Red Mosquito

The Trump line on this really makes me laugh. I don't know why. I like it.

anthemic pearl jam is BACK

heee heeeeeeeee

So this song comes from parts of a 2 hour jam session. The band and Evans took out 4 different parts from it and put them together.

There’s a ton of room for jamming this one out especially during the intro and before the second verse. They just hum along on that e note. Plenty of places to take it. Or perhaps just simple let mccresdy take over like his work on immortality

That’d do me just fine

injuddstree wrote:So this song comes from parts of a 2 hour jam session. The band and Evans took out 4 different parts from it and put them together.

it kinda feels like that.

I love the guitars on this one.

this is absolutely the centerpiece of the album. all the themes are there. perfect track placement. the best moment of the entire record is more than likely...

So held by these thoughts
They refuse to slip away
Hangman in dreamland
About to call your name

just bowled over by that part every time.

evenslow wrote:this is absolutely the centerpiece of the album. all the themes are there. perfect track placement. the best moment of the entire record is more than likely...

So held by these thoughts
They refuse to slip away
Hangman in dreamland
About to call your name

just bowled over by that part every time.

Yeah, this is the part of the album where I break. Went for a drive last night, played it loud and sang it loud, except for this part because my voice and soul give out for a few seconds. It's perfect Pearl Jam.

Jaeti wrote:

evenslow wrote:this is absolutely the centerpiece of the album. all the themes are there. perfect track placement. the best moment of the entire record is more than likely...

So held by these thoughts
They refuse to slip away
Hangman in dreamland
About to call your name

just bowled over by that part every time.

Yeah, this is the part of the album where I break. Went for a drive last night, played it loud and sang it loud, except for this part because my voice and soul give out for a few seconds. It's perfect Pearl Jam.

So beautiful.

How do you guys interpret that line ? Hangman in dreamland ...

Strat wrote:So beautiful.

How do you guys interpret that line ? Hangman in dreamland ...

I like to think he's referencing The Hangman Tarot card there; in short, it doesn't mean actual hanging; it's an encouragement to spend time in meditation and introspection, to gain a new "flipped" perspective on things (hence the cross-legged upside down dude) that you might not have considered before, and which might unlock whichever answers you seek

Ms Harmless wrote:

Strat wrote:So beautiful.

How do you guys interpret that line ? Hangman in dreamland ...

I like to think he's referencing The Hangman Tarot card there; in short, it doesn't mean actual hanging; it's an encouragement to spend time in meditation and introspection, to gain a new "flipped" perspective on things (hence the cross-legged upside down dude) that you might not have considered before, and which might unlock whichever answers you seek

For me it’s a call to action. Spending your time dreaming of change and not putting it into action is the death of progress.

I would say it describes the anxious impulse to act...to do SOMEthing...that comes in the face of an unknowable but clearly tenuous future. An oppressive dread and a desire to act, both now so much a part of you that they follow into your dreams.

You’re so held by thoughts of ominous foreboding that they follow you to bed. A hangman about to call your turn for the noose is a pretty good dream time metaphor for the subject matter the album is locked in to.

I like all the interpretations. There's a definite sense of the Leviathan in the distance throughout this record. The Hangman is waiting, so ACT NOW.

Strat wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:

Strat wrote:So beautiful.

How do you guys interpret that line ? Hangman in dreamland ...

I like to think he's referencing The Hangman Tarot card there; in short, it doesn't mean actual hanging; it's an encouragement to spend time in meditation and introspection, to gain a new "flipped" perspective on things (hence the cross-legged upside down dude) that you might not have considered before, and which might unlock whichever answers you seek

For me it’s a call to action. Spending your time dreaming of change and not putting it into action is the death of progress.

and that may be the answer you emerge with it's likely both

McParadigm wrote:I would say it describes the anxious impulse to act...to do SOMEthing...that comes in the face of an unknowable but clearly tenuous future. An oppressive dread and a desire to act, both now so much a part of you that they follow into your dreams.

You’re so held by thoughts of ominous foreboding that they follow you to bed. A hangman about to call your turn for the noose is a pretty good dream time metaphor for the subject matter the album is locked in to.

I like this

Ms Harmless wrote:

Strat wrote:So beautiful.

How do you guys interpret that line ? Hangman in dreamland ...

I like to think he's referencing The Hangman Tarot card there; in short, it doesn't mean actual hanging; it's an encouragement to spend time in meditation and introspection, to gain a new "flipped" perspective on things (hence the cross-legged upside down dude) that you might not have considered before, and which might unlock whichever answers you seek

where’s Mickey?

For me, the hangman couplet is a metaphor for the state of being about to wake up. There’s a semi-conscious knowledge that you are about to die in the dream, i.e. wake up in real life. Thus, I see the couplet as an optimistic expectation of change coming based on certain realizations that cause a person, or society, to act.

spike wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:

Strat wrote:So beautiful.

How do you guys interpret that line ? Hangman in dreamland ...

I like to think he's referencing The Hangman Tarot card there; in short, it doesn't mean actual hanging; it's an encouragement to spend time in meditation and introspection, to gain a new "flipped" perspective on things (hence the cross-legged upside down dude) that you might not have considered before, and which might unlock whichever answers you seek

where’s Mickey?

Mickey reads Tarot?

Ms Harmless wrote:

spike wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:

Strat wrote:So beautiful.

How do you guys interpret that line ? Hangman in dreamland ...

I like to think he's referencing The Hangman Tarot card there; in short, it doesn't mean actual hanging; it's an encouragement to spend time in meditation and introspection, to gain a new "flipped" perspective on things (hence the cross-legged upside down dude) that you might not have considered before, and which might unlock whichever answers you seek

where’s Mickey?

Mickey reads Tarot?

oh yeah, loves it