Red Mosquito

harmless wrote:1) The song we heard on the clip other than MYM sounded like an instrumental (and yes, I'm guessing) and because the other clip was MYM, we can speculate that they have a relationship

harmless wrote:OK, I'm guessing the parentheses part is what you're struggling with here. 1) The song we heard on the clip other than MYM sounded like an instrumental (and yes, I'm guessing) and because the other clip was MYM, we can speculate that they have a relationship, 2) that relationship is possibly a Master/Slave intro relationship, so that was to 'Once' what this is to MYM. That would seem to be suggested by its placement behind the song on this setlist, 3) They don't usually name albums after songs, so if they have in this case, I would guess that it's not a song as such. 4) So that leads me to also guess that the parentheses are nothing but a cool little pointless addition to the title, like the 'red dot' of Yield. I can't think of any reason that the parentheses would be there but this is the best I can do to make one up.

bluestate wrote:I highly doubt they have a song named Lightning Bolt on this album.

Birds in Hell wrote:

harmless wrote:1) The song we heard on the clip other than MYM sounded like an instrumental (and yes, I'm guessing) and because the other clip was MYM, we can speculate that they have a relationship

I think this is two pretty big leaps.

It might be an instrumental, sure, but on that basis so might have that snippet of what turned out to be Mind Your Manners. Perhaps it just sounded cool and atmospheric and it worked for the video? There's really not much to go on other than it's a few repeating reverberated chords that may or may not be a song on the new record and, if it is, may or may not be an instrumental.

I think it's really the usage of "likely" that I (and, evidently, platy) found curious. It suggested it was somehow more probable than not, which isn't the case.

bluestate wrote:

harmless wrote:OK, I'm guessing the parentheses part is what you're struggling with here. 1) The song we heard on the clip other than MYM sounded like an instrumental (and yes, I'm guessing) and because the other clip was MYM, we can speculate that they have a relationship, 2) that relationship is possibly a Master/Slave intro relationship, so that was to 'Once' what this is to MYM. That would seem to be suggested by its placement behind the song on this setlist, 3) They don't usually name albums after songs, so if they have in this case, I would guess that it's not a song as such. 4) So that leads me to also guess that the parentheses are nothing but a cool little pointless addition to the title, like the 'red dot' of Yield. I can't think of any reason that the parentheses would be there but this is the best I can do to make one up.

This is my basic interpretation (or GUESS) too. But that's solely based on the fact that I highly doubt they have a song named Lightning Bolt on this album. I'll believe it when I see it. I still say it's an untitled intro to MYM (but not necessarily the song we heard from the tour announcement).

Birds in Hell wrote:

bluestate wrote:I highly doubt they have a song named Lightning Bolt on this album.

Is this going to be the new thing I don't get?

It can replace how I don't get why people think "Lightning Bolt" is a bad name for a Pearl Jam album.

Birds in Hell wrote:Clearly, I am a joyless husk of a human being.

ridleybradout wrote:You guys sure know how to speculate the living shit out of something.

ridleybradout wrote: they often have songs they may decide to cut on the spot in brackets on the setlist.

I'd put money on it being as simple as that - there's a song called 'Lightning Bolt', they're planning on playing it before MYM, but will most likely skip it.

By the way - did anyone notice the projected set is 40 songs long?!

harmless wrote:I'd find an album with lots of fast punkish stuff mingled with slower, atmospheric stuff and nothing in between, really fascinating. I don't need any mid tempo blandness and I hope we get no Unthought Knowns (or that if we do, they're better).

southp wrote:

harmless wrote:I'd find an album with lots of fast punkish stuff mingled with slower, atmospheric stuff and nothing in between, really fascinating. I don't need any mid tempo blandness and I hope we get no Unthought Knowns (or that if we do, they're better).

I'll take more gems and rhinestones any day!

VinylGuy wrote:Im getting really exited about this album. I hope they play a new song in Wrigley, its a nice opportunity for it.

Jaeti wrote:I want an album where all lyrics are written by Mike.