I don't understand it either... to me it's like a bland ITW song... doesn't really hook me, and sort of cheesy lyrics. Not a bad song, but forgettable.
"Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
Oh my god.
I have to post here and receive all the hate from you. But. I don't think this song is so special in any way :? I can't be the only one thinking that?
Normally I can't decide which of PJs songs are my favorite because they are all so amazing, but this song? :roll: No.
Maybe it's good for going to sleep to
Of course it is! Look at all the attention it's getting amongst us...and after the tour, it's a nice little spike in attention for PJ. Completely agree it's intentional. Nothing wrong with that at all...keep "leaking" songs for us.
Oh my god.
I have to post here and receive all the hate from you. But. I don't think this song is so special in any way :? I can't be the only one thinking that?
Normally I can't decide which of PJs songs are my favorite because they are all so amazing, but this song? :roll: No.
Maybe it's good for going to sleep to
No, you're not the only one....
I'm with you two on this one, utter shite instantly forgettable, like another poster said the older crowd might be into more.
I quite like the song and i wouldnt class myself in the "older crowd" but to each their own as this man said...
"Haters wanna hate,
Lovers wanna love,
I don't even want
None of the above.
I want to......."
nice song
nice to hear something new
makes me want to eat peyote and hide in a tent
but ed, please put down the mando, the acoustic, the accordian, and pick up that beautiful old telecaster and write some rock and roll songs please. Its ok, take two years if you need to. I will still be here.
nice song
nice to hear something new
makes me want to eat peyote and hide in a tent
but ed, please put down the mando, the acoustic, the accordian, and pick up that beautiful old telecaster and write some rock and roll songs please. Its ok, take two years if you need to. I will still be here.
Of course it is! Look at all the attention it's getting amongst us...and after the tour, it's a nice little spike in attention for PJ. Completely agree it's intentional. Nothing wrong with that at all...keep "leaking" songs for us.
PJ are just trying to keep you hungry mob distracted whilst organising thier 20th at Yallingup.
I just heard this song this morning. Wow. I really like it. The organ at the beginning reminds me of Long Road. I love the acoustic guitar solo. Flamenco-esque! I also love the layered vocals. Very cool.
"Darkness comes in waves, tell me, why invite it to stay?"
I'd be thinking it's Into the Wild/Backspacer era.
Cos that sounds like a mandolin to me...
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96: Cork, Dublin
00: Dublin
06: London, Dublin
07: London, Copenhagen, Nijmegen
09: Manchester, London
10: Dublin, Belfast, London & Berlin
11: San José
12: Isle of Wight, Copenhagen, Ed in Manchester & London x2
kind of like In My Tree met something on Touring Band 2000 .... Foldback maybe ... met Love Boat Captain
maybe not written in 2000, but sounds like the roots of this song go back to 2000
some of the vocals sound like Into the Wild and/or Binaural ...
Fairly sure that's a mandolin, which woud put it around Into the Wild or Backspacer
93: Slane
96: Cork, Dublin
00: Dublin
06: London, Dublin
07: London, Copenhagen, Nijmegen
09: Manchester, London
10: Dublin, Belfast, London & Berlin
11: San José
12: Isle of Wight, Copenhagen, Ed in Manchester & London x2
Yes, most definitely a mandolin. I posted this back around page 12 or so, but people keep insisting on calling it a ukelele or spanish guitar. It is not. So I'd have to agree, at least that part of the recording came into being in the into the wild era going forward. Is it so crazy to think Eddie is playing the solo there, by the way? Interesting to see him take the lead for a change of pace. And actually, that would fit in to the spanish tinge they may hear in the solo. If you remember back around 2000, he used to begin Betterman with Romanza, a little classical guitar piece. So it could stand to reason that he still may have carried that over to the mandolin solo here. Then again, mandolin solos just sound like that naturally since you can easily reach those notes on a much smaller fretboard.
