Lightning Bolt: the official album thread

[BootsToAsses]

Ok so I've already pre-ordered the album from 10c but I know it's likely going to take forever to get to the UK so I've also pre-ordered it from Amazon. Chances are I'll get it on release day from Amazon but it wasn't going to matter because I was on a 14 hour shift that day.

BUT, due to a nice twist of fate a colleague asked me to swap shifts so now I have the day off! I'm seriously thinking about driving to town and picking up the album if it doesn't arrive in the post. Is that sad?

[VinylGuy]

Ok so I've already pre-ordered the album from 10c but I know it's likely going to take forever to get to the UK so I've also pre-ordered it from Amazon. Chances are I'll get it on release day from Amazon but it wasn't going to matter because I was on a 14 hour shift that day.

BUT, due to a nice twist of fate a colleague asked me to swap shifts so now I have the day off! I'm seriously thinking about driving to town and picking up the album if it doesn't arrive in the post. Is that sad?

i would say....desperate.

[Thejambi]

Ok so I've already pre-ordered the album from 10c but I know it's likely going to take forever to get to the UK so I've also pre-ordered it from Amazon. Chances are I'll get it on release day from Amazon but it wasn't going to matter because I was on a 14 hour shift that day.

BUT, due to a nice twist of fate a colleague asked me to swap shifts so now I have the day off! I'm seriously thinking about driving to town and picking up the album if it doesn't arrive in the post. Is that sad?

Only if you don't cancel at least one of the preorders.

[BootsToAsses]

Maybe I should cancel the Amazon pre order.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Has this thing leaked yet?

[BootsToAsses]

Just now.

[Dr. Van Nostrand]

Has this thing leaked yet?

leaked what?, we can probably fix it if it does have a leak

[KurtLeon]

Just now.

Links or gtfo

[Cleverman]

I'm going to walk down to the record store and buy it on release day. I wonder if the kid working the counter will judge me and think I'm old and out of touch. Kinda like when I worked at a record store when I was 19 and made fun of the dudes who bought the latest Skynyrd or Billy Squier releases.

[Dr. Van Nostrand]

Just now.

Links or gtfo

i like the new addition to your avatar

[Thurman Murman]

Ok so I've already pre-ordered the album from 10c but I know it's likely going to take forever to get to the UK so I've also pre-ordered it from Amazon. Chances are I'll get it on release day from Amazon but it wasn't going to matter because I was on a 14 hour shift that day.

BUT, due to a nice twist of fate a colleague asked me to swap shifts so now I have the day off! I'm seriously thinking about driving to town and picking up the album if it doesn't arrive in the post. Is that sad?

Keep your 10C order and cancel the rest...and just download it when its released.

[Cleverman]

This is getting close

[Dr. Van Nostrand]

This is getting close

kind of anyway

[Thurman Murman]

I'm going to walk down to the record store and buy it on release day. I wonder if the kid working the counter will judge me and think I'm old and out of touch. Kinda like when I worked at a record store when I was 19 and made fun of the dudes who bought the latest Skynyrd or Billy Squier releases.

The good ol'days! I think Riot Act was the last time i actually went to the record store to buy new Pearl Jam.

[guitar_davey]

Just now.

Links or gtfo

Oh damn, and I thought you were in charge of this!

[KurtLeon]

Just now.

Links or gtfo

i like the new addition to your avatar

Its been like this since forever. But thanks for noticing I was inspired by you, actually.

[guitar_davey]

Just imagine, some time in the coming days, one of us will log on here and post that it has leaked...and it will be the truth!

[KurtLeon]

Just now.

Links or gtfo

Oh damn, and I thought you were in charge of this!

My chinese workers(non paid) are working as hell to search for this. I already lost 19 of them. Still nothing.

[CupidStunt]

Can you even get minor power chords? Minors aren't angry, they're sad.

Minors aren't angry, they're sad? Um... that surely depends on the song. Angry / sad / depressing. They're negative as opposed to positive, that's my point. I don't think we need to argue about the emotions they provoke.

Haha, I have no intention of arguing with you. I was just saying minor chords have always hit me as more sorrowful than angry. Angry is normally aggressive and aggressive music tends to lend itself more to brash, major sounding notes/chords. Minor chords normally belong in more delicate, intricate music in my experience.

"Grunge" (Nirvana et al) was mostly made up of minor chords, right? As far as I know PJ were unusual among those bands for using plenty of major chords in a more classic rock manner.

I'm not sure I agree with that. I hate the grunge box but here goes. Nirvana's music was mainly power chord based, meaning, as discussed above and explained well by McPardigm that the chords were not minor or major, neither male or female; they're hermaphrodites. The feel of a song and scale/progression is what will dictate whether you, the listener, perceive the sounds to be major or minor.

I guess what you're saying is out of all bands bundled into the grunge box, the main thing they had in common is that their music was either sad or angst, so that's where I think you're getting the impression that the whole movement was built on minor chords.

What I have always thought about 'grunge' was that there was fast and slow, loud and soft, and a touch of craziness in both lyrics and music. I loved that in both Nirvana and Pearl Jam, Mudhoney and Hole, but also in Tool or Pixies. Those are grunge to me too .

groetjes,
Mirella

This is true. I think there's a wider grunge group that also includes bands like Tool etc. There's a (relatively poor but well intended) music news website that was called Grunge Nation but they began reporting on Tool and others and changed to the better name of Alternative Nation but I could see why they had started reporting on the other bands they had.

Also, I think that to be considered grunge (or part of the aforementioned wider grunge group) it helps if you come across as nice people and I think that's a biggie. When you think of Ed, Kurt and people like Maynard James Keenan from Tool etc. they all mostly come across as respectful, loving, peaceful people who mean well and wouldn't intentionally upset or cause harm to anyone and anything.

[Dr. Van Nostrand]

Just now.

Links or gtfo

i like the new addition to your avatar

Its been like this since forever. But thanks for noticing I was inspired by you, actually.

most of the time im posting from my tablet and anything that is supposed to be animated isnt, so thats probably why im just noticing it