Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Lightning Bolt

[bodysnatcher]

team chud.

but hey, i like stupid mop.

[bodysnatcher]

team chud.

but hey, i like stupid mop.

in fact

Release
All or None
Indifference
Stupid Mop
Around the Bend
All Those Yesterdays
Parting Ways
The End
Inside Job
Future Days

[PHATJ]

Yeah, but Stupid Mop isn't on the same track with minutes of silence separating it.

Sounds like inconsequential technicalities.

Sounds like a deliberate artistic decision.

So your defining characteristic of a song is whether or not it has its own track distinction? Hmmm.

Not the defining characteristic of a song, but the defining characteristic of an album closer. Hummus, Master/Slave, and Stupid Mop are all songs. But it would be disingenuous to say that there's no difference between placing a song to start the final track of an album and placing a song after several minutes of silence, hidden away at the end,

What you call disengenous some may call arbitrary.

But it's not arbitrary at all! The artist made the choice deliberately, knowing the album would flow differently one way or the other. That's the opposite of arbitrary.

Child, I personally don't care either way. In fact, I'd tend to agree with you. But Stupid Mop still sucks.

So rank it last?

Yeah. That's what I'd do, if I had ranked the closers to begin with.

[Norah]

All Those Yesterdays
Parting Ways
Release
Around the Bend
All or None
Indifference
Stupid Mop
The End
Inside Job
Future Days

[tragabigzanda]

pearl jam sucks now

[PHATJ]

Release
All or None
Parting Ways
All Those Yesterdays
Around the Bend
Indifference
Inside Job
Future Days
The End
Stupid Mop

[gardenparty]

If you lose StupidMop because it's shite, where does Lightning Bolt end?

exactly

Fair enough.

Release
Immortality
Indifference
All Those Yesterdays
All or None
Parting Ways
The End
Yellow Moon
Around the Bend
Inside Job

[PHATJ]

If you lose StupidMop because it's shite, where does Lightning Bolt end?

exactly

Fair enough.

Release
Immortality
Indifference
All Those Yesterdays
All or None
Parting Ways
The End
Yellow Moon
Around the Bend
Inside Job

[chewm]

Release
Parting Ways
Immortality
All Those Yesterdays
Indifference
Inside Job
Around the Bend
All or None
The End
Future Days

Release
Parting Ways
All Those Yesterdays
Indifference
Inside Job
Around the Bend
All or None
The End
Stupid Mop
Future Days

[Birds in Hell]

Indifference
All Those Yesterdays
Release
Around the Bend
All or None
Inside Job
Parting Ways
The End
Stupid Mop
Future Days

[VinylGuy]

I will forget Future Days ever happened....Its just an ed solo song right?

[McParadigm]

Around the Bend (by, like, a lot)
Parting Ways
Indifference
Heyfoxymophandlemama
All or None
All Those Yesterdays
The End
Release
Future Days
Inside Job

[BurtReynolds]

PLease redo all these lists with Immortality.

[McParadigm]

PLease redo all these lists with Immortality.

stripped and sold, mom.

[Kevin Davis]

Around the Bend
All Those Yesterdays
All or None
Indifference
Parting Ways
Release
The End
Inside Job
Future Days
Stupid Mop

[LetMeSleep]

All or None
Indifference
Release
Around the Bend
All Those Yesterdays
Parting Ways
Inside Job
The End
Stupid Mop
Future Days

[stip]

immortality is the closer. stupid mop is the disappointing scene you watched the credits for.
is

[Norah]

back off stip I've already won

[PHATJ]

back off stip I've already won

What did you win?

[Kaius]

Around the Bend


Indifference
Release

All Those Yesterdays
Parting Ways

All or None

Stupid Mop

Inside Job
The End

Future Days