Dark Matter: Official Album Thread

[Gigalogy84]

I’d have to hear the whole song of Something Special but I can already tell I will not like it as much as the previous two singles. I hope it’s a good song at least.

Personally, I would rank the three songs we've heard officially as:

1) Dark Matter
2) Something Special
3) Running

And that's mostly because as a rule I like the schmaltz more than the punk/spritz. I will note however that Running grew on me immediately and I have it ranked at the upper end of their punky numbers.

I think Running is one of their best punkier tracks. While it has the energy of Backspacer it has an aggression I haven’t heard from them since Comatose. I’m still listening to it constantly since its release.

[liebzz]

This thread:

Post 1: “Pearl Jam haven’t recorded _________ sound well in decades.”

Post 2: “Actually, Gigaton…”

Post 1: “Oh yeah, I liked that too, but they still haven’t done that well in decades.”

Gigaton is such a tough album to use as a benchmark, because if you lose crowd favorite DOTC, and whatever one's given 1-2 other highlights are, suddenly it stinks.

Gigaton is an album I like front to back. Can’t say the same for Backspacer and Lightning Bolt.

[RockPusher]

This thread:

Post 1: “Pearl Jam haven’t recorded _________ sound well in decades.”

Post 2: “Actually, Gigaton…”

Post 1: “Oh yeah, I liked that too, but they still haven’t done that well in decades.”

Gigaton is such a tough album to use as a benchmark, because if you lose crowd favorite DOTC, and whatever one's given 1-2 other highlights are, suddenly it stinks.

Gigaton is an album I like front to back. Can’t say the same for Backspacer and Lightning Bolt.

Same experience here.

[McParadigm]

This thread:

Post 1: “Pearl Jam haven’t recorded _________ sound well in decades.”

Post 2: “Actually, Gigaton…”

Post 1: “Oh yeah, I liked that too, but they still haven’t done that well in decades.”

Gigaton is such a tough album to use as a benchmark, because if you lose crowd favorite DOTC, and whatever one's given 1-2 other highlights are, suddenly it stinks.

Gigaton is an album I like front to back. Can’t say the same for Backspacer and Lightning Bolt.

Same experience here.

Yup. And I’d add S/T to the above list.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Except most of ST is great and Gigaton has like two good songs.

[VinylGuy]

I fucking love Gigaton so much

[stip]

Yes, it's truly a rare case where if you remove the best songs, it's not as good

[stip]

This thread:

Post 1: “Pearl Jam haven’t recorded _________ sound well in decades.”

Post 2: “Actually, Gigaton…”

Post 1: “Oh yeah, I liked that too, but they still haven’t done that well in decades.”

Gigaton is such a tough album to use as a benchmark, because if you lose crowd favorite DOTC, and whatever one's given 1-2 other highlights are, suddenly it stinks.

Gigaton is an album I like front to back. Can’t say the same for Backspacer and Lightning Bolt.

i do like all three of those albums front to back (save supersonic) but i like Gigaton the mostest of the three. Front to back and front again

[RockPusher]

Except most of ST is great and Gigaton has like two good songs.

Too bad for you. In my experience, Gigaton is great all the way thru.

[scrub12]

This thread:

Post 1: “Pearl Jam haven’t recorded _________ sound well in decades.”

Post 2: “Actually, Gigaton…”

Post 1: “Oh yeah, I liked that too, but they still haven’t done that well in decades.”

Gigaton is such a tough album to use as a benchmark, because if you lose crowd favorite DOTC, and whatever one's given 1-2 other highlights are, suddenly it stinks.

This is some big brain stuff here.

[Monkey_Driven]

Except most of ST is great and Gigaton has like two good songs.

WRONG

[E.H. Ruddock]

I get what trag is saying. Remove one or two song’s and the whole album stinks. Other albums you can remove one or two songs and the album is still good.

[digster]

I think if you remove one or two songs, Gigaton's still the best thing they've done in 15-20 years. It definitely has raised my expectations of what they could (and should) be capable of on the albums they have left.

[RockPusher]

I get what trag is saying. Remove one or two song’s and the whole album stinks. Other albums you can remove one or two songs and the album is still good.

You mean you agree with his opinion. That part is different for everyone.

[RockPusher]

I think if you remove one or two songs, Gigaton's still the best thing they've done in 15-20 years. It definitely has raised my expectations of what they could (and should) be capable of on the albums they have left.

[Revelator]

Yeah not feeling the Something Special clip at all. Hopefully the full song has something to deliver; I hope this is the low point of the album. Feel like an ass judging 30 secs of a song though

[E.H. Ruddock]

I get what trag is saying. Remove one or two song’s and the whole album stinks. Other albums you can remove one or two songs and the album is still good.

You mean you agree with his opinion. That part is different for everyone.

Yes please forgive me. But people were making fun of his post like it was stupid or something. I just mean it’s obvious what he’s trying to say. lol opinion police

[Revelator]

I think if you remove one or two songs, Gigaton's still the best thing they've done in 15-20 years. It definitely has raised my expectations of what they could (and should) be capable of on the albums they have left.

100%. Those two songs to remove would be Retrograde and River Cross. End on the amazing Comes Then Goes. Maybe even throw the wonderfully unexpected Get It Back somewhere in the mix

[E.H. Ruddock]

I think if you remove one or two songs, Gigaton's still the best thing they've done in 15-20 years. It definitely has raised my expectations of what they could (and should) be capable of on the albums they have left.

“In your opinion”

[liebzz]

Yeah not feeling the Something Special clip at all. Hopefully the full song has something to deliver; I hope this is the low point of the album. Feel like an ass judging 30 secs of a song though

If you judge Lukin by a 30 second clip you are more than halfway through the song.