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Re: Pearl Jam albums are really frontloaded

Posted: Mon May 16, 2016 5:41 pm
by LoathedVermin72
mikejasond wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:"Pleasantly cheeky" is not how I would describe SB's lyrics.
How would you describe them? They're either funny/tongue-in-cheek or awful
This isn't an either/or thing, mjd. Other people can see things differently than you.

I've always found "Satan's Bed" to be one of PJ's darkest and angriest songs. It's a more extreme, unhinged version of "Not for You", in away - railing against what they see as oppressive forces. Rejecting their temptations. Spitting in their faces. It's wild and intense and genuinely, palpably outraged. Having a playful element - a level of caustic humor - does not negate this. In fact, I think it makes it more potent.

Re: Pearl Jam albums are really frontloaded

Posted: Mon May 16, 2016 5:41 pm
by Norah
Anyone who thinks Oceans is a filler track can go suck a bag of dicks.

Re: Pearl Jam albums are really frontloaded

Posted: Mon May 16, 2016 5:42 pm
by mikejasond
cutuphalfdead wrote:Anyone who thinks Oceans is a filler track can go suck a bag of dicks.
I just can't picture hearing Oceans on the radio or something. It feels flighty, an interlude, not a complete song you would listen to by itself, but good in context of the album

Re: Pearl Jam albums are really frontloaded

Posted: Mon May 16, 2016 5:43 pm
by mikejasond
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
mikejasond wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:"Pleasantly cheeky" is not how I would describe SB's lyrics.
How would you describe them? They're either funny/tongue-in-cheek or awful
This isn't an either/or thing, mjd. Other people can see things differently than you.

I've always found "Satan's Bed" to be one of PJ's darkest and angriest songs. It's a more extreme, unhinged version of "Not for You", in away - railing against what they see as oppressive forces. Rejecting their temptations. Spitting in their faces. It's wild and intense and genuinely, palpably outraged. Having a playful element - a level of caustic humor - does not negate this. In fact, I think it makes it more potent.

The second Eddie utters "I'll never suck Satan's dick!" any chance of me taking this song seriously is totally gone

Re: Pearl Jam albums are really frontloaded

Posted: Mon May 16, 2016 5:43 pm
by LoathedVermin72
mikejasond wrote:
cutuphalfdead wrote:Anyone who thinks Oceans is a filler track can go suck a bag of dicks.
I just can't picture hearing Oceans on the radio or something. It feels flighty, an interlude, not a complete song you would listen to by itself, but good in context of the album
Who the fuck cares if it would be played on the radio? Is that really how you judge a song's quality? Good lord.

Re: Pearl Jam albums are really frontloaded

Posted: Mon May 16, 2016 5:44 pm
by LoathedVermin72
mikejasond wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
mikejasond wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:"Pleasantly cheeky" is not how I would describe SB's lyrics.
How would you describe them? They're either funny/tongue-in-cheek or awful
This isn't an either/or thing, mjd. Other people can see things differently than you.

I've always found "Satan's Bed" to be one of PJ's darkest and angriest songs. It's a more extreme, unhinged version of "Not for You", in away - railing against what they see as oppressive forces. Rejecting their temptations. Spitting in their faces. It's wild and intense and genuinely, palpably outraged. Having a playful element - a level of caustic humor - does not negate this. In fact, I think it makes it more potent.

The second Eddie utters "I'll never suck Satan's dick!" any chance of me taking this song seriously is totally gone
That's entirely on you and says nothing about the song.

Re: Pearl Jam albums are really frontloaded

Posted: Mon May 16, 2016 5:44 pm
by Norah
mikejasond wrote:
cutuphalfdead wrote:Anyone who thinks Oceans is a filler track can go suck a bag of dicks.
I just can't picture hearing Oceans on the radio or something.
This can't be your standard.

