Waiting For Stevie

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  • mcgruff10mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 28,994
    Where?
    Sorry for not being more clear.   The way Ed sings this song sounds like Cornell.  Took me a few listens to hear it.  
    I hope you will be rooting for my boys tomorrow at wembley!
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me......
  • DragonsAfter3or4DragonsAfter3or4 Bluegrass Posts: 348
    Hearing Jeff melt his bass on this track brings back so many great memories of earlier PJ tracks. Jeff!!🙌
  • lastexitlondonlastexitlondon Posts: 14,589
    mcgruff10 said:
    Sorry for not being more clear.   The way Ed sings this song sounds like Cornell.  Took me a few listens to hear it.  
    I hope you will be rooting for my boys tomorrow at wembley!
    Not a chance . How the hell did you end up a utd fan
    ?
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  • mcgruff10mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 28,994
    Not a chance . How the hell did you end up a utd fan
    ?
    Isn’t everyone in England a United fan?! ;)
    Wayne Rooney is my all time favorite player.  
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me......
  • vedpunkvedpunk Posts: 958
    This HAS to be the next single. It’ll move units if that is their goal
  • axellaire8axellaire8 Belgium Posts: 235
    Amazing song! Love the way Ed sing this one and the guitar solo at the end, WOW!

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  • TJENZTJENZ Posts: 18
    This is an all time top ten PJ song for me. 
  • MikeDigsMikeDigs Santa Monica, CA Posts: 1,680
    This is a top tier song, very nice addition to the overall catalog.  Can't wait to hear this live.  And Running sounds so so good right after this.
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  • scurtisscurtis Posts: 2,464
    Best song on the record IMO 
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  • lastexitlondonlastexitlondon Posts: 14,589
    mcgruff10 said:
    Isn’t everyone in England a United fan?! ;)
    Wayne Rooney is my all time favorite player.  
    Well mostly people from nowhere near Manchester 
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  • RS151862RS151862 Pittsburgh, PA Posts: 2,725
    Did anyone figure out who Stevie is?
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  • cincybearcatcincybearcat Posts: 16,721
    RS151862 said:
    Did anyone figure out who Stevie is?
    Stevie Wonder. Song written as Andrew watt and Vedder waited for Stevie who was late to add his parts to Earthling. 
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  • shetellsherselfshetellsherself New Jersey Posts: 8,835
    Jesus. Thank you for this. I got goosebumps just reading it in black and white. Now do the other 10 songs please! :)
    Agreed!  Absolutely mesmerizing write up. Well done and spot on 
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  • nicknyr15nicknyr15 Posts: 9,038
    Great song, but the drum sound is a struggle for me. The snare feels so off.
    Agreed. Same problem with the snare on earthlings. Listen to atmos mix. It’s way better. 
  • kramerica4kramerica4 Posts: 284
    Such a great song!
    Has to be the next single.
  • Agreed!  Absolutely mesmerizing write up. Well done and spot on 
    thank you.  i have probably heard this like 30 times in 3 days and am still floored with each listen.  liquid catharsis 
  • Aaron 23Aaron 23 Allen, TX Posts: 543
    edited April 2024
    Just here choosing violence, I was all on this song as the best or one of my favs from this album until my PJ loving 10C membership holding girlfriend in our “which song is best” battle immediately pointed out the Maggie Rogers - That’s Where I Am similarity and now I can’t shake it and am getting Dani California/Mary Jane’s Last dance vibes.

    if you haven’t checked out that Maggie Rogers song, go check it out, friggin similarities all over the place.
  • CoshieCoshie Port Fairy Posts: 288
    edited April 2024
    McCready installing ‘War Pigs’ into the face melting solo at the end would be absolutely fitting (and long overdue) into the live shows! 
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  • demetriosdemetrios Posts: 95,516
    Coshie said:
    McCready installing ‘War Pigs’ into the face melting solo at the end would be absolutely fitting (and long overdue) into the live shows! 

    Ah, yes please!
  • ChazzChazz Posts: 1,144
    My favourite PJ song for a long time, gives me goosebumps.  Hope they play this in Manchester - I think all these Dark Matter songs are going to sound epic and massive live! 😁 
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  • More thoughts on this ridiculous song

    I've heard people identify the appeal of this song as nostalgia, and I don't think that fully gets at it. Waiting for Stevie didn't just remind me of an older era in a sentimental way. It wasn't even the familiarity of it. These things are present, but they are only part of the story (in the same way that just focusing on a 90s sounding riff is reductive). What I think this song did so incredibly well, that makes it so singular for me, was that it evoked and conjured those feelings (which i did not expect to feel again) but ALSO situated them in the present. It was that bridge between past and present it built so well that, at least for me was so powerful. The way it brought those pieces of my life into co-existence with each other. The live experience of some of these songs can produce that live, in the moment, but it lives in that singular moment. I can only take the memory with me. Not the actual experience. Now I can. What a gift.


