Unemployable is avocados best song.

12345AGNST1 wrote:

This song is so freakin amazing. Am I the only one that thinks this is the best one? It kinda reminds me of a new glorified G, except so much better. The lyrics are absolutely incredible, not to mention matt wrote it. It's ATLEAST matt's best song.

personally I think it's the album's worst song, the lyrics are terrible and it's easily one of Ed's lamest vocal performances.....but to each his own I guess.

Vedder sounds kind of sloppy (in fact he does on most of the album IMO) and it could have done with another verse but yeah it's a great song. Kind of like a Bruce Springsteen song.

its a fun song to sing a long to. i like the verses a lot, i think those lyrics are great. there are a few other songs on avo, id take over this one though.

when it first leaked, everyone thought shania twain. glad to see those comparisons have stopped

i love this song. for me it is the best one off the new album. the song does need more cow bell tho. totally sounds like it could be a blu oyster cult song.

love the lyrics...
i am surprised it doesn't get more love, but i guess i just have better tastes in music than the rest of the peps on this board, "that was a joke"

peaceindamiddleast

Ledbetterman10 wrote:

cough, Ten, cough. yeah. It's not about a preconceived notion of what a Pearl Jam song should be. and it's DEFINITELY not that I'm scared of hooks and melodies. I don't know man, I just think unemployable sucks. Eddie's vocals (especially on the chorus) sound so lame. the riff is generic. the lyrics sound like a poem a 15 year old would write in English class. it's just terrible, terrible filler.

Sounds like you have the same coughing problem I do. We'll get through this together.

Are you sure you aren't confusing "Unemployable" with "Get Right"? From your description above it sounds like you are talking about "Get Right".

When Unemployable first broke half the people liked it, and the complaint against it was the "oh, oh, oh" parts of the song sounded like Shania Twain, or they were sellouts, etc.... You obviously just don't like the song, which is okay.

bootlegger10 wrote:

Sounds like you have the same coughing problem I do. We'll get through this together.

Are you sure you aren't confusing "Unemployable" with "Get Right"? From your description above it sounds like you are talking about "Get Right".

When Unemployable first broke half the people liked it, and the complaint against it was the "oh, oh, oh" parts of the song sounded like Shania Twain, or they were sellouts, etc.... You obviously just don't like the song, which is okay.

Get Right isn't bad at all. good bass line, good solo. It's one of my favorites on Riot Act. it's leagues above Unemployable if you ask me. like I said in my first post; to each his own. I've never noticed the Shania Twain thing but yeah I guess that it is a bit similar....adding to it's lameness.

hiding wrote:

this is a song about the american struggle, and trying to "make it" get by and survive, and trying to take care of your family. i don't think a 15 yr old would have the perspective to write a song about the struggle of the american dream that is not coming to pass.

re-read the lyrics to the song, and see if you stand by your statement

Well, his wife and kid are sleeping but he's still awake
On his brain weighs the curse of thirty bills unpaid
Gets up, lights a cigarette he's grown to hate
Thinking if he can't sleep, how will he ever dream?

dude, you could have wrote that.

Ledbetterman10 wrote:

Get Right isn't bad at all. good bass line, good solo. It's one of my favorites on Riot Act. it's leagues above Unemployable if you ask me. like I said in my first post; to each his own. I've never noticed the Shania Twain thing but yeah I guess that it is a bit similar....adding to it's lameness.




re-read the lyrics to the song, and see if you stand by your statement

Well, his wife and kid are sleeping but he's still awake
On his brain weighs the curse of thirty bills unpaid
Gets up, lights a cigarette he's grown to hate
Thinking if he can't sleep, how will he ever dream?

dude, you could have wrote that.

Alright, I try to be nice, but when someone claims that Unemployable is like a song written by 15 year-olds, and then in the same thread claims that Get Right is a great song, that is just pure lunacy. If there is ANY song in PJ's catalog that is trite and lacks any semblance of originality it is Get Right. That is a song that could have been written by a group of 13 year olds with 8 months experience.

As far as lyrics go: "I wanted to get right with you". That is brutality lame, and WAY to close to Bread's classic "I wanna make it with you". Sorry, those Unemployable lyrics you posted above are pretty cool. Maybe they seem silly because they are some of the few Vedder lyrics we can understand what he means.

BeerBaron wrote:

Unemployable is a good song, but is nowhere near the best song on Avocado.

It doesn't even crack my top 5.

agreed..........I was drawn to it at first, but honestly now i think it is matt's worst song. I like the chorus, the melody, but i hate the first verse.

bootlegger10 wrote:

Alright, I try to be nice, but when someone claims that Unemployable is like a song written by 15 year-olds, and then in the same thread claims that Get Right is a great song, that is just pure lunacy.

I said that Get Right is a great song? I thought I said....

Ledbetterman10 wrote:

Get Right isn't bad at all. good bass line, good solo. It's one of my favorites on Riot Act. it's leagues above Unemployable if you ask me.

looks like I said it "isn't bad" and some things about it are "good." don't see the word 'great' in there.

Get Right isn't something to write home about but it's catchy (which you seem to like), the breakdown is good, the bassline is fun, and the solo is good. so at least it has some things going for it. Unemployable has NOTHING going for it. Nothing redeems it. Most songs I hate I can at least come up with something I like about it. take Evacuation for instance; I don't care for the song but at least the riff is fun to play. that's something in it's favor. Unemployable has nothing.

StuffnJunk wrote:

remember, your opinion is always right, and the other person is always an idiot...

we know, we know. what do you think this is our first rodeo?