Red Mosquito

I was just listening to No Code, and I am so enamoured with that feeble little guitar solo in "Around the Bend".

I think "Around the Bend" is the best sounding studio recording in PJ's catalog.

I'd like to praise PJ for Backspacer actually
Popped it in my cd player while driving to work and found it to be very enjoyeable music still.

id like to say I like all that have pearl jam have put out to date and I love the three songs I have heard so far ,never been disappointed by an album so far so things are all good............ I love pearl jam

*hug*

I've been listening to sad a lot, its gone from being just a cool song, to blowing my fucking mind. I've also been playing it back to back with otherside and its awesome.

Yanno, all of my passionate complaints and criticism against Backspacer don't take away from my enjoyment of it when it's actually playing. Most of it makes my ears happy.

Kevin Davis wrote:I think "Around the Bend" is the best sounding studio recording in PJ's catalog.

The sound of No Code is outstanding. I don't what was different about that recording process but I wish the albums since had that clarity.

harmless wrote:Yanno, all of my passionate complaints and criticism against Backspacer don't take away from my enjoyment of it when it's actually playing. Most of it makes my ears happy.

All my PJ stuff I keep arranged in three folderss: 1) Albums 1-5; 2) Albums 6-..., and 3) B-sides and Rarities. If one drew a diagram of my listening habits, it would show high columns for 1 and 3 with a very low number 2 in the middle. I moved Backspacer to folder 1 shortly after it came out 8) To me it belongs in that group despite all its faults.

Kevin Davis wrote:I think "Around the Bend" is the best sounding studio recording in PJ's catalog.

Around the Bend is very underrated i love the Benaroya Version too

For all that I'm a fan of 'Around the Bend', I do think its lyrics follow the general model of twee Ed songs that everyone seems to moan about. It's got some really bad lines. How much is the production contributing to everyone's enjoyment?

If the same song had been written for Lightning Bolt and produced by BO'B, we'd be shitting all over it.

harmless wrote:If the same song had been written for Lightning Bolt and produced by BO'B, we'd be shitting all over it.

Oh man would we ever.

But given it was the closer of the album that followed Vitalogy, it was shocking/brilliant at the time

harmless wrote:For all that I'm a fan of 'Around the Bend', I do think its lyrics follow the general model of twee Ed songs that everyone seems to moan about. It's got some really bad lines. How much is the production contributing to everyone's enjoyment?

Not really. It's a lullaby. Its lyrics are appropriate.

bodysnatcher wrote:

harmless wrote:If the same song had been written for Lightning Bolt and produced by BO'B, we'd be shitting all over it.

Oh man would we ever.

But given it was the closer of the album that followed Vitalogy, it was shocking/brilliant at the time

Thank you for admitting that, it took guts.

theplatypus wrote:

harmless wrote:For all that I'm a fan of 'Around the Bend', I do think its lyrics follow the general model of twee Ed songs that everyone seems to moan about. It's got some really bad lines. How much is the production contributing to everyone's enjoyment?

Not really. It's a lullaby. Its lyrics are appropriate.

Future Days is a love song, its lyrics are appropriate (I can do that too!).

Is most people's problem with "Future Days" its lyrics? Because it's not mine.

But anyway, a lullaby is a song form that follows a more specific template than "love songs", to which "Around the Bend" adheres pretty faithfully.

Yeah, I think lots of people here think they're horribly cheesy. I'm just thinking, well, since when was 'horribly cheesy' a deal-breaker with this band?

theplatypus wrote:But anyway, a lullaby is a song form that follows a more specific template than "love songs", to which "Around the Bend" adheres pretty faithfully.

I agree. I'm just saying that proportionally, there are a lot more fans who are perfectly happy for Ed to write a "lullaby" in the early noughties than there are for him to write the equivalent now. Is ATB any less cute (or any more cool) than something like 'Skipping'?