Lightning Bolt: the official album thread

[stip]

What do we think of my 'They came back after the break and Ed fixered this album to the point that not even BoB is happy' conspiracy theory?

I wonder which song was penned by BOB.

"That's What Young People Do" - secret track.

ugh. Most dishearting quote about this album so far.

Yeah i think it beats Jeff- 'I got no clue i haven't listened to those songs in a year' and Stone - going from 'I think it's gonna alienate people' to ' it sounds like pearl jam'

"I think it's gonna alienate people, like No Code did." That's the single most depressing quote we have about the new album that never happened. Why do they always do this?

If someone (not me) chronicled everything these guys have said about the record I'm not sure we could conclude anything because they've said everything, and half of it contradicts the other shit.

"It's going to alienate people"
"we had to go back and write more songs because they sounded too much like backspacer" (same session as the alienate comment)
"it sounds like a logical progression of backspacer"
it sounds like the ramones
it sounds like motorhead
it sounds like pink floyd
it has some long songs on it
it has a pop song
it sounds like pearl jam

[stip]

What do we think of my 'They came back after the break and Ed fixered this album to the point that not even BoB is happy' conspiracy theory?

I wonder which song was penned by BOB.

"That's What Young People Do" - secret track.

ugh. Most dishearting quote about this album so far.

Yeah i think it beats Jeff- 'I got no clue i haven't listened to those songs in a year' and Stone - going from 'I think it's gonna alienate people' to ' it sounds like pearl jam'

what could have alienated people more than Backspacer II?

Once again, PJ are finding their world fame absolutely overwhelming so have created the genius off-kilter work Backspacer II to shrink their fanbase further.

it's going to be sad puzzles and games all over again

[harmless]

I think "It's going to alienate people" probably meant "Guys, you're going to hate it, it's Backspacer II, but I tried to stop them and it's not my fault."

[stip]

here's what we should be doing. Someone (not me) needs to go back and listen to that 1.5 second clip from that 8 second instagram video from a few months back (the song playing in the car) and figure out if it is sleeping by myself or future days.

[harmless]

That's an inspired idea, Stip. Where was the clip though?

[B]

That's an inspired idea, Stip. Where was the clip though?

https://vine.co/v/b2Px66xx6Tl

[stupidmop]

What do we think of my 'They came back after the break and Ed fixered this album to the point that not even BoB is happy' conspiracy theory?

I wonder which song was penned by BOB.

"That's What Young People Do" - secret track.

ugh. Most dishearting quote about this album so far.

Yeah i think it beats Jeff- 'I got no clue i haven't listened to those songs in a year' and Stone - going from 'I think it's gonna alienate people' to ' it sounds like pearl jam'

what could have alienated people more than Backspacer II?

You're right.

I wanna hear eddie complain that they were getting 'too mainstream' and that they put out all this hard to digest 'fun' music to turn people off, but some assholes still liked it and now he gets idiots screaming for just breathe at every show and a piece of him dies everytime he hears it on some shitty tv drama they sold the song to to piss people off.

If they carry this on they're not challenging thier audience, they're thinning it down to just the stalkers.

[harmless]

What do we think of my 'They came back after the break and Ed fixered this album to the point that not even BoB is happy' conspiracy theory?

I wonder which song was penned by BOB.

"That's What Young People Do" - secret track.

ugh. Most dishearting quote about this album so far.

Yeah i think it beats Jeff- 'I got no clue i haven't listened to those songs in a year' and Stone - going from 'I think it's gonna alienate people' to ' it sounds like pearl jam'

what could have alienated people more than Backspacer II?

You're right.

I wanna hear eddie complain that they were getting 'too mainstream' and that they put out all this hard to digest 'fun' music to turn people off, but some assholes still liked it and now he gets idiots screaming for just breathe at every show and a piece of him dies everytime he hears it on some shitty tv drama they sold the song to to piss people off.

If they carry this on they're not challenging thier audience, they're thinning it down to just the stalkers.

[harmless]

That's an inspired idea, Stip. Where was the clip though?

https://vine.co/v/b2Px66xx6Tl

I've just got a static pic of a 70s porn star guy grinning at me. It won't play.

[Dr. Van Nostrand]

That's an inspired idea, Stip. Where was the clip though?

https://vine.co/v/b2Px66xx6Tl

the clip is frozen for me

[EJ]

here's what we should be doing. Someone (not me) needs to go back and listen to that 1.5 second clip from that 8 second instagram video from a few months back (the song playing in the car) and figure out if it is sleeping by myself or future days.

I don't hear SBM at all in that microsecond clip.

Haven't heard FD, so can't comment on that.

In short, hi.

[B]

Don't cry to me b/c you can't see the vine clip. Learn to use the Internet, you whiners.

[stupidmop]

Click the embed button, then it should start playing on a the new page.

[Jorge]

here's what we should be doing. Someone (not me) needs to go back and listen to that 1.5 second clip from that 8 second instagram video from a few months back (the song playing in the car) and figure out if it is sleeping by myself or future days.

It's impossible to tell.

[stupidmop]

i think i hear the words 'morning so i' thats all i got. Is it definitley eddie?

[Dr. Van Nostrand]

Click the embed button, then it should start playing on a the new page.

that worked, thank you, and i have no idea

[stip]

i think i hear the words 'morning so i' thats all i got. Is it definitley eddie?

it sure sounds like him. I hope so, I love the feel of that clip. All 1 second of it

[Jorge]

i think i hear the words 'morning so i' thats all i got. Is it definitley eddie?

You can't hear those words, it's just what it sounds like. What you're hearing is three fractions, each less than a second long, from different parts of the song. The way that Vine works, it stops and starts recording when you touch the screen. If you look at the video, you can see where the cuts are.

So no, you're not actually hearing "morning so I", just three millisecond-short soundbites that, when stiched together, sound like "morning so I".

[Strat]

i think i hear the words 'morning so i' thats all i got. Is it definitley eddie?

You can't hear those words, it's just what it sounds like. What you're hearing is three fractions, each less than a second long, from different parts of the song. The way that Vine works, it stops and starts recording when you touch the screen. If you look at the video, you can see where the cuts are.

So no, you're not actually hearing "morning so I", just three millisecond-short soundbites that, when stiched together, sound like "morning so I".

[southp]

I think we need to have a Lightning Bolt timeline....when the Joseph Arthur vine thing came out, when the LB tour announcement came out with the song snippets, MYM, Soundcheck song, BOB interview, etc