Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread

[Rangi Guy]

I can't tell whether I'm listening to Red Mosquito or Sleight of Hand unless I check my ipod screen.

Isn't it pretty much the same song just with different lyrics?

[Jorge]

Seriously, what a weird comment.

[Lament]

Isn't it pretty much the same song just with different lyrics?

Let's be honest, are the lyrics even all that different?

[mastaflatch]

I'll defend some songs that aren't popular (like The Fixer) as flat out really good songs. Future Days is a guilty pleasure, but I have to hope it was written that way--if you can write a guilty pleasure unironically.

FD exists in a complete irony vacuum. Sadly.

It does, but it's also so unapologetic about its own sincerity that it is (I think) completely self-aware.

I know what eds going for with this and things like it. But can he achieve it anymore?
Compare FD to something like man of the hour. I know which I think succeeds and which fails. But I'm not sure why the other fails.

I don't think the 2 are comparable in the sense that i think they're both intentionally the way they are. Maybe The End would be a better comparison.

The end is better

Future Days sounds like a pastiche of PJ album closers except that it's completely unintentional. the band have been BO'Bed big time with that one. i'm sure that Jeff discreetly rolls his eyes with contempt when it's played live.

Jeff can't tell. He keeps writing versions of Red Mosquito since 96.

[dimejinky99]

I can't tell whether I'm listening to Red Mosquito or Sleight of Hand unless I check my ipod screen.

Isn't it pretty much the same song just with different lyrics?

Red mosquito, song x, half full. All from the same tree


Where's spenno?

[Lament]

Didn't Neil Young write Song X?

Wait, maybe Jeff secretly wrote it while Ed was secretly writing Against the 70s.

[dimejinky99]

Neil wrote it yeah. And Pj stole it.
And ripped it off several times afterwards

[mastaflatch]

Where's spenno?

[bodysnatcher]

Where's spenno?

I wish people were as funny as they think they are

[Rangi Guy]

Where's spenno?

I wish people were as funny as they think they are

I pretty much need a laugh track to decide if something's funny these days

[mastaflatch]

Where's spenno?

I wish people were as funny as they think they are

I pretty much need a laugh track to decide if something's funny these days

[bodysnatcher]

Where's spenno?

I wish people were as funny as they think they are

I pretty much need a laugh track to decide if something's funny these days

I accept that role

[Rangi Guy]

Where's spenno?

I wish people were as funny as they think they are

I pretty much need a laugh track to decide if something's funny these days

I accept that role

Is this thread funny?

[dimejinky99]

I am exactly as funny as I think I am.
Which is to say, not very funny at all:)

[dimejinky99]

And I'm not alone.
*ahem*

[sweeper]

Not sure if it's been mentioned here but Lightning Bolt will be the next radio single in the U.S. It'll happen March 4th.

[gardenparty]

Not sure if it's been mentioned here but Lightning Bolt will be the next radio single in the U.S. It'll happen March 4th.

[mastaflatch]

Not sure if it's been mentioned here but Lightning Bolt will be the next radio single in the U.S. It'll happen March 4th.

so they seem to have fun making radio edits

[harmless]

The radio edit will start fading out halfway through the second verse.

[Jorge]