Dark Matter: Official Album Thread

[Strat]

Really enjoyed that, thank you for sharing Farmer John.

So, looks like it's Klinghoffer doing the backing vocals? He sounds great.

Loved watching Mike mouth the lyrics along during the chorus too.

Just super glad these guys are all still trucking along, doing their thing. What a great wagon we all hitched our horses to.

I just watched the Daughter performance. I see Mike sitting there with his eyes closed hitting the Em7 or whatever chord in daughter. Im immediately transported 30 years back to watching, over, and over, and over, the SNL performance on Daughter of him doing the same thing.

I can't separate that in my fandom. I dont want to.

Also, they sound great. Man alive. What a fun PJ time.

[Leatherhead]

No waves or oceans throughout this whole album!?

[Tj]

[quote="Leatherhead"]No waves or oceans throughout this .
Got to Give seas and ti f es

[tragabigzanda]

pearl jam sucks now

[Jorge]

At the risk of sounding skeptical, I could've swore Ed sounded like shit and the band was too trebly on the Stern audio recording, but watching the video I think it sounds much better. Could be that suddenly I'm more forgiving, or that they mixed the audio for broadcast -- I don't remember the reverb on Ed's vocal, and it has me kind of wondering if they're using autotune?

Anyone feel like comparing audio from the two and squashing this cockamamied conspiracy theory?

It doesn't matter

[Ms Harmless]

Ed doesn't sound great in audio or video to me, exactly the same; band sounds great though, this was an early morning thing, it's not important

[tragabigzanda]

pearl jam sucks now

[Ms Harmless]

of course you would

[E.H. Ruddock]

At the risk of sounding skeptical, I could've swore Ed sounded like shit and the band was too trebly on the Stern audio recording, but watching the video I think it sounds much better. Could be that suddenly I'm more forgiving, or that they mixed the audio for broadcast -- I don't remember the reverb on Ed's vocal, and it has me kind of wondering if they're using autotune?

Anyone feel like comparing audio from the two and squashing this cockamamied conspiracy theory?

I'm sure they mixed it. And PJ clearly had a camera crew there. Stern show doesn't send multiple cameras across the country to film a studio performance. So that is probably what took so long getting them up, the band had control on the final release of it.

[Monkey_Driven]

The MP3 of the interview was lacking low end in general.

[Toots McSharty]

No waves or oceans throughout this whole album!?

He does sing about the high tide crashing on rocks and castles turning into sand on Got To Give. So there is at least one ocean/beach reference.

[dprival78]

ed isn't looking so hot. a little puffy..

he ok?

[Jorge]

I think people have lost sight of what the average person looks like at 60. Ed looks good.

[VinylGuy]

Scared Of Fear sounded awesome

its so cool to see old stuff in their space and recognize it from the past, the obvious being the cornell and dali paints from the Potato gallery, then the devil thats featured on the Riot Act booklet i think

[dprival78]

I’d argue that a potential use of Autotune would matter. Whether or not it would constitute
a dark matter, who can say…

part of the "new production" for the tour that they've mentioned?

[joostone]

Not only they sound really really tight, they also seem to really connect on a personal level better than ever. They look so happy with each other in these interviews.

[dprival78]

they just erased ed's attempt at the "rise above" line

[McParadigm]

they just erased ed's attempt at the "rise above" line

Sure did

[VinylGuy]

Not only they sound really really tight, they also seem to really connect on a personal level better than ever. They look so happy with each other in these interviews.

yeah, really

but they have been like that for a number of years now

[Jaeti]

No waves or oceans throughout this whole album!?

Got to Give: "Castle falling into sand, the high tide is crumbling all the rocks we sit"

Maybe the only one?