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5 stars: <Insert witty remark about excellency> 28%  28%  [ 30 ]
4 stars: Heyyyy Ohhhhhh 39%  39%  [ 41 ]
3 stars: It's OK 26%  26%  [ 28 ]
2 stars: Just another brick in the wall 1%  1%  [ 2 ]
1 star: Hmm, the girl from 5 rows over seems pretty hot 3%  3%  [ 4 ]
0 stars: Toilet break! 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
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One of their best. 5 stars.


Great as mellow songs go, but I prefer the fire of Even Flow.

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back in HS, one of my friends thought he eddie sang

"don't call me BUTTER"

her was dead serious,

fuckin moron

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as far as the overplayed songs go.... I think Betterman > Daughter. But Daughter is a very good song.

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5 stars. this song is perfect live in concert. the actual songs allows enough time to run to the bathroom, take a piss, and run back in time to hear the tag. great song!

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Correct me if I am wrong but hasn't Ed overtly said this is a song about learning difficulties? In terms of the point he is making well art is often about giving voice to an excluded group. In this case those with dyslexia or autism or something...

Fuck it found it:
"The child in that song obviously has a learning difficulty. And it's only in the last few years that they've actually been able to diagnose these learning disabilities that before were looked at as misbehaviour, as just outright fucking rebelliousness. But no one knew what it was. And these kids, because they seemed unable or reluctant to learn, they'd end up getting the shit beaten outta them. The songs ends, you know, with this idea of the shades going down--so that the neighbours can't see what happens next. What hurts about shit like that is that it ends up defining peoples' lives. They have to live with that abuse for the rest of their lives. Good, creative people are just fucking destroyed." Ed

I personally love this song 5/5, the instrumentation is warm and if you look at this in the context of all the songs that go before it - all of ten and then Go, Animal - it was quite a shift. The its ok tag obviously makes it amazing as well.


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new SOTM on tuesday

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The album version of DAUGHTER would have been a great two and a half minute song. The last minute really drags it down. The "shades go down" outro kills all the momentum built up in the bridge, the solo and the terrific last chorus. I really love the linear version of the riff with the bass counterpoint that plays between the verses and at the outro. There's an ominous quality to it that suits the subject matter. 3 stars.


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leopold wrote:
Correct me if I am wrong but hasn't Ed overtly said this is a song about learning difficulties? In terms of the point he is making well art is often about giving voice to an excluded group. In this case those with dyslexia or autism or something...

Fuck it found it:
"The child in that song obviously has a learning difficulty. And it's only in the last few years that they've actually been able to diagnose these learning disabilities that before were looked at as misbehaviour, as just outright fucking rebelliousness. But no one knew what it was. And these kids, because they seemed unable or reluctant to learn, they'd end up getting the shit beaten outta them. The songs ends, you know, with this idea of the shades going down--so that the neighbours can't see what happens next. What hurts about shit like that is that it ends up defining peoples' lives. They have to live with that abuse for the rest of their lives. Good, creative people are just fucking destroyed." Ed

I personally love this song 5/5, the instrumentation is warm and if you look at this in the context of all the songs that go before it - all of ten and then Go, Animal - it was quite a shift. The its ok tag obviously makes it amazing as well.


I never really knew what was meant by 'the shades go down'...i'll never hear it the same again.


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BUMP!

Daughter shares one of my favorite musical qualities with Black and Jeremy, and it's something I havent heard a band to before, or since.
All of these songs start off soft and playful, with a sense of innocence. They gradually become darker, eventually crossing into the territory of damaged and frantic and spiraling out of control. You can pinpoint the exact moment when the song loses its innocence and becomes something more... something a bit more sinister. It's amazing.


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Love this song. Easily 5 stars.

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cutuphalfdead wrote:
Love this song. Easily 5 stars.

Absolutely.


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New appreciation for Daughter after I heard the tour bus demo from The Kids Are Twenty. So yes, 5 stars song. It's one of my favorites and was my all-time favorite for a while.


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Really good song with poorly executed lyrics (great vocal melody though). This is probably a 4* that suffers from over exposure.

First time I saw this they tagged WMA. Freaking amazing.

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i coulda sworn they tagged "empty spaces" by pink floyd onto this at some point

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one of the best songs of Pearl Jam, the melody, the groove, the lyrics..pretty much defines for me what i feel about PJ.


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