Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread

[stip]

it's Coldplayesque in spirit. big, dumb, pseudospiritual, kinda fake, kinda successful...

That pseudo-spiritual stuff is all over No Code. Which means this is pearl jam imitating coldplay imitating pearl jam!

[stip]

Yeah, Coldplay always uses a lot of violin-bowed guitars in their songs.

That's insignificant. Coldplay also uses a lot of instruments Pearl Jam doesn't. The point here is that Pearl Jam has completely lost the thread - they don't sound like Pearl Jam anymore. I'm fine with bands evolving - in fact, I encourage it. Pearl Jam isn't evolving though. Not really. There's nothing here that they could not have done better 10 years ago, and there are a lot of very disturbing signs.

The biggest problem is that they don't sound like Pearl Jam. They sound like somebody else.

A lot of this album sounds like early PJ to me. More so than the return to form that was S/T.

If we're talking Ten-era, that's actually a pretty legit comparison. But there's nothing going on here that's as interesting as say, "Oceans" or "Garden", and nothing as memorable as "Alive".

I'm pretty sure all of you other than Stip are going to hate this within 6 months.

I am pretty confident I'll still like this in 6 months.

The question is, will I still like it as much as Backspacer.


Only 6 months of time will tell.

[Thejambi]

it's Coldplayesque in spirit. big, dumb, pseudospiritual, kinda fake, kinda successful...

That pseudo-spiritual stuff is all over No Code. Which means this is pearl jam imitating coldplay imitating pearl jam!

Spoiler: show

[harmless]

Ugh, people are going to like what they like, and I'm not bothered. But I'm pretty bored with those 'People are going to hate this in six months' and 'Replace Ed with another singer and..." arguments. Those arguments are the rhetorical equivalent of Coldplay.

[WaitingForBluey]

Not sure why I bother reading this thread anymore.

[stip]

it's Coldplayesque in spirit. big, dumb, pseudospiritual, kinda fake, kinda successful...

That pseudo-spiritual stuff is all over No Code. Which means this is pearl jam imitating coldplay imitating pearl jam!

Spoiler: show

[stip]

Not sure why I bother reading this thread anymore.

because of stuff like this:

Spoiler: show

[stip]

Ugh, people are going to like what they like, and I'm not bothered. But I'm pretty bored with those 'People are going to hate this in six months' and 'Replace Ed with another singer and..." arguments. Those arguments are the rhetorical equivalent of Coldplay.

I wonder what the sexual equivalent of coldplay is?

[harmless]

Ugh, people are going to like what they like, and I'm not bothered. But I'm pretty bored with those 'People are going to hate this in six months' and 'Replace Ed with another singer and..." arguments. Those arguments are the rhetorical equivalent of Coldplay.

I wonder what the sexual equivalent of coldplay is?

Dry humping.

[stip]

I wonder what the Harmless equivalent of Coldplay is?

[WaitingForBluey]

I'm pretty sure all of you other than Stip are going to hate this within 6 months.

Why do haters try so hard to make haters out of everyone else?

[harmless]

Pearl Jam.

[WaitingForBluey]

Not sure why I bother reading this thread anymore.

because of stuff like this:

Spoiler: show

[Wendy Carlos's Twin]

It's the arrangements. Most of the songs are MOR soft rock with Eddie Vedder singing. Remove his voice and substitute Chris Martin - would any of you actually like this?

You have to listen to it 27 more times. Then it will "click" and become your favorite album ever.

[stip]

I wonder what the Kinks equivalent of Coldplay is?

[stip]

It's the arrangements. Most of the songs are MOR soft rock with Eddie Vedder singing. Remove his voice and substitute Chris Martin - would any of you actually like this?

You have to listen to it 27 more times. Then it will "click" and become your favorite album ever.

for the amount of 'this album had to grow on me and now it's my favorite' posts we get around here I'm surprised people feel so outraged by this notion.

[harmless]

It's the arrangements. Most of the songs are MOR soft rock with Eddie Vedder singing. Remove his voice and substitute Chris Martin - would any of you actually like this?

You have to listen to it 27 more times. Then it will "click" and become your favorite album ever.

for the amount of 'this album had to grow on me and now it's my favorite' posts we get around here I'm surprised people feel so outraged by this notion.

Some people act as if it isn't applicable to a lot of music in the world. You'll be rewarded for the amount of effort you put in.

[BurtReynolds]

it's Coldplayesque in spirit. big, dumb, pseudospiritual, kinda fake, kinda successful...

That pseudo-spiritual stuff is all over No Code. Which means this is pearl jam imitating coldplay imitating pearl jam!

Spoiler: show

it's more of the big PRAISE JEEBUS I'M BATHED IN THE LIGHT OF THE LORD kinda thing, maybe In My Tree tries to do that.

btw, did I ever tell you guys how much I love Clocks?

[stip]

I love clocks too. That's a real cool song.

[harmless]

Parachutes is a great Coldplay album. A Rush of Blood... was a good Coldplay album. Everything else is mediocre to bad.