Are we still calling this a Christmas single?

Hi Ruddo.

'sup

Unthought Known = top 5

Just Breathe = top 10

GSMF= most listened to pj Song of the last 5 years

Cold Confession best song period since Black

MYM ,severed hand , unemployable, parachutes, life wasted, pendulum speed of Sound all 4 star songs. Minimum.
I hope nobody tells them they suck.

Tj is insane and a possible threat to society.

That's maybe true but it has no bearing on anything in the expanded Pearl jam universe.
I just can't believe or can't get over or both how effing charming Backspacer is.

Actually Lightning Bolt is the album that doesn't fit. It is safe but kinda boring. It has some moments that are nice but I don't know if it was food it would be a fillet minion cooked in a microwave. Backspace doesn't need to apologize for being a 99cent box of Mac and cheese. S/t a hardy bowl of slow crafted chili.

Even American Idiot has better lyrics than this.

Listened to this on the way to work this AM.

Things that bother me about this song:

It should be over after the first chorus. The song has said and presented everything it needs to by the end of the first chorus. There is nothing else worthy of singing after this. Ed brings nothing new to the 2nd verse. Additionally, nothing exciting happens after this. It goes into a lame clap along/sing along bridge then right back into the vanilla chorus then ends. Its all unnecessary and brings nothing else to the song. The song is pretty good up through the first chorus. After that? We've been there.

The song could take a turn for something interesting if pearl jam of years past had their hands on it. A great place for this would be prior to launching back into the last chorus. They could have written a completely new guitar part and Mike could have brought a meaty solo over it. They used to do this. Mankind, hell, even Ole have a section that brings in a completely new musical element to the song to take you to a new place. That requires extra thought and attention.

This song is just same same the entire time. A lot of their recent output is.

Little to no guitar interplay. There is one guitar that could be doing something a little more interesting in the second verse but with King BOB at the helm, he buries it and muddies it up against everything else that is uninteresting. He does this all across the new S/T mixes, most notably burying mikes beautiful guitar fill near the end of Parachutes.

I love the intro and i love Ed's unhinged/borderline awful vocal performance. It brings a sense of urgency to it. The chorus is fine 1 time but after that its grating.

This song? it is not good.

Its all good though. i immediately put on Binaural and everything was fine.

Woof! You turned on this thing so fast, Strat. Is this the fastest that a new PJ track has turned for you?

Well here's the thing with strat:

It will still be include don his running and skiing playlists.

Huzzah!

Like I said, there are things I enjoy about it. Eddies singing. but upon further dissection the entire song doesn't hold up.

And yes, im thankful for new pj, and can't wait for Missoula.

strat stares down a quadruple black diamond....

Spoiler: show

"You can't deny me."

I wasn't trying to accuse you of anything, buddy. Just you seemed so into it after that first listen. Those texts you sent were so excited. Now that you've listened to it more, I can tell it's let you down a bit. Nothing wrong with that. For some reason I'm having the opposite experience. I seem to like it more as time goes by. We'll see how long that lasts.

Like I said before, it's not top tier Pearl Jam. Far from. But I do enjoy the song.

Just come to Missoula, please.

I wish I could. But I can't afford it.

doug?? help?

Doug's a Bronco fan.

Lol