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Is there a more perfect rock song than Pearl Jam's Black?

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Hitman

Edmonton's milkshake attracts no boys.
I don't think there is. And I doubt anyone can prove me wrong. Pearl Jam's Black is the greatest rock song ever. What are your thoughts on this godly song?
 
J

Jill Sandwich

the turds of Optimus Prime
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O

Optimistic

Member
AniHawk said:
If I'm not joking about "Limp Bizkit's" Behind Blue Eyes, I am the joke.
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And yes, Hitman, there is. See Soma and Mayonaise by the Smashing Pumpkins, All Along The Watchtower (Hendrix version...along with about a gazillion others of his songs), a slew of Led Zeppelin stuff...hell, Black's a damn good song but there are plenty of other songs by other bands that are just as good or better.
 
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tt_deeb

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And Stairway isn't in my top 10 Led Zeppelin songs. Iunno, I just don't see the big deal too much. I like it, but not that much. And is it just me or does the lyric "Cause we all know words can have two meanings" bother me a lot.
 
R

RevenantKioku

PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS oh god i am drowning in them
tt_deeb said:
And is it just me or does the lyric "Cause we all know words can have two meanings" bother me a lot.
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"And you know sometimes words have two meanings"
(very) subtle difference.
It doesn't bother me.
 
C

Chony

Member
Hitman said:
I don't think there is. And I doubt anyone can prove me wrong. Pearl Jam's Black is the greatest rock song ever. What are your thoughts on this godly song?
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How much more Black can you get? The answer is none, none more black.
 
D

Desperado

Member

Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide
No escape from reality
Open your eyes
Look up to the skies and see
I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy
Because I'm easy come, easy go
A little high, little low
Anyway the wind blows, doesn't really matter to me, to me

Mama, just killed a man
Put a gun against his head
Pulled my trigger, now he's dead
Mama, life had just begun
But now I've gone and thrown it all away
Mama, ooo
Didn't mean to make you cry
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow
Carry on, carry on, as if nothing really matters

Too late, my time has come
Sends shivers down my spine
Body's aching all the time
Goodbye everybody - I've got to go
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth
Mama, ooo - (anyway the wind blows)
I don't want to die
I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all

I see a little silhouetto of a man
Scaramouch, scaramouch will you do the fandango
Thunderbolt and lightning - very very frightening me
Gallileo, Gallileo,
Gallileo, Gallileo,
Gallileo Figaro - magnifico

But I'm just a poor boy and nobody loves me
He's just a poor boy from a poor family
Spare him his life from this monstrosity
Easy come easy go - will you let me go
Bismillah! No - we will not let you go - let him go
Bismillah! We will not let you go - let him go
Bismillah! We will not let you go - let me go
Will not let you go - let me go (never)
Never let you go - let me go
Never let me go - ooo
No, no, no, no, no, no, no -
Oh mama mia, mama mia, mama mia let me go
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me
for me
for me

So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye
So you think you can love me and leave me to die
Oh baby - can't do this to me baby
Just gotta get out - just gotta get right outta here

Ooh yeah, ooh yeah
Nothing really matters
Anyone can see
Nothing really matters - nothing really matters to me

Anyway the wind blows...
 
G

GDGF

Soothsayer
As much as I love Black (and it is my second favorite Pearl Jam song) I must say that Lover, You Should've Come Over by Jeff Buckley kicks the shit out of it.
 
H

Hitman

Edmonton's milkshake attracts no boys.
I can't beleive all the blasphemous crap I'm hearing in this thread. BLACK > ALL
 
L

Leon

Junior Member
Lost Weekend said:
I must say that Lover, You Should've Come Over by Jeff Buckley kicks the shit out of it.
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WOooOo, I seriously didn't see that coming, but that song is my current favorite of all-time! Not a whole lot of people know of it, let alone like it.
 
M

Matlock

Banned
Are you gonna take me home tonight
Ah down beside that red firelight
Are you gonna let it all hang out
Fat bottomed girls
You make the rockin' world go round

Hey I was just a skinny lad
Never knew no good from bad
But I knew life before I left my nursery
Left alone with big fat Fanny
She was such a naughty nanny
Heap big woman you made a bad boy out of me
Hey hey!

I've been singing with my band
Across the wire across the land
I seen ev'ry blue eyed floozy on the way
But their beauty and their style
Went kind of smooth after a while
Take me to them dirty ladies every time

Oh won't you take me home tonight?
Oh down beside your red firelight
Oh and you give it all you got
Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin' world go round
Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin' world go round

Hey listen here
Now your mortgages and homes
I got stiffness in the bones
Ain't no beauty queens in this locality (I tell you)
Oh but I still get my pleasure
Still got my greatest treasure
Heap big woman you gonna make a big man out of me
Now get this

Oh you gonna take me home tonight (please)
Oh down beside your red firelight
Oh you gonna let it all hang out
Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin' world go round
Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin' world go round
Get on your bikes and ride

Oooh yeah them fat bottomed girls
Fat bottomed girls
Yeah yeah yeah
Fat bottomed girls
Yes yes
 
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Ninja Scooter

Member
Matlock said:
Are you gonna take me home tonight
Ah down beside that red firelight
Are you gonna let it all hang out
Fat bottomed girls
You make the rockin' world go round

Hey I was just a skinny lad
Never knew no good from bad
But I knew life before I left my nursery
Left alone with big fat Fanny
She was such a naughty nanny
Heap big woman you made a bad boy out of me
Hey hey!

I've been singing with my band
Across the wire across the land
I seen ev'ry blue eyed floozy on the way
But their beauty and their style
Went kind of smooth after a while
Take me to them dirty ladies every time

Oh won't you take me home tonight?
Oh down beside your red firelight
Oh and you give it all you got
Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin' world go round
Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin' world go round

Hey listen here
Now your mortgages and homes
I got stiffness in the bones
Ain't no beauty queens in this locality (I tell you)
Oh but I still get my pleasure
Still got my greatest treasure
Heap big woman you gonna make a big man out of me
Now get this

Oh you gonna take me home tonight (please)
Oh down beside your red firelight
Oh you gonna let it all hang out
Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin' world go round
Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin' world go round
Get on your bikes and ride

Oooh yeah them fat bottomed girls
Fat bottomed girls
Yeah yeah yeah
Fat bottomed girls
Yes yes
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M

MASB

Member
Desperado said:

Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
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The only reason I recognize this song is because Weird Al parodied it. Weird Al has indirectly introduced me to a lot of songs I hadn't heard before I heard his parody. Thanks Weird Al!
 
W

Wolfy

Banned
Nothing Else Matters isn't even close to being Metallica's best let alone the best rock song of all time.
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I think it's right up there with master of puppets and ride the lightning.
 
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