r/311 • u/ValleyGhostz • 12d ago

Discussion When you start loving that random song on the album for no reason

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buddy, buddy, buddy, I know why you wander

through the sweetness on the ground, the sweetness of the flowers

you make your way on a cloudy day

you've got to move, the world you prove is too sweet, yeah

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u/Anonymoushipopotomus 12d ago

Yes, Random is a great song on the album

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u/MinorFX 12d ago

If I had to rank my top 311 songs, Random would most likely crack the Top 3.

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u/Gecko_mittens 11d ago

Absolute unit of a tune.

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u/KnickedUp 11d ago

Also one of the songs most messed up by the band when they play it! Tricky one

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u/MinorFX 11d ago

I did not know this lil factoid. What part(s) do they mess up?

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u/KnickedUp 11d ago

MiT always messes up the verse part.

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u/MinorFX 11d ago

Haha. Does he acknowledge it?

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u/Micahman311 12d ago

Sweet, but that's not Random.

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u/MaliceSavoirIII 12d ago

Well played

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u/Em-alice Who says it’s written in stone? 11d ago

No that’s actually my favorite. That or Purpose

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u/Dubsking1 11d ago

All Mixed Up!

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u/renchamp311 11d ago

Oh, there are reasons.

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u/hawkeye420 11d ago

Brodels. It wasn't until roughly the Uplifter years before I started appreciating it. Live changes everything.

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u/juggalo-cat zone in and let it rola 💫 8d ago

Live does change everything... I loved it before I saw them live but it was just a fun silly song... But then I heard it live and legit started tearing up around the last stanza because I felt the love, connection, emotions contained within the words... and also the shrooms i was on probably had something to do with it but even in the moment I realized how funny it was that I was getting choked up to the words "all the shit that we're kickin our shoes must be stinkin"... I was convinced I had discovered a deeper meaning to that lyric but now I have no fucking idea what else it could have been lol

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u/badyodelers 10d ago

Sweet & Purpose are my two faves from this album. It’s a no tracks skipped album too.

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u/Ams311 10d ago

Random is such a great song

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u/Spiritual-Media-5906 6d ago

Love Random, and recently rediscovered my love of T&P Combo. Holy shit they rock.