Pearl Jam – Stupid Mop

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  General Comment:This piece of pretentious drivel, get it out of my face. Eddie Vedder is showing with this song that he IS the worst songwriter/singer in history. This song is a lame attempt at some Pink Floyd/Roger Waters meaning. Lest we forget that Pearl Jam are all heroin junkies too, that could play into it. Vedder could not write prose or poetry if he tried. Thank God this band has died off and been lost in the old 45 collection at the 5 and dime store. Just pray for no revival.

  Flagged vedderwhoon December 08, 2011   Link

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    Song... writer? Dude, this song has no lyrics, no one wrote it. It's a mental patient's conversation with a doctor and some experimental tape screwing of guitar and bass and drums. Also, you show how retarded you are in two further ways:
    One, Pearl Jam has not died off. They are still touring and making records.
    Two, only one member of Pearl Jam, Mike McCready, ever used heroin, and hasnt since the mid-90's.

    Flag Tig45on July 25, 2012  
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  General Comment:Scary song. It sucks you in and leads you through a swirling clutter of noise with suicide weighing heavily throughout, kurt cobain and the like, the voice fucks with you. Spanking? It's scary, but the first time I LISTENED to this I couldn't stop till it was done so intriguing like a dark place, frightening but what is in there?

  Flag STUPIDMOPon March 18, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:I heard about the "If Not For Me" poem on the Stupid Mop lyric page of Vitalogy, and I wondered what the crud that meant, so I played it backwards, and I only listened to it a little bit, but I think it's actually about a friend of the little girl's that is going insane, so the narrator man, the little girl, and the "doctor" have a conversation about it.
  Here's what little I found:
  
  Girl: Ah, he's losing his hat...I want him on the other side...He's losing his hat...
  Doctor: Don't you wish you hadn't made the recommendation?
  Don't you wish...
  Girl: He's losing his hat...
  Man (as if talking to the Doctor): It was the 21st of May. He took your dictation, too.
  Girl: Ah, I want him on the other side....
  He's losing his hat...
  Man: It was the 21st of May...
  
  I know this is kind of vague, but it's all I listened to.
  Discuss.

  Flag WilceraBJWon April 15, 2008   Link

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  General Comment:The first time i heard this song i was about to fall asleep listening to my friends ipod and it scared me shitless

  Flag pearljamkicks@55on October 13, 2007   Link

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  General Comment:very vague song this is. I never even bothered to really listen to what is said. I can relate to people saying its actually a scary song because of its insane words and repetitions. Maybe its just all a big joke, Vedder has a pretty special kind of humor i believe.

  Flag CCDevlinon January 13, 2007   Link

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  General Comment:Okay, this song scares the FREAKIN BEJESUS OUT OF ME!!! I don't know why, I have a cousin that only listens to death metal, which sucks, by the way, and this is the song that scares me. I like listening to albums in the dead of night, because you could hear the music clearer, and there is nothing to distract you, but when this came on, I stayed awake for about three hours. The voices, weird music, the part about committing suicide all scared me half to death.

  Flag TommyCap77on May 21, 2006   Link

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  General Comment:Vitalogy wasn't an album about Kurt's death,
  
  It was an attempt to try and kick "their fans" in the face...
  And by fans I mean people who were only listening to Pearl Jam because they were cool...
  
  The whole album is abrasive as hell and does not flow at all...
  and the wankery tracks (such as this one) were specifically placed to disrupt the flow of the album as an attempt to make people wake up and realize that Pearl Jam was more than just a fad, that they were musicians and people with rights....
  
  The only songs I would think were about Kurt were Last Exit, and possibly Immortality,...
  
  Although Eddie has said publicly that Immortality is NOT about Kurt Cobain, he also changed the lyrics of the whole song after Kurt was found....
  
  And though Last Exit was written before Kurt's death in '94, if you read The liner notes of Vitalogy, the lyrics for Last Exit are almost completely different from the ones the band uses...which suggests the ones in the book were the pre-suicide lyrics... and the ones they use now are about Kurt...
  
  But overall Vitalogy was an attempt to shed "fairweather fans" with songs like Not For You and Corduroy,... but they never read the lyrics to the songs lol....
  
  The very people Pearl Jam was trying to alienate with the music wound up liking it because it sounded cool and rocked while completely ignoring the messages directed at them...
  
  Vitalogy was basically a demand for privacy and rights, and also a demand for free creativity, basically a semi-commercially marketable album, about being anti commercial...
  
  That is where Vitalogy failed and No Code succeeded...
  Pearl Jam completely abandoned the grunge sound and instead took on a "If you are only listening to us because we are cool, then we'll stop being cool" kind of a sound....
  
  Which Ironically, was their best album :)

  Flag N0 C0DE 79on March 09, 2006   Link

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  General Comment:The song is a 're-mix' of a tape that one of the band found in an archive somewhere. The numerous high pitched voices you can hear aren't children, In fact - they all belong an old lady.
  
  The old lady was a mental patient from the eighties living out her days in a correctional assylum in the states for commiting many bizzare and perverse acts.
  
  The tape records a psychologist (The middle aged female voice) interviewing the 'mop handle mama' whilst the whole thing is narrated by a journalist (The male voice).
  
  Despite most of Vitalogy being songs that mourned Cobain's suicide, I doubt this song has anything to do with Kurt or Courtney

  Flag Spoonmanon February 19, 2006   Link

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  General Comment:i see it as a person who has problems, and does not care less. he has no problems. the interiewer believes he does.

  Flag veddermanon February 04, 2006   Link

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  General Comment:risht the song has a crazy person talking in it . it says go tell the world im crazy. when john left red hot chili peppers he said to people to tell the press that hes gone crazy. jack irons has gone crazy if thats nice to say. eddie has been drinking. he was really good friends with hillel slovak. put all this stuff together and you have stupid mop.

  Flag i love JFon April 18, 2005   Link

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