Song of the Moment: Mind Your Manners

[Ledbetterman10]

i actually feel like this might be a hit. Im not sure what qualifies anymore, but still.

This is gonna be all over the radio here. They played it 3 times in a row earlier.

The important thing is to not have the album out to capitalize on that. If you can wait to drop it until the luster's gone...you're doin alright

The model they operate under is so outdated.

Yep.

I dunno, maybe they're trying a new model. Like, may they'll release another single next month, and a third one in September, and then finally the album in October. Seems unlikely. But with illegal downloading, many bands (Radiohead, etc.) have tried new release tactics over the past decade.

[Walker Bait]

I'm pissed! My local "rock" station 99.5 KISS the only Rock station here in San Antonio, TX refuses to play it. I emailed them and they said, nope sorry we're not gonna play it, but theres a link on our page wherre you can go listen if you really want to. WTF?! Because it's not the same Godsmak, Disturbed, or Theory of a Deadman they won't play it!!?? gggrrrrrrrrrrr........

[evenslow]

I wonder if this song will be like "Johnny Guitar" in the sense that everyone raves about it at first, and then a few months later a ton of haters come out of the woodwork calling it herky-jerky crap with no groove after they find out Matt wrote it.

there'll definitely be some of that shit. there always is. just have to keep those bitches in line with a finely attuned pimp hand.

[melonhead4]

I've got an unfortunate feeling
I've been beaten down
I feel I'm done believing THANK YOU! I was having a hell of time with that line. But I think you got it.
And now the truth is coming out
What they take is more than a bow
They're taking your innocence and then they [something]

All alone they're singing Might be 'all ALONG they're singing How about "Long Live Satan"
I caught myself believing that I needed God
And if [something] is over then we sure could use him now
Tried my patience, my patience tried
This world's alone [something] makes me wanna cry

All alone they're singing
Mind your manners
(son of Satan? lol)

Self-realizing that I'm physically redeemed
May not live another life
May not solve our mystery
Ride high around the corner Pretty sure it's 'RIGHT around the corner (like RI-HIGHT)
Could be bigger than ourselves
Wake and wither to the sky I'm hearing 'we could will it to the sky'
Or we could something else

Go to heaven, that's swell
How do you like your like your living Hell?

Nice work. I'm hearing some of it a bit differently. But, really good hustle, buddy.

[bodysnatcher]

[LostDog1079]

I'm pissed! My local "rock" station 99.5 KISS the only Rock station here in San Antonio, TX refuses to play it. I emailed them and they said, nope sorry we're not gonna play it, but theres a link on our page wherre you can go listen if you really want to. WTF?! Because it's not the same Godsmak, Disturbed, or Theory of a Deadman they won't play it!!?? gggrrrrrrrrrrr........

That is a horrible radio station if I ever heard one.

[harmless]

Listening again. The music into the solo sounds very much like Comatose. But this song's better than Comatose.

[evenslow]

I'm pissed! My local "rock" station 99.5 KISS the only Rock station here in San Antonio, TX refuses to play it. I emailed them and they said, nope sorry we're not gonna play it, but theres a link on our page wherre you can go listen if you really want to. WTF?! Because it's not the same Godsmak, Disturbed, or Theory of a Deadman they won't play it!!?? gggrrrrrrrrrrr........

this is a good thing

[evenslow]

Listening again. The music into the solo sounds very much like Comatose. But this song's better than Comatose.

yes, it seems like they took this one to the rewrite factory a few more times than they have with recent similar output.

[epilogue]

Pearl Jam usually finds a way to meet me on the road. Every once in a while we take different exits or we leave a few hours apart. But usually we end up side by side again. Mind Your Manners is in perfect step with me right now. Where I'm at emotionally and where I'm at spiritually. This song feels like coming home to my old familiar friends, trading stories and drinking way too much.

These aren't groundbreaking lyrics. But they are relatable (at least to me) and they aren't trying too hard. This one and I are going to be good friends. And those that hoped Eddie had something to be pissed about again, well here you go. He's had it out with the church and faith before, but this one is much more direct. No tightrope metaphors. No attempts at meeting in the middle. Not this time.

