Backspacer still floating your boat?

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  • Spags
    Spags Leigh-on-Sea, UK Posts: 3,077
    edited April 2011
    Kat wrote:
    A very creative and artful discussion there.... :)

    Hey thanks Kat...
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    Nature drunk and High
  • Pontikas
    Pontikas Posts: 210
    EddieLedBetter wrote:
    UncleSpaggles wrote:
    Hows the new Alice in Chains album, I'm a bit worried it'll feel too weird having that replacement singer?

    Saw them live with the replacement singer in 2007. That guy blows Layne out of the water.

    i wouldnt go that far
    http://youtu.be/cwPgXkNOun4
  • Spags
    Spags Leigh-on-Sea, UK Posts: 3,077
    I had a Dinosaur Jr break from Backspacer (I think I was craving some lengthy guitar solos) and also listened to Binaural again - I think Backspacer has trained my ears to pick up on the subtleties as I'd never noticed the shuffling chains sound on Slight of Hand before, amazing. Anyways, it felt very reassuring going back to it!
    Nature drunk and High
  • Jearlpam0925
    Jearlpam0925 Deep South Philly Posts: 17,712
    Not listening as much as a I did a couple weeks ago, but definitely gets a daily rotation. Just got the Monsters of Folk album. That shit's killer right now and has - dare I say it :o - taken the lead.
  • Spags
    Spags Leigh-on-Sea, UK Posts: 3,077
    Jearlpam0925 wrote:
    Just got the Monsters of Folk album. That shit's killer right now and has - dare I say it :o - taken the lead.

    :o woMAN OVER BOARD! :o
    Nature drunk and High
  • Spags
    Spags Leigh-on-Sea, UK Posts: 3,077
    Hows everybody's boats, still buoyant?
    Nature drunk and High
  • pdalowsky
    pdalowsky Doncaster,UK Posts: 15,334
    Still very much enjoying it
  • tremors
    tremors Posts: 8,051
    UncleSpaggles wrote:
    Hows everybody's boats, still buoyant?

    :thumbup: :thumbup:



    i liked your review too!
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  • mvw
    mvw Posts: 1,706
    Oh shit, get your towels ready
    It's about to go down
    Everybody in the place hit the fucking deck
    But stay on your motherfucking toes
    We running this, let's go

    I'm on a boat, I'm on a boat
    Everybody look at me
    'Cause I'm sailing on a boat
    I'm on a boat, I'm on a boat
    Take a good hard look
    At the motherfucking boat

    I'm on a boat motherfucker, take a look at me
    Straight flowing on a boat on the deep blue sea
    Busting five knots, wind whipping out my coat
    You can't stop me motherfucker, 'cause I'm on a boat

    Take a picture, trick, I'm on a boat, bitch
    We drinking Santana champ 'cause it's so crisp
    I got my swim trunks and my flippie-floppies
    I'm flipping burgers, you at Kinko's
    Straight flipping copies

    I'm riding on a dolphin, doing flips and shit
    This dolphin's splashing, getting everybody all wet
    But this ain't Seaworld, this is real as it gets
    I'm on a boat, motherfucker, don't you ever forget

    I'm on a boat and it's going fast and
    I got a nautical themed, Pashmina Afghan
    I'm the king of the world, on a boat like Leo
    If you're on the shore, then you're sure not me, oh
    Get the fuck up, this boat is real

    Fuck land, I'm on a boat, motherfucker
    Fuck trees, I climb buoys, motherfucker
    I'm on the deck with my boys, motherfucker
    This boat engine make noise, motherfucker

    Hey ma, if you could see me now
    Arms spread wide on the starboard bow
    Gonna fly this boat to the moon somehow
    Like Kevin Garnett, anything is possible

    Yeah, never thought I'd be on a boat
    It's a big blue watery road
    Poseidon, look at me, oh, all hands on deck
    Never thought I'd see the day
    When a big boat coming my way
    Believe me when I say I fucked a mermaid

    I'm on a boat, I'm on a boat
    Everybody look at me
    'Cause I'm sailing on a boat
    I'm on a boat, I'm on a boat
    Take a good hard look
    At the motherfucking boat
  • boyo79
    boyo79 Warrington, UK Posts: 6,525
    Still my least favourite PJ album. I still have issues with it but i was in CEX today and Backspacer was on so I stayed in the shop for a while listening to it.