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2007 Munich
2009 Berlin
2010 Dublin, Belfast, Berlin, Venice
2011 Montreal, Toronto 1&2
2012 Manchester 1&2, Amsterdam 1&2, Prague, Berlin 1&2, EV Manchester
2013 Worcester 1&2, Brooklyn 1&2
2014 Amsterdam 1&2, Manchester 1&2, Milano, Trieste, Vienna, Berlin 2017 EV Firenze, Taormina 1&2 2018 Amsterdam 1&2, Padova, Prague, Krakow, Berlin 2019 EV Firenze
2000 Ljubljana
2006 Vienna, Zagreb
2007 Munich
2009 Berlin
2010 Dublin, Belfast, Berlin, Venice
2011 Montreal, Toronto 1&2
2012 Manchester 1&2, Amsterdam 1&2, Prague, Berlin 1&2, EV Manchester
2013 Worcester 1&2, Brooklyn 1&2
2014 Amsterdam 1&2, Manchester 1&2, Milano, Trieste, Vienna, Berlin 2017 EV Firenze, Taormina 1&2 2018 Amsterdam 1&2, Padova, Prague, Krakow, Berlin 2019 EV Firenze
That doesn't confirm anything. It could be re-worked/rerecorded or it could be a coincidence. Perhaps working from similar lyrics or chord progression. I would highly doubt this is the same song.
Aren't there examples of Pearl Jam doing this? Wasn't "Better Man" originally slated for "Vs.," and then re-recorded in the form that ended up on "Vitalogy"? (Yes, I know "Better Man" dates back to pre-Pearl Jam days, but I'm specifically referring to the fact that the band recorded a version when they were making "Vs." that got reworked for "Vitalogy.") I think the same was true of "Brain Of J."-- originally recorded for "No Code," then re-worked for "Yield."
Better Man is not even a Pearl Jam song.. it was written with Bad Radio and originally released with the band. It was rearranged for Vs. and then held til Vitalogy.. geeeeez haha
That's why I said, "Yes, I know 'Better Man' dates back to pre-Pearl Jam days."
I finally got to hear this on my home stereo for the first time last night and couldn't believe how great the song sounded on a real stereo with good speakers...It was a good song already on bad speakers...but obviously alot easier to pickup the nuances on a real stereo as opposed to the embarassingly awful piece of dog shit speakers I have at work.
Anyways...It's obviously a Mandolin...painfully obvious in fact.
As for Eddie playing the solo...Well...I've never really heard him do that before.
So I really don't have much reference as to the faculty of his guitar soloing. But then again...When you have someone like Mike in Pearl Jam...I guess it's obvious for fans to not have many opportunities of watching Eddie Vedder rip out a blistering guitar solo.
I think I've only ever heard him tackle a solo twice...No...three times.
1) "Society" solo on his "Into The Wild" tour
2) C-Average on "Driven To Tears"
3) The Mike Watt Tour..."Against The 70's"???
None of which resemble or stylistically reference the solo in "Better Days"...So it's understanable to immediately assume this is someone taking the lead other than Ed.
Pretty cool if it is Eddie. Jack of all trades that one
As for Eddie playing the solo...Well...I've never really heard him do that before.
So I really don't have much reference as to the faculty of his guitar soloing. But then again...When you have someone like Mike in Pearl Jam...I guess it's obvious for fans to not have many opportunities of watching Eddie Vedder rip out a blistering guitar solo.
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I can't believe so many people don't.
There's no accounting for taste.
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intentional leak?
I don't understand it either... to me it's like a bland ITW song... doesn't really hook me, and sort of cheesy lyrics. Not a bad song, but forgettable.
I am curious about this as well. Maybe there is something in the works with it.
No, you're not the only one....
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Of course it is! Look at all the attention it's getting amongst us...and after the tour, it's a nice little spike in attention for PJ. Completely agree it's intentional. Nothing wrong with that at all...keep "leaking" songs for us.
I quite like the song and i wouldnt class myself in the "older crowd" but to each their own as this man said...
"Haters wanna hate,
Lovers wanna love,
I don't even want
None of the above.
I want to......."
You can finish the rest
nice to hear something new
makes me want to eat peyote and hide in a tent
but ed, please put down the mando, the acoustic, the accordian, and pick up that beautiful old telecaster and write some rock and roll songs please. Its ok, take two years if you need to. I will still be here.
Now yer talken!
PJ are just trying to keep you hungry mob distracted whilst organising thier 20th at Yallingup.
Just what I was thinking. Guess they're keeping us on our toes around here.
Ziggy, if there was one Ed grunt in it, you would think it's the next Release. It's the only thing missing, am I right?
