Red Mosquito

I like strings. And I don't really hate "Inside Job" from a compositional standpoint (it's nothing special but it's not terrible). I just hate hate hate the lyrics

washing machine wrote:

epilogue wrote:For my money, Inside Job is worse than all the other songs mentioned in that post. Yet somehow I still feel like I like it more than most fans. Maybe that's not true but it sure seems like people fucking hate it.

It's very bad, but I can't really describe why. I don't know where to start.

the lyrics make it very bad.

Jorge wrote:I like strings. And I don't really hate "Inside Job" from a compositional standpoint (it's nothing special but it's not terrible). I just hate hate hate the lyrics

I think this is right. I don't hate the lyrics. But they aren't good. They feel very middle-school first drafty to me. It's upsetting if I think they were revised and honed at all.

I choose to believe they were the first lyrics Mike ever wrote and he wrote them as a stream of consciousness exercise with no intention of ever revising. And the band was so pat on the head proud of him that they let him have it.

dad wrote:

washing machine wrote:

epilogue wrote:For my money, Inside Job is worse than all the other songs mentioned in that post. Yet somehow I still feel like I like it more than most fans. Maybe that's not true but it sure seems like people fucking hate it.

It's very bad, but I can't really describe why. I don't know where to start.

the lyrics make it very bad.

The lyrics are bad enough, and then the way Eddie sings them is so so so much worse. The intro is terrible too. So long and drawn out which I usually love in a song, but then it leads into...all that.

fwiw I’ve always liked Last Soldier, also written by Mike.

simple, yes...but a much better song of his than inside job.

At one time I thought "I will not lose my faith" was "I might lose my faith", and I was disappointed when I learned the correct line.

dad wrote:fwiw I’ve always liked Last Soldier, also written by Mike.

simple, yes...but a much better song of his than inside job.

Last Soldier is a solid song, yeah. I also really like it.

Leatherhead wrote:At one time I thought "I will not lose my faith" was "I might lose my faith", and I was disappointed when I learned the correct line.

Ditto me with "how I choose to feel is Hawaiian"

Jorge wrote:

Leatherhead wrote:At one time I thought "I will not lose my faith" was "I might lose my faith", and I was disappointed when I learned the correct line.

Ditto me with "how I choose to feel is Hawaiian"

I’ll never here that line the same again.

dad wrote:

Jorge wrote:

Leatherhead wrote:At one time I thought "I will not lose my faith" was "I might lose my faith", and I was disappointed when I learned the correct line.

Ditto me with "how I choose to feel is Hawaiian"

I’ll never here that line the same again.

Here, here

the lyrics for inside job are no worse than the embarrassment that is "alright," yet people seem to heap praise on that song.

i like inside job just fine. one of my fondest memories of the verona, italy show in 2006 was when they played it for the first song of the encore and the clouds finally parted and you could catch a brief glimpse of the moon.

Chris_H_2 wrote:the lyrics for inside job are no worse than the embarrassment that is "alright," yet people seem to heap praise on that song.

i like inside job just fine. one of my fondest memories of the verona, italy show in 2006 was when they played it for the first song of the encore and the clouds finally parted and you could catch a brief glimpse of the moon.

sounds romantic. too bad it wasn’t a better song.

dad wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:the lyrics for inside job are no worse than the embarrassment that is "alright," yet people seem to heap praise on that song.

i like inside job just fine. one of my fondest memories of the verona, italy show in 2006 was when they played it for the first song of the encore and the clouds finally parted and you could catch a brief glimpse of the moon.

sounds romantic. too bad it wasn’t a better song.

My wife walked to the restrooms, took a wrong turn, and found herself backstage standing next to Jim James. No one said a word to her.

Chris_H_2 wrote:

dad wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:the lyrics for inside job are no worse than the embarrassment that is "alright," yet people seem to heap praise on that song.

i like inside job just fine. one of my fondest memories of the verona, italy show in 2006 was when they played it for the first song of the encore and the clouds finally parted and you could catch a brief glimpse of the moon.

sounds romantic. too bad it wasn’t a better song.

My wife walked to the restrooms, took a wrong turn, and found herself backstage standing next to Jim James. No one said a word to her.

When she came back did she say, I’m glad in got that outta my system?

dad wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

dad wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:the lyrics for inside job are no worse than the embarrassment that is "alright," yet people seem to heap praise on that song.

i like inside job just fine. one of my fondest memories of the verona, italy show in 2006 was when they played it for the first song of the encore and the clouds finally parted and you could catch a brief glimpse of the moon.

sounds romantic. too bad it wasn’t a better song.

My wife walked to the restrooms, took a wrong turn, and found herself backstage standing next to Jim James. No one said a word to her.

When she came back did she say, I’m glad in got that outta my system?

dad

Chris_H_2 wrote:

dad wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

dad wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:the lyrics for inside job are no worse than the embarrassment that is "alright," yet people seem to heap praise on that song.

i like inside job just fine. one of my fondest memories of the verona, italy show in 2006 was when they played it for the first song of the encore and the clouds finally parted and you could catch a brief glimpse of the moon.

sounds romantic. too bad it wasn’t a better song.

My wife walked to the restrooms, took a wrong turn, and found herself backstage standing next to Jim James. No one said a word to her.

When she came back did she say, I’m glad in got that outta my system?

dad

well did she?

dad wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

dad wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

dad wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:the lyrics for inside job are no worse than the embarrassment that is "alright," yet people seem to heap praise on that song.

i like inside job just fine. one of my fondest memories of the verona, italy show in 2006 was when they played it for the first song of the encore and the clouds finally parted and you could catch a brief glimpse of the moon.

sounds romantic. too bad it wasn’t a better song.

My wife walked to the restrooms, took a wrong turn, and found herself backstage standing next to Jim James. No one said a word to her.

When she came back did she say, I’m glad in got that outta my system?

dad

well did she?

no, but she kept bringing up her peanut-butter pudding surprise

Chris_H_2 wrote:

dad wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

dad wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

dad wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:the lyrics for inside job are no worse than the embarrassment that is "alright," yet people seem to heap praise on that song.

i like inside job just fine. one of my fondest memories of the verona, italy show in 2006 was when they played it for the first song of the encore and the clouds finally parted and you could catch a brief glimpse of the moon.

sounds romantic. too bad it wasn’t a better song.

My wife walked to the restrooms, took a wrong turn, and found herself backstage standing next to Jim James. No one said a word to her.

When she came back did she say, I’m glad in got that outta my system?

dad

well did she?

no, but she kept bringing up her peanut-butter pudding surprise

mad I missed an opportunity to say highly suspicious.