[[MEGATHREAD]]: Dance of The Clairvoyants [NEW SINGLE] - Opinions, first impressions, reviews...

Best lead off single since given to fly

I love every second of it. So different, new shades of paint on an old canvas. Can't wait to hear the rest of the album. And count me in with the crowd that thinks this song is going to be fuckin rad live

AVG75 said:

BF25394 said:

AVG75 said:

tbergs said:

AVG75 said:

Ughhh... sounds like a demo written in 20 minutes... Ed's not even singing, just blurting our cliches... is Stone even in the band anymore???

This sounds like a rough draft...not thought out...put together on a whim.

Do fans even pay attention to who PJ is anymore?

Well, they sell out every show so i would say yes...

This is not technically true.  They came close to selling out, but did not actually sell out, any 2018 show for which box office data was made available, according to Billboard Boxscore.

I don't have older data at my fingertips, but they also have not sold out shows in the South and Midwest in recent years, and they have not sold out all shows on some multiple-night stands.

yeah, because nobody buys the 50 seats in the far back corner top row a mile away, so "technically" not a sell out... yet every arena has been packed to the ceiling for 30 years so I'd consider it a "sell-out".  

Actually, no.  Thousands of unsold seats for some of these shows.

BF25394 said:

AVG75 said:

BF25394 said:

AVG75 said:

tbergs said:

AVG75 said:

Ughhh... sounds like a demo written in 20 minutes... Ed's not even singing, just blurting our cliches... is Stone even in the band anymore???

This sounds like a rough draft...not thought out...put together on a whim.

Do fans even pay attention to who PJ is anymore?

Well, they sell out every show so i would say yes...

This is not technically true.  They came close to selling out, but did not actually sell out, any 2018 show for which box office data was made available, according to Billboard Boxscore.

I don't have older data at my fingertips, but they also have not sold out shows in the South and Midwest in recent years, and they have not sold out all shows on some multiple-night stands.

yeah, because nobody buys the 50 seats in the far back corner top row a mile away, so "technically" not a sell out... yet every arena has been packed to the ceiling for 30 years so I'd consider it a "sell-out".  

Actually, no.  Thousands of unsold seats for some of these shows.

The more I listen the more my dick grows 

I like this song.  It's interesting and different, but not in a way that makes listening to it feel like homework.

That said, here are a couple of predictions:

1) This song will not be representative of the overall sound of the album.  It is more likely that it will be as "Who You Are" was to "No Code," an outlier.  ("No Code" took some chances, but nothing else on it sounded like "Who You Are," the rhythms of "In My Tree" notwithstanding.)

2) This song will not grow the Pearl Jam audience.  That's less a function of the quality of the song than it is the world we live in.  There is almost no room for rock music in the pop world today, which is dominated by EDM-flavored pop and trap-flavored rap, and what room there is certainly doesn't get filled by a "legacy" act like Pearl Jam.  As far as the rock audience is concerned, the sad reality is that there is a limited number of people who want to hear new or challenging music even from bands they love.  Rock stations will play this song for a week or two, and then it will disappear like "Mind Your Manners" and "The Fixer" did shortly after their releases, even as "Jeremy" and "Better Man" keep getting regular spins.  KROQ in Los Angeles, one of the most influential "alternative" rock stations, is running ads today to win tickets to Pearl Jam shows in L.A. and London.  The ad features a half-dozen PJ songs; none of them was released after 1994.

Loving this song.

BF25394 said:

It is more likely that it will be as "Who You Are" was to "No Code," an outlier. 

Listening to it for the first few times this morning, I got the same feeling when I listened to the Who You Are single before No Code was released - something unexpected, but awesome, was being blasted into my ears.

I can't wait to listen to it thru a real stereo system.

The guitar riff is total bad ass.  Anybody tab this out yet?

just listened twice. Had to come here to comment right away. I had low expectations. I THINK I LOVE IT! obviously very Talking Heads, who I love. I'm so impressed with them for growing. THIS IS MUSIC TO DANCE TO! I'm actually shocked by this song.