[[MEGATHREAD]]: Dance of The Clairvoyants [NEW SINGLE] - Opinions, first impressions, reviews...

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  • Chr1spy
    Chr1spy Posts: 6
    Digging the shit out of this and agree with everyone referencing Talking Heads.  I get a DFA/The Rapture/LCD Soundsystem vibe off it as well, with the "keep on keepin on" drum loop styled beat.  That crowd is pretty explicitly inspired by Talking Heads as well. Will be interesting to hear how this evovles in live performance.

    Related : Would love to hear a James Murphy remix stretch this out another five minutes and really dig deep into that groove.

    igotid_8 said:
    I keep hearing Nine Inch Nails.
    I get some of that as well, especially that  "Only/Discipline/Echoplex" vein. 

  • luismota123
    luismota123 Posts: 161
    Better than most Songs on "Lost Dogs"
  • cp3iverson
    cp3iverson Posts: 8,702
    edited January 2020
    Kat said:
    I can see the venue dancing and having fun. :)

    Can definitely see that.   Hope the other guys handle the background vox on the outro live.  That ending is amazing. 
  • Dadwallan
    Dadwallan Posts: 1
    Love it!, very Talking Heads, which is no bad thing, can’t wait to hear more!!
  • JustaPJFan
    JustaPJFan Posts: 710
    I'll probably share an unpopular opinion here . . . but to me this song is way better than anything the band put out the last couple of years. I would even go as far that for me it's better and more special then anything on Backspacer and Lightningbolt. Sounds new and fresh with Ed's vocals and lyrics being as good as ever. I didn't expect it to be THIS good. Really love it and I hope the rest of the album keeps this sound going and builds further upon it because I truly like this direction.
  • parintachin73
    parintachin73 Posts: 742
    Love it. Something new. Haven't felt like they went in this kind of new direction since You Are or Sleight of Hand. 
  • Spags
    Spags Leigh-on-Sea, UK Posts: 3,057
    What initially hits is how different it is to previous Pearl Jam tracks, mainly because this 80s new wave sound is so prevalent. Sure they've had plenty of influences in their music over the years, but they've absorbed them into their main sound. This is more like Pearl Jam fitting into a genre, a bit like Gremmie Out Of Control (surf rock) or perhaps Sleeping By Myself (country). It doesn't sound like an 80s track by accident, the instruments used and Ed's delivery are deliberate. I'd argue that it's not influenced by the likes of Talking Heads, Bowie, etc (all the bands that have been thrown around since it dropped), but intentionally evokes them. But why and what is the point being made here?

    Expecting perfection, Leaves a lot to ignore
    When the past is the present, And the future's no more
    When every tomorrow, Is the same as before

    So we have nostalgia (to the sounds of the 80s), being used to emphasize the cyclical nature of human life. We're back. And you may ask yourself, well how did I get here? We're still dealing with the same questions, same problems, same as it ever was. The song feels like it's treading similar ground to Do The Evolution, but rather than rallying against the notion that we are evolving takes a more measured approach to the situation. Imperceptibly big, As big as the ocean, And equally hard to control. 

    I love the marriage of mysticism and the 80s sound on this song, putting the synthetic together with talk of clairvoyants and spirits, the superficial with the supernatural. It speaks to a lost understanding of wonder, while exposing what we do with it as small, tragic and limiting. 

    We’re stuck in our boxes, Window’s open no more
    Collecting up the forget-me-nots, Not recalling what they’re for

    I also like the journey that the Ed/the positive person goes on, feels like they're rising up and their perspective switches from the mortal to the ethereal, the more distance they get the more scathing towards humanity they become, the more damning as they lose their own sense of self. 

    I know the girls want to dance, Away their circumstance
    I know the boys want to grow, Their dicks and fix and file things 

    No doubt I'll have a completely different reading on this song as time goes on though.
    Nature drunk and High
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,473
    luismota123 said:
    Better than most Songs on "Lost Dogs"
    insane
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  • PJammer4life
    PJammer4life Los Angeles Posts: 2,669
    edited January 2020
    As some have said I hear a Killers Hot Fuss vibe.
    Post edited by PJammer4life on
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  • thebends9
    thebends9 Posts: 521
    My favorite take thus far...



