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Post subject: Re: Song of the Moment: Present Tense
Posted: Sat February 14, 2015 2:14 am
The Master
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This has me thinking...
Anybody know about how many originals there are in the PJ catalog? And how would one actually go about ranking them -- I mean, would 1/5 of all the songs get a 5, 1/5 get a 4, and so on? Or is the number of five-star songs hypothetically limitless? In the other thread where people were making their top 25 lists, I had no problem finding about 35 songs that are what I'd consider five-star tracks. But one-star songs? I could maybe only identify several. Hmm...
Post subject: Re: Song of the Moment: Present Tense
Posted: Sat February 14, 2015 3:39 am
An enigma of a man shaped hole in the wall between reality and the soul of the devil.
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 5:13 pm Posts: 39531 Location: 6000 feet beyond man and time.
It's fallen pretty far on my favorites of No Code list. I wouldn't call the lyrics trash, but they are kinda cheeseball. It's alright. I would really like to hear it live one day.
Post subject: Re: Song of the Moment: Present Tense
Posted: Sat February 14, 2015 5:11 pm
The worst
Joined: Thu December 13, 2012 6:31 pm Posts: 38604
tragabigzanda wrote:
This has me thinking...
Anybody know about how many originals there are in the PJ catalog? And how would one actually go about ranking them -- I mean, would 1/5 of all the songs get a 5, 1/5 get a 4, and so on? Or is the number of five-star songs hypothetically limitless? In the other thread where people were making their top 25 lists, I had no problem finding about 35 songs that are what I'd consider five-star tracks. But one-star songs? I could maybe only identify several. Hmm...
There is a master list of every song that has surfaced, with all known versions, stickied at the top of the page.
Post subject: Re: Song of the Moment: Present Tense
Posted: Sat February 14, 2015 6:22 pm
tl;dr
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 6:06 pm Posts: 8466
Washed Away wrote:
LetMeSleep wrote:
dimejinky99 wrote:
I think its one of Pj's all time greats..i just hate the way ed insists on cursing in it these days...ruins the whole song
I agree mate. It's so detrimental to the vibe of the song.
It's definitely a bit silly.
The thing I like about this particular lyric change is that, instead of simply cramming a curse word into the existing lyric (a la "In Hiding" or "Last Exit") or a total find-and-replace (like "Comatose"), here he changes a portion of an existing word to create an entirely new, more or less nonsensical word: "all encompassing trip" becomes "all en-fucking trip." This opens the door to a lot of interpretive possibilities: What is "enfucking?" Or is it "in-fucking?" "In-fucking" strikes me as an uncouth euphemism for incestuous practices, as in, "Well, there does seem to be a history of genetic defects in that family, but to be fair, there was a lot of in-fucking going on." Of course, an "all in-fucking trip" makes it sound like the band is going on tour for the exclusive purpose of having physical relations with each other, so perhaps I have mishyphenated and it's actually "all-in fucking trip" -- as in, "Life is a fucking trip, man, and I'm ALL IN!" That seems like precisely the sort of surfer dude pseudo-wisdom that belongs in this song -- unless it's meant to be "enfucking" after all, in which case I welcome further interpretation. In any case this is lexical pioneering on par with "surflaced" and "perfect-toe-ly" and should not be so readily dismissed. It clearly contains multitudes.
Post subject: Re: Song of the Moment: Present Tense
Posted: Sat February 14, 2015 7:40 pm
Fake NYC Setlist Relayer
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 3:15 pm Posts: 7010
tommymtcom wrote:
What about "whole big fucking trip"?
I hear that too. In either case, I don't think it really differs from "encompassing." It's just a bit Joe Dirtish and just another way to pander to the audience.
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