Gigaton: Official album thread

[harmless]

I hope Jeff writes the music for at least half of the next album

And Matt writes the other half.

[Dr. Van Nostrand]

I hope Jeff writes the music for at least half of the next album

And Matt writes the other half.

I will at least hope Matt gets a song or 2 in there

[WtOB?]

he saves them all for soundgarden now so Eddie can't ruin them.

[Dr. Van Nostrand]

he saves them all for soundgarden now so Eddie can't ruin them.

That's a shame

[harmless]

he saves them all for soundgarden now so Eddie can't ruin them.

That's a shame

Well, you have to respect him for that. I'm definitely excited about what SG have in them next time. I ended up being a bit hot and cold about King Animal but it was definitely a pretty good record.

[elliseamos]

I'm sure somebody else has guessed it already, but I'd guess that Brendan O'Brien is going to write at least one song for PJ for this album.

[Dr. Van Nostrand]

he saves them all for soundgarden now so Eddie can't ruin them.

That's a shame

Well, you have to respect him for that. I'm definitely excited about what SG have in them next time. I ended up being a bit hot and cold about King Animal but it was definitely a pretty good record.

I don't think i listened to the album all the way through. I wasn't ever really in the mood for it

[elliseamos]

personally, i think chris cornell's voice has aged worse than eddie's. i could be biased, but that's part of why i mostly avoided king animal.

[WtOB?]

king animal is fucking great and cornell sounds excellent on it.

[harmless]

He sounds pretty awesome really, though.

[Dr. Van Nostrand]

I'm sure somebody else has guessed it already, but I'd guess that Brendan O'Brien is going to write at least one song for PJ for this album.

Its a real possibility

[harmless]

The day Brendan O'Brien is listed in the album credits as part of the band is the day I hang up my fandom hat.

[Jorge]

I keep praying for a lack of commercial success. I think it's working.

I don't think these guys are at a point of their lives where they'd continue the band much longer should it stop being profitable.

[Dr. Van Nostrand]

king animal is fucking great and cornell sounds excellent on it.

I may have to give it a listen some time this next week

[harmless]

I keep praying for a lack of commercial success. I think it's working.

I don't think these guys are at a point of their lives where they'd continue the band much longer should it stop being profitable.

Well, I guess it depends on what's meant by "profitable". Lightning Bolt won't make them mega-stars any more than better albums have. And I would be OK with them going out on this album, I reckon. That's no reflection of my feelings about the album itself, just the general direction they've moved in.

[fishbob]

king animal is fucking great and cornell sounds excellent on it.

I may have to give it a listen some time this next week

King Animal is far better than Lightning Bolt, just lacks a Pendulum

[Jorge]

I keep praying for a lack of commercial success. I think it's working.

I don't think these guys are at a point of their lives where they'd continue the band much longer should it stop being profitable.

Well, I guess it depends on what's meant by "profitable". Lightning Bolt won't make them mega-stars any more than better albums have. And I would be OK with them going out on this album, I reckon. That's no reflection of my feelings about the album itself, just the general direction they've moved in.

I meant "profitable" literally. If they start only breaking even or losing money, without a major label backing them, I doubt they'd be willing to take it much further at a loss. Just speculating.

[Dr. Van Nostrand]

king animal is fucking great and cornell sounds excellent on it.

I may have to give it a listen some time this next week

King Animal is far better than Lightning Bolt, just lacks a Pendulum

I doubt i will agree but ill give it a shot. For the record, the only soundgarden album i like in full is superunknown, the rest have a lot of songs i don't listen to

[Sgt. Crackpot]

I keep praying for a lack of commercial success. I think it's working.

I don't think these guys are at a point of their lives where they'd continue the band much longer should it stop being profitable.

Well, I guess it depends on what's meant by "profitable". Lightning Bolt won't make them mega-stars any more than better albums have. And I would be OK with them going out on this album, I reckon. That's no reflection of my feelings about the album itself, just the general direction they've moved in.

I meant "profitable" literally. If they start only breaking even or losing money, without a major label backing them, I doubt they'd be willing to take it much further at a loss. Just speculating.

On a positive note, since they don't have the high overheads of the major label backing, the band sees much more of the profits.

Plus, from what I've heard, the main money isn't from album/single sales, but it's from touring. Even if PJ stop making music for 10 years, I think they'd still have the ability to fill most large venues.

[harmless]

I keep praying for a lack of commercial success. I think it's working.

I don't think these guys are at a point of their lives where they'd continue the band much longer should it stop being profitable.

Well, I guess it depends on what's meant by "profitable". Lightning Bolt won't make them mega-stars any more than better albums have. And I would be OK with them going out on this album, I reckon. That's no reflection of my feelings about the album itself, just the general direction they've moved in.

I meant "profitable" literally. If they start only breaking even or losing money, without a major label backing them, I doubt they'd be willing to take it much further at a loss. Just speculating.

Fair enough; all I'm saying is that I don't know whether this new cartoony pop dumbed-down sound is actually meaning profit for them, any more than pre-S/T stuff was. We'll never know that, obviously, but they were probably perfectly fine financially on what they were doing back then.