Red Mosquito

LetMeSleep wrote:

B wrote:

VinylGuy wrote:

B wrote:

epilogue wrote:

B wrote:I spent years and years of my youth skipping WMA, and only rediscovered it with the reissue and realized how ahead of the curve Pearl Jam was, both musically and socially.

We certainly don't need to get political here but it says a lot that you think of it as "ahead of the curve" politically.

High school B was not aware of politics, and probably a little racist. I knew about Rodney King and the resulting riots, but I was MORE interested in making out with Melinda Elkins.

what happened with Melinda? Did you paid more attention to her than to wma?

Oh the attention paid off. I got to touch her boobs.

Actual skin or sweater?

I don't think sweater counts, does it?

epilogue wrote:It's really interesting to me, and I don't mean it as any kind of sight, it's fascinating to see the change, that folks think of WMA as a premonition rather than a reaction to not only the year in which it was written but the previous two hundred as well.

I took B's 'ahead of the curve' comment to mean that major label rock bands weren't really writing songs about police brutality against blacks at the time, and that the song still seems timely in 2021.

I don't see how you're reading a 'premonition' angle into it.

Remember this song was released 18 months after Bodycount's first album and a year after RATM.

Birds in Hell wrote:

epilogue wrote:It's really interesting to me, and I don't mean it as any kind of sight, it's fascinating to see the change, that folks think of WMA as a premonition rather than a reaction to not only the year in which it was written but the previous two hundred as well.

I took B's 'ahead of the curve' comment to mean that major label rock bands weren't really writing songs about police brutality against blacks at the time, and that the song still seems timely in 2021.

I don't see how you're reading a 'premonition' angle into it.

Chants of the Clairvoyants

I've never had people defend me in a thread before. I feel very uncomfortable.

B wrote:I've never had people defend me in a thread before. I feel very uncomfortable.

It's the Melinda effect.

B wrote:I've never had people defend me in a thread before. I feel very uncomfortable.

LetMeSleep wrote:

B wrote:I've never had people defend me in a thread before. I feel very uncomfortable.

It's the Melinda effect.

Man ... good times.