Sleight of Hand is phenomenal

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  • bigbiggzy
    bigbiggzy Posts: 841
    OP - Couldn’t agree more 😘
  • Leezestarr313
    Leezestarr313 Temple of the cat Posts: 14,451
    Definitely one of their best. It's like poetry.
    Please, Pearl Jam, consider a Benaroya Hall vinyl reissue! http://community.pearljam.com/discussion/148993/please-pearl-jam-consider-a-vinyl-benaroya-hall-re-issue


  • JPPJ84
    JPPJ84 Hamburg, Germany Posts: 3,464
    eboweddie said:
    I think this is an absolute masterpiece of a song. Could be one of the bands most underrated songs. Absolute gem of a song
     
    Agreed!
  • joseph33
    joseph33 Washington DC Posts: 1,341
    eboweddie said:
    I think this is an absolute masterpiece of a song. Could be one of the bands most underrated songs. Absolute gem of a song
     
    ☝️I have always thought this too.
  • Niko80
    Niko80 Posts: 1,613
    Love it live! As mentioned, especially on the 2000 boots. 
     
    Not so much into the studio version.
    I will swallow poison
  • pledgeagrievance
    pledgeagrievance Posts: 2,874
    Niko80 said:
    Love it live! As mentioned, especially on the 2000 boots. 
     
    Not so much into the studio version.
    same here 
  • jimjam1982
    jimjam1982 AZ Posts: 1,471
    When I finally caught it at OKC in 2022 it changed my opinion on the song.  Ed talked about it and it really hit home on life after 2020.  A mere 22 years after release it became an instant favorite and powerful song for me.
  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,853
    Yes. Yes it is.
  • iOnlyownMymind
    iOnlyownMymind Posts: 2,961
    I love this song and Ed at his best lyrically.  Only heard it live once.  
  • iOnlyownMymind
    iOnlyownMymind Posts: 2,961
    TheBeardedFellow said:
    The song sounded 'off' to me when Binaural first came out, but then I remember cleaning my apartment with that House of Blues stream they did through the.. ??Real Media player?? in, like '03 or something and everything about it just "clicked."  Been lucky enough to hear it a couple times live. The first time I did, on the Riot Act tour, it near cleared out the pavilion, sending everyone on a beer/bathroom run, and I was just like "Y'all dont get it!"
    Damn, that is sad.  It is so powerful. 
  • jefft
    jefft Posts: 678
    Great song
  • PureandEasy
    PureandEasy Posts: 5,818
    eboweddie said:
    I think this is an absolute masterpiece of a song. Could be one of the bands most underrated songs. Absolute gem of a song
     
    LOVE IT!!!
    Don't come closer or I'll have to go
  • PureandEasy
    PureandEasy Posts: 5,818
    yosi said:
    eboweddie said:
    I think this is an absolute masterpiece of a song. Could be one of the bands most underrated songs. Absolute gem of a song
     
    100% agreed. Was listening to Binaural yesterday. The whole album is SO good and this song is at the top. What a shame it gets so little love. 
    OK so we're talking about Binaural as a whole now. . . told my friends in 2009 during Philly Spectrum closer week, Binaural was my favorite.  They were flabbergasted.  It remains my fav.  To each his own though.
    Don't come closer or I'll have to go
  • mcgruff10
    mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 29,146
    To me this song is like watching paint dry when they play it live.  Not my cup of tea.  
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me......
  • DJ253147
    DJ253147 Posts: 709
    edited March 2024
    deuce1978 said:
    It's my white whale song.  63 shows and......nothing.  Hoping I get lucky this year.  
    Here's hoping for you deuce and for the rest of us Sleight fans! Lucky enough to catch this one at Montreal 2011 and Denver 2014. That's from memory so I'd best doublecheck.  Love the Binaural album too.
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  • release00
    release00 Posts: 348
    I think it’s one of their best tracks
    "So much it dont show"

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