Red Mosquito

Ms Harmless wrote:Ed should've given Harper a whole verse on Long Way

True.

An Audience With The Earthlings! featuring a bit of Echo Victor

GOODMENDONTHAVETOPRETEND1234!

evenslow wrote:Ed really has to retire that fucking hat.

What have you got against fedoras? I started wearing one and m'ladies love them.

There's a dash of Nirvana in Good and Evil if you squint and turn your head sideways.

Just finished the Smartless pod with Ed and maybe it’s just me but I can’t get over how much Jason Bateman sounds like Stone. Anyway, good interview.

lecherouslittlestump wrote:

evenslow wrote:Ed really has to retire that fucking hat.

What have you got against fedoras? I started wearing one and m'ladies love them.

Ms Harmless wrote: is "solo album" all down to branding?

To an extent, I think so -- I don't think there's really any consistency to how albums are credited in this regard (across the board, not just in PJ universe). Sometimes it's a solo credit, sometimes individual plus band, sometimes just a band name. Probably just what feels right to the artists and/or marketing people at the time.

On this album, even though most of the songs have joint credits, I do think the number of songs where Eddie plays guitar (or piano) gives something of an indication of how many of the principal song ideas were his. There's a pretty high correlation in PJ between Eddie playing guitar and Eddie being the principal writer. In this case it seems like about half of the songs, maybe a little less. But I'd imagine that, even when the ideas came from someone else, or came into being more organically as jams, the musicians were probably looking to Ed for direction, approval, final veto power, etc., in a way that is considerably less democratic than in PJ.

I’ll note that in 2009(?), Ben Harper wanted to start that band called Relentless 7, and wanted to record and tour as that, and I believe the record company demanded he put his name on it. The first of their two studio albums was Ben Harper and Relentless 7 - White Lies for Dark Times, by the second album it was just Ben Harper - Give Till It’s Gone.

evenslow wrote:There's a dash of Nirvana in Good and Evil if you squint and turn your head sideways.

I've been resisting the urge to say this, but I hear (a) Territorial Pissings and (b) Milk It, sped up.

it's my second fave after PoR

tragabigzanda wrote:You know what's weird about this album? It actually sounds pretty good on laptop speakers.*

*Relatively speaking

The answer is to just keep turning this music up very loud and dancing until your hearing is as bad as eds.

Zane Lowe’s a bit much, isn’t he?

Love Zane. Great interviews. Seems like a well grounded caring gentleman too.

Look forward to hearing the interview. Maybe tomorrow.

evenslow wrote:There's a dash of Nirvana in Good and Evil if you squint and turn your head sideways.

Absolutely there is. I didn't even squint.

Jaeti wrote:

evenslow wrote:There's a dash of Nirvana in Good and Evil if you squint and turn your head sideways.

I've been resisting the urge to say this, but I hear (a) Territorial Pissings and (b) Milk It, sped up.

Tourette's