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Carpooling with Backspacer

youngsteryoungster Boston Posts: 6,576
edited September 2009 in The Porch
So I had Backspacer in my CD player this morning while riding with my 2 brothers and a friend to work. I think it was on Speed of Sound when from the backseat my brother says, "Have we been listening to the same song this whole time?" I respond, "You're kidding, right?" to which he says that all the songs he heard seemed to sound very alike. I told him he wasn't really listening to it. Then I ask if he wants me to turn on the radio instead and my other brother riding shotgun looks at me and says, "I wouldn't mind at all if you turned this off." To which I said, "You just don't get it, I guess." I kept the CD on till the end anyway cause it's my truck.

But man, some people just don't get this band.
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  • HeavyHandsHeavyHands Posts: 2,130
    cropduster82 wrote:
    To which I said, "You just don't get it, I guess." I kept the CD on till the end anyway cause it's my truck.

    You're a great brother! :)
    "A lot more people are capable of being big out there that just don't give themselves a chance." -Stone Gossard
  • youngsteryoungster Boston Posts: 6,576
    HeavyHands wrote:
    cropduster82 wrote:
    To which I said, "You just don't get it, I guess." I kept the CD on till the end anyway cause it's my truck.

    You're a great brother! :)

    Ha, thanks. My brother Greg who rode shotgun thinks Van Halen is the greatest band of all time so there you go. If I complained about that playing in his truck, he would have done the same.
    He who forgets will be destined to remember.

    9/29/04 Boston, 6/28/08 Mansfield, 8/23/09 Chicago, 5/15/10 Hartford
    5/17/10 Boston, 10/15/13 Worcester, 10/16/13 Worcester, 10/25/13 Hartford
    8/5/16 Fenway, 8/7/16 Fenway
    EV Solo: 6/16/11 Boston, 6/18/11 Hartford,
  • Mookie Blaylock77Mookie Blaylock77 Posts: 127
    You are right, it doesn't sound all the same... :? your brother needs to clean his ears... :lol:
    Like u said your truck, your music... Next time put it one again for him. 8-)
  • GeoffGeoff Posts: 44
    hahahahahahahaha. great story man.
    when people bitch about the music i play in my car, i tell them they can change the music once they start making payments for the car.

    glad you didn't give in. :lol:
  • Adm. Glen ScotiaAdm. Glen Scotia Posts: 181
    cropduster82 wrote:
    So I had Backspacer in my CD player this morning while riding with my 2 brothers and a friend to work. I think it was on Speed of Sound when from the backseat my brother says, "Have we been listening to the same song this whole time?" I respond, "You're kidding, right?" to which he says that all the songs he heard seemed to sound very alike. I told him he wasn't really listening to it. Then I ask if he wants me to turn on the radio instead and my other brother riding shotgun looks at me and says, "I wouldn't mind at all if you turned this off." To which I said, "You just don't get it, I guess." I kept the CD on till the end anyway cause it's my truck.

    But man, some people just don't get this band.

    Meh. Just goes to show how people are different. It would probably surprise these guys that whenever I listen to the radio it feels like it's the same song over and over again.

    Honestly, I find that the melodic nature of the record makes it feel far less "samey" than some of their others might, but maybe it's because I have a "trained" Pearl Jam ear.
  • mick21MCmick21MC Posts: 18
    my friends hate driving with me because the only cds i have in the car are pearl jam cds. but i never give into the peer pressure to turn it off, and now they've accepted it.
  • Giuseppe EisonhawkGiuseppe Eisonhawk Posts: 145
    you must've forgot to turn up the bass on 'Force Of Nature'... 8-)
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  • Music For RhinosMusic For Rhinos Posts: 1,693
    cropduster82 wrote:
    Ha, thanks. My brother Greg who rode shotgun thinks Van Halen is the greatest band of all time so there you go. If I complained about that playing in his truck, he would have done the same.

    I'm curious to know which particular songs were played/playing when your bro said they all sounded the same?
    Was the volume low or something? I just can't imagine how he could think that.
  • LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSunLikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun Posts: 6,097
    the second half of the album did kinda run together the first few times i heard it. i wish they would shuffle up the rockers and mid tempo ones instead of grouping most of the together.
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