Ed swearing during songs.

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  • tacet
    tacet Posts: 323
    I'm almost speechless

    content, not to be superseded by the use of a single word (or maybe a string of them spat out with the raw emotion that is part of what makes us love this band)
    we're all sentient snowflakes
  • sherm
    sherm Seattle, Wa Posts: 708
    fortheloveofpearljam wrote:
    I don't have kids so I love the swearing! I just sometime get embarrassed at red lights and will admit that I sometimes turn my music down if I am next to an old man or woman or young children. I can curse like a sailor and nothing beats listening to Eddie say "fuck!" for me.

    Agreed
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  • october22
    october22 Posts: 2,533
    Thoughts_Arrive wrote:
    Seemed a harmless little....FUCK! (Pink Pop 92)

    eh, this is the actual studio version lyric.
  • Isoworld13
    Isoworld13 Posts: 233
    edited December 2011
    I love the word fuck. Use it constantly, and love screaming it when it comes up in a song. Use it so much that I'm completely de-sensitized to it and dont even realize I say it. (almost like 'um' or 'ya know'. It's just a fucking WORD, big deal. Christ, people are too pussified today.
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  • Isoworld13
    Isoworld13 Posts: 233
    edited December 2011
    :lol:
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    1994 Boston
    1998 Mansfield
    2000 Atlanta & Mansfield
    2003 Mansfield (X2)
    2004 Boston
    2006 Chicago & Boston (x2)
    2008 Mansfield (x2)
    2009 Chicago
    2010 Buffalo & Boston
    2011 Toronto
    2012 Amsterdam
    2013 Wrigley, Worcerster (x2), Philly, & Hartford
    2014 Memphis, Moline, Denver
    2016 Ft. Lauderdale, Miami, Tampa, Hampton, Philly, Fenway (x2), Wrigley Monday
    2018 Wrigley (x2), Fenway (x2)
    2022 MSG. Nashville
    2023 Ft. Worth 2, Austin (x2)
    2024 Vegas 2, Wrigley 2, Fenway (x2), Auckland (x2), Gold Coast, Melbourne 1
  • october22
    october22 Posts: 2,533
    Isoworld13 wrote:
    Isoworld13 wrote:
    I love the word fuck. Use it constantly, and love screaming it when it comes up in a song. Use it so much that I'm completely de-sensitized to it and actually dont even realize I say it. (almost like 'um' or 'ya know'. It's just a fucking WORD, big deal. Christ, people are too pussified today.

    You like it so much, you even quote your own posts about it.
  • InHidingInOttawa
    InHidingInOttawa Posts: 154
    I'm no longer overwhelmed and it seems so fucking simple now...
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  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    81 wrote:
    it's fuckin rock and roll...not church

    + 1
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  • gr8flmom
    gr8flmom Posts: 4
    Personally, I'm very censored, just comes natural with 2 little ones at home, but when it comes to music and art you have to express what you feel and sometimes you can't emphasize unless you drop an f bomb, etc... It's his music!! And if that's how he's feeling when he's performing, BY ALL MEANS!! ROCK ON!!! \m/
  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    october22 wrote:
    Thoughts_Arrive wrote:
    Seemed a harmless little....FUCK! (Pink Pop 92)

    eh, this is the actual studio version lyric.

    eh, I know but the FUCK in CAPS represents shouting duh.
    He shouts it live, watch the pinkpop 92 video and you'll understand what I mean.
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  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    Oh, where oh where can my fucking baby be?
    The fucking Lord took her away from me
    She's gone to fucking heaven, so I got to be fucking good
    So I can see my baby when I leave this fucking world.

    We were out on a fucking date in my fucking daddy's car
    We hadn't driven very fucking far
    There in the fucking road, up straight ahead
    A fucking car was stalled, the fucking engine was dead
    I couldn't fucking stop, so I swerved to the fucking right
    I'll never fucking forget the fucking sound that fucking night
    The fucking screamin' tires, the fucking bustin' glass
    The fucking painful scream that I heard last.

    Oh, where oh where can my fucking baby be?
    The fucking Lord took her away from me
    She's gone to fucking heaven, so I got to be fucking good
    So I can see my baby when I leave this fucking world.

