Song of the Moment: Sleeping By Myself (Pearl Jam)
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Re: Sleeping By Myself (Pearl Jam)
I love this.
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I've had this in my head all day. I adore the electric guitar part in the beginning.
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Yeah that with the kick drum and the strumming pattern on the guitar equalMonkey_Driven wrote:I've had this in my head all day. I adore the electric guitar part in the beginning.
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Yeah, it just makes me smile. So good.evenslow wrote:Yeah that with the kick drum and the strumming pattern on the guitar equalMonkey_Driven wrote:I've had this in my head all day. I adore the electric guitar part in the beginning.
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This was a pleasant surprise.
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Birds in Hell wrote:This was a pleasant surprise.
Definitely.
Calibrate your enthusiasm
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Not to repeat too much but as a Xmas single it would have been more pleasant.Birds in Hell wrote:This was a pleasant surprise.
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I honestly don't get why this song is any more or less unwelcome on this album than anything else (except for FD, possibly).
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Re: Sleeping By Myself (Pearl Jam)
This and pendulum are my two favourite tracks i think.
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Love how the uke comes in for the last verse
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You know all the arguments for why this shouldn't be here. Previously released etc. It may be an interesting version/alternate take on this track and it's existence is great. the more studio material we have the greater the catalogue. But I feel that it should not have been on the album (I don't think it fits and I don't want other released material re-fashioned on future albums). B-sides, Xmas singles, even just a live version like the ITW track Setting Forth or a random throw-out like Ole. Great, do it but on an album I'd like to get tracks I haven't heard before. And it seems that Bo'B forced this out of the band.harmless wrote:I honestly don't get why this song is any more or less unwelcome on this album than anything else (except for FD, possibly).
btw, FD as bad as it is at least fits the lyrical arc/theme of this album.
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But so does this. I can see this song working well thematically. I commented on that somewhere else.
Stylistically, nothing "fits" on this album. Every song is a vastly different genre to the last one.
Stylistically, nothing "fits" on this album. Every song is a vastly different genre to the last one.
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I agree, when it breaks down to just Ed and uke it's a nice change. Really highlights a huge dynamic change more than what they could've done with an acoustic guitar. I still retain my stance that ukuleles suck, but a few dozen more examples of it being used as good as here and I may just change my stance.Got Some wrote:Love how the uke comes in for the last verse
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Its a new song to me. I liked Uke songs a lot. They brought enough to this version for me to consider it different. Im fine with it on the record.
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It's not even close to the best song on Ukelele Songs and they just made it worse...
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I think it's easily the best original in Ukulele Songs.
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I like Broken Heart more but this one's pretty great too.theplatypus wrote:I think it's easily the best original in Ukulele Songs.
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My fav was always Without You.Birds in Hell wrote:I like Broken Heart more but this one's pretty great too.theplatypus wrote:I think it's easily the best original in Ukulele Songs.
I'm surprised that I'm not even sure which version of SBM I like better now, but here we are.
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Goodbye, Satellite, and You're True are all better IMO. And if you count the covers then Sleeping By Myself wouldn't be in my top 5 from the album, no waytheplatypus wrote:I think it's easily the best original in Ukulele Songs.
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I'm OK with it but Of the Earth would have been epic in its place.