Backspacer turns 15 years old

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  • pjalive21
    pjalive21 St. Louis, MO Posts: 2,818
    I always find it funny how people hate on Just Breathe because it was a commercial success...its a good song, it got played on contemporary radio..deal with it...ive appreciated this album more and more over the years
  • HesCalledDyer
    HesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,491
    pjalive21 said:

    I always find it funny how people hate on Just Breathe because it was a commercial success...its a good song, it got played on contemporary radio..deal with it...ive appreciated this album more and more over the years

    Every time I hear that song it gets closer and closer to being in my Top 10 PJ tunes.
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  • ikiT
    ikiT USA Posts: 11,059
    HesCalledDyer said:

    Don't care what anyone says, I fucking love Backspacer!

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  • northerndragon
    northerndragon Posts: 9,851
    pjalive21 said:

    I always find it funny how people hate on Just Breathe because it was a commercial success...its a good song, it got played on contemporary radio..deal with it...ive appreciated this album more and more over the years

    I don't hate on it because it was a commercial success. I just don't like the song. It's like nails on a chalkboard to me and I feel that it's trite. Not saying no one can like just that I don't. Deal with it.
    Anything you lose from being honest
    You never really had to begin with.


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  • ledvedderman
    ledvedderman Posts: 7,762
    Agreed. I think Just Breathe is simplistic musically, vanilla lyrically and a drag live. I have nothing against it commercially. In fact, if there's a saving grace for it-it's that it was successful on the radio. I'd just prefer if a song were to expose PJ to the masses it would be something like Got Some or Getaway. Not cookie cutter tunes like Just Breathe.
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  • weddingparade
    weddingparade Posts: 1,179
    there's a ton of beatles song i would say are cookie cutter...but anyways!
    the fact that willie&lukas nailed that video only adds to it's special meaning for me. then hearing ed and willie chat about it. cut it any way you want but willie is a musical hero/treasure. that last verse sung/shared between willie&lukas after the final guitar solo. WOW
    that song in telluride this summer was def one of the most precious PJ moments i will hold close for a long time
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  • Ninetytworules
    Ninetytworules Boston Posts: 454
    I love this album. I don't get the hate. Listening to Johnny Guitar makes feel like Joe Jackson just dropped a new single. My third favorite album.
  • Fransway
    Fransway Posts: 9
    drewski_662 said:

    I've said this before on another thread, but the demo of Speed of Sound is (in my mind) 100 times greater than the full band version. It's so personal. You can hear the longing in his singing and in the message he is putting out there.

    I agree. Replace the Bon Jovi version of speed of sound on the album with the demo version (and maybe change some of the cringeworthy lyrics on the fixer and supersonic) and I could see a case for it being their best post-yield album
  • PJfanwillneverleave1
    PJfanwillneverleave1 Posts: 12,885
    Wma31394 said:

    ledvedderman said:

    Am I the only person who cringes completely with the "gems and rhinestones" line in Unthought Known. One of Ed's worst lyric lines.

    Probably
    In the most sincerest way yes.
    I love that lyric. In fact it gives me chills and I can't wait to hear it when it is blasting in the car.
    His voice is same as in MFS when he does his rant about father being dead and gone.
    He is in a space when he says it.
    With gems and rhinestones is a great lyric and delivered like only EV can.
  • ehbacon
    ehbacon Posts: 1,972
    buck502000 said:

    ledvedderman said:

    Am I the only person who cringes completely with the "gems and rhinestones" line in Unthought Known. One of Ed's worst lyric lines.

    I will used to be like you, until I witnessed this -
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kMR5mOELe1s
    that performance made me fall in love with the song too, I think that was the highlight of the show for me.
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  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,664
    edited October 2016
    northerndragon said:

    pjalive21 said:

    I always find it funny how people hate on Just Breathe because it was a commercial success...its a good song, it got played on contemporary radio..deal with it...ive appreciated this album more and more over the years

    I don't hate on it because it was a commercial success. I just don't like the song. It's like nails on a chalkboard to me and I feel that it's trite. Not saying no one can like just that I don't. Deal with it.
    Ditto. I would never dislike a PJ song because it's a commercial success. Actually, I'd be really happy if something PJ did became a real commercial success again. If I don't like a song, it's because I don't like the actual song (and in this case, pretty much the entire album). Period.
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  • PJfanwillneverleave1
    PJfanwillneverleave1 Posts: 12,885
    ehbacon said:

    buck502000 said:

    ledvedderman said:

    Am I the only person who cringes completely with the "gems and rhinestones" line in Unthought Known. One of Ed's worst lyric lines.

    I will used to be like you, until I witnessed this -
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kMR5mOELe1s
    that performance made me fall in love with the song too, I think that was the highlight of the show for me.
    Good stuff.
  • 2-feign-reluctance
    2-feign-reluctance TigerTown, USA Posts: 23,459
    Wma31394 said:

    2-feign-reluctance said:

    Great record - will always remind me of when I met @mfc2006 & we started writing songs together. Love how PJ records are like their own time capsules.

    Anything come out of the "backspacer writing sessions"?
    Around 25 songs that fall and another 40 or more in the years following...
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  • mfc2006
    mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,491
    2-feign-reluctance said:

    Wma31394 said:

    2-feign-reluctance said:

    Great record - will always remind me of when I met @mfc2006 & we started writing songs together. Love how PJ records are like their own time capsules.

    Anything come out of the "backspacer writing sessions"?
    Around 25 songs that fall and another 40 or more in the years following...
    With plenty more to come
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  • Dr. Delight
    Dr. Delight Posts: 11,210
    Backspacer..so mediocre. Then LB came along and now its not too bad. :lol:
    And so you see, I have come to doubt
    All that I once held as true
    I stand alone without beliefs
    The only truth I know is you.
  • PJfanwillneverleave1
    PJfanwillneverleave1 Posts: 12,885
    Dr. Delight said:

    Backspacer..so mediocre. Then LB came along and now its not too bad. :lol:

    Never understood the hate for BS save 1or2 posters.
  • igotid88
    igotid88 Posts: 28,626
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  • BettrMan21
    BettrMan21 Chattanooga,Tn Posts: 291
    Backspacer, to me, always felt incomplete as a record as do some of the songs. Unthought and Just Breathe seem like they're cut short or something. I think there are some excellent songs on that record and still listen to it from time to time. I do understand the lack of love for it as it does just feel like they were writing and recording and just - didn't finish. All of that aside, good grief I am aching for some new music. I mean, 4 - looking at potentially 5 - years is plenty. It's not like these guys aren't alive and vibrant for their age.
  • Pap
    Pap Serres, Greece Posts: 29,929
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  • cp3iverson
    cp3iverson Posts: 8,702
    edited September 2017
    Really like this album.  My favorite album post Yield. I come back to these tunes more than any of the 21st century PJ albums.  

    I still wish Speed of Sound was the demo version but i only skip 2 songs on the entire album. 
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