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tragabigzanda wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:

theplatypus wrote:I detest "Life Wasted". It's probably my least favorite Pearl Jam song of all time. Ed sounds really bad in it, but he sounds really bad through that entire album.

This.

Wow, I think he sounds great on the album, all things considered. It's his best stab at an unabashedly triumphant vocal since Vs.

Funny you mention that.

Go listen to blood. Then play life wasted after it. Listen to them on headphones. Lotta smoke and mirrors going on. He's allowed get older and that's fine. But he's pretending he hasn't on S/T and it shows if you listen closely aka past the abrasive production.

So shrill. So... squeaky.

theplatypus wrote:So shrill. So... squeaky.

You're ALWAYS saying that there's something wrong.

theplatypus wrote:So shrill. So... squeaky.

Ehhh, I like it. Some might say he sounds shrill and squeaky during the middle years, '96-'98 especially. What would you say to that?

He has that nasal vibrato quality to his voice I could do without in those years

Leatherhead wrote:

theplatypus wrote:So shrill. So... squeaky.

Ehhh, I like it. Some might say he sounds shrill and squeaky during the middle years, '96-'98 especially. What would you say to that?

That he... doesn't? Not on the albums, at least.

durdencommatyler wrote:

theplatypus wrote:So shrill. So... squeaky.

You're ALWAYS saying that there's something wrong.

That is such a bad line.

Everything about that song is bad.

dimejinky99 wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:

theplatypus wrote:I detest "Life Wasted". It's probably my least favorite Pearl Jam song of all time. Ed sounds really bad in it, but he sounds really bad through that entire album.

This.

Wow, I think he sounds great on the album, all things considered. It's his best stab at an unabashedly triumphant vocal since Vs.

Funny you mention that.

Go listen to blood. Then play life wasted after it. Listen to them on headphones. Lotta smoke and mirrors going on. He's allowed get older and that's fine. But he's pretending he hasn't on S/T and it shows if you listen closely aka past the abrasive production.

There's no smoke and mirrors being applied on S/T, he sounds positively ragged on most of those songs.

I like it, I should add. I think Life Wasted is a great song and the pushed-too-far rasp in Ed's voice works for me.

He sounds like an upset poodle

I'm pretty sure this song is actually Ed trying to dispel the myth that "once you go black, you never go back" and the song is saying, "i tasted a life wasted / i'm never going black again"

dimejinky99 wrote:

theplatypus wrote:I detest "Life Wasted". It's probably my least favorite Pearl Jam song of all time. Ed sounds really bad in it, but he sounds really bad through that entire album.

This.

I wouldn't care how Ed sounded if the songs were any good. Ever hear Jesus Lizard?

especially juxtaposed against the albums that preceded it

tragabigzanda wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:

theplatypus wrote:I detest "Life Wasted". It's probably my least favorite Pearl Jam song of all time. Ed sounds really bad in it, but he sounds really bad through that entire album.

This.

Wow, I think he sounds great on the album, all things considered. It's his best stab at an unabashedly triumphant vocal since Vs.

Funny you mention that.

Go listen to blood. Then play life wasted after it. Listen to them on headphones. Lotta smoke and mirrors going on. He's allowed get older and that's fine. But he's pretending he hasn't on S/T and it shows if you listen closely aka past the abrasive production.

There's no smoke and mirrors being applied on S/T, he sounds positively ragged on most of those songs.

I like it, I should add. I think Life Wasted is a great song and the pushed-too-far rasp in Ed's voice works for me.

I think that era is him handling his aging pipes very gracefully: He doesn't sound perfect, but he sounds both passionate and in control.

Listening to Cold Confession you really get a sense of his commitment to the older rasp in his voice in this time period.

My cousin once said that Lightning Bolt is their best album ever.