You're batman!- George
Yeah...yeah...I AM batman!!- Kramer
Cos that sounds like a mandolin to me...
96: Cork, Dublin
00: Dublin
06: London, Dublin
07: London, Copenhagen, Nijmegen
09: Manchester, London
10: Dublin, Belfast, London & Berlin
11: San José
12: Isle of Wight, Copenhagen, Ed in Manchester & London x2
Fairly sure that's a mandolin, which woud put it around Into the Wild or Backspacer
96: Cork, Dublin
00: Dublin
06: London, Dublin
07: London, Copenhagen, Nijmegen
09: Manchester, London
10: Dublin, Belfast, London & Berlin
11: San José
12: Isle of Wight, Copenhagen, Ed in Manchester & London x2
It's actually a Riot Act outtake. Check it out:
http://www.pearljamonline.it/outtakes.htm#riotact
2006 Vienna, Zagreb
2007 Munich
2009 Berlin
2010 Dublin, Belfast, Berlin, Venice
2011 Montreal, Toronto 1&2
2012 Manchester 1&2, Amsterdam 1&2, Prague, Berlin 1&2, EV Manchester
2013 Worcester 1&2, Brooklyn 1&2
2014 Amsterdam 1&2, Manchester 1&2, Milano, Trieste, Vienna, Berlin
2017 EV Firenze, Taormina 1&2
2018 Amsterdam 1&2, Padova, Prague, Krakow, Berlin
2019 EV Firenze
http://www.pearljamonline.it/outtakes.htm#riotact
2006 Vienna, Zagreb
2007 Munich
2009 Berlin
2010 Dublin, Belfast, Berlin, Venice
2011 Montreal, Toronto 1&2
2012 Manchester 1&2, Amsterdam 1&2, Prague, Berlin 1&2, EV Manchester
2013 Worcester 1&2, Brooklyn 1&2
2014 Amsterdam 1&2, Manchester 1&2, Milano, Trieste, Vienna, Berlin
2017 EV Firenze, Taormina 1&2
2018 Amsterdam 1&2, Padova, Prague, Krakow, Berlin
2019 EV Firenze
That doesn't confirm anything. It could be re-worked/rerecorded or it could be a coincidence. Perhaps working from similar lyrics or chord progression. I would highly doubt this is the same song.
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Yes. I agree.
That's why I said, "Yes, I know 'Better Man' dates back to pre-Pearl Jam days."
Anyways...It's obviously a Mandolin...painfully obvious in fact.
As for Eddie playing the solo...Well...I've never really heard him do that before.
So I really don't have much reference as to the faculty of his guitar soloing. But then again...When you have someone like Mike in Pearl Jam...I guess it's obvious for fans to not have many opportunities of watching Eddie Vedder rip out a blistering guitar solo.
I think I've only ever heard him tackle a solo twice...No...three times.
1) "Society" solo on his "Into The Wild" tour
2) C-Average on "Driven To Tears"
3) The Mike Watt Tour..."Against The 70's"???
None of which resemble or stylistically reference the solo in "Better Days"...So it's understanable to immediately assume this is someone taking the lead other than Ed.
Pretty cool if it is Eddie. Jack of all trades that one
Mandolin
Uke
Accordian
Banjo
Guitar
Harmonica
Typewriter
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For Real??
The entire Eddie solo tour
Just Breath
The End
Betterman
Wishlist
Soon Forget
Speed of sound
on and on....
Only thing I'd change is the following:
I feel part of the universe opened up to meet me.
My emotion so submerged, broken down to kneeling
once listening
voices they came
Had to somehow greet myself
read myself
heard vibration within my cells
in my cells
Singing ah ah ah ah ah ah
My love is safe for the universe
See me now I'm bursting
On one planet so many turns
different worlds
singing ah ah ah ah ah ah
From my heart with discipline
Put there for the teaching
In my head see clouds of stairs
Help me as I'm reaching
The future's paved with better days
I'm running from something
I'm running towards the day
wide awake
A whisper once quiet
Now rising to a scream
I am me.
I'm falling free fallin
World's calling me
Above my needs
Oh I'm soaring
Yeah and darlin', you'll be the one that I can need,(is this... up off my knees?)
Still, be free
Our futures paved with better days
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