You know, it's totally believable that this could be a video game. I would imagine it'd be about a disgruntled waiter that's sick of diners treating him like shit. He finally snaps one day, and Rosary beds in one hand (for strangling victioms) and his 9mm pistol in the other, he goes on a rampage killing those diners that were rude to him.dadanotprada wrote:well done
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNesfq1Pki4
Rangi Guy wrote:So skating back to the train station after work today things went wrong.....now my skateboard is at the bottom of the harbour
10/10dadanotprada wrote:well done
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNesfq1Pki4
Thanks for posting that man. It's a bummer the vid cuts out just before the best part.Walker Bait wrote:Short clip of MYM live from tonight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4b8TAB ... ata_player
Rangi Guy wrote:So skating back to the train station after work today things went wrong.....now my skateboard is at the bottom of the harbour
Thank you!
Rangi Guy wrote:So skating back to the train station after work today things went wrong.....now my skateboard is at the bottom of the harbour
Obviously Ed's songs are open to a lot of interpretation but I'm just not hearing what you are laying down here.dprival78 wrote:eddie doesn't care for blind obedience. to hell with god's will.. we can take control of things if we want to. or, we can just sit back, be quiet, mind our manners, accept all the shit that's going on in the world and just suffer through it, and then go live in a paradise in the clouds for eternity after we die. wouldn't that be swell?darthvedder81 wrote:I honestly have no idea what the song is about. I hear vague allusions to religion but without official lyrics I have no idea what Ed is saying here. I still think his anger sounds forced and not purposefully sarcastic. I think a lot of people are putting their own sociopolitical spin on it but I don't hear a strong central message. The song just feels overstuffed with words to me without a clear target.
I think the beginning is the best part.Sgt. Crackpot wrote:Thanks for posting that man. It's a bummer the vid cuts out just before the best part.Walker Bait wrote:Short clip of MYM live from tonight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4b8TAB ... ata_player
Satan's Bed wasn't direct? Uh yeah it was. It was a stinging indictment of vanity and the self-exploitative nature of celebrity. I know this because I read the lyrics in the liner notes and also because you can actually hear what Ed is singing most of the time.harmless wrote:I'm sorry, but when have Ed's lyrics ever been direct and free of a thousand interpretations? He couldn't be more direct than this. Sure he was occasionally more direct on S/T but those songs sounded like a journal entry. He was decidedly *less* direct, to a vague extent, on Comatose. I mean I just don't get what people are wanting. I think it's 100% obvious what these lyrics are about and who Ed is attacking. Just my opinion, but what do people want? Was there a golden era of directness that people want Ed to return to? "Role, role model, roll models in blood..."? That's not direct either. That's metaphor, and the target of the venom could be anyone. That's part of the deciphering. I just think some people here are making up reasons to be unhappy with this.
Can we have a link for this please?EJ wrote:Yeah, his write up was the best one I've ever read on it. I'd like Jorge's opinion - and, mostly his opinion on what happened post-Binaural.Strat wrote: I fucking love Binaural but McP has a great write up on why they didnt completely knock it out of the park. So much potential
Ed is not 'slamming religion'. I'm not going to write again in detail about what I think he's doing, but there's loads of stuff I've written on it if you care to look. In short, white middle America peddling fundamentalist conservative views and policies under the guise of religion, whilst telling us to mind our manners: anti-choice, anti-gay, anti-women etc. The chorus is more hopeful and suggests another way. He's not slamming faith, or people with faith, at all. He's slamming a particular large contingent. Yes, I'm doing some interpretation work, but it doesn't take me long to get some answers.darthvedder81 wrote:Satan's Bed wasn't direct? Uh yeah it was. It was a stinging indictment of vanity and the self-exploitative nature of celebrity. I know this because I read the lyrics in the liner notes and also because you can actually hear what Ed is singing most of the time.harmless wrote:I'm sorry, but when have Ed's lyrics ever been direct and free of a thousand interpretations? He couldn't be more direct than this. Sure he was occasionally more direct on S/T but those songs sounded like a journal entry. He was decidedly *less* direct, to a vague extent, on Comatose. I mean I just don't get what people are wanting. I think it's 100% obvious what these lyrics are about and who Ed is attacking. Just my opinion, but what do people want? Was there a golden era of directness that people want Ed to return to? "Role, role model, roll models in blood..."? That's not direct either. That's metaphor, and the target of the venom could be anyone. That's part of the deciphering. I just think some people here are making up reasons to be unhappy with this.
Look obviously there are a ton of PJ songs open to interpretation. I would argue, however, that the angrier ones tend to be pretty damn direct. Which again is what I don't understand about this song. Is this serious angry "Leash" Ed or sarcastic angry "Do the Evolution" Ed? Right now everyone is seemingly pissed off at religion so they are going with "angry Ed" but I'm not convinced. Slamming religion that broadly would be a pretty big step for the band to take. Even in some of Ed's most politically or socially pointed songs there's traditionally been a through line of self-doubt.
RisingTides wrote:There is more kindness on the internet than we would care to admit to ourselves. Sometimes we are so afraid of falling victim to a ruse, we miss out on actual opportunities.
Yup, that too.dimejinky99 wrote:I took it to mean (on the 'choruses' 'self realised bit) that he was internalising it. 'Fuck this I don't need it or need to hear about it'. That what he was looking for in god and the idea of god has been corrupted by malign forces and that what he's been looking for resides in the self.
Just my take.
That's kind of what I meant by another way. It's more a kind of 'IF this is what religion is ('polite' and 'well-mannered', hypocritical society) then I don't want it' thing. He's not slamming the idea of faith; in fact he's prepared to use spiritual imagery for his path because he would rather be able to reach 'God' directly. I think Ed has always felt a sense of if God *did* show up, that would be cool. But he's not in all of this hollow posturing.RisingTides wrote:There is more kindness on the internet than we would care to admit to ourselves. Sometimes we are so afraid of falling victim to a ruse, we miss out on actual opportunities.
Dev wrote:i love listening to the leaked pj song "last word".
Not if you're a pluralist or universalist, or you believe there's no helldimejinky99 wrote:Fuckin chickenshit agnostics.
They're going to hell in EVERY religion
RisingTides wrote:There is more kindness on the internet than we would care to admit to ourselves. Sometimes we are so afraid of falling victim to a ruse, we miss out on actual opportunities.
