Song of the Moment: Lightning Bolt

[Kevin Davis]

True dramatic irony, then--the speaker doesn't realize it, but it's plain to the audience.

[digster]

With these two new ones, I actually feel like, for once, Mike was pretty spot on in his descriptions; this is kind of what I think 'a logical extension of Backspacer' would sound like. There's some differences and added wrinkles, but I don't think it's too much of a stretch to see this our Future Days on that record.

[VinylGuy]

im really diggin this song.

[harmless]

At this point I've decided I like this song. It's comparable to UK, but it doesn't have that damned "Nothing left" part in which the listener realises the songwriter had nothing left at that point. Sure, it has the end jam that goes nowhere, but hopefully it will on the album and they've just not replicated that live yet. It's more likely that they've cut the end jam off. My main worry now is that this song's intro will be exactly the same as UK and Wishlist: that palm muted guitar. Matt's drums are boring here to begin with as well, just going 1, 2, 3, 4 on the bass drum along with Ed. But I'm hoping that's different on the album too, because he starts other songs the same way live, Corduroy for example. He intros that in the most boring way possible.

[harmless]

In typical Pearl Jam fashion, the best part of this song is the middle 8 / bridge. If they wrote songs like they write bridges, they might be able to replicate Yield. Yield is basically the ideal blueprint for a lot of the new material.

[stupidmop]

Still hate the verses, they drag the song way down, still like everything else.

I dunno about sloppy but ed is definitely giving mike a look near the end . It's probably a 'where's my damn ebow mccready' look. It's always the ebow.

[harmless]

Still hate the verses, they drag the song way down, still like everything else.

I dunno about sloppy but ed is definitely giving mike a look near the end . It's probably a 'where's my damn ebow mccready' look. It's always the ebow.

I wish Mike and Stone would give him the "We're the fucking guitarists" look sometimes.

[Birds in Hell]

Sure, it has the end jam that goes nowhere

That's the good bit.

[harmless]

Sure, it has the end jam that goes nowhere

That's the good bit.

Nope. I don't enjoy generic jams. If they want to have a good jam session they have to get more creative guitarists (and a more creative drummer while they're at it). If the jam session lasts for that long on the album, we can only hope that Mike's solo is something interesting and that maybe there's some cool interplay between him and Stone.

[harmless]

Also, those lightning bolts going into the end sound too screechy AC/DC for me.

[Dr. Van Nostrand]

The song is stuck in my head at the moment, and im not upset about that

[harmless]

I really want to hear that soundchecked song now, please Pearl Jam.

[Dr. Van Nostrand]

I really want to hear that soundchecked song now, please Pearl Jam.

I was hoping when i saw the realist for wrigley that either lightning bolt or future days were it, but at least we still have it to look forward to

[zatara]

Soundtrack for a movie with Jennifer Aniston.

I imagine that will be played on the Letterman promotional appearance .

[McParadigm]

Also, those lightning bolts going into the end sound too screechy AC/DC for me.

Oh, shit, that's brilliant. If he AC/DC'd the delivery of every single call of "LIGHTNING BOLT!" I'd really dig the shit out of it.

[harmless]

Also, those lightning bolts going into the end sound too screechy AC/DC for me.

Oh, shit, that's brilliant. If he AC/DC'd the delivery of every single call of "LIGHTNING BOLT!" I'd really dig the shit out of it.

[McParadigm]

Also, those lightning bolts going into the end sound too screechy AC/DC for me.

Oh, shit, that's brilliant. If he AC/DC'd the delivery of every single call of "LIGHTNING BOLT!" I'd really dig the shit out of it.

LIGHTNING BOLT

[harmless]

Also, those lightning bolts going into the end sound too screechy AC/DC for me.

Oh, shit, that's brilliant. If he AC/DC'd the delivery of every single call of "LIGHTNING BOLT!" I'd really dig the shit out of it.

LIGHTNING BOLT

[Dr. Van Nostrand]

Also, those lightning bolts going into the end sound too screechy AC/DC for me.

Oh, shit, that's brilliant. If he AC/DC'd the delivery of every single call of "LIGHTNING BOLT!" I'd really dig the shit out of it.

LIGHTNING BOLT

Or maybe Brian Johnson makes a guest appearance on the album and ed is trying to duplicate it since Brian didn't wanna join them at wrigley in the rain

[harmless]

Light knee bowl