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Division 4 Round 3ay: Pendulum vs. Unthought Known
Posted: Mon March 02, 2015 2:06 pm
by stip
Division 4 Round 3ay: Pendulum vs. Unthought Known
Re: Division 4 Round 3ay: Pendulum vs. Unthought Known
Posted: Mon March 02, 2015 2:20 pm
by stip
Unthought Known has a few moments that eclipse anything in pendulum, but it's a very uneven song, whereas pendulum is consistently very good, with some ideas and moments i'd like to see them spend more time with in future songs (the sense of impending doom in the music that doesn't carry the melodramatic weight that gets attached to songs like this, Eddie actually throwing some wordless vocalizations back into a song, the way they up the tension in the second half of the song by bringing in a simple acoustic guitar). Plus it's been a great concert opener.
Pendulum.
Re: Division 4 Round 3ay: Pendulum vs. Unthought Known
Posted: Mon March 02, 2015 2:58 pm
by epilogue
Not even close. Pendulum.
Re: Division 4 Round 3ay: Pendulum vs. Unthought Known
Posted: Mon March 02, 2015 5:00 pm
by B
durdencommatyler wrote:Not even close. Pendulum.
But I do love to scream the lyrics to Unthought.
Re: Division 4 Round 3ay: Pendulum vs. Unthought Known
Posted: Mon March 02, 2015 5:35 pm
by Thejambi
One of the few slam dunks from this round.
Pendy Yums
Re: Division 4 Round 3ay: Pendulum vs. Unthought Known
Posted: Mon March 02, 2015 5:41 pm
by chewm
Pendulum, and I don't even like it that much.
Re: Division 4 Round 3ay: Pendulum vs. Unthought Known
Posted: Mon March 02, 2015 5:47 pm
by Norah
unthought known is so bad
Re: Division 4 Round 3ay: Pendulum vs. Unthought Known
Posted: Mon March 02, 2015 6:17 pm
by PHATJ
durdencommatyler wrote:Not even close. Pendulum.
Re: Division 4 Round 3ay: Pendulum vs. Unthought Known
Posted: Mon March 02, 2015 6:19 pm
by darth_vedder
My love for Pendulum has waned a bit, but I still consider it one of the better songs PJ has done on the last three albums.
Re: Division 4 Round 3ay: Pendulum vs. Unthought Known
Posted: Mon March 02, 2015 7:38 pm
by Strat
cutuphalfdead wrote:unthought known is so bad
Re: Division 4 Round 3ay: Pendulum vs. Unthought Known
Posted: Mon March 02, 2015 8:38 pm
by LetMeSleep
Pendulum by a wide margin.
Re: Division 4 Round 3ay: Pendulum vs. Unthought Known
Posted: Mon March 02, 2015 9:32 pm
by LoathedVermin72
Strat wrote:cutuphalfdead wrote:unthought known is so bad
Re: Division 4 Round 3ay: Pendulum vs. Unthought Known
Posted: Mon March 02, 2015 11:04 pm
by Kevin Davis
"Unthought Known" really does have very few redeeming features. Even up against lesser songs it should have been out in the first round.
Re: Division 4 Round 3ay: Pendulum vs. Unthought Known
Posted: Tue March 03, 2015 1:33 pm
by darth_vedder
It's so weird, when I first heard Backspacer, I felt UK was so good, and "classic" PJ. The song quickly started declining though, and now I don't ever listen to it. I guess once the newness wore off, and the criticism from RM sunk in, the song plummeted for me.
Re: Division 4 Round 3ay: Pendulum vs. Unthought Known
Posted: Tue March 03, 2015 2:11 pm
by stip
it's a lot harder to enjoy something in the face of relentless criticism, but UK was certainly a song that didn't leave much for the listener to discover.
Re: Division 4 Round 3ay: Pendulum vs. Unthought Known
Posted: Wed March 04, 2015 12:39 pm
by Mike
I think Pendulum has the biggest gap between my initial liking and my present liking of any Pearl Jam song. The style and mood of the song won me over at first but now it seems like a sketch of song to me. A kind of nice jam between Jeff and Stone with some half-assed vocals on top and then the song doesn't really go anywhere (except to the rather annoying AH AH AH AH AH part).
Unthought Known isn't that great but I enjoy it now and then. I certainly don't understand the hate it gets.
Re: Division 4 Round 3ay: Pendulum vs. Unthought Known
Posted: Wed March 04, 2015 12:59 pm
by Thejambi
Mike wrote:I think Pendulum has the biggest gap between my initial liking and my present liking of any Pearl Jam song. The style and mood of the song won me over at first but now it seems like a sketch of song to me. A kind of nice jam between Jeff and Stone with some half-assed vocals on top and then the song doesn't really go anywhere (except to the rather annoying AH AH AH AH AH part).
Unthought Known isn't that great but I enjoy it now and then. I certainly don't understand the hate it gets.
I rarely crave listening to it but when it pops up on shuffle I am always pleased.
Re: Division 4 Round 3ay: Pendulum vs. Unthought Known
Posted: Wed March 04, 2015 1:00 pm
by Jorge
Mike wrote:I think Pendulum has the biggest gap between my initial liking and my present liking of any Pearl Jam song. The style and mood of the song won me over at first but now it seems like a sketch of song to me. A kind of nice jam between Jeff and Stone with some half-assed vocals on top and then the song doesn't really go anywhere (except to the rather annoying AH AH AH AH AH part).
I feel the same about "Pendulum". I still voted for it because "Unthought Known" is distilled mediocrity. This is a very weak match-up.
Re: Division 4 Round 3ay: Pendulum vs. Unthought Known
Posted: Wed March 04, 2015 1:17 pm
by stip
None of these songs are worthy of the posturing hate they get. Pearl jam has very very few songs that are flat out bad, and just about every one has some redeeming feature