The Haves (live debut)

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Sounds like the Bee Gees

Eddie is in his 80s Townshend mode here. Or Springsteen's Tunnel of Love stuff

Yikes.

That stinks. Couldn't even make it to the end.

The Pearl Jam Gigaton songs are far superior.

oof, so schmaltzy, and it's diluting a political idea into a "aren't we lucky?" love song

this is a great description. its cheesy solo eddie vedder. the outro with the whole band is nice. its fine, i assume this is glen hansard's influence?

also, can eddie vedder please stop singing about the "haves" and "haves not"?

I didn’t even get to the end part. It just seemed cheesy. Future Days like. Not my thing. Maybe I will like it more on the album.

Yeah admittedly not a fan of this one...but if i take a glass half full approach i'm glad that it at least hints at this album being a departure from the kinds of songs we'd get on a Pearl Jam album. Still can't wait to hear the whole thing.

Man we can only wish this album would be like Tunnel of Love! Maybe if Ed had wrote it in 2001 or 2002....

Before Gigaton, this is the kind of song I would have feared we'd be getting more of on "Lightning Bolt Part II featuring lead single Can't Deny Me"

More like The Heaves amirite

Honestly the song is fine for what it is, but the Stevie Nicks hand gestures put it into schmaltz territory

Yeah why tf does he do that

That being said, yuck, I’d rather listen to silence.

am i the biggest fan of this watt guy? no, not really.

I have a soft spot for schmaltzy Ed (still like future days) but it works better for me when it’s not a full band number. The haves/have not lyrics aren’t quite as clever an inversion as it’s needs to be for this to fully work, and it is taking an important colloquial class distinction and making it into something cutsey and personal, which feels a bit dismissive.

Hard left turn on the lyrics in these first two songs, and a bit surprising given how generally excellent the writing on gigaton is

The Haves sounds like the intro song to a primetime family dramedy circa 1988. Just picture "A Vin Di Bona Production" scrolling on the screen and the whole things makes perfect sense.

Yes it's called "Alive"

the journey from the acerbic, slight Soon Forget -- which covers similar thematic territory -- to the ornately composed The Haves is kind of a microcosm Ed's entire songwriting evolution over the last 20 years