Lightning Bolt: the official album thread

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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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harmless wrote:I'm guessing this is written by one of the guys at the listening party who were talking over it the whole time. He's just gone home and written up an industry standard thing full of generic cliches that could've described a number of songs in each category.
Yeah, it's pretty vague. Translation of My Father's Son for example:

SONG 3 - MY FATHER'S SON
Mit "My Father's Son" lehnen sich Pearl Jam etwas zurück, lassen Luft zum Atmen, zeigen sich wehmütig verletzbar, aber gleichzeitig offen wie ein aufgeschlagenes Buch. In der Ruhe liegt die Kraft: ihr Songwriting strotzt weiter vor stichelnder Zackigkeit.

Pearl jam relax a little with My Fathers Son leaving air to breathe and showing themselves wistfully vulnerable but like an open book at the same time.
Strength lies in peace: Their songwriting is full of teasing snappishness. (I'm not even sure what that means. So don't be confused if it sounds even more stupid in english.)
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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standard boilerplate trump fungerry.
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a veritable who's who of trump fungerry, no doubt.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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Aargh.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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Gremmie thinks the PJ camp intentionally leaked the fake track list with 'Where's the Sponge?,' for schitz and giggles.

hardy har har har

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They should leak the album for shits and giggles, then I'll be impressed.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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That's another thing.

Are PJ really expecting journalists, of ALL people, to write a review based one one playback in a crowded (free booze)bar?

If that has been the MO to date, little wonder their records are so poorl received in the press over here.

But I guess journos only maybe listen to it once anyways.

Sad state of affairs.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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harmless wrote:They should leak the album for shits and giggles, then I'll be impressed.

At this point I'm famously behind what with the ten new pages in this thread every hour

It will have leaked and I won't even have noticed until I see you ranting about how shit it is or raving about how brilliant it is:)


We BETTER be getting a whole new thread once it's released.

This shit here is ridiculous.


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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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dimejinky99 wrote:That's another thing.

Are PJ really expecting journalists, of ALL people, to write a review based one one playback in a crowded (free booze)bar?

If that has been the MO to date, little wonder their records are so poorl received in the press over here.

But I guess journos only maybe listen to it once anyways.

Sad state of affairs.

Im sure they will/have sent out the album to major magazines who will print further elaborated reviews
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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harmless wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
harmless wrote:
HardTI wrote:
harmless wrote:This is easily achievable, but I'm your best chance. You need to stop this "Harmless posts too much" bullshit.
Your posts enticed me to start posting on here more often. Keep it up!
You're basically saying I'm enticing.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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Well, journalists get invited to the same exclusive previews fans do. It sounds like the London one was more exclusive though, and the Amsterdam one was certainly more well-organised and easier to hear. The German one sounds like it was a mess.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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Cleverman wrote:
harmless wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
harmless wrote:
HardTI wrote:
harmless wrote:This is easily achievable, but I'm your best chance. You need to stop this "Harmless posts too much" bullshit.
Your posts enticed me to start posting on here more often. Keep it up!
You're basically saying I'm enticing.
basically
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That other girl looks like her mouth would keep stretching open if she carried on.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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Well they had me at "full bodied Vedder"
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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I know all the London Pj crew (incl. Jason who helped out with pj20 for footage/interviews)
And they're all cool. Not a peep from them. But no word either from the monkey ball suckers either (Hinn)
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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McParadigm wrote:Well they had me at "full bodied Vedder"

All 5' 2 inches of him?

I guess good things come in small packages:)
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With berries on the nose and the warmth of loving lingering Granny Smiths after-taste.
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dimejinky99 wrote:I know all the London Pj crew (incl. Jason who helped out with pj20 for footage/interviews)
And they're all cool. Not a peep from them. But no word either from the monkey ball suckers either (Hinn)
Hehe
Heard nothing either. Boo hiss.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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dimejinky99 wrote:
harmless wrote:They should leak the album for shits and giggles, then I'll be impressed.

At this point I'm famously behind what with the ten new pages in this thread every hour

It will have leaked and I won't even have noticed until I see you ranting about how shit it is or raving about how brilliant it is:)


We BETTER be getting a whole new thread once it's released.

This shit here is ridiculous.

Probably
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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Wrong. Hes got a smoky woody nose with a meadow fresh after taste.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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dimejinky99 wrote:
McParadigm wrote:Well they had me at "full bodied Vedder"

All 5' 2 inches of him?

I guess good things come in small packages:)
Short people are great.
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