New Eddie Vedder Singles "Long Way" & "The Haves"

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  • on2legs
    on2legs Posts: 16,046
    PJ_Soul said:
    I don't mind The Haves. It's okay. I wouldn't be telling anyone they should listen to it or anything, but... it's not the worst, lol. It's definitely not as cheesy as Sirens or Future Days.
    This.  I like The Haves.  Don’t love it, but it has nowhere near the cheese of Sirens (I Study Your Face ?!??).   🤪
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  • walkunafraid
    walkunafraid Posts: 2,655
    I dig Long Way. The Petty vibes are unmistakable and cool, and it's catchy enough to have gotten stuck in my head on a few different occasions already.

    But I'm just not digesting The Haves. Maybe it's the fact that he rhymes "above" with "above." I don't know. Like others have said, I find myself having no desire to listen to it again or even to wait out the full 5 minutes. 

    Hoping it's one misstep on an otherwise enjoyable record.
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  • JimNastics
    JimNastics Posts: 679
    Pap said:
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    Random question, apols if it's been asked, but what is that guitar Eddie's holding? Look like some Fender Mustang (but not quite) bass?
  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 98,200
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    demetrios Posts: 98,200
    24 bit FLAC added over @ https://www.prostudiomasters.com/album/page/111380
  • OceansJenny
    OceansJenny Manhattan, NY Posts: 3,411
    edited November 2021
    igotid88 said:
    OceansJenny said:
    nicknyr15 said:
    I’m just happy these are solo songs and didn’t make it to a pj album. 
    This makes me think of the hundreds of Stone riffs EV has passed on… ugh.
    I don't think Ed passes on Stone's riffs.

    “I write every song for Eddie, ultimately,” he says. ​“He’s my muse. I would love to write 50 songs a year with him, but it’s just not on the cards; it just doesn’t work like that for him. When he’s in a writing process, it’s different than it is for me. I can write all the time. The way Ed really operates, the way that he loves to get music, is for something that’s immediate for you coming in at a time when he’s ready to connect with it. He likes to be in the process with you. So, if I send him 30 ideas, it’s just too much information for him to manage; that’s just not how his brain works.” 

    The long and short of it, Stone says, is this: ​“I write too many songs for Pearl Jam” – his words uttered neither with sadness or remorse, but almost as a gleeful oops of an admission.


    “I’ve written plenty of songs that he didn’t necessarily respond to and for him to go, ​‘That’s the one I want to do’? I couldn’t have been happier,” enthuses Stone.


    https://www.kerrang.com/features/pearl-jams-stone-gossard-eddie-vedder-is-my-muse-every-song-i-write-is-for-him-ultimately/
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  • iOnlyownMymind
    iOnlyownMymind Posts: 2,964
    on2legs said:
    PJ_Soul said:
    I don't mind The Haves. It's okay. I wouldn't be telling anyone they should listen to it or anything, but... it's not the worst, lol. It's definitely not as cheesy as Sirens or Future Days.
    This.  I like The Haves.  Don’t love it, but it has nowhere near the cheese of Sirens (I Study Your Face ?!??).   🤪
    You think that's worse than "Like siamese twins I can feel every one of your senses" ?   I'd say The Haves is at least as cheesy as either Sirens or Future Days but at least The Haves was delegated to EV solo which is good.  
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  • on2legs
    on2legs Posts: 16,046
    edited November 2021
    iOnlyownMymind said:
    on2legs said:
    PJ_Soul said:
    I don't mind The Haves. It's okay. I wouldn't be telling anyone they should listen to it or anything, but... it's not the worst, lol. It's definitely not as cheesy as Sirens or Future Days.
    This.  I like The Haves.  Don’t love it, but it has nowhere near the cheese of Sirens (I Study Your Face ?!??).   🤪
    You think that's worse than "Like siamese twins I can feel every one of your senses" ?   I'd say The Haves is at least as cheesy as either Sirens or Future Days but at least The Haves was delegated to EV solo which is good.  
    Yes. Way worse when you combine it with the way he sings “I study your face” and the big 80s wanker guitar solo from Mike. It could be a Foreigner outtake if I didn’t know better. 
    Post edited by on2legs on
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  • Eilian
    Eilian Posts: 276
    on2legs said:
    iOnlyownMymind said:
    on2legs said:
    PJ_Soul said:
    I don't mind The Haves. It's okay. I wouldn't be telling anyone they should listen to it or anything, but... it's not the worst, lol. It's definitely not as cheesy as Sirens or Future Days.
    This.  I like The Haves.  Don’t love it, but it has nowhere near the cheese of Sirens (I Study Your Face ?!??).   🤪
    You think that's worse than "Like siamese twins I can feel every one of your senses" ?   I'd say The Haves is at least as cheesy as either Sirens or Future Days but at least The Haves was delegated to EV solo which is good.  
    Yes. Way worse when you combine it with the way he sings “I study your face” and the big 80s wanker guitar solo from Mike. It could be a Foreigner outtake if I didn’t know better. 
    Haha - “80s wanker solo.”

