Yup, truly awesome tune. I have no idea when it was played live. This song and Miss This always seemed to harken back to the old days of the band in an era they seemed to be trying to distance themselves from all that. I'm not sure I'd call it Punk Rock but as a mid-tempo rocker, it ranks up there w...

Why does a song have to be logical to be good? If that's your only objection to it... You are absolutely right. Songs don't have to be logical to be good. The lack of logic that I pointed out was more to reinforce my second point, being that the song isn't saying much of anything at all. You aren't...

hahahaha! The Snake!!! What an awesome tune. Pure screwball SA! Love it!

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Hahahaha! Damn good point Phil! I have no idea why i wrote that the way I did. Cartoon IS Dan's best tune. Got a lot of love for all his stuff though. He's got a higher batting average than Dave. Nowhere to Go, Can't go Back, Long Way Home, Gullible's Travels, Promises Broken, Blood into Wine, Refle...

crap. i just wrote a huge reply and somehow it got fried. Oh well, here goes again. Well put Phil and Dells. Your interpretations are are equally valid and give a lot to think about. I can definitely see the metaphor of the string of pearls. I would change one thing in your theory though. I would sa...

Spodiba, Awesome. can't wait to hear what you have to say. Although, it was Dells message that initially inspired me to go into, upon reflection, possibly too much detail. And actually to be completely honest, I really used to like String of Pearls. Me and my buddy used to jam it all the time and sc...

Haha! good point! Let's get this back on topic :) Totally agreed. Most Greatest Hits CDs are 2 lies for the price of one. In SA'a case it's quite hard to say which songs were bonafide hits of the commercial radio/MTV airplay variety. There certainly weren't 14 or 15 that would fall into that categor...

Hi Yaz Pretty good setlist you've got there. Nice to see some love for the preGDU era! Very interesting that you bring up Escher (my favorite artist BTW!) because in a way you actually reinforce my argument there. The whole point (there's that word again) of Escher is to not make sense (although it ...

I'm quite sure there have been a few other "what is your best of playlist?" threads already. Track them down and add to it to restart those threads if you are interested. But anyway, here's why I'm not a fan of "string of pearls". Like I said, I don't think the song makes sense and I also don't thin...

huh. I guess I agree with Phil (as I usually do) except for his saying that 'String of Pearls' is a good story song. Sorry, not a fan of that one. It would be ok if made any sense and had a point. It's a very GDU era heavy setlist. I prefer the pre GDU era so I'm glad to see it represented with a fe...