Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread

[dimejinky99]

There's also a commentary version of the album: Pearl Jam – Lightning Bolt
(Commentary Version) http://open.spotify.com/album/4CnmDjNCJ4nGUETPwhaK5n

If someone can rip that, that'd be great

[hebejebe]

I wish I liked Bruce Springsteen

Never been a fan. I find him to be a weak songwriter, guitar player and especially singer.

I was never a fan until I watched a documentary about Darkness on the Edge of Town. I love that album. I bought a few albums but it's the only one I truly love. If you haven't heard it I'd recommend it.

[stip]

i kinda wish there was a hidden track so the listener could be rewarded for having sat through future days.

Fd isn't bad. There are parts of it i like. I am still at a 2 but I can imagine it moving up some day. My initial reaction is similar to around the bend

[stip]

With a sample size of 50+ we can get an initial senses of what rm thinks of these songs.


Score is 5 and 4 rankings minus 2 and 1 rankings

Pendulum: 98
Yellow Moon: 77
Getaway: 76
Mind your manners:67
My Father's Son: 65
Infallible: 56
Lightning bolt: 55
Sirens:51
Swallowed Whole: 49
Sleeping by myself :28
Let the Records play: 7
Future Days: -16



( future days still mostly reflects the first impression voting. I just reset the poll)

[BootsToAsses]

I'm tempted to attempt a lengthy review of this record, but I think I want to wait until tomorrow when I have the proper CD and liner notes in my hand.

Needless to say, this album is strong.

[stip]

For comparison ( scores from the old board )

Got some: 67
Just breathe: 60
Unthought known: 53
The end: 52
Force of nature: 51 ( surprised)
Johnny guitar: 45
Amongst the waves: 44
GSMF: 39
Speed of sound: 8
The fixer: -7 (:fists of rage:)
Supersonic: -27

[stip]

I'm tempted to attempt a lengthy review of this record, but I think I want to wait until tomorrow when I have the proper CD and liner notes in my hand.

Needless to say, this album is strong.

There are some lyrical surprises. Almost always better

[BootsToAsses]

I'm tempted to attempt a lengthy review of this record, but I think I want to wait until tomorrow when I have the proper CD and liner notes in my hand.

Needless to say, this album is strong.

There are some lyrical surprises. Almost always better

Yes indeed. Of course I can't hope to match up to your expert analysis but I'll give it a bash anyway.

[stip]

S/t

Marker: 76
World wide suicide: 70
Severed hand: 60
Inside job: 56
Comatose: 54
Army reserve: 52
Parachutes : 48*
Wasted reprise: 41
Unemployable: 40
Come back: 39
Gone: 31
Life wasted: 15*
Big wave: -11


I suspect there is a fairly different voting population on rm today







* under 40 votes. Poll must have reset at some point

[stip]

I'm tempted to attempt a lengthy review of this record, but I think I want to wait until tomorrow when I have the proper CD and liner notes in my hand.

Needless to say, this album is strong.

There are some lyrical surprises. Almost always better

Yes indeed. Of course I can't hope to match up to your expert analysis but I'll give it a bash anyway.

Other peoples opinions are what we are all hear to read

[BootsToAsses]

I'm tempted to attempt a lengthy review of this record, but I think I want to wait until tomorrow when I have the proper CD and liner notes in my hand.

Needless to say, this album is strong.

There are some lyrical surprises. Almost always better

Yes indeed. Of course I can't hope to match up to your expert analysis but I'll give it a bash anyway.

Other peoples opinions are what we are all hear to read

My girlfriend, who is not really a PJ fan at all but has accompanied me to 4 shows since 2010, listened to LB on the train the other day and because she's greatest she even wrote down a mini review because she knew I'd love to read her thoughts

If you want a quick taster of her thoughts, this is what she had to say about some of the songs:

Sirens - "One for swaying in the crowd. I can imagine Eddie rolling around in the sand on an empty beach for the music video."

Sleeping By Myself - "Is Ed going to twang this out country style on stage by himself with a ukulele? It's a bit too borderline country for my taste".

Yellow Moon - "Wet."

Future Days - "Doubly wet."

She's the best

[stip]

Riot act

Save you (100)**
Ghost: 100**
All or none: 63*
Can't keep: 62*
Love boat captain: 60
1/2 full: 58
TMW: 54
Arc: 39
Green disease: 34**
You are: 33
Get right: 28*
Help help: 16
Cropduster: 0
Bushleaguer: -22

Can't find I am mine thread


** under 10 votes. Statistically worthless

[stip]

I wish my wife cared about music. She can now tel the difference between Eddie Vedder and Michael stipe with 90% accuracy

[BootsToAsses]

I wish my wife cared about music. She can now tel the difference between Eddie Vedder and Michael stipe with 90% accuracy

90% is quite the achievement. Despite them sounding as different as humanly possible, at least she knows their name. My girl doesn't like REM at all. She kinda likes Bruce though. Nothing sexier than going to a gig and seeing her singing along to songs I like.

[stip]

Binaural (last one for now)

Insignificance:100*
Grievance: 89*
Light years: 77
Parting ways: 72
Of the girl: 69*
Breakerfall: 59*
Sleight of hand: 60
NAIS:51
Rival: 31
Soon forget: 22
Gods dice:0**
Evacuation:-20
Thin air:-1

[dimejinky99]

i kinda wish there was a hidden track so the listener could be rewarded for having sat through future days.

Fd isn't bad. There are parts of it i like. I am still at a 2 but I can imagine it moving up some day. My initial reaction is similar to around the bend

Never thought of it like that. Guess it kind of is in the same vein as Around the bend. Not just the pianos either.

BOB played piano on ATB too, right? I wonder if this one will have a renaissance down the line?

[dimejinky99]

There are a lot of references to previous lyrics and general references on this record.
In Swallowed whole he mentions 'come what may'. Is he referring to that old spiritual tune of the same name? I wonder

[stupidmop]

All I can think of when I hear that is moulin rouge

[ABNorman]

This album continues the "second half not as good as the first half" pattern of Pearl Jam albums. I'd argue VS' and Binaural's good songs are fairly evenly distributed, but the rest match this. They like to open strong, but often lack the substance to back it up.

No Code is my favourite album of all time though, and it suffers from this syndrome as well.

[harmless]

There are a lot of references to previous lyrics and general references on this record.
In Swallowed whole he mentions 'come what may'. Is he referring to that old spiritual tune of the same name? I wonder

Yeah, I think there's a lot of playing around with pseudo-religious hymnal ideas and lyrics across the album.