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  • jfs5-10-10
    jfs5-10-10 Posts: 326
    mjmorr23 wrote:
    agree! loved hearing it live in Buffalo!

    Hells yes
    <b>Your light's reflected now,... reflected from afar...
    We were but stones,... your light made us stars</b>

    Buffalo 5-10-10...First PJ show..Life changing..magical..
  • Kiwi In Oz
    Kiwi In Oz Canberra Posts: 266
    Lots of love for Unemployable! I reckon it's a totally underated song. 8-)

    When that album first came out, I just thought it was OK. But when I saw it live in Melbourne 06 for the first time I was sold. :geek:

    Still love it heaps. Love to see it live. Wanna see it more! :oops:
    1995 - Auckland, New Zealand
    1998 - Wellington + Auckland, New Zealand
    2000 - London, UK x 2
    2006 - Melbourne, Australia x 3
    2009 - Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Auckland
    2010 - Newark, MSG x 2
    2011 - PJ20 & EV Brisbane 2, Canberra, Melbourne x 2, Adelaide 1, Perth 2
    2013 - San Diego, Los Angeles, Oakland, Portland, Vancouver, Seattle
    2014 - Auckland, Gold Coast, Melbourne, Sydney & EV - Sydney x 2
    2015 - Mexico City
    2016 - Miami, Tampa, Jacksonville, Greenville, Hampton, Fenway x 2
    2023 - Fort Worth x 2, Austin x 2
    2024 - Indy, Wrigley Field x 2, Auckland x 2, Gold Coast, Melbourne x 2 & Sydney x 2
  • mca47
    mca47 Posts: 13,352
    Great album song that just fizzles live...
  • LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun
    LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun Posts: 6,097
    i dont like the lyrics. actually i dont like the style of lyrics Ed sometimes writes (especially on Avocado) where he sounds like he is basically reading out of a newspaper and trying to make it something i would identify with. it has nothing to do with particular politics, just the hamfisted way the lyrics come across.
  • fox_mulderX
    fox_mulderX Posts: 1,134
    the low point of the album was gone and inside job.... wanna talk about awful lyrics... yeesh
  • wozza77
    wozza77 Posts: 300
    May fav song off the last 3 albums. Still not seen live gutted!!
    Now it all comes down to numbers, now I'm glad that I have quit
    Folks these days just don't do nothing simple for the love of it
  • Evacuation Rules
    Evacuation Rules Posts: 2,162
    MrSmith wrote:
    i dont like the lyrics. actually i dont like the style of lyrics Ed sometimes writes (especially on Avocado) where he sounds like he is basically reading out of a newspaper and trying to make it something i would identify with. it has nothing to do with particular politics, just the hamfisted way the lyrics come across.

    I agree. Great music, terrible lyrics.
  • Kiwi In Oz
    Kiwi In Oz Canberra Posts: 266
    Been smashing unemployable on the boots the last couple of days since I read this post :geek:

    Knew I liked this song but had forgotten how much. :oops:
    1995 - Auckland, New Zealand
    1998 - Wellington + Auckland, New Zealand
    2000 - London, UK x 2
    2006 - Melbourne, Australia x 3
    2009 - Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Auckland
    2010 - Newark, MSG x 2
    2011 - PJ20 & EV Brisbane 2, Canberra, Melbourne x 2, Adelaide 1, Perth 2
    2013 - San Diego, Los Angeles, Oakland, Portland, Vancouver, Seattle
    2014 - Auckland, Gold Coast, Melbourne, Sydney & EV - Sydney x 2
    2015 - Mexico City
    2016 - Miami, Tampa, Jacksonville, Greenville, Hampton, Fenway x 2
    2023 - Fort Worth x 2, Austin x 2
    2024 - Indy, Wrigley Field x 2, Auckland x 2, Gold Coast, Melbourne x 2 & Sydney x 2
  • facepollution
    facepollution Posts: 6,834
    My second favourite after Inside Job.
  • electronblue
    electronblue WPB, Florida Posts: 3,504
    Unemployable is a kickass song!!
    <3
    ********************************
    "Forgive every being,
    the bad feelings 
    it's just me"


  • Thirty Bills Unpaid
    Thirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    Wicked tune.

    I am not sure why people are slamming the lyrics- I think the song is very well written. It's on every 'faster' PJ playlist of mine for working out and running.

    I posted this link once before... but you have to check it out. Unemployable from the Seattle show. Ed screws up and forgets to belt out the first vocals... panics and dashes to the mike... I was wondering what happened?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_02MgB_X4gw

    Pretty funny, "D'Oh!"
    "My brain's a good brain!"
  • StoneAment
    StoneAment Posts: 393
    Unemployable is a great song. Definately one of the best off Avocado, along with Life Wasted, Severed Hand and Inside Job.

    Avocado is actually one of my favourite PJ albums, I am surprised at the non-love it tends to get on the board. Especially with all the love Backspacer got which to me was an inferior Pearl Jam record. Saying that Backspacer-mania seems to be dying down.
    Mike McCready makes the energizer bunny look tired.
  • LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun
    LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun Posts: 6,097
    fox_mulderX wrote:
    the low point of the album was gone and inside job.... wanna talk about awful lyrics... yeesh
    yeah well those are bad for other reasons :lol:
  • CantKeepMeHere
    CantKeepMeHere Posts: 2,177
    I got avocado on may 2nd or 3rd and listened to it all the way through the first time driving from eastern Vermont to West NY - where I was picking up my brother who just got back from Las Vegas for a year - Hadn't seen him the whole time - we talked for 20 minutes then I started the cd - we didn't talk much again until we had played it back through the second time - then it was my truck cd player for more than a year!! IT IS EXCELLENT
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  • Thief_of_silence
    Thief_of_silence Posts: 52
    I identified so much with this song because I had just lost my job when the album came out. And to top it off this was just three weeks after my twin daughters were born, talk about stress!

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