Scared Of Fear

[DeeDee]

So lovely seeing Mike singing 'we used to laugh...' right next to Eddie.

[DeeDee]

It's time!

[oneway23]

Put longer shorts on...jesus

[Farmer John]

Put longer shorts on...jesus

I vote shorter!

[Jaeti]

Put longer shorts on...jesus

I vote shorter!

Need a poll.

[oneway23]

Put longer shorts on...jesus

I vote shorter!

Need a poll.

[RockPusher]

This one has surprisingly been the most consistent ear worm for me.

[Gigalogy84]

I love the performance of this song from when they were on Howard Stern. Still my favorite on the album. Although React, Respond is close.

[Strat]

Finally sitting with Lyrics from Record.


"Theres something i should have known?
was i acting too proud? Oh in my weaknes
did i somehow get too loud?

OH can i get you alone?
Let me fall at your feet?
Why must i be compelled to admit defeat"

Goddamn. That hit home real big. I have my interpretation and that line is everything im working on in my marriage

[Ms Harmless]

I really like this song, and I find the album as a whole very hard to criticise (maybe even to a fault, if I was to be cynical), but I've realised this song has the only Matt moment I'm underwhelmed by, in an album full of great Matt moments

it's far from a deal breaker, but I wish he'd find a way to start these faster, non-punk alt rockers other than just going BASS-SNARE!... BASS... SNARE... BASS... SNARE... BASS... SNARE

goddamit Matt, a flam, a falling triplet, anything to let this song (and this album) out the gate with some colour and ferocity; does he remember how he started God's Dice?

luckily it's only a few seconds, then the song starts proper

[Fattie_Vedder]

Not sure if anyone’s heard the instrumental only version yet, but it’s great and makes me like the song even more.

https://youtu.be/tcIR3ei4zzk?si=[yt]Mq_CkwZ3r1D8dI2f[/yt]

[Buby]

Jeff on the Dolby Atmos mix is awesome on this one (really on all of them).

[McParadigm]

Not sure if anyone’s heard the instrumental only version yet, but it’s great and makes me like the song even more.

https://youtu.be/tcIR3ei4zzk?si=[yt]Mq_CkwZ3r1D8dI2f[/yt]

Thank you

[guitar_davey]

Need a pool cue cover of this one.

[Monkey_Driven]

I've heard my six year old singing this one quite a bit over the past week or so. That chorus!

[stip]

Not sure if anyone’s heard the instrumental only version yet, but it’s great and makes me like the song even more.

https://youtu.be/tcIR3ei4zzk?si=[yt]Mq_CkwZ3r1D8dI2f[/yt]

awesome. more of these please

[Mike]

Is that also a different mix?

[Leatherhead]

No one hears that chorus and expects him to finish off with "being so kind... to let me RIIIIIIIDE"?

If I really try to hear for it, and even then it's only for maybe half a second.

[mikejasond]

This song is growing on me....

I said it was one of my least favorite Pearl Jam openers but that is rapidly becoming untrue.

I think there is something a bit generic in the riff (reminds me of my least favorite Pearl Jam songs, like the Binaural rockers), and the chorus lyrics again feel generic and cheesy to me (We used to laugh, we used to sing, etc) especially when combined with the riff (But Ive always found these types of PJ rockers can feel a bit flat to me)

BUT THAT BEING SAID

The more I listen the more Im liking it, ESPECIALLY after that phenomenal live version where they sound almost like the album...

And I think what I really like about the song, is exactly what i like about Last Exit. I know PJ fans love Last Exit, me I don't ever listen to it as its own song. It doesn't FEEL like its own song to me. It feels like the opening song from Vitalogy. But it is perfect at that.

And this album is another one that really benefits from an entire listen. And this song sets the tone for the album...I like that the lyrics have call-forward to things like Setting Sun, that they start the storytelling that will go through the whole album, and that it has a sort of anxious and tense start that seems to start an emotional journey that almost makes this like a concept album.

Its a song that sets the tone for the album, without giving too much away early. It's like starting your appetite. So in that sense, the fact it isn't like a 5-star amazing song actually works in its favor.

This will be a GREAT opener for their shows, or a song to play 4th to kick off after some soft openers.

So while I still don't think it's an amazing or great song on its own, it is starting to feel like a really perfect opener to a great album and so this song is getting more thumbs up in my book over time.

(And puts it way above things like Breakerfall that are both a bad song and a bad opener, in my opinion, since they don't really vibe with the album as a whole)

[RockPusher]

Wow that instrumental makes me appreciate this on a whole new level. The bridge is f*cking fantastic!