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Five Stars: A Classic 8%  8%  [ 14 ]
Four Stars: Really good 41%  41%  [ 67 ]
Three Stars: Average 31%  31%  [ 51 ]
Two Stars: sub par 14%  14%  [ 24 ]
One Star: I'd rather listen to stupid mop 4%  4%  [ 7 ]
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When the gas in my tank
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this was avocado's favorite line...

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When the gas in my tank
feels like money in the bank



this was avocado's favorite line...


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3 stars. Solid song, but nothing extraordinary.

As far as songs go that have the letter "o" in the title...I'll take Even Flow ahead of Gone.

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I perfer the Ed solo version from AC2 over the album's. Decent live song so it was interesting to see it show up sparingly in Europe. I wouldn't be surprised to see it played at one the of the Bridge dates. I think it would fit into that setting well.
A good song but middle of the Pearl Jam pack.

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I don't get why so many people hate this one. I like it, and its a 4 for me

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Again, just like DTE, I loved it for the first few weeks but then it died. It certainly didn't die as much as DTE did. It's a great song, it's just gotten old for me I guess. 4 stars.

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Bacchus Dukakis wrote:
It probably took 20 listens of Avocado for this song to grow on me, but now I love it. I know they stole "If nothing is everything I'll have it all", but it's still an awesome line, and very much how I live my life. Everyone's been somewhere that they feel trapped, and now every time I leave Rockford I put this one on my iPod.

All of Avocado would get a 5 from me, except maybe Unemployable, WWS, and Parachutes.


They also stole at the end of LBC.. "If nothing is everything I'll have it all"
Did you know that before the VH1 show?

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"Gone" is a tough one for me. On the one hand, I loved it when it first premiered with Ed solo, but it seemed like a song with more potential. When it got the full band treatment and I first listened to the album, I LOVED it, but for some reason more recently I find myself skipping it. I've yet to really figure out why, it's got all the ingredients of a great Pearl Jam song. It's epic, Ed's voice soars, it has brooding verses contrasting with the rather-uplifting chorus and doesn't overstay it's welcome. Plus, it's catchy as fuck and easy to get into. I dunno, maybe after years of Pearl Jam shying away from this kind of anthem, it's just hard for me to get back into that kind of song from them. Still, Ed knows how to write melodies, and this one is simple but beautiful.

At first I loved the lyrics but hated the "gas in my tank" line, although once I realized it wasn't about gas prices (it's not and if you think it is you are stupid and I hate you) and more about how the gas in his tank is literally the only form of currency he has. He's left everything behind and has next to nothing left. Still, great song, and I love when Ed writes these kinds of songs about just escaping, he's pretty good about it and it usually brings up some of his best imagery.

So I'm a little perplexed about why I find myself skipping it, but all in all it's theoretically a great Pearl Jam song, and christ is it great to hear Ed soar like that again.

My recommendation for listening to it, or for "getting" it: Be high or drunk if you're into that sort of thing, if not don't worry about it, and be in your car at night somewhere driving. Turn up all the sound, treble and bass, and just blast the shit out of it. The pounding drums, Ed's voice, the guitar, it all comes together beautifully.


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It was quite high up the list as far as Avocado went at the start; now it's [next stop] falling. I think it's somewhere between OK and Good - although the "Nothing is..." part at the end improves the song greatly.

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It was quite high up the list as far as Avocado went at the start; now it's [next stop] falling. I think it's somewhere between OK and Good - although the "Nothing is..." part at the end improves the song greatly.


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3 Stars.

When I heard the fan club version I hated it with a passion, but the album version has grown on me. I like the darkness of the music, but lyrically, it just seems lazy. I feel like I could have written those lyrics, and that always turns me away from a song. The only lyric that really affects me is "I will be what I could be once I get out of this town."

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Good song, terrible single.

This song sums up the record...great music, totally ignored by the world. A lot of people wanna pretend that this record did ok "for the times." These peole arent paying close attention to "the times." Download quantity inevitably correlates with popularity. The most bootlegged albums of the year are always the big hits of the year. This disc suffered no more than Tool or RHCP...probably less.

On the other hand, some people dismiss the new cos its not the old. These people suck even harder.

Every PJ record has a song that people mock now and love later...usually, it deserves neither. For this record, this is that song.


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good song. this whole return to the melow-dramaticness is getting old to me. I actually like the 'gas in tank = money in bank' lyric. I mean its true, what are you going to do, deny it?

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Bacchus Dukakis wrote:
I know they stole "If nothing is everything I'll have it all",

where'd they steal that one from?


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I know they stole "If nothing is everything I'll have it all",

where'd they steal that one from?


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my favourite from avocado.

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dirtyfrank0705 wrote:
welaughindoors wrote:
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I know they stole "If nothing is everything I'll have it all",

where'd they steal that one from?


The Who - Let's See Action


I believe the posh term for stealing is "paying homage to" :wink:

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4 stars

And if it didn't have this line...
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When the gas in my tank, feels like money in the bank.

It would be 5 stars!


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4 stars

And if it didn't have this line...
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When the gas in my tank, feels like money in the bank.

It would be 5 stars!


Do you notice the song almost audibly clunks after that line? :lol:

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3 Stars.

When I heard the fan club version I hated it with a passion, but the album version has grown on me. I like the darkness of the music, but lyrically, it just seems lazy. I feel like I could have written those lyrics, and that always turns me away from a song. The only lyric that really affects me is "I will be what I could be once I get out of this town."


that's the problem. The lyrics fail the stip test. If I could have written them they aren't that good and I probalby could have written this one. Some nice lines and some nice sentiments never fully expressed.

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