"Sirens" Single + Video

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  • TJ25487
    TJ25487 Posts: 1,501
    knitted wrote:
    Is this the most polarising pearl jam single ever? Wow.

    I would say no. It looks like there are just a few people that don't like it but boy do they want to make it known.
  • CL8148
    CL8148 Posts: 32
    I have been listening to the new Kings Of Leon album the last two days, and I am completely underwhelmed by it. The songs & production are so simple and plain. I was happy to get my hands on some new kings and thought that this would take me away from the new PJ and give me a chance to let everything sink in. After just 3 listens of that album, I'm bored. There honestly isnt that "lets keep listening and get a better grasp on it,". Its boring and there is nothing to grasp. It is simple... I honestly keep going back to Sirens and am blown away by the sound of the song. Its just in another galaxy. Lyrically, musically, the production.. Everything. To me its 100x better. Im probably close to 30 listens already on sirens , and i still cant remember all the lyrics by heart.. Im not trying to put Kings down, bc i do still like them, but after listening to the two, the new PJ makes Kings of Leon look like a bunch of little kids playing in a highschool band. TY PJ for everything you have given us!
  • TJ25487
    TJ25487 Posts: 1,501
    CL8148 wrote:
    I have been listening to the new Kings Of Leon album the last two days, and I am completely underwhelmed by it. The songs & production are so simple and plain. I was happy to get my hands on some new kings and thought that this would take me away from the new PJ and give me a chance to let everything sink in. After just 3 listens of that album, I'm bored. There honestly isnt that "lets keep listening and get a better grasp on it,". Its boring and there is nothing to grasp. It is simple... I honestly keep going back to Sirens and am blown away by the sound of the song. Its just in another galaxy. Lyrically, musically, the production.. Everything. To me its 100x better. Im probably close to 30 listens already on sirens , and i still cant remember all the lyrics by heart.. Im not trying to put Kings down, bc i do still like them, but after listening to the two, the new PJ makes Kings of Leon look like a bunch of little kids playing in a highschool band. TY PJ for everything you have given us!

    How funny as I have not heard the whole KOL yet but was hoping that it would be good as the reviews have been good but the new single Supersoaker just sounds like more of the same? I'm sure many fans will be delighted but I get bored easily and like the fact that PJ do to.
  • Given2Fly2012
    Given2Fly2012 Posts: 659
    PJ_Soul wrote:
    Spiritual_Chaos wrote:
    1:30 into this video shows the similarity between the ending of Avril Lavignes single My Happy Ending and Sirens :)

    https://vimeo.com/75237775
    I am seriously not sure if this is supposed to be a joke or what. Someone please tell me so that I know if I should laugh or cry.
    Oh dear, it made me laugh, especially the a-ha o-ho part. But you know, even if I don't like Sirens at all, still I think PJ are fantastic and the comparison – a part from this weird extrapolation – actually doesn't hold water :-)
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  • coco butter
    coco butter Posts: 1,494
    I wish they would have played this at Wrigley Field. Would have been perfect after the rain.
    Do you know what it's like to fall in the mud and get kicked... in the head... with an iron boot? Of course you don't, no one does. It never happens. Sorry, Ted, that's a dumb question... skip that.
  • The Juggler
    The Juggler Posts: 49,590
    almost 1.3 million views on youtube in less than a week. mym has 1.7m (for the first video they put out 2 months ago)....little surprised. is this kind of turning into a hit? anyone have any numbers on radio plays/downloads etc?
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  • GD274660
    GD274660 Posts: 514
    dimitrispearljam wrote:
    things are so simple....

    as we say in Greece,"the river cant turn back"

    this song is beautiful,its huge,its already classic and gets mad love...


    nothing cant change that...

    the power this song has is unbeatable...

    To YOU. Your opinion carries exactly the same weight as every other fan. You do not speak for PJ fans.
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,655
    evsgjamm wrote:
    brianlux wrote:
    It would be interesting to take a poll on this song-- love it/like it/neutral/don't like it-would rather hear "Last Kiss"/strongly dislike it. Anyone?

    POLLS :D I advocated these months ago on "Let Your Voice Be Heard", page 62 of that thread now.
    viewtopic.php?f=4&t=193154&p=5095107&hilit=polls#p5095107

    Polls would be awesome.

    We used to have polls on the Westerberg "Man Without Ties" fan site all the time. They're easy to make on that particular ProBoards site which has an "Add Poll" button leading to a simple format. I've never seen that here.
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  • shortstack
    shortstack Posts: 2,339
    brianlux wrote:
    evsgjamm wrote:
    brianlux wrote:
    It would be interesting to take a poll on this song-- love it/like it/neutral/don't like it-would rather hear "Last Kiss"/strongly dislike it. Anyone?

    POLLS :D I advocated these months ago on "Let Your Voice Be Heard", page 62 of that thread now.
    viewtopic.php?f=4&t=193154&p=5095107&hilit=polls#p5095107

    Polls would be awesome.

    We used to have polls on the Westerberg "Man Without Ties" fan site all the time. They're easy to make on that particular ProBoards site which has an "Add Poll" button leading to a simple format. I've never seen that here.

    there were polls here back around 2004
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  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,445
    The Juggler wrote:
    almost 1.3 million views on youtube in less than a week. mym has 1.7m (for the first video they put out 2 months ago)....little surprised. is this kind of turning into a hit? anyone have any numbers on radio plays/downloads etc?
    MYM was released first without a video, which has 1.7 million views and the its video has close to a million.

