Red Mosquito

scrub12 wrote: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/

Mike wrote:Hoping O'Brien's contributions are more Around the Bend and less Future Days. Not thinking that's likely, though.

stip wrote:

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

VinylGuy wrote:I really like they are all BUT mike doing lyrics.

dad wrote:

stip wrote:

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

without doing a full-on search, I feel like I remember theplatypus posted something along the lines of, “I caught the rhythm but my cock was full.”

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

Ms Harmless wrote: and we know we have water / ice already; those little auditory flourishes were always archetypally Pearl Jam and I've missed them

Mike 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

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.

EJ wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote: and we know we have water / ice already; those little auditory flourishes were always archetypally Pearl Jam and I've missed them

pretty sure that's just a toilet flushing

IndioShoeThrower wrote:https://www.stereogum.com/2076010/pearl-jam-gigaton-review/franchises/premature-evaluation/

Ms Harmless wrote:

dad wrote:

stip wrote:

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

without doing a full-on search, I feel like I remember theplatypus posted something along the lines of, “I caught the rhythm but my cock was full.”

haha it's definitely not the lyric, I've always just heard "I caught a rabbit" and the actual lyrics aren't any better

The final act of the album is particularly ruminative, starting with the hazy lope of “Buckle Up,” a dreamlike Stone Gossard composition. With a lilting guitar line reminiscent of R.E.M.’s “We Walk” and Eddie Vedder in full reverie, plus a part where background vocals and guitar fuzz mimic a horn section, it’s sneakily one of the weirdest songs on the album and should pleasantly surprise fans of middle-era Pearl Jam.

Monkey_Driven wrote:

IndioShoeThrower wrote:https://www.stereogum.com/2076010/pearl-jam-gigaton-review/franchises/premature-evaluation/

This is very encouraging and well written.

Mike wrote:

The final act of the album is particularly ruminative, starting with the hazy lope of “Buckle Up,” a dreamlike Stone Gossard composition. With a lilting guitar line reminiscent of R.E.M.’s “We Walk” and Eddie Vedder in full reverie, plus a part where background vocals and guitar fuzz mimic a horn section, it’s sneakily one of the weirdest songs on the album and should pleasantly surprise fans of middle-era Pearl Jam.

Expectations for Buckle Up rising

Mike wrote:

The final act of the album is particularly ruminative, starting with the hazy lope of “Buckle Up,” a dreamlike Stone Gossard composition. With a lilting guitar line reminiscent of R.E.M.’s “We Walk” and Eddie Vedder in full reverie, plus a part where background vocals and guitar fuzz mimic a horn section, it’s sneakily one of the weirdest songs on the album and should pleasantly surprise fans of middle-era Pearl Jam.

Expectations for Buckle Up rising

Monkey_Driven wrote:

IndioShoeThrower wrote:https://www.stereogum.com/2076010/pearl-jam-gigaton-review/franchises/premature-evaluation/

This is very encouraging and well written.