Red Mosquito

Sgt. Crackpot wrote:

harmless wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:This song is beginning to remind me of arctic monkeys

Haha, I can hear that. And it would be awesome if Ed ripped out of this one into a rendition of "I bet that you'd look good on the dance floor."

It'll probably just sound creepy. Like his Dream a Little Dream cover.

McParadigm wrote:Geek post.

All Access always show reports spanning the previous seven days. Even though its only been spinning for two of the days in question, here's where Manners sits:

32 on Alternative.
37 on Active rock.
17 on much smaller Mainstream Rock.

640 total plays at registered stations. Total estimated audience is 4 million.

stupidmop wrote:An animated video for MYM could be aswesome, in the style of the cover.

stupidmop wrote:Eds always been a dork, watch any footage from like 91 before he got all depressed and/or terrified of his own fans, goofball.

I can't begin to comprehend the fixer video though, they should have gone balls to the wall acid trip happy, that would have made the song more tolerable. They possibly didn't care enough to come up with a concept.

An animated video for MYM could be aswesome, in the style of the cover.

I wish the song was a little more ragged. Like the chords before the bridge comes in should've been all discordant and shit and and the stops should've been less neat with the guitars stumbling a little.

I definitely get the Brain of J comparison, in fact MYM keeps turning into Brain of J when its stuck in my head.

Sgt. Crackpot wrote:

McParadigm wrote:Geek post.

All Access always show reports spanning the previous seven days. Even though its only been spinning for two of the days in question, here's where Manners sits:

32 on Alternative.
37 on Active rock.
17 on much smaller Mainstream Rock.

640 total plays at registered stations. Total estimated audience is 4 million.

Is there any data on previous releases to get a comparison?

Thejambi wrote:

Burt Stanfield wrote:I see it as a middle of the road song. It gets better as the song progesses, but the first fifteen seconds or so is pretty boring. I like the layers of the song once we finally arrive at them, but something feels lacking. I didn't care for Backspacer and Avocado was marginally better so I'm hoping the record will be more like Avocado since it is evident we aren't ever going to get another No Code

Cause No Code didn't have habit or lukin . Odds are slim but I won't give up till I get the album. MYM is 4/5 for me.

spike wrote:for instance, i know this skit was meant to be uber corny, but he was still awkward.

Dr. Van Nostrand wrote:

spike wrote:for instance, i know this skit was meant to be uber corny, but he was still awkward.

I loved that skit

Sgt. Crackpot wrote:

harmless wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:This song is beginning to remind me of arctic monkeys

Haha, I can hear that. And it would be awesome if Ed ripped out of this one into a rendition of "I bet that you'd look good on the dance floor."

It'll probably just sound creepy. Like his Dream a Little Dream cover.

McParadigm wrote:Geek post.

All Access always show reports spanning the previous seven days. Even though its only been spinning for two of the days in question, here's where Manners sits:

32 on Alternative.
37 on Active rock.
17 on much smaller Mainstream Rock.

640 total plays at registered stations. Total estimated audience is 4 million.

Kevin Davis wrote:

Sgt. Crackpot wrote:

harmless wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:This song is beginning to remind me of arctic monkeys

Haha, I can hear that. And it would be awesome if Ed ripped out of this one into a rendition of "I bet that you'd look good on the dance floor."

It'll probably just sound creepy. Like his Dream a Little Dream cover.

I think "Dream a Little Dream" is one of Eddie's best vocal performances in recent memory. That's exactly the sort of thing he should be doing more of.

Burt Stanfield wrote:

Thejambi wrote:

Burt Stanfield wrote:I see it as a middle of the road song. It gets better as the song progesses, but the first fifteen seconds or so is pretty boring. I like the layers of the song once we finally arrive at them, but something feels lacking. I didn't care for Backspacer and Avocado was marginally better so I'm hoping the record will be more like Avocado since it is evident we aren't ever going to get another No Code

Cause No Code didn't have habit or lukin . Odds are slim but I won't give up till I get the album. MYM is 4/5 for me.

But, I liked Habit and Lukin in the context of the album. Generally a lead single for a PJ album tries to represent what the whole album will be like and I would prefer not to have a whole album of fast seemingly unpolished songs. Hopefully they throw a few Who You Ares, Off He Goes, and Present Tenses in there. We shall see

rickson wrote:How could anyone compare this to Brain of J? C mon. This is an average "funny" song.

I hate this type of Pearl Jam. They just don´t get that this "i´ll make music like the music of my favorite bands" doesn´t work at all. Every time they try to hard, they fail. Pearl Jam has been with a lack of personality since Riot Act. That was the last real album. Maybe it wasn´t that good but it did have character and it was unique. The last two, and seems like this one is not going any further, were like a compilation of sound that the guys think that "is cool". And that´s it. There is no urgency or need to create. And that is crap.
Probably I´m just to old school. But this was my favorite band because there was something about them that did matter. Not anymore.

harmless wrote:

spike wrote:

WtOB? wrote:

spike wrote:and how bad was he in singles?

why am i so into discussing this? maybe i'm just trying to figure out why eddie went from super cool to dork in my mind.

It's a fascinating transition.

i mean, the obvious and real answer is he got old, but that's too convenient. i went to delve deeper and really cook up some conspiracies.

I don't buy the "He got old" thing. I just think that he really suddenly wanted to do something different and found the old stuff embarrassing. Some of his fans remained wedded to the old stuff and that's how life goes. Basically, over all, I personally think that their latter work has involved a lot of experimentation into just how to do this kind of music as grown adults, fathers and husbands. And the experimentation is not over. But I would hope that in the next album or two, they will finally have it figured out and we'll have a new kind of Pearl Jam to follow us into old age. I'm still fairly confident that Ed has still (barely) escaped becoming Bono, and for that I'm grateful.

harmless wrote: So you know, what I've realised is that my "Meh" feeling in hearing new PJ is not a new thing. It's followed me right through their career.

stip wrote:it'll be interesting to hear MYM alongside that countryfied little 4 second clip we had from that video a few months ago. That's the real test of an album's cohesiveness, since that obviously sounded very different.