Dark Matter: Official Album Thread

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56%
4 Stars
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3 Stars
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9%
2 Stars
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2 Star
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%#*! Andrew Watt
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E.H. Ruddock wrote:You all sure do have a lot of time to post during the day. Do you have night jobs?
oh ok tough guy
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guitar_davey wrote:
oneway23 wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:You all sure do have a lot of time to post during the day. Do you have night jobs?
Pfffttt...priorities!
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Arthur Morgan wrote:Not getting much work done today but did sign up for 3 months free of Sirius Xm
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Monkey_Driven wrote:
guitar_davey wrote:
oneway23 wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:You all sure do have a lot of time to post during the day. Do you have night jobs?
Pfffttt...priorities!
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bluestate wrote:I usually listen to the first 6 tracks on Gigaton then lose interest during the back half. The biggest difference between Gig and DM is that, on DM, you are more likely to be rewarded by listening to the end.
I've never had an album simultaneously excite me and bore me as much as Gigaton. If anything - DM seems to crescendo in all the right spots where in Gigaton, they'd often fall flat where they needed to soar. Not that I didn't enjoy Gigaton. I did. But even my favorite songs had parts I wished were a little different or sounded like two or three separate song ideas mashed into one.
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guitar_davey wrote:My local theatre has two showings and I've got a Little League board meeting stuck directly in the middle. Ugh. :(

little league game during the local listening party, PTA meeting during the movie theater thing tonight.

the more stuff i read the more it's killing me i haven't heard it
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E.H. Ruddock wrote:You all sure do have a lot of time to post during the day. Do you have night jobs?
I'm proctoring the SAT. It's now fully online, so I HAVE to be "monitoring" the computer. :haha:
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this comment has been made elsewhere, here and in reviews, but one thing it looks like Watt really helped them do is lean into the moments that are archetypal pearl jam that are always there live and yet have felt absent on records for a long time - either like they were afraid to lean in or their process didn't allow for
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Could someone PM me the whereabouts of this album please?
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With all the convo about it, I’m listening to Gigaton right now.

Take the long way is such a great song, 7/8 time. Noice!


Edited: 4/4 time in chorus solo and 3/4 time in outro, haha
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Arthur Morgan wrote:With all the convo about it, I’m listening to Gigaton right now.

Take the long way is such a great song, 7/8 time. Noice!


Edited: 4/4 time in chorus solo and 3/4 time in outro, haha
7/8 time, the name of your sex tape
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Arthur Morgan wrote:With all the convo about it, I’m listening to Gigaton right now.

Take the long way is such a great song, 7/8 time. Noice!


Edited: 4/4 time in chorus solo and 3/4 time in outro, haha
I listened to Gigaton last night...i still absolutely adore this album! Though i am noticing a bit of a cooling on it around here, though thats is kind of par for the course when a new album comes around.
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Strat wrote:
Arthur Morgan wrote:With all the convo about it, I’m listening to Gigaton right now.

Take the long way is such a great song, 7/8 time. Noice!


Edited: 4/4 time in chorus solo and 3/4 time in outro, haha
7/8 time, the name of your sex tape

No that’s the 2 step :-)
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Thurman Murman wrote:
Arthur Morgan wrote:With all the convo about it, I’m listening to Gigaton right now.

Take the long way is such a great song, 7/8 time. Noice!


Edited: 4/4 time in chorus solo and 3/4 time in outro, haha
I listened to Gigaton last night...i still absolutely adore this album! Though i am noticing a bit of a cooling on it around here, though thats is kind of par for the course when a new album comes around.
Likewise.
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That Rolling Stone article is pretty great... that story about leaving a note and a guitar at the Bridge School for Eddie is pretty wild
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stip wrote:this comment has been made elsewhere, here and in reviews, but one thing it looks like Watt really helped them do is lean into the moments that are archetypal pearl jam that are always there live and yet have felt absent on records for a long time - either like they were afraid to lean in or their process didn't allow for
I think being in the room together is the secret sauce and building off each other. Not bringing in demos but just ideas and not complete demos.
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bluestate wrote:That Rolling Stone article is pretty great... that story about leaving a note and a guitar at the Bridge School for Eddie is pretty wild
Isn’t though, Ed seems like a swell guy
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Between the last 2 Watt interviews, I don't know how anyone could just assume he's a pretentious jackass? He sounds like a guy I would love to hang out with and talk about PJ
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sitting in a cinema, 20 minutes to go, totally on my own for now!

I would not be doing this for any other band lol
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pearl jam sucks now
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