Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Backspacer

[ABNorman]

[harmless]

I enjoyed everything about this other than his voice, which I found mostly intolerable. If only Matt could do country drumming with such authentic style.

[ABNorman]

I enjoyed everything about this other than his voice, which I found mostly intolerable. If only Matt could do country drumming with such authentic style.

The younger guy was even more annoying.

[harmless]

I enjoyed everything about this other than his voice, which I found mostly intolerable. If only Matt could do country drumming with such authentic style.

The younger guy was even more annoying.

Yeah, vocals were terrible all round.

[mray10]

So I just LAL'ed this ...

Stip has proffered the theory that it's a little unfair to fully judge the place of an album in the cannon when it is the most recent record because (I'm sure he'll step in if I'm getting this wrong) that ranking is too invested with our hopes and fears about what that most recent album means for the direction of the band. I think he's probably right, as the ever-changing online reactions to Binaural, Riot Act, and now S/T help show.

I really enjoyed Backspacer initially, then sort of cooled to it, and eventually came to appreciate a few moments while being disappointed with the effort overall. But I think I generally agreed with Stip's theory that if the album that followed was strong that I would come to see Backspacer somewhat more favorably as a one-off experiment in pop playfulness.

And, hey, it's still early. Now it's LB that has that new album smell, and I've heard virtually none of it played live. I haven't reached that point where I put it away for a time and then discover how much interest I have in it when it's not just the sparkly new thing.

But with that said, LB has changed my feeling toward Backspacer.

It shits all over it.

Backspacer (mostly) just sounds ... pathetic, and forced, and ... just lacking overall. LB is far from perfect but what it gets right shines a bright light on how much Backspacer gets wrong.

Anyway, that's how I see it today.

[Thejambi]

So I just LAL'ed this ...

Stip has proffered the theory that it's a little unfair to fully judge the place of an album in the cannon when it is the most recent record because (I'm sure he'll step in if I'm getting this wrong) that ranking is too invested with our hopes and fears about what that most recent album means for the direction of the band. I think he's probably right, as the ever-changing online reactions to Binaural, Riot Act, and now S/T help show.

I really enjoyed Backspacer initially, then sort of cooled to it, and eventually came to appreciate a few moments while being disappointed with the effort overall. But I think I generally agreed with Stip's theory that if the album that followed was strong that I would come to see Backspacer somewhat more favorably as a one-off experiment in pop playfulness.

And, hey, it's still early. Now it's LB that has that new album smell, and I've heard virtually none of it played live. I haven't reached that point where I put it away for a time and then discover how much interest I have in it when it's not just the sparkly new thing.

But with that said, LB has changed my feeling toward Backspacer.

It shits all over it.

Backspacer (mostly) just sounds ... pathetic, and forced, and ... just lacking overall. LB is far from perfect but what it gets right shines a bright light on how much Backspacer gets wrong.

Anyway, that's how I see it today.

I haven't listened to it in sometime but you may be right. LB does seem to do a lot of what Backspacer did but much better.

[harmless]

So I just LAL'ed this ...

Stip has proffered the theory that it's a little unfair to fully judge the place of an album in the cannon when it is the most recent record because (I'm sure he'll step in if I'm getting this wrong) that ranking is too invested with our hopes and fears about what that most recent album means for the direction of the band. I think he's probably right, as the ever-changing online reactions to Binaural, Riot Act, and now S/T help show.

I really enjoyed Backspacer initially, then sort of cooled to it, and eventually came to appreciate a few moments while being disappointed with the effort overall. But I think I generally agreed with Stip's theory that if the album that followed was strong that I would come to see Backspacer somewhat more favorably as a one-off experiment in pop playfulness.

And, hey, it's still early. Now it's LB that has that new album smell, and I've heard virtually none of it played live. I haven't reached that point where I put it away for a time and then discover how much interest I have in it when it's not just the sparkly new thing.

But with that said, LB has changed my feeling toward Backspacer.

It shits all over it.

Backspacer (mostly) just sounds ... pathetic, and forced, and ... just lacking overall. LB is far from perfect but what it gets right shines a bright light on how much Backspacer gets wrong.

Anyway, that's how I see it today.

I haven't listened to it in sometime but you may be right. LB does seem to do a lot of what Backspacer did but much better.

For me it's the light/dark mix that I always wanted from Pop Jam.

[Jorge]

Willie Nelson is so great. I'm wearing his mug shot t-shirt right now.

[Lament]

For me it's the light/dark mix that I always wanted from Pop Jam.

Is Jam Pearl your favorite band?

[harmless]

For me it's the light/dark mix that I always wanted from Pop Jam.

Is Jam Pearl your favorite band?

Whatever I reply, you'll take as yeeeees.

[Lament]

For me it's the light/dark mix that I always wanted from Pop Jam.

Is Jam Pearl your favorite band?

Whatever I reply, you'll take as yeeeees.

[harmless]

[Thejambi]

[Lament]

I busted that move out so many times at the club last weekend.

[stip]

So I just LAL'ed this ...

Stip has proffered the theory that it's a little unfair to fully judge the place of an album in the cannon when it is the most recent record because (I'm sure he'll step in if I'm getting this wrong) that ranking is too invested with our hopes and fears about what that most recent album means for the direction of the band. I think he's probably right, as the ever-changing online reactions to Binaural, Riot Act, and now S/T help show.

I really enjoyed Backspacer initially, then sort of cooled to it, and eventually came to appreciate a few moments while being disappointed with the effort overall. But I think I generally agreed with Stip's theory that if the album that followed was strong that I would come to see Backspacer somewhat more favorably as a one-off experiment in pop playfulness.

And, hey, it's still early. Now it's LB that has that new album smell, and I've heard virtually none of it played live. I haven't reached that point where I put it away for a time and then discover how much interest I have in it when it's not just the sparkly new thing.

But with that said, LB has changed my feeling toward Backspacer.

It shits all over it.

Backspacer (mostly) just sounds ... pathetic, and forced, and ... just lacking overall. LB is far from perfect but what it gets right shines a bright light on how much Backspacer gets wrong.

Anyway, that's how I see it today.

I haven't listened to it in sometime but you may be right. LB does seem to do a lot of what Backspacer did but much better.

It could make it worse. This is the first time a pj record seems to be a continuation/expansion of the previous record more than a response. I haven't heard backspacer for a little while but I do want to lal to it in a few weeks once the Lbolt glow fades a bit.

[Birds in Hell]

"Backspacer done (kind of) right" does seem like a pretty fair assessment of what I've taken in of Lightning Bolt thus far.

[Juvenal]

For me it's the light/dark mix that I always wanted from Pop Jam.

Is Jam Pearl your favorite band?

Whatever I reply, you'll take as yeeeees.

Indeed, her legs are making a Yield sign

[HardTI]

For me it's the light/dark mix that I always wanted from Pop Jam.

Is Jam Pearl your favorite band?

Whatever I reply, you'll take as yeeeees.

Indeed, her legs are making a Yield sign

[Jorge]

Ed very cleverly hid his real motivations behind recording Backspacer as a subliminal message in the chorus of "Gonna See My Friend".



"I need some money"

[BurtReynolds]

haha