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GhostChile said:
To answer your question specifically, give me a few days to absorb the album more. I'm five full listens in, but I definitely need a few more spins. With this album, for some reason I am only listening to it as a whole rather than individual songs.I know I was born and I know that I'll die. The in between is mine.0 -
You think “arrested the press, no one knows what happened next” (just for 1 example) is about relationships rather than about say Putin?0
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"Following the release of Pearl Jam‘s new album “Dark Matter,” frontman Eddie Vedder has revealed the rationale behind political song “Wreckage.”
Speaking to the U.K.’s Sunday Times, Vedder said of the song: “There is a guy in the United States who is still saying he didn’t lose an election, and people are reverberating and amplifying that message as if it is true. Trump is desperate. I don’t think there has ever been a candidate more desperate to win, just to keep himself out of prison and to avoid bankruptcy. It is all on the line, and he’s out there playing the victim — at least they’re doing this to me, because if not they would be doing it to you — but you haven’t falsified your tax records. You don’t have classified information in your basement. So the song is saying, let’s not be driven apart by one person, especially not a person without any worthy causes.”
In light of this nugget -- which, I still don't hear Wreckage as a political song -- what if every lyric that feels like it's about divorce or a breakup is about breaking up with your country? What if it's using the idea of trying to save a marriage as an allegory for trying to save our country or way of life?
I'm just spitballing and mostly taken aback by the quote above.
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Great quote, hadnt seen that.0
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slightofjeff said:"Following the release of Pearl Jam‘s new album “Dark Matter,” frontman Eddie Vedder has revealed the rationale behind political song “Wreckage.”
Speaking to the U.K.’s Sunday Times, Vedder said of the song: “There is a guy in the United States who is still saying he didn’t lose an election, and people are reverberating and amplifying that message as if it is true. Trump is desperate. I don’t think there has ever been a candidate more desperate to win, just to keep himself out of prison and to avoid bankruptcy. It is all on the line, and he’s out there playing the victim — at least they’re doing this to me, because if not they would be doing it to you — but you haven’t falsified your tax records. You don’t have classified information in your basement. So the song is saying, let’s not be driven apart by one person, especially not a person without any worthy causes.”
In light of this nugget -- which, I still don't hear Wreckage as a political song -- what if every lyric that feels like it's about divorce or a breakup is about breaking up with your country? What if it's using the idea of trying to save a marriage as an allegory for trying to save our country or way of life?
I'm just spitballing and mostly taken aback by the quote above.
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Lifted said:slightofjeff said:"Following the release of Pearl Jam‘s new album “Dark Matter,” frontman Eddie Vedder has revealed the rationale behind political song “Wreckage.”
Speaking to the U.K.’s Sunday Times, Vedder said of the song: “There is a guy in the United States who is still saying he didn’t lose an election, and people are reverberating and amplifying that message as if it is true. Trump is desperate. I don’t think there has ever been a candidate more desperate to win, just to keep himself out of prison and to avoid bankruptcy. It is all on the line, and he’s out there playing the victim — at least they’re doing this to me, because if not they would be doing it to you — but you haven’t falsified your tax records. You don’t have classified information in your basement. So the song is saying, let’s not be driven apart by one person, especially not a person without any worthy causes.”
In light of this nugget -- which, I still don't hear Wreckage as a political song -- what if every lyric that feels like it's about divorce or a breakup is about breaking up with your country? What if it's using the idea of trying to save a marriage as an allegory for trying to save our country or way of life?
I'm just spitballing and mostly taken aback by the quote above.
everybody wants the most they can possibly get
for the least they could possibly do0 -
slightofjeff said:Lifted said:slightofjeff said:"Following the release of Pearl Jam‘s new album “Dark Matter,” frontman Eddie Vedder has revealed the rationale behind political song “Wreckage.”
Speaking to the U.K.’s Sunday Times, Vedder said of the song: “There is a guy in the United States who is still saying he didn’t lose an election, and people are reverberating and amplifying that message as if it is true. Trump is desperate. I don’t think there has ever been a candidate more desperate to win, just to keep himself out of prison and to avoid bankruptcy. It is all on the line, and he’s out there playing the victim — at least they’re doing this to me, because if not they would be doing it to you — but you haven’t falsified your tax records. You don’t have classified information in your basement. So the song is saying, let’s not be driven apart by one person, especially not a person without any worthy causes.”
In light of this nugget -- which, I still don't hear Wreckage as a political song -- what if every lyric that feels like it's about divorce or a breakup is about breaking up with your country? What if it's using the idea of trying to save a marriage as an allegory for trying to save our country or way of life?
I'm just spitballing and mostly taken aback by the quote above.
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Didn’t Eddie say on Stern this morning that Wreckage is NOT about Trump? Must’ve mixed up title track to your pointBoston '06
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this song is meant to be called i got shit,itshould be called i got shit tickets-hartford 06 -0 -
DM282158 said:Didn’t Eddie say on Stern this morning that Wreckage is NOT about Trump? Must’ve mixed up title track to your pointeverybody wants the most they can possibly get
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From my perspective, the album can be about our relationships with our fellow Americans and not be about Orangeman. However, I do believe there are some indirect references.Post edited by KV4053 onI know I was born and I know that I'll die. The in between is mine.0
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