    '98 - MSG 
    '00 - Jones Beach (x2)
    '03 - Nassau Coliseum/Tweeter Center/ MSG (x2)
    '04 - Reading, PA
    '05 - Wachovia Center
    '06 - Irving Plaza; Continental Airlines Arena (x2)
    '08 - MSG (x2); Beacon Theater
    '09 - Philly Spectrum (x2)
    '10 - XL Center; Prudential Center; MSG (x2)
    '11 - Alpine Valley (x2)
    '12 - Made In America
    '13 - Wrigley Field; DCU Center; Barclay Center (x2); Wells Fargo Center; XL Center
    '15 - Ed Sullivan Theater
    '16 - MSG (x2)
    '17 - Barclay Center (R&RHOF)
    '18 - Fenway Park
    '22 - MSG
    '24 - MSG (x2)
  • Discopij
    Discopij Posts: 480
    I think this song slots in right before Even Flow or at the start of Encore 1 ... I hope they don't open the show with it
  • fgdanzi
    fgdanzi Posts: 139
    Discopij said:
    I love this song ... but I'm not sure I want it to be Pearl Jam song ... not sure if that makes sense.  I love pizza and I love chinese food, but I don't want a chinese food pizza.
    Very well said! 
  • Abe Froman
    Abe Froman Posts: 5,379
    I don’t know if I love this song yet but This is exactly what I wanted. Experimental PJ.  And honestly I hope this record is like No Code and drops some of the negative, nothing is ever ten/vs/Vitalogy fans. I don’t need the same sounds over and over. I liked Backspace and LB but another record similar to those would’ve been boring I think. I hope Gigaton is all over the place with more stuff like Dance and some weird super spaced out stuff. Anyway, m happy they took their time and are proud of what they created. 
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,473
    Abe Froman said:
    I don’t know if I love this song yet but This is exactly what I wanted. Experimental PJ.  And honestly I hope this record is like No Code and drops some of the negative, nothing is ever ten/vs/Vitalogy fans. I don’t need the same sounds over and over. I liked Backspace and LB but another record similar to those would’ve been boring I think. I hope Gigaton is all over the place with more stuff like Dance and some weird super spaced out stuff. Anyway, m happy they took their time and are proud of what they created. 
    exactly where I'm at. 
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  • FiveBelow
    FiveBelow Posts: 1,336
    1. The first half of the song is what I was trying to imagine from the clips that were released.
    2. The second half I couldn't have imagined in a 100 years.
    3. I need to brush up on my dancing skills.
    4. Stand back when the spirit comes.
  • molecule
    molecule Posts: 625
    RP112579 said:

    Great insight into their creative process. Love hearing how it came together.
    🤙
  • northerndragon
    northerndragon Posts: 9,851
    edited January 2020
    2-feign-reluctance said:
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    2-feign-reluctance said:
    northerndragon said:
    How is everyone creaming their pants over this Flock of Seagulls shit?
    It has shades of You Are and Bushleaguer that I like, but that fucking synthesizer fucking ruins it.

    @northerndragon That's no synth, that's a guitar.

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    it is?
    @HughFreakingDillon Did I use synth here, or all guitars?



    FYI if you listen to the interview with Stone before they dropped the single he literally says Ament came in a laid down that arpeggiating keyboard line. Soooooo totally keyboard synth......

    Post edited by northerndragon on
    Anything you lose from being honest
    You never really had to begin with.


    Sometimes it's not the song that makes you emotional it's the people and things that come to your mind when you hear it.
  • JB273578
    JB273578 Posts: 23
    I love it. I wasn't expecting to. It is great.
  • JimmyV
    JimmyV Boston's MetroWest Posts: 19,598
    Maybe...just maybe...they want us to dance and have fun at the shows?
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    "...I changed by not changing at all..."
  • AVG75
    AVG75 Posts: 23
    Ughhh... sounds like a demo written in 20 minutes... Ed's not even singing, just blurting our cliches... is Stone even in the band anymore???

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