Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Lightning Bolt

[stip]

Look, we have a perfectly good ranking device for these questions

[epilogue]

Rival was quite good too. Those two songs remind me of each other.

I don't know that any Lbolt songs are in my top 20. But it's a consistently good listen from start to finish. Not pathbreaking, but a satisfying listen. Backspacer is the same kind of listen for me (excepting supersonic), but the songs aren't quite as good

Release_me and I will have to start our own board for the next album. Tolummune can post there too. McParadigm can stop by once a week to update us on sales figures.

What about me, Stip? Can I come and play?

[Strat]

Im going wherever stip goes!

[epilogue]

[BurtReynolds]

A Pearl Jam themed board sounds horrifying. Please shoot me if I ever... fuck.

[Jorge]

Getaway is great. A top 20 PJ song for me. Infallible is the definite top 10 song on this album. Pendulum is another top 20. Yellow Moon and MFS are just outside my top 20 but still great.

I wouldn't put anything from Lightning Bolt in the top 100. Can someone enlighten me? Getaway plods along and doesn't really go anywhere, the chorus in Infallible is awful, Pendulum sends me to sleep in a bad way and Yellow Moon is b-side material. MFS is quite good but not great.

yes, they probably only have 150 or so original songs including B sides, xmas singles, etc. so some songs from LB have to be in your top 100.

They have around 120 or so just in the 10 basic studio albums, not counting incomplete pieces or transitions.

Plus 27 Lost Dogs songs (not counting covers). Plus unreleased tracks that have surfaced. Plus a few things on the greatest hits that aren't on a record.

So it seems perfectly possible for someone to not count any of LB in their top 100 ( )

false

Good rebuttal

[stip]

Rival was quite good too. Those two songs remind me of each other.

I don't know that any Lbolt songs are in my top 20. But it's a consistently good listen from start to finish. Not pathbreaking, but a satisfying listen. Backspacer is the same kind of listen for me (excepting supersonic), but the songs aren't quite as good

Release_me and I will have to start our own board for the next album. Tolummune can post there too. McParadigm can stop by once a week to update us on sales figures.

What about me, Stip? Can I come and play?

some things are so obviously the case they don't even need to be mentioned.

[hlniv]

Getaway is great. A top 20 PJ song for me. Infallible is the definite top 10 song on this album. Pendulum is another top 20. Yellow Moon and MFS are just outside my top 20 but still great.

I wouldn't put anything from Lightning Bolt in the top 100. Can someone enlighten me? Getaway plods along and doesn't really go anywhere, the chorus in Infallible is awful, Pendulum sends me to sleep in a bad way and Yellow Moon is b-side material. MFS is quite good but not great.

yes, they probably only have 150 or so original songs including B sides, xmas singles, etc. so some songs from LB have to be in your top 100.

They have around 120 or so just in the 10 basic studio albums, not counting incomplete pieces or transitions.

Plus 27 Lost Dogs songs (not counting covers). Plus unreleased tracks that have surfaced. Plus a few things on the greatest hits that aren't on a record.

So it seems perfectly possible for someone to not count any of LB in their top 100 ( )

false

Your post is false. McP post is true. Get your commentary correct please

[Thejambi]

Swallowed Whole is a genuinely 'very good' Pearl Jam song; I fear that it will never be truly appreciated due to it's circumstance.

[Lament]

Guys, they called this album "Lightning Bolt."

That's still so hilarious to me when I really stop and think about it.

[McParadigm]

Guys, they called this album "Lightning Bolt."

That's still so hilarious to me when I really stop and think about it.

yeah ha ha h

[McParadigm]

"How does the sound of this record compare to the previous one?"

"I'm terrible at stuff like that," SAID THE PRODUCER.

[Lament]

It makes me laugh. It reminds me of that scene in Futurama with Cubert J. Farnsworth...

Cubert: Hey, Leela, help me apply these flame decals I got in my cereal. They'll make the ship go faster.
Leela: And what's your scientific basis for thinking that?
Cubert: I'm 12.

It's like Pearl Jam is fucking 12.

[malice]

Guys, they called this album "Lightning Bolt."

That's still so hilarious to me when I really stop and think about it.

yeah ha ha h

[BurtReynolds]

In hindsight, Lightning Bolt was the perfect choice...





said no one ever.

[McParadigm]

Actually, for all the shit he gets here, Brendan O'Brien would make one hell of a cigar toting, one-liner dropping stand-up comedian for the Red Mosquito.


"I do know that for whatever reason, the songs weren't there previously. And we kind of had to wait for the songs to come...."

Spoiler: show

"...I don't know if that's any better or worse."



---

"This record has a few songs that have a bit more of a . . . they kind of . . . what's the word I'm looking for here?...

Spoiler: show

"They're longer."



"I don't know if the word "depth" is right." (presumed audience laughter)

---

"We'd start at noon and say, "What have you got?" and we'd start working."

Spoiler: show

"We'd never do that now."



"That's for young people." (straightens bowtie as audience chuckles)

---

(you want to make) people say, "Oh, them. I love Pearl Jam...."

Spoiler: show

"...I like this stuff, too."



---

Interviewer: It means they can go work on their own and then come back and be really reinvigorated. Do you feel that way?

Spoiler: show

Um, yeah, sure.[Laughs]

[Alex]

Actually, for all the shit he gets here, Brendan O'Brien would make one hell of a cigar toting, one-liner dropping stand-up comedian for the Red Mosquito.


"I do know that for whatever reason, the songs weren't there previously. And we kind of had to wait for the songs to come...."

Spoiler: show

"...I don't know if that's any better or worse."



---

"This record has a few songs that have a bit more of a . . . they kind of . . . what's the word I'm looking for here?...

Spoiler: show

"They're longer."



"I don't know if the word "depth" is right." (presumed audience laughter)

---

"We'd start at noon and say, "What have you got?" and we'd start working."

Spoiler: show

"We'd never do that now."



"That's for young people." (straightens bowtie as audience chuckles)

---

(you want to make) people say, "Oh, them. I love Pearl Jam...."

Spoiler: show

"...I like this stuff, too."



---

Interviewer: It means they can go work on their own and then come back and be really reinvigorated. Do you feel that way?

Spoiler: show

Um, yeah, sure.[Laughs]

8/10

[Jorge]

That BO'B interview really was a goldmine of WTF.

[Tuolumne]

Rival was quite good too. Those two songs remind me of each other.

I don't know that any Lbolt songs are in my top 20. But it's a consistently good listen from start to finish. Not pathbreaking, but a satisfying listen. Backspacer is the same kind of listen for me (excepting supersonic), but the songs aren't quite as good

Release_me and I will have to start our own board for the next album. Tolummune can post there too. McParadigm can stop by once a week to update us on sales figures.

I'm there, man. I was thinking today, it's early to say but I think Backspacer will rank higher than LB for me. I like some of LB's individual songs much better, and I've found myself hitting repeat for LB songs that I didn't for backspacer. But Backspacer is just great for a breezy 38 min listen and something I can put on and just enjoy, fleetingly, all the way through. LB's song sequence is just bothersome for me so I can't do that. But I found myself hitting repeat on certain songs in a way that I hadn't since Vs. Vs is another album I consider to have 4-5 of the best PJ songs ever, but also several of the weaker ones so it's harder to listen top to bottom. I still think what I first thought back in October - that Lightning Bolt is a cross between Riot Act and Backspacer.

[96583UP]

i've always thought of it more as a cross of:



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