Red Mosquito

Late to the party, but Stip's review is very similar to my reaction. Last night under the Colorado sky, the 4th and 5th listens to this track hit me in a major way.

As far as lyrical content my thought is that he has crafted these lyrics based on a few seconds in the middle of the night. He wakes to the sounds of sirens reaches for his lovers hand. Hears her breathe, appreciates that they're ok. Whatever dream the sirens had steered him into wasn't real. The fear of loosing her is real though. He looks at her face in the little bit of light there is in the dark room, feels safe and drifts back to sleep.

This isn't a track I ever would have asked for from Pearl Jam, but I haven't felt this way from Pearl Jam track in a long time.

harmless wrote:

broken iris wrote:This morning I heard the following on XM's Octane:

Breaking Benjamin - I Will Not Bow
Pearl Jam - Sirens
Avenged Sevenfold - Hail to the King

One of these things does not fit.



That being said, it was nice to hear on the radio and like Sir Stippleton, I enjoyed singing a-long to it. I still give it a 3/5, but I'd rather hear Sirens on the radio than most anything off of Riot Act or Backspacer.

Are you sure one of them doesn't fit, or is it just that the other two made you want to claw your ears off?

well sirens still wouldn't fit if, presumably, it did not make him want to claw his ears off.

theplatypus wrote:To me it's less 80s rock ballad and more early-aughts alternative rock radio ballad.

like what?

oh, early 2000s. I read that as 90s. That could be. I don't think I'd know most of the songs that it would be compared to, so I went 80s

stip wrote:

harmless wrote:

broken iris wrote:This morning I heard the following on XM's Octane:

Breaking Benjamin - I Will Not Bow
Pearl Jam - Sirens
Avenged Sevenfold - Hail to the King

One of these things does not fit.



That being said, it was nice to hear on the radio and like Sir Stippleton, I enjoyed singing a-long to it. I still give it a 3/5, but I'd rather hear Sirens on the radio than most anything off of Riot Act or Backspacer.

Are you sure one of them doesn't fit, or is it just that the other two made you want to claw your ears off?

well sirens still wouldn't fit if, presumably, it did not make him want to claw his ears off.

I was just kidding.

Hatfield wrote:Late to the party, but Stip's review is very similar to my reaction. Last night under the Colorado sky, the 4th and 5th listens to this track hit me in a major way.

As far as lyrical content my thought is that he has crafted these lyrics based on a few seconds in the middle of the night. He wakes to the sounds of sirens reaches for his lovers hand. Hears her breathe, appreciates that they're ok. Whatever dream the sirens had steered him into wasn't real. The fear of loosing her is real though. He looks at her face in the little bit of light there is in the dark room, feels safe and drifts back to sleep.

This isn't a track I ever would have asked for from Pearl Jam, but I haven't felt this way from Pearl Jam track in a long time.

I like that take on the song.

harmless wrote:

stip wrote:

harmless wrote:

broken iris wrote:This morning I heard the following on XM's Octane:

Breaking Benjamin - I Will Not Bow
Pearl Jam - Sirens
Avenged Sevenfold - Hail to the King

One of these things does not fit.



That being said, it was nice to hear on the radio and like Sir Stippleton, I enjoyed singing a-long to it. I still give it a 3/5, but I'd rather hear Sirens on the radio than most anything off of Riot Act or Backspacer.

Are you sure one of them doesn't fit, or is it just that the other two made you want to claw your ears off?

well sirens still wouldn't fit if, presumably, it did not make him want to claw his ears off.

I was just kidding.

yeah, I know. I was just playing it straight.

I love Sirens, but now the song I love might suck ass go to lighning Bolt thread to find out why. I hope harmless saves this.

if it is a studio take why would you care?

It's kind of false gimmickry, to just lift a chorus from one place and paste it again later on. It's something Linkin Park would do.

If that MYM "chorus" vocal is repeated, that might be lending to the repetitiveness of the song for people.

yeah, I guess if someone asked me which I'd prefer I'd prefer it live, but for me a studio take should be the best possible presentation of the song. If certain takes are spliced together, or repeated, or whatever, I don't think I'd much care.

