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  • nicknyr15
    nicknyr15 Posts: 9,200
    edited April 2024
    Wreckage
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  • TinaE
    TinaE Germany Posts: 2,102
    Scared of Fear
    React,Respond sounds a bit like whipping
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  • Spartanacus
    Spartanacus Oviedo, FL Posts: 937
    Waiting For Stevie
    Just like Quick Escape was the clear cut 'special' song for me on Gigaton, Waiting for Stevie is 'special' for me on Dark Matter.  Great album!  They're 12 for 12!
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  • Doney4Sure
    Doney4Sure Posts: 16
    React, Respond
    chrisr211977 said:
    Won't Tell and Got To Give are definitely getting a lot more of a minimal response than I expected
    My vote is for React, Respond...but Got to Give is rock solid, great tune. 
  • GetRight13
    GetRight13 NY Posts: 588
    edited April 2024
    React, Respond
    now that I've heard the whole thing.  React Respond is my early favorite, probably with wont tell, upper hand, waiting on stevie block right behind it.  Solid album. 
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  • Tjm007
    Tjm007 Posts: 189
    Setting Sun
    Poll shows Setting Sun rightly up there - it builds up to a decent track unlike some of the Vedder strummers on the boring side of Gigaton.
  • D-Rod
    D-Rod Hamilton, Ontario Posts: 1,992
    React, Respond
    The trifecta of Won’t Tell, Upper Hand and Waiting For Stevie is incredible.   Need to be played In order like that live 
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  • RW8297
    RW8297 Posts: 1,617
    Spiritual_Chaos said:
    I thin the title track might be the best
    +1
  • Vedd Hedd
    Vedd Hedd Posts: 4,631
    React, Respond
    I need to change my selection!  haha.  At first listen in a record store, I picked React, Respond.   I still love it. But it might be the weakest track on here, and like I said....I still love it.  

    This album simply has too many good songs at the moment to pick just one. 
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  • iOnlyownMymind
    iOnlyownMymind Posts: 2,952
    Dark Matter the song is my favorite. Nothing else stood out to me on first listen. Will give it another go today. 
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,449
    Running
    I may have answered this too quickly before digesting the album. I love Jeff's punkiness, so I went with Running. It does remind me of a Backspacer track. Which I dig. But I need more time. 
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  • mace1229
    mace1229 Posts: 9,823
    edited April 2024
    JK109224 said:
    Funny to hear Jeff say that he wouldn't have gotten away with playing his 12-string on studio albums these days, but Watt said "Why? Just play it". Mike also seems to be unleashed and not stifled.

    Watt will have detractors for perhaps production reasons, but he should be praised for encouraging spontaneity and capturing the band's musical instincts which are still firing, based on this record.
    I've heard similar comments. And that BO'B wouldn't let him use his fretless on VS except for on Leash because it was an older song. 
    I'm not a musician, so I don't get it. What's the drawback from using 12 string or fretless bass on an album?
  • northerndragon
    northerndragon Posts: 9,851
    Wreckage
    This song hit like a ton of bricks on the first listen and it just keeps on coming through with every listen. 
    Honestly after the train wreck that was Gigaton, this whole album is amazing. There are only two songs at this point that I'm not super stoked on and that's Something Special and Setting Sun. 
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  • greenygreen777
    greenygreen777 Allendale MI Posts: 93
    "Waiting for Stevie", is the 1st song that immediately jumped out, and I loved in 1 listen. "Running" after a couple listens I love as well. The album as a whole sounds great. I am sure multiple songs will become favorites after more listening and lyric breakdown. We all have our PJ biases and fandom, but the beautiful aspect of music is the subjectivity. How deeply personal any individual song can be interpreted, loved or hated, is the art of music both with creating it and listening to it. It is a great day for PJ fans. Cheers! 
  • Torontonian
    Torontonian Posts: 562
    edited April 2024
    Waiting For Stevie
    Mike just melts your face off on the end of Waiting for Stevie... it's my current fave!
  • mcgruff10
    mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 29,111
    edited April 2024
    Waiting For Stevie
    This album is solid!  wow
    Best album since yield?
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  • greenygreen777
    greenygreen777 Allendale MI Posts: 93
    SN: AFTER listening to this album, I went back and gave the newest Stones album Hackney Diamonds a listen, Andrew Watt also had his hand in, and I am blown away. Say what you want about Andrew, but got damn he does a great job of capturing the magic of these timeless bands. 
  • crober72
    crober72 Bartlett, IL Posts: 86
    Waiting For Stevie
    It's not may favorite but I am hearing a lot of Split Enz influence in the chorus for React, Respond. 
  • MK88178
    MK88178 Chicago Posts: 539
    Wreckage
    I think in a week we need a post release poll.  
  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,423
    edited April 2024
    mcgruff10 said:
    This album is solid!  wow
    Best album since yield?
    Please stop with this shitting on Riot Act. You Are trolling. 
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