Daughter vs. Animal

[Kaius]

Daughter is a much better song and recording. Animal is "Go lite"

[evenslow]

Kaius is Latin for "hot take."

[Kaius]

Actually, it's "takes it hot".

[ducko]

Daughter - who else couldn't written and performed this song but PJ…alternate tuning…amazing lyrics…simple but effective solo.

[epilogue]

I'm sure this is the round where Daughter bows out. And that's a fucking goddamn shame. Because as fucking outstanding as Animal is (and it is; it's better than both Go and RVM), it ain't no Daughter. Daughter is in another league.

[darth_vedder]

Daughter is great, but Animal was my first true love from this band. I'm going with Animal, and it's close.

[bodysnatcher]

some of my favorite live moments were during Animal before Eddie got all animated on stage, and he would just stand perfectly still cuddled against the mic stand, just screaming this song. The movements of the rest of the band jumping all over the place, coupled with the ferocity of the song, was such a great contrast to Ed just standing there raging.

[bodysnatcher]

There's the part at about 1:45 right before the bridge when Ed screams "AAANIMALLL" and the vocals sound like they start getting distorted bc he screams so loud. I love that so much.

[darth_vedder]

some of my favorite live moments were during Animal before Eddie got all animated on stage, and he would just stand perfectly still cuddled against the mic stand, just screaming this song. The movements of the rest of the band jumping all over the place, coupled with the ferocity of the song, was such a great contrast to Ed just standing there raging.

Agreed that was cool. It was kinda Jim Morrison-ish, but I don't mean that as an insult. When the Doors would go kinda crazy live, Morrison would just kinda stand there and zone out. It was a cool dynamic. Eddie kinda even looked like him:

[digster]

I love both of these songs, but I'll give a slight win to Daughter. I like how it somehow coalesces into a beautiful little pop song, despite having a bizarre structure. It has a verse that kind of goes on for a while, deciding to change whenever it wants to, before a chorus that remains the same, a bridge, solo and back to the chorus. It's reminiscent of things like Sometimes or Faithfull, that feel like the song is determining the structure, rather than the other way around.

I remember before I ever got Vs., I had Ten and Binaural for a while. And I knew Vs. was considered one of their best records besides Ten. Way back, you could go onto Amazon.com and listen to 30-second snippets of some of the songs on a record, usually the first five songs. I remember doing that before I bought the record, loving the snippets from each of those songs and not understanding how this could possibly be the same band in all of them.

[darth_vedder]

I love both of these songs, but I'll give a slight win to Daughter. I like how it somehow coalesces into a beautiful little pop song, despite having a bizarre structure. It has a verse that kind of goes on for a while, deciding to change whenever it wants to, before a chorus that remains the same, a bridge, solo and back to the chorus. It's reminiscent of things like Sometimes or Faithfull, that feel like the song is determining the structure, rather than the other way around.

I remember before I ever got Vs., I had Ten and Binaural for a while. And I knew Vs. was considered one of their best records besides Ten. Way back, you could go onto Amazon.com and listen to 30-second snippets of some of the songs on a record, usually the first five songs. I remember doing that before I bought the record, loving the snippets from each of those songs and not understanding how this could possibly be the same band in all of them.

I used to think that about the albums in general. Ten sounds nothing like Binaural, which doesn't sound like Vs., which doesn't sound like No Code. I loved how the band seemed to change and grow each album. I guess you could say that about Backspacer too, but I don't care for that album, so fuck it.