Brain Of J

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  • This song tells me how plugged into American culture and the big, important issues Eddie really is and always has been. With all the specials on this past week about the assassination of President Kennedy, the fact that this issue haunted Ed enough to write about it, just makes me love the band more. I realize JFK wasn't perfect, but he represented a sense of youth and hope, and when he was murdered, our collective innocence was shaken, if not lost. "The whole world will be different soon." Yes, it is.
    Life is the riddle
    Of which we're caught in the middle.
    A couple of lucky ones
    Tangled up in too much love
    ~cowboy junkies
  • Brain of J is sick<in a good way> 1234 1234! Just ANOTHER killer PJ tune...The whole world is diferent.
    9/26/96, 10/2/96, 9/13/98, 9/15/98, 9/16/98, 8/29/00, 8/30/00, 7/2/03, 7/3/03, 7/11/03, 9/28/04, 9/24/04, 9/15/05, 5/13/06, 5/24/06, 5/25/06

    "Get the words, and then I get to thinkin'
    I don't wanna think, I wanna feel"
  • Perfect song.Thats their most punkish song,good punk not that radio-corprate mess.
    "Life Is one crushing defeat after another,until you just wish Flanders was dead!"
    -Homer J.Simpson
  • Brain of J is definitley in my top 5 PJ songs of all time. I love the false start with Mike counting down. Jack's drums are KILLER on it too.

    Anyone ever hear the original live version? A little more raw and crass. I prefer the Yield era version but the 95-96 performances are cool as well
  • KaddikatKaddikat Posts: 1,194
    Originally posted by fun_and_sun
    Just listened to Yield, this is the great start, like breakfast

    hee hee hee! i agree. a great start that kicks you in the ass and makes you think...... :D
    **Get outa my way, just step aside, or pay the price ~ AC/DC**

    You make me feel uncalm and I think I like it - 311

    JEFF ROX MY SOX!

    "Jeff is just a badass all the way across the board" ~aNiMaL~

    "Chill out Kaddikat"
  • 2nd. best opener ever (along with Wake up and a bunch of others...) after Go

    kick-ass song all the way through
    everything=3


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  • I know most people who have posted on this thread have said the 1234-1234 bit but fuk I love it! All appreciation for the album opener is comin from me. **Bows down** VEDHEAD27 I totally agree... album openers don't get as much appreciation compared to most songs. Bring on the Brain Of JFK!
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  • KaddikatKaddikat Posts: 1,194
    Ok i have to say I like my music hard fast and to the point. This song along with GO are 2 of the BEST CD openers...

    :D:D:D:D
    **Get outa my way, just step aside, or pay the price ~ AC/DC**

    You make me feel uncalm and I think I like it - 311

    JEFF ROX MY SOX!

    "Jeff is just a badass all the way across the board" ~aNiMaL~

    "Chill out Kaddikat"
  • A few things...

    Mike says 1234 1234...It clearly sounds just like him.

    And also Mike play the Open D guitar on this track and plays rhythm guitar as he wrote the riff. Stone plays all the lead(except that little riff before the bridge) including the solo.
  • yeah thats one of my favourite pj songs too :)
    the entire dynamic of it just ROCKS. its very rare to hear a band go so damn well together.
    and so castles made of sand fall in the sea eventually...
  • WernyWerny Posts: 63
    "Lend my name, the name they gave me, the name I'm leeeeeeetting gooohooo" and then about the BEST little guitarness I've heard.

    When I decide to play PJ this, along with Hail Hail and I am Mine, is the song I play first. Rock's one's socks.
    This puke stinks like beer, and everybody's here, so come on come on come on, let's lay waste to this Century...
  • i forgeti forget Posts: 281
    "Guitarness" good word!:D
    Definitely a revving tune!
  • i got new headphones and u can't hear the 12341234 with em on full blast. it sux...b/
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  • KaddikatKaddikat Posts: 1,194
    Originally posted by dez higher
    .... one of THE best openers!
    This song needs to be put on repeat and CRANKED!!
    "The whole world will be different soon..."

    :D:D:D
    **Get outa my way, just step aside, or pay the price ~ AC/DC**

    You make me feel uncalm and I think I like it - 311

    JEFF ROX MY SOX!

