Red Mosquito

bodysnatcher wrote:

Jorge wrote:

stip wrote:Who Ever Said and Comes than Goes are both long songs, though. It's not like SBWM or Never Destination where the words do tumble over each other (although ND is the only one of these songs that's fast to the point of being a challenge to sing). Is that an issue with the length of the song? Do folks just want more strumming breaks on Comes than Goes?

"Comes Then Goes" is long because it has a lot of lyrics, though. There is absolutely nothing else going on in that song

Except that part that is like “Cohhhhhhh-WHA-unmmmmmmms, then goesssssssss”

stip wrote:I mean I get a critique that someone might think Comes than Goes is just too long. I think the endings of WMA and Not For You wear out their welcome and you lose interest in what's going on. But that seems like a different issue than folks thinking Eddie's become too wordy.

But then again the lyrics are an important part of my experience with the band's music. To me this is like saying the guitarists are playing too many notes. What matters is whether or not they are interesting notes, and fit the structure of the song they are in. Not just that there is too much of it

tragabigzanda wrote:CTG is probably Ed's strongest solo outing since...a long time ago

Jorge wrote:

stip wrote:I mean I get a critique that someone might think Comes than Goes is just too long. I think the endings of WMA and Not For You wear out their welcome and you lose interest in what's going on. But that seems like a different issue than folks thinking Eddie's become too wordy.

But then again the lyrics are an important part of my experience with the band's music. To me this is like saying the guitarists are playing too many notes. What matters is whether or not they are interesting notes, and fit the structure of the song they are in. Not just that there is too much of it

I didn't make the initial critique, but I will say that my problems with CTG are that it goes on forever and that its lyrics are really bad

stip wrote:Oh man, there's so many killer passages in Comes Than Goes. That's exactly what I want from Eddie as a writer.

stip wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:the acoustic guitar-playing in CTG is a million times more interesting than a lot of recent Ed ballads, tbf

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Jorge wrote:

stip wrote:Oh man, there's so many killer passages in Comes Than Goes. That's exactly what I want from Eddie as a writer.

The tortured syntax to fit the meter thing just kills it for me, and he does it several times in the song

Jorge wrote:

stip wrote:Oh man, there's so many killer passages in Comes Than Goes. That's exactly what I want from Eddie as a writer.

The tortured syntax to fit the meter thing just kills it for me, and he does it several times in the song

Ms Harmless wrote:

Jorge wrote:

stip wrote:Oh man, there's so many killer passages in Comes Than Goes. That's exactly what I want from Eddie as a writer.

The tortured syntax to fit the meter thing just kills it for me, and he does it several times in the song

I don't mind when he does this, as long as the sentence still makes logical sense; something like "I stopped the rhythm but my clock was full yeah"... I can't make it mean anything

Jorge wrote:I love "Parachutes" with everything in me

Jorge wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:

Jorge wrote:

stip wrote:Oh man, there's so many killer passages in Comes Than Goes. That's exactly what I want from Eddie as a writer.

The tortured syntax to fit the meter thing just kills it for me, and he does it several times in the song

I don't mind when he does this, as long as the sentence still makes logical sense; something like "I stopped the rhythm but my clock was full yeah"... I can't make it mean anything

I never understood what he meant by that

stip wrote:

Jorge wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:

Jorge wrote:

stip wrote:Oh man, there's so many killer passages in Comes Than Goes. That's exactly what I want from Eddie as a writer.

The tortured syntax to fit the meter thing just kills it for me, and he does it several times in the song

I don't mind when he does this, as long as the sentence still makes logical sense; something like "I stopped the rhythm but my clock was full yeah"... I can't make it mean anything

I never understood what he meant by that

Same. Fortunately I've never cared enough for the song to try and torture out a meaning