I like it. Listening right now. I can't actually quite explain why I like it. It just feels kind of good. Sort of makes me smile. It's not my fave or anything, but I enjoy it.
With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata
johnny guitar is my favourite backspacer song (besides the fixer, got some and gonna see my friend).
it's rock, it's catchy, it's sexy and a little weird. i love it. unskippable!
and for the statistics: i'm not a musician. but usually prefer the more punk or obscure tunes and i'm always glad they don't forget about fans like me : )
JG is my favourite song off backspacer. I'm a musician and it was the first and only song I learnt off that album. Have to say it's my least fave album to date, never really grew on me like the previous 2 did after my initial indifference to them.
I don't know if there is much correlation. I'm a guitar player and I'm in between you guys. Love Johnny Guitar. Gods' Dice is my least favorite on Binaural. Not really into Big Wave...think it's all just personal preference as always
I think were starting to see a correlation here. Topaz only learned JG off of Backspacer. Mr. PJstatTracker who also plays guitar with one hand while developing apps with the other hand also loves JG. So Drummerboy, I think we have something here.
hahaha, you don't even wanna know what I'm doing with my toes...
So funny that I signed on and this thread was up because I was thinking about starting one saying how I think it is one of the better songs on Backspacer... honestly! I like it much better than the fixer, got some, the end, just brteahe, and supersonic. gonna see my friend, amongst the waves, unthought known, and force of nature are better, so i guess this song makes middle of the pack for me. cool guitar and vocal styles.
2006: Hartford
2008: MSG 1, Hartford, Mansfield 2, Ed Solo NYC 1
2009: London (O2), Philly 1, 2, 3, & 4
2010: Hartford, Boston, MSG 1 & 2
2011: Ed Solo Hartford
2012: Philly (MIA Fest)
2013: Worcester 2, Brooklyn 1 & 2, Hartford
to me this song is a total joke, a made up story by Eddie, pure Science Fiction, has he even met Johnny Guitar Watson? and certainly not in the way it relates to the song, his heart isn't in the vocals, you can tell he is faking the song, the worst Pearl Jam song to make it to record, that is a full length song, brutal
seriously if Pearl Jam had ditched Johnny Guitar and replaced it with Of The Earth it would of raised the cache on that album considerably, and that is what I did, and that is the way I listen to Backspacer, the much improved Backspacer
i know a guy from Greece,dimitrispearljam..he loves it.kinda...
"...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
"..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
“..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
It is not a good song.....maybe the worst PJ song in the bands history.
I would challenge you to find a worse one.
Gone and Thumbing My Way come to mind.
ding ding
winner
I will add come back to that list
JG is a great song and Ed's delivery is awesome-he just steps into that song.
It is better live as the fade out is annoying though http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM3YpVLhTPM
i like it....dont love it but its definately jammin...
cant say i ever skip it...
really depends on my mood cause i've had moments where i've heard it and was like..
"wow, this is a pretty cool jammin tune"...
never amazes me at the variey of people's fav songs...
really with any other band as well...
few other bands i really enjoy,...other friends of mine love completely different tunes than the ones i love...
Really really amazes me on how much i can love a song of pj's and others are like :fp: ...eh... :fp:
and vice versa....goes both ways...
end of the day...Johnny reminds me of a good ol fashin jammin tune...
johnny guitar is one of the best songs on backspacer. a lot of you complain about how backspacer is a commercial and/or formulaic record yet bag on this song. unbelievable. well, it's believable, but not surprising.
i know a guy from Greece,dimitrispearljam..he loves it.kinda...
I'm with that guy dimi then. It has one of my favorite verses ever.
"I've been thinking I already know, nothin bout nothin or so I have been told. I'm not the paper I'm more like the fold. I cut the crease put the shit in the hole".
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No time to be void, or save up on life, you've got to spend it all
it's rock, it's catchy, it's sexy and a little weird. i love it. unskippable!
and for the statistics: i'm not a musician. but usually prefer the more punk or obscure tunes and i'm always glad they don't forget about fans like me : )
hahaha, you don't even wanna know what I'm doing with my toes...
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2008: MSG 1, Hartford, Mansfield 2, Ed Solo NYC 1
2009: London (O2), Philly 1, 2, 3, & 4
2010: Hartford, Boston, MSG 1 & 2
2011: Ed Solo Hartford
2012: Philly (MIA Fest)
2013: Worcester 2, Brooklyn 1 & 2, Hartford
10/4/96 – Charlotte, NC
8/4/00 – Charlotte, NC
4/16/03 – Charlotte, NC
9/5/05 – Edmonton, Canada
6/16/08 - Columbia, SC
6/17/08 - VA Beach, VA
6/26-27/12 - Amsterdam, NL (I and II)
7/19/13 - Wrigley Feild, Chicago, IL
10/30/13 - Charlotte, NC
11/22/15 - Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03m026Lcbv8&list=PLK6GLx6mijaW7s174YAB6vb4gALzRwsmi
Pearl Jam bootlegs:
http://wegotshit.blogspot.com
I think that's a great thrashy song... one of the only true rockers on Backspacer
2008: MSG 1, Hartford, Mansfield 2, Ed Solo NYC 1
2009: London (O2), Philly 1, 2, 3, & 4
2010: Hartford, Boston, MSG 1 & 2
2011: Ed Solo Hartford
2012: Philly (MIA Fest)
2013: Worcester 2, Brooklyn 1 & 2, Hartford
Hank, what do you think of Supersonic?
"..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
“..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
winner
I will add come back to that list
JG is a great song and Ed's delivery is awesome-he just steps into that song.
It is better live as the fade out is annoying though
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM3YpVLhTPM
except
for JFG
"what a long, strange trip it's been"
cant say i ever skip it...
really depends on my mood cause i've had moments where i've heard it and was like..
"wow, this is a pretty cool jammin tune"...
never amazes me at the variey of people's fav songs...
really with any other band as well...
few other bands i really enjoy,...other friends of mine love completely different tunes than the ones i love...
Really really amazes me on how much i can love a song of pj's and others are like :fp: ...eh... :fp:
and vice versa....goes both ways...
end of the day...Johnny reminds me of a good ol fashin jammin tune...
flashin? Like in a "show me your boobs" kinda way? awesome me too! :P
it doesnt suck.
It's growing up just like me.
"I've been thinking I already know, nothin bout nothin or so I have been told. I'm not the paper I'm more like the fold. I cut the crease put the shit in the hole".