    When I fucking woke up, the rain was fucking pourin' down
    There were fucking people standing all around
    Something fucking warm runnin' in my eyes
    But somehow I found my fucking baby that night
    I lifted her fucking head, she looked at me and said
    "Hold me darling just a little fucking while."
    I held her fucking close, I kissed her our last fucking kiss
    I found the love that I knew I would fucking miss
    But now she's gone, even though I hold her fucking tight
    I lost my love, my fucking life that night.

    Oh, where oh where can my fucking baby be?
    The fucking Lord took her away from me
    She's gone to fucking heaven, so I got to be fucking good
    So I can see my baby when I leave this fucking world.
    Oh, fucking oh
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  • october22
    october22 Posts: 2,533
    Thoughts_Arrive wrote:
    october22 wrote:
    Thoughts_Arrive wrote:
    Seemed a harmless little....FUCK! (Pink Pop 92)

    eh, this is the actual studio version lyric.

    eh, I know but the FUCK in CAPS represents shouting duh.
    He shouts it live, watch the pinkpop 92 video and you'll understand what I mean.

    Oh, right...caps. Well, I guess that makes your argument, um, just as invalid as it was the first time.
  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    october22 wrote:
    Oh, right...caps. Well, I guess that makes your argument, um, just as invalid as it was the first time.

    No need to be a sarcastic smart arse champ.
    FUCK!
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  • Arthur Digby Sellers
    Arthur Digby Sellers Posts: 259
    I went as far as making a mix on my iPod of non-swearing Pearl Jam songs so I didn't have to worry about it. I actually looked up the lyrics on this sight so I didn't make mistakes. I don't always pay that close attention to the lyrics. I have screwed up with bootlegs in the car, but then I swear a lot when I drive so I think it's probably worse when I do it then Eddie. I can control it everywhere else but behind the wheel.
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  • your move now
    your move now Posts: 1,165
    I don't have kids so maybe someone can explain... they're just words aren't they? And considering there are some really young kids out there that swear like sailors they're going to pick it up at school/kinder or whatever pretty quickly
    I don't mean to offend anyone, a lot of what I say should be taken with a grain of salt... that said for most of you I'm a stranger on a computer on the other side of the world, don't give me that sort of power!
  • october22
    october22 Posts: 2,533
    And before we get too much tit-for-tat on this one let me just say it's a minor point and I really don't give a shit. I'm usually not a prick on here. However, those are the original lyrics so they don't apply to the OP's post and Ed shouts "fuck" in just about every version of that song barring the televised performances.
  • october22
    october22 Posts: 2,533
    Thoughts_Arrive wrote:
    october22 wrote:
    Oh, right...caps. Well, I guess that makes your argument, um, just as invalid as it was the first time.

    No need to be a sarcastic smart arse champ.
    FUCK!

    ok, ok, you're right. it's a stupid thing to even waste time on actually.
  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    october22 wrote:
    Thoughts_Arrive wrote:
    october22 wrote:
    Oh, right...caps. Well, I guess that makes your argument, um, just as invalid as it was the first time.

    No need to be a sarcastic smart arse champ.
    FUCK!

    ok, ok, you're right. it's a stupid thing to even waste time on actually.

    Sorry I somehow upset you.
    No need to act that way. I cannot be bothered wasting my time on you if you are going to be like that.
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  • Arthur Digby Sellers
    Arthur Digby Sellers Posts: 259
    your move now wrote:
    I don't have kids so maybe someone can explain... they're just words aren't they? And considering there are some really young kids out there that swear like sailors they're going to pick it up at school/kinder or whatever pretty quickly

    I think kids should be allowed to be kids and talking like sailors isn't being a kid in my opinion. Everyone has a different standard, but I don't want to hear my daughter swearing in front of me so I try to model the same. I am not always the best at it.
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    it will be wrapped in the FLAG and
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  • your move now
    your move now Posts: 1,165
    doesn't putting something off limits make it all the more appealing to kids (and adults)?
    Like if you just treated it as a word rather than making it a big deal maybe they wouldn't use them so much?
    I don't mean to offend anyone, a lot of what I say should be taken with a grain of salt... that said for most of you I'm a stranger on a computer on the other side of the world, don't give me that sort of power!

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