Lightning Bolt -- guess the tracks!

[harmless]

they're just words

It's just red dot.

[southp]

PJ songs entitled Yellow Moon and Swallowed Whole both get me excited.

[WtOB?]

they're just words

It's just red dot.

i know pal

[harmless]

they're just words

It's just red dot.

i know pal

[Jorge]

I dont mind it in big wave because its mostly a silly song and if you try to sing it 'a' crustacean it fucks up the whole line.

On that last point: it's still kind of an interesting choice considering that Ed hasn't been above fucking up a line's meter to fit extra words. It's pretty crass how he does it.

[Lounge Lizard]

PJ songs entitled Yellow Moon and Swallowed Whole both get me excited.

I fear Swallowed Whole might be another love song

[Heathen]

PJ songs entitled Yellow Moon and Swallowed Whole both get me excited.

I fear Swallowed Whole might be another love song

Hopefully the video for that one features another glory hole.

[stupidmop]

I can imagine Ed just stuck 'something else' there as a placeholder while he wrote the lyrics, he just couldn't think of a better line so left it.

Sounds about right

I think "...or we could do something else" sounds three times as serious, so three times as silly. I think in conversation, it would be delivered in a very lazy way: "or, well, we could... somethin' else." As if the speaker can't really think of the rest of the words, or is saying "...anything but this."

Yeah my problem is to me, the delivery doesn't match the idea that its lazy or tossed of. We've definitley had this conversation before btw So i'll stop.

[stupidmop]

PJ songs entitled Yellow Moon and Swallowed Whole both get me excited.

I fear Swallowed Whole might be another love song

Hopefully the video for that one features another glory hole.

mcparadigms theory is looking better and better...

[harmless]

I dont mind it in big wave because its mostly a silly song and if you try to sing it 'a' crustacean it fucks up the whole line.

On that last point: it's still kind of an interesting choice considering that Ed hasn't been above fucking up a line's meter to fit extra words. It's pretty crass how he does it.

Yeah. Ed, please stop 1) cramming too many words into a line and 2) using not enough of them to make sense. The English language kind of dictates the amount of words generally considered appropriate in any given sentence. (See what I did there? The "kind of" here is deliberately superfluous.)

[harmless]

PJ songs entitled Yellow Moon and Swallowed Whole both get me excited.

I fear Swallowed Whole might be another love song

Hopefully the video for that one features another glory hole.

mcparadigms theory is looking better and better...

This album will be entirely full of cheesy love ditties, apart from MYM, which was written in a singular moment of rage.

[Lounge Lizard]

PJ songs entitled Yellow Moon and Swallowed Whole both get me excited.

I fear Swallowed Whole might be another love song

Hopefully the video for that one features another glory hole.

mcparadigms theory is looking better and better...

This album will be entirely full of cheesy love ditties, apart from MYM, which was written in a singular moment of rage.

... resulting from not getting enough head?

[Dr. Van Nostrand]

come on 1 o clock

[pnjguy]

I like the artwork, i really do, but it has no affect on if i think the music is any better than i thought before i saw the artwork.

[Lounge Lizard]

I like the artwork, i really do, but it has no affect on if i think the music is any better than i thought before i saw the artwork.

The English language kind of dictates the amount of words generally considered appropriate in any given sentence.

[evenslow]

I like the artwork, i really do, but it has no affect on if i think the music is any better than i thought before i saw the artwork.

your ability to compartmentalize is astounding

[harmless]

I like the artwork, i really do, but it has no affect on if i think the music is any better than i thought before i saw the artwork.

Unfortunately for me it does. I know, it's a tick I have. To me the album is the entire package, and that's a good part of why S/T and Backspacer didn't hang together for me.

[Blenheim Augustine]

I think they just thought it'd be a fun thing to do on the internet. Imagine no code out now, thered probably be some bizzare scavenger hunt thing.

'Metaphysical' implies God, and that's not what he means.

No, it doesn't.

No?

it implies something beyond the physical. it doesnt have to be god although that is the easiest/obvious/relevant connection to makr

The video changed my view of that line - in the video it seems that he is pointing out the idiocy of people who engage in self-redemption and self-help i.e. attempt to fix their inside world (metaphysical), but do nothing about the outside world (physical). This changes the "Right around the corner could be bigger than ourselves" to being about this earth rather than the possibility of heaven. We could will it to happen and create a better world here (physical redemption) or we could something else - war, environmental collapse etc.

I basically agree. Slightly different interpretation of that last lyric ( we can put our faith in god-will it to the sky- which will do nothing but ensure collapse, or we could get to work

This is my interpretation, but I hate the line 'or we could something else' . It worked when I assumed it was sarcastic and tossed off. But I don't think that's what he was going for anymore. Idk why he didn't put the word 'do' in there, it could have fit.

There's no other explanation than sarcasm. He just doesn't deliver it sarcastically, which, I don't know, might be a case of double irony. That's how I've come to appreciate it; it's a dashed-off, resigned "or we could...", but he sings it with sincerity. Irony on top of irony.

As for dropping the word 'do', well, Ed drops words all the time; he's been doing that since he used to be crustacean.

So you think he's saying we could leave it up to god (will it to the sky) and we'll be fucked, or we could..uh...something else...i guess, not offering up any alternative? Cause i think hes saying or we could get up and actually do something ourselves as an alternative to leaving to a higher power. Which he realized after becoming 'self realized and metaphysically redeemed'. I dunno i dont really like that entire chorus. Damned catchy though.

I don't think you guys are disagreeing.

No, we're agreeing for sure. I just like it more I think (or maybe just tolerate it more).

I am presently in agreeance with Stip's reconfiguration of my prior parsing of said melodic statement.

The 'we could something else' reminds me of a David Foster Wallace German television interview where he discusses political antipathy. How it's so much easier and fun to just do nothing and satisfy our immediate interests. It's in here somewhere (I think) but I'm at work so can't verify:

[stip]

I dont mind it in big wave because its mostly a silly song and if you try to sing it 'a' crustacean it fucks up the whole line.

On that last point: it's still kind of an interesting choice considering that Ed hasn't been above fucking up a line's meter to fit extra words. It's pretty crass how he does it.

Yeah. Ed, please stop 1) cramming too many words into a line and 2) using not enough of them to make sense. The English language kind of dictates the amount of words generally considered appropriate in any given sentence. (See what I did there? The "kind of" here is deliberately superfluous.)

the important thing is that if you add them all up together it is precisely the right amount of words.

[stip]

I like the artwork, i really do, but it has no affect on if i think the music is any better than i thought before i saw the artwork.

Unfortunately for me it does. I know, it's a tick I have. To me the album is the entire package, and that's a good part of why S/T and Backspacer didn't hang together for me.

it adds to the total context in which you hear the music, in the same way that attaching a song to a particular experience changes the way you hear it, for better or worse.