I guess it only makes me wonder whether it's been done before. I mean, it's the kind of thing that would bother me and then I can imagine finding out later on they've being doing it since Yield.

stip wrote:yeah, I guess if someone asked me which I'd prefer I'd prefer it live, but for me a studio take should be the best possible presentation of the song. If certain takes are spliced together, or repeated, or whatever, I don't think I'd much care.

The alive Solo was stitched together so...

Lets move on to talking about how horrible Infallible is now!

Strat wrote:

stip wrote:yeah, I guess if someone asked me which I'd prefer I'd prefer it live, but for me a studio take should be the best possible presentation of the song. If certain takes are spliced together, or repeated, or whatever, I don't think I'd much care.

The alive Solo was stitched together so...

Lets move on to talking about how horrible Infallible is now!

I'd rather not talk about Infallibleurgh. I've been following this band since the beginning and this is the song that might force me to hand my membership badge back and cancel the trustfund to Kat's children.

harmless wrote:

Strat wrote:

stip wrote:yeah, I guess if someone asked me which I'd prefer I'd prefer it live, but for me a studio take should be the best possible presentation of the song. If certain takes are spliced together, or repeated, or whatever, I don't think I'd much care.

The alive Solo was stitched together so...

Lets move on to talking about how horrible Infallible is now!

I'd rather not talk about Infallibleurgh. I've been following this band since the beginning and this is the song that might force me to hand my membership badge back and cancel the trustfund to Kat's children.

Lets all talk about the various types of cancer and non-communicable diseases we've gotten from this album!

stip wrote:

harmless wrote:

Strat wrote:

stip wrote:yeah, I guess if someone asked me which I'd prefer I'd prefer it live, but for me a studio take should be the best possible presentation of the song. If certain takes are spliced together, or repeated, or whatever, I don't think I'd much care.

The alive Solo was stitched together so...

Lets move on to talking about how horrible Infallible is now!

I'd rather not talk about Infallibleurgh. I've been following this band since the beginning and this is the song that might force me to hand my membership badge back and cancel the trustfund to Kat's children.

Lets all talk about the various types of cancer and non-communicable diseases we've gotten from this album!

My arm's just fallen off. I'm not sure if that's the album though. Hang on.

harmless wrote:

stip wrote:

harmless wrote:

Strat wrote:

stip wrote:yeah, I guess if someone asked me which I'd prefer I'd prefer it live, but for me a studio take should be the best possible presentation of the song. If certain takes are spliced together, or repeated, or whatever, I don't think I'd much care.

The alive Solo was stitched together so...

Lets move on to talking about how horrible Infallible is now!

I'd rather not talk about Infallibleurgh. I've been following this band since the beginning and this is the song that might force me to hand my membership badge back and cancel the trustfund to Kat's children.

Lets all talk about the various types of cancer and non-communicable diseases we've gotten from this album!

My arm's just fallen off. I'm not sure if that's the album though. Hang on.

Probably Matt's drumming....

broken iris wrote:

bada wrote:

Tass Man wrote:

theplatypus wrote:To me it's less 80s rock ballad and more early-aughts alternative rock radio ballad.

absolutely... i said that in another thread (or maybe this thread)... i don't get any 80's feeling from this song. it seems more like a late 90's/early 2000's track (3 doors down, or lifehouse, or whatever)..

Who did that horrible Arms Of A Angel song? I like Sirens but it definitely edges towards the cliff of a song like that.

Do you mean Hinder's "Lips of An Angel"?

Yeah I think that's it.

Strat wrote:

harmless wrote:

stip wrote:

harmless wrote:

Strat wrote:

stip wrote:yeah, I guess if someone asked me which I'd prefer I'd prefer it live, but for me a studio take should be the best possible presentation of the song. If certain takes are spliced together, or repeated, or whatever, I don't think I'd much care.

The alive Solo was stitched together so...

Lets move on to talking about how horrible Infallible is now!

I'd rather not talk about Infallibleurgh. I've been following this band since the beginning and this is the song that might force me to hand my membership badge back and cancel the trustfund to Kat's children.

Lets all talk about the various types of cancer and non-communicable diseases we've gotten from this album!

My arm's just fallen off. I'm not sure if that's the album though. Hang on.

Probably Matt's drumming....

I think I might need an ambulance. I might need to hear the sirens.