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Setting Forth has leaked as well. I'll put up lyrics tomorrow if no one else gets around to transcribing them before then. Remember--links to commerical material CANNOT be posted.
Thoughts? I'll write more tomorrow. This one feels like it'll be greatly improved with a better leak as a bit more is happening here than some of the other leaks. Also really short although it doesn't quite leave you hanging the way No Ceiling does. It reminds me a bit of Felicity's Suprise for those of you who know that song. he's also hitting those high notes he jsut can't do anymore, which is unfortunate. If you want to sing these songs Eddie you've got to stop smoking
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stip wrote:
Setting Forth has leaked as well. I'll put up lyrics tomorrow if no one else gets around to transcribing them before then. Remember--links to commerical material CANNOT be posted.
Thoughts? I'll write more tomorrow. This one feels like it'll be greatly improved with a better leak as a bit more is happening here than some of the other leaks. Also really short although it doesn't quite leave you hanging the way No Ceiling does. It reminds me a bit of Felicity's Suprise for those of you who know that song. he's also hitting those high notes he jsut can't do anymore, which is unfortunate. If you want to sing these songs Eddie you've got to stop smoking
Beautiful. But i think he's purposely singing that way. Its rough and gruff and fitting for this type of album/sotry/song...
He sings hard sun beautiful so the voice is still there...
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he DOES sound like a 2-packets a day man on that one (and I don't like it, the sound I mean..the smoking obviously, want to keep the man around for a LONG while!..come one Eddie, you can quit, it's not that hard ..and yes, I should know)
but I think 62strat is right and he pushes the effect on purpose. he can hit those notes if he wants..see Love Reign O'er Me (and yes he can do it live, he did in Copenhagen, though he didn't try at the Vic)
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conoalias wrote:
stip wrote:
If you want to sing these songs Eddie you've got to stop smoking
slightly, if not totally off topic, do you think if he really stopped smoking his voice would come back as in the old days?
no. He's older and years of singing stuff like blood and STBC is gonna fuck you up. But it can still sound better. It's the high notes really (the heeees) It's really noticable at the end of all or none or Oceans live too. A note that should be high, clear, and powerful sounds strangled and weak and reedy. I don't think that is something he can fix in the studio, and these aren't notes he was trying to hit in a song like LROM (where I think he sounds great). He also isn't trying to get these notes on Hard Sun (he does the ooooohhhhhsssss, which are pitched lower). he sounds gorgeous on his vocal fills leading into the final verse on that one, but those notes are also pitched lower than the ones he is failing to hit here.
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stip wrote:
conoalias wrote:
stip wrote:
If you want to sing these songs Eddie you've got to stop smoking
slightly, if not totally off topic, do you think if he really stopped smoking his voice would come back as in the old days?
no. He's older and years of singing stuff like blood and STBC is gonna fuck you up. But it can still sound better. It's the high notes really (the heeees) It's really noticable at the end of all or none or Oceans live too. A note that should be high, clear, and powerful sounds strangled and weak and reedy. I don't think that is something he can fix in the studio, and these aren't notes he was trying to hit in a song like LROM (where I think he sounds great). He also isn't trying to get these notes on Hard Sun (he does the ooooohhhhhsssss, which are pitched lower). he sounds gorgeous on his vocal fills leading into the final verse on that one, but those notes are also pitched lower than the ones he is failing to hit here.
yea but have you heard the soft high notes he hits at the end of black during a live show?
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62strat wrote:
stip wrote:
conoalias wrote:
stip wrote:
If you want to sing these songs Eddie you've got to stop smoking
slightly, if not totally off topic, do you think if he really stopped smoking his voice would come back as in the old days?
no. He's older and years of singing stuff like blood and STBC is gonna fuck you up. But it can still sound better. It's the high notes really (the heeees) It's really noticable at the end of all or none or Oceans live too. A note that should be high, clear, and powerful sounds strangled and weak and reedy. I don't think that is something he can fix in the studio, and these aren't notes he was trying to hit in a song like LROM (where I think he sounds great). He also isn't trying to get these notes on Hard Sun (he does the ooooohhhhhsssss, which are pitched lower). he sounds gorgeous on his vocal fills leading into the final verse on that one, but those notes are also pitched lower than the ones he is failing to hit here.
yea but have you heard the soft high notes he hits at the end of black during a live show?
but they are very soft and very tentitive. It works as a cool down at the end of the song but not in the middle of a build. To my ears anyway
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"Setting Forth" Lyrics
Being, no concern Point of no return Go forward and reverse This I will recall Yeah, every time I fall
Keep setting forth in the universe Keep setting forth in the universe
Out here realigned A planet out of sight On nature drunk and high
Keep... Keep...
ohhhhhh...
_________________ I waited all day
you waited all day
but you left before sunset
and I just wanted to tell you
that the moment was beautiful
just wanted to dance to bad music
drive bad cars
watch bad tv
should have stayed for the sunset
if not for me
Joined: Sat Mar 11, 2006 5:06 am Posts: 3146 Location: Orange County, California
This definitely sounds like an REM song to me...especially the chorus
_________________ I waited all day
you waited all day
but you left before sunset
and I just wanted to tell you
that the moment was beautiful
just wanted to dance to bad music
drive bad cars
watch bad tv
should have stayed for the sunset
if not for me
Joined: Sat Mar 11, 2006 5:06 am Posts: 3146 Location: Orange County, California
I like it. It's more upbeat than some of the others which is a nice change of pace. Unlike a lot of people, I really like the scratchy falsetto vocals in the chorus (reminiscent of the high vocals in parachutes). I think it's a good, quick, energetic opener.
_________________ I waited all day
you waited all day
but you left before sunset
and I just wanted to tell you
that the moment was beautiful
just wanted to dance to bad music
drive bad cars
watch bad tv
should have stayed for the sunset
if not for me
I like it a lot. I think it's a great album opener (considering time constraints). It's basically the chorus of a song with a short bridge to an outro. Very very Vedder, just short and yes, REM's influence is here. Wonderful. Love the way the next song rolls in with it's rhythmic change. They work well together, the first song provides the impetus to move, and the second song takes it up.
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