Red Mosquito

Thejambi wrote:

IlluminEddie wrote:Me opinion:

This song is not directed to his wife or his kids. It's directed to people who feel the same way he does (mainly about religion and the world order). It's another song in the same manner as MYM. In fact, it makes me think they are related. I wouldn't be surprised if the whole album is. Lightning Bolt is tough to make much out of (lyrically - it gets jumbled towards the end), but it doesn't make me cast that theory off either.

P.S. To answer a question on why are there new posters here: I'm here, like many, because I was banned from the Pit. Then they wanted me to pay again and I thought to myself - F them. Anyway, I was here way back under another name, for some reason I can't login under that name. In fact, I started that Target, Ticketmaster, and the Ten Club thread a few years back. Anyway, I only find time to talk PJ around album releases anymore. One remaining question I have that everyone seems to be ignoring - how will the distribute this album (Target, Walmart)?

You're talking about Future Days right?

IlluminEddie wrote:Me opinion:

This song is not directed to his wife or his kids. It's directed to people who feel the same way he does (mainly about religion and the world order). It's another song in the same manner as MYM. In fact, it makes me think they are related. I wouldn't be surprised if the whole album is. Lightning Bolt is tough to make much out of (lyrically - it gets jumbled towards the end), but it doesn't make me cast that theory off either.

P.S. To answer a question on why are there new posters here: I'm here, like many, because I was banned from the Pit. Then they wanted me to pay again and I thought to myself - F them. Anyway, I was here way back under another name, for some reason I can't login under that name. In fact, I started that Target, Ticketmaster, and the Ten Club thread a few years back. Anyway, I only find time to talk PJ around album releases anymore. One remaining question I have that everyone seems to be ignoring - how will the distribute this album (Target, Walmart)?

Strat wrote:So that looks like stone is doing the lead work with a slide....yea?

Strat wrote:Nevermind.

Im going to bed.

Thejambi wrote:Whoever suggested taking (Lightning Bolt) out of the thread title.. I agree.

I think we need to poll these songs also.

Kevin Davis wrote:

digster wrote:I don't really have a problem with minimal instrumentation....it can be a cool change of pace in the course of a record, albeit not a well that one can go back to that often. That being said, the song has to have some meat to it, especially if you're presenting it that unencumbered. This one, well....it just doesn't have that, to my ears.

I'm very surprised that after hearing three songs from the record, my favorite is Mind Your Manners by a considerable margin.

"Future Days" is the sort of song that would have been fine to put on a charity album for breastfeeding moms, but not the sort of thing you want taking up precious running time on a proper album.

warehouse wrote:has stip broken down the lyrics yet?

i only listened to it once, but this song did nothing for me.

stip wrote:

Kevin Davis wrote:

digster wrote:I don't really have a problem with minimal instrumentation....it can be a cool change of pace in the course of a record, albeit not a well that one can go back to that often. That being said, the song has to have some meat to it, especially if you're presenting it that unencumbered. This one, well....it just doesn't have that, to my ears.

I'm very surprised that after hearing three songs from the record, my favorite is Mind Your Manners by a considerable margin.

"Future Days" is the sort of song that would have been fine to put on a charity album for breastfeeding moms, but not the sort of thing you want taking up precious running time on a proper album.

this is my concern.

Blenheim Augustine wrote:
One of the issues with Ed's songwriting contributions is that he often leaves very little space for two other guitars since he often plays the vocal melody on the guitar and plays open chords across six strings. It means that there's very little of the band's personality within the song as Mike and Stone are largely following the main chords or playing incidental guitar licks and Jeff is playing root notes. I think this is probably where we get the idea that these are 'solo' songs because the rest of the band is largely redundant. However, if the songs were any good I probably wouldn't care about any of this - I don't have a problem with Corduroy or Elderly Woman or Off He Goes because they are good songs.

VinylGuy wrote:it got better. I really like the piano melody..i just wish the band could do something else, bring the song to a different level.

Thejambi wrote:

IlluminEddie wrote:Me opinion:

This song is not directed to his wife or his kids. It's directed to people who feel the same way he does (mainly about religion and the world order). It's another song in the same manner as MYM. In fact, it makes me think they are related. I wouldn't be surprised if the whole album is. Lightning Bolt is tough to make much out of (lyrically - it gets jumbled towards the end), but it doesn't make me cast that theory off either.

P.S. To answer a question on why are there new posters here: I'm here, like many, because I was banned from the Pit. Then they wanted me to pay again and I thought to myself - F them. Anyway, I was here way back under another name, for some reason I can't login under that name. In fact, I started that Target, Ticketmaster, and the Ten Club thread a few years back. Anyway, I only find time to talk PJ around album releases anymore. One remaining question I have that everyone seems to be ignoring - how will the distribute this album (Target, Walmart)?

You're talking about Future Days right?