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    deadnotedeadnote Posts: 1,678
    i way love thumbing my way

    in fact i think riot act is pjs best album
    set your laughter free

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    i love you,but im..............callin out.........callin out
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    smile05smile05 Posts: 600
    fanch75 wrote:
    I never hear this song more than 5 seconds, b/c that's how long it takes to hear those shitty opening chords. I know what horrid boredom lies beyond.

    Discuss.

    I'll second this
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    BoardroomJimmyBoardroomJimmy Posts: 55
    i really love this version...

    http://home.comcast.net/~brian.kutys/pj-tmw.mp3

    my god its an awful song
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    rival.rival. Chicago Posts: 7,776
    it is quite the snoozer. NEXT!
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    rival.rival. Chicago Posts: 7,776
    deadnote wrote:

    in fact i think riot act is pjs best album

    please tell me you are joking.
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    tylerpjtxtylerpjtx Posts: 201
    i understand the idea that its a generic song...but not every song can have the crazy ridiculous dynamics a lot of PJ songs have. its a slow song, its meant to sound the way it does. i dont really care as much how the music starts out...i love what ed says in the song....its incredible.
    all these burning battlefields are now behind us, life has brought us here together to remind us, that love will rise above it all and just keep growin, life keeps flowing and every moment starts right here with us
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    QuarterToTenQuarterToTen Cincinnati, Ohio Posts: 3,626
    fanch75 wrote:
    I never hear this song more than 5 seconds, b/c that's how long it takes to hear those shitty opening chords. I know what horrid boredom lies beyond.

    Discuss.

    i usually last no more than 3, doesn't even sound like pearl jam to me.

    almost as bad as Parachutes.
    Nice shirt.
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    fanch75fanch75 Posts: 3,736
    I was watching Live at the Garden last night and this song came on. That's what inspired the thread. I was thoroughly enjoying meself and then TMW comes on. It's like you're looking at a hot woman, and then she leaves and then here comes a fat Poison fan in her CRX with five kids.
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    normnorm I'm always home. I'm uncool. Posts: 31,147
    fanch75 wrote:
    I was watching Live at the Garden last night and this song came on. That's what inspired the thread. I was thoroughly enjoying meself and then TMW comes on. It's like you're looking at a hot woman, and then she leaves and then here comes a fat Poison fan in her CRX with five kids.

    although i don't agree with ya, i love the way you put it.....:D
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    IndifferenceIndifference Posts: 2,647
    Brian Brohm SUCKS!

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    ScottishPJFanScottishPJFan Posts: 10
    pjfan31 wrote:
    Welcome aboard sailor

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    fanch75fanch75 Posts: 3,736
    Indifference wrote:
    Brian Brohm SUCKS!

    That's kind of like saying Peyton Manning sucked in college. Next.
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    RicsardRicsard Posts: 1,942
    Thumbing My Way used to sound quite boring to me but it just grew on me (after 150 Riot Act listens I guess:-) ) and now I DO like it! There is no bad Pearl Jam song (only if you call that red dot thing a song...)
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    reaching handsreaching hands Posts: 370
    fanch75 wrote:
    I never hear this song more than 5 seconds, b/c that's how long it takes to hear those shitty opening chords. I know what horrid boredom lies beyond.

    Discuss.

    shitty chords?...,,,mmmmmm ok..whatever. you have an opinion and obviously you want us to discuss it.

    its a great song. NICE chords, not the most simple to play, but real nice

    suppose you think all or none is cack too?, jesus i wish i has a tiny bit of songwriting talent.

    all the rusty signs we ignored............
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    Drop The Leash 10Drop The Leash 10 Posts: 7,011
    EDDIE BST WRITING. imo. This is easily the best song off Riot Act.
    I will be what i could be
    Once I get out of this town


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    josevolutionjosevolution Posts: 28,312
    i love it to me there are no shitty songs from this band ,but that gallagher pumpus ass is another story ...
    jesus greets me looks just like me ....
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    ledveddermanledvedderman Posts: 7,755
    Thumbing My Way is easily in my top five Pearl Jam songs. The version from Cleveland 06 gives me chills...which isn't what I would about any Jet song.

    Then again, I don't have the gimmick of being the forum drunk who doesn't like anything from the past 9 years.
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    not4unot4u Posts: 513
    great tune
    we don't want war, but we still want more?
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    Ledbetterman10Ledbetterman10 Posts: 16,731
    I don't listen to Thumbing My Way because I don't like it but the very fact that fanch75 also doesn't like it makes me want to give it another chance........as he is one of the lamest people on this board.
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    harmless_little_f***harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    Ledbetterman10 wrote:
    I don't listen to Thumbing My Way because I don't like it but the very fact that fanch75 also doesn't like it makes me want to give it another chance........as he is one of the lamest people on this board.

    What about the fact that it's one of HLF's favourite PJ songs? Surely that's got to count for something..
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    MasterFramerMasterFramer Posts: 2,268
    "No matter how cold the winter, there's a springtime ahead"

    Great song...
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    SoonForgotten2SoonForgotten2 Posts: 2,245
    TMW ranks right up there with Evacuation in my book.

    Or perhaps I should say down there. Actually that's not fair, the lyrics in Thumbing aren't bad at all- musically it's the most mind-numbingly boring song I've heard from just about any decent band.
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    yield2meyield2me Posts: 1,291
    One of my favorite songs from riot act, it's beautiful, so you lose!
    “May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.” - Frank Sinatra
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    iluvcatsiluvcats Posts: 5,153
    Although I have not evaluated the lyrics, the way it sounds depresses me. An old friend once said that TMW sounded disjointed when Riot Act was first released. I would not say it sucks though, just not a pj song that I listen to.

    Fanch is not lame.
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    simplemansimpleman Posts: 425
    Drop The Leash 10 wrote:
    EDDIE BST WRITING. imo. This is easily the best song off Riot Act.
    That my friend, is not saying much...
    " Jump from a cliff to fly, not to fall..."
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    E.BloomE.Bloom Posts: 188
    Great song.. Wonderful lyrics and melody. Always wanted to hear that one live
    we were but stones,your light made us stars

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    Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    People that dislike TMW have no soul.
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
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    acoustic guyacoustic guy Posts: 3,770
    You are nuts.
    Great great song.
    Get em a Body Bag Yeeeeeaaaaa!
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    NoelMichaelNoelMichael Posts: 1,630
    You all got it wrong. He didn't mean to say "Thumbing My Way Sucks", what he really meant was "Sucking My Thumb Ways". I know he's got like 50 different ways to suck his thumb.
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    Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    NoelMichael wrote:
    You all got it wrong. He didn't mean to say "Thumbing My Way Sucks", what he really meant was "Sucking My Thumb Ways". I know he's got like 50 different ways to suck his thumb.
    :D
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
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