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Re: Song of the Moment: Present Tense
Posted: Thu February 12, 2015 10:28 pm
by Alex
tommymtcom wrote:Alex wrote:tommymtcom wrote:Alex wrote:tommymtcom wrote:What's your top 5, Alex?
present tense
sleight of hand
immortality
release
no way
what's yours?
I'm not sure. At least 3 of those would be in it, though.
which three?
Present Tense
Sleight of Hand
Immortality
Maybe No Way as well, but I'd have to give it some more thought. No Way used to be my number 1 Pearl Jam song.
i like the way you move
Re: Song of the Moment: Present Tense
Posted: Thu February 12, 2015 10:39 pm
by Kaius
This is a 5 star song
Re: Song of the Moment: Present Tense
Posted: Thu February 12, 2015 10:52 pm
by Norah
I bumped it down to 4 for some pretty shitty lyrics.
Re: Song of the Moment: Present Tense
Posted: Thu February 12, 2015 10:57 pm
by Kaius
Shut the hell up.
Re: Song of the Moment: Present Tense
Posted: Thu February 12, 2015 10:59 pm
by Norah
It's about life, man.
Re: Song of the Moment: Present Tense
Posted: Thu February 12, 2015 11:00 pm
by tommymtcom
Fuck you, Chud.
Re: Song of the Moment: Present Tense
Posted: Thu February 12, 2015 11:06 pm
by Jorge
He's only saying that because I tweeted it the other day
Re: Song of the Moment: Present Tense
Posted: Thu February 12, 2015 11:07 pm
by Jorge
I still gave it 5 stars, the music is that good.
Re: Song of the Moment: Present Tense
Posted: Thu February 12, 2015 11:07 pm
by Alex
these lyrics show pearl jam at their most jonathan richman-esque
Re: Song of the Moment: Present Tense
Posted: Thu February 12, 2015 11:08 pm
by Birds in Hell
The lyrics aren't that bad, guys.
There's plenty of Pearl Jam songs with worse lyrics than Present Tense.
Re: Song of the Moment: Present Tense
Posted: Thu February 12, 2015 11:09 pm
by Norah
can you see the way he tweeted? does it inspire?
Re: Song of the Moment: Present Tense
Posted: Thu February 12, 2015 11:09 pm
by Norah
Birds in Hell wrote:There's plenty of Pearl Jam songs with worse lyrics than Present Tense.
for sure
Re: Song of the Moment: Present Tense
Posted: Thu February 12, 2015 11:09 pm
by Norah
I'm just saying in high school I thought they were really deep.
Re: Song of the Moment: Present Tense
Posted: Thu February 12, 2015 11:12 pm
by Alex
yeah, there's no line in present tense like "that's the moss in the aforementioned verse" that makes me want to shoot my speakers with a flame-thrower
Re: Song of the Moment: Present Tense
Posted: Thu February 12, 2015 11:16 pm
by Kaius
They are so deep you sonuvabitch. I want you out of here. No. Scratch that. Stay here and take your beating like a man.
Re: Song of the Moment: Present Tense
Posted: Thu February 12, 2015 11:19 pm
by Birds in Hell
Alex wrote:yeah, there's no line in present tense like "that's the moss in the aforementioned verse" that makes me want to shoot my speakers with a flame-thrower
Exactly.
Or these regrettably firebrand couplets from the Riot Act era:
Can't wait for election day
Witness the occupation
Corporations rule the day
Can you feel this world with your heart and not your brain?
A think tank of aloof multiplication
A nicotine wish and a Columbus decanter
Retrenchment and hoggishness
The aristocrat choir sings
"What's the ruckus?"
The haves have not accrued
The immenseness of suffering
And the odd negotiation, a rarity
With onionskin plausibility of life,
And a keyboard reaffirmation
I'll take Present Tense any day.
Re: Song of the Moment: Present Tense
Posted: Thu February 12, 2015 11:24 pm
by Jorge
"Present Tense" is also just a better song than all of those. The fact that its lyrics are vapid hokey awkwardly metered garbage doesn't take away from that.
Re: Song of the Moment: Present Tense
Posted: Thu February 12, 2015 11:25 pm
by Birds in Hell
Yeah, that too.
(I saw your now-deleted post Jorge and, yes, I might be an idiot but you can shut up.)
Re: Song of the Moment: Present Tense
Posted: Thu February 12, 2015 11:26 pm
by Jorge
It felt mean... you didn't have to say anything.
Re: Song of the Moment: Present Tense
Posted: Thu February 12, 2015 11:27 pm
by Strat
the chorus lyrics are great though.