Pearl Jam turned Better Man into a cream puff song

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  • ikiT
    ikiT USA Posts: 11,059
    This is for the bastard that married my mama...
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  • spearhead
    spearhead Posts: 600
    you must really love daughter
    I was alone and far away when I heard the band start playing!

    ...I was always a DeadHead, but when I first heard Winston Rodney, aka the Burning Spear, sing, I became a SpearHead too!
  • whispering hands
    whispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
    SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:
    I like the song Betterman.
    I like cream puffs.
    Domestic Abuse is wrong.

    Now can we please move on.
    LMMFAO!!! OMG! SPEEDY, this just made you the
    Betterman Betterman!! Holy fuck that was funny!!
    Ok so BBH I love ya man, but you cannot take personally
    the views of others. You are intelligent, and obviously
    seem concerned.. Considering that it's lyrical content
    You are concerned with, in a song by PEARL JAM ( think
    on that a second my friend)...... Regardless of ED's
    founding of the song's origins... It's a PJ song. That is the
    whole answer to all of this right there.. Remember back in
    the days of Videos and interviews and so many people
    would try to get Ed to tell what the songs were about??
    What was his favorite answer?? He'd respond by telling them,
    he didn't like to tell people, because to each person the song
    means something different, something personal to that
    individual. And that if he told what HE wrote it about, that he
    felt that was stealing that personal connection with the
    song from us. One of the greatest things about this band, is
    they may hold the copyright to the lyrics... But what they
    mean WE hold the rights to. Music is a strange fluke of
    communication.. It's amazing to see so many people
    share a feeling evoked by ONE song! Who gives ( stealing SPEEDY's
    Line here since I hijacked thus thread via his quote), a
    RATS ASS what the song means to your neighbor, your goat,
    Your toddler, or your dead grand mother?!?!? The ONLY
    important view to each is their own! So why rant and get oddly
    upset when people refuse to go with the origins of the song
    as their source of meaning?? That is why Ed leads us all in the
    "Cream Puff Campfire" version of this sing.. I think he truly
    is awed by the fact that so many people have a uniquely
    possitive way of hearing what started out as a sad song.. Gotta
    respect Ed's intelligence on this one..
  • Big Bank Hank
    Big Bank Hank Seattle, WA Posts: 8,639
    whispering hands wrote:
    SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:
    I like the song Betterman.
    I like cream puffs.
    Domestic Abuse is wrong.

    Now can we please move on.
    LMMFAO!!! OMG! SPEEDY, this just made you the
    Betterman Betterman!! Holy fuck that was funny!!
    Ok so BBH I love ya man, but you cannot take personally
    the views of others. You are intelligent, and obviously
    seem concerned.. Considering that it's lyrical content
    You are concerned with, in a song by PEARL JAM ( think
    on that a second my friend)...... Regardless of ED's
    founding of the song's origins... It's a PJ song. That is the
    whole answer to all of this right there.. Remember back in
    the days of Videos and interviews and so many people
    would try to get Ed to tell what the songs were about??
    What was his favorite answer?? He'd respond by telling them,
    he didn't like to tell people, because to each person the song
    means something different, something personal to that
    individual. And that if he told what HE wrote it about, that he
    felt that was stealing that personal connection with the
    song from us. One of the greatest things about this band, is
    they may hold the copyright to the lyrics... But what they
    mean WE hold the rights to. Music is a strange fluke of
    communication.. It's amazing to see so many people
    share a feeling evoked by ONE song! Who gives ( stealing SPEEDY's
    Line here since I hijacked thus thread via his quote), a
    RATS ASS what the song means to your neighbor, your goat,
    Your toddler, or your dead grand mother?!?!? The ONLY
    important view to each is their own! So why rant and get oddly
    upset when people refuse to go with the origins of the song
    as their source of meaning?? That is why Ed leads us all in the
    "Cream Puff Campfire" version of this sing.. I think he truly
    is awed by the fact that so many people have a uniquely
    possitive way of hearing what started out as a sad song.. Gotta
    respect Ed's intelligence on this one..
    if ED wants to be awed let us sing all of Present Tense sometime :D
  • whispering hands
    whispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
    Love that song.. BUT if Ed wants US to be awed,, he should
    Learn the words to Wishlist!! Lmao!! Love you Ed!
  • Big Bank Hank
    Big Bank Hank Seattle, WA Posts: 8,639
    whispering hands wrote:
    Love that song.. BUT if Ed wants US to be awed,, he should
    Learn the words to Wishlist!! Lmao!! Love you Ed!
    at least Ed is a good sport about it, watch the first 4 minutes :lol:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUTfyE_6tOw
  • whispering hands
    whispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
    I know I have this bootleg somewhere..but one of my favorite
    Versions of Wishlist is he gets it right all the way through, the song
    ends and as the audience is applauding.. He stops them,
    To make this comment.. " is Stone the only one who caught that??
    Did you even notice?? I didn't fuck up that so g ONE TIME... Not
    ONCE!!" How cute is that!!? He makes me laugh quite often!
  • 2-feign-reluctance
    2-feign-reluctance TigerTown, USA Posts: 23,462
    Are cream puffs donuts? I've not had one before..
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  • Tom K
    Tom K Posts: 842
    2-feign-reluctance wrote:
    Are cream puffs donuts? I've not had one before..

