Red Mosquito

Leatherhead wrote: I can get with this, mostly. But I've listened to this song dozens of times and my ears have never hurt.

Strat wrote:This song, and watts production, in general is like.....

Having your head shoved into a toilet and youre just trying to survive for 3.5 minutes instead of being let loose in a forest to discover all these beautiful sounds and sights and smells.....

Theres little breathing room and its exhausting after awhile. Its suffocating.

I think the song fucking rules and im not a total pussy like trag, so i can deal with it but i totally get his issues with it. It feels suffocating. That doesnt mean he doesnt like the tremolo effect on the guitar (which very well could jsut be a pedal utilized on their board).

It’s the entire package and the way it’s presented as a whole. Trag knows better but my assumption is it’s so fucking heavily compressed and volumes are cranked across the board that it’s just a bit too much. It’s an onslaught which is exciting at first....

tragabigzanda wrote:

Ello Sailor wrote:Spike's wife works in renewable energy. I don't think it was a fart-sniffing/own-anus-dwelling move.

Even worse, she should’ve seen the scam for what it is

Ello Sailor wrote:Lotta hurt in this thread.

Val wrote:

RockPusher wrote:I've heard this song probably around 30 times now, and it still feels fresh. I have an open mind and have tried to objectively analyze whether production values are hurting my experience of it. I can feel that criticism when I listen to Angry by the Stones, so I get it in general and in particular with Watt. Thankfully, there is no such interference happening for me with this track. The music comes thru, and I am happy.

The drumming is groovy and creative
The vocal part is mature and musically sound
The pre-chorus is near damn epic
The solo is peak Mike stuff

So it’s a bit overpolished and the drums sound a bit artificial — big deal!
It’s still a good, solid, hard hitting rock song to make anyone proud

tragabigzanda wrote:just listened for the first time in a week, and I'm convinced we need a 1.5 star rating. It's definitely better than Can't Deny Me or Sweet Lew... But this production is literally maybe the worst I've ever heard from a major label rock band, at least since 1991 or so. Utterly toothless, and it's making my ears ring at moderate volumes.

McParadigm wrote:Pearl Jam needs to get deep into that 1980’s fat gated reverb sound.

More saxophone too

Strat wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

elliseamos wrote:

Val wrote:Just listened to it in my car again and the enjoyment level hasn’t dropped.
Such a good rock song and the performance is top notch

This has been my experience.

Trag you're currently at 2 or 1?

I'm at a 2.

Only based on production and nothing about the song itself which i think you actually like?

You're a WEIRD GUY ACE

Ms Harmless wrote:there's a lot of polished straightforward rock songs out there, and there's also a lot of very live-sounding rock songs but for the drums (a lot of The Cure, or Radiohead, or 1979 by The Smashing Pumpkins, or We're in This Together Now by NIN, or the Big Yellow Taxi cover by Counting Crows)

I'm not really comparing this song to any of those as a whole; I'm just saying that this "slightly false drum sound" is neither a shocking and novel 2024 phenomenon nor a deal-breaking tragedy for yours truly