Red Mosquito

Hard to form any views about the mix with such a poor quality rip.

that's a good point

Really nice chorus... This song will be a riser for many on this board. A lot to like.

Another grower on 3rd listen. Cool Matt tune, wonder what parts he plays on the guitar for this one

Does this song have the best guitar solo?

God damn, this song rocks. Well done, Pearl Jam. Well fucking done.

I know the have done a few Soundgarden-ish songs in the past that may have went sideways for some, but they nail this one perfectly, imo. Ed’s tone/range are great, top notch production along with a killer chorus + some nice twists and turns.

This song is great. The outro elevates it, and it was already great to that point.

Birds in Hell wrote:Hard to form any views about the mix with such a poor quality rip.

I think this song suffers the most from it.

I think you overestimate how much difference the leak quality makes. Sure, the real thing will sound a little bit better but it won't magically make the guitars sound fuller. Even a 128kbps mp3 gives you a pretty full picture of the production of an album.

Try and listen to Vs. or Vitalogy in 128kpbs, they will still sound great and the guitars won't sound think.

It's not a matter of the bitrate here, though.

If this was ripped in 128kbps directly from a lossless source, it would sound better (though not ideal).

The problem is that it sounds transcoded, i.e. ripped from a CD to MP3, burned to a CD-R and then ripped again to MP3.

In doing so, it sounds much worse than a straight MP3 conversion would as the double-encoding introduces lots of phasey sonic weirdness. There's a noticeable lack of clarity compared to even a regular MP3.

Compare the singles here to the official audio on Spotify (on high quality) or YouTube (on HQ audio), it's a pretty big difference.

That makes sense

stip wrote:Definitely the song I like the least.

It's going to be like this forever, isn't it?

This, "Buckle Up," and "Dance" are the big three for me on this album.

Really like the song though this isn't the kind of song that I would usually say I love. The newness has me leaning 5 stars but it will probably settle at 4-4.5 stars. Love the outro.

Kevin Davis wrote:

stip wrote:Definitely the song I like the least.

It's going to be like this forever, isn't it?

This, "Buckle Up," and "Dance" are the big three for me on this album.

I do love buckle up, so there’s that

I love this

Not a fan of this one. But certainly can appreciate it.

I like the outro and the solo - I think one of my issues right now is I don't think it fits in well with the rest of the album as an album, and I'm still in album mode rather than just listening to songs. When I play this on shuffle it works better for me.

the "what's yours is mine" section / outro is so Soundgarden, I love it