rival

prodacake

listening to my ipod today and rival came on, aint heard the song in a long time, lets here some love for rival

all my rivals will see what i have in store, my gun...
i've been harboring fleets in this reservoir, red sun...
and this nation's about to explode

your disciples are riddled with metaphors, well hung...
better pony up and bring both your barrels full, not one...
as we release this unspeakable toll...

(every grain of sand equals)
(all the stars and everyone)

how's our mother to damn these contributors...with mud?
how will the man who made chemicals difficult...shed blood?
how's our father supposed to be told?

UsmanI

what's this song about? in the liner notes it says something like "growing up gay in missisipy" or something.

Pearls&Stones

UsmanI wrote:

what's this song about? in the liner notes it says something like "growing up gay in missisipy" or something.

I thought it was about Columbine.

I was fortunate to hear this song live once, but the lack of the occasional piano key took something away. Which is unfortunate because it was good otherwise

Androgynous Mind

Binaural was a phenomenal cd minus RIVAL.

I can never get myself to listen to it. I don't know what it is.

my2hands

what a coincidence.

opened up my itunes 2 secs ago and clicked on rival from philly 00

Stone Irons

Pearls&Stones wrote:

I thought it was about Columbine.

Yes, it is. This is what Stone had to say about it in a May 2000 interview from MTV.com:

"During a recent sit-down with MTV News, guitarist Stone Gossard described how one of the songs he wrote for the album, "Rival," draws upon his reflections on last year's massacre at Columbine High School "[It's] kind of almost a cartoony look at male ego and sort of anger, violence," Gossard said, "what makes people kind of snap and how people are unpredictable. "[There was] just kind of a melody that went through my head and right after Columbine happened. It kind of maybe took on a little of that, where I put myself in the mindset or tried to think about what those guys may have been thinking the night before."

gossardstradlin

Great tune! The drums with Stones riffs are what make the song. Another classic riff from Stone.

Ms. Haiku

I just tried to figure out this song. I got the anger, violence, but I was no where near Columbine in my interpretation. I was thinking more about "Littleton" as in a little town, USA. I thought it was a reflection of some gay men having to hide parts of themselves like fugitives to survive in "Little Town"s of the USA. I thought fugitive because of the dog in the beginning, like a dog hunt. I was so far off. I didn't have a clue it was about Columbine.

Herbo

yep I love this song.... the version from Mansfield 3-7-03 has some tough, beefy sounds.

Tough drums, tough riff.

you can just imagine someone lacing up the army boots, strapping on a couple of AK47s and going on a 1 man rampage to this tune, cartoon style.

DiRtyFranK38

unbelievable tune