Joined: Tue Nov 30, 2004 4:02 am Posts: 44183 Location: New York Gender: Male
Red dot is an utterly utterly pointless song that brings absolutley nothing to the table thematically, is a stupid listen, and kills the momentum of DTE
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Really has no purpose on the record, but as far as PJ filler goes, its def my favorite. It grew on me. Maybe too many times listening to the record where I would have had to walk across my room to skip it and I just gave up lol. I dunno. But I dont mind it at all.
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Joined: Mon Dec 11, 2006 7:53 pm Posts: 634 Location: Brooklyn, NY
It's the essence of Jack Iron's drumming, so it's an important historical document.
It's also the palate cleansing break in the middle, like flipping an LP over to side 2. This ties in nicely to the classic rock/70's vibe of the album.
Joined: Thu Nov 25, 2004 3:00 pm Posts: 19826 Location: Alone in a corridor
Can we leave other filler songs out of this thread please? I should probably make another "worst/best filler" thread just to avoid this thread becoming one. I want to talk about how this song fits perfectly into the Yield trip.
Joined: Tue Apr 11, 2006 10:53 pm Posts: 21098 Location: where do you think?
Bo Jackson wrote:
It ended the legacy of the number 8 track songs being the most rockin’ song on the CD. Because of that I will always despise the Red Dot.
yes - this is a very important point.
the first 3 were legendary:
porch
rvm
corduroy
the next was not legendary, but very respectable: red mosquito
then they fuck it up with red dot. what the fuck.
they tried to rectify with of the girl, but it should have been insignificance. then you are isn't bad, education is OK, drifting is great, big wave kind of sucks.
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There's that scene in SVT where Red Dot is the intro music before PJ takes the stage... the camera follows behind Eddie.
It's not quite Master/Slave, but still a cool pre-show intro!
Side-Note...There's nothing better than that feeling when the lights go out and you know you have 2+ hours of PJ ahead of you. And you're only care in the world is "fuck I hope they don't play Pilate tonight"
Joined: Wed Feb 08, 2006 8:46 am Posts: 327 Location: Buffalo
the shit filler like on yield and vitalogy really makes me wonder what the fuck the band was thinking. Usually bands throw crap on thier when the album sucks.
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