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F Me In The Brain

Can I close my eyes, sway from side to side, and mumble about chicks and dicks?  How high do you have to be to like the last 1/4 of the song? 

(I wish I still smoked!)

Cliffy6745 said:

F Me In The Brain said:

The video has cool images.

Trying to think of positive things to say....but it is (easily) a minute too long and I think the way EV signs/phrases is just not going to hit it for me.  Boring.  "I know that girls wanna dance" - is that wtf he is singing at the end?

It will go well with the bore they have opening for them -- the good news it is 1 song and it might be great live. 

Hope everyone loves it - I grew bored (quickly) with how everyone shit on the last few records. 

But don't you also like the last album? So your opinion on this might be moot haha.

I do.  As Troll-ey-Wobbie-Wob pointed out, I liked the last two records.

Agree that they had weak songs -- Yellow Moon, for fuck's sake! 

I bet I still like this record, it would be a first if I didn't like the whole thing.  I even have some love for Riot Act.

I'm a rocker.

The Juggler

Wobbie said:

Cliffy6745 said:

F Me In The Brain said:

The video has cool images.

Trying to think of positive things to say....but it is (easily) a minute too long and I think the way EV signs/phrases is just not going to hit it for me.  Boring.  "I know that girls wanna dance" - is that wtf he is singing at the end?

It will go well with the bore they have opening for them -- the good news it is 1 song and it might be great live. 

Hope everyone loves it - I grew bored (quickly) with how everyone shit on the last few records. 

But don't you also like the last album? So your opinion on this might be moot haha.

F’me liked BS, too.

He’s being Gigatoned right on out of here

haha

Jearlpam0925

So here's my minor rant of all things PJ albums, whether you like it or not.

Backspacer and Lightning Bolt might as well be the same album. Quiz me and there's a good chance I'll think a song from one was on the other. Here's my takes on all their albums in one sentence along with my own personal rankings:

10)Lightning Bolt
9) Backspacer
8) Riot Act
7) Ten
6) Binaural
5) Avocado 
4) Vs.
3) Vitalogy 
2) No Code
#1 yay) Yield

Ten: right out the gate they're instant classics. Anything going forward will be a gigantic disappointment to the general public en masse.

Vs.:  I don't think you can follow up Ten much better (pop hits, overall strength of the album), and using up everything in their arsenal of before they were all a band together, while also starting to deviate to something that would ultimately become..

Vitalogy:  this is where Pearl Jam finds their Pearl Jam "sound" to me.

No Code: Where PJ further refines that sounds and completely says fuck it.

Yield: Put Vitalogy and No Code together and this is what you get when it's mastered.

Binaural: They're bored and want to continue to do what they want but they need to take a bit of a break

Riot Act: I believe it was "only" 2 years between albums here, but it seemed like a lifetime at the time. Too much time doing other things, captured the 'W' times pretty well; could combine this with Binaural, though Binaural's overall sound is better.

Avocado: Way too long of a wait between albums (only surpassed by now), a "needed" return to an overall rock and/or roll sound.

Backspacer: Trying to take that "needed" rock sound and put in some pop-punk mix

Lightning Bolt: Looking to stay in the pop lane way too late in life here.

Now, I celebrate the guys' entire catalog but most of their clunkers have been lately (see: Ole', Of the Earth, Sirens, Unthought Known....I know, some of these aren't even on these albums, and sorry if you may like these songs. I, in fact, do not), and this is why this song has been a solid breath of fresh air today in both creativity and sound. 

The Juggler

JP--we're usually pretty much on the same page with this stuff. Here's my rankings today. Sometimes I flip flop between 4 and 5 and 6 and 7. Number 167 (or 10, just feels that much lower) is always that far down. I liked, didn't love LB. But Backspacer is trash. Hawks mentioned LTRP earlier. I will openly boo them if I hear that opening riff at my next show. Both of the last two are significantly below Avocado though. 

1 Yield
2 No Code
3 Vitalogy
4 Ten
5 Vs
6 Riot Act
7 Binaural
8 Avocado
9- Lightning Bolt
167- Backspacer

F Me In The Brain

Haven't done this in a while, the top 5 never change but the order can change drastically depending on what I have been listening to more from the boots.

1.  No Code

2.  Ten

3.  Yield

4.  Vs.

5.  Vitalogy

6.  Avocado

7. Backspacer

8.  Lightning Bolt

9.  Binaural

10.  Riot Act

Backspacer hit at the right time (or wrong time) in my life.  Death, or the inexorable march toward death, brings some changes - this album was the biggest of those times in my life and has a special place.  Are there some draggers?  Yep.

When it all shakes out, I love the bottom 4 records there....but they don't touch the top 6.  I could swap 8-9-10 all day long.  I think 6-7 are the only two that stay put in my rankings, these days.

And, as much as I like Avocado, there is a mile of a gap between it and the First 5, for me.

Cliffy6745

I don't have a full ranking but very much agree with F Me's top 5, though not necessarily the order.

F Me In The Brain

Cliffy6745 said:

I don't have a full ranking but very much agree with F Me's top 5, though not necessarily the order.

Order changes so frequently - those are frigging masterpieces.

Jearlpam0925

Yeah, I guess I should put Ten higher, but I just can't. There is no tread left on the tires in this brain to listen to that actual album anymore.

F Me In The Brain

Jearlpam0925 said:

Yeah, I guess I should put Ten higher, but I just can't. There is no tread left on the tires in this brain to listen to that actual album anymore.

When I want to be a dork and look at shit song by song there is never a time where Ten doesnt win. 

Like you (and most of us) I generally enjoy listening to other records more, now.  Sooooooooo many thousands of times listening to Ten!

Boots, mostly.

As a fellow Philly area 10C buddy would/did yell at a Flyers game:

"Hey, Boots!"

Jearlpam0925

F Me In The Brain said:

Jearlpam0925 said:

Yeah, I guess I should put Ten higher, but I just can't. There is no tread left on the tires in this brain to listen to that actual album anymore.

When I want to be a dork and look at shit song by song there is never a time where Ten doesnt win.  

This makes a lot of sense.

eeriepadave

The Juggler said:

So my real life friends/family PJ fans don’t seem too thrilled with this one...

Curious what you guys are hearing from people? 

most of the people i now, mostly dig it. some don't.

Wobbie

that igotid88 is fun to fuck with.

F Me In The Brain

So, that VF ticket thing was a flaming bag of shit.  Anyone try it?

Cliffy6745

Yeah, it was horrible. .Another fan beat you to these tickets, another fan beat you to these tickets, another fan beat you to these tickets. Over and over and over.

F Me In The Brain

Only thing available, and I was in @ MSG by 10:03, was crap where you could'nt see the band.  Who the hell wants to pay money to get there and have that as your experience? 

Really is a money grab that they sell those for the same price that they sell seats where you can actually see the concert. 

Fuck, if people will pay it....

Jearlpam0925

The hell are yous talking about? Fan selling to fan?

Cliffy6745

Basically the general on sale 

The Juggler

Wait--inst the general sale tomorrow???

pjhawks

The Juggler said:

Wait--inst the general sale tomorrow???

today was that verified fan thing. tomorrow is another round for the general public. i'm sure anything available will be shit.

Cliffy6745

I don’t think there is anything available tomorrow. Assume that the verified fan thing covered the rest of the northeast shows