Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread

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Getaway
42
13%
Mind Your Manners
8
2%
My Father's Son
38
12%
Sirens
23
7%
Lightning Bolt
21
6%
Infallible
38
12%
Pendulum
88
27%
Swallowed Whole
21
6%
Let the Records Play
7
2%
Sleeping By Myself
7
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Yellow Moon
32
10%
Future Days
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BurtReynolds wrote:
Thejambi wrote:
harmless wrote:
hlniv wrote:

Yeah, this song is just like black, huh
Because obviously Black is going to be comparable to this version of the song.
What...What is this?
This...thing... made me feel things I've never felt before.
You're right. I really want to lick some ukeleles and start yelling at kids to get off of my lawn now.
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She really half-asses the "I study your face" line.
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Thejambi wrote:
BurtReynolds wrote:
Thejambi wrote:
harmless wrote:
hlniv wrote:

Yeah, this song is just like black, huh
Because obviously Black is going to be comparable to this version of the song.
What...What is this?
This...thing... made me feel things I've never felt before.
You're right. I really want to lick some ukeleles and start yelling at kids to get off of my lawn now.
I'm simultaneously repulsed and aroused at the same time.
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It really does a great job of highlighting certain qualities that were tucked carefully underneath the surface of the song to begin with, but which were exactly those elements that disengaged so many of us.
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It does perfectly capture the horrifying combination of cheese, bombast and earnestness present in that song. In a way it's the best pearl jam cover I've ever heard.
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This is a great example of what RM goggles would be like.
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Thejambi wrote:This is a great example of what RM goggles would be like.
:lol:
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theplatypus wrote:That trainwreck version notwithstanding, "Sleight of Hand" really is one of this stupid band's greatest songs.

I want to sit down with the band and give them a stern lecturing.
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BurtReynolds wrote:
Thejambi wrote:
BurtReynolds wrote:
Thejambi wrote:
harmless wrote:
hlniv wrote:

Yeah, this song is just like black, huh
Because obviously Black is going to be comparable to this version of the song.
What...What is this?
This...thing... made me feel things I've never felt before.
You're right. I really want to lick some ukeleles and start yelling at kids to get off of my lawn now.
I'm simultaneously repulsed and aroused at the same time.
I haven't been able to process my reaction to this. It's really good on some levels. But I hate those levels. #conflicted
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She sounds like the girl from Paramore.
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hlniv wrote:
BurtReynolds wrote:
Thejambi wrote:
BurtReynolds wrote:
Thejambi wrote:
harmless wrote:
hlniv wrote:

Yeah, this song is just like black, huh
Because obviously Black is going to be comparable to this version of the song.
What...What is this?
This...thing... made me feel things I've never felt before.
You're right. I really want to lick some ukeleles and start yelling at kids to get off of my lawn now.
I'm simultaneously repulsed and aroused at the same time.
I haven't been able to process my reaction to this. It's really good on some levels. But I hate those levels. #conflicted
This comment exactly mirrors a lot of reactions to Sirens itself.
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harmless wrote:
hlniv wrote:
BurtReynolds wrote:
Thejambi wrote:
BurtReynolds wrote:
Thejambi wrote:
harmless wrote:
hlniv wrote:

Yeah, this song is just like black, huh
Because obviously Black is going to be comparable to this version of the song.
What...What is this?
This...thing... made me feel things I've never felt before.
You're right. I really want to lick some ukeleles and start yelling at kids to get off of my lawn now.
I'm simultaneously repulsed and aroused at the same time.
I haven't been able to process my reaction to this. It's really good on some levels. But I hate those levels. #conflicted
This comment exactly mirrors a lot of reactions to Sirens itself.
In any case, this is now the definitive version of Sirens. I get it now.
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Strat wrote:
You guys are finally starting to catch on? Imagine every song of the night was this bad. That's what it was like seeing them in Philly. And that's why I haven't been to a PJ concert or purchased a boot since.
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I've been saying PJ were lazy live for a long time now.
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BurtReynolds wrote:In any case, this is now the definitive version of Sirens. I get it now.
They should retract Lightning Bolt and make this the third single, instead.
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theplatypus wrote:
Strat wrote:


LOL. What?

Such a massive difference. Am I in the right thread?
oh my god, why
I was there, man. It was painful.
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The best part is that they knew everything they needed to know about how this was going to turn out six seconds in, and never looked back.
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On second thoughts, the music in Black is awesome
It's just the lyrics that are cringeworthy
Calibrate your enthusiasm
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dimejinky99 wrote:On second thoughts, the music in Black is awesome
It's just the lyrics that are cringeworthy
Honestly, that is how I feel about 74.6% of Pearl Jam's catalog.
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Thejambi wrote:
dimejinky99 wrote:On second thoughts, the music in Black is awesome
It's just the lyrics that are cringeworthy
Honestly, that is how I feel about 74.6% of Pearl Jam's catalog.
I don't think I care much about lyrics. There's hardly any PJ lyrics that make me cringe.

Maybe Amongst the Waves and Inside Job
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