I freakin' love The Fixer!

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  • I just think they are trying to write music that gets them excited and explore different avenues that are not within their "comfort zone".

    Agree.
  • Perspective 1: Music is art, and artistic taste is in the eye of the beholder.

    Perspective 2: At least PJ writes their own music. I doubt this is the norm across today's rock & pop landscape.

    Perspective 3: Sometimes less is more.

    Perspective 4: We need happy these days.

    Perspective 5: Remember we are talking about PJ. There may be more than meets the eye with Fixer (similar to how BM has been so misinterpreted over the years in spite of its relatively simple D-A-G structure...)

    Perspective "X": I can only barely imagine how much courage it takes to channel personal feelings - fears, anger, love, etc. - through music and then lay it all out there for the world to enjoy and/or critique. We should be so lucky that PJ has had this courage for so long and has FIXED many of us in the process.
  • vedpunkvedpunk Posts: 929
    Song kicks ass!!!!
  • Put it on your iPod and play it in your car on the way to the beach.
  • 100 Pacer100 Pacer Toronto, ON Posts: 9,068
    einatshaul wrote:
    The more I listen to this song, the more I'm sure of my initial hunch this is about, the band.

    I distinctly remember Ed talking about how easy it is to write catchy, poppy, quick tunes with a hook and be the next big thing and how they are not about that and like to keep it complex and under the radar. Well. Those times have past, now they're fighting to get the Ten notoriety back again. I mean. First Ten comes out again - now this?

    I know this is counter to everything we know, but its an angle... of course I could be way way off.

    "I'll dig your grave we'll dance and sing"

    hmmmm

    well played, apparently Mike agrees with you (of course, this has special meaning for you since it's Mike that's agreeing with you, right?! hehe):

    http://www.twofeetthick.com/2009/07/mik ... -mountain/

    About “The Fixer”: Mike said his take on it is that it refers to when the band give Ed songs he “whips them together in his cauldron of ideas (and) he fixes them and that is kind of what that’s all about.” About the song’s concise length, Mike said that as they are writing and playing they edit and say, ‘we need to cut some fat here’ and they didn’t want to take too much time to get to the chorus. He mentioned that if you listen to The Ramones, they are a “great example of that”, with some songs clocking in at 1:28. “You want them to sound short and you want to hear them again.” “since the beginning of our band”.
    To quote the 10C from Newsletter #8: "Please understand we have a lot of members and it is very hard to please everybody. If you are one of those unhappy people...please call 1-900-IDN-TCAR."

    "Me knowing the truth, I can not concur."

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