Eddie Vedder - Earthling

[Tj]

it will be fucking hilarious if any of us ends up saying "I wish he'd saved this one for Pearl Jam"

Maybe we will all listen to this and say Stone was the problem

[Strat]

Stone doesnt think No Way is a good song.....

Just saying.

[Strat]

Invincible has potential

it kinda reminded me of Jump by Van Halen

actually sounds very Bowie to me

[Ms Harmless]

Invincible has potential

it kinda reminded me of Jump by Van Halen

actually sounds very Bowie to me

I can hear that

[Jaeti]

Happy to keep playing the knee-jerk "adjusting my expectations" game.

After hearing some of the Beacon recording, I'm starting to think that The Haves might be by far the worst song on Earthling. I'd been figuring it would probably be "the worst," but that it would sort of be clustered with other songs that are quite bad in their own right.

But if it can stand alone at the bottom, with a glut of meh tracks and a few high points above it, then this thing might exceed expectations by a good margin.

[Ms Harmless]

yep

[Tj]

Invincible has potential

it kinda reminded me of Jump by Van Halen

actually sounds very Bowie to me

I can hear that

For sure good call

[Got Some]

I remember a month or so ago people were saying there would only be 1 good song on this.

I already like a good 5-6 songs from what we have heard.

[Fattie_Vedder]

it will be fucking hilarious if any of us ends up saying "I wish he'd saved this one for Pearl Jam"

Maybe we will all listen to this and say Stone was the problem

Blasphemy!

[Fattie_Vedder]

"Power of Right" - Ed, is that some Vitalogy swagger? I'm actually amazed songs like this are still coming from this guy; hopefully I don't hate it after I read the lyrics (I just don't need another "music is so awesome baby yeah yeah yeah ride the super duper wave on the shoreline baby")

I’m pretty sure those were the first draft lyrics of big wave.

[injuddstree]

Power Of Right is a little Mudhoneyish

Yes.

and a little Toolish.

Fuck no.

[liebzz]

I’m reading all these descriptions and feeling much more optimistic as I don’t listen since I want a relatively clean first listen (I heard the singles). I am sure once I hit play that I will tune all this out and give it a solid listen without preconceived notes, but this is at least entertaining.

[Ms Harmless]

GOT IT! the "Power of Right" riff sounds like Blur's "Swamp Song" in a different key

[Ms Harmless]

I enjoyed "Brother the Cloud" live

[guitar_davey]

I've had the chorus to Invincible stuck in my head all weekend. What an earworm.

[VinylGuy]

Im sure this album will be fine. RM is going to react as always, there will be a group of people actually talking bout the music and then another number saying Vs was better or whatever.

[Ms Harmless]

I think releasing Long Way and The Haves first was a bad idea

[VinylGuy]

Doing The Haves was a bad idea, then releasing it commercially was a huge test for everyone.

[Ms Harmless]

lol, true

[Ms Harmless]

OK yeah I get BtC now, I like it