Red Mosquito

ghost wrote:jeff, stone and matt writing lyrics again....

Fully agree.

Mike wrote:Crossed the border to Morocco/ Kashmir then Marakesh/ The lengths we had to go to then/To find a place Trump hadn’t fucked up yet

uhhh

there’s Sitting Bullshit as our sitting president

oh my

this is what I was afraid of

EJ wrote:

Mike wrote:Crossed the border to Morocco/ Kashmir then Marakesh/ The lengths we had to go to then/To find a place Trump hadn’t fucked up yet

uhhh

there’s Sitting Bullshit as our sitting president

oh my

this is what I was afraid of

still better than Can't Deny Me

theplatypus wrote:Is it going to be like that stupid Neil Young live album where instead of the audience you hear a bunch of animal noises?

I hope so. That sounds awesome

stip wrote:

ghost wrote:jeff, stone and matt writing lyrics again....

guys, this is NOT a good thing...

Yeah, leave it all to the "she was a stunner and I am stunned" guy

verb_to_trust wrote:

stip wrote:

ghost wrote:jeff, stone and matt writing lyrics again....

guys, this is NOT a good thing...

Yeah, leave it all to the "she was a stunner and I am stunned" guy

BACK OFF

This all sounds encouraging. It wasn’t listed as a standout but I’m interested in Take the Long Way because Cameron writes interesting stuff, but also a backing vocalist. That’s a first.

From what I read, 9 of the 12 songs have lyrics from Eddie. That leaves just 3 from the other band members. Not a disaster even if I prefer Eddie writing the lyrics.

verb_to_trust wrote:

stip wrote:

ghost wrote:jeff, stone and matt writing lyrics again....

guys, this is NOT a good thing...

Yeah, leave it all to the "she was a stunner and I am stunned" guy

Eddie has some clunkly lyrics on occasion. Stone and Matt in particular rarely have a line that lands. Jeff, at his best, is okay.

scrub12 wrote:This all sounds encouraging. It wasn’t listed as a standout but I’m interested in Take the Long Way because Cameron writes interesting stuff, but also a backing vocalist. That’s a first.

He certainly does. Been listening to his demos recently from previous albums.

Here’s another piece with 10 tidbits about the album. Most are listed in the review but a few are not. On my phone so maybe I missed this being posted.

https://www.guerrillacandy.com/2020/03/ ... s-gigaton/

stip wrote:

verb_to_trust wrote:

stip wrote:

ghost wrote:jeff, stone and matt writing lyrics again....

guys, this is NOT a good thing...

Yeah, leave it all to the "she was a stunner and I am stunned" guy

Jeff, at his best, is okay.

More importantly Jeff has great bass lines. Unfortunately a lot of it gets buried under Ed.

All these guys are great musical songwriters as far as the music goes

stip wrote:

verb_to_trust wrote:

stip wrote:

ghost wrote:jeff, stone and matt writing lyrics again....

guys, this is NOT a good thing...

Yeah, leave it all to the "she was a stunner and I am stunned" guy

Eddie has some clunkly lyrics on occasion. Stone and Matt in particular rarely have a line that lands. Jeff, at his best, is okay.

I think Stone and Matt both have some excellent lyrics.

tragabigzanda wrote:Comes Then Goes sounds like it might be boring, but everything else sounds at least interesting. Also excited to hear all this interstitial music/nature sound stuff.

I'll actually take "boring" over show-stoppingly embarrassing; as long as there's no "Supersonic gone and took my soul / I caught a rabbit but my cock was slow", I'm happy; so I'm hoping "boring" is just "unassuming" here; if it's solid but doesn't try to draw attention to itself, that will be good and even refreshing at this point

I'm excited about background noise / ambience, as well as the possibility that those might cause the tracks to run together; something like the animal snort type noises before "Rival", and we know we have water / ice already; those little auditory flourishes were always archetypally Pearl Jam and I've missed them

I'm only excited by other members writing lyrics because most of the times it means they also wrote/invented the vocal melody. Eddie changes the melody up a bit but the idea is mostly the same which resulted in some really great songs in the past. I would not call the lyrics themselves very good.

Ms Harmless wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:Comes Then Goes sounds like it might be boring, but everything else sounds at least interesting. Also excited to hear all this interstitial music/nature sound stuff.

I'll actually take "boring" over show-stoppingly embarrassing; as long as there's no "Supersonic gone and took my soul / I caught a rabbit but my cock was slow", I'm happy; so I'm hoping "boring" is just "unassuming" here; if it's solid but doesn't try to draw attention to itself, that will be good and even refreshing at this point

Yeah, a lot of my favorite Pearl Jam songs would sound pretty boring if I only read a description of them in a review. Not worried about that one, yet.

tragabigzanda wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:Comes Then Goes sounds like it might be boring, but everything else sounds at least interesting. Also excited to hear all this interstitial music/nature sound stuff.

I'll actually take "boring" over show-stoppingly embarrassing; as long as there's no "Supersonic gone and took my soul / I caught a rabbit but my cock was slow", I'm happy; so I'm hoping "boring" is just "unassuming" here; if it's solid but doesn't try to draw attention to itself, that will be good and even refreshing at this point

I'm excited about background noise / ambience, as well as the possibility that those might cause the tracks to run together; something like the animal snort type noises before "Rival", and we know we have water / ice already; those little auditory flourishes were always archetypally Pearl Jam and I've missed them

omg is that actually the lyric?

I don't believe it is

"Supersonic gone & took my soul
I caught the rhythm but the clock was slow yeah"