Red Mosquito

VinylGuy wrote:Im relieved with Come Then Goes, it does sounds very cool. Ed sounds fucking good....he is singing in a very cool low registre, feels like something he would do in 1999 or the 2000 really.

Jaeti wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:I'm still awake and emotional about this whole thing

How did they do this?

Ms Harmless wrote:

Jaeti wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:I'm still awake and emotional about this whole thing

How did they do this?

I don't know but my whole life is flashing past me

VinylGuy wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:

Jaeti wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:I'm still awake and emotional about this whole thing

How did they do this?

I don't know but my whole life is flashing past me

Im on the same boat.

McParadigm wrote:In some ways this record reminds me of albums that came out in and were colored by the shadow of 9/11, even thought they were recorded well before.

It’s a happy accident without the happy: the little band from Seattle calling out, offering one last bit of song before vanishing into the strangled contractions of the city’s newest epidemic. “I can hear you singing in the distance,” they promise. “I can see you when I close my eyes.”

daft twat wrote:I doubt very much there is going to be an anthemic single like Beautiful Day on this, but there is a part of me that thinks this album in the midst of this pandemic could be like All That You Can't Leave Behind was in the post-9/11 world.

bodysnatcher wrote:

McParadigm wrote:In some ways this record reminds me of albums that came out in and were colored by the shadow of 9/11, even though they were recorded well before.

It’s a happy accident without the happy: the little band from Seattle calling out, offering one last bit of song before vanishing into the strangled contractions of the city’s newest epidemic. “I can hear you singing in the distance,” they promise. “I can see you when I close my eyes.”

bluestate wrote:There are so many special moments.

Ms Harmless wrote:

daft twat wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:one of the reviews said "this is the album that should have been called Pearl Jam"

and I like the title, but agree with this sentiment; this album is a real showcase of everything latter-day PJ is capable of

That wasn’t a review. That was me. I’m as far as Buckle Up right now and I’m loving everything.

oh, OK

I can't remember why you said that before you'd heard it? was it a prediction based on reviews?

daft twat wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:

evenslow wrote:it's basically a standard pearl jam album but with some exploratory flourishes throughout, aka their best since S/T.

I would be thrilled to get this.

Me too, but I think it will be better than Avocado.
The general public will remember Pearl Jam for the singles on Ten plus daughter, elderly woman, and better man. The fan base that has stuck with them for 30 years will have a different view. I think that most of that group would agree that Yield is the best overall representation of what Pearl Jam was in the 90s. I have no doubt that Binaural will be remembered as their best album of this century, but I think Gigaton will be the album that best captures who Pearl Jam is and has been in the 21st century. It will have the experimentation of Binaural, the political commentary of Riot Act, the meat and potatoes cookie cutter rock of Avocado, the pop sensibilities of Backspacer, and the safe laziness of LB all in one. This will be the album that should have been called Pearl Jam.

stip wrote:

McParadigm wrote:I might add to this tomorrow, or just wish I never wrote it instead. One or the other. Or neither. But this is something I like about the record.

This is an album about surviving past the end. It’s an unexpectedly appropriate subject for this day and age, and Pearl Jam is a uniquely authentic musical voice for it. They are capable of capturing, without fetishistic assumption or romanticism, the real experience of survival. They know what it means to live with losses that you can’t outlive. They know it’s not always going to feel like it was worth it.

So save your predictions, and burn your assumptions. But the band also wants you to feel the natural jubilance of the phrase “there’s much to be done.” Its reaction to the bitter end isn’t trademark fury, but just the same I’m still alive, different day.

The inspirations were clearly (primarily) Trump and climate change, but the band’s empathetic fixation on surviving hardships (both physically and spiritually) make this the ideal album to carry into uncertain quarantine. It’s an album that wants you to feel less alone. First, do no harm. Then: buckle up.

Even the president, lazily disparaged, is then immediately sympathized with in terms the band cannot help but understand. “His best days gone, hard to admit,” and here the smugly-strutting song becomes a mother’s hug. “Angry punches, with nothing to hit.” It’s like a Riot Act song all grown up...still furious for all of the denied and powerless, but now able to find its own reflection in the failures of the powerful.

Pearl Jam used to make albums about surviving the moment. Then, for a while there, they sort of made albums about remembering what it was like to be surviving the moment. Now, they’re finally ready to talk about you do next. Which in its way is just another kind of promise to survive. Whoever said it’s all been said gave up on satisfaction.

I could very well end up humiliated by how much I like this. I’ll live with it. Because whether or not this is a great record, it hits me right now because I’m pretty scared but hoping, and a hope dies last.

That's the McParadigm in the aforementioned post

daft twat wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:

daft twat wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:one of the reviews said "this is the album that should have been called Pearl Jam"

and I like the title, but agree with this sentiment; this album is a real showcase of everything latter-day PJ is capable of

That wasn’t a review. That was me. I’m as far as Buckle Up right now and I’m loving everything.

oh, OK

I can't remember why you said that before you'd heard it? was it a prediction based on reviews?

daft twat wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:

evenslow wrote:it's basically a standard pearl jam album but with some exploratory flourishes throughout, aka their best since S/T.

I would be thrilled to get this.

Me too, but I think it will be better than Avocado.
The general public will remember Pearl Jam for the singles on Ten plus daughter, elderly woman, and better man. The fan base that has stuck with them for 30 years will have a different view. I think that most of that group would agree that Yield is the best overall representation of what Pearl Jam was in the 90s. I have no doubt that Binaural will be remembered as their best album of this century, but I think Gigaton will be the album that best captures who Pearl Jam is and has been in the 21st century. It will have the experimentation of Binaural, the political commentary of Riot Act, the meat and potatoes cookie cutter rock of Avocado, the pop sensibilities of Backspacer, and the safe laziness of LB all in one. This will be the album that should have been called Pearl Jam.

evenslow wrote:
it's basically a standard pearl jam album but with some exploratory flourishes throughout, aka their best since S/T.