I love this song, guys.

[harmless]

Listening again. The music into the solo sounds very much like Comatose. But this song's better than Comatose.

yes, it seems like they took this one to the rewrite factory a few more times than they have with recent similar output.

This song would be a huge amount of fun live, and you know how unlikely I am to say that kind of thing as I never get to see them live. I'm more intrigued about what's on the rest of this album than I have been for a long time.

[evenslow]

Pearl Jam usually finds a way to meet me on the road. Every once in a while we take different exits or we leave a few hours apart. But usually we end up side by side again. Mind Your Manners is in perfect step with me right now. Where I'm at emotionally and where I'm at spiritually. This song feels like coming home to my old familiar friends, trading stories and drinking way too much.

These aren't groundbreaking lyrics. But they are relatable (at least to me) and they aren't trying too hard. This one and I are going to be good friends. And those that hoped Eddie had something to be pissed about again, well here you go. He's had it out with the church and faith before, but this one is much more direct. No tightrope metaphors. No attempts at meeting in the middle. Not this time.

I love this song, guys.

Ed is very good with sarcasm. That helps songs like this a lot.

[evenslow]

Listening again. The music into the solo sounds very much like Comatose. But this song's better than Comatose.

yes, it seems like they took this one to the rewrite factory a few more times than they have with recent similar output.

This song would be a huge amount of fun live, and you know how unlikely I am to say that kind of thing as I never get to see them live. I'm more intrigued about what's on the rest of this album than I have been for a long time.

It's a nice start and that feels good.

[Strat]

RM, have we celebrated the fact that @skitch likes it?

[dimejinky99]

I picked a bad time to say this now Stip is gone for the day,

But I like Fixer more than this.

There.

[epilogue]

RM, have we celebrated the fact that @skitch likes it?

I sent him a case of his favorite goddamn.

[harmless]

Pearl Jam usually finds a way to meet me on the road. Every once in a while we take different exits or we leave a few hours apart. But usually we end up side by side again. Mind Your Manners is in perfect step with me right now. Where I'm at emotionally and where I'm at spiritually. This song feels like coming home to my old familiar friends, trading stories and drinking way too much.

These aren't groundbreaking lyrics. But they are relatable (at least to me) and they aren't trying too hard. This one and I are going to be good friends. And those that hoped Eddie had something to be pissed about again, well here you go. He's had it out with the church and faith before, but this one is much more direct. No tightrope metaphors. No attempts at meeting in the middle. Not this time.

I love this song, guys.

With my frame of mind at the moment (depression / anxiety / anger, you name it), this one's perfect. It's instantly catchy and infectious and not amazingly profound but that's almost definitely a good thing. I want to listen to music I enjoy at the moment, not music I have to look deeply through and unpack.

[Chris_H_2]

RM, have we celebrated the fact that @skitch likes it?

He's also going to see Bruno Mars tonight. Just sayin . . .

[Ledbetterman10]

I think this song is gonna be lots of fun live...as songs like this (Comatose, Got Some etc.) tend to be.

[epilogue]

Pearl Jam usually finds a way to meet me on the road. Every once in a while we take different exits or we leave a few hours apart. But usually we end up side by side again. Mind Your Manners is in perfect step with me right now. Where I'm at emotionally and where I'm at spiritually. This song feels like coming home to my old familiar friends, trading stories and drinking way too much.

These aren't groundbreaking lyrics. But they are relatable (at least to me) and they aren't trying too hard. This one and I are going to be good friends. And those that hoped Eddie had something to be pissed about again, well here you go. He's had it out with the church and faith before, but this one is much more direct. No tightrope metaphors. No attempts at meeting in the middle. Not this time.

I love this song, guys.

With my frame of mind at the moment (depression / anxiety / anger, you name it), this one's perfect. It's instantly catchy and infectious and not amazingly profound but that's almost definitely a good thing. I want to listen to music I enjoy at the moment, not music I have to look deeply through and unpack.