    Pontikas wrote:
    I have also been listening to Brand New - Daisy

    Now that is a record and a half. Love it, kicks Backspacer's arse any day of the week
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  • Zod
    Zod Posts: 11,066
    joebot wrote:
    Still lovin Backspacer.
    How can it be Alice in chains without Layne Staley ? Why is it so hard for musicians to walk away from something that is no more, that goes for everyone from gnr to journey. Why must they feed on the brand that was built with other configurations. Just call it what it is, something different.

    A couple of things. Sometimes replacing singers falls flat and sometimes it works. The best example of it working is probably AC/DC. Is AC/DC still AC/DC with out Bon Scott? I would say Brian Johnson was pretty successful when he took over.

    As for AIC. I think they can pull it of because AIC wasn't all Layne Staley. Jerry Cantrell wrote alot of the music and had a heavy influence with his backup vocals. Listening to the new album, I don't think I realized how much of the classic AIC was Jerry Cantrell. I'd like to think that AIC has done a great job carrying on. No its not the Layne era AIC, but they're pretty damned good. I think everyone should give them a shot before forming an opinion.

    On the flip side could you imagine Pearl Jam have to replace Eddie. That'd be sacrilidge!
  • veddertown
    veddertown Scotland Posts: 5,260
    The thing with AIC is all down to Jerry Cantrell. Listen to his solo album Degradation Trip, Layne sounds like he's all over that album yet obviously it came out after his death. AIC now sounds great because they have a very competant singer and Jerry still writes 90% of everything so it still sounds like AIC. PJ would die without EV! Anyway, Backspacer took a little while to float my boat in the first place but it's on a good voyage now and still not slowing down. Best songs, The End and Johnny Guitar!! :D
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  • neilybabes86
    neilybabes86 Posts: 16,057
    great album


    force of nature....top 10 pj song of all time


    i hope they learn it better live
    i post on the board of a band that doesn't exsist anymore .......i need my head examined.......
  • RiotAct10
    RiotAct10 Ohio Posts: 1,643
    neilybabes86 wrote:
    force of nature....top 10 pj song of all time

    Whether its top 10 or not, I don't know, but it is definitely the one that has stuck with me the longest since the album came out, which is interesting because it didn't grab my attention much the first time, but I swear I love it more every time I hear it. It is an amazing song, and I might be willing to go as far as to say it is at least my favorite song they have made since Yield came out.
    words seem so out of place.

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  • vedder89
    vedder89 Posts: 177
    ive loved this album since the moment i heard it, and it still gives me the chills hearing it
    Stab it down, fill the pages, suck my fuckin' life out, man
  • danny
    danny Posts: 2,283
    oh yes!
    danny d
  • southernmanfan
    southernmanfan Johannesburg, South Africa Posts: 1,027
    Backspacer is an amazing album, still rocks my boat and Force of Nature is one of my fav PJ songs.
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  • eldarion75
    eldarion75 Posts: 2,488
    nowhereman wrote:
    Backspacer is an amazing album, still rocks my boat and Force of Nature is one of my fav PJ songs.


    Same here :)
  • jwagner
    jwagner Posts: 435
    eldarion75 wrote:
    nowhereman wrote:
    Backspacer is an amazing album, still rocks my boat and Force of Nature is one of my fav PJ songs.


    Same here :)

    Here too! Was hooked from the 2nd listen onwards...I'll admit the first listen had me going "???" but then those are often the best albums, the ones that take a little time to sink in. I look at 'Backspacer' as yet another significant chapter, from a band who has never given us the same album twice. It's special.
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  • PilateOfTheStorm
    PilateOfTheStorm Posts: 4,319
    love it

    favourite song from backspacer at the minute is Gonna See My Friend

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