Lightning Bolt: the official album thread

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Rank Lightning Bolt

5 stars
1
1%
4 stars
4
5%
3 stars
29
37%
2 stars
30
38%
1 star
14
18%
 
Total votes: 78

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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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Or harbinger of, if you prefer.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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Jaeti wrote:
melonhead4 wrote:
dimejinky99 wrote:The fake leak posts are usually when the thing actually drops and nobody actually believes it:)
Best album since ten
Better than Ten. This truly is a precursor to form.
Gold!
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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harmless wrote:
Jaeti wrote:
melonhead4 wrote:
dimejinky99 wrote:The fake leak posts are usually when the thing actually drops and nobody actually believes it:)
Best album since ten
Better than Ten. This truly is a precursor to form.
Gold!
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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I listened to Ten the other day for the first time in years.
I'm not one of those people, but man, it is a fucking masterpiece for a first record. No two ways about it.
Weirdly, or maybe not, it transported me back to that time, effortlessly.
No other Pj record has been able to do that. But I do listen to the others a whole lot more regularly and frequently, than Ten.

What a collection of songs though.


You're meant to start sorta crap and get amazing.

Pj seem to have done exactly the opposite. Somehow.
Calibrate your enthusiasm
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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A logical ancestor of Backspacer.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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harmless wrote:
Jaeti wrote:
melonhead4 wrote:
dimejinky99 wrote:The fake leak posts are usually when the thing actually drops and nobody actually believes it:)
Best album since ten
Better than Ten. This truly is a precursor to form.
Gold!
yeah, that was pretty excellent
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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I love how, on Infallible, they have like a robot voice which continues the word on ible-ible-ible-ible, before the dubstep beat comes back in. It's very Nicki Minaj.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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I was worried it wouldn't batch About Trump Fung enough. But it really does trump fung the shit out of this thing. On the other hand, the voltage busbar is more medium than high.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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I don't know why all the previous fuss over SBM. It sounds excellent. Killer mandolin.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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I don't think SBM is made better by the 30 second breakdown that's just BO'B squelchily masturbating into the mic.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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Porn_Break wrote:I was worried it wouldn't batch About Trump Fung enough. But it really does trump fung the shit out of this thing. On the other hand, the voltage busbar is more medium than high.
Did you choose your board name with insider knowledge that there was going to be a porn break in the middle of the new album, or was that just a happy accident?
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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stip wrote:
harmless wrote:
Jaeti wrote:
melonhead4 wrote:
dimejinky99 wrote:The fake leak posts are usually when the thing actually drops and nobody actually believes it:)
Best album since ten
Better than Ten. This truly is a precursor to form.
Gold!
yeah, that was pretty excellent
I hope it makes the highlight-reel thread you said you were going to put together.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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Sirens = new Black :thumbsup:
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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Jaeti wrote:
stip wrote:
harmless wrote:
Jaeti wrote:
melonhead4 wrote:
dimejinky99 wrote:The fake leak posts are usually when the thing actually drops and nobody actually believes it:)
Best album since ten
Better than Ten. This truly is a precursor to form.
Gold!
yeah, that was pretty excellent
I hope it makes the highlight-reel thread you said you were going to put together.
Let's hope for that. We have some tough decisions to make, for sure. We want people to remember how much they love tough decisions, when they don't have to make them themselves. To do that, we need busbar and Trump Fung and everything else.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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My favorite song's are the ones about the stuff.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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So I think I passed the 'Staying in the No Leak Club' test for another night.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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harmless wrote:So I think I passed the 'Staying in the No Leak Club' test for another night.
It's not a test if there's nothing real to tempt you.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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I'm dissapointed we didn't get a full bodied Vedder like that review promised.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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Mine wrote:I think i can hear Ed singing Oh Beth in the harmonies at the end of Future Days? It starts around the 3:17 mark.
What's even better is that he is harmonising with Beth while rolling Jill in blood.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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harmless wrote:So I think I passed the 'Staying in the No Leak Club' test for another night.
I'm pretty sure you'll be out of the club the first day this thing leaks.
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