Lightning Bolt -- guess the tracks!
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The predictability of this image makes me worried that this won't be as thematically consistent as I wanted it to be. That was an issue with Backspacer; there were tracks that didn't belong.
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I still think that word bubble is going to say "We're Outta Here!!!"
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Lament wrote:You can always get divorced and remarry your wife immediately afterwards.stip wrote:if only I hadn't already gotten married...Lament wrote:Just think of all the married Pearl Jam fans who will now get tattoos of this image with their names and the dates of their wedding underneath it. But probably with the faces changed to look more like Stickman.
Play her The End (or Fuck me in the brain), divorce her, then play her Just Breathe and get r-married, then you both can get the FD tattoo and play that at your wedding!
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I played the live version of this to my fiancé - she wants it played at our wedding. At least it's not Bruno Marsstip wrote:if only I hadn't already gotten married...Lament wrote:Just think of all the married Pearl Jam fans who will now get tattoos of this image with their names and the dates of their wedding underneath it. But probably with the faces changed to look more like Stickman.
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Sir, you are wasting your life if you are anything other than a divorce/re-wedding planner. I got misty eyed just reading this.Strat wrote:Play her The End (or Fuck me in the brain), divorce her, then play her Just Breathe and get r-married, then you both can get the FD tattoo and play that at your wedding!
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many of the albums have outlier tracks. hell, even Vitalogy had bettermanharmless wrote:The predictability of this image makes me worried that this won't be as thematically consistent as I wanted it to be. That was an issue with Backspacer; there were tracks that didn't belong.
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and you could be right harmless, this could just be a mismatch of songs without a larger unifying theme--but maybe it'll be that love is important because it gives you a stake in the world--something to ground you in it and make you care about it. That is an important part of backspacer, I think.
It might not have that, of course. We can't do anything but guess given what we have so far, but it's a possibility.
It might not have that, of course. We can't do anything but guess given what we have so far, but it's a possibility.
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Well, that's true. You're right. Although on Betterman, I really like how the creepy off-key intro / fade in kind of ties it with the rest of the album, sonically. They haven't done that with any outlier track since, I don't think. These days they just stick it on there and hope it'll work. Vitalogy really shows some thought as to how the 'poppy' song will sound right in context. A similar hope for LB seems slightly out of my reach at this point.stip wrote:many of the albums have outlier tracks. hell, even Vitalogy had bettermanharmless wrote:The predictability of this image makes me worried that this won't be as thematically consistent as I wanted it to be. That was an issue with Backspacer; there were tracks that didn't belong.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15
Lament wrote:Sir, you are wasting your life if you are anything other than a divorce/re-wedding planner. I got misty eyed just reading this.Strat wrote:Play her The End (or Fuck me in the brain), divorce her, then play her Just Breathe and get r-married, then you both can get the FD tattoo and play that at your wedding!
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What's predictable and how's this Future Days?
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Well, looks like the whole thing is up now.


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that's actually a billion times better than the last version.Lament wrote:Well, looks like the whole thing is up now.
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So future days is track 1?
That's a bit weird
That's a bit weird
Calibrate your enthusiasm
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It would be better if it were Stickman and Stickwoman.evenslow wrote:that's actually a billion times better than the last version.
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They never said anything about releasing the tracks in order.
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you can't win 'em all.Lament wrote:It would be better if it were Stickman and Stickwoman.evenslow wrote:that's actually a billion times better than the last version.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15
McParadigm wrote:BurtReynolds wrote:it could be track one, now that i think about it.

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Has anyone else noticed that PJ always had wicked hot chicks following them on twitter and most of them look foreign... woah baby! 
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That's kinda creepy actually. Weird veiny tree people and there's a 3rd face in there if you want there to be, watching and smiling.
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yes. i will bet my constitution hall vinyl that this is not track 1.bluestate wrote:They never said anything about releasing the tracks in order.
disclaimer: i will not actually be doing this.
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