    Funny though, innit? Because that solo sounds like one of his best of the last few records to me, on account of him actually having written it, and not just winging it.
  • HesCalledDyer
    HesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,499
    I sure hope the rest of the album is better than these first two singles.  Long Way isn't too terribly bad musically, but that chorus.  Just ugh.  "S/he took the long way on the freeway."  Say it out loud in normal sentence cadence without singing it in tune. It just sounds... lazy and dumb.

    The Haves just sounds whiny and gives me no desire to listen to it ever again. Like it's not even meh status.  I just want to take the long way on the freeway and leave it behind.

    Both songs are too repetitive and way too long.
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  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 98,200
    edited November 2021
    UK Amazon  vinyl pre order up. Earthling https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09M4NT57W
  • DEGBTI
    DEGBTI san diego Posts: 997
    HesCalledDyer said:
    I sure hope the rest of the album is better than these first two singles.  Long Way isn't too terribly bad musically, but that chorus.  Just ugh.  "S/he took the long way on the freeway."  Say it out loud in normal sentence cadence without singing it in tune. It just sounds... lazy and dumb.

    The Haves just sounds whiny and gives me no desire to listen to it ever again. Like it's not even meh status.  I just want to take the long way on the freeway and leave it behind.

    Both songs are too repetitive and way too long.
    unfortunately you are 100% correct. I had my wife right on the fence to love eddie songs, then the long way hits itunes. Ugg, that chorus is so brutal. Really surprising actually. Not that I can do better but we are talking about one of the best. How is it that nobody inside says hey, you need to change this line?
  • demetrios
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  • 2-feign-reluctance
    2-feign-reluctance TigerTown, USA Posts: 23,462
    Stoked about the tour! Chicago looks tempting, saw EV solo there at the Auditorium Theater back in 2008 to close out the first tour. Great venue, great sound, will be off the chain good for those going! 
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  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 98,200
    2-feign-reluctance said:
    Stoked about the tour! Chicago looks tempting, saw EV solo there at the Auditorium Theater back in 2008 to close out the first tour. Great venue, great sound, will be off the chain good for those going! 

    Same, though don't think we will be going this February. Hopefully audio bootlegs will be available.
  • Cropduster-80
    Cropduster-80 Posts: 2,034
    So far I’m underwhelmed but Ukulele Songs took a long time to grow on me, so not writing it off yet 


  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 98,200
    https://www.bullmoose.com/p/35298240/eddie-vedder-long-way-limited-pressing-7
    Release Date: 12/17/2021

  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 98,200
    demetrios said:
    https://www.bullmoose.com/p/35298240/eddie-vedder-long-way-limited-pressing-7
    Release Date: 12/17/2021


    Any update @Santos L. Halper on this release? 

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