Red Mosquito

Gonna See My Friend vs. Amongst the Waves

Love both of these

Amongst the Waves has a wonderful vocal melody in the verse, good lyrics, and an underrated dreamscape vibe. A song doesn't need Binaural's darkness to have atmosphere. This is (for me) every bit as evocative as a sleight of hand or of the girl. But the chorus swings for the fences and only gets a double.

GSMF is a high energy blast of good will from start to finish. It's one of my favorite opening moments of any of their records - just a joyful explosion of a beginning, and I love how the bridge just about runs out of breath before that last transition.


Backspacer is such a good album

Vote for GSMF by the way

ok, i voted for ATW because groove baby!

backspacer is pretty great and GSM is top notch PJ.

ATW sucks.

Mike kind of ruins GSMF but I still like it.

It's the same default beer commercial bluesy bending intro he does on nearly every fast punky number - he does it on Running too.

Is it meant to be a Social Distortion-type thing?

I don't really know, dad punk is definitely not my thing, but it's both boring and grating.

Birds in Hell wrote:Mike kind of ruins GSMF but I still like it.

It's the same default beer commercial bluesy bending intro he does on nearly every fast punky number - he does it on Running too.

Is it meant to be a Social Distortion-type thing?

I don't really know, dad punk is definitely not my thing, but it's both boring and grating.

lol. Yea i noticed that he does that on running. Also satans bed.

He has noted Angus Young for that approach though......

Strat wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:Mike kind of ruins GSMF but I still like it.

It's the same default beer commercial bluesy bending intro he does on nearly every fast punky number - he does it on Running too.

Is it meant to be a Social Distortion-type thing?

I don't really know, dad punk is definitely not my thing, but it's both boring and grating.

lol. Yea i noticed that he does that on running. Also satans bed.

He has noted Angus Young for that approach though......

Also Go

ATW is such an underrated song. I don't expect it to get much love here but I genuinely love it. Easy vote for me.

epilogue wrote:ATW is such an underrated song. I don't expect it to get much love here but I genuinely love it. Easy vote for me.

Strat wrote:

epilogue wrote:ATW is such an underrated song. I don't expect it to get much love here but I genuinely love it. Easy vote for me.

Sorry friend...

ATW

It’s Gonna See My Friend (singular)


I voted ATW

GSMF is one of my least favorite Pearl Jam songs.

GSMF makes Dark Matter and Running seem great.

ATW is the second most unfairly hated Song of them

stip wrote:Love both of these

Amongst the Waves has a wonderful vocal melody in the verse, good lyrics, and an underrated dreamscape vibe. A song doesn't need Binaural's darkness to have atmosphere. This is (for me) every bit as evocative as a sleight of hand or of the girl. But the chorus swings for the fences and only gets a double.

GSMF is a high energy blast of good will from start to finish. It's one of my favorite opening moments of any of their records - just a joyful explosion of a beginning, and I love how the bridge just about runs out of breath before that last transition.


Backspacer is such a good album

This is a great description of both songs. And I like both. ATW has such feel good vibes in parts and sadly lets you down with a, not bad, but underwhelming chorus. GSMF on the other hand is a party from start to finish, and those drum fills give me life.

stip wrote: But the chorus swings for the fences and only gets a double.

This is such an apt description of Amongst the Waves. I still chose it over GSMF because…well…Amongst the Waves still has an album anchor vibe to it while GSMF is almost b-side in its toss away-ability.

I changed the thread title. It’s friend singular.

Can’t change the poll to “friend” though, i think it would reset the votes

i like to believe eddie has picked up additional friends since the time of the recording