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Sleight Of Hand never....

Drop The Leash 10Drop The Leash 10 Posts: 7,011
edited February 2008 in The Porch
fails to move me. its awesome. so powerful.
I will be what i could be
Once I get out of this town


9/29/04;6/27/08;6/30/08;8/23/09;08/24/09;5/17/10
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  • Gossard_Is_GodGossard_Is_God Posts: 1,031
    was thinking the same thing earlier
    Pearl Jam - London Astoria 20/4/06....One hell of a night :)

    Reading 2006 - WOOOOW!!!!!

    Paris 2006 - Fucking amazing

    Wembley 2007 :D
  • LONGRDLONGRD Posts: 6,036
    My favorite song on
    Binaural. I think I'm beginning to really like this album
    This track, Parting Ways, Of The Girl, Thin Air, NAIS are
    increasingly becoming great songs to me.
    PJ- 04/29/2003.06/24,25,27,28,30/2008.10/27,28,30,31/2009
    EV- 08/09,10/2008.06/08,09/2009
  • HermanBloomHermanBloom Posts: 1,764
    Top 3 PJ song; so beautiful and the lyrics hit home
    SLC 11/2/95, Park City 6/21/98, Boise 11/3/00, Seattle 12/9/02, Vancouver 5/30/03, Gorge 9/1/05, Vancouver 9/2/05, Gorge 7/22/06, Gorge 7/23/06, Camden I 6/19/08, MSG I 6/24/08, MSG II 6/25/08, Hartford 6/27/08, Mansfield II 6/30/08; Eddie Albany 6/8/09, 6/9/09; Philly 10/30/09, 10/31/09; Boston 5/17/10
    I thought the world...Turns out the world thought me
  • scw156scw156 Posts: 442
    I was just listening to it today


    awesome song
    The Sentence Below Is True
    The Sentence Above Is False
  • IWillLiveForeveIWillLiveForeve Posts: 427
    This song does not suck
  • NY PJ1NY PJ1 Posts: 9,533
    awesome song


    under the radar to alot of people
  • mookie9999mookie9999 Posts: 4,677
    Drop The Leash 10 wrote:
    fails to move me. its awesome. so powerful.

    Sleight of Hand = DTL10's Metamucil
    "The leads are weak!"

    "The leads are weak? Fuckin' leads are weak? You're Weak! I've Been in this business 15 years"

    "What's your name?"

    "FUCK YOU! THAT"S MY NAME!"
  • IWillLiveForeveIWillLiveForeve Posts: 427
    mookie9999 wrote:
    Sleight of Hand = DTL10's Metamucil

    =what the fuck does that mean?
  • South of SeattleSouth of Seattle Posts: 10,724
    2nd worse song on Binaural IMO

    Song never did much for me.
    NERDS!
  • IWillLiveForeveIWillLiveForeve Posts: 427
    South of Seattle wrote:
    2nd worse song on Binaural IMO

    Song never did much for me.

    sad
  • South of SeattleSouth of Seattle Posts: 10,724
    My Binaural track ranking:

    1. Insignificance
    2. Grievance
    3. Parting Ways
    4. Of the Girl
    5. Light Years
    6. NAIS
    7. Thin Air
    8. Breakerfall
    9. Rival
    10. Evacuation
    11. God's Dice
    12. Sleight of Hand
    13. Soon Forget
    NERDS!
  • IWillLiveForeveIWillLiveForeve Posts: 427
    South of Seattle wrote:
    My Binaural track ranking:

    1. Insignificance
    2. Grievance
    3. Parting Ways
    4. Of the Girl
    5. Light Years
    6. NAIS
    7. Thin Air
    8. Breakerfall
    9. Rival
    10. Evacuation
    11. God's Dice
    12. Sleight of Hand
    13. Soon Forget

    Wrong
  • mookie9999mookie9999 Posts: 4,677
    IWillLiveForeve wrote:
    =what the fuck does that mean?

    Metamucil helps certain things to move. Sleight of Hand never fails to move DTL10. Therefore Sleight of Hand = DTL10's Metamucil.
    "The leads are weak!"

    "The leads are weak? Fuckin' leads are weak? You're Weak! I've Been in this business 15 years"

    "What's your name?"

    "FUCK YOU! THAT"S MY NAME!"
  • IWillLiveForeveIWillLiveForeve Posts: 427
    mookie9999 wrote:
    Metamucil helps certain things to move. Sleight of Hand never fails to move DTL10. Therefore Sleight of Hand = DTL10's Metamucil.

    I'm still going to go with what the fuck does that mean?
  • Drop The Leash 10Drop The Leash 10 Posts: 7,011
    mookie9999 wrote:
    Sleight of Hand = DTL10's Metamucil
    hell yes
    I will be what i could be
    Once I get out of this town


    9/29/04;6/27/08;6/30/08;8/23/09;08/24/09;5/17/10
  • Drop The Leash 10Drop The Leash 10 Posts: 7,011
    IWillLiveForeve wrote:
    I'm still going to go with what the fuck does that mean?
    ..........:confused:...........
    I will be what i could be
    Once I get out of this town


    9/29/04;6/27/08;6/30/08;8/23/09;08/24/09;5/17/10
  • IWillLiveForeveIWillLiveForeve Posts: 427
    Drop The Leash 10 wrote:
    ..........:confused:...........

