Red Mosquito

Lowlight > Yellow Moon

IlluminEddie wrote:Lowlight > Yellow Moon

It's not even close. Yellow Moon is all cheese. Low Light is one of the most beautiful songs they've ever done.

Poor Yellow Moon... it's in the midst of a Brendan O'Brien shit sandwich (Sleeping By Myself & Future Days).

Yellow Moon is good, but I couldn't compare it to Lowlight. That's my favorite PJ song.

Soulfire wrote:Poor Yellow Moon... it's in the midst of a Brendan O'Brien shit sandwich (Sleeping By Myself & Future Days).

I'm actually enjoying SBM a lot.

I almost like this song. I hate the way Ed sings the chorus though. It should be "Yellow moon ON THE RISE" not "Yeeeaaaaaaaaallow moonontherise". Musically it's very Neil Youngy.

Should've been the album closer

Exactly my issue with the song. He easily could've come up with something better, there. Like "yehellow mooooooon on the rise." Such terrible phrasing.

nah i think it's alright.

Soulfire wrote:Poor Yellow Moon... it's in the midst of a Brendan O'Brien shit sandwich (Sleeping By Myself & Future Days).

it's a breath of fresh air in a room that smells like poop.

i hear the similarities, but I don't care for lowlight and loved this song

stip wrote:i hear the similarities, but I don't care for lowlight and loved this song

I found this old picture of us.

i still have that fridge

Acidfuel wrote:It it almost didn't make the cut

Yeah Mikey rescued it. He's has a few nice guitar parts on the record and he wrote "Sirens" (which I happen to like a lot). If it weren't for Mike this could be an even bigger pile of shit.

Mike McCready I award you one gold star.

I'm really not feeling this today, I feel like there's a song I could like in there somewhere, but between that fucking guitar, the piano towards the end and some of eddies vocals......I dunno

Round and round we go, where we stop nobody knows? C'Mon Eddie.

Yeah this song just isn't doing it for me. Listening party said "haunting guitar ala nothing as it seems "

.....yeah no. The song is boring , the chorus is suuuper boring , and the Mike solo's aren't anything too great. It's just a whatever song, sounds like something from a soundtrack, kind of Into The Wild. It tries to soar, but it just can't. It reminds me of Long Road which is another song I never really liked either.

When I first heard it I thought it sounded like something they were working on between Ten and Vs. It has a slight feel of Acoustic #2 or whatever that was on the PJ20 soundtrack. It's like he's still trying to work out a melody for the song and avoids some of the abrupt melodic intervals that Ed uses in his newer songs - that makes sense given that this is a Jeff song. If this was a Lost Dog from that era or Riot Act I wouldn't have been surprised.

This would have worked better in tandem with either MFS and Pendulum - the placement of it is odd but that may be due to its late inclusion.

Blenheim Augustine wrote:When I first heard it I thought it sounded like something they were working on between Ten and Vs. It has a slight feel of Acoustic #2 or whatever that was on the PJ20 soundtrack. It's like he's still trying to work out a melody for the song and avoids some of the abrupt melodic intervals that Ed uses in his newer songs - that makes sense given that this is a Jeff song. If this was a Lost Dog from that era or Riot Act I wouldn't have been surprised.

This would have worked better in tandem with either MFS and Pendulum - the placement of it is odd but that may be due to its late inclusion.

I heard that acoustic demo right away in the vocals.

This feels like a no code song, recorded at the wrong time.

I really dislike the production, its too busy.

Hearing it again , it really reminds me of Hard Sun. I know it's a Jeff song, but this would have fit right on Into The Wild or a movie soundtrack.


It grew on me a little these past couple listens , but still don't think it's anything that great. Just kind of a middle of the (long) road PJ song .

what is too busy about yellow moon. I'm listening for when Ellie wakes up and don't have any music on.