Re: Pearl Jam albums are really frontloaded

Posted: Mon May 16, 2016 5:45 pm
by LoathedVermin72
cutuphalfdead wrote:
mikejasond wrote:
cutuphalfdead wrote:Anyone who thinks Oceans is a filler track can go suck a bag of dicks.
I just can't picture hearing Oceans on the radio or something.
This can't be your standard.
there's a joke in here somewhere

Re: Pearl Jam albums are really frontloaded

Posted: Mon May 16, 2016 5:46 pm
by mikejasond
Oceans is fine ggahh! I like it it just feels like an incomplete song, it comes and goes. It works in the context of an album, not so much played by itself.

Re: Pearl Jam albums are really frontloaded

Posted: Mon May 16, 2016 5:46 pm
by Norah
I don't understand what's incomplete about it.

Re: Pearl Jam albums are really frontloaded

Posted: Mon May 16, 2016 5:47 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
mjd, some of these songs that you are calling "filler" have you looked at their "Song of the moment" threads on here? I think you will find that you and your opinion on a lot of these songs are in the minority as far as how good or bad you think they are.

Re: Pearl Jam albums are really frontloaded

Posted: Mon May 16, 2016 5:48 pm
by LoathedVermin72
This is exhausting.

Re: Pearl Jam albums are really frontloaded

Posted: Mon May 16, 2016 5:49 pm
by PHATJ
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Re: Pearl Jam albums are really frontloaded

Posted: Mon May 16, 2016 5:50 pm
by Kaius
cutuphalfdead wrote:Anyone who thinks Oceans is a filler track can go suck a bag of dicks.
Where does one find a bag of dicks?

Re: Pearl Jam albums are really frontloaded

Posted: Mon May 16, 2016 5:51 pm
by mikejasond
E.H. Ruddock wrote:mjd, some of these songs that you are calling "filler" have you looked at their "Song of the moment" threads on here? I think you will find that you and your opinion on a lot of these songs are in the minority as far as how good or bad you think they are.
I know people like Oceans, I dont think the others are wildly popular as far as I can tell.

Re: Pearl Jam albums are really frontloaded

Posted: Mon May 16, 2016 5:51 pm
by Norah
Kaius wrote:
cutuphalfdead wrote:Anyone who thinks Oceans is a filler track can go suck a bag of dicks.
Where does one find a bag of dicks?
the porno store

Re: Pearl Jam albums are really frontloaded

Posted: Mon May 16, 2016 5:51 pm
by KurtLeon
I'm enjoying this thread.

Re: Pearl Jam albums are really frontloaded

Posted: Mon May 16, 2016 5:51 pm
by LoathedVermin72
The issue here isn't even whether you like or dislike certain songs or anything like that, mjd. It's that you state these opinions based entirely on loose "feelings," offer very little in the way of substantial critique or explanation, then act indignant at the thought that anyone could disagree with you, even though we barely understand what you're trying to argue in the first place.

Re: Pearl Jam albums are really frontloaded

Posted: Mon May 16, 2016 5:53 pm
by mikejasond
LoathedVermin72 wrote:The issue here isn't even whether you like or dislike certain songs or anything like that, mjd. It's that you state these opinions based entirely on loose "feelings," offer very little in the way of substantial critique or explanation, then act indignant at the thought that anyone could disagree with you, even though we barely understand what you're trying to argue in the first place.
I thought "Garden" and "Deep" were fairly regarded as the two least popular songs on Ten, again which is why they almost never play them. If you disagree defend it. Do you not find Whipping to be fairly generic compared to the rest of the album?

Re: Pearl Jam albums are really frontloaded

Posted: Mon May 16, 2016 5:54 pm
by Norah
mikejasond wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:The issue here isn't even whether you like or dislike certain songs or anything like that, mjd. It's that you state these opinions based entirely on loose "feelings," offer very little in the way of substantial critique or explanation, then act indignant at the thought that anyone could disagree with you, even though we barely understand what you're trying to argue in the first place.
I thought "Garden" and "Deep" were fairly regarded as the two least popular songs on Ten, again which is why they almost never play them. If you disagree defend it. Do you not find Whipping to be fairly generic compared to the rest of the album?
Corduroy is probably the most "generic" sounding song on Vitalogy.