Does any one here have any love for the Whale Song?

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  • neilybabes86
    neilybabes86 Posts: 16,057
    good stuff
    i post on the board of a band that doesn't exsist anymore .......i need my head examined.......
  • dr0ptheleash
    dr0ptheleash Posts: 1,264
    I love that they cared enough to make a song like that. Lovely message, with lots of respect.
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  • PureandEasy
    PureandEasy Posts: 5,818
    This one definitely grew on me over the years. I dig it :lol:
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  • SatansFuton
    SatansFuton Posts: 5,399
    There are many instances of whales "fighting back" or on some occasions just attacking ships for no reason. Although after being hunted the way they have, I guess even if one particular ship doesn't provoke that whale there is a "reason" behind it, so I don't blame them too much. The most famous whale attack was the attack on the Essex, an incident that turned several of the survivors into cannibals during the ordeal afterwards, and it was the incident that inspired Moby Dick. The Essex wasn't exactly minding its own business though, as they were hunting a pod of sperm whales.

    So when I've heard the line "They won't fight back. I'm sure they know how. Beings that love are too proud." it always struck me as kind of strange. I get what Jack was trying to say though, and his heart was in the right place.
    "See a broad to get dat booty yak 'em, leg 'er down, a smack 'em yak 'em!"
  • surfsprite2
    surfsprite2 Posts: 35
    I have been fortunate in my life to see a few different times Grey Whales Swimming in the Ocean near the Farallon Islands, 26 miles past the Golden Gate in San Francisco. They are beautiful, majestic Mammals. Pearl Jam (Jack) wrote a beautiful song, paying honor to Whales and Our Oceans. I love this song! Thank you Pearl Jam for caring.


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  • ceska
    ceska New York Posts: 1,146
    Ha, yeah sure....The time and place to play it was when Ed said OTOTO at the Hartford Civic Center last year (former home of the Whalers, current home the of CT Whale), as they once played Rats for the River Rats in Albany.
  • joe2317
    joe2317 Posts: 151
    LOVE the whale song.
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  • PissBottleMan
    PissBottleMan Union City, TN Posts: 4,155
    ceska wrote:
    Ha, yeah sure....The time and place to play it was when Ed said OTOTO at the Hartford Civic Center last year (former home of the Whalers, current home the of CT Whale), as they once played Rats for the River Rats in Albany.

    "Breakfast, shmreakfast. Look at the score, for Christ's sake. It's only the second period and I'm up 12 to 2. Breakfasts come and go, Rene, but Hartford, "the Whale," they only beat Vancouver once, maybe twice in a lifetime."

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  • TouringFan2000
    TouringFan2000 Posts: 305
    much love for the whale song. (i'd rather listen to whale song than parachutes or speed of sound any day.)
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