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Rate Get Right
5 Stars: A Masterpiece 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
4 Stars: Great Song 14%  14%  [ 31 ]
3 Stars: Average 31%  31%  [ 67 ]
2 Stars: Missing Something 33%  33%  [ 71 ]
1 Star: It Sucks 20%  20%  [ 44 ]
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 Post subject: SOTM: The fire is made now...
PostPosted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 4:08 am 
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Get Right

I want for to lay down,
I'm waiting 'till sundown
I'm searching the haystacks, water is sunshine,
Wait for the moment
The moment between us, the fire is made now,
Harder to touch

I wanted to get right
I wanted to get right
I wanted to get right with you

Bakers dozen parades,
Stand and debate
Out single file, nine in a row, swear if you must
Keeping your boots on, float with the now,
Hot to the touch
Concrete underground, cast out everyday,
The dregs of society
Underbelly, beside me, rejoice and follow thee

I wanted to get right
I wanted to get right
I wanted to get right
With it, with you


Previous Songs of the Moment
In My Tree
Red Mosquito
Porch
I Got Id
Release
Do The Evolution
Breath
Corduroy
Elderly Woman...
Leash
Hail Hail
Grievance
Love Boat Captain
Even Flow
Black Red Yellow
In Hiding
Can't Keep
Indifference
Insignificance
Whipping
Black
Smile
Push Me Pull Me
Rats
God's Dice
All or None
Yellow Ledbetter
Last Exit
Who You Are
Rearview Mirror
Hold On
Present Tense
Light Years
Alive
Brain of J
Thumbing My Way
Hard to Imagine
Tremor Christ
Rival
Animal
Lukin
You Are
betterman
Given to Fly
Once
Low Light
Parting Ways
Off He Goes
Go

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Pearl Jam’s best drummer is an open question. Pearl Jam’s worst lyiricst is not. Ladies and gentleman, may I present to you…Matt Cameron, and the train wreck that is the lyrics to get right

Eddie has his clunky moments but by and large he is a first rate lyricist. There are quite a few songs post No Code that have excellent music that suffer in my eyes because Ed didn’t’ write the lyrics (No Way, Lowlight, Thin Air and NAIS really jump out at me. I like the lyrics to All those Yesterdays and Rival and God’s Dice bores me no matter what). But in most of those cases the lyrics are passable enough that it doesn’t ruin the song. That’s not the case with Get Right. Musically I think the song works really well. It’s not a masterpiece, but it is a nice fun, crunchy number. A nice strong, deep main riff, some nice work by Mike, a fairly infectious chorus, and even some handclapping. What's not to enjoy? Not a song to change the world, but still fun and it interjects some much needed light into an otherwise dark record. Musically I’d give the song a 3.5

But Matt…what the fuck is going on with those lyrics. They completely tank the song for me. I’ve got nothing to say about them except they really really suck. And that they ruin the song. I’d guess the song is about smoking pot, but only because of the picture in the liner notes and the shirt.

Two stars for get right

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i voted 3 and that was generous

bad sotm :x

imo anyway


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one of the many songs I haven't warmed to from Riot Act.

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vitalogy71890 wrote:
i voted 3 and that was generous

bad sotm :x

imo anyway


It was a request. You gotta take the good with the bad.

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stip wrote:
vitalogy71890 wrote:
i voted 3 and that was generous

bad sotm :x

imo anyway


It was a request. You gotta take the good with the bad.

i usually like the sotm's even if they arent my fav songs... but im sure i wont open this thread too often or even read through it entirely

this is one of their weaker songs, and i agree with you on the lyrics... shit


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I figured people are away 4th of july weekend. It's a good time to get this one out of the way.

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stip wrote:
I figured people are away 4th of july weekend. It's a good time to get this one out of the way.

:lol:

im surprised you didnt save off he goes for this slot then


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1 star

worst song off a pearl jam album

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vitalogy71890 wrote:
stip wrote:
I figured people are away 4th of july weekend. It's a good time to get this one out of the way.

:lol:

im surprised you didnt save off he goes for this slot then


well I figured other people wanted to talk about off he goes, even if I didn't.

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I'll give it a 3, it never really stands out to me on Riot Act

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The music is fun, like Stip said. No materpiece. Honestly, when I think of this song it is the music and the feel from the music. I have never thought about the lyrics coz they suck. What is it about? Hand clapping throughout would have been stronger than the lyrics.
3 for music but 1 for lyrics.


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I'll pretty much echo everyone else's sentiments, it's a fun song but it's definitely nothing to write home about. I'm usually a big proponent of enjoying songs with good music even if they have crappy lyrics, but Stip's right, the lyrics are really bad and the music isn't good enough to really carry the song. I would give it 2.5, but I'll settle for 2.


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I love Riot Act, but I hate this song.

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Cool t-shirt, stinky song.

2 stars.

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Yeah, definately not a good song. I would have figured that years spent with Chris Cornell and Eddie Vedder would have helped him out a bit...but this song does nothing for me and one of the few Pearl Jam songs I'd rather my friends not hear...

2 stars

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5 stars, almost as career defining as Alive and Corduroy.

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oh well, at least its better than evacuation

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i gave it three stars...but i agree with the point that the lyrics aren't much, but the music is fun. its fun to listen to while driving with your buds, its a fun song. i like it


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Musically this is a really good one. Rock! So if you just ignore the lyrics (as some people anyway do constantly) it's a great song to :bammer:

I love dada poetry and the Surrealist's approach to lyrics and Get Right kind of reminds me of some absurd poems of that school of thought. Having said that, i still don't think these lyrics are good though. There seems to be no interesting play with words, meanings, sounds, sense/nonsense etc. They appear to be random glimpses of whats going on in the author's mind - images, framents of thoughts and ideas, memories. That would be ok, if they were striking, powerful or thought-provoking - but they aren't. At least not to me.

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