Red Mosquito

PHATJ wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:

PHATJ wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:

PHATJ wrote:Anyone bitching about any of this has way too much time on their hands.

This is what I don't understand. We're all here, we're all posting, we're all voting in a really silly march madness bracket tournament of Pearl Jam songs. Think about that for a minute. To put yourself on a high horse because you spend your time here with a positive opinion instead of a negative one seems pretty arbitrary. It doesn't take me any more time to complain about something on the board, my time here is going to be pretty much the same regardless if my opinion of something is negative or positive.

Also, isn't this a better place if there are some constructive disagreements? If everyone just posts "hey this is awesome" it'll get lame pretty fast and there won't be any room to make something better because we've already accepted it's perfect as is.

Chud, theoretically, yes. But this is a bit different. One of "us" put this thing together. One of "us" spent a lot of their hard earned free time to do something designed to bring fun to the group. It just seems petty and ungrateful to nit pick the efforts of someone that was only trying to bring us all some enjoyment. That's all. I appreciate his efforts, I thought the new format was fun and I didn't find it nearly as confusing and befuddling as you and some others may have. Constructive criticism is one thing, you just seem to be coming across as a bit needlessly bitchy.

Has my tone really been bitchy today? I feel like I've gone out of my way to be polite about all this and point out my appreciation for stip's efforts.

Maybe not so much today, but the last couple with the endless complaining about the format.

Rangi Guy wrote:Just when I thought a feud was about to start....

LuNY wrote:Last Exit and DTE are both equal in greatness. But if DTE and Release were up against each other, which would be better? Why so few votes? 62?

LuNY wrote:But if DTE and Release were up against each other, which would be better?

Spoiler: show

Oh, and thanks stip. Oh, and chud, I don't think you were being bitchy. Didn't come off that way to me.

darth_vedder wrote:So uh, which song should I vote for? Both songs represent PJ at their best, in their best stretch. I think I kinda like Last Exit better, but I have an irrational love for Jack Irons, and I'd like a song he was on to win. When do the polls close? I may have to find some live recordings with Jack on both songs to determine a winner.

Spoiler: show

Oh, and thanks stip. Oh, and chud, I don't think you were being bitchy. Didn't come off that way to me.

stip wrote:I listened to the studio versions of both of these this morning. It's close. In the end I think there is a purity to Last Exit that puts it over the edge. It sounds like someone ripping open their own chest to expose their still beating heart--a desperate attempt to excise some kind of cancerous growth. There's something so matter of fact about the whole pained enterprise that utterly strips it of the melodrama you'd expect from this kind of song. Utterly authentic.

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CopperTom wrote:

Rangi Guy wrote:Stip - this has been fun. Thanks for doing this!

durdencommatyler wrote:Stip, as always, this was a ton of fun! Thank you SO MUCH for putting this thing together. Again. I genuinely look forward to this every single year. And this year did not disappoint. I really enjoyed the divisions this year. It really did liven up the voting and the discussions. Kudos to you, my friend. A really wonderful move to mix things up.