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Alex · **Joined:** Fri August 16, 2013 6:36 pm **Posts:** 5699

tommymtcom wrote:

Alex wrote:

tommymtcom wrote:

Alex wrote:

tommymtcom wrote:

What's your top 5, Alex?

present tense
sleight of hand
immortality
release
no way

what's yours?

I'm not sure. At least 3 of those would be in it, though.

which three?

Present Tense
Sleight of Hand
Immortality

Maybe No Way as well, but I'd have to give it some more thought. No Way used to be my number 1 Pearl Jam song.

i like the way you move

Kaius · **Joined:** Fri November 15, 2013 6:14 am **Posts:** 11136

This is a 5 star song

Norris · **Posted:** Thu February 12, 2015 10:52 pm

I bumped it down to 4 for some pretty shitty lyrics.

Kaius · **Joined:** Fri November 15, 2013 6:14 am **Posts:** 11136

Shut the hell up.

Norris · **Posted:** Thu February 12, 2015 10:59 pm

It's about life, man.

tommymtcom · **Posted:** Thu February 12, 2015 11:00 pm

Fuck you, Chud.

Jorge · **Posted:** Thu February 12, 2015 11:06 pm

He's only saying that because I tweeted it the other day

Jorge · **Posted:** Thu February 12, 2015 11:07 pm

I still gave it 5 stars, the music is that good.

Alex · **Joined:** Fri August 16, 2013 6:36 pm **Posts:** 5699

these lyrics show pearl jam at their most jonathan richman-esque

Birds in Hell · **Joined:** Tue January 01, 2013 9:38 pm **Posts:** 15169

The lyrics aren't that bad, guys.

There's plenty of Pearl Jam songs with worse lyrics than Present Tense.

Norris · **Posted:** Thu February 12, 2015 11:09 pm

can you see the way he tweeted? does it inspire?

Norris · **Posted:** Thu February 12, 2015 11:09 pm

Birds in Hell wrote:

There's plenty of Pearl Jam songs with worse lyrics than Present Tense.

for sure

Norris · **Posted:** Thu February 12, 2015 11:09 pm

I'm just saying in high school I thought they were really deep.

Alex · **Joined:** Fri August 16, 2013 6:36 pm **Posts:** 5699

yeah, there's no line in present tense like "that's the moss in the aforementioned verse" that makes me want to shoot my speakers with a flame-thrower

Kaius · **Joined:** Fri November 15, 2013 6:14 am **Posts:** 11136

They are so deep you sonuvabitch. I want you out of here. No. Scratch that. Stay here and take your beating like a man.

Birds in Hell · **Joined:** Tue January 01, 2013 9:38 pm **Posts:** 15169

Alex wrote:

yeah, there's no line in present tense like "that's the moss in the aforementioned verse" that makes me want to shoot my speakers with a flame-thrower

Exactly.

Or these regrettably firebrand couplets from the Riot Act era:

Can't wait for election day
Witness the occupation
Corporations rule the day

Can you feel this world with your heart and not your brain?

A think tank of aloof multiplication
A nicotine wish and a Columbus decanter
Retrenchment and hoggishness
The aristocrat choir sings
"What's the ruckus?"
The haves have not accrued
The immenseness of suffering
And the odd negotiation, a rarity
With onionskin plausibility of life,
And a keyboard reaffirmation

I'll take Present Tense any day.

Jorge · **Posted:** Thu February 12, 2015 11:24 pm

"Present Tense" is also just a better song than all of those. The fact that its lyrics are vapid hokey awkwardly metered garbage doesn't take away from that.

Birds in Hell · **Joined:** Tue January 01, 2013 9:38 pm **Posts:** 15169

Yeah, that too.

(I saw your now-deleted post Jorge and, yes, I might be an idiot but you can shut up.)

Jorge · **Posted:** Thu February 12, 2015 11:26 pm

It felt mean... you didn't have to say anything.

Strat · **Posted:** Thu February 12, 2015 11:27 pm

the chorus lyrics are great though.

Song of the Moment: Present Tense

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