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Admit it, Ed has regressed as a songwriter/lyrcist
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Let's be realistic. Ed hasn't written a good acoustic song in years. The acoustic tracks that he wrote on Lightning Bolt are just atrocious college-dorm-room G-D-C strumming stinkers. His lyrics are just god awful going back to Backspacer. 'Just Breathe', 'The End', 'Future Days', 'Sleeping By Myself' ...all of them are just plain bad. Even as songs qua songs they just aren't very good ...at all.
Be honest, if you heard a song on the radio with these lyrics you wouldn't give it a second listen:
I should have know there was someone else
Now I'm alone I always kept it to myself
Now I believe in nothing
Not today as I move myself out of your sight
Oh I'll be sleeping by myself tonight
You would laugh and think it was horrible and would probably wonder why you stopped on an adult contemporary/soft rock station anyway. His lyrics are just so damn maudlin and juvenile even as far back as 'Love Boat Captain' which, by the way, these songs make look like lyrical genius.
I will say, however, that Getaway is a solid tune.
Be honest, if you heard a song on the radio with these lyrics you wouldn't give it a second listen:
I should have know there was someone else
Now I'm alone I always kept it to myself
Now I believe in nothing
Not today as I move myself out of your sight
Oh I'll be sleeping by myself tonight
You would laugh and think it was horrible and would probably wonder why you stopped on an adult contemporary/soft rock station anyway. His lyrics are just so damn maudlin and juvenile even as far back as 'Love Boat Captain' which, by the way, these songs make look like lyrical genius.
I will say, however, that Getaway is a solid tune.
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Isn't Sleeping by myself from like 2000 or something?
I like that one, even though the lyrics are very concrete and direct...
just breathe/future days/the end are.. not good though...
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Sorry, I wasn't aware only Pearl Jam apologists were allowed to post on this message board. I actually hold this band to a higher standard because I know how great they are and how great they can be.
After 23 years, it's unrealistic to hold them to whatever "higher standard" you hold them to. So Ed's songwriting isn't as good as it was in 1996. Well neither is Michael Jordan's basketball playing.
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If it's not doing it for you anymore, then.....
Really? I don't think so at all. I guess I'm just not ok with their writing average, at best, songs considering the fact that they can still write great songs.
I think half of Lightning Bolt is outstanding (Getaway, Mind Your Manners, My Father's Son, Infallible, Pendulum, Yellow Moon) and I think Infallible/Pendulum are two of the best songs they've written in their career.
Well there ya go, if half of it is outstanding, then he couldn't have regressed that much. Believe it or not, they've had many "average" songs over the years. I love "Animal" as much as the next guy but isn't it just a guy counting to 5 and repeating a refrain?
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Kid, your insult is cute, but the real question here is who let you on the internet?
My original post was concerning his acoustic/ukulele drivel ...the harder stuff he's more on point. I got away from that in my other posts. The rest of the band (aside from Mike) still write some damn great songs, but for whatever reason strumming open chords on an acoustic brings out the college student in Ed.
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Well I'm actually with ya on not liking the acoustic stuff over the past decade. Thumbing My Way, Just Breathe, Sirens....all total bores to me. But just because you and I don't like them doesn't mean they're not well-written songs. Just Breathe and Sirens seem to be very popular.
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I think that's a great idea. Leave it up to the fans what they like and want to listen to.
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THIS ^
As far as I am concerned this is a very strong album
I totally agree...those lyrics were mind-blowing. Just read the lyrics to Guaranteed. Brilliant.
I don't think Ed's writing ability has "regressed" so exponentially, if it has regressed any, that a thread needs to be made about it. I think Sirens is a very strong song lyrically. But we've all got our own opinions!
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Like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand.
If you can do so much better than Eddie and PJ, go ahead. Start a band, write some great songs and prove us all wrong. But I have a hunch, you cant, you wont.
I guess any time an artist puts their art out there to the masses its going to get judged but you two are just negative, glass half empty people who cant do, so you judge.
Sirens has incredible lyrics. Target, if you cant read and understand them, Im sure there are a a few people on here who can explain them to you.
Now, i dont think you have to love every song but your opinions are just so negative. Especially when your wrong or you have your facts wrong. Ed wrote SBM like over 10 years ago. Most those Uke songs I heard back in like 99 or 2000.
But please, do me a favor and prove me wrong, write, produce and perform any song better than whats on LB. Please. Ill wait to hear your single drop.