Song of the Moment: Lightning Bolt

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Re: New Song: Lightning Bolt

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benton netty wrote:The thing that gets me is, why not "She don't know where she was thrown from"? It would fit over the music just fine. Ed's just desperately trying to not end the line in a preposition.
He's been doing these weird adjustments to syntax since S/T
But I think in this case he wants a rhyme for you and me
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Ledbetterdays wrote:I have an app called sonic junky and ran it through that and it sounds so much better. Also I think the lyric in question is "but YOU don't know where from she was thrown" but the way Ed says it is butt choo dunno. However it does not fix the chorus.
Yes, I relistened and it very much sounds like 'but you don't know where from she was thrown'. Also, the next line seems to be 'like a burning meteor'.
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Yeah I think it's 'burning'.
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harmless wrote:Yeah I think it's 'burning'.
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The wait for the last album drove me mad. This one's boring as hell.
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Absolutely. That countdown clock is utterly pointless. I have always been excited for albums in the past (still am for this one), but it's so strange hearing nothing about it.
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And to look at the clock is just dispiriting. We'll get no more live performances until release date so unless anything else leaks by accident, there's nothing to wait for. Which might've been the case anyway, but at least without a countdown clock you maintain the mystery.
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harmless wrote:And to look at the clock is just dispiriting. We'll get no more live performances until release date so unless anything else leaks by accident, there's nothing to wait for. Which might've been the case anyway, but at least without a countdown clock you maintain the mystery.
nothing to wait for? we are waiting for the album, and im guessing they will reveal the tracklist soon.
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VinylGuy wrote:
harmless wrote:And to look at the clock is just dispiriting. We'll get no more live performances until release date so unless anything else leaks by accident, there's nothing to wait for. Which might've been the case anyway, but at least without a countdown clock you maintain the mystery.
nothing to wait for? we are waiting for the album, and im guessing they will reveal the tracklist soon.
No, I mean in the interim. If there was no countdown clock we could speculate on getting the tracklist, but I don't think there's any reason to think we'll get it before October 14th officially. They're not going to release some things via countdown clock and other things without it, are they?
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harmless wrote:
VinylGuy wrote:
harmless wrote:And to look at the clock is just dispiriting. We'll get no more live performances until release date so unless anything else leaks by accident, there's nothing to wait for. Which might've been the case anyway, but at least without a countdown clock you maintain the mystery.
nothing to wait for? we are waiting for the album, and im guessing they will reveal the tracklist soon.
No, I mean in the interim. If there was no countdown clock we could speculate on getting the tracklist, but I don't think there's any reason to think we'll get it before October 14th officially. They're not going to release some things via countdown clock and other things without it, are they?
I'm still wondering if the whole countdown shtick is alluding to something beyond a marketing chest puff.
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Thejambi wrote:
harmless wrote:
VinylGuy wrote:
harmless wrote:And to look at the clock is just dispiriting. We'll get no more live performances until release date so unless anything else leaks by accident, there's nothing to wait for. Which might've been the case anyway, but at least without a countdown clock you maintain the mystery.
nothing to wait for? we are waiting for the album, and im guessing they will reveal the tracklist soon.
No, I mean in the interim. If there was no countdown clock we could speculate on getting the tracklist, but I don't think there's any reason to think we'll get it before October 14th officially. They're not going to release some things via countdown clock and other things without it, are they?
I'm still wondering if the whole countdown shtick is alluding to something beyond a marketing chest puff.
i guess in about a month or so we are going to get the full tracklist and the real artwork.
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I'm pretty late to this party. Let me put out there that I LOVE this song. It is exactly what I want Pearl jam to sound like. I'm really glad this is on the record and glad that I'm going to be able to see this one live.
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VinylGuy wrote:
Thejambi wrote:
harmless wrote:
VinylGuy wrote:
harmless wrote:And to look at the clock is just dispiriting. We'll get no more live performances until release date so unless anything else leaks by accident, there's nothing to wait for. Which might've been the case anyway, but at least without a countdown clock you maintain the mystery.
nothing to wait for? we are waiting for the album, and im guessing they will reveal the tracklist soon.
No, I mean in the interim. If there was no countdown clock we could speculate on getting the tracklist, but I don't think there's any reason to think we'll get it before October 14th officially. They're not going to release some things via countdown clock and other things without it, are they?
I'm still wondering if the whole countdown shtick is alluding to something beyond a marketing chest puff.
i guess in about a month or so we are going to get the full tracklist and the real artwork.
I think it's the real artwork. I just wonder if the countdown is a theme or could they could something else.
Maybe it's when 10c goes public.
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harmless wrote:
benton netty wrote:The thing that gets me is, why not "She don't know where she was thrown from"? It would fit over the music just fine. Ed's just desperately trying to not end the line in a preposition.
He's been doing these weird adjustments to syntax since S/T
But I think in this case he wants a rhyme for you and me
Up here so high the sky I scrape.
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philpritchard wrote:
harmless wrote:
benton netty wrote:The thing that gets me is, why not "She don't know where she was thrown from"? It would fit over the music just fine. Ed's just desperately trying to not end the line in a preposition.
He's been doing these weird adjustments to syntax since S/T
But I think in this case he wants a rhyme for you and me
Up here so high the sky I scrape.
:search: Oh yeah. Weird syntax.
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I didn't see it discussed in this thread (could have missed it), but Ed sure seems to be expecting more from Mike there going into the ending. I don't recall seeing him curse in Mike's direction before. :lol:

I'm liking this song more and more.
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Hatfield wrote:I didn't see it discussed in this thread (could have missed it), but Ed sure seems to be expecting more from Mike there going into the ending. I don't recall seeing him curse in Mike's direction before.

I'm liking this song more and more.
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Yup. I'm looking forward to hearing it as they intended it to sound.
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harmless wrote:
Hatfield wrote:I didn't see it discussed in this thread (could have missed it), but Ed sure seems to be expecting more from Mike there going into the ending. I don't recall seeing him curse in Mike's direction before.

I'm liking this song more and more.
:thumbsup:

Yup. I'm looking forward to hearing it as they intended it to sound.
I think you'll discover that LB Live at Wrigley is pretty close to how it's intended to sound.
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LetMeSleep wrote:
harmless wrote:
Hatfield wrote:I didn't see it discussed in this thread (could have missed it), but Ed sure seems to be expecting more from Mike there going into the ending. I don't recall seeing him curse in Mike's direction before.

I'm liking this song more and more.
:thumbsup:

Yup. I'm looking forward to hearing it as they intended it to sound.
I think you'll discover that LB Live at Wrigley is pretty close to how it's intended to sound.
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So, I'm not listening to this or the other new one until I get the album version as I'm not sure if live versions are the best introduction to a song. Am I missing much?
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