Red Mosquito

My favorite song on the album and one of their best album openers for sure. It's not straight forward like all of the others openers and still maintains its momentum.

Ed finally got the verse/chorus/guitar interlude/chorus/second verse song structure right after some misfires with Unthought Known and Lightning Bolt.

Those songs are trying to be something else, I think

Plus Lightning Bolt is excellent.

The prechorus to this is fantastic. The "all in the delivery" part.

When the actual chorus drops, it elevates it even higher.

guitar_davey wrote:The prechorus to this is fantastic. The "all in the delivery" part.

When the actual chorus drops, it's elevates it even higher.

Ooh baby. I think it just moved.

EJ wrote:

guitar_davey wrote:The prechorus to this is fantastic. The "all in the delivery" part.

When the actual chorus drops, it's elevates it even higher.

Ooh baby. I think it just moved.

Fuck yeah!

Monkey_Driven wrote:Ed finally got the verse/chorus/guitar interlude/chorus/second verse song structure right after some misfires with Unthought Known and Lightning Bolt.

I love the song Lightning Bolt among my catalogue favourites, although the album version is really limp.

Who Ever Said blows it out of the water. I don't think I'll ever even be able to listen to the recorded version of LB again.

This album is a Lightning Bolt killer (and I even like a lot of Lightning Bolt). This song is the manifesto for Gigaton.

stip wrote:Those songs are trying to be something else, I think

Plus Lightning Bolt is excellent.

Lightning Bolt succeeds despite the structure, if that makes sense. It serves the song in this one.

Like this from 2:30 onwards. It's not a perfect song but I'll take this, mistakes and all, over the sterile openers from the last 2 albums.

stip wrote:Those songs are trying to be something else, I think

Plus Lightning Bolt is excellent.

stip is nothing if not indefatigable. you have to admire it.

i love the part of Home is where....ed sounds fucking good and the band is doing all sort of things that grab my attention. And then when Ed starts with
but i wont give up...yeah, im just dancing men.

evenslow wrote:

stip wrote:Those songs are trying to be something else, I think

Plus Lightning Bolt is excellent.

stip is nothing if not indefatigable. you have to admire it.

by thinking Stip's indefatigable
we are tempting fate instead

I will man this wall until the Josh Evans remix finally vindicates me

You can't remix cat poop into a ribeye

The way Ed enunciates “satisfaction” feels like a nod to Devo’s “I can’t get no satisfaction”

Fattie_Vedder wrote:

mikejasond wrote:I love the music on "Whoever said its all been said" SO MUCH MORE than on "gave up on satisfaction" (not the vocals, just the background chords and sound)

I don’t disagree, but I like the juxtaposition. From melodic and a sense of desperate questioning to a sudden, harsh statement.

It's an interesting juxtaposition I guess but I wish it occupied the sonic space on the beginning of the chorus lines a bit more

theplatypus wrote:You can't remix cat poop into a ribeye

Not with that attitude

stip wrote:

theplatypus wrote:You can't remix cat poop into a ribeye

Not with that attitude

the only poop ribeye is a bad attitude

Okay, I love this song, too. It's amazing (at least for me) what writing about a song does for my appreciation for it.

stip wrote:Okay, I love this song, too.

welcome to the club