Red Mosquito

Ms Harmless wrote:I think Backspacer pretended to be a lot of things it wasn't (a good pop album, a good new-wave album)

Tj wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:I think Backspacer pretended to be a lot of things it wasn't (a good pop album, a good new-wave album)

To think I once fully appreciated and respected you. SAD

RockPusher wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:Please calm down

Why?

Ms Harmless wrote:

Tj wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:I think Backspacer pretended to be a lot of things it wasn't (a good pop album, a good new-wave album)

To think I once fully appreciated and respected you. SAD

don't get me wrong, I think Backspacer is good in other ways, but my main issue with it is the same as Lightning Bolt: it's all over the place tonally and thematically; yeah, there's a bit of pop on there, yeah, there's a bit of new-wave on there, but for two albums that do those things more consistently across their whole runtime, look at Paramore's After Laughter and This is Why

Strat wrote:im sick of ruddo policing me

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

RockPusher wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:Please calm down

Why?

Strat was getting a little too excited with that post. He needs to calm down.

Tj wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:

Tj wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:I think Backspacer pretended to be a lot of things it wasn't (a good pop album, a good new-wave album)

To think I once fully appreciated and respected you. SAD

don't get me wrong, I think Backspacer is good in other ways, but my main issue with it is the same as Lightning Bolt: it's all over the place tonally and thematically; yeah, there's a bit of pop on there, yeah, there's a bit of new-wave on there, but for two albums that do those things more consistently across their whole runtime, look at Paramore's After Laughter and This is Why

Ok, After Laughter and This is Why I'm back on team Harmless. I have a Thick Skull

RockPusher wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

RockPusher wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:Please calm down

Why?

Strat was getting a little too excited with that post. He needs to calm down.

mikejasond wrote:I'm not really sure what it actually is that makes it so older guys can't have songs that sound as intense, raw, and aggressive as they did when they were younger (too clean production might be part of it?) or what makes it come off 'corny' or 'uncool' when it never did back in the 90s. Maybe it's just a youthful aggression that just isn't in them anymore? And that's fine. I guess I just prefer older Pearl Jam when they are more thoughtful or something? IDK. There's nothing wrong with them having a fun time and playing songs like this that they enjoy, it just comes off as a bit unappealing to me on the albums. Maybe I just expect rock (especially punkier rock) to have more teeth? And that's something Breed does have that this does not.

I do like their corny rockers sometimes, I liked the song Lightning Bolt even, but these ones specifically just never work for me for some reason.

Unless it's like Backspacer where they lean so far into it you can no longer deny them.

I also liked Self-Titled for some reason, which similarly seemed to lean into what it was but the energy there was exuberant to me.

Maybe somebody better with expressing themselves about music than me can put together what Im not getting from Running that makes it sound so...sterile? I dont know.

Ms Harmless wrote:I know I've said it over and over again but to me, the most "fun" PJ have ever sounded was on Lost Dogs (Hitchhiker, Gremmie)

Tj wrote:I think Pearl Jam sounds authentic. I just think there a bunch of uncool dad dorks I'm ok with that.

E.H. Ruddock wrote:I always considered myself a cool dad dork, now I have to rethink things!

tragabigzanda wrote: Love this so much