Unemployable is avocados best song.

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  • 12345AGNST1
    12345AGNST1 Posts: 4,906
    wow...usually a thread for the love of a certain song gets alot of positive comments. I really cant believe im the minority here for loving this song so much. oh well your all just a bunch of morons ;)
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  • PilatesBetterman
    PilatesBetterman Posts: 306
    12345AGNST1 wrote:
    wow...usually a thread for the love of a certain song gets alot of positive comments. I really cant believe im the minority here for loving this song so much. oh well your all just a bunch of morons ;)

    TOTALLY my fave song from Pearl Jam( the album not the band), fantastic approach to such an upfront issue( esp for Americans right now)
    "So forget the other boys because my love is real.
    Come off your battlefield."
  • Gmoney
    Gmoney Posts: 1,618
    i like the ending, but that's about it
    Further back and forth a wave will break on me, today...
  • Evacuation Rules
    Evacuation Rules Posts: 2,162
    People who describe Matt's songs as "generic" know nothing about music and should just keep their mouths shut. Come Back, Severed Hand, Life Wasted...THOSE songs are generic filler. Learn the difference.
  • Slip Kid
    Slip Kid Posts: 1,175
    StuffnJunk wrote:
    i like it a lot, but ever since i heard the shania twain comparison, it really killed that part of the song for me, i can't listen to it without thinking about shania......maybe he can change the "oh OH oh" to actual lyrics in the future

    haha

    totally agree
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  • Surf Rider
    Surf Rider Posts: 813
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  • 12345AGNST1
    12345AGNST1 Posts: 4,906
    PJAMEDVED wrote:
    I got this with the World Wide Suicide single download, and listened to it about 300 times within a couple of weeks. I have not listened to it for about a year so thanks to this thread, it is on my to do list.

    glad i can help :D
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  • dpmay
    dpmay Posts: 643
    muppet wrote:
    Kind of like a Bruce Springsteen song.

    yes! i think unemployable sounds like a few verses from nebraska...which is fucking great. it (unemployable) always hits me in the face in a way nothing else on the S/T record ever does...
  • Stone Irons
    Stone Irons Posts: 430
    To be fair, Matt co-wrote the music with Mike.
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  • NothinGBetteRPJMaN
    NothinGBetteRPJMaN Posts: 530
    JWBusher wrote:
    People who describe Matt's songs as "generic" know nothing about music and should just keep their mouths shut. Come Back, Severed Hand, Life Wasted...THOSE songs are generic filler. Learn the difference.

    You must know everything there is about music huh? what an asshole.

    I never said anything about it being generic, but it appears you know jack shit about music by saying those songs are generic filler.
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  • Bushleaguer28
    Bushleaguer28 Posts: 776
    I like Unemployable a lot and think the lyrics are actually very good - my one complaint is that it feels as if its missing another verse where the repeating chorus is near the end but other than that . . .
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  • SENROCK
    SENROCK Posts: 10,736
    12345AGNST1 wrote:
    Am I the only one that thinks this is the best one?
    yeah. BIG WAVE is way better! :D
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  • callen
    callen Posts: 6,388
    My favorite off the album as well.
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  • muppet
    muppet Posts: 980
    Bushleaguer28 wrote:
    I like Unemployable a lot and think the lyrics are actually very good - my one complaint is that it feels as if its missing another verse where the repeating chorus is near the end but other than that . . .

    Yeah, agree completely. It seems undeveloped and could really do with another verse, especially if it would be as good as the other verses. I think this is one of Pearl Jams strongest songs, lyrically. Not as an overall song, but it does have killer lyrics, IMO.
  • Ledbetterman10
    Ledbetterman10 Posts: 17,017
    After hating on Unemployable throughout this thread. I decided to listen to it for the first time in a year or so just so I'm not simply going on memory

    anyway, earlier in this thread I said the following:
    Ledbetterman10 wrote:

    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.

    after giving it a listen, I must admit that one redeeming factor of it is the harmony vocals on the chorus.

    a second point in it's favor: it's not as bad as Come Back.

    that's two thus far Shooter
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  • UKpearljammer
    UKpearljammer Bath, UK Posts: 910
    I've skipped through this thread and am not even gonna bother getting involved in any negative "this song is better than that one" kinda stuff. I just wanted to say, this is my favourite of the album too.
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  • celebration
    celebration Posts: 318
    NothinGBetteRPJMaN wrote:
    Parachutes easily kicks the living shit out of Unemployable in every possible way. Not even a contest.

    for writing grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreat songs: Stone>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Matt

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  • AliveinFL
    AliveinFL Posts: 567
    Decent song but not the best on the album however this is the only song on the new album I haven't heard live so I hope I get my chance in Columbia.
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  • slightofjeff
    slightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    JWBusher wrote:
    People who describe Matt's songs as "generic" know nothing about music and should just keep their mouths shut. Come Back, Severed Hand, Life Wasted...THOSE songs are generic filler. Learn the difference.

    Is it possible for me to agree with you and disagree with you at the same time?

    I like Matt's contribution ... but fucking love the three songs you just bashed.
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  • mjb
    mjb Posts: 1,316
    I tend to skip it. Sorry

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