Lightning Bolt: the official album thread

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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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harmless wrote:
Thejambi wrote:
harmless wrote:
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harmless wrote:They do. I'm hoping they get bigger later on. I guess I like everything else enough that it doesn't matter too much. There's one very fuzzy guitar that's very low in the mix...
If nothing matters, does anything?
Maybe some things don't matter so that we can appreciate the things that do matter? (Like drums?)
Would drums actually matter if not for other instruments being around them to not matter?
I don't know. Yes?
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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Thejambi wrote:
harmless wrote:
Thejambi wrote:
harmless wrote:
Thejambi wrote:
harmless wrote:They do. I'm hoping they get bigger later on. I guess I like everything else enough that it doesn't matter too much. There's one very fuzzy guitar that's very low in the mix...
If nothing matters, does anything?
Maybe some things don't matter so that we can appreciate the things that do matter? (Like drums?)
Would drums actually matter if not for other instruments being around them to not matter?
I don't know. Yes?
It doesn't matter. I don't matter.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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I'm still 7 pages behind, but I guess this puts to bed the theory that the sound check was them blaring the studio track over the P.A., versus them playing it live. Think I'll like the live version better.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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It was definitely live. Having said that, it was far too echoey to hear things like how intense the guitar was, and the groove Matt was playing...
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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My favorite clip so far, its been mentioned that it sounds like Dead Weather. I agree with that, and it also sounds like QOTSA. Maybe Homme gave the a guys a tone lesson after PJ20. I'm starting to mark out for this new album!
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pearl jam has enough RAWK and BIG GUITARS...

Im excited about the tones on this one right now and am really looking forward to it!
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Strat wrote:pearl jam has enough RAWK and BIG GUITARS...

Im excited about the tones on this one right now and am really looking forward to it!
That's cool. As long as they start playing 'New Infallible' in 5-10 years. . . . .
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Iowaska_Experience wrote:
Strat wrote:pearl jam has enough RAWK and BIG GUITARS...

Im excited about the tones on this one right now and am really looking forward to it!
That's cool. As long as they start playing 'New Infallible' in 5-10 years. . . . .
You think it's going to be louder? Is that a likely trajectory for this song? ;)
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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harmless wrote:
Iowaska_Experience wrote:
Strat wrote:pearl jam has enough RAWK and BIG GUITARS...

Im excited about the tones on this one right now and am really looking forward to it!
That's cool. As long as they start playing 'New Infallible' in 5-10 years. . . . .
You think it's going to be louder? Is that a likely trajectory for this song? ;)
Fair point. I'm assuming way too much at this point as it is, without hearing the full track. I'll probably like the studio version, but the sound check (most likely due to the piss-poor recording) had me picturing a lot dirtier/distorted sound in my mind.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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Mirella wrote:You know, the discussion here a couple of pages (or more) ago about how general music taste somehow is shifting and we are suddenly allowed (or something) to like even the most 'forbidden' things so far, has led me to another clue. I was checking if one of my friends already had her review printed, but it is still too early. Most will appear two weeks before the album release date. So I checked a site for 'Pearl Jam' and found a ridiculous article about 90's 'fashion' and an interview with a singer whose favourite band turns out to be Pearl Jam. It was Ellie Goulding. One of the singers I hear every day because at work they play hit radio stations. I even like her songs, relatively spoken. We already had the One Direction 'connection' and the Made in America trailer. This is a nice addition to this theory, I think.

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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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there's an infallible clip ????
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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oh, yeah. cool.
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There might actually be a song on this record I like!
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Woah, that's probably jumping the gun.
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cutuphalfdead wrote:There might actually be a song on this record I like!
Yeah that sounds good. Hopes are rising again.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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cutuphalfdead wrote:There might actually be a song on this record I like!
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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I bet Stone wrote the music and "turned it in" through Jeff so it would make the album.
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It's a reaaal possibility.
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