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Joined: Thu December 13, 2012 6:31 pm Posts: 39925
This won't be close, but Wishlist is one of the most underrated songs in the catalog, I think. A traditional sentiment delivered with some very clever lyircs, a great solo, and subtle performances all around.
Fatal is great but i believe ill vote for wishlist. Really been loving that tune lately. I absolutely love the production on it and the guitar interplay is so beautiful. I wish they took the time to craft such intricate play these days.
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 11:15 pm Posts: 20787 Location: the bathroom
It's a classic matchup of Stone vs Ed, and gotta go with Stone. I would have voted for Wishlist if Stone hadn't sabotaged it by pretending he couldn't use an e-bow.
Joined: Wed February 06, 2013 2:47 am Posts: 17536 Location: Scooby Doo
It just plods. And I find it trite. And I feel it is misunderstood by most of the PJ community. The solo has some nice tones but overall I'm left feeling empty.
And from the old board:
I wrote:
Wishlist is just a plod and not the happy song you all hear. It's completely wrought with the Hail Hail line (I sometimes realise I can only be as good as you'll let me). I appreciate that PJ can do this nice song but I'm bored.
I wrote:
Going back to Wishlist for a moment.
I hope this doesn't wreck anyone's enjoyment but I always found this song to be quite sad, about a man not living up to all that he felt he could be in another's eyes. Maybe this is with hindsight that his marriage to Beth fell apart but was this Eddie voicing his inadequacies? The last verse in particular I find really heart wrenching, especially 'I wish I was the verb 'to trust' and never let you down'.
Is this a man who knows that he can never live up to his partner's expectations? And does he know that she won't ever let herself depend on another, allow him to be 'the pedal brake that she depends on'?
I wish I could hear it as positively as everyone else here has, but I hear a quiet acceptance that he will never be the keyring and he throws in a few positive/favourable memories harking back to happier times to fool either himself or the person he is speaking to.
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 2:04 pm Posts: 37156 Location: September 2020 Poster of the Month
LetMeSleep wrote:
It just plods. And I find it trite. And I feel it is misunderstood by most of the PJ community. The solo has some nice tones but overall I'm left feeling empty.
And from the old board:
I wrote:
Wishlist is just a plod and not the happy song you all hear. It's completely wrought with the Hail Hail line (I sometimes realise I can only be as good as you'll let me). I appreciate that PJ can do this nice song but I'm bored.
I wrote:
Going back to Wishlist for a moment.
I hope this doesn't wreck anyone's enjoyment but I always found this song to be quite sad, about a man not living up to all that he felt he could be in another's eyes. Maybe this is with hindsight that his marriage to Beth fell apart but was this Eddie voicing his inadequacies? The last verse in particular I find really heart wrenching, especially 'I wish I was the verb 'to trust' and never let you down'.
Is this a man who knows that he can never live up to his partner's expectations? And does he know that she won't ever let herself depend on another, allow him to be 'the pedal brake that she depends on'?
I wish I could hear it as positively as everyone else here has, but I hear a quiet acceptance that he will never be the keyring and he throws in a few positive/favourable memories harking back to happier times to fool either himself or the person he is speaking to.
Interesting. I'm definitely hearing it that way now that you've brought it to my attention.
Joined: Wed February 06, 2013 2:47 am Posts: 17536 Location: Scooby Doo
And all of that should make it more interesting to me. My wife always bemoans my sad folky bastard music (Ryan Adams etc) but most of it either has humour or bitterness. See Dylan, Costello, Adams.
I should add that the song may be a successful composition, it's that I don't care for it.
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