Lightning Bolt: the official album thread

[Jaeti]

Used the song ranker to help me settle intuitive uncertainty about Binaural/Riot Act. Tough, though, because Insignificance alone makes me want to swap their order.

Gigaton
Riot Act
Binaural

S/T

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Lightning Bolt

[Monkey_Driven]

Binaural

Riot Act

Gigaton
S/T



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Lightning Bolt

[Farmer John]

Binaural

Riot Act

Gigaton
S/T



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Lightning Bolt

Swap Gigaton and S/T, and narrow the gap between Binaural and Riot Act slightly, and this is me exactly.

[blueviper]

Lightning Bolt (trim the fat edition)

1. "Getaway"
2. "Mind Your Manners"
3. "Sirens"
4. "Lightning Bolt"
5. "Infallible"
6. "Swallowed Whole"
7. "Sleeping by Myself"
8. "Yellow Moon"
9. Pendulum

[dad]

Lightning Bolt (trim the fat edition)

[Farmer John]

Lightning Bolt (trim the fat edition)

1. The intro to "Let the Records Play"

[Vitalogist]

Lightning Bolt (trim the fat edition)

1. The intro to "Let the Records Play"

LOL

[wease]

Lightning Bolt (trim the fat edition)

1. The intro to "Let the Records Play"

2. The intro to Mind Your Manners

[stip]

Lightning Bolt deserves a better class of fandom!

[guitar_davey]

Lightning Bolt deserves a better class of fandom!

Lightning Bolt (the song) should have been a classic. The live renditions, strained as they can be, really elevate, especially towards the end. The studio version barely hints at it.

[liebzz]

Lightning Bolt deserves a better class of fandom!

Lightning Bolt (the song) should have been a classic. The live renditions, strained as they can be, really elevate, especially towards the end. The studio version barely hints at it.

Why would they do a fade out over that wonderful jam at the end that recalls all things I love about Life Wasted and Severed Hand!?

[Leatherhead]

Being named Lightning Bolt, I expected this album to rock hard.

[epilogue]

Being named Lightning Bolt, I expected this album to rock hard.

Wasn't this also the reason Riot Act "sucked" when it came out?

[VinylGuy]

I might open a bottle of wine and listen to this one on vinyl

[Jaeti]

I might open a bottle of wine and listen to this one on vinyl

15 songs. Better open two. Drink through the fat.

[epilogue]

I might open a bottle of wine and listen to this one on vinyl

[tragabigzanda]

pearl jam sucks now

[VinylGuy]

Being named Lightning Bolt, I expected this album to rock hard.

Wasn't this also the reason Riot Act "sucked" when it came out?

It seemed to me that because the album was lacking in any of the experimental hallmarks of the last couple albums, and fronted by Ed's beleaguered vocals, it somehow felt phoned in. Obviously that's not been the case for a while. But I remember more than one person saying to me something like "How long did this album take them, a week?"

yeah around the time most folks felt it was too poppy too, specially the rock tunes. Only Save You was considered a heavy track and other like Get Right or Green Desease werent heavy enough.

[epilogue]

Being named Lightning Bolt, I expected this album to rock hard.

Wasn't this also the reason Riot Act "sucked" when it came out?

It seemed to me that because the album was lacking in any of the experimental hallmarks of the last couple albums, and fronted by Ed's beleaguered vocals, it somehow felt phoned in. Obviously that's not been the case for a while. But I remember more than one person saying to me something like "How long did this album take them, a week?"

I just remember so many people expecting it to RAWK simply because it was called Riot Act. And when it wasn't a full on thrasher, folks felt mislead and disappointed.

[tragabigzanda]

pearl jam sucks now