    I'm sticking with what the fuck does that mean?
  • lostpuppylostpuppy Posts: 110
    one of the better discs out there.

    soon forget cracks me up, yet makes me sad. i think they wrote it about me.

    ha
  • dannydanny Posts: 2,279
    Drop The Leash 10 wrote:
    fails to move me. its awesome. so powerful.


    excellent track
    danny d
  • mookie9999mookie9999 Posts: 4,677
    sleight of hand sometimes bores me. other times makes me wanna cry. and sometimes makes me wanna sing. it is a good track. that's my story and i'm stickin to it.
    "The leads are weak!"

    "The leads are weak? Fuckin' leads are weak? You're Weak! I've Been in this business 15 years"

    "What's your name?"

    "FUCK YOU! THAT"S MY NAME!"
  • CitizenRickCitizenRick Posts: 1,079
    mookie9999 wrote:
    sleight of hand sometimes bores me. other times makes me wanna cry. and sometimes makes me wanna sing. it is a good track. that's my story and i'm stickin to it.

    Exactly!

    I think if you're not in the mood for a song you have to actually digest and listen to the lyrics it can lose it's luster.

    That is what I love about Pearl Jam...most of the timeyou have to actually digest the song.
    "Had my eyes peeled both wide open, and I got a glimpse...of my innocense, got back my inner sence, baby got it...still got it"
  • Cropduster84Cropduster84 Posts: 1,283
    Such a good song, so powerful.....love the benaroya version too......
    'The more I studied religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.' - Sir Richard Francis Burton
  • spearheadspearhead Posts: 600
    Incredible lyrics...


    routine was the theme, he'd wake up and...wash and pour himself into uniform
    something he hadn't imagined being...
    as the merging traffic passed, he found himself staring, down, at his own hands..
    not remembering the change, not recalling the plan, was it...?
    he was okay, but wondering about wandering
    was it age? by consequence? or was he moved by sleight of hand?
    mondays were made to fall, lost on a road he knew by heart
    it was like a book he read in his sleep, endlessly...
    sometimes he hid in his radio, watching others pull into their homes
    while he was drifting...
    on a line, of his own, off the line, on the side
    by the by, as dirt turned to sand, as if moved by sleight of hand
    when he reached the shore of his clip-on world
    he resurfaced to the norm
    organized his few things, his coat and keys...
    any new realizations would have to wait til he had more time, more time...
    time to dream, to himself
    he waves goodbye, to himself
    i'll see you on the other side...
    another man...moved by sleight of hand...
    I was alone and far away when I heard the band start playing!

    ...I was always a DeadHead, but when I first heard Winston Rodney, aka the Burning Spear, sing, I became a SpearHead too!
  • U R A Crazy BreedU R A Crazy Breed Posts: 8,370
    when i first bought binaural i took it home and listened to it and threw it in my CD rack never to be played again (turned out to be a few years ) then i gave it a second chance,now it's one of my favorite albums!!

    and SOH is in my top 5 songs.truly one of Ed's best IMO
  • kenshuntkenshunt Posts: 2,863
    I really don't enjoy the cd version, but the power of live amazes me.
    London 2005
    Toronto 2011 night 2
    Hamilton 2011
    London 2013
  • mcgruff10mcgruff10 Posts: 28,503
    sleight of hand might be the biggest show stopper in pearl jam's catalogue: stopping the energy of a show that is. nothing like having the energy sucked completely out of a venue when a song like this is played. sleight of hand is up there with cropduster or you are.
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me......
  • spearheadspearhead Posts: 600
    mcgruff10 wrote:
    sleight of hand might be the biggest show stopper in pearl jam's catalogue: stopping the energy of a show that is. nothing like having the energy sucked completely out of a venue when a song like this is played. sleight of hand is up there with cropduster or you are.


    Funny, but just before I read your post, I read the one a few above it, talking about one of the greatest Pearl Jam shows ever ... a show you were obviously NOT at, but have you ever heard it? Here's the post:

    2003-07-11 Mansfield Massachusetts

    2003-07-11 Mansfield Massachusetts Tweeter Center

    Set 1 Long Road, Of The Girl, Sometimes, Off He Goes, All Those Yesterdays, Driftin', Thin Air, Sleight Of Hand, Footsteps, All Or None, Parting Ways, Indifference
    Set 2 Can't Keep, Breakerfall, Brain Of J., Spin The Black Circle, Ghost, Green Disease, Tremor Christ, Given To Fly, Nothing As it Seems, Cropduster, Faithfull, Why Go, Wishlist/(Why Can't I Touch It?), Leatherman, Nothingman, Better Man, 1/2 Full, Untitled, MFC, Blood
    Encore 1 Breath, Habit, Down, Mankind, U, Black, Jeremy
    Encore 2 Arc, I Believe In Miracles, Know Your Rights, Fortunate Son, Rockin' In The Free World
    Encore 3 Yellow Ledbetter

    I just can't stop remembering how unbelievable this show was.
    I was alone and far away when I heard the band start playing!

    ...I was always a DeadHead, but when I first heard Winston Rodney, aka the Burning Spear, sing, I became a SpearHead too!
  • geniegenie Posts: 2,222
    totally agree with you. i love this song i think it's a such a gem. it's almost philosophical
  • tama_drummer91tama_drummer91 Posts: 205
    It is my favorite PJ song yet.
    My first PJ show to witness was at Bonnaroo. How is that for lucky?
  • geniegenie Posts: 2,222
    mcgruff10 wrote:
    sleight of hand might be the biggest show stopper in pearl jam's catalogue: stopping the energy of a show that is. nothing like having the energy sucked completely out of a venue when a song like this is played. sleight of hand is up there with cropduster or you are.

    yes, if for you a good concert is were everyone is jumping up and down mindlessly to mindless songs.
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