Red Mosquito

LoathedVermin72 wrote:I fucking hate this band

Yous should fight

LV is seriously misreading "I Got Shit"

I vote for "Go" because that song sucks.

I Got Shit has fucking brilliant lyrics. Some of Ed's best.

All the advantage this life's got on me
Picture a cup in the middle of the sea

Yeah. It's a song about depression and self-loathing. Saying he's just sad about girls is a very reductive and superficial reading

LV is sheltered and opinionated

The Argonaut wrote:LV is sheltered and opinionated

You are also that

Not me though

Hopefully IMT gets the boot and we can forget all about this embarrassing moment in RM history.

Wife, dinner party, thanks

You stole a piece of asphalt

The Argonaut wrote:

theplatypus wrote:

The Argonaut wrote:LV is sheltered and opinionated

You are also that

I'm not sheltered. I've loved and lost. I've had my heart broken. I've been beaten up and mugged. I pissed on a bank. I once turned down a free handjob from an old man on a bus to Montreal. I have lived

Why did you turn down a free handjob?

wease wrote:

The Argonaut wrote:

theplatypus wrote:

The Argonaut wrote:LV is sheltered and opinionated

You are also that

I'm not sheltered. I've loved and lost. I've had my heart broken. I've been beaten up and mugged. I pissed on a bank. I once turned down a free handjob from an old man on a bus to Montreal. I have lived

Why did you turn down a free handjob?

That old man had really dry hands.

wease wrote:

The Argonaut wrote:

theplatypus wrote:

The Argonaut wrote:LV is sheltered and opinionated

You are also that

I'm not sheltered. I've loved and lost. I've had my heart broken. I've been beaten up and mugged. I pissed on a bank. I once turned down a free handjob from an old man on a bus to Montreal. I have lived

Why did you turn down a free handjob?

Like I said... sheltered

theplatypus wrote:

wease wrote:

The Argonaut wrote:

theplatypus wrote:

The Argonaut wrote:LV is sheltered and opinionated

You are also that

I'm not sheltered. I've loved and lost. I've had my heart broken. I've been beaten up and mugged. I pissed on a bank. I once turned down a free handjob from an old man on a bus to Montreal. I have lived

Why did you turn down a free handjob?

Like I said... sheltered

Heh. Poor Argo.

spike wrote:Hopefully IMT gets the boot and we can forget all about this embarrassing moment in RM history.

RIGHT?!

theplatypus wrote:Yeah. It's a song about depression and self-loathing. Saying he's just sad about girls is a very reductive and superficial reading

Yeah, he’s a sad dude singing about self-loathing. Part of that manifests as him being sad because he’s too ugly to be loved. Riveting stuff.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

theplatypus wrote:Yeah. It's a song about depression and self-loathing. Saying he's just sad about girls is a very reductive and superficial reading

Yeah, he’s a sad dude singing about self-loathing. Part of that manifests as him being sad because he’s too ugly to be loved. Riveting stuff.

LV is right here.

Listening to Neil play wailing guitar is always great but the sad sack lyrics are horrendous.

durdencommatyler wrote:

The Argonaut wrote:I really identified with the "I'll stay here in my bed, little I've seen there" line when I was a 17-year-old virgin
It's a great song, though

I don't think I've ever been certain what that line actually is.

I've listened to eight thousand live versions and, short of Eddie Vedder himself correcting me, I'm certain it's:

And I stare you back
What a blue-eyed scene

So there you go.

I'll make fun of Pearl Jam all day long for their most overwrought woe-is-me self-aggrandizement, but "I Got Shit" strikes me as decidedly not that: it is an earnest, vulnerable and sincere expressions of anger turned inward, one of the most plain and succinct that Ed's ever written. Even the couple of lines in there that are kind of eye-rolly (like the one about being ugly) are offset by the music itself. As a piece about depression and disappointment, it rings true in a very raw and unadorned way. Not sure why you guys are hung up on the "sad dude" thing.

Birds in Hell wrote: the sad sack lyrics are horrendous.

You just ran a whole Cure tournament!