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Rate Just Breathe
5 Stars: Absolutely Gorgeous 29%  29%  [ 26 ]
4 Stars: Beautiful 37%  37%  [ 33 ]
3 Stars: Average 21%  21%  [ 19 ]
2 Stars: Trite 5%  5%  [ 5 ]
1 Star: Trite and stuffed up 4%  4%  [ 4 ]
0 Stars: LOVE MAKE HULK ANGRY! 1%  1%  [ 1 ]
Total votes : 88
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 Post subject: Re: SOTM # 152: I'm a lucky man to count on both hands...
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when the bass kicks in here, it's pretty awesome.

Yeah that's my favorite thing about the song.

too bad it was mixed off in the ACL performance :?

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mastaflatch wrote:
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when the bass kicks in here, it's pretty awesome.

Yeah that's my favorite thing about the song.

too bad it was mixed off in the ACL performance :?


Yeah, but everything else sounded really nice - especially the chorus being less overblown.


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Great write-up, Stip. :thumbsup:

For me this song is flawless. It's not only my hands-down, far and away, obvious favorite on Backspacer, but this song is easily in my top 5 PJ tunes ever. This song just destroys me. Everytime I get a new PJ album, I listen to it all the way through without stoping once (except Binaural, I had to stop after Evacuation and pick it up again later). When Just Breathe hit my ears, I had to stop and listen to it again just after it finished. Once I was done with Backspacer, my wife asked, "what do you think?" Then I said, "did you hear this one? oh my god," and played JB again.

I love this song. I'd give it 10 stars if I could. I can't. So I gave it 5.

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i ended up listening to Just Breathe twice before finishing the rest of the album also

I was on a short 15 minute drive to somewhere listening to the album for the first time. When Just Breathe hit i was blown away by it, and stayed in the parking lot when I arrived at my destination to let the song finish. After i was done with my shopping or whatever I just had to listen to that song again

just beautiful...and it's quite annoying to play on guitar for me because I can't get the finger picking pattern down right :evil:

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5 star.

When they started playing this at Seattle 1 for the first time, I got an immediate reaction. I didn't listen to the album until the Easy Street release party, and with only 2 days between that and the show I barely had any time to get into the song, much as the touring mates left the album on repeat throughout that time.

Those of you who've seen me at shows know the mullet doesn't come off, with 1 exception before this surfaced, being Light Years.

When this came on, taking the silly wig and flag off was an automatic reaction, as was pulling the phone out to pick out the photo of the loved one. I barely looked at the stage then, for the rest of the song. The sentiment, so pure in Ed's delivery, just hit home, and it's been the same in the following 6 times live.

It's taken 19 years, and it's sooooo worth it.

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I often have to skip this song even though I usually NEVER skip songs on albums and just sit through songs I don't like that much. :| I like the music but Eddie annoys the fuck out of me on this song.

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Hinny wrote:
When they started playing this at Seattle 1 for the first time, I got an immediate reaction.


Whoops...I misread this to read:

Hinny wrote:
When they started playing this at Seattle 1 for the first time, I got an immediate erection.

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emanon wrote:
Hinny wrote:
When they started playing this at Seattle 1 for the first time, I got an immediate reaction.


Whoops...I misread this to read:

Hinny wrote:
When they started playing this at Seattle 1 for the first time, I got an immediate erection.


There is a difference? :?


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clint72 wrote:
emanon wrote:
Hinny wrote:
When they started playing this at Seattle 1 for the first time, I got an immediate reaction.


Whoops...I misread this to read:

Hinny wrote:
When they started playing this at Seattle 1 for the first time, I got an immediate erection.


There is a difference? :?

Not if you've met me and know what I'm like :)

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Hinny wrote:
clint72 wrote:
emanon wrote:
Hinny wrote:
When they started playing this at Seattle 1 for the first time, I got an immediate reaction.


Whoops...I misread this to read:

Hinny wrote:
When they started playing this at Seattle 1 for the first time, I got an immediate erection.


There is a difference? :?

Not if you've met me and know what I'm like :)


I can attest to this :D

EDIT: Aw shit! That didn't sound right did it? Oh well fuck it then :twisted:

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SOLAT319 wrote:
Hinny wrote:
clint72 wrote:
emanon wrote:
Hinny wrote:
When they started playing this at Seattle 1 for the first time, I got an immediate reaction.


Whoops...I misread this to read:

Hinny wrote:
When they started playing this at Seattle 1 for the first time, I got an immediate erection.


There is a difference? :?

Not if you've met me and know what I'm like :)


I can attest to this :D

EDIT: Aw shit! That didn't sound right did it? Oh well fuck it then :twisted:

Image

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Really like this 'unofficial' video version:



It's lifted from the Backspacer promo, but it all works and fits together so nicely. I like that it's so understated.

Who's responsible for this? Danny Clinch?


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The placement of this on the record steals a lot of the love I would have ordinarily had for it.

Im a big fan of Ed's quieter songs, he's got wonderful range and this one definitely is new territory, it being a pure love song. I think The End beats it into the hapenny place, and really overshadows it. But on a record with odd sequencing this definitely is one of the stranger placements.

It's a little too cheesy for me to really get into, not being used to this kind of song on a pearl jam record maybe down the road i'll get into it.

3 out of 5 is a reach but it's better than a 2 star.

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the chorus is still over the top but the verses are so gorgeous I don't care. They keep it from being a 5 star song, but this is still so good.

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I'm a lucky man to count on both hands the ones I love is one of my favorite Eddie lyrics in years

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I really like the song. I like the chorus a lot too. It makes me think of Cat Stevens.

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theplatypus wrote:
I really like the song. I like the chorus a lot too. It makes me think of Cat Stevens.


i don't dislike the chorus--but there's such a huge volume change and I think the contrast is a little too stark with the meditative confessional verses

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I didn't really love this song until I was in a real bad place and this song clicked with me, not in a very good way either, it would make me think of something I wouldn't have with someone I wanted. But it really made me feel something. Its hard for me to really rate this song because of that but I'll give it a 4 for making me feel.

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even tough i dont listen to it very much, it is a great song.

4 stars


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I kind of wish they would just commit to making a whole acoustic or laid back album of this style. Like ITW but with the full band there to add their part. I love this band as a rock band and all but they are getting up there and when Ed does songs like this and The End it seems really sincere and appropriate. Maybe its a contextual thing, this song doesn't sound like it should follow Johnny Guitar or even be on the same album.


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