Red Mosquito

Thurman Murman wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:

guitar_davey wrote:

Strat wrote:I don't think ive heard the band seemingly have as much fun playing as they do in Never Destination.

Just love it.

Yep. This might be the ultimate "fun" song in the entire canon.

my only contenders for that are Hitchhiker and Gremmy

Ultimate "fun" Pearl Jam song = Black, Red, Yellow

Ms Harmless wrote:if "Retrograde" was the closer, everybody would be bummed that the closer left a Lightning Bolt taste in their mouth

Kalevi wrote:I think we are so lucky that the rest of the band allowed Eddie to sing their songs rather than insisting on keeping them for themselves (ie Sonic youth).

Birds in Hell wrote:

Kalevi wrote:I think we are so lucky that the rest of the band allowed Eddie to sing their songs rather than insisting on keeping them for themselves (ie Sonic youth).

I don't see the relation.

Sonic Youth's songwriting was much less writer-specific than Pearl Jam's, with many/most songs arising from group improv jams. They also didn't have a "lead" singer in the way that Pearl Jam do, though Thurston admittedly sang more often than Kim and Lee.

Even where one songwriter brought a particular idea to the group, that didn't mean they always sang on it. The classic example is Murray Street, where (IIRC) Karen Revisted was originally intended to be sung by Kim and one of Kim's songs was originally sung by Lee but they decided to switch it up during the recording process.

Strat wrote:Yea nothing has become less desirable for me on this album. Only songs i didnt initially care for have grown on me (retrograde) and the others have cemented themselves firmly as fucking great.

Im beyond the moon over this album. It has everything I want and need in pearl jam right now.

Peeps wrote:

stip wrote:

Peeps wrote:

Superblood Wolfmoon wrote:

Coach wrote: This had me thinking......Who is the board's longest active member? Peeps, me, Stip, Tuolumne? I recall the two crashes prior to the '04 crash and the data was lost, but was still curious if a data scientist (or climatologist) could find out. Thx.

Also, rip, Sunny, who was a long-timer from Boston who left too

I go back to Master/Slave. Hard to remember when I arrived here but it was definitely a long time ago.

i might be the longest tenured. i believe i started posting back in 98-99 when red mosquito and the sky i scrape were different boards and then if im not mistaken it was scott and bigmama decided to link the two together

i know at minimum i was posting here 20 years ago cause i was still in college getting my bachelors

i have memories of interacting with TSIS in 98. I didnt even know TSIS and RM were separate sites

i may be mistaken but i think redmosquito was originally a .de site signifying it was in germany

i remember the general chat forum was a place i didnt venture and just posted in the pj forum. one few too may times veering off topic scott suggested i take a look at the general chat

the mods i can recall from back then were LT (candle avatar), hinny, bigmamma, scott. once the boards were intergrated then each sub forum had a different mods who patrolled those forums specifically, with athletic supporter, jim, and a few others that are escaping me (although thinking on that i think AS and jim were then modded after the board was recovered (see next paragraph)

then there was a board blowup and there was a separate board started and then that blew up (it may have been part of my war with ced and cement something or other) but then we all made amends and the new board was re-established. probably 2 years after that was the great invasion of balki, clark, pjdoll,shitz and sara

stip wrote:Comes then Goes, like River Cross, may be a song that becomes more of an occasion song than an everyday one. I think no less highly of it, but I think it is one I need to be in the right space for to fully experience

E.H. Ruddock wrote:Just so strat believes me and gets off my back:

Songs I absolutely love:

DotC
Quick Escape
Alright
Buckle Up
Comes Then Goes
Retrograde

Songs I really like:

Who Ever Said
Seven o'clock
River Cross
Never destination

Meh:

Take the long way

E.H. Ruddock wrote:Just so strat believes me and gets off my back:

Songs I absolutely love:

DotC
Quick Escape
Alright
Buckle Up
Comes Then Goes
Retrograde

Songs I really like:

Who Ever Said
Seven o'clock
River Cross
Never destination

Meh:

Take the long way

evenslow wrote:

stip wrote:Comes then Goes, like River Cross, may be a song that becomes more of an occasion song than an everyday one. I think no less highly of it, but I think it is one I need to be in the right space for to fully experience

i get this. that said, if they're on, i get sucked into the journey every time.

digster wrote:Interestingly, I'm still being pulled towards the record, but I'm not really seeking out individual songs, which leads me to listening to this PJ record probably less than any other record in the past (at least in terms of when it's immediately come out), but nevertheless enjoying it more than any record they've made in at least 13 (and probably 18) years. I don't know if it's because of the cohesiveness of the record, or maybe its consistency (this is a record full of 3.5 to 4.5 songs, as opposed to a bunch of 5s and 2s).