Dark Matter (song)

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Dark Matter Initial Reactions

5 Stars
33
17%
4 Stars
92
48%
3 Stars
56
29%
2 Stars
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4%
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Dirty fuckers dirty fuckers
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Ms Harmless wrote:
VinylGuy wrote:
Ms Harmless wrote:
sweeper wrote:It's been 24 hours and we still don't have a decent review from the UK listening party. Instead of turning on each other we should really be focusing on the true villains here. We are victims in this.
as a UKer, this is truly the crisis in which I feel complicit
you are english? which city?
North Warwickshire, not too far from Birmingham
Do you have a local football team you support?
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Anders wrote:
Ms Harmless wrote:
VinylGuy wrote:
Ms Harmless wrote:
sweeper wrote:It's been 24 hours and we still don't have a decent review from the UK listening party. Instead of turning on each other we should really be focusing on the true villains here. We are victims in this.
as a UKer, this is truly the crisis in which I feel complicit
you are english? which city?
North Warwickshire, not too far from Birmingham
Do you have a local football team you support?
there is one, but I don't enjoy football
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Ms Harmless wrote:
Anders wrote:
Ms Harmless wrote:
VinylGuy wrote:
Ms Harmless wrote:
sweeper wrote:It's been 24 hours and we still don't have a decent review from the UK listening party. Instead of turning on each other we should really be focusing on the true villains here. We are victims in this.
as a UKer, this is truly the crisis in which I feel complicit
you are english? which city?
North Warwickshire, not too far from Birmingham
Do you have a local football team you support?
there is one, but I don't enjoy football
No problem. Thank you for answering.
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Dark Matter has more plays on Spotify than all of Binaural except Light Years and NAIS.
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Leatherhead wrote:Dark Matter has more plays on Spotify than all of Binaural except Light Years and NAIS.
That’s a very misleading stat though. DM came out in the streaming era. We all listened The first millions of times to binaural on cd.
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It's ahead of half of Gigaton, and pretty much all of Backspacer and Riot Act as well. Good chunk of Yield. It's hard to figure out how to parse this. Those albums would have gotten a boost with a streaming release, but they've also had years of opportunities for casual play.

Dark Matter has clearly done well so far, regardless
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VinylGuy wrote:Stip’s friends
Before I befriend someone I make them fill out an extensive questionnaire around their Pearl Jam preferences
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Val wrote:Dirty fuckers dirty fuckers
The shit talking never ends
Got us reading
Got us reading
POTATO! POTAHTO!
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stip wrote:
VinylGuy wrote:Stip’s friends
Before I befriend someone I make them fill out an extensive questionnaire around their Pearl Jam preferences
“ you don’t fucking listen to Binaural on Spotify , ya hear me ?”
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Just listened to this one again, loving it more each listen

I fucking adore what Stone is going for. Kinda feel this album could be very strong for Mr Gossard
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VinylGuy wrote:Just listened to this one again, loving it more each listen

I fucking adore what Stone is going for. Kinda feel this album could be very strong for Mr Gossard
I sure hope so. He's felt rather dormant the last few!
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You say? I love what he does on Gigaton too.
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VinylGuy wrote:You say? I love what he does on Gigaton too.
I guess i mean with his bringing classic stone riffs into the PJ camp.

His work on painted shield is fantastic.
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Ms Harmless wrote:
Val wrote:Dirty fuckers dirty fuckers
The shit talking never ends
Got us reading
Got us reading
POTATO! POTAHTO!
TOMATO! TOMAHTO!
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pearl jam sucks now
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tragabigzanda wrote:
stip wrote:It's ahead of half of Gigaton, and pretty much all of Backspacer and Riot Act as well. Good chunk of Yield. It's hard to figure out how to parse this. Those albums would have gotten a boost with a streaming release, but they've also had years of opportunities for casual play.

Dark Matter has clearly done well so far, regardless
Serious question: What's the usage of bots like these days to drive plays and streaming revenues/hype? I've not kept up with this at all, but if it happens on X it probably happens on streaming platforms.
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pearl jam sucks now
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