Song of the Moment: Sleeping By Myself

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Sleeping By Myself

5 Stars
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4 Stars
2
25%
3 Stars
2
25%
2 Stars
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38%
1 Star
1
13%
 
Total votes: 8

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I love this song, and cannot fathom why people dislike it. Not your favorite, fine. But it's a nice performance from Eddie. Pretty good lyrics, nice subtle ukelee song, and such a great juxtaposition of upbeat jaunty music and sad subject matter. My only complaint is that Mike's guitar is too loud, but that's a small complaint.

This is a great song. Absolutely not filler. Probably number 4 for me on L-bolt
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I like it.
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I like it. They should have ran with the country pop feel of SBM, Sirens, LTRP, and Pendulum and they probably would have made a better, more cohesive album.
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pearl jam sucks now
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Future Days too, yeah?
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Basically get rid of all of the weak ass dad rock songs.
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Swallowed Whole isn't terrible, but it doesn't fit.
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Let's face it, everything on LB is dad rock, Kaius.
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Yeah. I'm not saying it would be good. Just maybe better?
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Was really pissed when I saw this on the tracklist at first. And I still would probably rather hear a totally different song on the album than this. If they were still releasing b-sides, this would have been perfect in that role.

All that being said, this is a great performance of a really nice song. 4 stars.
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Everything about this rubs me up the wrong way; the idea of putting it on the record, the production, the arrangement, the guitar tones. It's all horrendous.
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Birds in Hell wrote:Everything about this rubs me up the wrong way; the idea of putting it on the record, the production, the arrangement, the guitar tones. It's all horrendous.
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pearl jam sucks now
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The arrangements are probably the best on the album. Not saying that means a lot but I really enjoy what they did with the song.
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pearl jam sucks now
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It is kind of weird how he pronounces "disaster" like "disastguh"
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man i was infuriated when i saw this one was on the album. I tought we were getting a uke song.
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evenslow wrote:Was really pissed when I saw this on the tracklist at first. And I still would probably rather hear a totally different song on the album than this. If they were still releasing b-sides, this would have been perfect in that role.

All that being said, this is a great performance of a really nice song. 4 stars.
This is exactly the case for me as well.

Seeing this in the tracklist was disappointing back when I had hopes of the rest of the album being better. Oh, to be so young again.
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