Red Mosquito

RockPusher wrote:

oneway23 wrote:Absolutely no reason for him to say "haaaaayyyuuhhhuunnnnd" when he could simply say..."hand."

Goes to museum
"There's absolutely no reason for Van Gogh to paint the sky that way"

RockPusher wrote:

oneway23 wrote:Absolutely no reason for him to say "haaaaayyyuuhhhuunnnnd" when he could simply say..."hand."

Goes to museum
"There's absolutely no reason for Van Gogh to paint the sky that way"

tragabigzanda wrote:Gigaton is such a tough album to use as a benchmark, because if you lose crowd favorite DOTC, and whatever one's given 1-2 other highlights are, suddenly it stinks.

RockPusher wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

RockPusher wrote:

oneway23 wrote:Absolutely no reason for him to say "haaaaayyyuuhhhuunnnnd" when he could simply say..."hand."

Goes to museum
"There's absolutely no reason for Van Gogh to paint the sky that way"

Good call, this album is apt to be on par with Van Gogh

There are plenty of people who dislike Van Gogh. They are not wrong. I say that as a person who does like Van Gogh. Art is not science.

Higgs wrote:

RockPusher wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

RockPusher wrote:

oneway23 wrote:Absolutely no reason for him to say "haaaaayyyuuhhhuunnnnd" when he could simply say..."hand."

Goes to museum
"There's absolutely no reason for Van Gogh to paint the sky that way"

Good call, this album is apt to be on par with Van Gogh

There are plenty of people who dislike Van Gogh. They are not wrong. I say that as a person who does like Van Gogh. Art is not science.

I will donate $20 if we can make Rockpusher's title "Opinion Police". Mods?

Higgs wrote:Thank you! I am pretty amazing.

Higgs wrote:That's me! A snowflake who fell in May.

RockPusher wrote:I did have a point to make though: What reason is there for anything in art? Plenty of artists make art that I don't like. That doesn't mean they're doing it wrong. It sounded funny to me for someone to say "There's no reason to [do this thing in art] when you can just [do in without any art]." Yeah, he could just say "hand." And Matt Cameron could adjust his drums to exactly how Ms. Harmless likes. And everyone in the band could take a whole bunch of advice from this forum. And they'd sound like what? Not Pearl Jam.

RockPusher wrote:DO BETTER ART, PEARL JAM

tragabigzanda wrote:

DDWJMUVW wrote:What’s Trag’s idea of stellar production from PJ?

Anyone know?

Like, which tracks/records?

Vs/Riot Act

tragabigzanda wrote:

mattyv1908 wrote:Long time lurker, recent poster.

As an audiophile who’s preferred listening experience is vinyl on a quality system, playing Dark Matter and Running via streaming service from ITunes left me feeling similarly to the much maligned Trag point of view regarding production.

I finally listened to both tracks in Dolby Atmos on my AirPod 2 Pros and it was a night and day listening experience.

I hope the vinyl version of the album is mastered for the format for sure, but the issues I noticed via streaming on a quality analog setup were alleviated with the AirPod Pros.

Just my anecdotal experience.

Welcome! As there’s no explicit vinyl mastering credit on the 7”, I’m not holding out hope on that front.

I am interested to hear of your experience with the full album in atmos. What sounded different to you with the two singles?

VinylGuy wrote:dudes, dudes calm down he just pointed that out because sometimes we get a little feisty with out opinions on something as subjective as music

stip wrote:

bluestate wrote:Yes, it's truly a rare case where if you remove the best songs, it's not as good

digster wrote:I think if you remove one or two songs, Gigaton's still the best thing they've done in 15-20 years. It definitely has raised my expectations of what they could (and should) be capable of on the albums they have left.