Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Lightning Bolt

[LoathedVermin72]

No, you aren't allowed to enjoy it

[VinylGuy]

Even if Infallible ultimately fells short on what its trying to achieve, i love the guitars...Their weird sound, kinda poppy is pretty cool specially for this album, which i find a little lackluster on how i would like the guitars to sound...Getaway being the first example of that.

[evenslow]

I don't think anyone is ACTUALLY listening in this thread. For shame, Jamily.

I'm currently contemplating putting the album on.

Same. I might make a playlist so I have a chance of enjoying some of the songs.

No. Full report on LAL'ing LB or GTFO.

[Leatherhead]

I just put on Thin Air though, so......

[evenslow]

I just put on Thin Air though, so......

[VinylGuy]

I fuckin adore the bridge in Yellow Moon...Always felt this one had a Vs kind of vibe..im not sure why...Maybe because its a mid tempo song but not entirely a ballad? I would fit in Yield too.

This was the closer track guys...

[LetMeSleep]

I'm going to try this out again.

1. Pendulum
2. Getaway
3. My Father's Son
4. Infallible
5. Sirens
6. Swallowed Whole
7. Sleeping By Myself
8. Yellow Moon

[evenslow]

I'm gonna have to LAL Yellow Moon again but man I really find it boring.

[VinylGuy]

I would say:

Pendulum
Sirens
MFS
MYM
Yellow Moon
Getaway
Sleeping By Myself
Infallible
LB
SW
LTRP

I wont even consider Future Days.

[chewm]

Listening to Yellow Moon right now, and I really, really like this one.
I do find Ed's vocals in the chorus a bit annoying.

[chewm]

The second solo would work a lot better as an outro.

[PHATJ]

I made this track list years ago. I still think it's the best way to listen to Lightning Bolt.

01. Pendulum
02. Sirens
03. My Father's Son
04. Swallowed Whole
05. Lightning Bolt
06. Infallible
07. Mind Your Manners
08. Let The Records Play
09. Future Days
10. Getaway
11. Yellow Moon

X-Mas Single
01. Of The Earth (studio)
02. Sleeping By Myself

[96583UP]

I made this list years ago. I still think it's the best way to listen to Lightning Bolt.

01. Falling into a toilet
02. Hitting a street curb
03. Landing in a dumpster
04. Crackling in a fireplace
05. Silently sitting unopened on a store shelf
06. Shuffling lost in a Dollar CD bin
07. Crunching under a truck tire
08. Sinking to the bottom of a lake
09. Melting on the surface of Venus
10. Being eaten by a herd of goats
11. Rustling under the dirt of a crowded landfill

X-Mas Single
01. Trampling under reindeer foot (studio)
02. Sliding into and Elf's butthole

[PHATJ]

I made this track list years ago. I still think it's the best way to listen to Lightning Bolt.

01. Pendulum
02. Sirens
03. My Father's Son
04. Swallowed Whole
05. Lightning Bolt
06. Infallible
07. Mind Your Manners
08. Let The Records Play
09. Future Days
10. Getaway
11. Yellow Moon

X-Mas Single
01. Of The Earth (studio)
02. Sleeping By Myself

Maybe RMMM does crazy things to people, but I just LAL'd to Lightning Bolt in this sequence and I actually really enjoyed it. It's probably been a year since I last listened through these songs and I liked this a lot more than I expected. WTF. There were a few cringy moments, Ed's vocals are noticeably too far forward, but overall it was fun listening to this.

[Jorge]

Wait, where did you get the studio version of "Of the Earth"? I didn't even know we had that

[PHATJ]

Wait, where did you get the studio version of "Of the Earth"? I didn't even know we had that

We don't, that was a wishlist type thing.

[ridleybradout]

Wait, where did you get the studio version of "Of the Earth"? I didn't even know we had that

PM theplatypus.

[PHATJ]

Wait, where did you get the studio version of "Of the Earth"? I didn't even know we had that

We don't, that was a wishlist type thing.

I pulled that track list from the "Let's Re-Track Lightning Bolt" thread from shortly after the album was released. It was something I was pining for at the time.

[PHATJ]

I'm halfway through a second listen.

[LetMeSleep]

I'm wish I could say the same. I'll write more tomorrow.