Red Mosquito

You'd expect a less peaceful song with that story, wouldn't you?

Maybe, yeah.

But that might be more to do with movie cliche over-dramatising these things. IIRC, Gus Van Sant's "Elephant" works very well with silence and artful cinematography.

harmless wrote:But that might be more to do with movie cliche over-dramatising these things. IIRC, Gus Van Sant's "Elephant" works very well with silence and artful cinematography.

Over dramatizing murder?

stip wrote:

harmless wrote:But that might be more to do with movie cliche over-dramatising these things. IIRC, Gus Van Sant's "Elephant" works very well with silence and artful cinematography.

Over dramatizing murder?

Well, romanticising it, making it into a gruesome bloody entertainment-fest, yeah. You know what I meant. If this song is about the aftermath of a murder, from a killer's point of view, he could've driven somewhere in the night, found a spot in the desert under a yellow moon and shot himself. If it's from a victim's point of view, the song may be about the last image the victim saw, a yellow moon. I don't know, but what I'm saying is that maybe the song hasn't chosen to use shock imagery just for the sake of it, because there are subtler, ultimately more forceful ways to communicate it. A lot of artists choose to take that approach due to us having been somewhat desensitized to gruesome imagery.

My point being, murder doesn't need 'dramatising' at all. It's murder. But there are ways to dramatize it with style and not crass commercialism.

Great Song

I like to think of this song as Given to Fly's little brother or at least cousin. I always think of it when it comes on. I like this song, maybe it's a 4 star, but I wish Ed would have done something different with the repeating of "drown" parts.

The bridge and solo of this song are possibly the best parts of the album.

Kaius wrote:I like to think of this song as Given to Fly's little brother or at least cousin. I always think of it when it comes on. I like this song, maybe it's a 4 star, but I wish Ed would have done something different with the repeating of "drown" parts.

That's one of the things that makes this song tip muthafucking top.

evenslow wrote:

Kaius wrote:I like to think of this song as Given to Fly's little brother or at least cousin. I always think of it when it comes on. I like this song, maybe it's a 4 star, but I wish Ed would have done something different with the repeating of "drown" parts.

That's one of the things that makes this song tip muthafucking top.

The likeness to GTF or Eds drown stutter?

DROWN
DROWN
DROWN
DROWN

On the way home from work ellie started singing along to swallowed whole. First time for a pearl jam song!

stip wrote:On the way home from work ellie started singing along to swallowed whole. First time for a pearl jam song!

Very nice

Dr. Van Nostrand wrote:

stip wrote:On the way home from work ellie started singing along to swallowed whole. First time for a pearl jam song!

Very nice

Now that song will always remind you of that moment.

harmless wrote:The bridge and solo of this song are possibly the best parts of the album.

love this song, maybe 3rd or 4th favorite on the album. i feel like its the flip side of 'yellow moon'

This song still sucks, and it's all because Ed can't pronounce words anymore. The chorus is horrid.

stip wrote:On the way home from work ellie started singing along to swallowed whole. First time for a pearl jam song!

Nice, I always put it on for my 5 and 9 year olds in my car, they are showing it a tiny bit of love atm.

Clint72 wrote:

stip wrote:On the way home from work ellie started singing along to swallowed whole. First time for a pearl jam song!

Nice, I always put it on for my 5 and 9 year olds in my car, they are showing it a tiny bit of love atm.

Is music so bland even toddlers and little kids like it a good thing? Is that what passes for good in the Pearl Jam world now?