Red Mosquito

epilogue wrote:

Jorge wrote:It's been a long while and I barely remember what this sounds like. Maybe I will give it a listen tomorrow

It's basically Tremor Christ.

The most blasphemous post in the history of this board.

VinylGuy wrote:It’s so weird when people say it’s similar to Tremor Christ.

It's because of the guitar that goes NYUCK NYUCK NYUCK NYUCK NYUCK NYUCK

They have in common that both use guitars yes

And they go NYUCK NYUCK NYUCK NYUCK NYUCK NYUCK

They are similar kind of like when they said let's make an uglier Red Mosquito and out came 1/2 Full.

"Let's make a shittier Tremor Christ"

When people compare this to Tremor Christ they're just referring to the muffled 30-second soundcheck clip we all heard a decade ago.

They're referring to the NYUCK NYUCK NYUCK

In the battle of the rewrites Infallible>Yellow Moon

the worst thing about this song is that it turns from this dark ominous omen-pop "keep on locking your doors" verse, to this weirdly shoehorned, unearned, victoriously preachy chorus about "the hearts and minds of men" that was so blatantly rewritten to replace something that was probably cool originally

the worst thing about it is what it is so obviously refusing to be

Yellow Moon is just an obviously overproduced folky song; it has no actual musical decisions or directions that I hate

my least favourite PJ songs are ones that had basically decent ideas behind them, until someone shit on it from a great height

unfortunately Lightning Bolt has a lot of these songs, like Pearl Jam suddenly sunk into the uncanny valley

one day you'll realise I'm right more often than I'm wrong

:bigkisses:

I don't necessarily disagree with Ms Harmless. Those descriptions are fair enough. However, I personally am quite moved by Yellow Moon and Infallible. Yellow Moon especially. For me the song is all about vibes. Not too terribly different from In The Moonlight, that way. But I do wish it wasn't so poorly produced, for sure.

definitely all about the vibes, and Yellow Moon has em