Dark Matter (song)

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Dark Matter Initial Reactions

5 Stars
33
17%
4 Stars
92
48%
3 Stars
56
29%
2 Stars
8
4%
1 Star
3
2%
 
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Re: Dark Matter (song)

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cool things I love in Dark Matter:

open hi-hat on the 1 of every bar in the verses: fuck yeah, that's the stuff I've been waiting for Matt to bring to the table

"take the breaths from my... cheeeest", the way Ed staggers and slurs the end of that line is the good stuff

every time I hear "no patience left for... impatience no more", I just can't help hearing the distant echo of "my jaw left hurtin'... dropped wide open"
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Re: Dark Matter (song)

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stip wrote:Dark Matter is better than Get Right but Get Right is more fun.

Dark Matter is better thanArmy Reserve but Army Reserve is more emotionally complex
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Where's this ranker thing again? I gotta do this now, assuming Dark Matter is in it.
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RockPusher wrote:Where's this ranker thing again? I gotta do this now, assuming Dark Matter is in it.
This thread's got all the rancor one needs.
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this thread is evil...

but dark matter (song) (thread) > dark matter (song)
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RockPusher wrote:Where's this ranker thing again? I gotta do this now, assuming Dark Matter is in it.
http://return-to-form.surge.sh/
We have it saved at the top of the Pearl Jam thread index
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RockPusher wrote:Where's this ranker thing again? I gotta do this now, assuming Dark Matter is in it.
You can rank the whole album, even the songs you haven’t heard yet.

http://return-to-form.surge.sh/ranker/? ... 8,29,30,31
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Downgraded to 2.5. Excitement wore off.

Not loving Eds vocals on this one. Or, rather, surprisingly.....dont love how buried they are.
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Strat wrote:
Not loving Eds vocals on this one. Or, rather, surprisingly.....dont love how buried they are.
the vocals sitting inside the mix is the only thing i like :lol:
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stip wrote:
RockPusher wrote:Where's this ranker thing again? I gotta do this now, assuming Dark Matter is in it.
http://return-to-form.surge.sh/
We have it saved at the top of the Pearl Jam thread index
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Strat wrote:Downgraded to 2.5. Excitement wore off.

Not loving Eds vocals on this one. Or, rather, surprisingly.....dont love how buried they are.
Buried?
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I have no idea how I feel about this song.
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Feel the way you feel about songs that are good.
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Jaeti wrote:Feel the way you feel about songs that are good.
It's a good boring song. I might prefer a more I interesting crap song. It does make me nervous that it is the title track. I would assume it is supposed to be a stand out track.
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It wouldn't be a too 5 song on anything other than Lightning Bolt and maybe Riot Act
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Tj wrote:It wouldn't be a too 5 song on anything other than Lightning Bolt and maybe Riot Act
This wouldn't even be a Top 14 song on Riot Act.
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Still at a 4 for me.
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Same. I really like it. Solid 4 star song.
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Strat wrote:Downgraded to 2.5. Excitement wore off.

Not loving Eds vocals on this one. Or, rather, surprisingly.....dont love how buried they are.
Kinda crazy to me. 2.5 is what I'd give something like.... Infallible. And this is so much better than Infallible.
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stip wrote:I think this came up yesterday but Dark Matter is better than God’s Dice, which I think is at the bottom of Pearl Jam’s hard driving rockers - except for big wave and supersonic, which feel like they should be in their own category
For me, God's Dice might be their most underrated hard driving rocker. Absolutely love it.
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