Red Mosquito

bada wrote:That's what she said.

bada! tsssh

Ms Harmless wrote:any idea why Ed sings "I am stunned" instead of "I was stunned"?

he's still stunned?

Just listened to a playlist of:

Whipping
Worldwide Suicide
Big Wave
The Getaway
Mind Your Manners
Lightning Bolt

See, they've done this punky thing many times before. Whipping is a punky song, and it's fucking amazing. WWS was ripping in the car. Big Wave is a step down but it has some clever things going on. Getaway, MYM are pretty good, and a song like LB that I initally hated when they first played it at Wrigley, is actually half decently catchy.

DOTC was a strong start, not my favorite PJ song but a solid experimentation, which I was feeling a 3 or a 4.

However, I can't wrap my head around how much I dislike Superblood. The vocal style is SO generic. The opening riff is so bland. The main riff from the snippet could have been decent but all I hear is Ed wailing 'I SEE YOU IN THE DEEESTANCE!!" and other horrible lyrics like FOCUS ON YOUR FOCUSNESS. He repeats these weird vocal ticks over and over in the song that just sound so grating. Then we get to the HORRIBLE, uninspired bridge "She was a stunner!" Bland as hell riffs again. He tries to growl but it's all laughable by that point. The solo part was cool but can't save it. I've given it maybe 20 listens at this point, and the most I can muster up is maybe a 2.5, with a severe adverse reaction to the vocals on this song. If it wasn't a single, I'd have just moved on, but alas, we have to wait for the album.

I'm still really excited for the album. I'm hoping this is just a dud for me. I'm really expecting some mega cringe on some of the songs. Retrograde "FEEL THE SOUND" and Comes Then Goes with "Pete Townshend worthy acoustic agression and the lyric, 'We could all use a savior from human behavior" Lol shit man, at least now I'm finally bracing myself.

Just take a long break from listening to it. Or wait till the album's released. It might be less offensive to you in the context of the album.

We all know you don't like it by now so just shut up

EJ wrote:Just take a long break from listening to it. Or wait till the album's released. It might be less offensive to you in the context of the album.

Yup, tried that. Woke up the next morning after it dropped, and hated it less. There's FLASHES of parts that I kinda like you know? I nod my head along a bit here and there, only for Ed to shit all over it with some weird vocal line or some boring riff. Man, it shouldn't be this hard to like a song lol.

You're right, holding hope for the album and it's just a dud.

tree_ wrote:We all know you don't like it by now so just shut up

Nah.

Vindicator wrote:

tree_ wrote:We all know you don't like it by now so just shut up

Nah.

I'm just sarcastically repeating the sentiments spewed at me from the previous page. I agree with what you said 100%.

tree_ wrote:

Vindicator wrote:

tree_ wrote:We all know you don't like it by now so just shut up

Nah.

I'm just sarcastically repeating the sentiments spewed at me from the previous page. I agree with what you said 100%.

Ah gotcha

evenslow wrote:

tree_ wrote:

Strat wrote:

tree_ wrote:

evenslow wrote:the same 4 or 5 people who feel the need to chime in every single page with another version of "this sucks" can feel free to fully understand that WE GET IT.

same for the people who keep reminding us they like it

If you like something...you talk about it...you dissect it. Discuss it.

if you hate something then why fucking waste your time? i truly don't understand this. Like, i get it for awhile, but to continually do so just seems like a waste of your own time? no?

can say exactly the same things about the opposite.. for me, it's just as interesting to discuss something bad as something good

you're not saying anything interesting though.

He’s keeping with tradition.

Superblood Wolfpoon

Thanks for piling on, PHATJ. Good contribution in reinforcing the hatred for me. Ironically, it's exactly what I'm being accused of but for the song...

warehouse wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:any idea why Ed sings "I am stunned" instead of "I was stunned"?

he's still stunned?

well yeah, I have a working understanding of tenses

tree_ wrote:Thanks for piling on, PHATJ. Good contribution in reinforcing the hatred for me. Ironically, it's exactly what I'm being accused of but for the song...

Vindicator wrote:

EJ wrote:Just take a long break from listening to it. Or wait till the album's released. It might be less offensive to you in the context of the album.

Yup, tried that. Woke up the next morning after it dropped, and hated it less. There's FLASHES of parts that I kinda like you know? I nod my head along a bit here and there, only for Ed to shit all over it with some weird vocal line or some boring riff. Man, it shouldn't be this hard to like a song lol.

You're right, holding hope for the album and it's just a dud.

it's been hard for me to like PJ songs since Vitalogy, I'm still here because they usually grew on me

Vindicator wrote:Just listened to a playlist of:

Whipping
Worldwide Suicide
Big Wave
The Getaway
Mind Your Manners
Lightning Bolt

See, they've done this punky thing many times before. Whipping is a punky song, and it's fucking amazing. WWS was ripping in the car. Big Wave is a step down but it has some clever things going on. Getaway, MYM are pretty good, and a song like LB that I initally hated when they first played it at Wrigley, is actually half decently catchy.

DOTC was a strong start, not my favorite PJ song but a solid experimentation, which I was feeling a 3 or a 4.

However, I can't wrap my head around how much I dislike Superblood. The vocal style is SO generic. The opening riff is so bland. The main riff from the snippet could have been decent but all I hear is Ed wailing 'I SEE YOU IN THE DEEESTANCE!!" and other horrible lyrics like FOCUS ON YOUR FOCUSNESS. He repeats these weird vocal ticks over and over in the song that just sound so grating. Then we get to the HORRIBLE, uninspired bridge "She was a stunner!" Bland as hell riffs again. He tries to growl but it's all laughable by that point. The solo part was cool but can't save it. I've given it maybe 20 listens at this point, and the most I can muster up is maybe a 2.5, with a severe adverse reaction to the vocals on this song. If it wasn't a single, I'd have just moved on, but alas, we have to wait for the album.

I'm still really excited for the album. I'm hoping this is just a dud for me. I'm really expecting some mega cringe on some of the songs. Retrograde "FEEL THE SOUND" and Comes Then Goes with "Pete Townshend worthy acoustic agression and the lyric, 'We could all use a savior from human behavior" Lol shit man, at least now I'm finally bracing myself.

"love boat captain, take the reins and steer us t'ward the clear"

Ms Harmless wrote:
it's been hard

Past tense.

Ms Harmless wrote:

Vindicator wrote:

EJ wrote:Just take a long break from listening to it. Or wait till the album's released. It might be less offensive to you in the context of the album.

Yup, tried that. Woke up the next morning after it dropped, and hated it less. There's FLASHES of parts that I kinda like you know? I nod my head along a bit here and there, only for Ed to shit all over it with some weird vocal line or some boring riff. Man, it shouldn't be this hard to like a song lol.

You're right, holding hope for the album and it's just a dud.

it's been hard for me to like PJ songs since Vitalogy, I'm still here because they usually grew on me

some songs yeah other are instant love. You have a song like Do The Evolution that I remember going nuts for when I first saw the video. Then there's the entirety of Avocado which maybe took me a few years to appreciate. Or a song like Who You Are that I dont really like til this day lol

i filmed this reaction footage of me watching the superblood wolfmoon video:

peeps are underrating this