Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread

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Getaway
42
13%
Mind Your Manners
8
2%
My Father's Son
38
12%
Sirens
23
7%
Lightning Bolt
21
6%
Infallible
38
12%
Pendulum
88
27%
Swallowed Whole
21
6%
Let the Records Play
7
2%
Sleeping By Myself
7
2%
Yellow Moon
32
10%
Future Days
4
1%
 
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stupidmop wrote:Im only up to sirens so far, so this is premature, but im gonna say at the very least they should have swapped sirens and ltrp. You know, if they were insisting on keeping them :twisted:
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Pendulum = Sleight of Hand
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PJ albums always take a while for me to formulate a final opinion but so far I'm pretty negative.

When Sleeping By Myself came on I thought it was generic Spotify streaming commercial jingle music. It's pretty hideous and has no reason being on a full PJ album. Swallowed Whole has no place here either. It's an Ed solo tune and nothing more.

I was surprised how half-baked the whole thing feels. Infallible, Pendulum and Yellow Moon all show promise but they don't seem finished to me (YM comes closest to sounding done).

LB has no character or coherence. It sounds exactly like an album done in two sessions 18 months apart because well...

I like Getaway and Sirens a lot and I don't hate MYM anymore. The rest is just blah. 5 or 6/10. Weakest PJ album.
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darthvedder81 wrote: Swallowed Whole has no place here either. It's an Ed solo tune and nothing more.
Huh?
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Loved Infallible. Here goes pendulum!
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theplatypus wrote:
darthvedder81 wrote: Swallowed Whole has no place here either. It's an Ed solo tune and nothing more.
Huh?
I second the Huh? on that one
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theplatypus wrote:
darthvedder81 wrote: Swallowed Whole has no place here either. It's an Ed solo tune and nothing more.
Huh?
Yeah, this baffles me. For me it's saving it to an extent.
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Can´t listen. I´m really frustrated.
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Yeah, Swallowed Whole is pretty good. Could be a single actually.
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Like SBM on this - never listened much to Uke Songs.

Yellow Moon sounds a little like a b-side from the period between Ten and Vs. I mean that in a nice way.

Also - neither of these is the Vine song. So what the hell was the Vine song? Scott Stapp? B-side? Stray Cats 2019?
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I can't ever imagine them playing Pendulum live.
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darthvedder81 wrote:When Sleeping By Myself came on I thought it was generic Spotify streaming commercial jingle music
:lol:
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jtr101 wrote:
theplatypus wrote:
darthvedder81 wrote: Swallowed Whole has no place here either. It's an Ed solo tune and nothing more.
Huh?
I second the Huh? on that one
Aw huh?
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theplatypus wrote:
darthvedder81 wrote: Swallowed Whole has no place here either. It's an Ed solo tune and nothing more.
Huh?
What's not to get? It sounds like something from Into the Wild not a Pearl Jam song.
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pendulum best track (of the unleaked tracks)

Getaway is my favorite on the record.
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Blenheim Augustine wrote:Like SBM on this - never listened much to Uke Songs.

Yellow Moon sounds a little like a b-side from the period between Ten and Vs. I mean that in a nice way.

Also - neither of these is the Vine song. So what the hell was the Vine song? Scott Stapp? B-side? Stray Cats 2019?
I think SBM is the Vine song.
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Jesus fucking Christ Yellow Moon! :shock:
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Hypnosomnia wrote:Can´t listen. I´m really frustrated.
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Getaway
MYM
MFS
Sirens
Infallible
Pendulum
Swallowed Whole
Yellow Moon

These are good songs (MYM at a stretch). Thanks PJ for enough to keep me happy. 5 from session 1 and 3 from session 2.
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Hmm.

Feels like the second half doesnt earn its rightful place on the record. I dont feel the need to come down emotionally by the time we get to near the end of the record...

SBM - Not sure what I heard.
Yellow Moon - Underwhelming on first listen
FD - Why? Why? Why? Fuck you BOB and Eddie for wasting a track on yourselves. If the band isn't playing on the song then its not PJ. The only way this song could have worked is if the emotional ride was tense enough up to that point for a cathartic release. Doesnt happen.


I fucking love everything up through pendelum though.
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