Red Mosquito

stip wrote:Indifference is a good call, but I still love elderly woman as much as I ever did?

I think part of my issue is the live performance also hasn't aged well and that has impacted the recording.

who you are for me. Not that I particularly loved the song when it came out, it was different than most other songs at the time which made it unique, but now it just evokes an ehh response from me when I see it playing on sirius.

Also dissident and glorified g, but I never liked either song and continue to not like them, so I'm not sure either (for me) fit the haven't aged well thread.

jamfan14 wrote:who you are for me.

Whoa! No Code just gets better & better (outside the resident clunkers of I'm Open and Mankind)

All my former no code favorites have gone down quite a bit (in my tree, red mosquito, present tense). Who you are is a rare exception - a song that has gotten better over time, perhaps in part because I didn't care much for it at first

I like Who You Are less now too but that's down to Eddie's crimes against correct word usage, not a lessened appreciation of the music (which is lovely).

stip wrote:All my former no code favorites have gone down quite a bit (in my tree, red mosquito, present tense). Who you are is a rare exception - a song that has gotten better over time, perhaps in part because I didn't care much for it at first

Interesting, I actually like the more recent live versions of red mosquito better (the ben harper ones from I guess the Avocado or Backspacer tour (I forget which) than I did the original album version which led me to listening to the song more so than I had in awhile.

jamfan14 wrote:Interesting, I actually like the more recent live versions of red mosquito better (the ben harper ones from I guess the Avocado or Backspacer tour (I forget which) than I did the original album version which led me to listening to the song more so than I had in awhile.

Fairly certain that was the tour for Backspacer…

Out of those 2 albums, I saw them 5 times on S/T and only once for Backspacer…and that show is where I saw them rock RM.

Unthought Known - i loved this one when it came out, but now I get impatient when I hear the LBC intro and it feels like it takes forever to get going.
Indifference - Seeing this one live close a show was kind of a downer. Everyone seemed depressed leaving the building. Song is still good but not one I seek out.

Dissident to me would be on the boring spectrum of a Ten song but I used to like it in 1993/94. First few times I heard Sirens I liked it but it faded fast.

Edit - I should be careful though because often songs fade in and out of my preferences.

liebzz wrote:Dissident to me would be on the boring spectrum of a Ten song but I used to like it in 1993/94. First few times I heard Sirens I liked it but it faded fast.

Edit - I should be careful though because often songs fade in and out of my preferences.

I think I appreciate Dissident more now than ever - his voice was arguably never better in a studio recording.

Let the records play for one. I thought it sounded like Shania Twain back when the record came out but it's an automatic skip for me now.

lowlight79 wrote:Let the records play for one. I thought it sounded like Shania Twain back when the record came out but it's an automatic skip for me now.

The fact that it sounds like Shania Twain wasn't reason enough for an automatic skip back then?

nothing wrong with some Shania

tragabigzanda wrote:I love Stone's guitar work on the verses

Yup. He used to be so fucking creative with chord voicings and bridging them together

I kind of think everything about LTRP is fine except for the chorus; their "minor verse / major chorus" thing is well established but it's just a liiiittle too twee here

probably half of Ten has aged not so well for me

tragabigzanda wrote:

Strat wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:I love Stone's guitar work on the verses

Yup. He used to be so fucking creative with chord voicings and bridging them together

What are more recent examples do you think?

Parachutes
LTRP (intro)
Life Wasted (it's an open tuning with a partial capo, so I think it counts)

Otherwise, jeez...He really has let this quality fall by the wayside, at least on PJ albums

Yea all those are great. I do love how deceptively simple his playing on life wasted is


I never learned his songs on moonlander though .... there could
Be some gems

Strat wrote:though .... there could
Be some gems

kinda wanna make this my sig