Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Lightning Bolt

[Leatherhead]

MYM is awesome guys, love the lyrics too.

Yea, I really like MYM. I'd put it up there with a lot of pre-PRAMG songs.

[dimejinky99]

Yellow moon sorta sounds like that blind melon song, no rain.

A little bit

[stip]

Lightning bolt is the only CD i have on my desktop at work, and one of the speakers on the computer is broken. The beginning of Getaway is actually kinda cool this way.

[stip]

Infallible sounds like my speaker can't stop farting

[stip]

the chorus is still really good though. I wonder if people would like it more in a different song.

[stip]

the swallowed whole intro also sounds a bit better since the whole thing is muted and so that sub par tone on Eddie's guitar blends into the rest of the song better.

[stip]

The swallowed whole solo (the whole thing, actually) sounds really good on these shitty speakers. It takes some of the gloss off of the song--it makes the whole thing sound dirtier.

[stip]

lightning bolt has lots of cool moments happening underneath the main song that I like a lot which are lost here, but again the dirtier sound gives the song a grittier edge that I like,

Man, this experience really hammers home just how shiny this album is.

Sirens next.

[Norah]

you spelled shitty wrong

[stip]

Sirens wasn't as good. This is a song that needs to embrace its glorious excess. It's a ridiculously over the top anthem, and the core song here suffers a bit having that excesses toned down.

The solo was a bit better, but I really don't like the Sirens solo, despite my appreciation for the rest of the song.

[stip]

you spelled shitty wrong

that took me too long to get.

[stip]

MYM is better as is. But that's one of my favorite PJ songs, period.

[stip]

the chorus of MYM is one of my favorite moments in their catalog.

[stip]

LTRP is better without the gloss.

[dimejinky99]

you spelled shitty wrong

I own a ton of pj stuff I don't want. I'll give it to whomever if they'll just make chud a mod.

[stip]

Future Days sounds better this way--more intimate. But some of the beautiful coloration in that song is lost. So I guess it's a wash.

[stip]

Pendulum needs a Binaural treatment. This is a bit too dusty, gives it an almost western feel that actually is kinda cool in the second half of the song, but less so in the first.

[dimejinky99]

Overall? This album does deserve this level of inspection. Just saying, stip

[stip]

Oh, I agree. I've never argued otherwise.

[dimejinky99]

Most epic DJ. Typo of all time.

I meant doesn't deserve