Red Mosquito

This song is fine in a vacuum. On the album, not so much. Although I d. Notice they didn't play the piano outro when they played it live the other day so maybe even the band realizes how stupid it sounds.

Just listened to this song, and i kinda like the piano leading into the song but not closing it out

I don't entirely hate this song so I gave it 2 stars, could've been a whole lot better though

Can someone take the Casio keyboard intro/outros convert them to violin and then see what it could have been.

Damn, I'm so disappointed that this song isn't just the song.

Listening to Balmorhea's "Truth" makes me even more annoyed about what happened to this song.

I think the song's fine and could do without the piano intro/outro in favor of drenching feedback, but these lyrics stood out:

All the missing crooked hearts
They may die but in us they live on

Obviously a shout out to 'Smile' and the person who inspired the lyric, Dennis Flemion, who died in 2012.

nomorecrackpipes wrote:I think the song's fine and could do without the piano intro/outro in favor of drenching feedback, but these lyrics stood out:

All the missing crooked hearts
They may die but in us they live on

Obviously a shout out to 'Smile' and the person who inspired the lyric, Dennis Flemion, who died in 2012.

Ed confirmed that actually.

theplatypus wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:

theplatypus wrote:

Mine wrote:Grace Anatomy

an anatomically thorough analysis of chud's mom

What the hell, man?

For some reason I remembered your mom's name as Grace. Forgive me.

you are forgiven

I wonder if it was Ed's intention, with this church hymn, to cede that, yes, there are many beliefs, but each should be personal. This song is that quiet, personal belief, not the in-your-face (there's only one way) on Getaway that Ed rants about.

I guess this song is working for me tonight, kind of against my will.

The actual song is kinda growing on me, like the live version with Boom's organ way better. Think I'm gonna edit the piano out of my copy when I have the chance. Shame I can't do the same to the violin garbage as well.

Song still doesn't fit or belong on the album. Should have been a b-side to a single, remember those?

Really prefer the studio version. The same with LB, that is far superior on studio, the plates just mess the song live.

this was surprisingly good live.

I'm getting to like the orchestration in the actual song. I like the violin, and I like the gospel-type piano chords in the bridge. I could do without the Brian Eno synths drowning out the violinist.

I still don't *like* those keyboard bookends, but I can tolerate them now. When I think of how good Boom's organ sounded on a song like TMW, I cry about what they did to this song. But I don't cry about it every day anymore.

boom does a keyboard intro live which gives the song a bigger feel. I'm not sure I like, but it is more striking. I'd need to hear it again. No outro, though

Yeah, I'm sure it's more tolerable even without the outro. But in the video I saw, Boom was playing the same keyboard intro BoB is playing here. Was it different when you saw it? My issue is mostly that BoB can't resist filling out the chords with plinky plonky little notes between. It's too busy. It should just be the chords, played once per chord change. But it's OK.

boom was on the organ, I think.

That would've been nice. It would be really funny to find out that the band already think the keyboard was a bad idea.

This song is starting to sound better.