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Rate My Father's Son
5 Stars 25%  25%  [ 27 ]
4 Stars 43%  43%  [ 46 ]
3 Stars 22%  22%  [ 24 ]
2 Stars 6%  6%  [ 7 ]
1 Star 4%  4%  [ 4 ]
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 Post subject: Re: Song of the Moment: My Father's Son
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This was originally my fav on the album but hasn't aged as well as I thought it would. Much prefer the latter half of the album (Swallowed Whole > Yellow Moon)

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What's the absolute best live version of this song?


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What's the absolute best live version of this song?


Denver 2014-10-22 ;)



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Interesting to see the love dissolve from page 1 to 35. I still love this song and think quite highly of it,


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Jorge loved this song.

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I still really like it, I think. I don't know. I haven't listened to it in a few years

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It's pretty good. Jagged musically and interesting lyrics.


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yeah i love this one

i just put it because of this thread. Love it. Jeff is great here

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we need a third song for a cringey ableism trilogy

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personally I think this is the song MOST ruined by the album's production


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mmm because its a very good song? maybe yeah.

But the production is mainly awful in the whole album.

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we need a third song for a cringey ableism trilogy

amputee
siamese twins
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Ms Harmless wrote:
personally I think this is the song MOST ruined by the album's production lyrics

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There are worse lyrics on Gigaton, tbh

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yeah the lyrics

"can I volunteer amputee"????

Ed was at the peak of his "you can literally cut out words and make it make no sense as long as it scans, it's fine"

I don't find anything on Gigaton that does that, SBWM gets cringe but it doesn't cut out


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I don't think that's what he's singing

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This has been one of my least favorite Pearl Jam songs for a long time. To me it just sounds very affected, both in terms of Eddie and the band.

(it does have a nice bridge)

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Jorge wrote:
I don't think that's what he's singing


one time it is, which kinda makes it worse (knowing the line makes sense the first time, so the change is CALCULATED)

https://pearljam.com/music/song/my-fathers-son/lyrics


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Oh yeah

Well this just strengthens my overall belief that Ed is generally a bad lyricist. Or at least modern-age, excessively verbose Ed.

For a song as obviously silly as this it doesn't bother me much, but when a song is shooting for poignancy and he does that clunky, awkward grammatical restructuring to fit a rhyme pattern ("Comes Then Goes" has several examples of this) it stands out much more to me

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