Red Mosquito

its_not_1974 wrote:

warehouse wrote:outside of production, i never really got the hate for this album. i think wws, marker and severed hand can hold up to just about anything they've done. there's some real good songs on here.

The production kills most of the times I get the urge to listen to the album. There is good music on there, but since it doesn't even have the relative change of direction Backspacer did, it's just an album full of nice songs that constantly lose out to the rest of their work.

Unemployable is a beast.

The trouble is, whenever someone argues a variation of "I don't get the hate for S/T", the songs they quote as being great are always from the first half of the album, illustrating perfectly why I dislike it.

harmless wrote:

its_not_1974 wrote:

warehouse wrote:outside of production, i never really got the hate for this album. i think wws, marker and severed hand can hold up to just about anything they've done. there's some real good songs on here.

The production kills most of the times I get the urge to listen to the album. There is good music on there, but since it doesn't even have the relative change of direction Backspacer did, it's just an album full of nice songs that constantly lose out to the rest of their work.

Unemployable is a beast.

The trouble is, whenever someone argues a variation of "I don't get the hate for S/T", the songs they quote as being great are always from the first half of the album, illustrating perfectly why I dislike it.

Yeah, it's a crawl to the finish, save for Army Reserve. But, even on AR, Eddie (who obviously, given the 06 tour, still had an amazing voice) chooses to force out grit in a really abrasive way.

I play Avocado more often than Backspacer & Riot Act for sure.
Life Wasted is the best PJ rocker on the past 3 albums, imo.
Marker and Big Wave are the two songs i kinda don't like, on the other side i love Cold Confession & Of The Earth, so yeah, i imagine what could've been if i swap their places.
I like it but can't imagine Let It Ride being part of Avocado, sounds to me as a song from Riot Act era (and it maybe was born at that time).

My fantasy avocado tracklist would be:

1. Life Wasted
2. World Wide Suicide
3. Comatose
4. Severed Hand
5. Unemployable
6. Parachutes
7. Of the Earth
8. Cold Confession
9. Gone
10. Army Reserve
11. Come Back
12. Wasted Reprise
13. Inside Job

welcome to the board

stip wrote:welcome to the board

Thanks. I am reading TheSkyIScrape since forever, finally decided to register an account (was registered on the previous forum under PJ17MKD).

I think Inside Job is one of the best things they did in that era.

Django Butterworth wrote:I think Inside Job is one of the best things they did in that era.

Hi Mike

Mine wrote:

Django Butterworth wrote:I think Inside Job is one of the best things they did in that era.

Hi Mike

Ha!

I just love the mood of that song and the build up.

It's always been one of my favs from that album.

Django Butterworth wrote:I just love the mood of that song and the build up.

It's always been one of my favs from that album.

And did you choose to feel like this?

It's how I am.

Lament wrote:

Django Butterworth wrote:I just love the mood of that song and the build up.

It's always been one of my favs from that album.

And did you choose to feel like this?

Pearl Jam ft. Timbaland - 'How I Choose to Feel (is the Way I Are)'

That line is why he plays guitar for a living.

Django Butterworth wrote:That line is why he plays guitar for a living.

What's the explanation for all the others?

harmless wrote:

Django Butterworth wrote:That line is why he plays guitar for a living.

What's the explanation for all the others?

You've got me there. But I guess IMO the music makes up for it.

Django Butterworth wrote:

harmless wrote:

Django Butterworth wrote:That line is why he plays guitar for a living.

What's the explanation for all the others?

You've got me there. But I guess IMO the music makes up for it.

On a good day that's how I choose to feel as well.

i don't particularly care for inside job but it's never bothered me much either. It's an okay song that is too long to be an okay song.

I confess that by the time we've gotten to it I've also already lost interest in S/T outside of Come Back, so it's not like it derails a killer run or anything

Django Butterworth wrote:I just love the mood of that song and the build up.

It's always been one of my favs from that album.

i definitely dont hate it, but it would be in the bottom of my rankings for the album