4 Comments on “Episode 225: A Failure of Social Institutions as Represented by the Recess Lady”

1. Rambler Aug 26th 2016 9:05 am #

   If Ten is the anti-HungerGames…. is Temple of the Dog the Anti-Hunger Games or the Hunger anti-Games?

   TFT Listener question:
   Is there usually a large gap or a small gap between coverage of music you actually listen to?

   {This week represents the first time there has been back to back episodes covering “Music I personally listen to”.
   The biggest gap has been from London Calling (128) to War (172). }

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2. Rich Aug 26th 2016 6:19 pm #

   I was a college DJ when this album came out in 1991. Right before it broke I had a guy call my show every week and request Mother Love Bone. This is am album that got a ton of play on my college radio station.

   I think you should have dung into the title of the album a little

   Alive.

   As a young man of 19 I felt like the young man in the song. Now I feel the young man, who is angry at his mother does not understand the life his mother lived. He is oblivious of the dangers she faced in the relationship with his birth father. That relationship was either one of abuse, substance abuse, or some other danger.

   At the end of the song she is happy she is still alive. The boy ask “Oh, and do I deserve to be? Is that the question? And if so, if so, who answers? Who answers?” The mother sings the last chorus. She is the one who is proud she survived.

   I… I’m still alive
   Hey I… But, I’m still alive
   Hey I… Boy, I’m still alive
   Hey I… Oh, I’m still alive. Yeah
   Ooh yeah. Yeah yeah yeah. Oh. Ooh

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   • Peter Fenzel OTI Staff Aug 28th 2016 7:10 pm #

     I had a whole bunch of info on Mookie Blaylock queued up, but, unfortunately, there was never time to get #10 into the mix. :-)

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3. Rich Aug 29th 2016 7:59 pm #

   I guess I have to span Vs. to make this work. The second song on Vs. animal starts:

   One, two, three, four, five against one
   Five, five, five against one

   Quoting this, a college professor put the idea in my head. that five against one is not Pearl Jam v. one person, but a fist v. a person.

   Ten could be the two hand in a fist
   Ten could be the number of fists in Pearl Jam.
   Ten vs. (the world in terms of the first two albums)

   Just overthinking.

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