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  • 3sheets
    3sheets Posts: 290
    another one i still want to hear live. They don't play it enough. I also wish they'd pick up the tempo a bit live, give it more crunch and speed. Love it when the combine it w/ Jeremy; a nice little one-two. Rival and Of the Girl are standouts on Binaural, and 2 of Mr. Gossard's best songs.
    Live Free or Die!
  • 3sheets
    3sheets Posts: 290
    oh yeah, i forgot my rival story. The first time I put on Binaural, I was taking a walk around midnight or so down along the road where I used to live. The area is pretty rural, so no lights (except the moon and stars) or anything except woods and pastures. Well, when Rival came on, and I heard Dakota barking, it freaked me out b/c it was pitchblack that night and I thought some rabid dog was gonna attack me any second. After I nearly had a heart attack, I realized it was on the album and had a good laugh.
    Live Free or Die!
  • Cropduster84
    Cropduster84 Posts: 1,283
    3sheets wrote:
    Rival and Of the Girl are standouts on Binaural, and 2 of Mr. Gossard's best songs.


    Yes! Totally agree.

    To me Riot Act lacked Stone input greatly.
    'The more I studied religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.' - Sir Richard Francis Burton
  • grooveamatic
    grooveamatic Posts: 1,374
    3sheets wrote:
    oh yeah, i forgot my rival story. The first time I put on Binaural, I was taking a walk around midnight or so down along the road where I used to live. The area is pretty rural, so no lights (except the moon and stars) or anything except woods and pastures. Well, when Rival came on, and I heard Dakota barking, it freaked me out b/c it was pitchblack that night and I thought some rabid dog was gonna attack me any second. After I nearly had a heart attack, I realized it was on the album and had a good laugh.


    haha---quite funny
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  • capybaralet
    capybaralet Posts: 145
    I love rival... from "of the girl" on through parting ways is amazing, its the best part of binaural, maybe even the best run of songs ever. I just wish soon forget wasn't there:

    Of the girl
    grievance
    rival
    sleight of hand
    parting ways


    ... that would be sweetness.
    everything=3


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  • Mohab
    Mohab Posts: 310
    Is it just me or could Binaural have been condensed made the greatest Ep of all times?

    Instead its just my favourite lp of all times.
  • Righteous Jammer
    Righteous Jammer Posts: 509
    one of my all time favorites
    It doesnt hurt.... when I bleed
    but memories...they eat me
    I've seen it all before,...
    bring it on cause I'm no victim.
    -Ghost
  • western pearl
    western pearl Posts: 632
    Rival has to be one of my favorite songs on binaural maybe of all their work. great song
    "Everyone is a patriot in some form or another.... i prefer the intelligent ones."

    "She fell funny"

    "Klaus Daimler, 40, engineer, calm, collected, German"
  • I am mine
    I am mine Posts: 29
    Rival and Thin air are both my favorites of Binaural......both Stone songs....That man rules! Rivals lyrics and music are both great....
    To the universe, I don't mean a thing, but there is just one word I still believe and it's .....LOVE!

    Proud EVENFLOW PSYCHO member #0021.....WWWWAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

    Amsterdam '96, Arnhem '06, Antwerpen '06, Dusseldorf '07, Nijmegen '07 and Werchter '07
  • NOTHINGFAN
    NOTHINGFAN Posts: 69
    Rival fucking ROCKS!
    Oh help me, help me from myself!!!

    Theres not going to be an accoustic version of Blood or anything like that, so feel free to sit down.
  • eddies grrl
    eddies grrl Posts: 509
    NOTHINGFAN wrote:
    Rival fucking ROCKS!

    Yes, I agree. I love that song. Ed sounds so tough- "Better pony up and bring both your barrels full." Whew.
    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
  • eddies grrl
    eddies grrl Posts: 509
    grooveamatic wrote:
    the lyrics are like real poetry...not sappy goo poetry like most people think of poetry, but language boiled down...succinct...

    I think of them as Muscular.
    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
  • justam
    justam Posts: 21,415
    There's a lot to like about this song. :)
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  • grooveamatic
    grooveamatic Posts: 1,374
    eddie's grrl wrote:
    I think of them as Muscular.


    I don't know...the lyrics to Go seem muscular to me....Rival is an excercise in exactitude, a statement of loose purpose....it's a free verse poem.
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  • LimeDisease
    LimeDisease Posts: 89
    killer song. The chorus, w the keys and badass lyrics is unforgettable.
  • capybaralet
    capybaralet Posts: 145
    I forgot about the first time I heard this song....

    last last summer, me and my friend biked down (downhill) to the lake almost every day,and we stopped by a pawn shop on the way there, and I picked up Binaural. So I listened to it the rest of the way there, and the way back.

    Wewent the same way all teh time, and there was one house that had this dog that always went nuts as we passed it. Since it was downhill, we could rush past it on the way, but on teh way back it was all uphill. So we were going past on the way back, and Rival started playing on my headphones. I yelled out "oh fuck!" and started looking either way, expecting a big rabid dog to come after me, then the drums kicked in and it was all good...

    got all the adrenaline and shit going, though, cause it was blasting.
    everything=3


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