Dark Matter: Official Album Thread

[tommy]

So is this gonna be another day of them not giving us anything?

It's time for us to start taking what we want

Right?

There’s people out there that have the whole thing.
Just give me a name and address.
The rest I’ll take care of myself.

We should kidnap Boom

[Farmer John]

'We had a couple of more songs but Andrew wanted a concise 10-11 song record'

Jesus Christ.

lol what is so offensive about this?

[Fattie_Vedder]

'We had a couple of more songs but Andrew wanted a concise 10-11 song record'

Jesus Christ.

lol what is so offensive about this?

Seriously. For all we know maybe Andrew saved us from a couple of clunkers.

Counterpoint: this band has a track record of keeping great songs unreleased or as b sides.

[soccerman611]

just a week now until the albums out. alright wott let's see what you got. Don't let me down

[Yield Often]

I cannot believe this thing has not leaked…

Kinda impressive.

[Farmer John]

'We had a couple of more songs but Andrew wanted a concise 10-11 song record'

Jesus Christ.

lol what is so offensive about this?

Seriously. For all we know maybe Andrew saved us from a couple of clunkers.

Counterpoint: this band has a track record of keeping great songs unreleased or as b sides.

Choosing which songs to keep and which to leave off is a whole other story.

I'm fairly certain that whatever outtakes/b-sides we hear, I will be replacing Something Special with one of them in our "Retrack Dark Matter" thread.

[stip]

ten is 11 songs with 9+ songs from those sessions that emerged later

[VinylGuy]

One week ! fuck and it hasnt leaked...damn i might go to that screening then

[tragabigzanda]

pearl jam sucks now

[EBowie]

I prefer a shorter, concise record over a bloated record any day - such as the Chili Peppers with their heaping helping of 17 track albums clocking in at 75 minutes - no thanks. 11 songs, 48 minutes is perfect.

[Mike]

I don't trust the judgement of Pearl Jam regarding to what songs are the good ones so give me a bloated mess that I can rearrange any day

[Fattie_Vedder]

One week ! fuck and it hasnt leaked...damn i might go to that screening then

ONE OF US. ONE OF US. JOOOOIIIN UUUSSSSS

[Farmer John]

ten is 11 songs with 9+ songs from those sessions that emerged later

Jesus Christ, Rick Parashar

[Ms Harmless]

Jfc you guys

“Andrew wanted” is the obvious problem here

you're right, it obviously should be "Andrew Watted"

[Tj]

I bet we get all of Wreckage as a single with video today.

[Fattie_Vedder]

I’m going to withhold judgment until I hear the entirety of something special and in the context of the album, but I suspect in my future retracking of Dark Matter I will wish it were a 10 song album.

[VinylGuy]

One week ! fuck and it hasnt leaked...damn i might go to that screening then

ONE OF US. ONE OF US. JOOOOIIIN UUUSSSSS

damn yeah im thinking about it

im counting on a leak on sunday though

[DDWJMUVW]

I bet we get all of Wreckage as a single with video today.

Unlikely. Would have been available at midnight.

If there’s a 3rd single it will be like Tuesday or weds. Industry standard now for the final single to come out the week the record is released. I’m not saying they HAVE to do it that way, but they’ve played by those rules for gig. So there is precedent.

[Fattie_Vedder]

One thing that baffles me about this band especially over the past few albums is how do they tend to follow the same pattern with types of songs and the order that they show up on the album. Always open with 2 to 3 rockers, slow down, longer mid tempo, then the obligatory fast, punky song followed by an incongruent vibe shift to a slow, and sometimes cheesy schmaltzy song. Why has this become the formula? Who told them they need to have one punky song and one cheesy schmaltzer on every album, often one after the other?

One thing that was delightful about Gigaton is that it partially broke out of that mold. WES, though a rocker, is a different kind of opener. They don’t have a single punky song (I don’t think ND counts as punky), and I actually really like buckle up following TTLW. Closing on several slower songs was interesting too.

[Revelator]

'We had a couple of more songs but Andrew wanted a concise 10-11 song record'

Jesus Christ.

lol what is so offensive about this?

Seriously. For all we know maybe Andrew saved us from a couple of clunkers.

Counterpoint: this band has a track record of keeping great songs unreleased or as b sides.

Choosing which songs to keep and which to leave off is a whole other story.

I'm fairly certain that whatever outtakes/b-sides we hear, I will be replacing Something Special with one of them in our "Retrack Dark Matter" thread.

Same. Though I've only heard 30 seconds, it sounds embarrassingly bad.