Song of the Moment: Lightning Bolt

[dprival78]

i like this one, but i don't like how eddy continues to try to push his voice to places it can't go anymore (as in this song, just before the outro). he does sound good prior to that though, and i'm sure he'll sound good on the studio version.

[harmless]

she come on like a stone
but she don't know where from she was thrown

[harmless]

you gotta know you'll never let her go
Shes a lightning bolt
lightning bolt

Oh dear god say it isn't so.

No way I'm watching that video, now.

I hope they name this song (Somethingman) in parentheses. Because he won't let this one go.

[stupidmop]

Lmao , there's a high possibility that all of those lyrics are wrong.

Honestly it sounds kinda yieldy to me. And not just the e-bow but that helps. The guitar melodys and mike's solos.

[Kevin Davis]

The closest this sounds to anything on Yield would be "Leatherman" or "U."

[harmless]

Lmao , there's a high possibility that all of those lyrics are wrong.

Honestly it sounds kinda yieldy to me. And not just the e-bow but that helps. The guitar melodys and mike's solos.

Quite a bit of Backspacer was Yieldy, I thought. But the production ruined it. If the production is better on this one (and I have no reason to think it won't be, since Backspacer's schtick was obvious from the word go) then it's possible.

[Birds in Hell]

I'm not sure what to make of this yet.

On first impression, I don't care very much for that verse melody but I do like the "lightning booolt" chorus.

[stip]

Everyone might hate me for saying this, but the earliest example we have of this kind of emotional 'bland' song is probably Better Man. But the production of that song, and the instrumentation and passion of the performance, lifts it and makes it more than it should be.

i don't hate you, but only because I'm trying very hard not to.

[McParadigm]

I lied. I listened. Not really impressed very much at all....maybe it'll sound better on record, but ugh

[Waverider]

Lmao , there's a high possibility that all of those lyrics are wrong.

Honestly it sounds kinda yieldy to me. And not just the e-bow but that helps. The guitar melodys and mike's solos.

Those lyrics sound bang on actually.

[Waverider]

Everyone might hate me for saying this, but the earliest example we have of this kind of emotional 'bland' song is probably Better Man. But the production of that song, and the instrumentation and passion of the performance, lifts it and makes it more than it should be.

i don't hate you, but only because I'm trying very hard not to.

[McParadigm]

I'm not sure what to make of this yet.

On first impression, I don't care very much for that verse melody but I do like the "lightning booolt" chorus.

Ed yelling "LIGHTNING BOLT" over the top of a cinnamon toast crunch chorus was easily my "worst case scenario" upon learning the name of the album. It's not even fair to call it stupid...that wouldn't be going far enough.

Hopefully, in a studio setting, the rest of the song makes it less cringe-inducing. But this sounds a little like one of those "we've been doing this for a long time and we didn't really have anything to say but we do know how to put part a into slot b," mid-to-late career dullsville moments so many bands put out.

[stip]

It's an upbeat, celebratory song. So if you only want pearl jam to write DARKNESS AND ANGER (unless it is yield, where it is okay for some reason)

C'mon, man. You know there are many shades of emotion between "darkness and anger" and "celebratory," and you know that even though both groups songs may reflect more or less positive frames of mind, these new songs both have considerably different vibes than the songs on Yield. The piano on "Future Days" almost sounds like contemporary Christian rock--that's almost assuredly not a choice they'd have made in 1998.

Well, this was just talking about Lightning Bolt, not Future Days. And I'm oversimplifying and being a bit hostile, but after years of this shit I'm out of patience for what read like knee jerk "it's not angry or depressed so I don't like it" reaction that infects much of the criticism here. Maybe I'm still railing against old demons, and there is the obvious caveat that this doesn't apply to everyone and it is totally possible to just not like the song on the merits.

[stupidmop]

The closest this sounds to anything on Yield would be "Leatherman" or "U."

Reminds me a little of In Hiding, nothing specific though. Idk if you were being serious but i really like leatherman, so thats not a bad thing for me.

I'm not sure what to make of this yet.

On first impression, I don't care very much for that verse melody but I do like the "lightning booolt" chorus.

High five!

I think we're the only two who prefer the chorus to the verses.

[harmless]

It's an upbeat, celebratory song. So if you only want pearl jam to write DARKNESS AND ANGER (unless it is yield, where it is okay for some reason)

C'mon, man. You know there are many shades of emotion between "darkness and anger" and "celebratory," and you know that even though both groups songs may reflect more or less positive frames of mind, these new songs both have considerably different vibes than the songs on Yield. The piano on "Future Days" almost sounds like contemporary Christian rock--that's almost assuredly not a choice they'd have made in 1998.

Well, this was just talking about Lightning Bolt, not Future Days. And I'm oversimplifying and being a bit hostile, but after years of this shit I'm out of patience for what read like knee jerk "it's not angry or depressed so I don't like it" reaction that infects much of the criticism here. Maybe I'm still railing against old demons, and there is the obvious caveat that this doesn't apply to everyone and it is totally possible to just not like the song on the merits.

It's not like I need darkness in a song, but I do need some element of depth, and if a song doesn't offset its happiness with a little darkness, it'll be fine but it'll lack any multi-facetedness. That's why The Fixer works better than Supersonic. Cheesy is all Supersonic is, but The Fixer at least tries for more.

[WtOB?]

I feel more "uplifted" by Mind Your Manners than I do by any song on Backspacer.

[harmless]

Probably because MYM is better, but I don't think it's more "uplifting" by design.

[Birds in Hell]

I'm not sure good rock music exists that's uplifting by design.

[harmless]

That's why I hate U2.

[Thejambi]

she come on like a stone
but she don't know where from she was thrown
like a burning meteor
????

Shes looking for a place to land
She said you got yourselves some sand
And whatever you (?) she took as (?)

Now she comes (?)
With her new replanted seeds
soon you're thrown down on your knees
And then you're dead

And then before you know
the weeds are (obesly?) overgrown
With the all the wild seeds she sows
in your sleep

you gotta know you'll never let her go
Shes a lightning bolt
lightning boltx2

Always something and never nothing
isn't that the way we're taught to dream, to dream
looking through the worn out pages
stages when you knew not who to be
until the lightning strike sets you free

you gotta know you'll never let her go
Shes a lightning bolt
lightning boltx2

crashing so many waves (really ed, again?)
??? shoreline every day
????? choose to sing (i got nothing for this verse basically)

And then before you know
the weeds are (obesly?) overgrown
With the all the wild seeds she sows
in your sleep

ksghfjkghkjhgkjhgjkgfhblarg
blargh blargh with you hey hey yeah hey yeah
(i think this is an actual verse as opposed to random adlibs but i got nothing)

Shes a lightning bolt
never let her go
Shes a lightning bolt
never let her go

wehoo

JAAAMMMM


These are probably mostly wrong


Like force of nature with slightly less cheese maybe.

My Guess:
Crashing stormy waves
Erode her shoreline every day
Until the castle of her……turns to sand