A reminder: It's /only/ evolution.

[Pope Pixie Pickle]

Yea I EVEN like Last Kiss.

I am incurable fangirl.

[Freeky]

OH WHERE OH WHERE CAN MY BAAAAAAABY BE?  THE LORD TOOK HER AWAY FROM ME!

you even like that one?

You know that's a cover, right?

I know.  All versions of that song are mind-blowingly awful, but I have a much greater statistical chance of hearing the Pearl Jam version which is somewhere between Lovecraftian abomination and apocalyptically bad. 

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

That song is actually possibly my least favorite song out of all songs, and that cover of it exponentially so.

[AFK]

I think basically what happened is the Pearl Jam stopped taking all of their inspiration from Neil Young and The Who and started taking it from U2 and Bob Dylan. 

[Kai]

What was the Pearl Jam track linked?

I love Pearl Jam. Hell I even liked no code.

Hell Eddie Vedder is like a personal god to me.

Do the Evolution. The music video (I'm sure you know) is a perfect masterpiece.

[AFK]

It is a pretty bad ass video, no doubt. 

[Pope Pixie Pickle]

101% troof.

[Captain Utopia]

It's much better in HD:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z07t6yXGLBQ&hd=1

Holy fuck that was intense.

This is better: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Cd36WJ79z4&hd=1

[Kai]

Ah, no. Symphony of Science is nice, but Do the Evolution speaks more about human self destruction than any I have ever seen.

Also, Poetry of Reality is one of the more uninteresting of Melodysheep's remixes.

[Captain Utopia]

Okay - bad counterpoint!  Let me try again.

This is not a good video to watch when depressed with humanity.

Or maybe it is.

I've spoken with folk who are convinced that we are heading straight into a future like that as portrayed in "1984".  Likewise a quick scan of the comments for the video show a common sentiment that there is a truth to this, in that it is our likely future:

• juanshaggymierda; 5 months ago; "WHAT THE FUCK!!!!  EDDIE GOT IT!!! he's a prophet..."
• DanTeKJ; 9 months ago; "2010 wach it go to fire... 3 months left baby!"
• 12klost; 6 months ago; "this is A BIBBLE ..."

Like - either they've been sucked in by the fiction, or they latch onto it because it is compatible with an existing reality tunnel.

But I see both pieces as nightmare visions most useful to be taken as warnings to guide our current actions.  As in, it'd be stupid to let something like that depress you, less stupid to get angry about it, and pretty awesome if it inspired you to take a stand next time you see something which makes you remember the warning.

[Kai]

I see it as descriptive, not predictive.

[Faust]

I see it as descriptive, not predictive.

All of the imagery is taken from existing historical scenes so I would say predictive is a completely redundant term.