Red Mosquito

its literally the worst possible vocal style Ed could have chosen for this song. He could went so many other ways with it. He could have grooved on it more like Wishlist or something. Instead he just yaps away.

Best vocal on the album, imo.

When this song started like the first one third of a second I thought of Nina's 99 red Balloons. Then I thought it sounded just like Floyd's "Lost For Words" I like a lot of this a lot but it suffers. Using this type song as a pulpit is an odd choice. Elevating or name checking Native Americans he most likely doesn't know anything about other than the legends is off putting. The vocal melody in the bridge is a rip off of something I just can't place it. This feels like a very unorganic attempt at a modern folk song. The feeling of the verses is aces though.

sweeper wrote:Best vocal on the album, imo.

Agreed.

Ed's brilliant here.

This song gives me the shivers, in a good way

I'm warming to the latter parts of the song, even if I think there's too *much* space in them (maybe they did that to contrast the rapid-fire verses, in which case I respect it); I really love "much to be done" as a tag, the kind of tag that made this band famous for its live tags, the kind of tag that hits people in the heart hard enough that they have "much to be done" tattooed on themselves alongside a semicolon (for mental health) symbol

you might actually have to stop me doing this

https://twitter.com/PearlJam/status/124 ... 43269?s=20

I'm holding out on the leak/clips, but partially caved and listened to the Seven O'Clock clip last night. For those that heard, is this clip the beginning of the song? Feels like it would be.

PS it sounds very promising to my ears

that's from the start or from one of the early verses. The singing is stripped out.

I'd love an instrumental of this, actually

Thanks, yeah the music sounds gorgeous even if it's only 15 secs. Sounds like an excellent driving song as a few others have noted

it's really lovely, like a summer breeze

Revelator wrote:https://twitter.com/PearlJam/status/1241123330901643269?s=20

I'm holding out on the leak/clips, but partially caved and listened to the Seven O'Clock clip last night. For those that heard, is this clip the beginning of the song? Feels like it would be.

PS it sounds very promising to my ears

I probably would have been excited by that clip.

Brace yourself.

the transition around 220 is very ‘army reserve’

i wonder if you could have incorporated the end of retrograde onto this one

Im going to try an initial ranking tonight after another listen, but im surprised by a lot of the dislike for this one, i feel like its at least in the top half for me

Don’t love the verse vocals but the chorus —> outtro are stunningly good. It’s just perfect for his singing ability right now. It’s chill inducing. Gorgeous.

the verses are my favorite part, actually

"All hands, hands on deck" bugs me. Why not just hands?

ghost wrote:"All hands, hands on deck" bugs me. Why not just hands?

to draw attention to "all hands", everybody as a community

really funny considering how hand washing is such a meme now

Lyrically, the first 2 verses of this are really cool. Sort of abstract and almost spiritual. Then the Trump stuff comes and really kills it. And I’m no fan of Trump. It just doesn’t fit the theme. The song and lyrics feel bigger than one guy - especially a buffoon like Trump.

Ed is a real rich white liberal, he rants and rails at democratically elected individuals over and above systems and structures; for him, Trump *is* the problem at the moment

I wish he was still the WMA guy