Lightning Bolt -- guess the tracks!

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which song artwork is your favorite?

Mind Your Manners
5
7%
Future Days
6
9%
Sirens
5
7%
Yellow Moon
12
18%
Swallowed Whole
7
10%
Getaway
4
6%
Let The Records Play
2
3%
My Father's Son
10
15%
Sleeping By Myself
0
No votes
Lightning Bolt
2
3%
Infallible
9
13%
Pendulum
6
9%
 
Total votes: 68

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BurtReynolds wrote:this works, right?

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It doesn't not work yet
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stip wrote:
Vindicator wrote:Swallowed Whole in negatives, it's so sad and sickening.
Thank you!
So your idea that this is an extension of the darker aspects of Backspacer could be right.
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Revelator wrote:
BurtReynolds wrote:this works, right?

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Nicely done, I like
good i thought I was going crazy for a minute. I think it definitely spells out pearl jam.
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Could be. The art is certainly purposeful in a way we haven't seen since vitalogy.
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bodysnatcher wrote:
Sgt. Crackpot wrote:
bodysnatcher wrote:Really like the Russian Roulette idea to this image...

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I see.. nothing?
To me, it looks like you're aiming at the moon, behind the chamber of a gun with one bullet in it
Wooow, I see the gun now.
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poll is up. Currently MYM is still my favorite. Yellow Moon is probably two.
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BurtReynolds wrote:
Revelator wrote:
BurtReynolds wrote:this works, right?

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Nicely done, I like
good i thought I was going crazy for a minute. I think it definitely spells out pearl jam.
Very nice, but does MYM fuck this up?
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stip wrote:poll is up. Currently MYM is still my favorite. Yellow Moon is probably two.
Yellow Moon for me so far.
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B wrote:
BurtReynolds wrote:
Revelator wrote:
BurtReynolds wrote:this works, right?

Image
Nicely done, I like
good i thought I was going crazy for a minute. I think it definitely spells out pearl jam.
Very nice, but does MYM fuck this up?
they might not count that one. pearl jam is only 8 letters and there are supposedly 11 tracks... I dunno.
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B wrote:
BurtReynolds wrote:
Revelator wrote:
BurtReynolds wrote:this works, right?

Image
Nicely done, I like
good i thought I was going crazy for a minute. I think it definitely spells out pearl jam.
Very nice, but does MYM fuck this up?
My guess is that Lightning Bolt is probably gonna be in between the Pearl & Jam.
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BurtReynolds wrote:
B wrote:
BurtReynolds wrote:
Revelator wrote:
BurtReynolds wrote:this works, right?

Image
Nicely done, I like
good i thought I was going crazy for a minute. I think it definitely spells out pearl jam.
Very nice, but does MYM fuck this up?
they might not count that one. pearl jam is only 8 letters and there are supposedly 11 tracks... I dunno.
yeah, some just won't get to play the game, I guess
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To me, the YM art looks more like the 'P' than the 'J' . . . . .
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To my great discomfort i'm liking the FD pic the best so far. minus the heart.
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I dont see an L in the Swallowed Whole image at all.

It's a U.
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Dust Mite wrote:I dont see an L in the Swallowed Whole image at all.

It's a U.
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Dust Mite wrote:I dont see an L in the Swallowed Whole image at all.

It's a U.
Yeah, I'm not convinced by this concept at all. Where does the MYM art fit in?
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Sgt. Crackpot wrote:For some reason, from the artwork and song titles alone, I'm getting a feeling that this album has a running theme of the apocalypse. For example:

Yellow Moon: A warning of what's to come.

Sirens: Time to panic. It's here. Run for your lives.

Lightning Bolt and Swallowed Whole: The apocalypse in all it's glory. If you don't get struck by lightning, the ground will open up and you'll be swallowed whole.

Death coming from the sky:
And soon you’re thrown down on your knees, and then you’re dead
Then before you know, The weeds are obesely overgrown


Set free = death:
Until the lightning strike SETS!! you free! YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH!!

God:
And with no repair in sight there is
No God with such might
As you open her world.. wide with such a view.
And Your efforts to arrive
As she finally decides
That all her problems, they will die with you
She’s a lightning bolt


Mind Your Manners: Where's God now?
I caught myself believin'
That I needed God
And if it's hard for some
We sure could use it now

Death:
Go to Heaven
That's swell
How do you like it
Livin' Hell


Infallible: Those that survive and remain are only the strongest, toughest, the immune.

Future Days: Redemption. We survived, so now we're looking to the future.

God (again):
Back when I was feeling broken
I focused on a prayer, you came deep from the ocean


The apocalyspe:
The hurricanes and cyclones rage
The winds (?) into dust
The floods they came and the tides they raised, ever closer became us


Looking back, the warnings were true:
All the promises at sundown, I met them like the rest
Demons dancing used to come round before now they've left


Believe to survive:
I believe and I believe ‘cause I can see
Our future days, days of you and me


Harmless, this is totally the album we were looking for. We just need a zombie related song and we're set. :D

i like your thinking sarge
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maybe its supposed to be PEARUPAM, which means nothing.
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Sgt. Crackpot wrote:
Dust Mite wrote:I dont see an L in the Swallowed Whole image at all.

It's a U.
Yeah, I'm not convinced by this concept at all. Where does the MYM art fit in?
i got it! its a period.
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spelling out "pearl jam" is a stretch, even for RM standards
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