Red Mosquito

This song is seductive, it was a good choice for the start of the album, I thought the contrary on the beginning, but now I really feel that this is the way it should be. It just makes you listening it again, and listening to the album over and over!

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This is a fine song. Love the stuttering intro

LostDog1079 wrote:2nd favorite song on the album, after "Pendulum". One of their better opening tracks. 5 stars.

I'm moving my vote to 5 stars today! I love that they didn't end it, but decided to go for it at the end. I'm not saying it is RVM (although it could fit in the set closer spot), but it holds its own with the other "escape" songs Ed has written.

All 5 members are at their best on Getaway.

this song kicks ass

that middle part without the guitar is my fav part

im liking this one a lot today

I still really like this.

I liked this alright on initial listens but it's kind of a drag now.

I'd probably like it more if it at least gave the sense of being a rock band playing a song live in a room.

There's no air (or anything else) being moved, you know?

True. There is no charming imperfection in this production. The songs are so "perfectly" presented there's nowhere to hide.

Prefer this just slightly to MFS as the best rocker on this album.

Birds in Hell wrote:There's no air (or anything else) being moved, you know?

I feel as if every one of these songs could've impressed more people with different production.

This is really one of the only songs on the album I feel that way about

And FD, surely?

harmless wrote:And FD, surely?

beyond the piano I'm fine with it. I'd kind of like to hear someone else mix LBolt just to see how the ending would sound. Maybe swallowed whole, too.

Otherwise I like the precision on the album

is the producer responsible for guitar tones?

To some extent, yeah. In as much as he can still manipulate the tone, regardless of what it sounded like coming out of the amp. Also, the more you fiddle around with the placement of guitars (making the rhythm more "precise" by cut-and-paste, which I'm sure has gone on in this album), the less "natural" the sounds of the guitar is. So, natural reverberation, feedback, the "squeak" of the neck, that kind of thing. I think a lot of guitarists here are missing that kind of thing.

I mentioned FD, by the way, because this producer is responsible for the keyboard, so a different producer wouldn't have done that.

The last chorus of this song is the best part.

If there's one problem with new PJ songs that I'd like to raise tonight, it's that they don't begin as excitingly as they end. They're all about the crescendo now.

there's a really cool angry, tinny, almost out of tune brass sound to the second guitar coming out of the all base 'science says..' verse that I like a lot. I wish it was more prominent throughout the song