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5 Stars
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8%
4 Stars
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47%
2 Stars
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Re: Running

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Thurman Murman wrote:
Mike wrote:Superblood Wolfmoon > DOTC > Running > Dark Matter
DOTC >>> Superblood Wolfmoon > Dark Matter > Running
Yes.
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Thurman Murman wrote:
Mike wrote:Superblood Wolfmoon > DOTC > Running > Dark Matter
DOTC >>> Superblood Wolfmoon > Dark Matter > Running
that's my ranking also if I'm honest, but I enjoy all four songs
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but these days I try not to compare songs to other (earlier) songs; the only question I'm asking myself is "am I enjoying it right now?"
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Re: Running

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Ms Harmless wrote: that's my ranking also if I'm honest, but I enjoy all four songs
DOTC is a minor miracle at this stage in their career. Cant imagine anything they make going forward touching it. But yes im with you i do enjoy all four songs to varying degrees. To my surprise ive had Running in my head the last couple of days despite not listening to it much.
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Thurman Murman wrote:
Ms Harmless wrote: that's my ranking also if I'm honest, but I enjoy all four songs
DOTC is a minor miracle at this stage in their career. Cant imagine anything they make going forward touching it. But yes im with you i do enjoy all four songs to varying degrees. To my surprise ive had Running in my head the last couple of days despite not listening to it much.
I have high hopes for the album still; I don't know if it can better Gigaton, because Gigaton's more naturalistic production was the icing on the cake that this album won't have, so the songs would have to be stunning to beat it, but I do think it can equal it in my mind, for its own reasons
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Re: Running

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I was humming a song before, thinking it was Running.

But nope, it was Supersonic.

Tough life.
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I think if I ever caught myself humming Supersonic I'd want to go all Evil Dead Rise on my vocal chords with a cheese grater
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Ms Harmless wrote:I think if I ever caught myself humming Supersonic I'd want to go all Evil Dead Rise on my vocal chords with a cheese grater
I feel awful.
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Re: Running

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Thurman Murman wrote:
Ms Harmless wrote: that's my ranking also if I'm honest, but I enjoy all four songs
DOTC is a minor miracle at this stage in their career. Cant imagine anything they make going forward touching it.
I wish they would muster up the courage to make an album full of DOTCs.
Like the u-turn Tame Impala made with Currents.
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Val wrote:
Thurman Murman wrote:
Ms Harmless wrote: that's my ranking also if I'm honest, but I enjoy all four songs
DOTC is a minor miracle at this stage in their career. Cant imagine anything they make going forward touching it.
I wish they would muster up the courage to make an album full of DOTCs.
Like the u-turn Tame Impala made with Currents.
there were actually Gigaton tracks I liked more than DOTC; I think the whole album was the late career masterpiece
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Re: Running

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Ms Harmless wrote:
Val wrote:
Thurman Murman wrote:
Ms Harmless wrote: that's my ranking also if I'm honest, but I enjoy all four songs
DOTC is a minor miracle at this stage in their career. Cant imagine anything they make going forward touching it.
I wish they would muster up the courage to make an album full of DOTCs.
Like the u-turn Tame Impala made with Currents.
there were actually Gigaton tracks I liked more than DOTC; I think the whole album was the late career masterpiece
I don't share that opinion.
WES and Dance are the only songs I come back to anymore.
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Thurman Murman wrote:
Ms Harmless wrote: that's my ranking also if I'm honest, but I enjoy all four songs
DOTC is a minor miracle at this stage in their career. Cant imagine anything they make going forward touching it. But yes im with you i do enjoy all four songs to varying degrees. To my surprise ive had Running in my head the last couple of days despite not listening to it much.
100% agree with both of these. Although I can't decide if I've enjoyed having Running stuck in my head yet.
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Re: Running

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Come on, Gigaton is not a masterpiece.

We are talking about Never Destination, Take the long way, Alright, Buckle Up, SBWM... all of them are average songs at best. River Cross is ok (even if I don't see any greatness). Who Ever Said is really cool, Quick Escape rocks, DotC is the best, and 7 o'clock has very good verses, although I think the choruses could have been way better. Comes then goes is beautiful, and Retrograde is a very good song.

It takes a lot more to create a masterpiece.
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Re: Running

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pearl jam sucks now
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Binaural is a masterpiece and that is that.
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Neither Gigaton nor Binaural is a masterpiece, but they both grew out of great and interesting creative ground, and that makes them more interesting than their base quality level.
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tragabigzanda wrote:Gigaton is most certainly not a masterpiece…But it is the rare piece of creative output where I’m inclined to view it more favorably based on the effort rather than the final results
That's a pretty insightful take, man...spot on
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I don’t know if I would call Gigaton a masterpiece but I do think, at least for me, it holds up with their earlier work. It is, to me, a logical extension (if we can use that phrase) to the sounds they sought to capture on Yield and S/T: not as successful as Yield but more successful than S/T. I could probably write pages on this alone, but I sort of see these three albums in similar lights, even if I have different preferences between the three of them.
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Yeah Gigaton isnt a masterpiece but we've never seen a quality jump in Pearl Jam's releases like we did going from LB to Gigaton. So it was more a very pleasant surprise.
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Re: Running

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Gigaton is not better than ST and that is that!
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