Dark Matter: Official Album Thread

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Rank Dark Matter

5 Stars
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56%
4 Stars
65
31%
3 Stars
19
9%
2 Stars
2
1%
2 Star
1
0%
%#*! Andrew Watt
5
2%
 
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DDWJMUVW wrote:These lyrics seem pretty cringe. Hopefully there are the most basic parts of their tracks.

Whatever happened to:

Large fingers pushing paint.
You’re God and you got big hands.
The colors blend.
The challenges you. give. Man.

??
I have it on good authority that when Ed wrote “large fingers pushing paint, you’re god and you’ve got big hands”, he was looking at that poster of all of the Pink Floyd album covers painted on all those women’s backs. So, really, not that far of a stretch from Johnny Guitar. Just worded more mysteriously.
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bodysnatcher wrote:I already don’t want to listen to this thing
I laughed
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bodysnatcher wrote:
DDWJMUVW wrote:These lyrics seem pretty cringe. Hopefully there are the most basic parts of their tracks.

Whatever happened to:

Large fingers pushing paint.
You’re God and you got big hands.
The colors blend.
The challenges you. give. Man.

??
I have it on good authority that when Ed wrote “large fingers pushing paint, you’re god and you’ve got big hands”, he was looking at that poster of all of the Pink Floyd album covers painted on all those women’s backs. So, really, not that far of a stretch from Johnny Guitar. Just worded more mysteriously.
"I'll never suck....satan's dick."

Ed's a potty mouth SOB.
"For me, it's all about the time we're having just playing the songs. So if it's kind of a mindless good time, then....."
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DDWJMUVW wrote:
bodysnatcher wrote:
DDWJMUVW wrote:These lyrics seem pretty cringe. Hopefully there are the most basic parts of their tracks.

Whatever happened to:

Large fingers pushing paint.
You’re God and you got big hands.
The colors blend.
The challenges you. give. Man.

??
I have it on good authority that when Ed wrote “large fingers pushing paint, you’re god and you’ve got big hands”, he was looking at that poster of all of the Pink Floyd album covers painted on all those women’s backs. So, really, not that far of a stretch from Johnny Guitar. Just worded more mysteriously.
"I'll never suck....satan's dick."

Ed's a potty mouth SOB.
Again, you’d see it. You know. Right ‘round the lips.
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Mammilla Trilogy
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Noaheb wrote:
DDWJMUVW wrote:These lyrics seem pretty cringe. Hopefully there are the most basic parts of their tracks.

Whatever happened to:

Large fingers pushing paint.
You’re God and you got big cans.
The colors blend.
The challenges you. give. Man.

??
well sum bitch!
I always thought he said you. give. me.
still learning about this band almost 30 years later...30. years. later.
I think it's "me---an." Like he starts saying "me" but turns it into "man."
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lyrics: wotman
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DDWJMUVW wrote:These lyrics seem pretty cringe. Hopefully there are the most basic parts of their tracks.

Whatever happened to:

Large fingers pushing paint.
You’re God and you got big hands.
The colors blend.
The challenges you. give. Man.

??
Whatever happened to:

Predictability
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I hate the way John Stamos sounds on drums playing Kokomo.
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pearl jam sucks now
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I hate the samples behind his snare
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I'd like for this to leak now
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that would be fab
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tragabigzanda wrote:
mvw wrote:I hate the way John Stamos sounds on drums playing Kokomo.
Have mercy
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Ms Harmless wrote:I hate the samples behind his snare
Tedious
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tommy wrote:I'd like for this to leak now
Yeah 2 more months? Why does that seem like an eternity?

At the very least let’s get some interviews going or hq clips from the other tracks.

Throw us another bone you FUCKS!
"For me, it's all about the time we're having just playing the songs. So if it's kind of a mindless good time, then....."
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Finally found the last one… maybe now they will put some music on them…

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Kevin Davis wrote:There's absolutely a valuable perspective that comes from experiencing the music "as it happened," and as someone who likes a lot of artists who are long dead or damn near, that perspective becomes increasingly valuable the further it becomes from the norm. When I occasionally come across stories from people who experienced the '50's jazz scene in NYC, or saw Bob Dylan live in 1966, or experienced Beatlemania as it happened, I perk up and listen. That stuff is interesting to me.

However, the idea that this makes a person's rankings or personal preferences any more "definitive" is ludicrous. In this regard, "lifelong fan with unique in-the-moment context" and "fresh-faced listener unburdened by historical or contextual baggage" are simply two different, equally compelling (and equally likely to devolve into overly self-assured idiocy) lenses through which to view the music. All fanbases will slowly morph from being defined wholly by the former to being defined wholly by the latter, so its dumb to begrudge the people on that far end of the spectrum their likely circumstantial moment of experience with the band. Time is on their side, after all.

FWIW I have been a fan since early 1995, and my favorite albums are Yield, Riot Act, and No Code (in that order).
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If this come out in April it should leak what..two weeks before?
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Gigaton was leaked on 20 March 2020, a week before the release date.
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