Red Mosquito

scrub12 wrote:I really we get a Stone breakdown of every song for this album. I loved listening to the Vs. anniversary because of that.

Good point. His Vs anniversary was really good.

Perhaps most exciting to me is how hard it is to imagine this existing on a record alongside the readymade PJ "templates", i.e. the 2-minute punk rocker, the token EV folk dittie, etc. It seems like the whole record is going to have to kind of live in this general sonic sphere, otherwise this song will stick out like a sore thumb. Encouraging

Interesting lyric about expecting perfection as it goes into chorus with real drums instead of drum machine. Also get some chorused acoustic guitar in right channel in chorus. Think it's live drums at the end as well playing the verse groove as open hihat sounds less clipped.

Burn your assumptions.

good work boys, now let’s never speak of bo’b again.

I dug into the board archives to see if I could find my reaction to the previous 2 singles, but I was playing it coy.

From memory, I wasn't that into The Fixer, but really liked Backspacer initially - but I think that was more a reaction to my disappointment with S/T at the time.

With LB, I was definitely more reserved, and there was a definite feeling of "I like these tracks, but it feels like older men trying to ape themselves".

DotC is the first single from Pearl Jam I've felt unequivocally good about in the 21st century.

I look forward to referring to this post a year from now when I loathe/am indifferent to/am still in love with this song.

It’s a dark, dark song disguised with 80s synth. Miles ahead of CDM and I hope the album keeps to a theme end to end for a connected listening experience - lightning bolt couldn’t make up its mind and it suffered as a result.

I've listened to the song on repeat for the past 2 hours, with a few other PJ songs sprinkled in. Never felt the need to put any LB song on repeat, though live recordings greatly help LB songs for me.
I'm really liking DOTC on good headphones.
It's playful and has substance.
Ed doesn't do anything annoying and I think really hits the mark actually.
Production/mixing is so fucking welcome. Immediate thought is best since at least Riot Act.

tragabigzanda wrote:

evenslow wrote:need some production specific criticism from trag and mcp and spenno here.

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But most importantly, and this is HUGE if it's continued throughout the album: Ed doesn't seem to be using a condenser mic anymore. I've always believed he was using a dynamic mic from Ten-Binaural, and then he switched over to a condenser mic on Riot Act...

This made me play a song from Yield, Binaural, Riot Act, and S/T and pay attention to the vocal qualities. Pretty cool! Will have to think about and listen more for this.

Getting a bit of a NIN vibe from it. With Teeth era. I love it!

thought i remembered something about ed using an sm7b for a lot of his studio vocals.

This song is fantastic. It is exactly what PJ should and can be. They have been stuck in a 15-year, creatively-stagnant era. This breaks that mold. New inspiration. New creative direction. Far more inspired than anything since Riot Act, and as ambitious and anything since Binaural. Very exciting.

Colour me impressed. A good set of headphones did wonders for my appreciation of this song

The music is stellar and oh so fucking inspired

It feels fresh, reinvigorated, laboured over and collaborated on with no shortcuts or pearl jam tokenism in regards to solos, structure or shifts

The only bit I don’t like is the “positive, positive” part. He defiantly warmed to the task after that point, flawlessly so

That outro is killer, like incredibly killer. The production breaths and it just sounds glorious

I'm loving the drums. I can see how the electronic-sounding elements would turn a lot of people off.
I hope people give it a chance to grow on them.

I really wanna hear Matt's drumming on this one live.

Being a dance electronic music(not to be confused with "EDM" btw) fan I'm into it and actually feel like Matt finds a nice balance where the beat and the precision is there but it's still a rock song.
It's not trying to be an electronic song whatsoever, which would completely turn everyone off or for the few into PJ and dance electronic music just give you blue balls and make you go out and listen to a harder edge, real electronic song.

Matt's high-hat on DOTC at 2:06 did remind me of a hook in a techno track(funnily enough, actual sub-genre techno and not blanket term techno that gets thrown around).
1:35 into Moby - Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad (Enrico Sangiuliano remix)
https://youtu.be/Q2fOcWKP7-E?t=94

Spoiler: show

I posted something way out of line a few days ago and am happy to take it back. A shitty post, make no mistake.

The last two minutes of this song is groovy and I love the vocal layering. All in all, delighted to see they’re functioning again because deep down, I’d hope we all want them to succeed. Fair play to Pearl Jam and fuck the ten club

What's going on at the Pit now? I'm not ready to venture there yet.

Anyone not listening to this song on good headphones is really missing out.

Birds in Hell wrote:Anyone not listening to this song on good headphones is really missing out.

Absolutely. Some heavenly moments.

LetMeSleep wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:Anyone not listening to this song on good headphones is really missing out.

Absolutely. Some heavenly moments.

I love those deep boomy toms in the background.

I can't stop thinking about how staggeringly bad Can't Deny Me is by comparison and that interview with Jeff where his frustration with the band's creative drive and direction was notably evident. Somehow, in the last 12-18 months, they got from there to here.

Birds in Hell wrote:I can't stop thinking about how staggeringly bad Can't Deny Me is by comparison and that interview with Jeff where his frustration with the band's creative drive and direction was notably evident. Somehow, in the last 12-18 months, they got from there to here.

Indeed! Can't Deny Me seems like the one last fling they needed with BoB to know it was time to break up.

Birds in Hell wrote:I can't stop thinking about how staggeringly bad Can't Deny Me is by comparison and that interview with Jeff where his frustration with the band's creative drive and direction was notably evident. Somehow, in the last 12-18 months, they got from there to here.

Yeah, Im really starting to believe that Jeff put this band back on track.... Thank you Jeff...
Even Ed sounds great on this....compare that with CDM.....

This song has only 1 guitartrack. To pull this of live I think Jeff will play a keyboard......Stone on bass...

Im listening to this on good headphones now....and WOW.....

Stand back when the spirit comes!!