Lightning Bolt: the official album thread

[stip]

I've got a feeling sirens is gonna have that same awful 80s solo that FoN has, or the same tone anyway.

I love that solo! Very u2

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What if we end up liking this guys take in the song more than the actual song?
It could happen

I am pretty sure he already ruined it for me with his first clip

[Heathen]

Swallowed hole ???

[DaveVedder]

What if we end up liking this guys take in the song more than the actual song?
It could happen

I am pretty sure he already ruined it for me with his first clip

Oh no!

[Lounge Lizard]

What if we end up liking this guys take in the song more than the actual song?
It could happen

I got a graver question.
What if we like that other guys take on "heauurh ze suhreeeeens" better that the actual song...

[Lounge Lizard]

By the way, am I the only one who wanted to go "Hear the sirens, oh yeah, it's only teenage wasteland"?

[dimejinky99]

Could be eds been listening to Glen a lot. He's got a lyric goes 'here the sirens..call me hooooooome'. Not sure what song that is though.

[Cleverman]

So i woke up this morning and all of a sudden remembered the melody of the verse of Getaway.
So i quickly entered the studio and recorded a small preview. Just the verse melody.
Be kind!

If this isn't an actual part of the song I'll be severely disappointed.

7:30 in the morning and between the song and your comment, I am laughing my ass off in my empty office.

Thanks, both of you

[McParadigm]

This thread just peaked

Shut it down

[Revelator]

Yeah I'm not sure what to make of the whole 80s power ballad thing, too. I'm sure I'll be put off at first like a few of the early listeners, but then again I was first put off by Just Breathe, but it grew on me (to singalong to) and I enjoy it now live. As many has said it's possible to get a real take after one listen to the album in a setting that you're not used to (I'm actually in awe at how some of these folks have captured such descriptive notes, a big kudos to you).

Overall I'm thankful for the listening party reviews cause at first I kind of thought it'd ruin the first listening experience. Aside from the huge disappointment over the pointless inclusion on SBM, it sounds like we have some interesting, potentially classic new shit to listen to. I'd rather have an album with a couple of superb/ experimental/raw PJ songs and a few absolute duds rather than 12 mediocre/uninspired/recycled tracks.

[Jorge]

First stab at lyrics:

doo doodoo doodoo doodoo doodoo
doo dum-de doo

[harmless]

So i woke up this morning and all of a sudden remembered the melody of the verse of Getaway.
So i quickly entered the studio and recorded a small preview. Just the verse melody.
Be kind!

If this isn't an actual part of the song I'll be severely disappointed.

7:30 in the morning and between the song and your comment, I am laughing my ass off in my empty office.

Thanks, both of you

Is this as good as the two-chord "Sirens" rendition? If not I'm out, don't want to ruin my first listen to the Bolt.

[harmless]

I'm totally fine with 80s power ballad, in theory, but I still don't really like FoN, so if that's the benchmark... eh.

[harmless]

Ok so this time the same melody now on guitar!
I really think it`s pretty close.


And hey it`s just what i had in my head this morning - just for fun!
Will be fun to compare it once the album is out.

That's nice and bluesy. I like it.

Yeah this was nice.

[its_not_1974]

Ok so this time the same melody now on guitar!
I really think it`s pretty close.


And hey it`s just what i had in my head this morning - just for fun!
Will be fun to compare it once the album is out.

That certainly does sound in line with the guy who said it sounded like an arctic monkeys song.

[ABNorman]

Reminds me of:

[harmless]

I think I preferred my initial response (head scratching wtf confusion) upon hearing MYM than anything.

As I said, if the whole thing can grow on me like MYM managed to, I'll be really happy.

SBM is the best original song on the uke record but its inclusion is a strange move.
I'm sure we will all get past that over time.

I'm thinking it'll be a palette cleanser before we go into the final act.
That's what in taking from the reviews so far.

Yup. This may well be the function it's meant to serve, I'm just a bit concerned that no one's mentioned that. But they mostly seem to be dead-set against it being on here.

[harmless]

It’s half of the record I really wanted from them (Getaway, My Father’s Son, Infallible, Pendulum, Let The Records Play, Yellow Moon) and half of what you have heard from this band before (Mind Your Manners, Sirens, Lightning Bolt, Sleeping By Myself, Swallowed Whole, Future Days). That latter half would be the logical extension from Backspacer. But that first half is 50% of an incredible record, the record they didn’t make. They could have gone Achtung Baby or Yankee Foxtrot Hotel on us but didn’t. This will be a great record but I already have mixed feelings over what could have been.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

see that's the kinda remark that will stick I'm my head while I listened to it for the first time, and it was also the impression I was getting from all the other reviews. It seems half the record will be interesting, but half of it will be a steaming pile of meh.

At least half of it sounds promising, gotta remember we're coming out of backspacer here and I did say I'd be happy with a few good songs....

But if we find out this was an awesome record ruined by what it seems are eds multiple versions of unthought known*..... **shakes fist** and a 80s cock rock power ballad **shakes fist harder**

*when was the last time he wrote an actually interesting song? SOS maybe? But then they buggered it up. People need to stop pandering to his ukulele twiddling schmaltz churning out person. Could never write a good album without him my ass...

I'm only ranting because I haven't had my coffee yet, excuse me.

I feel all of this as well. But my attitude is that I want them to make the best album they can with BO'B, if he has to be there, even if the sky is not the limit. If that means light Backspacer plus dark weirdness, we could have an album which is at least interesting and takes longer to digest. And just because half of it's poppy, it doesn't mean it's 'meh' if they've developed the sound from Backspacer a bit further.

[harmless]

Just a thought, bear in mind, eds had two years of playing SBM live. I'd hazard a guess it was probably the band wanted it on there, not him. But we'll never know.

BO'B has said that he pushed to have it on there.

[stip]

First stab at lyrics:

doo doodoo doodoo doodoo doodoo
doo dum-de doo dee?

Correction?