Red Mosquito

stip wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:

McParadigm wrote:"Eddie song" is a pretty liberal interpretation of that song's genesis, methinks.

seriously

oh, come on. You know exactly what he meant, Jorge.

I like that Mike Watt song "Against The 70's" that Eddie Vedder sings on and may or may not have had some hand in writing or arranging even though Mike Watt gets sole credit.

bada wrote:If you don't fully qualify everything on this board vaginas get full of sand.

I like that Mike Watt song "Against The 70's" that Eddie Vedder sings on and may or may not have had some hand in writing or arranging even though Mike Watt gets sole credit.

stip wrote:Thumbing My Way has some of that overpicking too.

It's definitely got better lyrics than the slower songs that followed. But I certainly prefer Just Breathe, The End, and Sleeping by Myself to Thumbing My Way. Shit, I probably like Future Days more too, but that song is pretty bound up with some personal stuff it is hard to separate it out from.

I like most of the vocal flourishes in these newer songs

Lament wrote:Why would anyone assume Ed had a hand in writing or arranging Against the 70s in spite of the credits? There's not an ounce of EV/PJ DNA in that song. It oozes Mike Watt.

southp wrote:I've been running through my "bsides and misc" PJ folder this week and I'm constantly reminded of how good even the throw-away tracks are from this band. And it's not just talking about the obvious stuff like Sad or Breath, I'm talking about things like Black Red Yellow or Happy when I'm Crying. Imagine finding this band today and all the beautiful and weird stuff you'd have to explore.

Some recordings I fell in love with all over again...

Footsteps (original version) - such a powerful vocal performance gets muddied by the added harmonica on LD.
Drifting (LD version) - the flipside of what I said about Footsteps, this one got better when Eddie went to the higher octave on Lost Dogs.
Crazy Mary - I've become a bit desensitized to the long-winded live renditions and forgot how honest Ed's vocal was on the original recording.
Poor Girl and Devil Doll (Ed with Supersuckers) - These are two of my favorite Ed-collaboration tracks, right up there with Ed/Zeke doing I Believe in Miracles.

Lament wrote:He shares credits with other people on that album. He shared credits with other at times in the Minutemen. It sounds exactly like the kinds of songs he's been writing for his entire career, and nothing like anything Ed has written before or since then.

So yeah, it's obviously a pretty safe assumption that Ed had something to do with writing it.

bodysnatcher wrote:Let's make an one-disc album of just Eddie songs!

Lament wrote:Fair enough. My response wasn't about him calling it an Eddie song as much as the follow up comment (after the initial ball-busting from Spenno, I believe) that Ed's DNA or whatever was all over the song.

You should check out Mike Watt if you actually dig Against the 70s. That whole album is a really enjoyable listen.

Lament wrote:Fair enough. My response wasn't about him calling it an Eddie song as much as the follow up comment (after the initial ball-busting from Spenno, I believe) that Ed's DNA or whatever was all over the song.

You should check out Mike Watt if you actually dig Against the 70s. That whole album is a really enjoyable listen.

Strat wrote:Big Train and Piss Bottle Men especially.

stupidmop wrote:From tumblr. I think we've all been waiting for something like this.

Pearl Jam Singing About the Ocean

A compilation of lyrical references to the ocean, the sea, waves, or anything ocean-related.