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mcameronrocksmcameronrocks Posts: 321
edited June 2010 in The Porch
Been scowering the porch for years and can't recall much love for unemployable.

Has almost everything I love bout this band...

-groovy riff
-great drum work by matt...love the high hat use
-awesome lyrics
-background vocals(especially with matt)
-great bass line at the end

Only thing missing is a rip roaring solo from mike.

Where's the love???
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  • Come Back in BlackCome Back in Black Posts: 659
    I love this song. That and Marker in the Sand are my favorite off of Avacado.
  • mjmorr23mjmorr23 Posts: 17
    agree! loved hearing it live in Buffalo!
  • samjamsamjam New York Posts: 9,283
    Definitely one of the more underrated songs. Lyrics, energy, groove- I love it! Really would love to hear this live someday!
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  • CantKeepMeHereCantKeepMeHere Posts: 2,177
    the whole album is underrated - and unemployable should have been release as summer single back them - got made love for it!!
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  • Electric_DeltaElectric_Delta Posts: 977
    CantKeepMeHere is right. The whole record is underestimated.
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  • Got GutsGot Guts Posts: 40
    Never cared much for this song and still don't. Low point on a great record ( my opinion ). Great lyrics ? No. One song away from a perfect record.
  • mcameronrocksmcameronrocks Posts: 321
    VERY underrated album. This disc marked the return of PJ for me. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy binaural and riot act. However, IMO, this is Yield 2 for me.

    The band creates their best music when their pissed. We all know what they thought of the Bush era!


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    CantKeepMeHere is right. The whole record is underestimated.
  • Hugh Freaking DillonHugh Freaking Dillon Posts: 14,010
    yeah, I don't get why Avocado is on the bottom of so many people's album favourite list. It's one of my tops!
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  • G ForceG Force Posts: 1,393
    Rats is a real good song.
  • curmudgeonesscurmudgeoness Brigadoon, foodie capital Posts: 4,116
    This is my least favorite PJ song. Why? Because every time I hear it I am reminded of Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA." I am old enough that I can remember when that song was in constant rotation everywhere, and I absolutely hated it -- still do. I cannot enjoy any song that reminds me of "Born in the USA." I really like the rest of "Avocado," though.
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  • twisted thoughtstwisted thoughts Posts: 4,377
    way underrated....prob my fav song on avacado w/ the exception of inside job (which i think i like better live)
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  • Dru_CortezDru_Cortez Posts: 953
    "Gets up, lights a cigarette he's grown to hate
    Thinking if he can't sleep, how will he ever dream?"
    How a band can put that kind of weight into
    2 lines is mind-blowing.
    Cheers.
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  • Tenzing N.Tenzing N. Posts: 466
    I think the problem with this song is it was leaked just after World Wide Suicide. It came out a few weeks(?) I think before the album and by the time the album dropped it was already an "old" song. If not for that I think the song would have been a suprise hit.
  • Hugh Freaking DillonHugh Freaking Dillon Posts: 14,010
    how is it remotely similar? I don't hear that at all.
    curmudgeoness wrote:
    This is my least favorite PJ song. Why? Because every time I hear it I am reminded of Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA." I am old enough that I can remember when that song was in constant rotation everywhere, and I absolutely hated it -- still do. I cannot enjoy any song that reminds me of "Born in the USA." I really like the rest of "Avocado," though.
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  • curmudgeonesscurmudgeoness Brigadoon, foodie capital Posts: 4,116
    Billy Pumpkin wrote:
    how is it remotely similar? I don't hear that at all.
    curmudgeoness wrote:
    This is my least favorite PJ song. Why? Because every time I hear it I am reminded of Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA." I am old enough that I can remember when that song was in constant rotation everywhere, and I absolutely hated it -- still do. I cannot enjoy any song that reminds me of "Born in the USA." I really like the rest of "Avocado," though.

