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Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Backspacer
Posted: Mon February 10, 2014 7:04 pm
by aurynsdad
Yeah, to me Riot Act is all about rediscovery in light of personal tragedy (Roskilde) and societal crumble (Bush). And Backspacer is all about rediscovery of the positives and the light and the fun.
Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Backspacer
Posted: Mon February 10, 2014 7:45 pm
by bodysnatcher
guys, this is the Backspacer thread
Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Backspacer
Posted: Mon February 10, 2014 8:14 pm
by bada
Let's be crazy and let the conversation go where the conversation goes.
Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Backspacer
Posted: Mon February 10, 2014 8:22 pm
by Lament
I'd rather have my body snatched than my back spaced.
Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Backspacer
Posted: Mon February 10, 2014 8:22 pm
by stip
you just haven't been back spaced properly
Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Backspacer
Posted: Mon February 10, 2014 8:26 pm
by Lament
What's the proper way to have your back spaced?
Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Backspacer
Posted: Mon February 10, 2014 9:10 pm
by harmless
Is that what's happening to Ed here?
Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Backspacer
Posted: Tue February 11, 2014 2:30 pm
by IlluminEddie
stip wrote:
I'm not sure it makes sense to necessarily try and figure out whether the personal or the political is dominant. They're just hopelessly intertwined and reinforcing (again, as opposed to S/T, which is telling stories about people who aren't Ed). Songs like Can't Keep, All or None, Save you, Ghost, Cropduster, even I am Mine and LBC, can probably cut both ways, and Help Help, Bushleaguer, 1/2 Full, Green Disease are definitely primarily political. Even Thumbing My Way, which is an intensely personal story is still about feeling lost with no where to go, in a geographic sense as much as an emotional/mental one.
Let me pick one...
Not sure if you're saying Cropduster (for example) is or is not political, or it's personally political or not. I don't really think that matters. It could actually be both, but it's blatantly political. Regardless of how one approaches that song, it is overwhelmingly political. Not only can you see the 9/11 line in the second verse... but the title, "cropduster" was so alarming back then. You may recall a major threat spiraled down from our government following 9/11 was terrorists occupying small cropdusters to enact chemical warfare.
Regardless of the merits of such threats, the fact that the band named that song Cropduster at that time... was an enormous political message in and of itself. Ed, in my opinion, was trying to flip that threat (cropduster) on it's head, he basically says it in the lyrics - it's all the other way round, we're upside down.
Cropduster is probably the best song on Riot Act, by the way.
Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Backspacer
Posted: Tue February 11, 2014 2:45 pm
by Kaius
IlluminEddie wrote:
Cropduster is probably the best song on Riot Act, by the way.
I might agree with that.
Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Backspacer
Posted: Tue February 11, 2014 2:46 pm
by VinylGuy
I prefer Cant Keep, I am Mine or You Are.
Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Backspacer
Posted: Tue February 11, 2014 5:42 pm
by Thejambi
VinylGuy wrote:I prefer Cant Keep, I am Mine or You Are.
Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Backspacer
Posted: Tue February 11, 2014 6:12 pm
by Kaius
I wouldn't argue against those either
Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Backspacer
Posted: Tue February 11, 2014 6:12 pm
by Kaius
Except IAM. It's below the others
Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Backspacer
Posted: Tue February 11, 2014 6:52 pm
by hlniv
bodysnatcher wrote:guys, this is the Backspacer thread
Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Backspacer
Posted: Tue February 11, 2014 6:54 pm
by warehouse
pearl jam's "fun" record
Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Backspacer
Posted: Tue February 11, 2014 7:09 pm
by malice
warehouse wrote:pearl jam's "fun" record
argue with me about the fake bob seger thread, pls
Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Backspacer
Posted: Tue February 11, 2014 7:40 pm
by hlniv
warehouse wrote:pearl jam's "fun" record
pearl jam's "target" record
pearl jam's "pimp" record
pearl jam's "bright" record
pearl jam's "yeah yeah yeah" record
pearl jam's "short" record
pearl jam's "crap" record
Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Backspacer
Posted: Tue February 11, 2014 7:44 pm
by WtOB?
hlniv wrote:bodysnatcher wrote:guys, this is the Backspacer thread
i think people would rather talk about an album where there's something to talk about.
Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Backspacer
Posted: Wed February 12, 2014 10:16 pm
by Thejambi
I enjoyed in on Rock Band for those couple of months.
Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Backspacer
Posted: Wed February 12, 2014 10:39 pm
by aurynsdad
Thejambi wrote:I enjoyed in on Rock Band for those couple of months.