Red Mosquito

E.H. Ruddock wrote:I can understand that people like this song. But 9 of you voted 5 stars? Come on now, get over the newness of it and think about that for a second. 5 stars. Like, this song is top 20 or so Pearl Jam for you?

Donald wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:I can understand that people like this song. But 9 of you voted 5 stars? Come on now, get over the newness of it and think about that for a second. 5 stars. Like, this song is top 20 or so Pearl Jam for you?

I voted a 5 for this. This is a perfect song, and I can't believe some of you guys are trying to drag this down - it's a witch hunt!

stip wrote:I put SBWM on the car for my drive home and I found that it dropped back a couple of notches, but with each subsequent listen (I just left it on for a 15 minute drive) it opened up more and more each time (same as last night and this morning) It think maybe it’s the unusual structure of the song - not a lot of songs built like this in the catalog, and it really deviates from the intro, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, verse and/or chorus, outro structure (with the verses all sharing the same basic structure)

1. Starts with drum intro
2. Moves into what I think is actually the chorus (the cleaner version)
3. Verse one starts around 24 seconds, but there are a few different verse structures -they mostly transition into each other with some kind of rising flourish
4. Transitions into the la la la part around 45 seconds that, rather than the chorus, seems to be a second verse that they just didn’t add words to. Or maybe it’s the first bridge
5. Around one minute moves into the third new verse, each with a different vocal melody (or second if you think the la la la is a bridge, or maybe the first or second bridge)
6. Around 1:10 moves back to the same structure as the first verse, with a slightly more aggressive edge to it
7. Around 1:35 (again with that rising/angry flourish) moves into what felt like a bridge the first time around but now has lyrics. Feels more like a third type of verse, or a second repeating bridge and I think it’s twice as long as last time.

we are barely halfway through the song and we've already had a really large number of discrete parts. This is cramming a LOT of song into a relatively small window.

8. Around 2:00 transition (again, angry at the end) into the first verse (which has my favorite vocal melody) for the third time
9. Transitions into the solo/bridge around 2:20 with the same rising transition – this time the solo begins underneath it, and almost halts at the start like it is waiting for permission to begin
10. Although it is a super wanky solo it actually feels slightly buried in the mix under the much heavier dun dun cadence of the rest of the band, like it’s keeping it pinned down. Makes the solo much more interesting
11. 2:50 we get back to the chorus that actually began the song, with extra layers and atmosphere on Eddie and a new guitar part galloping underneath
12. Back to the first verse for the fourth time and it basically closes out the song – we do get a proper outro, but the outro is basically happening underneath and the same time as the final verse, and they come together in the final seconds

So while it is musically not that complex (at least the main riff - lots of interesting color happening around the margins), the way the song is layered and structured keeps putting up roadblocks as you try and slot it into the familiar lanes you would expect.

Donald wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:I can understand that people like this song. But 9 of you voted 5 stars? Come on now, get over the newness of it and think about that for a second. 5 stars. Like, this song is top 20 or so Pearl Jam for you?

I voted a 5 for this. This is a perfect song, and I can't believe some of you guys are trying to drag this down - it's a witch hunt!

liebzz wrote:Yet once the album hits, we’ll have a week of discussion/rank the songs/rank the album amongst the others and then back to where we were in December.

Ms Harmless wrote:

liebzz wrote:Yet once the album hits, we’ll have a week of discussion/rank the songs/rank the album amongst the others and then back to where we were in December.

I'm never going back again

stip wrote:

Anders wrote:

PHATJ wrote:Superblood Wolfmoon

Superblood Wolfmoon, took her away too soon
Superblood Wolfmoon, took her away too soon

I can hear you, sing in the distance
I can see you when I close my eyes

Once you were somewhere, and now you're everywhere
I'm feeling selfish and I want what's right

I ask for forgiveness, I'm begging myself
feeling angry, now get off the stage

Right now I feel, a lack of innocence searching for reveal
hypnotonic resonance I feel
not much of anything, and the cause is life or death

A life of hopelessness, fucks all your focusedness
I've been hoping that a hope does last
I don't know anything, I question everything
This life I love is going way too fast

Both my eyes are swollen
my face is broken
And I'm hopin that I hurt your
hopin that I hurt you’re
hopin that I hurt you first

She was a stunner, & I am stunned
And the first thought or second thought was 'could be the one'
I was a prisoner, of keys & the cuffs
Yeah I was feeling fortunate to be locked up

But the world got to spinnin, always felt like it was ending
and love not withstanding we are each of us fucked

I'm in danger, feelin in the distance
I can see you when I close my eyes
Once you were somewhere, and now you're everywhere
I'm feeling selfish and I want what's right

I ask for forgiveness, I'm begging myself
feelin angry now get off the stage

Superblood Wolfmoon, took her away too soon
Superblood Wolfmoon, took her away too soon
Superblood Wolfmoon, took her away too soon

I can hear you, singing in the distance
I can see you when I close my eyes
Once you were somewhere, and now you're everywhere
I'm feeling selfish and I want what's right

Focus all your focuses, to a life of hopeless’s
I've been hoping and I hope that lasts
I don't know anything, I question everything

This life I love is going way too fast

Thank you.

love not withstanding we are all of us fucked is a great lyric!

I also love the ‘eyes are swollen’. the lyric is almost certainly fist, not first

PHATJ wrote:

stip wrote:

Anders wrote:

PHATJ wrote:Superblood Wolfmoon

Superblood Wolfmoon, took her away too soon
Superblood Wolfmoon, took her away too soon

I can hear you, sing in the distance
I can see you when I close my eyes

Once you were somewhere, and now you're everywhere
I'm feeling selfish and I want what's right

I ask for forgiveness, I'm begging myself
feeling angry, now get off the stage

Right now I feel, a lack of innocence searching for reveal
hypnotonic resonance I feel
not much of anything, and the cause is life or death

A life of hopelessness, fucks all your focusedness
I've been hoping that a hope does last
I don't know anything, I question everything
This life I love is going way too fast

Both my eyes are swollen
my face is broken
And I'm hopin that I hurt your
hopin that I hurt you’re
hopin that I hurt you first

She was a stunner, & I am stunned
And the first thought or second thought was 'could be the one'
I was a prisoner, of keys & the cuffs
Yeah I was feeling fortunate to be locked up

But the world got to spinnin, always felt like it was ending
and love not withstanding we are each of us fucked

I'm in danger, feelin in the distance
I can see you when I close my eyes
Once you were somewhere, and now you're everywhere
I'm feeling selfish and I want what's right

I ask for forgiveness, I'm begging myself
feelin angry now get off the stage

Superblood Wolfmoon, took her away too soon
Superblood Wolfmoon, took her away too soon
Superblood Wolfmoon, took her away too soon

I can hear you, singing in the distance
I can see you when I close my eyes
Once you were somewhere, and now you're everywhere
I'm feeling selfish and I want what's right

Focus all your focuses, to a life of hopeless’s
I've been hoping and I hope that lasts
I don't know anything, I question everything

This life I love is going way too fast

Thank you.

love not withstanding we are all of us fucked is a great lyric!

I also love the ‘eyes are swollen’. the lyric is almost certainly fist, not first

Edits?