Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread

[verb_to_trust]

Dogs

These dogs look pissed. Also, I feel the black/yellow lab symbolizes a unity of all races together against BOB nicely. Its one thing all walks of life should agree on. I want to go Jerry Lee Lewis on the piano he used for FD so bad (burn it, not have sex with it).

[fishbob]

My altered version:

1. Getaway
2. MYM
3. My Father's Son
4. Lightning Bolt
5. Infallible
6. Let The Records Play
7. Swallowed Whole
8. Pendulum
9. Yellow Moon

Flow is good, gets rid of the ultimate cheese, the medium cheese is diluted, album contrasts well and finishes strong.
Pity about the polished as fuck production.

[verb_to_trust]

I just burned a copy of this, with 3 changes.

1) Sirens moved to after Swallowed Whole
2) Remove SBM
3) Chop off the piano from FD, fade in/out, etc...

Now this is an album

If only i could fix the chorus in LTRP. And maybe put a little fuzz on the chorus in Infallible.

I could get behind this.

FD is an great tune abortion, with very nice production once the piano bookends are gone. And I mean completely gone. It totally changes the complexion of the song.

LB after MFS works much, much better. Sirens should be later deleted entirely, it's just awkward after that abrupt stop to MFS, it takes away from Sirens the entire album.

SBM is just way out of place here. All the way out. Gone. It's an xmas single, pure and simple. I get trying to put it together, its a nice tune and i like much much better here than as a uke song only. But, c'mon, on this album? What?

[darthvedder81]

Really Good:

Getaway
Sirens

Goodish:

Yellow Moon

Not terrible but pretty unremarkable:

Mind Your Manners
My Father's Son
Lightning Bolt
Infallible
Pendulum
Swallowed Whole

God Awful:

Let the Records Play
Sleeping Myself
Future Days

What's sad is how many are in the not terrible/unremarkable category. A little more effort from the band and we might have a decent album here.

[WtOB?]

man, these first three tracks crush arse.

[injuddstree]

Production stinks to high heaven.

Infallible is top notch.

Pendulum and Records get a pass. Getaway maybe growing a little bit.

Rest is pure shite.

[fishbob]

Seriously, Sirens is fucking shite

[gems and rhinestones]

What a great album. Cheers to all us lucky ones who love it!

I'm so happy I get to have the joy of listening to this album over and over for the next 20 years!

[fishbob]

What a great album. Cheers to all us lucky ones who love it!

I'm so happy I get to have the joy of listening to this album over and over for the next 20 years!

Haha classic troll

[Fuzzcharger]

I'm not sure I hear the rewrites thing. Which LB songs sound like which other songs from the catalogue exactly?

I really don't want to listen to it again to refresh my memory, but there are references all over the place. Part of the first song is the chorus of World Wide Suicide. One song is a ripoff of Tremor Christ. Another sounded just like Low Light. There are little references all over the place. There are a few other places where I recognized chord sequences from other bands' songs as well. Someone noted the lead guitar part from that Shania Twain song in one song which I noticed immediately and it put me right off.

And as I said, that's not really the point. They could still reference past songs and do a good job of it. That doesn't happen here.

Maybe that's just part of their inherent sound though.

[injuddstree]

Seriously, Sirens is fucking shite

It certainly does.

I sat there thinking "this doesnt fit on this album". Then I realised it doesn't fit anywhere.

[fishbob]

Seriously, Sirens is fucking shite

It certainly does.

I sat there thinking "this doesnt fit on this album". Then I realised it doesn't fit anywhere.

I can't believe how polarised people are about this song. I gave it a chance and thought it might be ok, then when I heard it today it just ruined my day. So shit.

[gems and rhinestones]

This is fucked up, I can only vote for 1 song in the poll. I'm madly in love with 5 of these songs. Yet I'd totally cheat on them with 4 of the others.

Getaway
My Father's Son
Sirens
Lightning Bolt
Yellow Moon

Ming Your Manners
Infallible
Pendulum
Swallowed Whole

[gems and rhinestones]

What a great album. Cheers to all us lucky ones who love it!

I'm so happy I get to have the joy of listening to this album over and over for the next 20 years!

Haha classic troll

troll my dick

[WtOB?]

let's all just calm down our dicks.

[solace]

Future days might be their worst song ever. Worse than the fixer.

Not a chance... here's the ranks:

1) Release
2) The End
3) Future Days
4) All Those Yesterdays
5) Parting Ways
6) All or None
7) Indifference
8) Around the Bend
9) Inside Job
10) Foxy

Is this a top 10, bottom 10 or random 10?

Closers....

Stay off drugs kids

[gems and rhinestones]

Damn I wish Of The Earth was on this instead of SBM.

[Fuzzcharger]

let's all just calm down our dicks.

I'm going to calm my flaps.

[Soma.]

A girl? On the internet?

[WtOB?]

A girl? On the internet?

you didn't know fuzzcharger's a girl?