Lightning Bolt: the official album thread

[dprival78]

about getaway: now i've only listened once, at a relatively low volume through my work laptop's speakers, but is that a bit of actual groove i'm hearing there?

[stupidmop]

Swallowed whole features a full bodied hippy vedder. As far as i can tell. 'I could be the sun i could be the sound'. Though there's parts about drowning and 'what lies beyond the grave might be welcome shade' . At 2.06 there's about 5 seconds of interesting music where i thought it was gonna go all 'end of the road on us.

Ed sounds kinda rough to me on all of these but i don't know how much of that it just the quality of the tracks. And he's a lot louder than the music to me, but i thought that about backspacer. Do we think this is a promo cd? These would be the final versions si?

Yep Getaway is still winning.

[stip]

McP is still right--how we feel about these in 6 months will tell us how good they really are.

But in the meantime I plan to enjoy myself immensely while I make up my mind

[stip]

guys, I think I love lightning bolt. Chorus and all.

[stupidmop]

about getaway: now i've only listened once, at a relatively low volume through my work laptop's speakers, but is that a bit of actual groove i'm hearing there?

Aw yeah it is.

I think these were all the least interesting sounding songs from the discriptions. All the songs we have left are the ones i was excited for. Bar FD, and maybe SBM but ill give it a shot.

[HardTI]

guys, I think I love lightning bolt. Chorus and all.

We should probably re-do our round 1 voting now, no?

[taffer]

So coz it is not allowed to share that content, i'd like to know what the running time(length) of the songs

[B]

First impressions on my patented ADHD inspired yeh, meh, neh scale.

Getaway - yeh
MYM - yeh
Lightning Bolt - meh
Swallowed Whole - neh
Let the Records Play - yeh
Future Days - yeh

[stip]

Eddie sounds good on all this stuff. The crackly stuff on backspacer and S/T that turned a lot of people off seems to be gone (and these would be the songs they'd appear on). And the over enunciation stuff isn't really there either. He's very smooth.

[Iowaska_Experience]

Swallowed whole features a full bodied hippy vedder. As far as i can tell. 'I could be the sun i could be the sound'. Though there's parts about drowning and 'what lies beyond the grave might be welcome shade' . At 2.06 there's about 5 seconds of interesting music where i thought it was gonna go all 'end of the road on us.

Ed sounds kinda rough to me on all of these but i don't know how much of that it just the quality of the tracks. And he's a lot louder than the music to me, but i thought that about backspacer. Do we think this is a promo cd? These would be the final versions si?

Yep Getaway is still winning.

Major League Baseball promo [see my prior post on it]

[dprival78]

about getaway: now i've only listened once, at a relatively low volume through my work laptop's speakers, but is that a bit of actual groove i'm hearing there?

Aw yeah it is.

I think these were all the least interesting sounding songs from the discriptions. All the songs we have left are the ones i was excited for. Bar FD, and maybe SBM but ill give it a shot.

didn't one of the reviewers say that getaway was about as fast as MYM? not even close.. maybe i'm mis-remembering reading that though..

anyway.. i'm digging getaway quite a bit.

[stip]

guys, I think I love lightning bolt. Chorus and all.

We should probably re-do our round 1 voting now, no?

[DaveVedder]

guys, I think I love lightning bolt. Chorus and all.

Ha great how your first reactions fits with my listening party review. I told you Lightning Bolt is a winner and Swallowed Whole is meh!
And does my getaway version sounds close to the original? Would really like to hear those if someone wants to give me the gmail details

[stip]

Swallowed whole features a full bodied hippy vedder. As far as i can tell. 'I could be the sun i could be the sound'. Though there's parts about drowning and 'what lies beyond the grave might be welcome shade' . At 2.06 there's about 5 seconds of interesting music where i thought it was gonna go all 'end of the road on us.

Ed sounds kinda rough to me on all of these but i don't know how much of that it just the quality of the tracks. And he's a lot louder than the music to me, but i thought that about backspacer. Do we think this is a promo cd? These would be the final versions si?

Yep Getaway is still winning.

Major League Baseball promo [see my prior post on it]

that makes sense, given the songs on here. these are good bumper songs.

[Thurman Murman]

So coz it is not allowed to share that content, i'd like to know what the running time(length) of the songs

Getaway - 3:26
Lightning Bolt - 4:13
Swallowed Whole - 3:51
Let The Records Play - 3:47

[sward]

Swallowed whole features a full bodied hippy vedder. As far as i can tell. 'I could be the sun i could be the sound'. Though there's parts about drowning and 'what lies beyond the grave might be welcome shade' . At 2.06 there's about 5 seconds of interesting music where i thought it was gonna go all 'end of the road on us.

Ed sounds kinda rough to me on all of these but i don't know how much of that it just the quality of the tracks. And he's a lot louder than the music to me, but i thought that about backspacer. Do we think this is a promo cd? These would be the final versions si?

Yep Getaway is still winning.

Major League Baseball promo [see my prior post on it]

MLB makes sense for what you say, however, LB also could just mean Lightning Bolt and who knows what the m means

[liebzz]

Let's Actually Listen to the Album: Pearl Jam. You illegals.

[gems and rhinestones]

guys, I think I love lightning bolt. Chorus and all.

Me too! I have loved it since Wrigley, instantly knew it was my favorite Pearl Jam song since Given To Fly.

[harmless]

about getaway: now i've only listened once, at a relatively low volume through my work laptop's speakers, but is that a bit of actual groove i'm hearing there?

Aw yeah it is.

I think these were all the least interesting sounding songs from the discriptions. All the songs we have left are the ones i was excited for. Bar FD, and maybe SBM but ill give it a shot.

didn't one of the reviewers say that getaway was about as fast as MYM? not even close.. maybe i'm mis-remembering reading that though..

anyway.. i'm digging getaway quite a bit.

Another review said it had the same energy but wasn't nearly as fast. That's the review I trusted. Sometimes people use the word 'fast' as a stand-in for the sentiment 'OMG this song made me wet my pants.'

[dprival78]

guys, I think I love lightning bolt. Chorus and all.

on the first time through, the vocal laying in the first verse seemed a bit over the top and unnecessary to me. but after a couple times through, it's not bad.

i came to really like the live version of this one, and the studio version hasn't changed that.