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Joined: Fri July 26, 2013 12:34 am Posts: 4396 Location: chewm
digster wrote:
I like the old-timey take on it. The song's nice enough, but I have to admit Ed's strummy strummy folk songs tend to blend together to me. I feel like his finger picked stuff (Man of the Hour, The End) usually has a bit more life and interesting parts to them.
I kinda feel the opposite way about the strumming and the finger picking.
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 11:15 pm Posts: 20787 Location: the bathroom
Strat wrote:
His strummy stuff is starting to get rather bland. Remember when he'd write riffs like grievance and insignificance?
Still need to really listen to this song but its inspired me to bust out "a letter home" by Neil
Completely agreed. He needs to stop the "how many strums can i do in 2 seconds" thing he loves so much. I used to do that when I was 7 and found my uncle's guitar sitting in the corner.
Joined: Tue September 24, 2013 5:56 pm Posts: 47166 Location: In the oatmeal aisle wearing a Shellac shirt
bodysnatcher wrote:
Strat wrote:
His strummy stuff is starting to get rather bland. Remember when he'd write riffs like grievance and insignificance?
Still need to really listen to this song but its inspired me to bust out "a letter home" by Neil
Completely agreed. He needs to stop the "how many strums can i do in 2 seconds" thing he loves so much. I used to do that when I was 7 and found my uncle's guitar sitting in the corner.
I'm convinced Jill and the girls are enablers of Eddie's more embarrassing musical tendencies.
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 3:35 pm Posts: 32296 Location: Buenos Aires
bodysnatcher wrote:
He needs to stop the "how many strums can i do in 2 seconds" thing he loves so much. I used to do that when I was 7 and found my uncle's guitar sitting in the corner.
It's the Townshend influence... I like it but not on every song, jeez
More of Ed writing about being older/closer to death. And like a lot of his other songs on that subject, it has an air of "songwriting exercise" about it.
His musings on mortality simplify a very complex subject the same way his political pieces simplify their own ideals, except that this time the reduction is at the cost of the very emotional core he's trying to evoke.
He used to be so good at cathartically capturing, through a combination of writing and performance, a very nuanced desire or dillema...even when his lyrics stretched abstract to the point of nonsense. Now he writes these "hit you on the head" direct statements that are in no way evocative, and conjure a very minimal amount of residual feeling.
Then again, when he does try to be evocative, there's a 50% chance you're going to get a drunk octopus. So...
Joined: Sat January 05, 2013 1:57 pm Posts: 32515 Location: Where everybody knows your name
A good song for the format. However, I'm getting tired of Eddie acoustic folk songs. Let Stone bring in some of his Hank Williams-channeled folky stuff. Or challenge Mike to play acoustic something acoustic not like Sirens.
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