Red Mosquito

The riffs on Ole kind of remind me of early AC/DC.

durdencommatyler wrote: I liked the idea of having another original song on an xmas single.

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It would sure be nice for this to happen again, wouldn't it? The series that gave us "Let Me Sleep," "Angel," "Happy When I'm Crying," and "Strangest Tribe" -- we hardly knew ye.

Strangest Tribe is sooooo good.

I like drifting more than strangest tribe

I don't think there is any appreciable drop off in eddies writing in the post riot act era

stip wrote:I like drifting more than strangest tribe

See, Ruddo, here's a good example of an appropriate post for this thread.

In fact other than vitalogy (his high water mark) eddies writing has been pretty consistent throughout his career

durdencommatyler wrote:

stip wrote:I like drifting more than strangest tribe

See, Ruddo, here's a good example of an appropriate post for this thread.

This thread was made for me

stip wrote:I don't think there is any appreciable drop off in eddies writing in the post riot act era

Ole′!

There's duds like that throughout the catalog. Oles no worse than U

stip wrote:There's duds like that throughout the catalog. Oles no worse than U

I meant Ole' in the literal sense, in an ironic way.

This will be unpopular with some, but while he is not one of the all time greats, Eddie is generally a talented lyricist

It's the word 'ole' that people have some weird hang up about. If he was singing 'Fuck Off!' instead, people would goddamn love that song. It's so stupid.

I think the lyrics to Ole are just fine. He's not breaking any new ground or changing the world or anything. But they're nowhere near bad.

darth_vedder wrote:

stip wrote:There's duds like that throughout the catalog. Oles no worse than U

I meant Ole' in the literal sense, in an ironic way.

on my phone the ! looked like a ?

stip wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

stip wrote:I like drifting more than strangest tribe

See, Ruddo, here's a good example of an appropriate post for this thread.

This thread was made for me

Next Mod conference call you need to have a talk with Ruddo about thread integrity.

I never really listen to it, but when I do, I'm really surprised by how much I enjoy Santa God. The chorus is really, really cool.
It obviously doesnt belong anywhere other than the holiday singles, but I think I like it more than most songs from Backspacer and Lightning Bolt.

durdencommatyler wrote:

stip wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

stip wrote:I like drifting more than strangest tribe

See, Ruddo, here's a good example of an appropriate post for this thread.

This thread was made for me

Next Mod conference call you need to have a talk with Ruddo about thread integrity.

You need to calm down, joey.

stip wrote:There's duds like that throughout the catalog. Oles no worse than U

Ole is a million times better than U. U is the worst song in the entire catalog

durdencommatyler wrote:It's the word 'ole' that people have some weird hang up about. If he was singing 'Fuck Off!' instead, people would goddamn love that song. It's so stupid.

I think the lyrics to Ole are just fine. He's not breaking any new ground or changing the world or anything. But they're nowhere near bad.

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They work for the song. Fun, kinda stupid, occasionally pointed -- I really like the "knuckleheads" line, that's a word that doesn't get used enough.

"U" is fine. Way better than 90% of PRAMG material.