Known (another maybe, because of tv exposure and some mild radio attention)
Mind Your Manners
Sirens
Lightning Bolt
Future Days

that is a sobering list of songs. (Edited. Comment deleted. there's been enough bloodshed today).

Now more than ever, we need a PJ Harvey forum.

I'm not the biggest fan of the most recent Pearl Jam albums and this list scares me.

Unless they were planning to remix the Avocado era songs, I wouldn't even bother purchasing that.

Actually, I'd rather just see them re-release Avocado with a better track listing and a complete remixing by anyone other than B'OB.

[LetMeSleep]

They're losing Sarge.

[bodysnatcher]

[Lament]

Or you could drop by my house and watch Wolf kick this song squarely in the nuts. Except this song has nuts whatsoever. In fact he'd probably hear the opening chords and scream NO and throw a chair over. I'm going to test this out tomorrow.

Sounds like your kid's got pizzazz. I approve.

[stip]

You just need to come to my house and give mia a hug and then you'll love that song

Or you could drop by my house and watch Wolf kick this song squarely in the nuts. Except this song has nuts whatsoever. In fact he'd probably hear the opening chords and scream NO and throw a chair over. I'm going to test this out tomorrow.

Look, if Wolf and Mia are going to get married someday he's gonna have to make his peace with this song. Because it's the song I'm going to dance to with her at her wedding.

[Strat]

I found myself super moved by this song actually yesterday. I guess when you get close to losing someone you adore, cheesy shit hits the soul :\

[stip]

It's cheesy as hell, but it's unapologetically cheesy, which matters.

What also mattes, I think (a lot) and what separates this from, say Bon Jovi, is that it's coming from a band that normally doesn't write in terms of cheese, and has a pretty large back catalog moving entirely in the opposite direction. Cheese is a problem when it is lazy and manipulative and it is all you do. But there is an authenticity to it when the cheese is an exception, rather than the rule. It becomes an honest, unguarded, pure sentiment.

[stip]

I found myself super moved by this song actually yesterday. I guess when you get close to losing someone you adore, cheesy shit hits the soul :\

how many itunes downloads can we put you down for?

[stip]

everything okay, strat?

[McParadigm]

cheesy shit hits the soul

"...and THEN he said..."

[stip]

they're pretty much the cutest couple of all time

[McParadigm]

I recently started measuring all my friendships against that template, and firing any friend that doesn't quite make the grade.

I'm currently sitting comfortable at zero friends.

But at least my shit isn't cheesy, I guess. That sounds like a medical condition.

[Lament]

It's cheesy as hell, but it's unapologetically cheesy, which matters.

What also mattes, I think (a lot) and what separates this from, say Bon Jovi, is that it's coming from a band that normally doesn't write in terms of cheese, and has a pretty large back catalog moving entirely in the opposite direction. Cheese is a problem when it is lazy and manipulative and it is all you do. But there is an authenticity to it when the cheese is an exception, rather than the rule. It becomes an honest, unguarded, pure sentiment.

It'd be a better song if at some point he said "THESE FIVE WORDS I SWEAR TO YOU! I SEE OUR FUTURE DAYS!"

[malice]

patrick stewart and ian mckellen are much too old to give a fuck if their friendship is cheesy or not

[malice]

patrick stewart and ian mckellen are much too old to give a fuck if their friendship is cheesy or not

i think i just agreed with stip's commentary on future days

[bodysnatcher]

from Parting Ways to Future Days..... Ed has come a long way.

[EJ]

I'm currently sitting comfortable at zero friends.

I'll be your friend.

[stip]

patrick stewart and ian mckellen are much too old to give a fuck if their friendship is cheesy or not

i think i just agreed with stip's commentary on future days

I'm too much of a gentleman to point that out

[malice]

patrick stewart and ian mckellen are much too old to give a fuck if their friendship is cheesy or not

i think i just agreed with stip's commentary on future days

I'm too much of a gentleman to point that out

thank you. i see your point about it, although i claim no enjoyment from the song at all. i prefer my pearl jam with out the cheese.