Red Mosquito

LetMeSleep wrote:Alive is so fully realised its kind of scary. I rarely enjoy it though. SoH however is often sought out. I prefer SoH but I'm not sure it's the better song. It's like voting against Satisfaction or Stairway.

To be continued...

digster wrote:Sleight of Hand, and all kidding aside, it's not even close. To me, this is a matchup against a very good song that is a great concert experience vs. one of the most deceptively moving and powerful statements this band has ever made.

digster wrote:Taking that logic would pretty much apply to anything Eddie has written after his first million, which would probably be some point in 1992.

I get not liking the song, but I hear absolutely nothing inauthentic about this song, and I would like to think that someone who may not be in that situation would still be able to craft something moving out of empathy. And these lyrics are a million miles away from Unemployable; I would certainly agree with the calculated critique in that song, but not here.

stip wrote:I can't argue with anyone's experience of that song, but SoH has always played slightly inauthentic to my ears. The millionaire rock star singing about the soul crushing nature of office work. The whole thing feels just slightly calculated to me (in the same way that unemployable kind of does). It's not done any favors by its placement, sandwiched in between the empathetic powerhouse Rival and the cheap shot Soon Forget, which certainly colors my experience of SoH.

stip wrote:

digster wrote:Taking that logic would pretty much apply to anything Eddie has written after his first million, which would probably be some point in 1992.

I get not liking the song, but I hear absolutely nothing inauthentic about this song, and I would like to think that someone who may not be in that situation would still be able to craft something moving out of empathy. And these lyrics are a million miles away from Unemployable; I would certainly agree with the calculated critique in that song, but not here.

I suspect he was writing from a pretty lonely place for SoH, which certainly comes through. There is empathy there, but I'm not sure there's understanding.

PHATJ wrote:

stip wrote:I can't argue with anyone's experience of that song, but SoH has always played slightly inauthentic to my ears. The millionaire rock star singing about the soul crushing nature of office work. The whole thing feels just slightly calculated to me (in the same way that unemployable kind of does). It's not done any favors by its placement, sandwiched in between the empathetic powerhouse Rival and the cheap shot Soon Forget, which certainly colors my experience of SoH.

This seems incredibly unfair to the song. Judge it on its own merits, not on the company that surrounds it. That would be like me not voting for Alive because Why Go kind of sucks and Even Flow gets played at every show.

digster wrote:

stip wrote:

digster wrote:Taking that logic would pretty much apply to anything Eddie has written after his first million, which would probably be some point in 1992.

I get not liking the song, but I hear absolutely nothing inauthentic about this song, and I would like to think that someone who may not be in that situation would still be able to craft something moving out of empathy. And these lyrics are a million miles away from Unemployable; I would certainly agree with the calculated critique in that song, but not here.

I suspect he was writing from a pretty lonely place for SoH, which certainly comes through. There is empathy there, but I'm not sure there's understanding.

I think I just disagree on this one. I find this to be one of the most understanding lyrics he's written, in large part because he works to avoid that kind of cheap lyrical out he reaches for in a song like Unemployable.