Will Sirens be played this tour?

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  • axeljohan
    axeljohan Posts: 483
    Abe Froman said:
    Hopefully not. One of my least favorite PJ songs. PJ walks that line of cheesy or beautifully brilliant better than anyone but this one falls in the cheesy side for me. 
    Agree. Wreckage and Something special are on the right side of cheesy IMO. And since those two will take the spot of the cheesy radio-friendly power-ballad on most nights, we won’t hear much of Sirens this tour. 
  • djjazzy276
    djjazzy276 Posts: 237
    I wouldn't mind hearing it again. I think I've only heard it once, on the LB tour. I'm curious how people would feel about it if someone other than Brendan produced it. That intro on the studio album does have serious "80's power ballad" vibes that I feel like could have been eliminated with different production choices and could possibly have changed how a lot of people feel about the song. 
  • lexicondevil
    lexicondevil Posts: 2,345
    Sirens is a sappy and sentimental song. I love it. I will always remember them playing it at the Fenway show and holding my wife's hand, feeling sappy and sentimental, while trying to see around Pesky's Pole.
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  • igotid88
    igotid88 Posts: 28,886
    edited May 2024
    I don't hear the cheesy in Sirens. I'm surprised it wasn't used in TV shoes or movies like Just Breathe was. It would have worked nicely on This Is Us
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  • JimmyV
    JimmyV Boston's MetroWest Posts: 19,623
    Hope so. Great song. 
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  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,709
    I also don't hear the "cheesy". A tad 80s power ballad perheps with the Slash-outside-of-a-church solo. 

    But I also for quite some time thought the song was about Sirens in the ocean (like in Force of Nature) painting the song a lot more mysterious and fantastic. 


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  • Abe Froman
    Abe Froman Posts: 5,400
    Live it is a little better for me. The album version is full of cheesy to me. Total 80s power ballad sound combined with some of the bad 90s “grunge” ballads. Again I liked it much better live but don’t ever really need to see it again. 
  • igotid88
    igotid88 Posts: 28,886
    I do
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  • GlowGirl
    GlowGirl New York, NY Posts: 12,376
    Spiritual_Chaos said:
    I also don't hear the "cheesy". A tad 80s power ballad perheps with the Slash-outside-of-a-church solo. 

    But I also for quite some time thought the song was about Sirens in the ocean (like in Force of Nature) painting the song a lot more mysterious and fantastic. 



    Funny, I thought so as well for a long time. Then I realized it was about sirens like on a police car.
  • demetrios
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  • domjon77
    domjon77 Posts: 39
    axeljohan said:
    Abe Froman said:
    Hopefully not. One of my least favorite PJ songs. PJ walks that line of cheesy or beautifully brilliant better than anyone but this one falls in the cheesy side for me. 
    Agree. Wreckage and Something special are on the right side of cheesy IMO. And since those two will take the spot of the cheesy radio-friendly power-ballad on most nights, we won’t hear much of Sirens this tour. 
    Agree agree. I don't need to hear it.
  • mace1229
    mace1229 Posts: 10,088
    Spiritual_Chaos said:
    I also don't hear the "cheesy". A tad 80s power ballad perheps with the Slash-outside-of-a-church solo. 

    But I also for quite some time thought the song was about Sirens in the ocean (like in Force of Nature) painting the song a lot more mysterious and fantastic. 


    I think I like that idea more. But I remember hearing from the very beginning Ed saying he was in the recording studio writing a song and kept hearing a bunch of police sirens. 

    I can't get over that long, slow intro. I'd like the song so much better without it. 
  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,709
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ruVuXloCaA
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  • JeBurkhardt
    JeBurkhardt Posts: 5,387
    Sirens is one of those songs that seemed to gain more meaning as I raised kids and now have grandkids. The theme of being carefree for the most part, and then having to care and think about mortality because you are responsible for others is pretty poignant. I haven't heard it live, but I would like to.

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