Song of the Moment: Mind Your Manners

[diaglo]

i really love the bridge. Best part of the song.

Is it a bridge if it's used twice? Im thinking it's a second chorus type of thing.

[bodysnatcher]

Olé makes much more sense now. Sure, I didn't enjoy that, but it's like it was a needed first stab at baby steps towards something they wanted to accomplish/

[stip]

i really love the bridge. Best part of the song.

Is it a bridge if it's used twice? Im thinking it's a second chorus type of thing.

yeah I don't know what to call it.

[stip]

Olé makes much more sense now. Sure, I didn't enjoy that, but it's like it was a needed first stab at baby steps towards something they wanted to accomplish/

It seems like that. Or that Ole is the shiny pop punk version.

[littlecomment]

Should be interesting to see how the GA fans up front react to this.

[epilogue]

I've got an unfortunate feeling
I've been beaten down
I feel I'm done believing THANK YOU! I was having a hell of time with that line. But I think you got it.
And now the truth is coming out
What they take is more than a bow
They're taking your innocence and then they [something]

All alone they're singing Might be 'all ALONG they're singing
Mind your manners

I caught myself believing that I needed God
And if [something] is over then we sure could use him now
Tried my patience, my patience tried
This world's alone [something] makes me wanna cry

All alone they're singing
Mind your manners
(son of Satan? lol)

Self-realizing that I'm physically redeemed
May not live another life
May not solve our mystery
Ride high around the corner Pretty sure it's 'RIGHT around the corner (like RI-HIGHT)
Could be bigger than ourselves
Wake and wither to the sky I'm hearing 'we could will it to the sky'
Or we could something else

Go to heaven, that's swell
How do you like your like your living Hell?

Nice work. I'm hearing some of it a bit differently. But, really good hustle, buddy.

[Jorge]

I think it's very Matt/Jeff-ish so people are automatically gonna hate it because it's too creative.

Too fucking creative? Come on. Out of all the good things you could say about this song, this is the silliest. It sounds like a hundred punk songs from the 1980s. And I like the thing.

[harmless]

If I was to compare it to the Fixer, I'd say it's potentially much better lyrically, but it's not nearly as interesting in terms of production.

I think that's a good thing.



FFS MY NIPPLES!

Yeah, I appreciate that some people are going to appreciate the no-polish, few effects approach. It suits this kind of song, whereas The Fixer called for a lot of 'pro-tools' shit. Some of which I liked. This song is going to be filler for me, but in the same sense as Riot Act filler -- all good, not a song I'll skip, but it's never going to be my favourite as I'm not a fan of punk.

[Jaeti]

I usually hate this shade of Pearl Jam. Comatose, Spin the Black Circle, Habit, Gods' Dice, Blood... even Brain of J (to a different degree) are not usually songs that pull me in and lock me down. Hearing STBC for the first time really turned me off. I was not looking forward to Vitalogy at all after that guy. But I really can't get enough of MYM.

I've been listening to it on repeat for just under an hour now and I'm enamored. It seems to early to start garlanding the thing with crowns and jewels, but based on first impressions, this is the best Pearl Jam song of it's kind since Brain of J. And I like my initial, first impression even more.

And I'm just about ready to go ahead and say that I like this song more than at least 8 songs on Backspacer. Maybe all of Backspacer.

I don't think "Brain of J" belongs in the same pile as the other songs you named. Not at all.

[Jaeti]

Even if the context does support the song, as hoped, and if it ages really well....I will never, ever be okay with saying "Mind Your Manners...off of Lightning Bolt."

Yeah, ick.

[harmless]

I think it's very Matt/Jeff-ish so people are automatically gonna hate it because it's too creative.

Too fucking creative? Come on. Out of all the good things you could say about this song, this is the silliest. It sounds like a hundred punk songs from the 1980s. And I like the thing.

It's kind of pleasing because it sounds like it should, rather than because it surprises (it doesn't).

[benton netty]

"Self-realized and metaphysically redeemed"

[Thejambi]

The song really does go many places in such a short amount of time.

See guys.....Ole paid off here

[epilogue]

I usually hate this shade of Pearl Jam. Comatose, Spin the Black Circle, Habit, Gods' Dice, Blood... even Brain of J (to a different degree) are not usually songs that pull me in and lock me down. Hearing STBC for the first time really turned me off. I was not looking forward to Vitalogy at all after that guy. But I really can't get enough of MYM.

I've been listening to it on repeat for just under an hour now and I'm enamored. It seems to early to start garlanding the thing with crowns and jewels, but based on first impressions, this is the best Pearl Jam song of it's kind since Brain of J. And I like my initial, first impression even more.

And I'm just about ready to go ahead and say that I like this song more than at least 8 songs on Backspacer. Maybe all of Backspacer.

I don't think "Brain of J" belongs in the same pile as the other songs you named. Not at all.

Hence the parenthetical. Also, it was in response to how many others have said MYM sounds like/ reminds them of Brain of J.

[epilogue]

"Self-realized and metaphysically redeemed"

Yep.

[stip]

I've got an unfortunate feeling
I've been beaten down
I feel I'm done believing THANK YOU! I was having a hell of time with that line. But I think you got it.
And now the truth is coming out
What they take is more than a bow
They're taking your innocence and then they [something]

All alone they're singing Might be 'all ALONG they're singing
Mind your manners

I caught myself believing that I needed God
And if [something] is over then we sure could use him now
Tried my patience, my patience tried
This world's alone [something] makes me wanna cry

All alone they're singing
Mind your manners
(son of Satan? lol)

Self-realizing that I'm physically redeemed
May not live another life
May not solve our mystery
Ride high around the corner Pretty sure it's 'RIGHT around the corner (like RI-HIGHT)
Could be bigger than ourselves
Wake and wither to the sky I'm hearing 'we could will it to the sky'
Or we could something else

Go to heaven, that's swell
How do you like your like your living Hell?

Nice work. I'm hearing some of it a bit differently. But, really good hustle, buddy.

They're taking your innocence and then they [something]--burning fire/pyre
And if [something] is over then we sure could use him now--and if it's hot this summer?

[harmless]

Incidentally, I like the album artwork (if that's album artwork!) and, along with the somewhat silly title, it suggests to me that they did try to go for archetypally classic / cock rock stylings. That means lightning and thunder and fire, bitches. Given that, I don't hate 'Lightning Bolt' and if it sounds slightly silly and fun, it was probably meant to.

[Wendy Carlos's Twin]

I think it's very Matt/Jeff-ish so people are automatically gonna hate it because it's too creative.

Too fucking creative? Come on. Out of all the good things you could say about this song, this is the silliest. It sounds like a hundred punk songs from the 1980s. And I like the thing.

THAT'S RIGHT SHITHEAD! It's more creative than their typical pop-punk numbers. I didn't say it was Bohemian Fucking Rhapsody.

[stip]

Incidentally, I like the album artwork (if that's album artwork!) and, along with the somewhat silly title, it suggests to me that they did try to go for archetypally classic / cock rock stylings. That means lightning and thunder and fire, bitches. Given that, I don't hate 'Lightning Bolt' and if it sounds slightly silly and fun, it was probably meant to.

the art didn't make me like the title, but it made me dislike it a lot less.

Or it might just be that since I quite like the song I don't really care so much right now about the title.

[harmless]

i really love the bridge. Best part of the song.

Yep.

The bridge is always the best part of a PJ song. I've always said they should make an experimental album consisting of nothing but bridges.