SOTM: "Moline"

[BurtReynolds]

Moline, Moline, Moline, Moleeeeeeeeeeeen! I'm beggin' of you please take my Ten Club Merchandise! 50% off!

[BurtReynolds]

Sorry i meant to post that on my #up account.

[Lament]

Moline, Moline, Moline, Moleeeeeeeeeeeen!

I made this joke in the show thread. Look alive, Reynolds.

[BurtReynolds]

Moline, Moline, Moline, Moleeeeeeeeeeeen!

I made this joke in the show thread. Look alive, Reynolds.

[spike]

is this thread really happening? i was at the moline show and this song was nothing more than a goof.

[Kevin Davis]

What does that have to do with anything? I was at the show too -- again, just because something was tossed off without a great deal of thought doesn't mean it doesn't merit being talked about.

[Lament]

just because something was tossed off without a great deal of thought doesn't mean it doesn't merit being talked about.

Seriously. I mean, look how many words have been written about the last two Pearl Jam records around here.

[Kevin Davis]

That and 97% of the rest of what people are willing to commit their time to typing at this website on a daily basis -- certainly one could be forgiven for assuming the standard for what people deem discussion-worthy on this board to be relatively low.

Really, though, this is just how I listen to music -- the experience means more to me coupled with the discipline of trying to articulate and reflect back what I hear; it doesn't really matter to me if something is "just a goof," or really what the artist's intentions for the work are at all. There are plenty of occasions on which an insignificant work is capable, inadvertently sometimes, of generating something interesting to talk about. I would say equally as often it's the indisputably great works that...well, aren't worth disputing, as their stature is already established and the arguments for and against them are well written into how most everyone already understands them.

For what it's worth, "Moline" is not a song that is void of content to me, which is why I find it kind of grotesquely compelling -- the contrast between a relatively dark narrative song and a gaudy hometown pride chant -- I don't really care what happened in the moments leading up to the song becoming what it is, I care about what it is and where I as a listener go from there. I doubt I will be analyzing this song in great depth in any long-term capacity, but that's what I hear in it...

[stip]

It felt like a song though, not an improv?

[Kevin Davis]

I think so -- it certainly has the bone structure of one of Eddie's hastily dashed off acoustic numbers, not unlike "No More" or "Skipping."

[stip]

No More really is a piece of work, coming from someone with such mastery of sing along anthems

[spike]

What does that have to do with anything? I was at the show too -- again, just because something was tossed off without a great deal of thought doesn't mean it doesn't merit being talked about.

talking about it is fine, but people are suggesting that this could show up on an album.

[spike]

just because something was tossed off without a great deal of thought doesn't mean it doesn't merit being talked about.

Seriously. I mean, look how many words have been written about the last two Pearl Jam records around here.

potd