Can we talk about Concessions?

Concessions. It’s a long-ass song and it’s not awesome in its current form.

What if - and hear me out here, friends - what if they just straight up removed all of the heavy parts and left the reggae parts and the bliss jam > end. If would be much better, right? Can we agree on this? Easily cut 5 min from the song and make it much less of a slog.

Can we encourage the band to make some concessions and make Concessions better?

The reggae can go lol.

I enjoy all the parts of the song, the problem from a live setting is it’s just danceable until 15 minutes in. They could probably make 2 good originals out of it rather than eat up 25% of a set each play.

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I like it too and think the band did a hood job putting the parts together but I’m more of a fan of Raw Stewage songs composed of two Stews vs 3 or more…makes it more concise.

It’s rare that they write something that I absolutely loath and that section is definitely one of them.

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Curious if you ever heard the source Stew from the September 07 Canopy Club Nemo? That was probably one of the top 10 lyrical Stews I’ve seen so I have a soft spot for it, I particularly love the ending of that jam but that’s not what they wanted out of the lego for Concessions…

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Love that Nemo Stew, what kinda bugs me is changing the lyrics, it just sounds kinda weird.

I prefer Unevolved to Concessions just by a little bit. The 3/15/07 dump city section in Unevolved is killer.

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I was so happy I was able to help pick Stews that were nominated…probably why I love pretty much all the Raw Stewage songs. Except Fly Like a Beagle…those Jake vox ruined perhaps one of my favorite Stews of all time and I like Jake songs more than most.

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Unpopular opinion but I loved that Raw Stew tune from '16?, I think it was Downtrodden, that had the Jake vox that sounded a bit in the style of Bowie. Pretty sure everyone else hated that but that tune was cool as hell.

Lol, I actually meant Downtrodden in my post above yours. I think he was just a little too much, it would be acceptable if he toned down the vocal delivery a notch.

End of concessions is my fucking jam and I love it so much. Rest of the song is ok, but I skip to the end every time. I like the lyrics they added as well, cause you know I can relate to them haaaard.

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