Lightning Bolt: the official album thread

[Juvenal]

I like it when Stip gets snippy

[Ms Harmless]

you mean Snip

[vedder316]

Spinning this on the record player. Full disclosure: I actually like this record and Backspacer. I mean top 6 PJ album like? No, but I like these better than most here

[darth_vedder]

I haven't gone back and listened to this album from start to finish in quite some time. Per my music app, I haven't listened to this thing much since October / November 2013.

[darth_vedder]

I do remember liking Mind Your Manners and Sleeping By Myself, but not much else.

[epilogue]

Spinning this on the record player. Full disclosure: I actually like this record and Backspacer. I mean top 6 PJ album like? No, but I like these better than most here

Pearl Jam have never made a record that I think is bad. Backspacer is my least favorite but there's still a ton there to enjoy and a couple of songs that I think of everytime I think of the best things about Pearl Jam.

[stip]

yup - even the stuff at the bottom of my list I still enjoy

[VinylGuy]

yeah, me too.

LB is at the bottom of an incredible catalogue.

[RockPusher]

Pearl Jam songs can be separated into love, really like, and like for me. There are a small number that I'm ambivalent about, and a really small number of songs I actually don't like. I tend toward critical analysis of this band precisely because I love them so much, and they are so good at what they do. In this regard, even the worst albums in their catalog are well-regarded by me compared to everything else out there.

[epilogue]

Yeah, I'm with you. On RM I sometimes rail against certain songs that I don't actually hate as much as I post about hating them. I don't respond to Force of Nature, for example, but I don't actually hate the song. It just doesn't work for me like others do. I don't think there's a single Pearl Jam song that I actually hate.

[Monkey_Driven]

Pearl Jam songs can be separated into love, really like, and like for me. There are a small number that I'm ambivalent about, and a really small number of songs I actually don't like. I tend toward critical analysis of this band precisely because I love them so much, and they are so good at what they do. In this regard, even the worst albums in their catalog are well-regarded by me compared to everything else out there.

This is where I stand too. Though, I'm not super critical of music I don't like. I don't listen to it.

[epilogue]

Listened to this the other day. First time listening since Gigaton dropped. I still really enjoyed it. It's a little long. I think I could make a retracked version that I would love. But Ole would be the opener instead of Getaway, which I really don't think is great.

[lecherouslittlestump]

A vomit-inducing turd of an album.

[VinylGuy]

Listened to this the other day. First time listening since Gigaton dropped. I still really enjoyed it. It's a little long. I think I could make a retracked version that I would love. But Ole would be the opener instead of Getaway, which I really don't think is great.

whats that retracked version Joe? im not sure i would want Ole as an opener. And the call response ...we have that one on MYM, and its a superior song to me.

Maybe Ole could work on the second half?

[VinylGuy]

A vomit-inducing turd of an album.

Great input.

[LikeLukin]

A vomit-inducing turd of an album.

Great input.

I enjoyed it. Concise and correct.

[PHATJ]

A vomit-inducing turd of an album.

Great input.

I enjoyed it. Concise and correct.

[PHATJ]

How did Getaway get the most votes for best song on the album?

[Jaeti]

Yeah, I'm with you. On RM I sometimes rail against certain songs that I don't actually hate as much as I post about hating them. I don't respond to Force of Nature, for example, but I don't actually hate the song. It just doesn't work for me like others do. I don't think there's a single Pearl Jam song that I actually hate.

Yes, this.

[epilogue]

Listened to this the other day. First time listening since Gigaton dropped. I still really enjoyed it. It's a little long. I think I could make a retracked version that I would love. But Ole would be the opener instead of Getaway, which I really don't think is great.

whats that retracked version Joe? im not sure i would want Ole as an opener. And the call response ...we have that one on MYM, and its a superior song to me.

Maybe Ole could work on the second half?

I like the energy Getaway brings into MYM. I'd still want that to be track 2. So I was just thinking out loud about possible alternative album openers. Ole is a fucking great song. Not sure it would totally work but worth trying.