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    buck502000buck502000 Birthplace of GIBSON guitar Posts: 8,951
    Listened to Riot Act vinyl today, this song is up there with the best of them....
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    mwplummwplum Posts: 1,509
    I had been waiting years and years for it, and then finally got it twice in 2016! It was like a spiritual experience, I felt like I was leaving my body and just soaring.
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    Couldn't agree more. Was at the MSG shows and was so bummed when I saw that they had played it a few days earlier in Philly; I thought the song would continue to escape me. Sure enough....MSG II they played it in the first encore. One of my favorite PJ concert memories.
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    RobbyD462RobbyD462 Victoria BC Posts: 4,768
    I love this song!
    Still have yet to see it live.
    Vinyl will have to do till then.
    -Seattle,Wash-Key Arena-9/21/9 -Vancouver,B.C-Rogers Arena-12/4/13
    -Seattle,Wash-Key Arena-9/22/9 -Pemberton,B.C-7/17/16
    -Vancouver,B.C-GM Place -9/25/9 -Seattle,Wash-Safeco Field-8/8/18
    -Vancouver,B.C-Pacific Coliseum-9/25/11 -Seattle,Wash-Safeco Field-8/10/18
    -Misoula,MT-Adams Field House-9/30/12

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    SarahSarah Toronto Posts: 736
    One of my all-time favourites.
    Those lines made me blubber and cry the first time I heard them.
    "Somewhere in between / There and here / I got lost / I got scared..."
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    buck502000buck502000 Birthplace of GIBSON guitar Posts: 8,951
    I saw this one live

    https://youtu.be/dw1b7jO8Uz4
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    mrussel1mrussel1 Posts: 28,629
    edited February 2017
    ... damn time stamp didn't work.
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    pearldavidsonpearldavidson PA Posts: 1,356
    Great great song.
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    Who I AmWho I Am Posts: 647
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    buck502000buck502000 Birthplace of GIBSON guitar Posts: 8,951
    Spun up just this song on vinyl today, fall is creeping in.....
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    This song is an absolute jam. Great intro riff, great lyrics, great solos!
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    drakeheuer14drakeheuer14 Posts: 4,390
    My #3 request behind Release and Garden 
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    tbergstbergs Posts: 9,241
    My #3 request behind Release and Garden 
    Songs that really bring me to a different head space. I can get buried in the lyrics or the guitar on these. I would add HTI, Immortality and Parting Ways. Those songs....aaaah, so good.
    It's a hopeless situation...
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    JbarkerJbarker Alberta Posts: 557
    it has aged really well and with Ed's seasoned voice.
    Was a great add to Seattle. How loose that band was on night 2 - it came off great.
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    MilestoneMilestone Posts: 1,100
    All Or None and Parting Ways are two of my all time favorites.  Best songs are written while going through divorce, in my opinion. Wouldn't wish that on anyone.  But pain and suffering = amazing songs.  
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    JT167846JT167846 Posts: 820
    Heard it in Amsterdam-was a very pleasant surprise. I imagine hearing Around The Bend live would elicit the same responses.
    Stars are suns to other people.

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    Average song on good record 
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    buck502000buck502000 Birthplace of GIBSON guitar Posts: 8,951
    Average song on good record 
    You crazy
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    UpSideDownUpSideDown Posts: 1,966
    Wish they would get back to writing intricate songs like this.
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    njnancynjnancy Northern New Jersey Posts: 5,096
    MSG May 2 2016 - :lucky:
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    PJNBPJNB Posts: 12,754
    Heard it twice this year. Top 10 song for me. Love that people are talking about HTI and Parting Ways in the same breath. 3 great songs.
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    TJ25487TJ25487 Posts: 1,458
    " to my self I surrender, to the one I'll never please!!!! "
    How can a song with these lyrics be average???
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    on2legson2legs Standing in the Jersey rain… Posts: 14,426
    Fantastic song.  
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    JammalamboJammalambo Posts: 1,321
    Wish they would get back to writing intricate songs like this.
    Great acoustic song on a masterpiece of a record, but "intricate"? It's a 3/4 song, but it's literally just a simple progression of chords that repeats itself throughout the whole song (verses and choruses are basically the same).
    "Intricate" songs (at least for PJ standards) I would consider stuff like Cropduster, In the Moonlight, Evacuation (guess what, all written by Matt C).
    But yeah, All Or None is special, same mood and atmosphere of Indifference, and that's not a bad thing at all, they're totally "songs to be best experienced while looking at the sundown".
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    njnancynjnancy Northern New Jersey Posts: 5,096
    TJ25487 said:
    " to my self I surrender, to the one I'll never please!!!! "
    How can a song with these lyrics be average???
    It's a beautifully raw lyric. I love this band for many things and lyrics such as this top my list. 
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    EnterThanmanEnterThanman London, ON Posts: 1,057
    I played this song for my buddy who didn’t really stick with Pj in the same way I did as a reason he should still listen to them, and he loved it, but also said it sounded like a song that belongs in a PT Anderson movie. I thought that was perfect, and completely changed my relationship with it. 
    The member formerly known as Scratched Vinyl
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    UpSideDownUpSideDown Posts: 1,966
    Wish they would get back to writing intricate songs like this.
    Great acoustic song on a masterpiece of a record, but "intricate"? It's a 3/4 song, but it's literally just a simple progression of chords that repeats itself throughout the whole song (verses and choruses are basically the same).
    "Intricate" songs (at least for PJ standards) I would consider stuff like Cropduster, In the Moonlight, Evacuation (guess what, all written by Matt C).
    But yeah, All Or None is special, same mood and atmosphere of Indifference, and that's not a bad thing at all, they're totally "songs to be best experienced while looking at the sundown".
    Atmospheric may have been the better word to describe it.
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