Waiting For Stevie

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  • deb1211
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  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,174
    deb1211 said:


    Sweet!
  • deb1211 said:

    I need to learn how to make these!!
    That looks AMAZING! 
  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,108
    Watt brought serious energy to that song. His guitar was loud in the mix and it was awesome. Glad he was not wearing Gucci pajamas.
  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,174
    Soon ... 

    Pearl Jam - Waiting For Stevie (Radio Edit) 


  • demetrios said:
    Soon ... 

    Pearl Jam - Waiting For Stevie (Radio Edit) 


    Oof!  I love this song, and the solo makes it!  Sad to see them basically cut THE WHOLE THING.  This song really is the type of song that would garner all sorts of attention from people who haven't listed to Pearl Jam in decades and bring them back to listening to this amazing band.  I obviously get cutting the "Be Humble" segue into Running, but please, you gotta let that solo rip for at least a minute before the fade!
  • Johnny Abruzzo
    Johnny Abruzzo Philly Posts: 12,352
    Fuck Radio Edits.
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  • SVRDhand13
    SVRDhand13 Posts: 26,996
    Wow that’s an extremely abrupt stop to the song lol 
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  • vedpunk
    vedpunk Posts: 960
    It’s baffling that they decided to keep the super repetitive verses but got rid of the best part of the song.  I wonder if not having an outside opinion on band decisions often holds them back from being more popular. 
  • The Juggler
    The Juggler Posts: 49,590
    Oh man...yeah I thought you guys might be overreacting but yeah, that's not a a great way to end that song.


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  • BF25394
    BF25394 Posts: 4,935
    There are a lot of people here who feel strongly about this song because it tracks with their idea of the quintessential Pearl Jam sound, which they associate with "early Pearl Jam." The problems with this in terms of releasing a single with that sound are: 1) the segment of the listening audience that shares this affinity is mostly uninterested in new music-- to the extent they want to listen to songs that sound like this, they'll just keep listening to the same old early Pearl Jam songs; and 2) the segment of the listening audience that is open to new music is not attuned to rock music that sounds like this. There's a reason why this song has gotten little traction at radio thus far, failing to cross over from mainstream rock stations to alternative and Triple-A stations. (And it could never be a pop hit in 2024 barring some exogenous Kate Bush-in-Stranger Things-type event.) This radio edit is an attempt to salvage things by making it more palatable for more formats (and, of course, shorter).
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  • spankyMP
    spankyMP NY to NC to NH Posts: 2,018
    ugh, ok fade out I guess, but that is waaaaayyyyyy to quick into fading out.  I'd rather 25 seconds of a ripping solo and then full stop then 5 seconds and fade.
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  • spankyMP
    spankyMP NY to NC to NH Posts: 2,018
    I can see it now:

    Pearl Jam, Dark Matter, Waiting For Stevie (Radio edit)....solo, album only. $1.29.
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  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,108
    It was great at MSG with Watt. 
  • DE4173
    DE4173 Posts: 2,791
    edited September 2024
    Excellent break down, BF25394
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  • vedpunk
    vedpunk Posts: 960
    BF25394 said:
    There are a lot of people here who feel strongly about this song because it tracks with their idea of the quintessential Pearl Jam sound, which they associate with "early Pearl Jam." The problems with this in terms of releasing a single with that sound are: 1) the segment of the listening audience that shares this affinity is mostly uninterested in new music-- to the extent they want to listen to songs that sound like this, they'll just keep listening to the same old early Pearl Jam songs; and 2) the segment of the listening audience that is open to new music is not attuned to rock music that sounds like this. There's a reason why this song has gotten little traction at radio thus far, failing to cross over from mainstream rock stations to alternative and Triple-A stations. (And it could never be a pop hit in 2024 barring some exogenous Kate Bush-in-Stranger Things-type event.) This radio edit is an attempt to salvage things by making it more palatable for more formats (and, of course, shorter).
    The song has only been out for barely two weeks.  Give it some time, it’s actually moving up the active rock chart.  
  • wnh1977
    wnh1977 Iowa Posts: 650
    The radio edit... ouch.  That's bad.  "Alive" was like 5:40.  "Jeremy" is around 5:15.  I mean if you'd fade it out on the second "You can feel love", you would've given that solo a little time to breathe and it would've still been only 4:20... still don't love it, but that would've been much better than this very abrupt ending.  

    Or edit the "You can feel love" out of the song and just let that solo go for at least a little bit before a fade out.
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  • Vedd Hedd
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    If they did the fade out, I would agree, it should start right at the "you can feel love" part.  Whatever, though.  Radio is radio.  
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