Red Mosquito

Why would it be anything other than 'spoils' there?

You’ll have to ask the guy singing it

Heard this on BBC radio 2 yesterday. Felt an odd sense of pride hearing this on the radio, despite them all being millionaires several times over and selling out arenas for decades!

Starting to see this one spike up on the US radio formats.

I thoroughly enjoy this song

sweeper wrote:Starting to see this one spike up on the US radio formats.

Do tell...

Oversize wrote:

sweeper wrote:Starting to see this one spike up on the US radio formats.

Do tell...

It nudged the top 10 on the alternative, active rock, and AAA charts. Then it started to look like it was losing steam, posting small declines.

In the last 4-5 days, it started climbing again. This morning’s mediabase update has it back at #10 on the alt charts, #8 on active rock, #5 on triple a, and still adding spins on all three formats.

Dark Matter hasn’t actually fallen all the way off the charts yet, either.

McParadigm wrote:

Oversize wrote:

sweeper wrote:Starting to see this one spike up on the US radio formats.

Do tell...

It nudged the top 10 on the alternative, active rock, and AAA charts. Then it started to look like it was losing steam, posting small declines.

In the last 4-5 days, it started climbing again. This morning’s mediabase update has it back at #10 on the alt charts, #8 on active rock, #5 on triple a, and still adding spins on all three formats.

Dark Matter hasn’t actually fallen all the way off the charts yet, either.

I wonder how this tracks with other second or third singles.

McParadigm wrote:

Oversize wrote:

sweeper wrote:Starting to see this one spike up on the US radio formats.

Do tell...

It nudged the top 10 on the alternative, active rock, and AAA charts. Then it started to look like it was losing steam, posting small declines.

In the last 4-5 days, it started climbing again. This morning’s mediabase update has it back at #10 on the alt charts, #8 on active rock, #5 on triple a, and still adding spins on all three formats.

Dark Matter hasn’t actually fallen all the way off the charts yet, either.

It's mainly the play counts, which have jumped up a good amount over the past 4 days or so. It looks like it's about to hit the next tier pretty soon.

I don't think it ever really lost steam. It was slow, steady growth but has jumped a bit recently. Any of those small declines were due to Memorial Day when radio stations have alternative programming. The whole chart(s) was down in that stretch.

I never thought about how Memorial Day affects radio play. That’s cool, thank you.

Sometimes when this is on I find the intro music mixes my brain up and leads me to start singing the first lines of Modest Mouse's "We Missed the Boat."

I heard Into the Great Wide Open on the radio the other day. Wreckage's guitars were definitely influenced by that song!

Oh, and Learning to Fly's background vocals

This should have as much air play or cultural impact as daughter or betterman or some of the ten songs.

This is the one song on the album that has fallen a bit since my first experiences with it. It's a good song, but it's really straightforward and I feel like it kind of plays all its cards up front. I would have called it a 4 or a 4.5 on first listen, now I think it's closer to a 3 or 3.5.

Kevin Davis wrote:This is the one song on the album that has fallen a bit since my first experiences with it. It's a good song, but it's really straightforward and I feel like it kind of plays all its cards up front. I would have called it a 4 or a 4.5 on first listen, now I think it's closer to a 3 or 3.5.

Funny, I'm the opposite.

This one had been hyped up so much leading up to the album release and I initially felt it was kind of generic sounding. As it's had time to marinate and its nuances revealed, I now feel that it's a legit Pearl Jam classic.

guitar_davey wrote:

Kevin Davis wrote:This is the one song on the album that has fallen a bit since my first experiences with it. It's a good song, but it's really straightforward and I feel like it kind of plays all its cards up front. I would have called it a 4 or a 4.5 on first listen, now I think it's closer to a 3 or 3.5.

Funny, I'm the opposite.

This one had been hyped up so much leading up to the album release and I initially felt it was kind of generic sounding. As it's had time to marinate and its nuances revealed, I now feel that it's a legit Pearl Jam classic.

Both experiences seem valid for Wreckage. If it started off high for you, then I can see it dropping a bit with time. My experience has been like guitar davey's.

wreckage has been a steady slow climber for me, and probably peaked around 4.5. I agree that its a somewhat repetitive song, or at least one that reveals itself in full after not as many listens as, say, an upper hand. thats not a problem. so does waiting for stevie, for the most part (as opposed to dark matter, where there was lots to keep discovering even if not immediately obvious that there would be). Having said that, like WFS, part of what Ive really enjoyed about getting to know Wreckage is that the song is full of minor, subtle shifts - slight variations in delivery, small rises and falls in feeling - sometimes lasting a phrase, sometimes just a syllable, that add layers of emotional depth that stand out and are even more impactful given the comparative sameness of the music

stip wrote:wreckage has been a steady slow climber for me, and probably peaked around 4.5. I agree that its a somewhat repetitive song, or at least one that reveals itself in full after not as many listens as, say, an upper hand. thats not a problem. so does waiting for stevie, for the most part (as opposed to dark matter, where there was lots to keep discovering even if not immediately obvious that there would be). Having said that, like WFS, part of what Ive really enjoyed about getting to know Wreckage is that the song is full of minor, subtle shifts - slight variations in delivery, small rises and falls in feeling - sometimes lasting a phrase, sometimes just a syllable, that add layers of emotional depth that stand out and are even more impactful given the comparative sameness of the music

There is truth to this too; it earns its Petty/Springsteen comparisons in this, insofar as the music is something of an unchanging bedrock, with varying shades of emotional nuance floating over the top in the delivery. I still like the song a lot. I just really enjoy PJ tunes that have those layers of composition and sound to peel back, and my favorite songs on DM provide that experience in addition to the levels of nuanced delivery that you describe in "Wreckage" and "Stevie."

Might be my favorite song on the record at this point.