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Post subject: Re: MM 6-8: Puzzles and Games vs. 10 Billion Years vs. Acous
Posted: Fri March 29, 2024 12:27 am
The worst
Joined: Thu December 13, 2012 6:31 pm Posts: 39948
Ooof, this is tough
10 Billion Years is my favorite stone vocal pearl jam has, and it's fun, but I've never understood the love it inspires.
Falling Down never drew much out of me. I'd rather listen to Out of My Mind.
Puzzles and Games is the masterpiece they ran away from. I will go to my deathbed convinced it would have been a monster hit, and far superior to Light Years.
But I'm going to vote for Acoustic #1. It's just a sketch of the song, but I am just head over heels in love with how Eddie sounds in it. Like a lost and wounded angels desperate for someone to take him home.
Post subject: Re: MM 6-8: Puzzles and Games vs. 10 Billion Years vs. Acous
Posted: Fri March 29, 2024 1:02 am
Major Dude
Joined: Sat January 05, 2013 1:57 pm Posts: 32522 Location: Where everybody knows your name
stip wrote:
Ooof, this is tough
10 Billion Years is my favorite stone vocal pearl jam has, and it's fun, but I've never understood the love it inspires.
Falling Down never drew much out of me. I'd rather listen to Out of My Mind.
Puzzles and Games is the masterpiece they ran away from. I will go to my deathbed convinced it would have been a monster hit, and far superior to Light Years.
But I'm going to vote for Acoustic #1. It's just a sketch of the song, but I am just head over heels in love with how Eddie sounds in it. Like a lost and wounded angels desperate for someone to take him home.
It’s good but you’re so incorrect.
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Post subject: Re: MM 6-8: Puzzles and Games vs. 10 Billion Years vs. Acous
Posted: Fri March 29, 2024 3:16 am
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Joined: Thu January 03, 2013 1:10 am Posts: 3880
10 Billion Years is a fantastic song, and easily the highlight of that extra group of S/T b-sides we got. I kind of wish their albums had a wide enough scope that stuff like this had a chance of getting on. Puzzles and Games remains overrated for what it is. They should rescue that chorus and use it in a different, better song like they did with putting the bridge into Light Years.
Post subject: Re: MM 6-8: Puzzles and Games vs. 10 Billion Years vs. Acous
Posted: Fri March 29, 2024 1:00 pm
A Return To Form
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Everybody keeps calling Puzzles and Games a Light Years demo when it's 100% a Thumbing My Way demo, too.
I don't think I've ever heard the other three in this bracket.
Edit: OK 10 Billion Years has a real Wendell Berry Manifesto: Mad Farmer Liberation Front vibe that I'm really liking. It would have been a worthy closer to Avocado. Not even cutting Mike's song at the end, just add one more.
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Post subject: Re: MM 6-8: Puzzles and Games vs. 10 Billion Years vs. Acous
Posted: Fri March 29, 2024 1:46 pm
AnalLog
Joined: Mon January 07, 2013 5:30 pm Posts: 1590
"Puzzles and Games" advancing after "Light Years" lost in it's first match would be an absolute tragedy. The best part of the early demo got recycled into the better song, but it clearly still has its evangelicals and it's a pretty good song in its own right.
"Falling Down" is a really cool rough draft of a song that has a lot of strength even in the early incarnation that exists. I think it was recorded but a studio version has yet to surface, correct?
I never really remember much about "Acoustic #1." It's fine, but not something I would vote for in most cases.
"10 Billion Years" and its sibling "Sunburn" have both grown on me quite a bit. I wouldn't call either favorites, but nothing I would want to skip either. It has a similar sketchy quality to its opponents here.
Because I'm still salty about "Light Years" losing, I can't in good conscience vote for its unevolved form. I'll swing for Stone and vote "10 Billion Years" here.
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