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    #1742
    david75
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,611 ✭✭✭david75


    As close as ill be getting to Wrigley tonight
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    #1743
    david75
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    My friend queued all night outside wrigley.
    He got the spot he deserved. Front and centre.
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    #1744
    redmosquito85
    Registered Users Posts: 137 ✭✭redmosquito85


    Crazy stuff happening over there this evening! Was listening to the show from a street webcam after work and then the rain delay came, still awake now and they're back, just after playing another new song "Lightning" (Bolt?) there, the set list is pretty stacked looking if they manage to get through it all before they are turfed off stage!

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    #1745
    Lelantos
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    Set drawing to a close, Better Man being played now


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    #1746
    david75
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    They played the whole set.
    Two new songs. One is good(future days) the other, lightning bolt is worryingly meh
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHrjeV_-nss
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZBNCrU6CF4


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    #1747
    Mushy
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    Some lad bought me a cocktail last night cos of the stickman tattoo I have. It was supposed to be shots too.


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    #1748
    jenizzle
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    Still, a free drink is a free drink :P


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    #1749
    Lelantos
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    Anyone else singing the line "can't find a Betterman" while reading these last few posts? ;)


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    #1750
    hidinginthebush
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    david75 wrote: »
    They played the whole set.
    Two new songs. One is good(future days) the other, lightning bolt is worryingly meh
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHrjeV_-nss
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZBNCrU6CF4

    Lightning bolts not amazing, but I way prefer it to mind your manners


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    #1751
    Wooden Jesus
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    I liked lightning bolt, great solo by mike at the end. Future Days sounds pretty much like springsteen


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    #1752
    david75
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    Two leaked demos from Avocado are out there.
    Let it ride and cold concession


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    #1753
    zombiepaw
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    Listened to Let it ride and Cold concession on the sky i scrape. good tunes. Roll on Lightning Bolt.


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    #1754
    [Deleted User]
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    Really liking both of them on first listen.


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    #1755
    seachto7
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    Doesn't seem to be too much love for the avocado album here?


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    #1756
    david75
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    With bloody good reason ;)


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    #1757
    fluke
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    seachto7 wrote: »
    Doesn't seem to be too much love for the avocado album here?

    It has it's fans just like Backspacer, but in the last few years those two have become the whipping boys of the PJ catalogue.


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    #1758
    NothingMan
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    I go back to Avacado and Backspacer way more than I do Riot Act.


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    #1759
    fluke
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    NothingMan wrote: »
    I go back to Avacado and Backspacer way more than I do Riot Act.

    See, I get why some people don't like S/T and Backspacer, but it's clear to me that if the band had continued on the path that led them to Riot Act, the band would have fizzled out in 2005.


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    #1760
    seachto7
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    I like the avocado album. More than Backspacer. Must go back to Binaural now. :)


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    #1761
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    Avocado, Riot act and Backspacer all have their moments and have some good songs, its just that they have far less "moments" than everything else. Between them you could probably get one really good album.

    LBC, amongst the waves, life wasted, marker in the sand, arc, all or none, unthought known, come back, inside job, i am mine, the end.


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    #1762
    NothingMan
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    DoubleD wrote: »
    Avocado, Riot act and Backspacer all have their moments and have some good songs, its just that they have far less "moments" than everything else. Between them you could probably get one really good album.

    LBC, amongst the waves, life wasted, marker in the sand, arc, all or none, unthought known, come back, inside job, i am mine, the end.

    Backspacer: Speed of Sound, Force of Nature, Just Breathe (more into the wild than PJ but still great).

    Avacado: WWS, Severed Hand, Gone... I actually love this Album in it's entirety so hard to filter great songs for me.

    Riot Act: Save You, Green Disease, Ghost...

    Again, I can listen to any of these albums start to finish and even the "weaker" tracks fit.


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    #1763
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    I seem to be in the even more minor minority in liking all 3 of Riot Act, Avocado, Backspacer. Riot Act was the album that got me into the band in 2003, as I was <10 years old during the 'classic' years. One of the things that I do really love about their output is the diversity in the music, notably from album to album. Hard to ask for 3 more diverse collections than the 3 listed above. Some tunes worth mentioning in my opinion...

    Riot Act: LBC, Save You (explosive live), Cropduster, I Am Mine, Thumbing My Way, You Are, All or None, Green Disease

    Pearl Jam: WWS, Severed Hand, Marker, Come Back, Life Wasted, Gone, Unemployable and eh.....INSIDE FÚCKIN' JOB!!

    Backspacer: Look I'm gonna say that I really dig this album apart from Supersonic. I think Unthought Known and Force Of Nature have to be as strong as anything they've ever written, and this 18 years after they'd written their 'best songs man'. I can understand how many fans didn't go for it, but to say it's 'shít' like has been said for about 4 years now is just wrong.

    Aside from that, hope we can keep the thread ticking along here, it's starting to get a bit too intense over in the 10c forums!


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    #1764
    david75
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    Force of nature is one of their most underrated songs ever.
    It's a powerhouse lyrically. And the music fits perfectly.
    Love it.


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    #1765
    hidinginthebush
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    david75 wrote: »
    Force of nature is one of their most underrated songs ever.
    It's a powerhouse lyrically. And the music fits perfectly.
    Love it.

    Favourite song off BS, better than anything on avocado too.


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    david75 wrote: »
    Force of nature is one of their most underrated songs ever.
    It's a powerhouse lyrically. And the music fits perfectly.
    Love it.

    I'll admit that initially I was so captivated by the music and melodies that it was at least 5-6 listens before i actually honed in on the lyrics, and then it cemented its place for me in the long list of PJ greats. And it is perfectly ok for me that not a whole lot of PJ fans feel the same way about Force of Nature, maybe even makes it a bit more special!


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    #1767
    Mushy
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    The second half of Backspacer is some of my favourite work from Pearl Jam. Just Breathe is great, even if it is just a rehash of Tuolumne from Into the Wild. Amongst the Waves and Speed of Sound are possibly my favourites, but Unthought Known is great. The album is one of my first go-to albums for them tbh.


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    #1768
    david75
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    I was always a hater of avocado, but the demos man. They sound like a totally different record. All this warmth and depth you can hear before all the life was compressed and brickwalled out of it.
    You can get them here
    http://www.gremmie.net/demos/avacado-demos


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    #1769
    fluke
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    Listening to King Animal this morning and it suffers from some of the same production flaws as Avocado, both Adam Kasper jobs.

    PJ need to branch out from BO'B and Kasper - I'm thinking Nick Raskulinecz. He produced the last two AiC albums along with the band, as well as Rush's last album.

    Dude knows how to produce a great sounding record.


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    #1770
    Richy06
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    He's certainly not the man to go to if you want to hear an album that hasn't been brickwalled.


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    #1771
    Banjo
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    maybe it's because I only ever listened to it on the car stereo but Avocado was the best thing they'd done since Yield in my opinion. RA and Backspacer on the other hand I'd happily live without. And I'd contest that production is far from the top of the list of problems that King Animal has... Ah well. We are all beautiful and unique snowflakes...


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