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Re: Song of the Moment: Hard Sun

Posted: Fri March 13, 2020 7:31 pm
by tree_
stip wrote:the original kinda sucks
It's virtually identical.

Re: Song of the Moment: Hard Sun

Posted: Fri March 13, 2020 7:35 pm
by Jorge
Yeah it's very similar. Ed sings it better though

Re: Song of the Moment: Hard Sun

Posted: Fri March 13, 2020 10:22 pm
by Anders
Into The Wild surprised me. I’m a Pearl Jan fan, but I have never thought it was only because of Ed. I’ve loved side projects from others in the band, but with Ed, only Pearl Jam worked. Into The Wild however is great. It’s like a lost Pearl Jam album.

Hard Sun’s not my favorite on the album, but it’s still a very solid song.

Re: Song of the Moment: Hard Sun

Posted: Fri March 13, 2020 10:46 pm
by stip
theplatypus wrote:Yeah it's very similar. Ed sings it better though
the vocals are what makes the song

Re: Song of the Moment: Hard Sun

Posted: Fri March 13, 2020 10:51 pm
by Ms Harmless
Anders wrote:Into The Wild surprised me. I’m a Pearl Jan fan, but I have never thought it was only because of Ed. I’ve loved side projects from others in the band, but with Ed, only Pearl Jam worked. Into The Wild however is great. It’s like a lost Pearl Jam album.

Hard Sun’s not my favorite on the album, but it’s still a very solid song.
"Society" is my fave

Re: Song of the Moment: Hard Sun

Posted: Fri March 13, 2020 10:53 pm
by Anders
Stip, you always struck me as a massive Ed fan (often like his songs best, don’t want lyrics or vocals from the others, put forth his voice as the main talent of the band) . Did you ever like any of the side projects from the others in the band, or make a song of the moment from one of those?

Re: Song of the Moment: Hard Sun

Posted: Fri March 13, 2020 10:53 pm
by Anders
Ms Harmless wrote:
Anders wrote:Into The Wild surprised me. I’m a Pearl Jan fan, but I have never thought it was only because of Ed. I’ve loved side projects from others in the band, but with Ed, only Pearl Jam worked. Into The Wild however is great. It’s like a lost Pearl Jam album.

Hard Sun’s not my favorite on the album, but it’s still a very solid song.
"Society" is my fave
Guaranteed is mine.

Re: Song of the Moment: Hard Sun

Posted: Fri March 13, 2020 10:54 pm
by Ms Harmless
Anders wrote:
Ms Harmless wrote:
Anders wrote:Into The Wild surprised me. I’m a Pearl Jan fan, but I have never thought it was only because of Ed. I’ve loved side projects from others in the band, but with Ed, only Pearl Jam worked. Into The Wild however is great. It’s like a lost Pearl Jam album.

Hard Sun’s not my favorite on the album, but it’s still a very solid song.
"Society" is my fave
Guaranteed is mine.
good choice!

Re: Song of the Moment: Hard Sun

Posted: Fri March 13, 2020 10:56 pm
by Monkey_Driven
I think Rise is my favorite. Or Long Nights. Or No Ceiling. Or Guaranteed. or Society.

Re: Song of the Moment: Hard Sun

Posted: Fri March 13, 2020 10:57 pm
by Jorge
I don't like Into the Wild except for the two covers

Re: Song of the Moment: Hard Sun

Posted: Fri March 13, 2020 11:01 pm
by Anders
Monkey_Driven wrote:I think Rise is my favorite. Or Long Nights. Or No Ceiling. Or Guaranteed. or Society.
Strong album.
theplatypus wrote:I don't like Into the Wild except for the two covers
What don’t you like about it. I think it has a adventurous mood, that I really enjoy. Gois production as well, and Ed in fine form.

Re: Song of the Moment: Hard Sun

Posted: Fri March 13, 2020 11:32 pm
by dimejinky99
One of my favourite podcasts is on cinema and the guy regularly talks about amazing films that ruined Hollywood. (So a Star Wars or mission impossible that spawns a million imitators but just continues and repeated itself and narrows the field creatively.)

I think into the wild and several songs on it, does that. Few songs on there, while beautiful, just sorta seem to have trapped him into ‘ok that works’. Do that.’ And it’s carried over into everything else.

Society has taken on a new life, live. Hard sun live is exactly what you get but with some steroids. Other than that there’s no movement. On record or live.

Ed’s solo outings are so weird. They work in a bedroom or headphones better than an arena I reckon.

Re: Song of the Moment: Hard Sun

Posted: Fri March 13, 2020 11:55 pm
by Jorge
Anders wrote:
theplatypus wrote:I don't like Into the Wild except for the two covers
What don’t you like about it. I think it has a adventurous mood, that I really enjoy. Gois production as well, and Ed in fine form.
It's a bunch of half-finished sketches, and I never feel like listening to it

But I just remembered another song I like from it, "No Ceiling"

Re: Song of the Moment: Hard Sun

Posted: Sat March 14, 2020 12:10 am
by stip
Anders wrote:Stip, you always struck me as a massive Ed fan (often like his songs best, don’t want lyrics or vocals from the others, put forth his voice as the main talent of the band) . Did you ever like any of the side projects from the others in the band, or make a song of the moment from one of those?
not really, and no. but i dont have an exhaustive knowledge of all the side projects

Re: Song of the Moment: Hard Sun

Posted: Sat March 14, 2020 12:11 am
by stip
theplatypus wrote:
Anders wrote:
theplatypus wrote:I don't like Into the Wild except for the two covers
What don’t you like about it. I think it has a adventurous mood, that I really enjoy. Gois production as well, and Ed in fine form.
It's a bunch of half-finished sketches, and I never feel like listening to it

But I just remembered another song I like from it, "No Ceiling"
no ceiling and guaranteed are very good

Re: Song of the Moment: Hard Sun

Posted: Sat March 14, 2020 12:13 am
by Jorge
I really do not like "Guaranteed". That level of melodic repetitiveness just loses me.

Re: Song of the Moment: Hard Sun

Posted: Sat March 14, 2020 12:16 am
by Jorge
Plus there's no real variation in performance the whole way through. It reminds me of those old Napster mp3s that were just one single verse of a song looped several times.

Re: Song of the Moment: Hard Sun

Posted: Sat March 14, 2020 12:19 am
by Ms Harmless
theplatypus wrote:Plus there's no real variation in performance the whole way through. It reminds me of those old Napster mp3s that were just one single verse of a song looped several times.
some might say (me) that that's what a folk melody does, hymnals too

Re: Song of the Moment: Hard Sun

Posted: Sat March 14, 2020 12:20 am
by E.H. Ruddock
theplatypus wrote:Plus there's no real variation in performance the whole way through. It reminds me of those old Napster mp3s that were just one single verse of a song looped several times.
Oh man that used to piss me off

Re: Song of the Moment: Hard Sun

Posted: Sat March 14, 2020 12:21 am
by Ms Harmless
Ms Harmless wrote:
theplatypus wrote:Plus there's no real variation in performance the whole way through. It reminds me of those old Napster mp3s that were just one single verse of a song looped several times.
some might say (me) that that's what a folk melody does, hymnals too
a song like "Hallelujah" is a good example of both at once