Lightning Bolt: the official album thread

[Sgt. Crackpot]

Smile makes up for both of those songs by itself.

[PHATJ]

So what's the complete list of Jeff written songs (for PJ)? And the percent of these that are well liked by the majority? Higher than the other members?

[verb_to_trust]

I'm too lazy to look into this myself, where is that nerd from the PJ20 doc when you need him?

[Iowaska_Experience]

There used to be list floating around, but I'm sure it hasn't been updated in a couple albums. Maybe PJVault has something?

[verb_to_trust]

I'm not really into Army Reserve, Big Wave or Rats. God's Dice is a little "meh" too.

Otherwise Jeff is pretty much the best writer in the band when it comes to my personal tastes.

[PHATJ]

From what I could find:

Ament (7) – Pilate, Low Light, God's Dice, Nothing As It Seems, Sweet Lew, Help, Help, Other Side

[verb_to_trust]

There used to be list floating around, but I'm sure it hasn't been updated in a couple albums. Maybe PJVault has something?

I just checked the wiki pages for each album.

[PHATJ]

Lament posted this a while back:
Vedder (39) – I Got Id, Long Road, Sometimes, Off He Goes, Habit, Lukin, Around The Bend, Black, Red, Yellow, Dead Man, Wishlist, MFC, Leatherman, U, Drifting, Breakerfall, Insignificance, Grievance, Soon Forget, Parting Ways, Sad, Hitchhiker, Education, Can't Keep, I Am Mine, Thumbing My Way, Green Disease, Arc, Undone, Man of the Hour, Worldwide Suicide, Severed Hand, Gone, Santa God, Santa Cruz, Gonna See My Friend, Just Breathe, Unthought Known, Speed of Sound, The End
Gossard/Vedder (9) – Do The Evolution, In Hiding, Bu$hleaguer, All or None, Life Wasted, Parachutes, Wasted Reprise, Amongst The Waves, Supersonic
Ament/Vedder (9) – Smile, Push Me, Pull Me, Sleight of Hand, Ghost, ½ Full, Big Wave, Army Reserve (with Damien Echols), Got Some, Ole
Gossard (9) – Mankind, Don't Gimme No Lip, No Way, All Those Yesterdays, Strangest Tribe, Thin Air, Of the Girl, Rival, Fatal
McCready/Vedder (9) – Present Tense, Brain of J., Faithfull, Given to Fly, Marker In The Sand, Come Back, Inside Job, Force of Nature, Mind Your Manners
Ament (7) – Pilate, Low Light, God's Dice, Nothing As It Seems, Sweet Lew, Help, Help, Other Side
FULL BAND (3) – Red Mosquito, All Night, Save You
Gossard/McCready/Vedder (3)– Light Years, Down, Comatose
Cameron/Vedder (3) - Evacuation, Cropduster, You Are
Irons (3) - Happy When I'm Crying, Red Dot, Whale Song
McCready (2) – Last Soldier, Turning Mist
Cameron (2) – In the Moonlight, Get Right
Gossard/Vedder/Irons (2) – Who You Are, In My Tree
Gossard/Cameron/Vedder (1) – Johnny Guitar
McCready/Cameron/Vedder (1) - Unemployable
Ament/Gossard/McCready/Vedder (1) – Hail, Hail
Gossard/McCready/Cameron/Vedder (1) – The Fixer
Vedder/Gaspar (1) – Love Boat Captain
Vedder/Irons (1) – I'm Open

[Iowaska_Experience]

So that doesn't have first 3 albums [or b-sides from those eras] because no individual writing credits, right? But don't we know that Jeff wrote Why Go and Jeremy, for example?

[PHATJ]

Right. The list is Merkinball through MYM

[Birds in Hell]

It's only Vs and Vitalogy that have full band writing credits.

That list posted above also doesn't distinguish where Ed only contributed lyrics, eg. Smile, Sleight of Hand and Big Wave (to pick three) that are 100% Jeff Ament tunes musically.

[PHATJ]

It's only Vs and Vitalogy that have full band writing credits.

That list posted above also doesn't distinguish where Ed only contributed lyrics, eg. Smile, Sleight of Hand and Big Wave (to pick three) that are 100% Jeff Ament tunes musically.

That's the list I really want. The musical credits. Is there a list available somewhere? Hook us up Spenno.

[Iowaska_Experience]

PJ Nerd FAIL

[gardenparty]

I don't hate FD. I bet it will be fine on the album and the "I Believe" part is really nice. Having said, I have no interest in hearing it live but imagine it could be an every night song this tour.

Also, I think boom would have been better than bob on this one. Considering Ed is the one who brought him in to the PJ fold I wish he would have utilized his talents on this track in the studio.

[Iowaska_Experience]

Here it is. Like I said, a little outdated [and apparently it got cut off in the O's]:

PJ Song List with Writing Credits

pjK=ament, gossard, mccready, vedder, krusen
pjA=ament, gossard, mccready, vedder, abbruzzese
pjI=ament, gossard, mccready, vedder, irons
pjC=ament, gossard, mccready, vedder, cameron
I know they had another drummer, Matt Chamberlain. I don't think he was ever in the studio with them.

