No love for Never Destination

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  • Gern Blansten
    Gern Blansten Mar-A-Lago Posts: 22,460
    KN219077 said:
    tdawe said:
    It rocks, and the reaction would be a lot different if it was given a more prominent place on the track list. It could have been the opener, and if you flipped it with Who Ever Said people would have lost their minds over it and dismissed WES. 
    I don’t think it’s a song people would ever lose their minds over. It’s a song like mfc, stuck in a similar album position. It serves to pick up the tempo of the album well. 
    MFC is one of my absolute favorites.

    ND is a good song.  Great riff from Eddie
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  • mfc2006
    mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,491
    I dig it!

    Comes Then Goes & Superblood are my least favorites...and I still like them plenty. They made one seriously great album.
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  • Gern Blansten
    Gern Blansten Mar-A-Lago Posts: 22,460
    The only song I'm not getting is Buckle Up.  I am not big on the slower tunes but they don't bother me on this album like Just Breathe, Future Days, the End, etc.
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  • KN219077
    KN219077 Montana Posts: 1,201
    Gern Blansten said:
    The only song I'm not getting is Buckle Up.  I am not big on the slower tunes but they don't bother me on this album like Just Breathe, Future Days, the End, etc.
    I have to agree, it just feels out of place. I like Stone songs, even Mankind, but I just feel like this should have been saved for a b side release. The dark lyrics to the strange happy music are kinda cool though 
  • droptheleash9
    droptheleash9 Posts: 1,468
    I love Never Destination - Great tune! Buckle Up, however, is a different story. For those out there that pride themselves on chasing the rare songs, I think you might have to see Buckle Up on the gigaton tour because I don't know if that one makes it to another tour.
  • regalturbo
    regalturbo Posts: 300
    tribejammer05 said:
    Love the Tom Petty-esque outro 
    Glad to see I’m not the only one who was getting that vibe. Agree that it’s a fun change of pace in the song
  • nicknyr15
    nicknyr15 Posts: 9,332
    Surfer rock + Tom Petty vibes = 😀😀 

    love it 
  • comatose_253
    comatose_253 Posts: 271
    droptheleash9 said:
    I love Never Destination - Great tune! Buckle Up, however, is a different story. For those out there that pride themselves on chasing the rare songs, I think you might have to see Buckle Up on the gigaton tour because I don't know if that one makes it to another tour.
    I agree, I'm not going to warm up to Buckle Up.
  • bigbiggzy
    bigbiggzy Posts: 841
    edited March 2020
    Again - nothing but love for this track. One of Gigatons strengths is its sequencing. I LOVE where they placed this one. I also love the sounds they used in the intro leading up to the first chord. There whole band is on in this one. 

    On your next listen - listen to what Stone is doing under Mike during his solo. So so good.
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  • pledgeagrievance
    pledgeagrievance Posts: 2,874
    Only because it was asked: least fav song on the album. Hopeful it will grow on me. 
  • Veddernarian
    Veddernarian Posts: 1,924
    After my 1st 2 listens to the whole album, I woke up in the middle of the night with Never Destination on replay in my head.  I'm not a fan of other songs like it but for some reason, this one is so good.
    Up here so high I start to shake, Up here so high the sky I scrape, I've no fear but for falling down, So look out below I am falling now, Falling down,...not staying down, Could’ve held me up, rather tear me down, Drown in the river
  • pawlowski1097
    pawlowski1097 Philadelphia, PA Posts: 607
    Mad love for the song.  
  • BSully
    BSully Indiana Posts: 1,503
    edited March 2020
    I'm glad to not be alone on this. I love this song. May be my favorite on Gigaton at the moment.
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  • BennyLaRue
    BennyLaRue Posts: 751
    It's not necessarily good or bad but reminds me more of the 80s than DotC.
  • pursuedbybear
    pursuedbybear Posts: 108
    Gonna be really fun live.
  • PA Jammer
    PA Jammer Tamaqua, Pa. Posts: 341
    Great song.  Second best on the album after Seven O'Clock.
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  • JimmyV
    JimmyV Boston's MetroWest Posts: 19,604
    Took a few listens but it grew on me,
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  • LC106330
    LC106330 Posts: 2
    It took me a few days but I finally got it. Amazing song. Killer lyrics.
  • ForceofNature101
    ForceofNature101 Posts: 1,295
    Never Destination is like a song that would have been written for Backspacer/LB but given a bit more depth and maturity to the sound.  Lightning Bolt's older brother
  • DW183354
    DW183354 NYC Posts: 135
    edited April 2020
    One of the best songs on the record. And judging by the words, one of the most personal. To me, it's written from the point of view of Ed himself. Sounds like a song about a man that's been going at it for a long time and is unwilling to give up.

    The mention of Bob Honey and Paul Theroux...Bob a character that went mad from the world and Paul, an author that has openly trashed celebs and rock stars for trying to fight the good fight. If he dies, let him go to THAT place where nothing matters anymore, but until then you'll have to knock him off the shelf. 

    Theres a few other things in the lyrics that feel to me as being very true to Ed's life. How many times have we heard Ed say "see ya tomorrow/later" at the end of a show and not "goodbye"? Lots. Theres a dash of 'Jet Airliner' and 'Travelin Band' in the bones of this tune. The song ends on the mention of another singer in a rock n roll band that turned herself into a hologram...a spectral vision of color with no definition. Not solid. Not real. That is the opposite of Ed. But it was her choice. 

    Kinda reminds me of Corduroy in spirit and theme, just from a fella that's been transformed from a person that was kinda disgusted with his success and is now a 50 something year old that's still playing the fuck out of his guitar and for all the right reasons. 

    Bit of a messy post, but I just think this tune has a TON more to offer than what some folks are hearing. I think it's brilliant. 
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