    Not quite.. They are a puffed pastry filled with Whipped Cream or Pastry Cream, sometimes sprinkled with confectioner's sugar.. delectable..

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    Hank you are being a good sport in this thread, people can be real dipshits on this board sometimes....
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  • JB128716
    JB128716 Posts: 2,064
    What if we change the meaning of the chorus to make it about dinner and we all sing, "Can't find the butter , man."

    Would that help?
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  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,759
    JB128716 wrote:
    What if we change the meaning of the chorus to make it about dinner and we all sing, "Can't find the butter , man."

    Would that help?
    If we could somehow get an entire arena to sing that, I would be pretty pleased.
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  • JB128716
    JB128716 Posts: 2,064
    PJ_Soul wrote:
    JB128716 wrote:
    What if we change the meaning of the chorus to make it about dinner and we all sing, "Can't find the butter , man."

    Would that help?
    If we could somehow get an entire arena to sing that, I would be pretty pleased.

    I have a feeling that a lot of drunks are already singing that.
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  • ikiT
    ikiT USA Posts: 11,059
    "That's activism right there", Ed says on my Bristow 2010 boot...
    Bristow 05132010 to Amsterdam 2 06132018
  • boyo79
    boyo79 Warrington, UK Posts: 6,525
    About 90% of Pearl Jam songs aren't positive songs or issues. OP, go have a look at what the songs on Ten and Vs are about....

    Whilst Ed wrote Betterman about domestic abuse, the listener is entitled to interpret the meaning of the song themselves and it may mean something else to them than what it does to you. And that is ok. If a couple choose it as their wedding song that's ok. It clearly means something to them. Not everyone reads into the lyrics, some people just enjoy a song for what it is. And Betterman is a very good pop song.
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  • lcusick
    lcusick Posts: 310
    Many of Pearl Jam's songs are about social issues and broken relationships, so I guess we cannot sing along to most of the songs. From everything I have read, the band enjoys how much the crowd sings along to their songs, it shows them how connected we are to their music. Isn't that the point of live shows????
  • Big Bank Hank
    Big Bank Hank Seattle, WA Posts: 8,639
    lcusick wrote:
    Many of Pearl Jam's songs are about social issues and broken relationships, so I guess we cannot sing along to most of the songs. From everything I have read, the band enjoys how much the crowd sings along to their songs, it shows them how connected we are to their music. Isn't that the point of live shows????
    Can you read? I have said throughout this thread at least 20 go ahead and sing? I mean seriously

    :fp: :fp: :fp: :fp: :fp: :fp: :fp: :fp: :fp: :fp: :fp: :fp:
  • Wilds
    Wilds Posts: 4,329
    Big Bank Hank wrote:
    lcusick wrote:
    Many of Pearl Jam's songs are about social issues and broken relationships, so I guess we cannot sing along to most of the songs. From everything I have read, the band enjoys how much the crowd sings along to their songs, it shows them how connected we are to their music. Isn't that the point of live shows????
    Can you read? I have said throughout this thread at least 20 go ahead and sing? I mean seriously

    :fp: :fp: :fp: :fp: :fp: :fp: :fp: :fp: :fp: :fp: :fp: :fp:

    So you're saying we can't sing this one anymore :?:


































    :P
  • Big Bank Hank
    Big Bank Hank Seattle, WA Posts: 8,639
    LOL! thanks for that, I mean one person twists my words and everybody just reads that and posts the same post over and over, what can you do :lol:
  • Wilds
    Wilds Posts: 4,329
    :D
    Big Bank Hank wrote:
    LOL! thanks for that, I mean one person twists my words and everybody just reads that and posts the same post over and over, what can you do :lol:
  • whispering hands
    whispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
    Lol!! That's ok.. My
    Original post was WAAAAAAY more serious TIL I read
    SPEEDY's post! Which made me almost choke on a sandwich
    reading!! BBH I love that you're taking the shit ass end of most
    Of our responses so well!! You're a good man!! A good fan!! And gosh
    darn it people like you!! Ok.. Seriously need to go be a shit somewhere
    else now!! Love ya man!!

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