Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Lightning Bolt

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Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Lightning Bolt

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Release
All Those Yesterdays
Around the Bend

Parting Ways
Indifference
All or None

The End
Inside Job

Stupid Mop
Future Days
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It's a bummer that one of the band's most creative endeavors isn't even considered an album track when it's listed as an album track!
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pearl jam sucks now
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Oh boy what have I started?

Anyways, stupidmop is disqualified from being the last song on account of not being music
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I can't rank them but Release, Immortality, Indifference, and All or None are above the rest, and All Those Yesterdays is next.

It seems we can all agree Future Days is bottom 2, as literally everybody put it there unless stupidmop was taking up a space, and thats really all I was trying to say.
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mikejasond wrote:Anyways, stupidmop is disqualified from being the last song on account of not being music
Wrong. It's organized sound, it has a beat, and it has a rhythm. It's not very good, but it's music.
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mikejasond wrote:Oh boy what have I started?

Anyways, stupidmop is disqualified from being the last song on account of not being music
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Stupid Mop worst song in PJ catalogue.


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


Lightning Bolt hasn't aged well.

I still like most of the songs but the production on tracks such as Lightning Bolt and Infallible aren't getting any better. The more I listen the more I hear elements of Backspacers production style on songs that were from somewhere else.

And Matt Cameron just doesn't do it for me. Sorry guys. His metronome style is just kind of dull in comparison to his predecessors.

One positive it's made me appreciate Backspacer a lot more. That production on those songs works for the most part. Unthought Known compared To Lightning Bolt the most obvious comparison
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Something like:

Indifference
Release
All Those Yesterdays
Parting Ways
All Or None
Around The Bend


The End
Future Days
Inside Job
Stupid Mop

I definitely like Future Days more than anybody here. Take out the horrid piano and I think it's a perfectly decent little ditty.

Stupid Mop is a Stupid Song.
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ABNorman wrote:Something like:

Indifference
Release
All Those Yesterdays
Parting Ways
All Or None
Around The Bend


The End
Future Days
Inside Job
Stupid Mop

I definitely like Future Days more than anybody here. Take out the horrid piano and I think it's a perfectly decent little ditty.
I'd like to offer the following as exhibit B


Immortality
Release
Indifference

All Those Yesterdays
Future Days
The End
Around the Bend
Parting Ways

All or None
Inside Job
(Stupid Mop)
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stip wrote:
ABNorman wrote:Something like:

Indifference
Release
All Those Yesterdays
Parting Ways
All Or None
Around The Bend


The End
Future Days
Inside Job
Stupid Mop

I definitely like Future Days more than anybody here. Take out the horrid piano and I think it's a perfectly decent little ditty.
I'd like to offer the following as exhibit B


Immortality
Release
Indifference

All Those Yesterdays
Future Days
The End
Around the Bend
Parting Ways

All or None
Inside Job
(Stupid Mop)
Maybe you just hate Around the Bend, Parting Ways and All or None more?
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I conceive that some of those songs may be better songs in terms of craft, and I have a sentimental attachment to future days. I don't hate any of these songs, or anything. They're all mostly in the pretty good category. All or None and Inside Job are songs that are simply ok.
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stip wrote:I conceive that some of those songs may be better songs in terms of craft, and I have a sentimental attachment to future days. I don't hate any of these songs, or anything. They're all mostly in the pretty good category. All or None and Inside Job are songs that are simply ok.
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stip wrote:
ABNorman wrote:Something like:

Indifference
Release
All Those Yesterdays
Parting Ways
All Or None
Around The Bend


The End
Future Days
Inside Job
Stupid Mop

I definitely like Future Days more than anybody here. Take out the horrid piano and I think it's a perfectly decent little ditty.
I'd like to offer the following as exhibit B


Immortality
Release
Indifference

All Those Yesterdays
Future Days
The End
Around the Bend
Parting Ways

All or None
Inside Job
(Stupid Mop)
Exhibit C


Immortality
Parting Ways

Release
Inside Job
Indifference

Future Days
All Those Yesterdays
Around the Bend

The End
All or None

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E.H. Ruddock wrote:
stip wrote:I conceive that some of those songs may be better songs in terms of craft, and I have a sentimental attachment to future days. I don't hate any of these songs, or anything. They're all mostly in the pretty good category. All or None and Inside Job are songs that are simply ok.
I think concede is the work you are looking for
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darth_vedder wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
stip wrote:I conceive that some of those songs may be better songs in terms of craft, and I have a sentimental attachment to future days. I don't hate any of these songs, or anything. They're all mostly in the pretty good category. All or None and Inside Job are songs that are simply ok.
I think concede is the work you are looking for
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E.H. Ruddock wrote:
darth_vedder wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
stip wrote:I conceive that some of those songs may be better songs in terms of craft, and I have a sentimental attachment to future days. I don't hate any of these songs, or anything. They're all mostly in the pretty good category. All or None and Inside Job are songs that are simply ok.
I think concede is the work you are looking for
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I finally got to hear the version of Infallible from NZ.

Wow!!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PP05-FWLTWM
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I been listening to a lot of PJ studio albums, maybe because this whole Hall of fame thing is really getting me.
Yesterday it was LB turn, and again, i think the first 4 tracks are amazing, specially My Fathers Son and Sirens...those two are as good as any song from their catalogue. Special kudos to Eddie, he sounds really good on the whole album, but he kills it in this two...his delivery in Sirens is su fucking good, so passionate, fierce and at the same time its full of fear and a little bit of sadness...Its mind blowing.
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