Red Mosquito

guitar_davey wrote:

sward wrote:Ok Canadians. Try this.

Create a new account in Rdio.

Make your address American.

Play Sirens.

Or wait until Thursday.

Didn't work for me.

Strat wrote:

McParadigm wrote:

Strat wrote:That solo is cheesy as fuck. Totally can picture richie sambora playing it.

Old man rock. ya.

That acoustic guitar part could have easily been the basis for something much more....ahh.....I mean....

Even with the move away from the Neil Young/Who approach, I never quite saw this coming.

It's so....

uhhhh

Its basically Turning Mist on steroids. Turning mist as if stone, eddie, jeff and matt ran it thorugh their systems after mike wrote it...

hailroad wrote:Hate Matt's drums in the intro. I enjoy guitar effects and fills that come in and out of the song, but, I think this would have been much better with a heavier guitar sound and ditched the acoustic.

wilkins wrote:Bon Jovi with a GnR solo, definitely not the best thing they've ever done, BOB. Man, he really needs to go away.

5:40 long.

Dr. Van Nostrand wrote:is this the shorter radio edit you guys are listening to? or was that just a rumor that it was going to be shortened for the single?

sward wrote:

guitar_davey wrote:

sward wrote:Ok Canadians. Try this.

Create a new account in Rdio.

Make your address American.

Play Sirens.

Or wait until Thursday.

Didn't work for me.

Hmm. I know its an extra step but probably have to use a dns service like unblock.us (which I have set up all the time). Sorry didn't realize you'd need that as well.

sward wrote:Thing is for me..I am seeing and listening to this no different than I would say Betterman. That song is poppy but the lyrics take the gloss off it. This one has a narrative in the lyrics where I can get behind the lyrical content which is a little more boy/girl/love instead of boy/girl/turmoil.

The solo though...I can't get behind it.. That is just cheese.

Anyway, liking the song a lot after a few listens and Ed steals the show. I can even forgive the one time he enunciates here as Hee-Uh. (pet peeve)

harmless wrote:

Kevin Davis wrote:

stip wrote:Cheesiness is increasingly becoming a word I think needs to be defined with examples before being used.

In a broad sense, I think "cheesy" (or "corny," or any of its many synonyms) typically refers to something that feels emotionally phony despite the fact that it is manipulated and manufactured to be just the opposite. Think of those big Nashville ballads sung from the perspective of dads giving their daughters away to be married, or soldiers coming home from the war in pine boxes while the entire town of Pissville, Kentucy stands by saluting, unable to decide if their tears are tears of grief or tears of pure American pride. Really just listen to a pop country station for a half hour and you'll have a pretty good understanding of the term.

To use a more relevant example, I would cite the difference between hearing "Future Days" with all the accompaniment from Wrigley, and hearing the unadorned inner-ear monitor thing that leaked, with just Eddie and the guitar. The latter is a naked and honest sentiment (albeit not a particularly exciting one, and not a particularly great song), but when you bring in the piano, the strings, etc. you get this feeling of someone behind the curtain really trying to sell that emotion, to put it across in a theatrical, unduly dramatic way. That's where the manipulation comes in, and I think where most people get off the wagon.

Do you listen to any music where you *know* you're being manipulated in this way, but it works?

Strat wrote:

sward wrote:Thing is for me..I am seeing and listening to this no different than I would say Betterman. That song is poppy but the lyrics take the gloss off it. This one has a narrative in the lyrics where I can get behind the lyrical content which is a little more boy/girl/love instead of boy/girl/turmoil.

The solo though...I can't get behind it.. That is just cheese.

Anyway, liking the song a lot after a few listens and Ed steals the show. I can even forgive the one time he enunciates here as Hee-Uh. (pet peeve)

Its so over produced though. Like, you can't really pick out the separate instrumentation because its all just up there and all together. no space. Its like listening to that Aerosmith Armageddon song....

It doesnt even sound like a band playing the song...