Top 3 Moments on Dark Matter

southp
southp Posts: 312
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Dark Matter has several of those classic PJ moments.  Those lines that give you chills every time.  Most of the staples in the catalog have that "arms raised in a V" moment. My personal all-time favourite is from Corduroy "Everything has chains, absolutely nothing's changed".  So I'm curious what are everyone's top moments on Dark Matter?  Here are the stand outs for me:

1) Setting Sun "If you could see what I see now, you’d find a way to stay somehow"

2) Scared of Fear "Hear the voices calling, oh again they’re calling, all around my head, Have I lost my friend?"

3) Waiting for Stevie "Swallowed up by the sound cutting holes in the clouds, finds herself in the song, hears her own voice rising"
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  • CROJAM95
    CROJAM95 NEW YORK Posts: 11,366
    Water will find its wayyyyy
  • PJNB
    PJNB Posts: 13,890
    edited May 2024
    Good choices and I would add

    Upper Hand 

    Oh I apologize, so sorry bout the timing

    Both of those verses that have that in it actually are fantastic. 


  • beano.79
    beano.79 Posts: 791
    edited May 2024
    Agree, especially No2

    More subtle but 'am I the only one hanging on'
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  • southp
    southp Posts: 312
    CROJAM95 said:
    Water will find its wayyyyy
    There had to be one on Wreckage!  It's an instant classic for me.  To be honest for me, it's not about a single moment rather than just the entire outro.  On any given day I'm walking around all day long, at work, around the house and no one has any idea that I'm just  "combing through the wreckage" over and over in my head. :)
  • Lifted
    Lifted Posts: 1,836
    The end of 'got to give'  starting at "getting to the point where I can't breathe" to the end of the song might be the highlight of the album in relation to what I think the op is asking. Might be my favorite song too. I can't believe it's only been played once so far. I thought it stood out as a track that could become a live staple for the remainder of the band's career.
  • spankyMP
    spankyMP NY to NC to NH Posts: 2,121
    Lifted said:
    The end of 'got to give'  starting at "getting to the point where I can't breathe" to the end of the song might be the highlight of the album in relation to what I think the op is asking. Might be my favorite song too. I can't believe it's only been played once so far. I thought it stood out as a track that could become a live staple for the remainder of the band's career.
    That was my thought on first listen, surprised it isn't more well liked.
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  • Hawk123
    Hawk123 Posts: 2,373
    Lifted said:
    The end of 'got to give'  starting at "getting to the point where I can't breathe" to the end of the song might be the highlight of the album in relation to what I think the op is asking. Might be my favorite song too. I can't believe it's only been played once so far. I thought it stood out as a track that could become a live staple for the remainder of the band's career.
    This is mine too
  • BloodMeridian80
    BloodMeridian80 Seattle Posts: 723
    southp said:
    CROJAM95 said:
    Water will find its wayyyyy
    There had to be one on Wreckage!  It's an instant classic for me.  To be honest for me, it's not about a single moment rather than just the entire outro.  On any given day I'm walking around all day long, at work, around the house and no one has any idea that I'm just  "combing through the wreckage" over and over in my head. :)
    Yep, lotta good moments in the song and outro is great. I’m partial to the “If you’re feeling the leaving / I can’t make you stay” line.
  • Dr.Teeth and the Electric Mayh
    Dr.Teeth and the Electric Mayh Posts: 1,180
    The bridge in Won’t Tell
    The outro of React/Respond
    The verse/chorus interplay in Upper Hand

    looking to hear of the earth
  • nicknyr15
    nicknyr15 Posts: 9,504
    Lifted said:
    The end of 'got to give'  starting at "getting to the point where I can't breathe" to the end of the song might be the highlight of the album in relation to what I think the op is asking. Might be my favorite song too. I can't believe it's only been played once so far. I thought it stood out as a track that could become a live staple for the remainder of the band's career.
    Thank you for typing this because I was too lazy. This is it for me too!!!
  • BF25394
    BF25394 Posts: 4,957
    Lifted said:
    The end of 'got to give'  starting at "getting to the point where I can't breathe" to the end of the song might be the highlight of the album in relation to what I think the op is asking. Might be my favorite song too. I can't believe it's only been played once so far. I thought it stood out as a track that could become a live staple for the remainder of the band's career.
    Also a major highlight for me. "Got to Give" and "Won't Tell," along with "Wreckage," might be two of my three favorites from the album, and they've been played OTOTO thus far. I'm just glad I was able to see them.

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  • southp
    southp Posts: 312
    You guys are making me want to give Got to Give more attention.  It's getting overlooked because I'm usually excited to get to Setting Sun.
  • kmcmanus
    kmcmanus Posts: 904
    “Help to carry me hoooooommme”
  • OfThePearl
    OfThePearl Posts: 1,022
    CROJAM95 said:
    Water will find its wayyyyy
    This ^ and
    The mistakes we all make
    And perfectly repeat
  • yosi
    yosi NYC Posts: 3,211
    CROJAM95 said:
    Water will find its wayyyyy
    The low harmony on this is incredible. 
    you couldn't swing if you were hangin' from a palm tree in a hurricane

  • Vedd Hedd
    Vedd Hedd Posts: 4,632
    "Am I the only one hanging on?"

    "That we are better together, you and me, Can take on anyone, anyone, if you can see"

    "Is this what we've become? Oh, one last setting sun
    I'll give, but I can't give up, I'll live, not long enough
    To stop these voices calling, stop the voices calling
    All around my head, as if you never left"

    But the grand prize is those opening chords of Waiting for Stevie.

    Or the Drumming on Dark Matter.
    Turn this anger into
    Nuclear fission
  • northerndragon
    northerndragon Posts: 9,851
    Chains are made by DNA refusing, refusing to release.

    I no longer give a fuck who is wrong and who is right.
    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.
  • WindowPaine
    WindowPaine Chicopee, MA Posts: 543
    scared of fear: "we used to laugh, we used to sing we used to dance, we used to believe"

    first time pj lyrics have given me chills and made me tear up since probably 1994. 
    First Show: Springfield, MA 4/6/94
  • 2-feign-reluctance
    2-feign-reluctance TigerTown, USA Posts: 23,461
    The entire goddamn record. Not a single wasted note/lyric. 
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  • slightofjeff
    slightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    Lifted said:
    The end of 'got to give'  starting at "getting to the point where I can't breathe" to the end of the song might be the highlight of the album in relation to what I think the op is asking. Might be my favorite song too. I can't believe it's only been played once so far. I thought it stood out as a track that could become a live staple for the remainder of the band's career.
    If I had a nickel for each time I screamed along to the "that we are better" bit while driving a little too fast in my car, well, I'd have enough money to pay off the inevitable speeding ticket. 
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