Re: Song of the Moment: My Father's Son
Posted: Fri January 17, 2020 7:00 pm
This was originally my fav on the album but hasn't aged as well as I thought it would. Much prefer the latter half of the album (Swallowed Whole > Yellow Moon)
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Song of the Moment: My Father's Son
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Re: Song of the Moment: My Father's Son
Posted: Fri August 12, 2022 1:48 am
What's the absolute best live version of this song?
Re: Song of the Moment: My Father's Son
Posted: Fri August 12, 2022 2:23 am
Denver 2014-10-22Leatherhead wrote:What's the absolute best live version of this song?
Re: Song of the Moment: My Father's Son
Posted: Fri August 12, 2022 4:28 am
Re: Song of the Moment: My Father's Son
Posted: Fri August 12, 2022 11:14 am
Jorge loved this song.
Re: Song of the Moment: My Father's Son
Posted: Fri August 12, 2022 11:29 am
I still really like it, I think. I don't know. I haven't listened to it in a few years
Re: Song of the Moment: My Father's Son
Posted: Fri August 12, 2022 3:42 pm
It's pretty good. Jagged musically and interesting lyrics.
Re: Song of the Moment: My Father's Son
Posted: Fri August 12, 2022 3:51 pm
yeah i love this one
i just put it because of this thread. Love it. Jeff is great here
i just put it because of this thread. Love it. Jeff is great here
Re: Song of the Moment: My Father's Son
Posted: Fri August 12, 2022 4:03 pm
we need a third song for a cringey ableism trilogy
amputee
siamese twins
?
amputee
siamese twins
?
Re: Song of the Moment: My Father's Son
Posted: Fri August 12, 2022 4:05 pm
personally I think this is the song MOST ruined by the album's production
Re: Song of the Moment: My Father's Son
Posted: Fri August 12, 2022 4:12 pm
mmm because its a very good song? maybe yeah.
But the production is mainly awful in the whole album.
But the production is mainly awful in the whole album.
Re: Song of the Moment: My Father's Son
Posted: Fri August 12, 2022 6:37 pm
Dead ManMs Harmless wrote:we need a third song for a cringey ableism trilogy
amputee
siamese twins
?
Re: Song of the Moment: My Father's Son
Posted: Fri August 12, 2022 6:51 pm
Re: Song of the Moment: My Father's Son
Posted: Fri August 12, 2022 7:19 pm
Ms Harmless wrote:personally I think this is the song MOST ruined by thealbum's productionlyrics
Re: Song of the Moment: My Father's Son
Posted: Fri August 12, 2022 11:01 pm
There are worse lyrics on Gigaton, tbh
Re: Song of the Moment: My Father's Son
Posted: Sat August 13, 2022 12:23 am
yeah the lyrics
"can I volunteer amputee"????
Ed was at the peak of his "you can literally cut out words and make it make no sense as long as it scans, it's fine"
I don't find anything on Gigaton that does that, SBWM gets cringe but it doesn't cut out
"can I volunteer amputee"????
Ed was at the peak of his "you can literally cut out words and make it make no sense as long as it scans, it's fine"
I don't find anything on Gigaton that does that, SBWM gets cringe but it doesn't cut out
Re: Song of the Moment: My Father's Son
Posted: Sat August 13, 2022 12:47 am
I don't think that's what he's singing
Re: Song of the Moment: My Father's Son
Posted: Sat August 13, 2022 3:56 am
This has been one of my least favorite Pearl Jam songs for a long time. To me it just sounds very affected, both in terms of Eddie and the band.
(it does have a nice bridge)
(it does have a nice bridge)
Re: Song of the Moment: My Father's Son
Posted: Sat August 13, 2022 1:47 pm
one time it is, which kinda makes it worse (knowing the line makes sense the first time, so the change is CALCULATED)Jorge wrote:I don't think that's what he's singing
https://pearljam.com/music/song/my-fathers-son/lyrics
Re: Song of the Moment: My Father's Son
Posted: Sat August 13, 2022 1:51 pm
Oh yeah
Well this just strengthens my overall belief that Ed is generally a bad lyricist. Or at least modern-age, excessively verbose Ed.
For a song as obviously silly as this it doesn't bother me much, but when a song is shooting for poignancy and he does that clunky, awkward grammatical restructuring to fit a rhyme pattern ("Comes Then Goes" has several examples of this) it stands out much more to me
Well this just strengthens my overall belief that Ed is generally a bad lyricist. Or at least modern-age, excessively verbose Ed.
For a song as obviously silly as this it doesn't bother me much, but when a song is shooting for poignancy and he does that clunky, awkward grammatical restructuring to fit a rhyme pattern ("Comes Then Goes" has several examples of this) it stands out much more to me