Song of the Moment: Infallible

[LetMeSleep]

We are going to make her learn the queen's English once she hits grade school

You mean English, right?

[matt reeder]

By either accident or design, they ditched the backing track for this one at the Auckland show - it's like night and day, a really noticeable improvement over every previous live attempt.

Geez. What backing track? I guess I haven't listened closely enough.

You know, the keyboard pad that fades in as Matt's counting the song off and that constant percussive melody throughout the verses. The Auckland version is, by contrast, totally live; Boom plays that little melody on keys instead (he may have been doing so already but it was somewhat buried by the loop before) and the guitars are much more to the fore.

I guess Ill have to listen with headphones closely. Heard a couple horrible live verrsions and gave up on that song.

I had too.

It should've sounded like the Auckland version on record.

are you going to be putting together a tour comp?

I'll probably end up making some kind of 80-minute (or thereabouts) mix from the Australian/NZ shows at least.

I'd certainly be interested in a general Lightning Bolt live mix, like my Black Market Avocado compilation, but it would depend on whether really solid live versions of some of the songs emerge.

I made a 2013 mix from the 6 or so shows I have. My ISP is throttling me to death so I can't upload anything until I change providers, but here's the tracklist:

1. Of the Girl [Calgary, 12-02]
2. Hard to Imagine [Calgary, 12-02]
3. Lightning Bolt [Portland, 11-29]
4. Mind Your Manners [Calgary, 12-02]
5. Animal [Portland, 11-29]
6. Deep [Portland, 11-29]
7. Even Flow [Calgary, 12-02]
8. All Night [San Diego, 11-21]
9. Pilate [Seattle, 12-06]
10. Infallible [Vancouver, 12-04]
11. Immortality [Oklahoma City, 11-16]
12. Let Me Sleep [Seattle, 12-06]
13. Yellow Moon [Oklahoma City, 11-16]
14. Parting Ways [Oklahoma City, 11-16]
15. Black [Oklahoma City, 11-16]
16. Spin the Black Circle [Portland, 11-29]
17. Rockin' in the Free World [San Diego, 11-21]

[Rangi Guy]

By either accident or design, they ditched the backing track for this one at the Auckland show - it's like night and day, a really noticeable improvement over every previous live attempt.

I've listened to the bootleg of this a few times, and Infallible is certainly better. Didn't notice it so much at the show

[Lounge Lizard]

Ellie is building a Lego castle and singing infallible. I've never been so proud

'keep on locking your doors. keep on locking your floors'...

He could be a secret Minecraft addict for all we know

[WaitingForBluey]

This song just keeps digging its claws in... Live version is probably a little better... But still, even the album version is a post-RA highlight for me

[Release_Me]

Love this song. My favourite from LB and the only one from the album to crack my overall top 10 PJ songs list.

[Leatherhead]

Listening to this right now. This song pretty much sucks. Probably my most disliked vocals out of their whole catalog.

[VinylGuy]

i remember the mix being super awful and the production too. But thats mostly for the whole album.

Im glad i havent listened to this one in a very long time.

[epilogue]

Best song on LB. Best song since Riot Act in fact. Until Gigaton, obvy.

I love this track. It's the only one from the era that I still listen to regularly.

[Jorge]

It's been a long while and I barely remember what this sounds like. Maybe I will give it a listen tomorrow

[Lounge Lizard]

It's been a long while and I barely remember what this sounds like. Maybe I will give it a listen tomorrow

It sounds like something Christina Aguilera would compose.

[epilogue]

It's been a long while and I barely remember what this sounds like. Maybe I will give it a listen tomorrow

It's basically Tremor Christ.

[Jorge]

It's been a long while and I barely remember what this sounds like. Maybe I will give it a listen tomorrow

It's basically Tremor Christ.

No wonder you love her then. A bowl of spaghetti.

[epilogue]

It's been a long while and I barely remember what this sounds like. Maybe I will give it a listen tomorrow

It's basically Tremor Christ.

No wonder you love her then. A bowl of spaghetti.

I love AI Jorge

[rick malone]

Rewrite of Tremor Christ but Ed's vocals make it good. Most passion he showed since Yield.

[JuanHamm]

Guys please stop comparing this turd to Tremor Christ

[Jorge]

Oh yeah this song fucking sucks, I hate everything about it

[Jorge]

The music in the verses is not too far removed from that awful Imagine Dragons sound. Ed's melody, lyrics, and singing are all really lame. And then the chorus is an attempt at that unfurl-y LeAnn Rimes kind of pop chorus and it just does not work at all. As with "Can't Deny Me," Brendan O'Brien tries to cover up the total lack of interesting musical ideas with a bunch of superfluous little percussion flourishes. Bad bad bad, I'll revisit it in another ten years

[Strat]

The music in the verses is not too far removed from that awful Imagine Dragons sound. Ed's melody, lyrics, and singing are all really lame. And then the chorus is an attempt at that unfurl-y LeAnn Rimes kind of pop chorus and it just does not work at all. As with "Can't Deny Me," Brendan O'Brien tries to cover up the total lack of interesting musical ideas with a bunch of superfluous little percussion flourishes. Bad bad bad, I'll revisit it in another ten years

The live version really exposes it for what it is.

BOB actually does the song justice.

[VinylGuy]

It’s so weird when people say it’s similar to Tremor Christ.