    Eddie is writing from inside the headspace of the young woman in the song, but he is writing from a place of understanding born of experience. He knows exactly what she fears, what she struggles with, and above all, what she is searching for, because that was once exactly who he was. He made it through, but did not forget, and is grateful for the chance to guide her/the listener through their journey - both legitimating her experience and promising a way forward. It's in the lyrics, the music, the performance. Everyone plays their part perfectly, and then pushes beyond. This is not just composition. There is a passion in the entire performance, a willing to be open and vulnerable and channel everything they have that appears in moments throughout Dark Matter (it's a great record) but is present in every second of this song. This song starts at the moment another song would peak, and somehow sustains it for almost 5 minutes. And there is NO pearl jam song that does that. Even if other songs have bigger and more emotional highs (and they do), none last this long.

    Part of me thinks of Release- not the song itself, but the lyrical/thematic content. The feeling of hope and possibility in Waiting for Stevie is what the subject of Release is asking for. That feeling of oneness, the understanding of pain and inadequacy and desperate need for a home and community that understands. It's like Waiting for Stevie is reaching back to guide the subject of Release here.

    But probably the better, simpler example is in Breath, the song where (musically) Waiting for Stevie finds its roots.  Probably my favorite Pearl Jam lyric of all time is in the bridge

    "If I knew where it was I would take you there.
    There's much more than this."

    Waiting for Stevie is the fulfillment of that promise. It's sung by someone who found it, and is trying to show those still those still looking how to find the way.



  • demetriosdemetrios Posts: 95,516

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    But Watt also played an active role in inspiring Dark Matter's standout track Waiting For Stevie. A song that echoes Pearl Jam's younger days sonically and in Vedder's emotional reach, while also recalling Soundgarden's hypnotic mid-tempo songs like Mind Riot but also the day Watt and singer Vedder were waiting for Stevie Wonder to turn up to play harmonica on a song called Try from the Pearl Jam singer's 2022 solo album, Earthling, that Watt also produced.

    "We were sitting around with guitars and waiting, and I said, I have this idea, check it out," remembers Watt of the riff. [Eddie] says, 'That is so fucking weird, because I’ve had this riff for literally years — since albums and albums and albums and albums ago'. He showed it to me, and it was almost exactly the same. So, they both kind of melded into each other. 

    "We presented that to everyone in the first week, and they all wrote their parts and how the sections would move. It really only became a thing because the thing I showed Ed reminded him of something he’d written that was very similar. The drums on that song are fucking biblical to me. The Matt Cameron dirge! Matt is a pretty stoic guy [and was also Soundgarden's drummer]. He’s like Charlie Watts or something. I was screaming, go harder! Come on! It was like I was at one of their shows or something. At some point, he just had to laugh."





  • lastexitlondonlastexitlondon Posts: 14,589
    It's funny I said very first listen. Soundgarden mind riot. Go me.
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    astoria 06
    albany 06
    hartford 06
    reading 06
    barcelona 06
    paris 06
    wembley 07
    dusseldorf 07
    nijmegen 07

    this song is meant to be called i got shit,itshould be called i got shit tickets-hartford 06 -
  • Kind of hit me last night. This is Hold On. Imagining ‘91-93 Eddie singing WFS really puts it in perspective. 
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  • beano.79beano.79 Posts: 781
    Kind of hit me last night. This is Hold On. Imagining ‘91-93 Eddie singing WFS really puts it in perspective. 
    Yes! This was the closest PJ comparison I could come to also.
  • mcgruff10mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 28,994
    edited April 2024
    Here s the intro.  Play these three lines of individual notes on your G string.  Very very easy.  


    I'll ride the wave where it takes me......
  • BF25394BF25394 Posts: 4,902
    mcgruff10 said:
    Here s the intro.  Play these three lines of individual notes on your G string.  Very very easy.  


    Leave my G string out of it! This is a family message board.
    I gather speed from you fucking with me.
  • BF25394BF25394 Posts: 4,902
    Stevie Wonder. Song written as Andrew watt and Vedder waited for Stevie who was late to add his parts to Earthling. 
    Hey, that's Stevie Wonder you're talking about. He wasn't late. Ed and Watt were early!
    I gather speed from you fucking with me.
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