Red Mosquito

Birds in Hell wrote:

Val wrote:

RAG319 wrote:

Val wrote:Guys, I honestly tried giving TTLW multiple chances after seeing a lot of praise being sung to it.

But my initial reaction stands: it’s a pretentious piece of mediocrity straining to be original and special.

It’s not.

Parts of it are ridiculous even.

Cap. But sure, fine. It's a Matt song through and through. If you didn't dig Wellwater Conspiracy, I can see how you might not dig TTLW. But at least the riff is weird and off-kilter and different. The song is also a bit starker than a lot of their recent material. A distant cousin to in the moonlight.

Yeah, yeah, exactly — the riff being off kilter and weird is the con here.
It’s there to distract you from an absence of a standout melody.

This is getting worse all the time.

It's another very typical Matt-Cam rocker, cut from the same cloth (if maybe not the same piece) as Evacuation, Get Right, etc.

youre just teeing him up to tell us he thinks those songs suck too.

I quit!

the thing I like about Running most of all is that it leans into its sense of humour, which I think is what punk (when it works) should do; the thing that makes "funny" PJ all too often not funny is that it's kind of embarrassed to laugh at itself; this song's central metaphor is essentially flushing the toilet, Ed is delivering it with abandon, and I admire that

Kaka poo poo is central to punk rock

This could be an inside joke by PJ

Mmmmmaybe not

"Take The Long Way" is one of exactly 2 Gigaton songs I still wanna listen to. Nothing we've heard from Dark Matter so far is as good

got a few loud car plays in. fun song! i am quite enjoying myself. bridge feels like it belongs elsewhere, though

I think the Frankenbridge is one of the remaining hallmarks of good PJ; I feel like if this bridge was put in a song where it "belonged", it would be a U2 song; the predictability of each part is strengthened by its being in a place you weren't expecting

pretty into this one, team! this is a blast

its not a stone cold classic but good times were had by me

definitely ahead of take the long way.

though TTLW has a better solo

but the most important thing is that we are all enjoying new pearl jam in the presence of each other’s company and not descending into Lightning Bolt era levels of acrimony and despair

stip wrote:but the most important thing is that we are all enjoying new pearl jam in the presence of each other’s company and not descending into Lightning Bolt era levels of acrimony and despair

the real Dark Matter was the friends we made along the way

Pj has earned the right to annoy me at this point.

both of these songs get better (or more comfortable) for me with each listen and that's what PJ should do, so I'm happy

stip wrote:but the most important thing is that we are all enjoying new pearl jam in the presence of each other’s company and not descending into Lightning Bolt era levels of acrimony and despair

Give it time

stip wrote:but the most important thing is that we are all enjoying new pearl jam in the presence of each other’s company and not descending into Lightning Bolt era levels of acrimony and despair

Give it time

Monkey_Driven wrote:My favorite part of a new song's release is being able to predict a user's reaction almost to a T.

100%

Strat wrote:Pj has earned the right to annoy me at this point.

I'd like to think I've put in that work too