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%
 
Total votes: 329

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solace wrote:Ed's on the new RNDM album is my guess
Genius. That would be awesome.
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Favorites of the unleaked/new tracks: MFS, Pendulum, Yellow Moon.

Overall, I'm really impressed.
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stip wrote:well RM, I think this is a pretty great little record. Not their best, but something i strongly suspect will end up settling in the upper middle of the pack.

I look forward to putting the rotten kids to bed and being able to really listen


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I think upper middle too. Although initial reactions can be way off...
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MFS is fantastic on first listen and I totally get the comparisons to 90s Pearl Jam. Sirens sounds strange after it. Is the single version of Sirens produced differently or am I hearing things?
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simonsc wrote:
Blenheim Augustine wrote:Like most of what I heard, but is this the least coherent PJ album ever? The songs don't seem to belong together.

And - LTRP WTF? Shitstorm.
I was just thinking that...Pendulum into Swallowed Whole into Let The Records Play is kind of a mess. On first listen at least, which may not be fair.
Oh, man. I dunno. I kinda needed Swallowed Whole after Pendulum. I thought it worked well.
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stip wrote:well RM, I think this is a pretty great little record. Not their best, but something i strongly suspect will end up settling in the upper middle of the pack.
Very early but lower middle for me. Still i'll take that!
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Mike wrote:MFS is fantastic on first listen and I totally get the comparisons to 90s Pearl Jam. Sirens sounds strange after it. Is the single version of Sirens produced differently or am I hearing things?
'Twas a "live" recording
stip wrote:I wanted to punch you in your god's dice loving balls for not loving lightning bolt.
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Mike wrote:MFS is fantastic on first listen and I totally get the comparisons to 90s Pearl Jam. Sirens sounds strange after it. Is the single version of Sirens produced differently or am I hearing things?
I believe the video version is live recording dealio.
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Juvenal wrote:
Mike wrote:MFS is fantastic on first listen and I totally get the comparisons to 90s Pearl Jam. Sirens sounds strange after it. Is the single version of Sirens produced differently or am I hearing things?
'Twas a "live" recording
Oh, I knew that. I meant the download version but I bet I'm just hearing things. The guitars sounded crunchier right now.
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PJMosquito wrote:
Oh, man. I dunno. I kinda needed Swallowed Whole after Pendulum. I thought it worked well.
I think LTRP is just making my brain hurt.
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Hopefully i'll have a full rip of this for tomorrow :-)
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jtr101 wrote:Hopefully i'll have a full rip of this for tomorrow :-)
I'm ripping it as we speak. Should have it up within the hour.
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Lightning Bolt is still good and now even a little better in non-shitty quality.
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theplatypus wrote:
jtr101 wrote:Hopefully i'll have a full rip of this for tomorrow :-)
I'm ripping it as we speak. Should have it up within the hour.
You'd be my hero. Won't be around a computer with iTunes until very late this evening.
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Can you skip ahead on this stream? I had to pause, and it restarted... Can't figure out how to skip ahead. I guess maybe not, since it is a "stream" and all....
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Juvenal wrote:
theplatypus wrote:"Let the Records Play" is really bad.
I like the verses but it's that chorus... :shake:
LTRP sounds even worse now, as it's among better songs. This should have been killed. Silly.
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Monkey_Driven wrote:
theplatypus wrote:
jtr101 wrote:Hopefully i'll have a full rip of this for tomorrow :-)
I'm ripping it as we speak. Should have it up within the hour.
You'd be my hero. Won't be around a computer with iTunes until very late this evening.
I'm not your hero but that doesn't mean that I wasn't brave.
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hlniv wrote:Can you skip ahead on this stream? I had to pause, and it restarted... Can't figure out how to skip ahead. I guess maybe not, since it is a "stream" and all....
I've been jumping all over the place. And skipping tracks.
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theplatypus wrote:
jtr101 wrote:Hopefully i'll have a full rip of this for tomorrow :-)
I'm ripping it as we speak. Should have it up within the hour.
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Yellow Moon definitely sounded much better on second listen.

Im also getting over the chorus for INfallible. I wanted it to be something else but im getting used to it and it is now becoming a better song. I think the verse is still the magic in the song though...
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