Lightning Bolt: the official album thread

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Rank Lightning Bolt

5 stars
1
1%
4 stars
4
5%
3 stars
29
37%
2 stars
30
38%
1 star
14
18%
 
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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stip wrote:
harmless wrote:I'm waiting to be pleasantly surprised with LB. The live version has grown on me quite a lot but its flaws haven't disappeared.
Both porch and RVM came on shuffle on my drive home, and I wonder if LB live is extended the way those two are, and if so, I wonder how the condensed version works.
Same here. They could compensate for the shorter length with some interesting sounds in production, or they could something else. They could just leave it as the song it is. It might even be strengthened by being a more humble 3 minutes; or just more boring. I just don't know.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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stip wrote:
theplatypus wrote:Waiting to be pleasantly surprised means you won't be pleasantly surprised, unless you are, because that would be surprising and presumably pleasant, but unlikely, because you're waiting for it
I am trying to follow this while my daugther is sitting in my lap grunting, wincing, and crying because she has to fart, and I just can't do it.
Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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theplatypus wrote:
stip wrote:
theplatypus wrote:Waiting to be pleasantly surprised means you won't be pleasantly surprised, unless you are, because that would be surprising and presumably pleasant, but unlikely, because you're waiting for it
I am trying to follow this while my daugther is sitting in my lap grunting, wincing, and crying because she has to fart, and I just can't do it.
Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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theplatypus wrote:
stip wrote:
theplatypus wrote:Waiting to be pleasantly surprised means you won't be pleasantly surprised, unless you are, because that would be surprising and presumably pleasant, but unlikely, because you're waiting for it
I am trying to follow this while my daugther is sitting in my lap grunting, wincing, and crying because she has to fart, and I just can't do it.
Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
I am starting to come around to this whole platypus account thing.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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Alex wrote:
theplatypus wrote:
stip wrote:
theplatypus wrote:Waiting to be pleasantly surprised means you won't be pleasantly surprised, unless you are, because that would be surprising and presumably pleasant, but unlikely, because you're waiting for it
I am trying to follow this while my daugther is sitting in my lap grunting, wincing, and crying because she has to fart, and I just can't do it.
Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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Kevin Davis wrote:
Lament wrote:While I don't believe in the tortured artist myth per se, out of curiosity...

How many records can you name that you love which you would say are truly composed from a point of happiness/contentment/joy?
Dylan's "Nashville Skyline" is always the example I give of a light, happy record that really works.

Until I threw it all away.... :(
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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theplatypus wrote:
stip wrote:
theplatypus wrote:Waiting to be pleasantly surprised means you won't be pleasantly surprised, unless you are, because that would be surprising and presumably pleasant, but unlikely, because you're waiting for it
I am trying to follow this while my daugther is sitting in my lap grunting, wincing, and crying because she has to fart, and I just can't do it.
Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
definitely possibly
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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stupidmop wrote:It'll kick in eventually. September maybe. Or 14/15th Sept with one month to go.
can we get a countdown clock for that then ?
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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Dr. Van Nostrand wrote:
stupidmop wrote:It'll kick in eventually. September maybe. Or 14/15th Sept with one month to go.
can we get a countdown clock for that then ?
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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harmless wrote:
Dr. Van Nostrand wrote:
stupidmop wrote:It'll kick in eventually. September maybe. Or 14/15th Sept with one month to go.
can we get a countdown clock for that then ?

http://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/ge ... 1%21&csz=1


:hooray:
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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Strat wrote:
harmless wrote:
Dr. Van Nostrand wrote:
stupidmop wrote:It'll kick in eventually. September maybe. Or 14/15th Sept with one month to go.
can we get a countdown clock for that then ?

http://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/ge ... 1%21&csz=1


:hooray:
lets mainpage that thing up, B
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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I would like to recind all rights to the the idea that something will happen on the 15th.

