Lightning Bolt: the official album thread

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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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Sgt. Crackpot wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:Can someone just PM me when the tracklist is released so that I can stop checking this thread? Thanks.
OK man, I can do it. May need to have one or two others volunteer too just in case I'm wiped out in some bizarrely misplaced explosion or otherwise unfortunate incident.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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Where's the Crackpot?
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LetMeSleep wrote:Where's the Crackpot?
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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49 days.

or 8 days if you're a Berliner and want to listen to BoB.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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LetMeSleep wrote:49 days.

or 8 days if you're a Berliner and want to listen to BoB.
He's actually going to perform the album all by himself that night.
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Sgt. Crackpot wrote:I've come to accept this thread. But I've only been able to do so by letting go of the fact that I have more chance of flubbering on the the Queen's mutton flaps, than gleaning any useful information from this band.
Fixed.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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LetMeSleep wrote:49 days.

or 8 days if you're a Berliner and want to listen to BoB.
was that listening party gonna get to hear the whole album?
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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I presume so? Wouldn't it be pretty weird for a listening party if you only heard a few songs? I've never been to one though so i have no idea.

If they do, that means theres a good chance we could get the tracklisting from there, do press usually attend these things? we might get some song descriptions too.

Any germans here that want to take one for the team and go?
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http://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/Gre ... jeff-ament

This article is an excellent read. It's an interview with artist Andy Smetanka who helped with the animation for the MYM video. Here's an interesting excerpt:

"Another great thing about the digital process was that it created, as a sort of happy by-product of the animation, literally thousands of huge JPG files for the band to incorporate into both the Electronic Press Kit and the album artwork for the upcoming release! Double bonus!"

Uh? So as of 8/23, the album artwork may still not be finished? :shock:

Also, here's another interesting snippet:

"Are you a Pearl Jam fan or, if not, have you been converted in any way?
AS: I don't own any Pearl Jam recordings apart from a CD burn of just this one song, but I definitely consider myself a fan of the band, more for what they stand for than for the music itself (although the song is a corker!). As many who know me will surely point out, this has not always been the case. Along with certain other Indy writers, I used to be infamous for knocking them in print every chance I got back in the mid-to-late '90s. But the truth is that I've never had any substantive beef with them, and in my experience it's hard to find anyone who does. We were young, snotty punks and we wanted enemies. Now, of course, the idea of little punks like we were then casting aspersions on what is and is not worthwhile music and "selling out" is just comical to me."
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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bluestate wrote:http://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/GreenRoom/archives/2013/08/23/pearl-jams-new-video-features-a-major-missoula-connection-aside-from-jeff-ament

This article is an excellent read. It's an interview with artist Andy Smetanka who helped with the animation for the MYM video. Here's an interesting excerpt:

"Another great thing about the digital process was that it created, as a sort of happy by-product of the animation, literally thousands of huge JPG files for the band to incorporate into both the Electronic Press Kit and the album artwork for the upcoming release! Double bonus!"

Uh? So as of 8/23, the album artwork may still not be finished? :shock:

Also, here's another interesting snippet:

"Are you a Pearl Jam fan or, if not, have you been converted in any way?
AS: I don't own any Pearl Jam recordings apart from a CD burn of just this one song, but I definitely consider myself a fan of the band, more for what they stand for than for the music itself (although the song is a corker!). As many who know me will surely point out, this has not always been the case. Along with certain other Indy writers, I used to be infamous for knocking them in print every chance I got back in the mid-to-late '90s. But the truth is that I've never had any substantive beef with them, and in my experience it's hard to find anyone who does. We were young, snotty punks and we wanted enemies. Now, of course, the idea of little punks like we were then casting aspersions on what is and is not worthwhile music and "selling out" is just comical to me."
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Dude seems to have his head screwed on, which is... all too rare in PJ articles these days.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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thats all i need, little things like that article to keep me excited for the album, even when no real new info comes out of it
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Dr. Van Nostrand wrote:thats all i need, little things like that article to keep me excited for the album, even when no real new info comes out of it
Nothing new since, according to my last Google a few minutes ago.
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What's interesting about the article is that this guy says he was working on the animation for this during the month of July... and some of the leftover images could possibly be incorporated into the album artwork for LB.

So when they announced the album back on 7/11.. there was no finalized album artwork... which might be why we didn't get a tracklist either...

They are still working on the album! That scares me a bit :shock:
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bluestate wrote:What's interesting about the article is that this guy says he was working on the animation for this during the month of July... and some of the leftover images could possibly be incorporated into the album artwork for LB.

So when they announced the album back on 7/11.. there was no finalized album artwork... which might be why we didn't get a tracklist either...

They are still working on the album! That scares me a bit :shock:
or maybe it will be the artwork for the pages of the booklet instead of the cover. but it wouldnt shock me if the lack of a tracklist was because they hadnt finalized it yet
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It would also explain everyone's bland insubstantial talk about it.

Why would they do all this before finishing it? Do you think there's internal conflict going on? Jesus, God, please let there be internal conflict going on.
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harmless wrote:It would also explain everyone's bland insubstantial talk about it.

Why would they do all this before finishing it? Do you think there's internal conflict going on? Jesus, God, please let there be internal conflict going on.
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bluestate wrote:
harmless wrote:It would also explain everyone's bland insubstantial talk about it.

Why would they do all this before finishing it? Do you think there's internal conflict going on? Jesus, God, please let there be internal conflict going on.
It's Stone's fault... it's always Stone's fault!
And are they still working on it because it needs to get more awesome, or because it needs more fixin'?

I don't like this. I don't like this one single bit.
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harmless wrote:
bluestate wrote:
harmless wrote:It would also explain everyone's bland insubstantial talk about it.

Why would they do all this before finishing it? Do you think there's internal conflict going on? Jesus, God, please let there be internal conflict going on.
It's Stone's fault... it's always Stone's fault!
And are they still working on it because it needs to get more awesome, or because it needs more fixin'?

I don't like this. I don't like this one single bit.
I'm guessing they're still arguing about which uke song to cover. Either that, or they're still trying to record Of the Earth?
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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The Cold Concession / LIR leaks could have been testing the waters to see if those tracks should be on the album.
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