Red Mosquito

dprival78 wrote:i fucking love it when they just change the chord progression during the "living backwards in a forward town" line

this, after also changing course on "home is where the broken heart is" - they need to do this kind of deliberately fucking up structures more often

My ears are always drawn to that bass lick Jeff is playing in the choruses under the "who ever said it's all been said" vocal.

Ms Harmless wrote:

dprival78 wrote:i fucking love it when they just change the chord progression during the "living backwards in a forward town" line

this, after also changing course on "home is where the broken heart is" - they need to do this kind of deliberately fucking up structures more often

reading the interview w the producer, it wasnt deliberate to make a weird song structure, it just kinda happened.

I can't get enough of this song.

EJ wrote:I can't get enough of this song.

I hear ya. I play this one a lot and more than any of the others.

cant stop listening to this song. cant believe how good it is. i didnt think they had a banger this good left in them.

warehouse wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:

dprival78 wrote:i fucking love it when they just change the chord progression during the "living backwards in a forward town" line

this, after also changing course on "home is where the broken heart is" - they need to do this kind of deliberately fucking up structures more often

reading the interview w the producer, it wasnt deliberate to make a weird song structure, it just kinda happened.

I'll rephrase: not caring about shoving songs into pre-written structures, doing "what sounds good"

the intro is a lot like the intro of the extended, jammy, versions of LBC they started playing a few years ago

and it's fantastic

dprival78 wrote:the intro is a lot like the intro of the extended, jammy, versions of LBC they started playing a few years ago

and it's fantastic

The one where they went into Jumping Jack Flash. I agree with everything except it’s merely nice.

Another favorite lyric of mine (which I don't think has been highlighted yet), especially coupled with its delivery, is "A rubble of commandments from the road step aside, a rubble of commandments in the road step aside."

Jaeti wrote:Another favorite lyric of mine (which I don't think has been highlighted yet), especially coupled with its delivery, is "A rubble of commandments from the road step aside, a rubble of commandments in the road step aside."

yeah that line, and its delivery, is fucking ace

This song doesn't sound like a song they wanted to ensure would translate to a live setting, but instead a song they wanted to translate their live sound to a studio recording. And I think they succeeded.

I agree with all of this. So great.

This started as a 3 for me, now it's a 4. There's a lot of very cool shit going on here.

I love Ed's delivery in this song. He's been working on this very practiced and forced sounding (to me) vocal affectations for years now. This feels honest and raw. There are little breaths and grunts and catches in his voice that sound/feel authentic and decidedly unpracticed. Other than hitting the "w" in "WWWho Ever Said" with excess breath. Everything else sounds unpolished and live. Very cool.

durdencommatyler wrote:I love Ed's delivery in this song. He's been working on this very practiced and forced sounding (to me) vocal affectations for years now. This feels honest and raw. There are little breaths and grunts and catches in his voice that sound/feel authentic and decidedly unpracticed. Other than hitting the "w" in "WWWho Ever Said" with excess breath. Everything else sounds unpolished and live. Very cool.

Absolutely. Good post.

When Living forward in a backwards town / I feed 'em drinks just to watch 'em drown hits...

RAG319 wrote:When Living forward in a backwards town / I feed 'em drinks just to watch 'em drown hits...

yep

this song is hitting me harder than ever tonight - it took a while!