This is going to be a bigger flop than the the first pj.com one, when fuck all happens, and i fear harmless will finally snap and hunt me down for lying.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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around 15th is a realistic guess IMO. I think they will release another single in the beginning of October.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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:gomez: You boys, you get my hopes up and then let me down.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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Strat wrote:
harmless wrote:
Dr. Van Nostrand wrote:
stupidmop wrote:It'll kick in eventually. September maybe. Or 14/15th Sept with one month to go.
can we get a countdown clock for that then ?

http://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/ge ... 1%21&csz=1


:hooray:
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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I just noticed this, sorry if someone pointed this out already.

When AN posted the latest "rumored" tracklist floating around (http://www.alternativenation.net/?p=30997), "PJ" - the guy who apparently knew ahead of time about MYM and Sirens - had this to say: "2,4,5,6,8,9 are all legit. I have no idea about the rest." Which doesn't reveal a whole lot more than what we already knew but it does suggest that Sleeping By Myself is legit.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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bluestate wrote:I just noticed this, sorry if someone pointed this out already.

When AN posted the latest "rumored" tracklist floating around (http://www.alternativenation.net/?p=30997), "PJ" - the guy who apparently knew ahead of time about MYM and Sirens - had this to say: "2,4,5,6,8,9 are all legit. I have no idea about the rest." Which doesn't reveal a whole lot more than what we already knew but it does suggest that Sleeping By Myself is legit.
yeah, confirming SBM would be the only new info there, but still nice to know, thanks for posting that.

now i wonder if he is saying the songs and their position on the album are legit, or just the songs?
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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Dr. Van Nostrand wrote:
bluestate wrote:I just noticed this, sorry if someone pointed this out already.

When AN posted the latest "rumored" tracklist floating around (http://www.alternativenation.net/?p=30997), "PJ" - the guy who apparently knew ahead of time about MYM and Sirens - had this to say: "2,4,5,6,8,9 are all legit. I have no idea about the rest." Which doesn't reveal a whole lot more than what we already knew but it does suggest that Sleeping By Myself is legit.
yeah, confirming SBM would be the only new info there, but still nice to know, thanks for posting that.

now i wonder if he is saying the songs and their position on the album are legit, or just the songs?
Perhaps I can answer your question with another question, if I may. Where's the Sponge?
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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E.H. Ruddock wrote:
Dr. Van Nostrand wrote:
bluestate wrote:I just noticed this, sorry if someone pointed this out already.

When AN posted the latest "rumored" tracklist floating around (http://www.alternativenation.net/?p=30997), "PJ" - the guy who apparently knew ahead of time about MYM and Sirens - had this to say: "2,4,5,6,8,9 are all legit. I have no idea about the rest." Which doesn't reveal a whole lot more than what we already knew but it does suggest that Sleeping By Myself is legit.
yeah, confirming SBM would be the only new info there, but still nice to know, thanks for posting that.

now i wonder if he is saying the songs and their position on the album are legit, or just the songs?
Perhaps I can answer your question with another question, if I may. Where's the Sponge?
The answer is in the tracklist itself.... in the Undertow.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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bodysnatcher wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
Dr. Van Nostrand wrote:
bluestate wrote:I just noticed this, sorry if someone pointed this out already.

When AN posted the latest "rumored" tracklist floating around (http://www.alternativenation.net/?p=30997), "PJ" - the guy who apparently knew ahead of time about MYM and Sirens - had this to say: "2,4,5,6,8,9 are all legit. I have no idea about the rest." Which doesn't reveal a whole lot more than what we already knew but it does suggest that Sleeping By Myself is legit.
yeah, confirming SBM would be the only new info there, but still nice to know, thanks for posting that.

now i wonder if he is saying the songs and their position on the album are legit, or just the songs?
Perhaps I can answer your question with another question, if I may. Where's the Sponge?
The answer is in the tracklist itself.... in the Undertow.
its all coming together :shock:
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