Red Mosquito • View topic - MM 4-5: React/Respond vs. Waiting For Stevie

stip · **Joined:** Thu December 13, 2012 6:31 pm **Posts:** 40091

React/Respond vs. Waiting for Stevie

Round closes 4/25 8 PM

stip · **Joined:** Thu December 13, 2012 6:31 pm **Posts:** 40091

Waiting for Stevie. React/Respond is pretty great, though

Gigalogy84 · **Joined:** Sat March 21, 2020 4:37 pm **Posts:** 197

As excellent as Waiting For Stevie is, I think half of the songs on the album are better. That includes React, Respond.

Jaeti · **Joined:** Mon July 08, 2013 5:47 pm **Posts:** 2309

Stevie.

wease · **Posted:** Wed April 24, 2024 1:25 am

My two favorite cuts. Dammit.

stip · **Joined:** Thu December 13, 2012 6:31 pm **Posts:** 40091

Gigalogy84 wrote:

As excellent as Waiting For Stevie is, I think half of the songs on the album are better. That includes React, Respond.

As much as I've waxed rhapsodic about WFS, for almost all the songs on the record if someone said 'i prefer this' I wouldn't argue. I'd disagree, but I wouldn't argue

I've never had this much trouble ranking an album. Even tiering it

liebzz · **Joined:** Thu January 03, 2013 7:55 pm **Posts:** 7679

Sir Duke.

Birds in Hell · **Joined:** Tue January 01, 2013 9:38 pm **Posts:** 15206

Back the underdog here, easy vote for RR.

Strat · **Posted:** Wed April 24, 2024 2:47 am

React respond is somewhat new territory for them. Ed's vocal attempts including his melody, his humming, and that chorus.....are not....typical for him. its pearl jam doing their best split enz (history never repeats/i see red) thrown through a blender that includes pearl jam punk rock tasties.

The song completely unravels at the end and the band is playing their asses off. Its so exciting.

RR is maybe my favorite on the record.

Anders · **Posted:** Wed April 24, 2024 4:00 am

React/Respond

EJ · **Joined:** Wed January 02, 2013 3:15 pm **Posts:** 7050

WFS was an early favorite of mine off the album. It took me several listens to really hear all that's going on in React/Respond. It is insanely good and keeps getting better. That elevated chug reminds me of Insignificance for some reason. Anyway, it gets my vote here.

Higgs · **Posted:** Thu April 25, 2024 11:07 am

WFS but it is close. And I suspect by next year my vote may well have changed.

LetMeSleep · **Posted:** Thu April 25, 2024 11:33 am

R/R by a massive margin.

lvc · **Posted:** Thu April 25, 2024 1:14 pm

There are three songs on the record that have stuck in my ear so that I could hum the hooks from memory. These are two of them.

digster · **Joined:** Thu January 03, 2013 1:10 am **Posts:** 3897

I like Stevie, but it's definitely not a five-star level kind of song for me. React/Respond is in my top 3 on the record, right behind Wreckage and Upper Hand, so that gets my vote.

stip · **Joined:** Thu December 13, 2012 6:31 pm **Posts:** 40091

We'll be Waiting for Stevie in the finals

MM 4-5: React/Respond vs. Waiting For Stevie

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