Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread

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Getaway
42
13%
Mind Your Manners
8
2%
My Father's Son
38
12%
Sirens
23
7%
Lightning Bolt
21
6%
Infallible
38
12%
Pendulum
88
27%
Swallowed Whole
21
6%
Let the Records Play
7
2%
Sleeping By Myself
7
2%
Yellow Moon
32
10%
Future Days
4
1%
 
Total votes: 329

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stupidmop wrote:Sweatpantcer
That's a winner.
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BurtReynolds wrote:So... As it turns out, I think Lightning Bolt is a stupid name for this album, but I'm not sure what I would call it. Any ideas?
As someone said months ago they should have called the album Of the Earth but still kept Of the Earth off of it. That would have been the integrity move.
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The media never got you, McP.

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Lament wrote:
BurtReynolds wrote:So... As it turns out, I think Lightning Bolt is a stupid name for this album, but I'm not sure what I would call it. Any ideas?
As someone said months ago they should have called the album Of the Earth but still kept Of the Earth off of it. That would have been the integrity move.
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Heathen wrote:The media never got you, McP.

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'sides, it don't bother me none
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You weren't kidding about the no sweatpants thing
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BurtReynolds wrote:Earthing Bolt.
Birthing Hole.
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Lament wrote:
BurtReynolds wrote:Earthing Bolt.
Birthing Hole.
Sounds a bit too much like Birds in Hell
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Lament wrote:
BurtReynolds wrote:Earthing Bolt.
Birthing Hole.
They could do a Vitalogy-like book artwork thing, but have it be formatted like a kid's book because it's dad rock.

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McParadigm wrote:'sides, it don't bother me none

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McParadigm wrote:
Lament wrote:
BurtReynolds wrote:Earthing Bolt.
Birthing Hole.
They could do a Vitalogy-like book artwork thing, but have it be formatted like a kid's book because it's dad rock.

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Is that an aging half-hippy/half-punk punk I see surfing in the background of that image?
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JDonaldD wrote:Wow, I didn't even include the title track in my ranking. I think that guarantees a place in the "meh" category. That song doesn't really do it for me. Some compare it to Unthought Known, which I don't really see at all other than the new wave aspects. UK was a highlight of BS and one of the better tracks of the last decade for me.
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Grumble grumble,
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AND THE BASS HAS COME IN
ADD SOME ECHO
AND THEY'LL ASSUME
SOMETHING'S ACTUALLY HAPP'NIN'
Heh, I enjoyed this.

I actually kind of like the song but I'm more about the chorus and the other bits.
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I hate the descriptor 'aging'. Everything is aging. :gomez:
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stupidmop wrote:I hate the descriptor 'aging'. Everything is aging. :gomez:
Except for high school girls. I get older, they stay the same age...
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Lament wrote:
stupidmop wrote:I hate the descriptor 'aging'. Everything is aging. :gomez:
Except for high school girls. I get older, they stay the same age...
I assume "aging" is just gentle slang for "old enough to feel as pervy checking out college girls as you used to feel when you checked out high school girls....which you pretty much never do anymore."
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Stone really loves that one!
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So the wonderful world of metacritic has made it clear that LB shares good company...

79 - Backspacer
74 - Pearl Jam
73 - Riot Act
72 - Lightning Bolt
69 - Binaural

Right there with RA and Binaural, where it belongs :lol:
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