Lightning Bolt: the official album thread

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Rank Lightning Bolt

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1%
4 stars
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30
38%
1 star
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18%
 
Total votes: 78

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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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Even with good lyrics i dont think I'd be a fan of inside job. The vocal delivery is a huge turn off, the actual music feels like something a 16 year old (me probably) would write when he first learns guitar, and the song tries to be way bigger than it is.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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I kinda liked it till I heard them do Reign Over Me. Then I realized what Inside Job tried to be and completely failed at it.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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Thejambi wrote:I kinda liked it till I heard them do Reign Over Me. Then I realized what Inside Job tried to be and completely failed at it.

There we go; bup, bup.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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Inside Job tried to be Reign Over Me? It needed a totally different time signature.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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Since we're all poets all of a sudden, I'm gonna start a thread titled 'rewrite inside job'
And you write some lyrics for it.

This isn't a pit style defence of the song but I'm just interested what people think is better lyrics(anything seemingly). So you can write lyrics to it and see how we all go.
Best one by poll wins a cool prize.

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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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dimejinky99 wrote:Since we're all poets all of a sudden, I'm gonna start a thread titled 'rewrite inside job'
And you write some lyrics for it.

This isn't a pit style defence of the song but I'm just interested what people think is better lyrics(anything seemingly). So you can write lyrics to it and see how we all go.
Best one by poll wins a cool prize.

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I cant write lyrics. Thats why i dont do it.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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Strat wrote:
dimejinky99 wrote:Since we're all poets all of a sudden, I'm gonna start a thread titled 'rewrite inside job'
And you write some lyrics for it.

This isn't a pit style defence of the song but I'm just interested what people think is better lyrics(anything seemingly). So you can write lyrics to it and see how we all go.
Best one by poll wins a cool prize.

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I cant write lyrics. Thats why i dont do it.
Since you didn't like the song you have to rewrite it and then we'll supply the lyrics. When Dime comes back in five minutes he can judge the original composition.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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Underneath this smile lies hurrr durr
All my hopes and anger hurr and durr

Make myself a hurr, not to shut doors on the durr
Just for today,... I am hurr durr

I will not lose my hurr
It's an inside job hurr durr

How I choose to hurr is how I durr
How I choose to hurr is how I durr
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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Jorge won already? It was a forgone conclusion.
PM me your address. You've won an EV zippo I got off the man himself.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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dimejinky99 wrote:Since we're all poets all of a sudden, I'm gonna start a thread titled 'rewrite inside job'
And you write some lyrics for it.

This isn't a pit style defence of the song but I'm just interested what people think is better lyrics(anything seemingly). So you can write lyrics to it and see how we all go.
Best one by poll wins a cool prize.

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Um, is this a "If you could have written better lyrics than Mike, you do it!" type argument? Because that's a non-starter. I like Mike, he's a good dude in a cool band. But my stepkids could've written better lyrics than these ones.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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theplatypus wrote:Underneath this smile lies hurrr durr
All my hopes and anger hurr and durr

Make myself a hurr, not to shut doors on the durr
Just for today,... I am hurr durr

I will not lose my hurr
It's an inside job hurr durr

How I choose to hurr is how I durr
How I choose to hurr is how I durr
I always said Inside Job was Release part 2.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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Nice idea for a thread. Either serious or for laughs. Tweak Pj lyrics to what you think they should be.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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Oh hurrrr durrrrr, can you see me now?
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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Comedians with songs they don't like. And poet laureates on the matter of songs they do.
Gotta love RM.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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It's much better to have no fun at all, ever.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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harmless wrote:It's much better to have no fun at all, ever.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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Well if its one thing we know how to do here, it's disect all the fun/good out of a song.
Wish someone would put some fixin on that.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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The only person in this thread appearing to be having no fun is you, dime.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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McParadigm wrote:
harmless wrote:It's much better to have no fun at all, ever.
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is this a nothingman meme?
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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Are we talking about Inside Job again??
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