Red Mosquito

darth_vedder wrote:

evenslow wrote:

darth_vedder wrote:Still liking this one team. I don't care if it's middle age rock, dad rock, pussy rock, douche bag rock, cock rock, ballad corn ball rock, or whatever, I like it.

Did you win the darth vedder-off yet?

Well, I sliced his arms and legs off, and left him next to a river of fire to burn to death, but he managed to survive somehow.

The key is slicing his rat tail off.

evenslow wrote:My use of the term "middle-aged" was not meant as an insult, rather, more of a fact. The guy writing it is middle-aged and I picture him speaking to his wife and kids when he's writing it.

Everyone else's interpretation can obviously be as broad as necessary. The sirens come for us all, my friends.

I see it the same way as you, as bad as i Am at hearing hearing lyrics and knowing the story they are telling, that one was pretty obvious.

McParadigm wrote:

darth_vedder wrote:

evenslow wrote:

darth_vedder wrote:Still liking this one team. I don't care if it's middle age rock, dad rock, pussy rock, douche bag rock, cock rock, ballad corn ball rock, or whatever, I like it.

Did you win the darth vedder-off yet?

Well, I sliced his arms and legs off, and left him next to a river of fire to burn to death, but he managed to survive somehow.

Did you try beating him off?

Spoiler: show

harmless wrote:

darth_vedder wrote:

EJ wrote:

darth_vedder wrote:

EJ wrote:

darth_vedder wrote:Still liking this one team. I don't care if it's middle age rock, dad rock, pussy rock, douche bag rock, cock rock, ballad corn ball rock, or whatever, I like it.

Its okay. You're not alone. I'm shocked I enjoy this one as much as I do. Not the avenue I would've ever wanted the band to go down.

It's weird aint it? I wrote about this in the YM thread yesterday...YM is a song I should like, and Sirens is a song I shouldn't like. YM is the type of song I'd rather them explore more into. This is the road I would rather PJ go down; Sirens is not. Yet, I think (at this point) I like Sirens more. Crazy? Yes, and I have no explanation for it.

It is really strange. And, I have the same feelings about both songs.

I have a feeling YM will surpass Sirens though. Maybe Sirens just has more instant gratification for me? I can imagine this time next year that I change my mind, and put YM above Sirens in the always something, never nothing ranking system I have.

Fixed.

McParadigm wrote:

darth_vedder wrote:

evenslow wrote:

darth_vedder wrote:Still liking this one team. I don't care if it's middle age rock, dad rock, pussy rock, douche bag rock, cock rock, ballad corn ball rock, or whatever, I like it.

Did you win the darth vedder-off yet?

Well, I sliced his arms and legs off, and left him next to a river of fire to burn to death, but he managed to survive somehow.

Did you try beating him off?

Spoiler: show

Fuck! I didn't even think about that. Maybe I should have butt sexed him with my lightsaber.

Dr. Van Nostrand wrote:

Heathen wrote:I guess I don't like this song precisely because I'm pretty fine with mortality. I actually wish it would happen much sooner to a lot of people.

i dont think you have to have a problem with your mortality to like the song, but if you do it might mean more to you. reguardless of what the song was about, i think its beautiful, but the words to hit me just like the end does

still sucks

I still love this song in the face, motherfuckers.

I can't believe I thought this was OK.

THIS IS NOT OK.

It's brilliant, Spenno.

I, uh, don't know where to go with that.

Birds in Hell wrote:I can't believe I thought this was OK.

THIS IS NOT OK.

Welp, the fear went away.

harmless wrote:It's brilliant, Spenno.

I agree

This song has gradually won me over--it's difficult not to be impressed by how perfect a facsimile it is of that '80's rock ballad style, intentional or not, so much so that I find myself nodding along at the astuteness of a lyric like "we danced with laughter in the ever after" rather than seething with rage at the idea that an otherwise sensible person would voluntarily record himself saying such a thing. Every time I hear it I feel like it's reminding me of a very specific song that I can't put my finger on (for some reason my mind keeps returning to "High Enough" by Damn Yankees, though I don't think that's it), but I think that might just be because it does such a thorough job touching on virtually every component of the genre that my mind is trying to convince me that it's already part of the great spandex pantheon.

Put it another way: imagine going to restaurant and seeing an extremely well-dressed man at a nearby table--an Armani suit, really expensive shoes, the whole works--who then turns his head to the side and you notice that in one of his ears he is wearing a huge dangly earring made out of big purple rhinestones. Of course you immediately dismiss it as garish, but you still spend the whole night staring at it. This song is the dangly purple rhinestone earring of the Pearl Jam catalog--a fashion faux-pas that you know could have the taste police swarming the place with warrants within seconds, but you don't call because in your heart you can't wish ill fortune upon such absurdity.

That's a really long way to say "this song fucking sucks, but i still like to listen to it".

cutuphalfdead wrote:That's a really long way to say "this song fucking sucks, but i still like to listen to it".

That's how I do, chud.

Kevin Davis wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:That's a really long way to say "this song fucking sucks, but i still like to listen to it".

That's how I do, chud.

And you do it so well.