Red Mosquito

oneway23 wrote:

Bi_3 wrote:

oneway23 wrote:

Bi_3 wrote:Still wish they had used a word other than “combing” for the chorus.

But...think of all of the hair puns it re-ignited!

Plowing through the Wreckage?
Thumbing My Way through the Wreckage?
Sorting through the Wreckage?

N'ah...

Diving though the wreckage

Not too shabby!
Acceptable

Just think of the video treatment for that one...Ed in deep sea diver gear, rescuing the rest of the band from a sunken submarine...directed by James Cameron

Very early 90s Guns n' Roses

Also ties is back to the thematically similar Force of Nature and Tremor

Bi_3 wrote:Still wish they had used a word other than “combing” for the chorus.

dprival78 wrote:

Bi_3 wrote:Still wish they had used a word other than “combing” for the chorus.

Excellent post

Combing through the wreckage usually evokes the visual of looking through the aftermath of a tornado, or war zone, looking for your photo album, your keepsakes, or other tangibles important to your life. I think it can relate if the song is about a troubled relationship, and you’re combing through to recover anything that still has importance or usefulness in the aftermath.

I think the word works.

dprival78 wrote:

Bi_3 wrote:Still wish they had used a word other than “combing” for the chorus.

The visual gag of all visual gags...love it

I can totally see it as a post Trump situation too, specially after that interview.

Found some chords on line. So cool to play this on my own

VinylGuy wrote:I can totally see it as a post Trump situation too, specially after that interview.

Yeah after reading that interview then seeing the lyrics i can definitely see this being about (moving on from) Trump

Tj wrote:

stip wrote:

lecherouslittlestump wrote:Eddie interview in Sunday Times today confirms this song is about Trump

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/f120 ... 3a4747d7bb

thanks eddie - where was that yesterday

I don't know nothing in Ed s quote brings up Wreckage. I think wires may have gotten crossed. Maybe Dark Matter the song was what that was directed at. That whole story seems like it was put together by ai

Yeah, Ed is just doing what Ed does in interviews: talk about whatever he feels like talking about, which is never himself. Usually, it’s other bands or politics. He doesn’t say anything about Wreckage in that whole paragraph. Probably didn’t even care what the question was.

The only song about Trump on this record is Something Special.

McParadigm wrote:

Tj wrote:

stip wrote:

lecherouslittlestump wrote:Eddie interview in Sunday Times today confirms this song is about Trump

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/f120 ... 3a4747d7bb

thanks eddie - where was that yesterday

I don't know nothing in Ed s quote brings up Wreckage. I think wires may have gotten crossed. Maybe Dark Matter the song was what that was directed at. That whole story seems like it was put together by ai

Yeah, Ed is just doing what Ed does in interviews: talk about whatever he feels like talking about, which is never himself. Usually, it’s other bands or politics. He doesn’t say anything about Wreckage in that whole paragraph. Probably didn’t even care what the question was.

The only song about Trump on this record is Something Special.

I laughed.

My ten year old swifty has been subjected to dark matter the last few days on car rides. Short trips, one to two songs. Wreckage came on for just a few seconds as I was skipping to get somewhere else (Scared of Fear maybe). She heard like 3 seconds of music but she perked up. 'What was that?' Do those notes sound like anything in the Swift catalog

good song
after 2 spins, this is the only one that really got me

lecherouslittlestump wrote:Eddie interview in Sunday Times today confirms this song is about Trump

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/f120 ... 3a4747d7bb

Eddie interview on Stern confirms the song is not actually about Trump (or is it?)

The saga continues

"Not sure a lyric gets you there, but, the discussion about the lyric might."

Eh, he's old. Just getting confused which song is which.

"What record is this on, again?"

- Eddie Vedder, lead singer of Pearl Jam

what
this was my breakup song already

WAY TO RUIN IT MR VEDDER

Eddie is way better at writing lyrics than he is explaining what they mean — usually his explanations come across as reductive and one-track-minded, which really torpedo the multi-layered meanings that many of his songs have.

Some of “Wreckage” makes absolutely no sense though the lens of it being about Donald Trump (“if you’re feeling the leaving I can’t make you stay”). I have a hard time thinking that even enlightened 60-year old Eddie would treat a Republican politician with the softness and compassion with which he treats the subject of this song.

after the stern interview, i think it's clear it's not about trump

never in a million years would've thought it was, if not for that article