Song of the Moment: My Father's Son

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I'm not sure what else there is to write about, to be honest.
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Yellow Ledbetter wrote:Have you ever thought that this is Alive told by another point of view?

For someone that inherited genes from a psycopath he could do a good protagonist for Once ;)
yeah that popped into my head when i first heard the song
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Maybe its intentional.

Or maybe Ed just uses some core themes repeatedly, when he's up amongst the waves thinking about death and trying not to get overwhelmed.
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There are basically like 6 themes he writes about
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Maybe BoB just patted him on the bottom and said "why don' you go on into thayat tape clawset, honey, and write me a reeeal good victim song. Jus' like..." here he paused to stroke his hair, "like when you were young. Young, an' so so sweet. 'Kay, puddin'?"
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Ed's worst subject is music. Music about music. :arrow:
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harmless wrote:Ed's worst subject is music. Music about music. :arrow:
Do we know of any bands from the last ten years that he actually listens to? I imagine there must be, but it would make that whole trend way funnier to me.
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McParadigm wrote:
harmless wrote:Ed's worst subject is music. Music about music. :arrow:
Do we know of any bands from the last ten years that he actually listens to? I imagine there must be, but it would make that whole trend way funnier to me.
Have they listened to current music since... Vitalogy?
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"Let the records play!"*

*Eddie Vedder does not want to hear your records.
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:lol:

If you look at the small print under LTRP, you'll see a dedication to Sonic Youth. It simply says "thanks for the sound experiments."
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im worried that they are already skipping this one a lot live, its the one i want to hear the most live and im thinking i might miss out on it. i dont think it got played at either BK show or either Philly show.
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They play it waaay too fast anyway.
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harmless wrote:They play it waaay too fast anyway.
do they? maybe they are trying to get it worked out before they start back with it, hopefully in Charlottesville or Charlotte or both
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Possibly.
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harmless wrote:They play it waaay too fast anyway.
I don't think that's true.

The lower key kind of takes the wind out of it, though.
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Birds in Hell wrote:
harmless wrote:They play it waaay too fast anyway.
I don't think that's true.

The lower key kind of takes the wind out of it, though.
thats kinda disappointing, but i still wanna see them play it live
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Dr. Van Nostrand wrote:
Birds in Hell wrote:
harmless wrote:They play it waaay too fast anyway.
I don't think that's true.

The lower key kind of takes the wind out of it, though.
thats kinda disappointing, but i still wanna see them play it live
Me too!

Hopefully they'll settle into a groove with it once it's been played a few more times.
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Birds in Hell wrote:
harmless wrote:They play it waaay too fast anyway.
I don't think that's true.
You don't think they play it too fast? That depends on whether you think it can afford to be much faster than the studio version.
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McParadigm wrote:
harmless wrote:Ed's worst subject is music. Music about music. :arrow:
Do we know of any bands from the last ten years that he actually listens to? I imagine there must be, but it would make that whole trend way funnier to me.
I know he was into early Kings of Leon. I read somewhere that most of the stuff on "Pearl Jam" was written after Ed had spent an entire summer or year or something listening to Aha Shake Heartbreak, which is actually a good album but sounds nothing like ST.
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CupidStunt wrote:
McParadigm wrote:
harmless wrote:Ed's worst subject is music. Music about music. :arrow:
Do we know of any bands from the last ten years that he actually listens to? I imagine there must be, but it would make that whole trend way funnier to me.
I know he was into early Kings of Leon. I read somewhere that most of the stuff on "Pearl Jam" was written after Ed had spent an entire summer or year or something listening to Aha Shake Heartbreak, which is actually a good album but sounds nothing like ST.
That's pretty funny.
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