    "Jeff is just a badass all the way across the board" ~aNiMaL~

    "Chill out Kaddikat"
  • KaddikatKaddikat Posts: 1,194
    :D:D:D:D:D
    **Get outa my way, just step aside, or pay the price ~ AC/DC**

    You make me feel uncalm and I think I like it - 311

    JEFF ROX MY SOX!

    "Jeff is just a badass all the way across the board" ~aNiMaL~

    "Chill out Kaddikat"
  • Spot In The SkySpot In The Sky Posts: 1,175
    as different as this song is than the rest of the album, it still fits so perfectly. when i drive back and forth from RI i always start with yield and i must look like an idiot to the people im driving near cause im jumping all around out of my seat...just cant control the pearl jam impulse.
    "The world is dangerous, feel safe here tonight..." EV 9/17/06

    38+6 shows at the age of 27 and counting...but still no Undone

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  • VEDHEAD27VEDHEAD27 Posts: 3,091
    This song just beat my ass...and I LOOOVED every second of it! :D What a fuckin rocker. :D


    Ed's voice/ the highs and lows and those screams = classic

    that riff = jumpy, catchy and rockin

    the breakdown and the way the songs builds back up and EXPLODES= awesome as hell!!!

    those drums = the best




    This song just kicks ass, literally.

    :D
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    "Lo√e, you know the word
    ...YOU invented it!" ~ E√

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  • redsdiseaseredsdisease Posts: 147
    First P.J. song I ever heard, been listening to them ever since.
    Jimmy Carter has disco fever.
  • Mr PyjamaMr Pyjama Posts: 253
    THE WHOLE WORLD WILL BE DIFFERENT SOON, THE WHLE WORLD WILL BE RELIEVED!!!

    I love the way Ed sings this!!!
    Situations get fucked up and turned around sooner or later...
  • r1versr1vers Posts: 244
    Wishlist single live version at Melbourne Park will rock your socks...if the album version doesn't already rock enough for you. I love how it just sounds so crisp on the live version when the opening riff starts up. I also love it especially in SVT where Mike just start tearin it up during the solo and the rest of the band just keeps jammin as if its no big deal.
    "Last time I think we played that song here was like, a long time ago, and there was a bonfire in the back and people were like throwing each other into it...very exciting days but a huge fucking relief that that's not how it is tonight..." Ed Irvine Night 1 2003, after Deep
  • KaddikatKaddikat Posts: 1,194
    1234 1234!!!!!

    FUCKING ASS THIS SONG KICKS EVERYTIME I HEAR IT!! I JUST WANNA STOMP ASS ON THE SOCS TONITE (a lil Outsiders humor) WHEN I hear this song.. hee hee :D:D

    oh yeah outsiders info here:
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086066/
    **Get outa my way, just step aside, or pay the price ~ AC/DC**

    You make me feel uncalm and I think I like it - 311

    JEFF ROX MY SOX!

    "Jeff is just a badass all the way across the board" ~aNiMaL~

    "Chill out Kaddikat"
  • just had to put it on right now in appreciation
    everything=3


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  • KaddikatKaddikat Posts: 1,194
    :D
    **Get outa my way, just step aside, or pay the price ~ AC/DC**

    You make me feel uncalm and I think I like it - 311

    JEFF ROX MY SOX!

    "Jeff is just a badass all the way across the board" ~aNiMaL~

    "Chill out Kaddikat"
  • The name they gave me the name I'm letting go>>>>>
    Don't need a raincoat, I'm already wet..
  • 1234 1234 DUH DUH DUH DUH!!!! 1234 1234 DUH DUH DUH DUH DUH DUH DUH DUH DUH DUH DUH DUH DUH DUH!!!!!




    that song kicks ass!!!
  • its the opening to my favorite pj album!
    Abbruzzese is fosh!!!
  • Originally posted by bbruzze clues13
    its the opening to my favorite pj album!


    ditto
  • its one of my favorite pj songs
    Abbruzzese is fosh!!!
  • Cropduster84Cropduster84 Posts: 1,283
    The best opener to the best pearl jam album.

    Eds voice, awesome guitars and the mighty Jack Irons.

    Dont even get me started on how wonderful jeffs bass sounds on this.
    'The more I studied religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.' - Sir Richard Francis Burton
  • this song just ROCKS.

    hey where and when can we talk about AIDS and that
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