Gigaton: Official album thread

[Hatfield]

Have we listed all the call outs and influences on this album? A few seem pretty obvious but there are more scattered throughout.

David Byrne/Talking Heads - DotC vocals
Queen/Freddie Mercury - Quick Escape lyrics
Zeppelin - Quick Escape lyrics
Bowie - Quick Escape lyrics, very loose Life On Mars
Petty - Never Destination final lyrical couplet
Cornell - Comes Then Goes tribute

Anyone pick up any others? Is there a Prince/purple one somewhere?

Springsteen - Seven O'Clock

[VinylGuy]

Peter Gabriel on River Cross
Led Zep/ REM on Retrograde

[LikeLukin]

Have we listed all the call outs and influences on this album? A few seem pretty obvious but there are more scattered throughout.

David Byrne/Talking Heads - DotC vocals
Queen/Freddie Mercury - Quick Escape lyrics
Zeppelin - Quick Escape lyrics
Bowie - Quick Escape lyrics, very loose Life On Mars
Petty - Never Destination final lyrical couplet
Cornell - Comes Then Goes tribute

Anyone pick up any others? Is there a Prince/purple one somewhere?

Springsteen - Seven O'Clock

Big time

[worldwithyourheart]

Have we listed all the call outs and influences on this album? A few seem pretty obvious but there are more scattered throughout.

David Byrne/Talking Heads - DotC vocals
Queen/Freddie Mercury - Quick Escape lyrics
Zeppelin - Quick Escape lyrics
Bowie - Quick Escape lyrics, very loose Life On Mars
Petty - Never Destination final lyrical couplet
Cornell - Comes Then Goes tribute

Anyone pick up any others? Is there a Prince/purple one somewhere?

Springsteen - Seven O'Clock

Big time

I've kind of thought there was a reference to the Rolling Stones in Whoever Said - by mentioning Satisfaction so many times.

[Ms Harmless]

Have we listed all the call outs and influences on this album? A few seem pretty obvious but there are more scattered throughout.

David Byrne/Talking Heads - DotC vocals
Queen/Freddie Mercury - Quick Escape lyrics
Zeppelin - Quick Escape lyrics
Bowie - Quick Escape lyrics, very loose Life On Mars
Petty - Never Destination final lyrical couplet
Cornell - Comes Then Goes tribute

Anyone pick up any others? Is there a Prince/purple one somewhere?

Springsteen - Seven O'Clock

Big time

I've kind of thought there was a reference to the Rolling Stones in Whoever Said - by mentioning Satisfaction so many times.

yeah

[burl jam]

I get big AC/DC vibes from the opening riffs on WES and SBWM.

[Got Some]

Never Destination Is getting some radio air play here in Australia via triple m.

It’s my daughters new favourite

[Hatfield]

This album is so STRONG. I got past 7'Oclock for the first time in a couple of weeks and was floored by ND>Buckle UP>Comes The Goes. Ridiculously great music by the best band in the land. I liked BS and LB, but this feels like coming in from the wilderness after 14 years.

[guitar_davey]

This album is so STRONG. I got past 7'Oclock for the first time in a couple of weeks and was floored by ND>Buckle UP>Comes The Goes. Ridiculously great music by the best band in the land. I liked BS and LB, but this feels like coming in from the wilderness after 14 years.

[Strat]

Yea i took a week off from listening to it. Cranked it up yesterday and today and its cemented as a very fucking great album and representative of why i have always felt pearl jam is the fucking best band.

There, I said it.

[E.H. Ruddock]

I also took some time off and listened again. It's really good. It's settling in nicely in the ST/Riot Act grouping with me, which is well above the last two albums

[VinylGuy]

Yea i took a week off from listening to it. Cranked it up yesterday and today and its cemented as a very fucking great album and representative of why i have always felt pearl jam is the fucking best band.

There, I said it.

exactly this. There is always this FUCK YEAH feeling attached to listen to Gigaton.

[Rob]

2 1/2 months in, still playing this a lot, still loving it. Most of the time I didn't think QE could be topped, but now for me it's WES, 7, then Dance/QE/Never Dest battling for 3. Alright is a fine song, but its the only one I kind of forget about.

[epilogue]

I listen to this at least once a week, still (not every day, but often far more than once a week, too). And I keep finding new things to like about the album. This is a great record.

[Monkey_Driven]

I listen to this at least once a week, still (not every day, but often far more than once a week, too). And I keep finding new things to like about the album. This is a great record.

Agree. Even Retrograde, which I've beat on quite a bit in this forum, isn't that bad. Every song brings something to the table.

[VinylGuy]

yeah, Retrograde won a lot these last couple of weeks.

[Thurman Murman]

I listen to this at least once a week, still (not every day, but often far more than once a week, too). And I keep finding new things to like about the album. This is a great record.

Agree. Even Retrograde, which I've beat on quite a bit in this forum, isn't that bad. Every song brings something to the table.

Yep...i'm even finding myself really digging Never Destination this week and that was the one song on this album i was kind of lukewarm about.

[VinylGuy]

I listen to this at least once a week, still (not every day, but often far more than once a week, too). And I keep finding new things to like about the album. This is a great record.

Agree. Even Retrograde, which I've beat on quite a bit in this forum, isn't that bad. Every song brings something to the table.

Yep...i'm even finding myself really digging Never Destination this week and that was the one song on this album i was kind of lukewarm about.

I loooove ND but Retrograde was hard for me, and these days, its a joy to listen to.

[Got Some]

2 1/2 months in, still playing this a lot, still loving it. Most of the time I didn't think QE could be topped, but now for me it's WES, 7, then Dance/QE/Never Dest battling for 3. Alright is a fine song, but its the only one I kind of forget about.

WES still the fav, ND moving up to top 5.

This album is their best effort since Yield imho

[evenslow]

I also took some time off and listened again. It's really good. It's settling in nicely in the ST/Riot Act grouping with me, which is well above the last two albums

I'm confident in saying this as well. Will see if it gets higher than that as the months go by. Regardless, it's a more than worthy addition to the canon almost 30 years in =