Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread

[harmless]

A Lot of Joyas in this record.
Great great record, best since Riot ACt.

miren
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[hlniv]

How in the hell have LTRP, Future Days, and SBM averaged the same count on the poll as Swallowed Whole? That's just loopy.

[HardTI]

Uhhh the lossless of this is out now. This sounds fucking incredible.

[pappas]

sorry for double post

[pappas]

Uhhh the lossless of this is out now. This sounds fucking incredible.

can you help me out?

[HardTI]

What did ya say?

[KurtLeon]

Uhhh the lossless of this is out now. This sounds fucking incredible.

Wait, wat?

[harmless]

Uhhh the lossless of this is out now. This sounds fucking incredible.

Wait, wat?

the gmail - FLAC

[stip]

5 Star songs since 2000 off the top of my head, go:

Grievance
All or None
insignificance

Sleight of Hand
Sad
Of The Girl
Fatal

None of these. I'd entertain arguments for grievance, insignificance, and sad

[stip]

You guys are easy graders.

On balance I bet i have fewer high scoring songs than most. Just more recent ones

[stip]

New PJ albums always tend to rank falsely high for me at first just because "OH MY GOD NEW PEARL JAM THIS IS THE GREATEST THING EVER!!!!!!" then after a while I calm down and remember that Yield and Vs. will forever be champions. The fact that LB is the first time this hasn't happened tells me something.

quoted for truth.

let the dust settle and we'll see where this lands.

if there's a song on here that would be in your top 25 (or for me, 40) Pearl Jam songs, more power to you.

For sure. The flip side is that appreciation for other songs reveals itself over time

[stip]

I'll return to both King Animal and Jeff's recent solo LP a lot more than I will this in the future.

Oh well.

How many listens?

[Birds in Hell]

I'll return to both King Animal and Jeff's recent solo LP a lot more than I will this in the future.

Oh well.

How many listens?

I have no idea. A few?

[stip]

I'll return to both King Animal and Jeff's recent solo LP a lot more than I will this in the future.

Oh well.

How many listens?

I have no idea. A few?

I don't see how it matters.

Because I know I usually need a few listens to figure out if a song will interest me

[BurtReynolds]

Brutally hard won optimism? Wtf?

[Birds in Hell]

I'll return to both King Animal and Jeff's recent solo LP a lot more than I will this in the future.

Oh well.

How many listens?

I have no idea. A few?

I don't see how it matters.

Because I know I usually need a few listens to figure out if a song will interest me

I think there's a distinction between interesting music that demands and/or rewards multiple listens and music that's immediately dull and unremarkable on first listen.

There's plenty of music that I didn't fully appreciate initially yet got under my skin enough that I felt compelled to return again and again until everything fell into place. These songs aren't that. They're pretty straight-forward, y'know? For the most part, they're just not my thing (save My Father's Son).

[Wendy Carlos's Twin]

There's plenty of music that I didn't fully appreciate initially yet got under my skin enough that I felt compelled to return again and again until everything fell into place. These songs aren't that. They're pretty straight-forward, y'know? For the most part, they're just not my thing (save My Father's Son).

I basically said this a few pages back and harmless attacked me for it. Watch out when you see that wheelchair comin'. He'll roll right over your ass.

[Lostdog]

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[Dugg]

Sleight of Hand is the best song they've ever written.

Yes, yes it is.

[stip]

I'll return to both King Animal and Jeff's recent solo LP a lot more than I will this in the future.

Oh well.

How many listens?

I have no idea. A few?

I don't see how it matters.

Because I know I usually need a few listens to figure out if a song will interest me

I think there's a distinction between interesting music that demands and/or rewards multiple listens and music that's immediately dull and unremarkable on first listen.

There's plenty of music that I didn't fully appreciate initially yet got under my skin enough that I felt compelled to return again and again until everything fell into place. These songs aren't that. They're pretty straight-forward, y'know? For the most part, they're just not my thing (save My Father's Son).

That's fine, obviously. For me almost every pj song elicits an ehhh reaction on first listen. Irrespective of its difficulty. There are exceptions, of course