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Re: Song of the Moment: Future Days
Posted: Fri March 28, 2014 7:23 pm
by McParadigm
I need a bowler hat.
Re: Song of the Moment: Future Days
Posted: Sat March 29, 2014 1:39 am
by McParadigm
You know, if someone had asked me to predict this stage of Pearl Jam in 2003 one of the songs I would have pointed to would have been Neil Young's Bandit.
Goddamn it.
Re: Song of the Moment: Future Days
Posted: Sat March 29, 2014 1:42 am
by Strat
McParadigm wrote:You know, if someone had asked me to predict this stage of Pearl Jam in 2003 one of the songs I would have pointed to would have been Neil Young's Bandit.
Goddamn it.
Ugh I love that song so much.
Also, isn't the guitar tuned down like 2 steps? Fuck. So beautiful.
Re: Song of the Moment: Future Days
Posted: Sat March 29, 2014 10:26 pm
by Release_Me
stip wrote:Welcome back
I don't know that I'd take a best of from the last 3 albums over the 5 prior, but it'd be close. The strength of Backspacer and L-bolt for me is their depth more than the highs (the highs are probably just as high on the other albums). It's just that there are 5 Pearl Jam albums i'm happy to listen to from start to finish (excepting maybe supersonic), and they happen to include Lightning Bolt and Backspacer.
Hmmm, lets think about this.
Top 15 from No Code through Riot Act
1. Hail Hail
2. In My Tree
3. Red Mosquito
4. Insignificance
5. Grievance
6. Nothing As It Seems
7. Rival
8. Given to Fly
9. Wishlist
10. Do the Evolution
11. Brain of J
12. Save You
13. I am Mine
14. Can't Keep
15. Undone
Top 15 from S/T through Lightning Bolt
1. Life Wasted
2. World Wide Suicide
3. Comatose
4. Parachutes
5. Come Back
6. LROM
7. Gonna See My Friend
8. Force of Nature
9. The Fixer
10. Got some
11. Lightning Bolt
12. Infallible
13. Pendulum
14. Yellow Moon
15. Mind Your Manners.
I'm not sure. It's pretty close for me. Probably the older list is better, but there are a lot more songs I was tempted to include from the last 3.
Thanks. Been through a lot these last few months and now just about getting back to normal. Our daughter was born last year in November and around the same time, my father in-law was diagnosed with stage 4 bladder cancer. He passed away earlier this month. It's been a very tough time for the family but the little one is keeping us going.
The real high points for me from the No Code-Riot Act era, i.e. the songs which probably can't be touched by any of the post-Riot Act songs (except maybe Infallible), are basically Given To Fly and Do The Evolution. There isn't anything else on those albums which I'd put in the same ballpark as the best songs from Ten-Vitalogy. So for me personally, given that I much prefer their later material, a collection of their best songs post-Riot Act is better overall than any possible collection of songs from No Code-Riot Act.
I'm thinking Severed Hand should also be on my list.
Re: Song of the Moment: Future Days
Posted: Tue April 01, 2014 6:29 pm
by Tuolumne
Has anyone decided why everyone's outraged at the cheese of Future Days but were not mad when Thin Air was released?
Re: Song of the Moment: Future Days
Posted: Tue April 01, 2014 6:30 pm
by bodysnatcher
Re: Song of the Moment: Future Days
Posted: Tue April 01, 2014 6:32 pm
by Jorge
"Thin Air" is about a bazillion times better than "Future Days" on just about every level
Re: Song of the Moment: Future Days
Posted: Tue April 01, 2014 6:41 pm
by mastaflatch
Thin Air is probably camembert while Future Days is Kraft Singles.
Re: Song of the Moment: Future Days
Posted: Tue April 01, 2014 6:45 pm
by Lament
Tuolumne wrote:Has anyone decided why everyone's outraged at the cheese of Future Days but were not mad when Thin Air was released?
How come everyone who thinks Let the Records Play sucks doesn't also think Do the Evolution sucks?
Re: Song of the Moment: Future Days
Posted: Tue April 01, 2014 6:46 pm
by McParadigm
Has anyone decided why everyone hates slavery but nobody gets mad when not slavery?
Re: Song of the Moment: Future Days
Posted: Tue April 01, 2014 6:48 pm
by Strat
Byzantine is reflected in our pond
vs
oh my goodness, i love you so much you make me cry everytime i see you, i miss you baby, hey pretty lady
Re: Song of the Moment: Future Days
Posted: Tue April 01, 2014 6:49 pm
by McParadigm
Strat wrote:Byzantine is reflected in our pond
vs
oh my goodness, i love you so much you make me cry everytime i see you, i miss you baby, hey pretty lady
It ruins my day that those aren't the actual word-for-word lyrics from Future Days.
Re: Song of the Moment: Future Days
Posted: Tue April 01, 2014 6:53 pm
by stupidmop
I've never thought thin air was cheesy. It's got a nice old skool kinda vibe, fits in with last kiss and come back (which actually is cheeseballs, mind you) but more laid back and a little dreamy and none of the lyrics have every jumped out as particularly hideous to me, probably because I enjoy eds singing/ delivery.
Plus you know, no cheese piano.
Re: Song of the Moment: Future Days
Posted: Tue April 01, 2014 6:56 pm
by BurtReynolds
Thin Air isnt cheesy. It sucks for a different reason.
Re: Song of the Moment: Future Days
Posted: Tue April 01, 2014 6:59 pm
by stupidmop
Re: Song of the Moment: Future Days
Posted: Tue April 01, 2014 7:14 pm
by stip
Strat wrote:Byzantine is reflected in our pond
vs
oh my goodness, i love you so much you make me cry everytime i see you, i miss you baby, hey pretty lady
that lyric sucks strat.
Re: Song of the Moment: Future Days
Posted: Tue April 01, 2014 7:17 pm
by Heathen
stip wrote:Strat wrote:Byzantine is reflected in our pond
vs
oh my goodness, i love you so much you make me cry everytime i see you, i miss you baby, hey pretty lady
that lyric sucks strat.
YOU suck strat
Re: Song of the Moment: Future Days
Posted: Tue April 01, 2014 7:27 pm
by Jorge
stip wrote:Strat wrote:Byzantine is reflected in our pond
vs
oh my goodness, i love you so much you make me cry everytime i see you, i miss you baby, hey pretty lady
that lyric sucks strat.
stip wrote:EJ wrote: "I'm in the fire, but I'm still cold".
I kinda like that lyric.
Re: Song of the Moment: Future Days
Posted: Tue April 01, 2014 7:32 pm
by McParadigm
theplatypus wrote:stip wrote:Strat wrote:Byzantine is reflected in our pond
vs
oh my goodness, i love you so much you make me cry everytime i see you, i miss you baby, hey pretty lady
That's one of the best lines on that entire record.
stip wrote:EJ wrote: "I'm in the fire, but I'm still cold".
What an incredibly moronic line.
Re: Song of the Moment: Future Days
Posted: Tue April 01, 2014 8:15 pm
by stip
Heathen wrote:stip wrote:Strat wrote:Byzantine is reflected in our pond
vs
oh my goodness, i love you so much you make me cry everytime i see you, i miss you baby, hey pretty lady
that lyric sucks strat.
YOU suck strat
I'm zeroing in on the lyric that will make that possible
