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Match BY: Life Wasted vs. Olympic Platnium
Posted: Wed March 12, 2014 1:24 am
by stip
Match BY
Re: Match BY: Life Wasted vs. Olympic Platnium
Posted: Wed March 12, 2014 1:51 am
by digster
I love Life Wasted. I feel like a lot of people really dislike that opening 3-song run to S/T, but besides the one-two punch of Parachutes/Unemployable it's the only part of the record I feel like they get right.
Re: Match BY: Life Wasted vs. Olympic Platnium
Posted: Wed March 12, 2014 1:53 am
by Birds in Hell
digster wrote:I love Life Wasted.
I like it a lot too, even if it hasn't sounded right live ever since they dropped the key.
Re: Match BY: Life Wasted vs. Olympic Platnium
Posted: Wed March 12, 2014 1:54 am
by digster
Like Binaural, all of my favorite versions of the songs from S/T come from the year they toured on the record.
edit: speaking of which, I just listened to Black Market Avocado for the first time recently. That's awesome, thanks.
Re: Match BY: Life Wasted vs. Olympic Platnium
Posted: Wed March 12, 2014 2:04 am
by William Bloke
Life Wasted is a great tune. This makes me want to crank "Black Market Avocado" again.
:searches:
Re: Match BY: Life Wasted vs. Olympic Platnium
Posted: Wed March 12, 2014 2:13 am
by chewm
I love Life Wasted
Re: Match BY: Life Wasted vs. Olympic Platnium
Posted: Wed March 12, 2014 2:14 am
by stip
digster wrote:I love Life Wasted. I feel like a lot of people really dislike that opening 3-song run to S/T, but besides the one-two punch of Parachutes/Unemployable it's the only part of the record I feel like they get right.
it's one of my absolute favorite stretches in the catalog. It's pretty close to my 1-2-3 for the post 2000 era. And both WWS and Comatose have been top 5 songs for me at one point. All 3 were top 10
Re: Match BY: Life Wasted vs. Olympic Platnium
Posted: Wed March 12, 2014 4:27 am
by Norah
I voted for Olympic Platinum and I'm dead serious about it.
Re: Match BY: Life Wasted vs. Olympic Platnium
Posted: Wed March 12, 2014 4:29 am
by digster
stip wrote:digster wrote:I love Life Wasted. I feel like a lot of people really dislike that opening 3-song run to S/T, but besides the one-two punch of Parachutes/Unemployable it's the only part of the record I feel like they get right.
it's one of my absolute favorite stretches in the catalog. It's pretty close to my 1-2-3 for the post 2000 era. And both WWS and Comatose have been top 5 songs for me at one point. All 3 were top 10
Whoa now, pump the brakes, buddy.
Re: Match BY: Life Wasted vs. Olympic Platnium
Posted: Wed March 12, 2014 5:23 am
by BurtReynolds
It's alright. Delete WWS and add Severed Hand, and it's a decent opening.
Re: Match BY: Life Wasted vs. Olympic Platnium
Posted: Wed March 12, 2014 5:38 am
by digster
I really like WWS besides its' lunkhead of a chorus.
Re: Match BY: Life Wasted vs. Olympic Platnium
Posted: Wed March 12, 2014 9:14 am
by Lament
stip wrote:All 3 were top 10
I mean...I know I should expect these things but...
Wow.
Re: Match BY: Life Wasted vs. Olympic Platnium
Posted: Wed March 12, 2014 10:16 am
by stip
WWS is still there.
Re: Match BY: Life Wasted vs. Olympic Platnium
Posted: Wed March 12, 2014 10:17 am
by Lament
One of them being in the top 10 doesn't surprise me or seem excessive (though none of them would be in my top 50). Three just seems like a lot.
Re: Match BY: Life Wasted vs. Olympic Platnium
Posted: Wed March 12, 2014 10:19 am
by stip
You also have to understand how much of a breath of fresh air these songs felt like to me. I love when pearl jam is all roar and fire and they basically stopped writing songs like that for the better part of a decade. The beginning of s/t was a homecoming
Re: Match BY: Life Wasted vs. Olympic Platnium
Posted: Wed March 12, 2014 10:20 am
by stip
Lament wrote:One of them being in the top 10 doesn't surprise me or seem excessive (though none of them would be in my top 50). Three just seems like a lot.
In their way they are similar songs, and so they all kind of elevated each other.
They are all probably still top 20.
Re: Match BY: Life Wasted vs. Olympic Platnium
Posted: Wed March 12, 2014 12:37 pm
by stupidmop
Sing like whitneeeeeyeyeyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
I loathe life wasted.
Re: Match BY: Life Wasted vs. Olympic Platnium
Posted: Wed March 12, 2014 1:31 pm
by Thejambi
stip wrote: The beginning of s/t was a homecoming a return to form.
Re: Match BY: Life Wasted vs. Olympic Platnium
Posted: Wed March 12, 2014 1:34 pm
by Kevin Davis
"Life Wasted" for me. Love the bridge, and always found it surprisingly melodic for the lunkheaded rocker it makes itself out to be. One of my favorite songs on "S/T."
Re: Match BY: Life Wasted vs. Olympic Platnium
Posted: Wed March 12, 2014 1:40 pm
by Thejambi
I rank it as average to slightly above average. I think Ed sounds pretty weak and that takes away a lot for me. He's singing at an 11 and it doesn't work as well for me as he does on say, My Father's Son.