The "I think The Fixer is Great" thread
MarvelousMan
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Well, we've seen The Fixer hater threads. Complain how they don't think it best represents Pearl Jam, too "poppy", even dissing on the lyrics, etc. And thats okay. Your opinion. But "kickass-ness" is in the "ear of the beholder."
I like the song. Is it their anthem song? No. But I dig the hooks, chorus, background singing, vocal arrangements. Its a good radio song. I think it kicks ass!
NOTE: Please use this thread to show your like of the song or the love of the band. We already got hater-threads of the song for you to rant.
I like the song. Is it their anthem song? No. But I dig the hooks, chorus, background singing, vocal arrangements. Its a good radio song. I think it kicks ass!
NOTE: Please use this thread to show your like of the song or the love of the band. We already got hater-threads of the song for you to rant.
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After hearing Mike talk about "Amongst the Waves" in his interveiw I am super pumped for this album.
Ha ha! Great I love it! The next time you compliment a show or your likeness for the band...I return the same pic.
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Right!!!! You smacked it outta the park. The quote of the day what this song, album, impending tour is all about: "just happy they are still a band after all these years and making music that makes me feel something."
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What did he say about it?
1) PEARL JAM
2) TOOL
He said bluesy and rocky. So I imagine lots of Mike in that song. Much like Half full. He also talked about another song. Slipping my mind right now. It sounded really cool though.
"..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
“..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
Yes this is exactly how I feel. They are a fresh creative force that almost always clicks with me. I trust that so much now it's often simply a question of tuning in on the frequency they're suggesting. I love the effortless victory of the Fixer, just put a little shine on it, just put a bit more high on it, just fucking fight and get it back again. simple. wu-wei. optimism, it's all surmountable, only this time you can feel it's for keeps. Just fuckin fix it! yeah! Only a band who have faced down & defeated the worst demons could be so nonchalant and cheerful about difficulty.
Sorry, here I go as usual. I agree with bf242002, that's all I wanted to say!
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I love that line. the delivery. everything.
Not my favorite song ever ... but I definitely get something out of it.
for the least they could possibly do
These are two solid-ass posts. Just wanted to say that.
for the least they could possibly do
yeah - yeah - yeah - yeah
I love the fact that it isn't anything like you would expect, and that is something that since Vitalogy (maybe I should include W.M.A. from Vs in this as well) I believe the band has managed with every album.
I would love every album to be Ten and VS, I'm 33 and I lived and breathed Pearl Jam when Ten was released and still, taken as a whole, believe that Ten and Vs are the best of the Pearl Jam catalogue, but then if Pearl Jam had just kept grinding the same sounds and styles out album after album, I don't think the majority of us would be still interested, and the band would probably have been long gone by now.
Or they'd be Nickelback
entirely agree ten and vs cemented their place in my life, 1993 there was food, oxygen, pearl jam! They sounded even more messed up than I was! I know a lot of people love yield, and it is a damn fine album. In fact you can safely say with hindsight now pearl jam preside over the entire 1990s. 5 albums, 5 perfect tens. superb achievement. well done lads, you just nailed a decade! But Yield is valuable, and wonderful but not your lifeblood. Maybe it's just the time when you discover them. I know some weird people actually prefer Binaural! Ten sounded fine at the time, rather like the remix sounds to me today! I will rarely play the original now tho, has been superseded.
Coming back to the point I'm trying to make, which you already made!: If they were still making ten and vs in their 40s we should all be a bit worried about their state of arrested development. Is amusing how one of the most shocking things they can do now is put out a catchy radio friendly rocker. I'm glad, It sounds fresh and in its way reminds me of the same thrill I got when the angst was new too. Back then you found the positivity hidden down deep. Here it's just up there on the sleeve. It's just different slices of pearl jam, and they almost all point to Hope if you follow the line they are pointing. This one it's pretty damn obvious. fuckit. sing!
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I was thinking exactly that, while I was reading the rest of your post it occured to me that we should be happy that the band is embracing the radio again, especially those that were around back in the no music video, no singles days after Jeremy, along with the fact that they are obviuosly happy in themselves as the music has been reflecting with its less angst ridden, less angry, more happy vibe.
Ok The Fixer is no ............(fill inyour own personal favs)...........(mine would be Black) but its still one of the best rock songs on the radio I've heard all week, and Radio1 played Alive twice on Monday in honour of the new single.
Like I said we could all be stuck with bands like Nickelback (don't like them) (at all) (you know Chad once said he was the most talented musician to come out of Seattle - what a cock)