Lightning Bolt: the official album thread

[LetMeSleep]

So now that harmless has actually watched the video and didn't find it disrespectful after all, can we go ahead and delete the previous few pages?

This would set a dangerous precedent. What do we do when verb_to_trust listens to the album and likes it? Do we delete the whole thread?

Delete the new board.

[Norah]

[AllNiteThing]

So is this Gleason video available anywhere or was it just the live stream?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KGQuw87faM

Jesus man those questions to Ed about his father, and Gleasons project for his young son brought tears to my eyes. As a father of 1 (soon to be 3!!) this is the kind of stuff that just brings me to my knees.

Guys, I enjoyed this and almost teared up myself. I found it respectful, not inappropriately sentimental, and it was great to have some words from Gleason himself about the tone of the interview, about pity and charity versus real feeling and experience. “It was not charity or pity. It was just mutual respect, or even love. It’s quite humbling.” It's interesting how the "cheesy" Sirens transforms after watching this. As if it didn't hit home before...

Amazing how an opinion on something can change when you actually see it for yourself, rather than make assumptions about it.

[harmless]

So is this Gleason video available anywhere or was it just the live stream?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KGQuw87faM

Jesus man those questions to Ed about his father, and Gleasons project for his young son brought tears to my eyes. As a father of 1 (soon to be 3!!) this is the kind of stuff that just brings me to my knees.

Guys, I enjoyed this and almost teared up myself. I found it respectful, not inappropriately sentimental, and it was great to have some words from Gleason himself about the tone of the interview, about pity and charity versus real feeling and experience. “It was not charity or pity. It was just mutual respect, or even love. It’s quite humbling.” It's interesting how the "cheesy" Sirens transforms after watching this. As if it didn't hit home before...

Amazing how an opinion on something can change when you actually see it for yourself, rather than make assumptions about it.

I didn't make any assumptions. I asked whether people thought I'd like it, since some of them know and understand my feelings on features like this. They're not always handled very well. This one wasn't perfect but was better than I expected. You made a lot of assumptions about what I was actually asking.

[Dr. Van Nostrand]

[Mirella]

I'm listening to Bonnie Prince Billy right now and now I want SBM to sound like this.

I wish it sounded like this! BPB rules Does he have a producer?

groetjes,
Mirella

[Mike]

I'm listening to Bonnie Prince Billy right now and now I want SBM to sound like this.

I wish it sounded like this! BPB rules Does he have a producer?

groetjes,
Mirella

You heard it and it doesn't sound like this, right? ;_; Mark Nevers produced that album.

[Birds in Hell]

So now that harmless has actually watched the video and didn't find it disrespectful after all, can we go ahead and delete the previous few pages?

This would set a dangerous precedent. What do we do when verb_to_trust listens to the album and likes it? Do we delete the whole thread?

Delete the new board.

[E.H. Ruddock]

So is this Gleason video available anywhere or was it just the live stream?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KGQuw87faM

Jesus man those questions to Ed about his father, and Gleasons project for his young son brought tears to my eyes. As a father of 1 (soon to be 3!!) this is the kind of stuff that just brings me to my knees.

Guys, I enjoyed this and almost teared up myself. I found it respectful, not inappropriately sentimental, and it was great to have some words from Gleason himself about the tone of the interview, about pity and charity versus real feeling and experience. “It was not charity or pity. It was just mutual respect, or even love. It’s quite humbling.” It's interesting how the "cheesy" Sirens transforms after watching this. As if it didn't hit home before...

Amazing how an opinion on something can change when you actually see it for yourself, rather than make assumptions about it.

You just couldn't let it go, could you dude?

[harmless]

It's cool. It happens.

[ABNorman]

I'm feeling dangerously optimistic about this album. Somebody lower my expectations quickly.

[AllNiteThing]

So is this Gleason video available anywhere or was it just the live stream?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KGQuw87faM

Jesus man those questions to Ed about his father, and Gleasons project for his young son brought tears to my eyes. As a father of 1 (soon to be 3!!) this is the kind of stuff that just brings me to my knees.

Guys, I enjoyed this and almost teared up myself. I found it respectful, not inappropriately sentimental, and it was great to have some words from Gleason himself about the tone of the interview, about pity and charity versus real feeling and experience. “It was not charity or pity. It was just mutual respect, or even love. It’s quite humbling.” It's interesting how the "cheesy" Sirens transforms after watching this. As if it didn't hit home before...

Amazing how an opinion on something can change when you actually see it for yourself, rather than make assumptions about it.

You just couldn't let it go, could you dude?

Don't make a mountain out of a molehill. Harmless is a big boy, he can handle it.

[Noonie]

I'm feeling dangerously optimistic about this album. Somebody lower my expectations quickly.

it's going to suck.

[Norah]

I'm feeling dangerously optimistic about this album. Somebody lower my expectations quickly.

[Mirella]

I'm listening to Bonnie Prince Billy right now and now I want SBM to sound like this.

I wish it sounded like this! BPB rules Does he have a producer?

groetjes,
Mirella

You heard it and it doesn't sound like this, right? ;_; Mark Nevers produced that album.

No, I wish. This would be just right. And thanks.

groetjes,
Mirella

[Iowaska_Experience]

I don't really get the hate for Sirens from the PJ hipsters. Is it really that much different in tone/style than, say, Wishlist, Light Years, or Parachutes?

[Noonie]

[ABNorman]

I'm feeling dangerously optimistic about this album. Somebody lower my expectations quickly.

Curse you, chud, if only you could see my "I heart Sirens" T-shirt.

[harmless]

I don't really get the hate for Sirens from the PJ hipsters. Is it really that much different in tone/style than, say, Wishlist, Light Years, or Parachutes?

I get your love for it. But yes I think it's pretty different. And we need to stop using the word "hipsters", it doesn't help our case!

[Mirella]

So, we saw Gravity this evening at the local cinema, and at some parts Sirens would have been appropriate music. I also smiled when I heard someone say 'off the earth'. In other words: I liked this movie.
And I think Lightning Bolt is about life, or mortality. Is life energy, is energy inspiration? The album mortality is as good as the song immortality. In a way.
And I loved the Steve Gleason video, or the almost 10 minutes that are available at this moment. It is not about disability, but about love. The will to live. And the prospect to die. Parents and children. Music.

groetjes,
Mirella (time to sleep)