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Re: Alright
Posted: Fri March 27, 2020 6:21 pm
by Juvenal
Vindicator wrote:this is an amazingly beautiful song. Delicate and simple. Among their best in this style, Present Tense, Parting Ways, Strangest Tribe, Thin Air.
And those are some of my favourite PJ songs. No wonder I like it
Re: Alright
Posted: Fri March 27, 2020 6:47 pm
by Ms Harmless
chadisme417 wrote:Ms Harmless wrote:Juvenal wrote:PHATJ wrote:This is a beautiful song. I pretty much like everything about you it. And it’s still in my bottom three. It’s crazy.
While I disagree with your placing (this could be my favourite), it's great having an album with no crap songs on it, isn't it?
this song made me cry on first listen
I'm not sure that's *ever* happened before
Low Light is the first song to make me cry.
And I'm pretty sure it was the song and not the 2 hour download time on 1998 dial up internet.
"Release" has also made me bawl but not until... 2019 I think?
Re: Alright
Posted: Fri March 27, 2020 6:53 pm
by epilogue
This song is so fucking great.
Re: Alright
Posted: Fri March 27, 2020 6:54 pm
by Ms Harmless
durdencommatyler wrote:This song is so fucking great.
Re: Alright
Posted: Fri March 27, 2020 7:22 pm
by joostone
I had goosebumps
Re: Alright
Posted: Fri March 27, 2020 7:30 pm
by BDB
when all this shit is over, and those opening notes come out from the dark stage as the first song at whatever show i get to, as i stand in the crowd, i will certainty cry like a baby.
Re: Alright
Posted: Sun March 29, 2020 3:16 am
by LetMeSleep
durdencommatyler wrote:This song is so fucking great.
The run of DOTC>QE>Alright>7oC is just fantastic. This is what I want from PJ.
Re: Alright
Posted: Sun March 29, 2020 11:07 pm
by oneway23
Wish this one hung around just a bit longer. Wanted to get lost in its vibe, and it was over
Re: Alright
Posted: Sun March 29, 2020 11:21 pm
by Monkey_Driven
LetMeSleep wrote:durdencommatyler wrote:This song is so fucking great.
The run of DOTC>QE>Alright>7oC is just fantastic. This is what I want from PJ.
Yes!
Re: Alright
Posted: Sun March 29, 2020 11:22 pm
by Ms Harmless
still probably my favourite Gigaton song
Re: Alright
Posted: Mon March 30, 2020 11:25 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
This is a beast of a song and I love it
Re: Alright
Posted: Mon March 30, 2020 11:57 pm
by Norah
I straight up cringe at the acid trip line.
Re: Alright
Posted: Tue March 31, 2020 3:32 am
by Kevin Davis
cutuphalfdead wrote:I straight up cringe at the acid trip line.
Me too, buddy. Also, "If you tire of the game/Hit the road toward the clouds/Find the groove in the sound."
This song is to the PJ "spiritual escape" theme what "Gone" was to their "car escape" theme -- the moment at which a subject overspends its conceptual potential and can only be expressed through uncreative cliches.
It's a nice sounding song though, and the lyrics kind of fade into the soundscape if you don't listen to them too closely.
Re: Alright
Posted: Tue March 31, 2020 3:37 am
by Birds in Hell
I'm fine with the lyrics being fluffy, spacey Ament-isms.
If Ed had written the lyrics, I think they'd probably be more heavy-handed and drag the song down for me (see: Pendulum).
Re: Alright
Posted: Tue March 31, 2020 3:43 am
by LetMeSleep
Ignore the lyrics and enjoy the tune.
Re: Alright
Posted: Tue March 31, 2020 3:49 am
by chewm
i just think the vocal melody (+ lyrics) isn't as interesting as what's going underneath, might like it more as an instrumental maybe, but it's still a nice song, i appreciate it
Re: Alright
Posted: Tue March 31, 2020 4:06 am
by Kevin Davis
LetMeSleep wrote:Ignore the lyrics and enjoy the tune.
I do enjoy the tune, I haven't been skipping it, but the lyrics are a stumbling block.
Lyrics are a major foreground element of most popular music. If you can tune them out and enjoy more music as a result, great, but the prevalent tone on RM that that should be every listener's default mode when listening to music is not something I identify with.
That said, I did say
It's a nice sounding song though, and the lyrics kind of fade into the soundscape if you don't listen to them too closely.
Re: Alright
Posted: Tue March 31, 2020 3:46 pm
by stip
I do think these lyrics are pretty weak, and this is one of those rare times I seem to be able to ignore it (as opposed to quite a few other songs where I like the music and the lyrics end up hurting the song - thin air, no way, lowlight come to mind)
Re: Alright
Posted: Tue March 31, 2020 3:55 pm
by Jorge
These are not "Inside Job" level bad. A couple of groaners here and there sure
Re: Alright
Posted: Tue March 31, 2020 4:26 pm
by Ms Harmless
I think the lyrics are being unfairly maligned here, maybe because some of us have no need for the message