1/2 Full - music: ament, lyrics: ved
4/20/02 - music: ved, lyrics: ved
Alive - music: gos, lyrics: ved
All Night - music: pjI, lyrics: ved
All or None - music: gos, lyrics: ved/gos
All Those Yesterdays - music: gos, lyrics: gos
Alone - music: pjA, lyrics: ved
Angel - music:Abbruz, lyrics: Ved
Animal - music: pjA, lyrics: ved
Arc - music: ved
Around the Bend - music: ved, lyrics: ved
Aye Davanita - music: ved, lyrics: ved
Bee Girl - music: Ament lyrics: Ved
Betterman - music: ved, lyrics: ved
Black - music: gos, lyrics: ved
Black Red Yellow - music: ved, lyrics: ved
Blood - music: pjA, lyrics: ved
Brain of J - music: mccrea, lyrics: ved
Breakerfall - music: ved, lyrics: ved
Breath - music: Gos, lyrics: Ved
Broken Heart - music: ?, lyrics: ?
Brother - music: gos, lyrics: ved
Bugs - music: ved, lyrics: ved
Bushleauger - music: gos, lyrics: ved/gos
Can't Keep - music: ved, lyrics: ved
Colour Red - music: irons, lyrics: irons
Corduroy - music: pjA, lyrics: ved
Cropduster - music: camer, lyrics: ved
Daughter - music: pjA, lyrics: ved
Dead Man - music: ved, lyrics: ved
Deep - music: gos/ament, lyrics: ved
Dirty Frank - music: gos/ament/mccrea/abbru, lyrics: ved
Dissident - music: pjA, lyrics: ved
Don't Gimme No Lip - music: gos, lyrics: gos
Do the Evolution - music: gos, lyrics: ved
Down - music: mccrea/gos, lyrics: ved
Drifting - music: ved, lyrics: ved
Education - music: ved, lyrics: ved
Elderly Woman... - music: pjA, lyrics: ved
Evacuation - music: cam, lyrics: ved
Even Flow - music: gos, lyrics: ved
Faithfull - music: mccrea, lyrics: ved
Falling Down - music: ? lyrics: ?
Fatal - music: gos, lyrics: gos
Foldback - music: Ament
Footsteps - music: gos, lyrics: ved
Garden - music: gos/ament, lyrics: ved
Get Right - music: cam, lyrics: cam
Ghost - music: ament, lyrics: ved/ament
Girl - music: Gos lyrics: Ved
Given to Fly - music: mccrea, lyrics: ved
Glorified G - music: pjA, lyrics: ved
Go - music: pjA, lyrics: ved
God's Dice - music: ament, lyrics: ament
Green Disease - music: ved, lyrics: ved
Grievance - music: ved, lyrics: ved
Habit - music: ved, lyrics: ved
Hail Hail - music: gos/ament/mccre/(ved??) lyrics: ved
Happy When I'm Crying - music: irons, lyrics: irons
Hard to Imagine - music: gos, lyrics: ved
Harmony - music: Gos
Hey Foxymophandlemama - music: pjI
Hitchhiker - music: ved, lyrics: ved
Hold On - music: gos, lyrics: ved
Hummus - music: ?
I Am Mine - music: ved, lyrics: ved
I Got Id - music: ved, lyrics: ved
Immortality - music: pjA, lyrics: ved
I'm Open - music: Irons lyrics: Ved
I'm Still Here - music: ved, lyrics: ved
Indifference - music: pjA, lyrics: ved
In Hiding - music: gos, lyrics: ved
In My Tree - music: Gos/Irons lyrics: Ved
Insignificance - music: ved, lyrics: ved
In the Moonlight - music: cam, lyrics: cam
Jeremy - music: ament, lyrics: ved
Last Exit - music: pjA, lyrics: ved
Last Soldier - music: mccrea, lyrics: ved
Leash - music: pjA, lyrics: ved
Leatherman - music: ved, lyrics: ved
Let Me Sleep - music: ved/mmcrea, lyrics: ved/mccrea
Light Years - music: gos/mccrea/ved, lyrics: ved
Longing to Belong - music: ? lyrics: ?
Long Road - music: ved, lyrics: ved
Love Boat Captain - music: ved/gaspar, lyrics: ved
Low Light - music: ament, lyrics: ament
Lukin - music: ved, lyrics: ved
Mankind - music: gos, lyrics: gos
Man of the Hour - music: ved lyrics: ved
Master/Slave - music: ament/ved
Mfc - music: ved, lyrics: ved
Not For You - music: pjA, lyrics: ved
Nothing as it Seems - music: ament, lyrics: ament
Nothingman - music: ament, lyrics: ved
No Way - music: gos, lyrics: gos
Oceans - music: gos/ament/ved, lyrics: ved
Off He Goes - music: ved, lyrics: ved
Of the Girl - music: gos, lyrics: gos
On

[SomethingCreative]

this fucker didn't leak yet? Jeeeeezuuuus

[verb_to_trust]

I don't hate FD. I bet it will be fine on the album and the "I Believe" part is really nice. Having said, I have no interest in hearing it live but imagine it could be an every night song this tour.

Also, I think boom would have been better than bob on this one. Considering Ed is the one who brought him in to the PJ fold I wish he would have utilized his talents on this track in the studio.

At least Boom isn't a record producer and has a little bit of his own character despite his obvious shortcomings. Instead we got Bob Rock and his electric piano.

[Iowaska_Experience]

Sweet, I found the whole thing in the RM Archive:

http://archive.theskyiscrape.com/viewto ... a&start=60

[Mike]

Yellow Moon being a Jeff song makes me excited. I also like to hear that Mike especially likes the vocal harmonization in FD. Maybe that will make the song a little bit better.

[PHATJ]

Mike also said Infallible was a Jeff song didn't he?