    I think it's the vocals; something about the way Ed sings this song reminds me of Bruce. I don't know if I can explain it any better than that; this song just makes the "Bruce" neuron in my brain fire, and I don't like it when that happens.
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  • josevolutionjosevolution Posts: 30,920
    Love this song best version is on San Francisco 06 i believe it might be night 3 .

    But Stone really has to ripp the riff to make it sound great live and this version he does he rips the riff so good ... :)

    Oh and i don't hear Bruce at all it's not even close ..
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  • DaveyGDaveyG Posts: 225
    Unemployable is one of my favorites too.
    curmudgeoness wrote:
    This is my least favorite PJ song. Why? Because every time I hear it I am reminded of Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA." I am old enough that I can remember when that song was in constant rotation everywhere, and I absolutely hated it -- still do. I cannot enjoy any song that reminds me of "Born in the USA." I really like the rest of "Avocado," though.

    I can definitely hear the similarities, mainly with the main riff and vocals, the rest, not so much.
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  • jester59388jester59388 Posts: 150
    Lots of love here! I think its one of the "gems" on S/T.

    (I like to break the songs down into "gems", "rhinestones" "dogs" and "lost". "Lost" is usually reserved for bizarro stuff like Stupid Mop, Red Dot and some of the hidden things after the last song on Yield and Binaural. So many good songs on Lost Dogs that could have better occupied that "lost" CD space, IMO...)
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  • jubilairesjljubilairesjl Posts: 498
    This was one of my least favorites at first, but it has grown on me since then. It still is one of of my least favorites off that album though. I guess I just like it better than I did.
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  • mcameronrocksmcameronrocks Posts: 321
    Tenzing N. wrote:
    I think the problem with this song is it was leaked just after World Wide Suicide. It came out a few weeks(?) I think before the album and by the time the album dropped it was already an "old" song. If not for that I think the song would have been a suprise hit.

    May be true that you didn't like it because you heard it early, however, I am positive that it was the b side to WWS single.

    With your theory, did you not like WWS then? It was released before the album came out? Just wondering...
  • jfs5-10-10jfs5-10-10 Posts: 326
    mjmorr23 wrote:
    agree! loved hearing it live in Buffalo!

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  • Kiwi In OzKiwi In Oz Canberra Posts: 266
    Lots of love for Unemployable! I reckon it's a totally underated song. 8-)

    When that album first came out, I just thought it was OK. But when I saw it live in Melbourne 06 for the first time I was sold. :geek:

    Still love it heaps. Love to see it live. Wanna see it more! :oops:
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  • mca47mca47 Posts: 13,324
    Great album song that just fizzles live...
  • LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSunLikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun Posts: 6,097
    i dont like the lyrics. actually i dont like the style of lyrics Ed sometimes writes (especially on Avocado) where he sounds like he is basically reading out of a newspaper and trying to make it something i would identify with. it has nothing to do with particular politics, just the hamfisted way the lyrics come across.
  • fox_mulderXfox_mulderX Posts: 1,134
    the low point of the album was gone and inside job.... wanna talk about awful lyrics... yeesh
  • wozza77wozza77 Posts: 300
    May fav song off the last 3 albums. Still not seen live gutted!!
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  • Evacuation RulesEvacuation Rules Posts: 2,162
    MrSmith wrote:
    i dont like the lyrics. actually i dont like the style of lyrics Ed sometimes writes (especially on Avocado) where he sounds like he is basically reading out of a newspaper and trying to make it something i would identify with. it has nothing to do with particular politics, just the hamfisted way the lyrics come across.

    I agree. Great music, terrible lyrics.
  • Kiwi In OzKiwi In Oz Canberra Posts: 266
    Been smashing unemployable on the boots the last couple of days since I read this post :geek:

    Knew I liked this song but had forgotten how much. :oops:
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  • facepollutionfacepollution Posts: 6,834
    My second favourite after Inside Job.
  • electronblueelectronblue Posts: 3,501
    Unemployable is a kickass song!!
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