    Sirens has a better video though and it seems it will be "bigger" than MYM was/is/will become.
    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • polaris_x
    polaris_x Posts: 13,559
    The Juggler wrote:
    almost 1.3 million views on youtube in less than a week. mym has 1.7m (for the first video they put out 2 months ago)....little surprised. is this kind of turning into a hit? anyone have any numbers on radio plays/downloads etc?

    only 25,000 unique views tho ... with everyone watching in on repeat! ... :lol::lol:
  • southernmanfan
    southernmanfan Johannesburg, South Africa Posts: 1,029
    CL8148 wrote:
    I have been listening to the new Kings Of Leon album the last two days, and I am completely underwhelmed by it. The songs & production are so simple and plain. I was happy to get my hands on some new kings and thought that this would take me away from the new PJ and give me a chance to let everything sink in. After just 3 listens of that album, I'm bored. There honestly isnt that "lets keep listening and get a better grasp on it,". Its boring and there is nothing to grasp. It is simple... I honestly keep going back to Sirens and am blown away by the sound of the song. Its just in another galaxy. Lyrically, musically, the production.. Everything. To me its 100x better. Im probably close to 30 listens already on sirens , and i still cant remember all the lyrics by heart.. Im not trying to put Kings down, bc i do still like them, but after listening to the two, the new PJ makes Kings of Leon look like a bunch of little kids playing in a highschool band. TY PJ for everything you have given us!

    Not surprised at all. Well put. This is the reason we are all for this band because of the richness of the music and the wealth that is Eddie Vedder. Nothing compares... :)
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  • PJinIL
    PJinIL satan's bed Posts: 435
    I go back and forth between really loving this song, and thinking....did this start over? because it seems so long.

    I've found this pattern...if I'm really listening to the song, intentional listening, I can hardly keep tears from welling up in my eyes. There's definitely a power and what sound to me like a different purity in Ed's voice. And the guitar solo, just hitting the ground running, that's so awesome to me. The piano work in the song, imho, is kinda like the rug... just ties the whole song together (lame Big Lebowski reference). It weaves in and out at all the right times. I had to pause it the first time I listened because I didn't want to be crying at my desk in the middle of the work day.

    On the other hand...if it's just sort of on in my itunes and I'm doing other stuff, I don't seem to enjoy it very much. I don't skip it either. But the long passages between verse/chorus etc, make it wash away, doesn't hold my interest. I actually dropped the song into some software I have and sped it up...not drastically, and it is a bit more palatable when casually listening.

    No lyric interpretation here...just the music and structure....
    It's amazing what you hear when you take time to listen.
  • jumbojet
    jumbojet Posts: 1,484
    CL8148 wrote:
    I have been listening to the new Kings Of Leon album the last two days, and I am completely underwhelmed by it. The songs & production are so simple and plain. I was happy to get my hands on some new kings and thought that this would take me away from the new PJ and give me a chance to let everything sink in. After just 3 listens of that album, I'm bored. There honestly isnt that "lets keep listening and get a better grasp on it,". Its boring and there is nothing to grasp. It is simple... I honestly keep going back to Sirens and am blown away by the sound of the song. Its just in another galaxy. Lyrically, musically, the production.. Everything. To me its 100x better. Im probably close to 30 listens already on sirens , and i still cant remember all the lyrics by heart.. Im not trying to put Kings down, bc i do still like them, but after listening to the two, the new PJ makes Kings of Leon look like a bunch of little kids playing in a highschool band. TY PJ for everything you have given us!

    Frustrated with these comments about KoL, was kind of hopeful about it.

    But you seem to set the bar very high. :) Comparison with PJ is just unfair to them.

    Wait till the PJ album comes out. It will make all look like highschool band. :)

    (Except for QoTSA maybe who put out a badass album earlier)
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  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,652
    Spiritual_Chaos wrote:
    The Juggler wrote:
    almost 1.3 million views on youtube in less than a week. mym has 1.7m (for the first video they put out 2 months ago)....little surprised. is this kind of turning into a hit? anyone have any numbers on radio plays/downloads etc?
    MYM was released first without a video, which has 1.7 million views and the its video has close to a million.

    Sirens has a better video though and it seems it will be "bigger" than MYM was/is/will become.
    I really like the MYM video! Way more than the Sirens one. Not that I mind the Sirens vid (what's not to like? .... and what's to really love?). But the MYM vid is way more interesting and creative.
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  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,724
    didnt listen Sirens.. for 14 hours 27 min and 12 seconds..

    its a fuckin record!!!woot!!!

    playing now again nonstop Bitches!!!
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  • shortstack
    shortstack Posts: 2,339
    dimitrispearljam wrote:
    didnt listen Sirens.. for 14 hours 27 min and 12 seconds..

    its a fuckin record!!!woot!!!

    playing now again nonstop Bitches!!!

    who are you calling bitches?
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  • JonnyPistachio
    JonnyPistachio Florida Posts: 10,219
    shortstack wrote:
    dimitrispearljam wrote:
    didnt listen Sirens.. for 14 hours 27 min and 12 seconds..

    its a fuckin record!!!woot!!!

    playing now again nonstop Bitches!!!

    who are you calling bitches?

    Hey, he capitalized it at least! :lol:
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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,797
    dimitrispearljam wrote:
    didnt listen Sirens.. for 14 hours 27 min and 12 seconds..

    its a fuckin record!!!woot!!!

    playing now again nonstop Bitches!!!

    :lol::lol:
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  • southernmanfan
    southernmanfan Johannesburg, South Africa Posts: 1,029
    dimitrispearljam wrote:
    didnt listen Sirens.. for 14 hours 27 min and 12 seconds..

    its a fuckin record!!!woot!!!

    playing now again nonstop Bitches!!!
    Dimi you are classic! :lol:
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