Red Mosquito

Simple Torture wrote:Leaving Can't Deny Me off the LP means they can put it on the fan club 7'' whenever they get around to actually making it.

You mean like the bonus pre order 7 inch, which is just a radio edit of a song already on the album with no flip side? Lol

A shame they don’t do album b-sides anymore.

LB was like an album full of them but let’s not

I don’t see why LB would be considered as much worse than Backspacer.

Anders wrote:I don’t see why LB would be considered as much worse than Backspacer.

Backspacer felt like an attempt at something new. "Trim the fat". Short and punchy pop numbers with a new approach.

Lightning Bolt felt like an uninspired vision of trying to reclaim what made pearl jam great. Nothing new. Nothing exciting.

verb_to_trust wrote:

NewKurtLeon wrote:Really pissed of that I`ve been billed TWICE for the albums Pre-Order

I cancelled mine. It was a breeze and I can always Prime that shit if the album is somehow good. I simply said I "made a mistake" by preordering the album and poof, refund.

I already e-mailed them, and they said that the problem would be solved and I wouldn`t be billed twice.
I`m still being billed twice.

Much prefer backspacer to lb

By a vast distance

lecherouslittlestump wrote:

"Gigaton is going to put rock back on the map," extolls Vedder, 55. "The snowflake millennials with their tumeric lattes and avocado on toast wont know what's hit them. We're gonna take the #SWAG #YOLO bullshit that's in the charts today and fuck it in the ass."

Yes! Our insider is back!

Strat wrote:

Anders wrote:I don’t see why LB would be considered as much worse than Backspacer.

Backspacer felt like an attempt at something new. "Trim the fat". Short and punchy pop numbers with a new approach.

Lightning Bolt felt like an uninspired vision of trying to reclaim what made pearl jam great. Nothing new. Nothing exciting.

And both felt like they sucked.

So, wonder if there really is a scrapped album and what level of completion it is at?

Be interesting to know what the story is behind CDM, the time from then until now with Gigaton, and why the huge delay, especially if it's been in the can a while.

I can imagine Cornell's death had a lot to do with the apparent struggles.

i think we need a 10.5th album rumors and speculation thread

dimejinky99 wrote:Much prefer backspacer to lb

By a vast distance

That’s what I have come to understand.

Everything up to and including sirens I love

After that not much there for me

dimejinky99 wrote:Much prefer backspacer to lb

By a vast distance

^ This ^

Look guys they’re both garbage let’s move on

Lightning bolt is like their collapse into now - an album full of Pearl Jam songs that, with a few exceptions, sound and feel like copies of archetypes - Pearl Jam once removed. and I say that as a fan of both albums (and I think LB would be much better received with either warmer and more open production, or something much dirtier - but something that indicated a choice was made) But for REM it was a sign that they were done. Hopefully for pj it was a sign to try something new.

Backspace is better though

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Look guys they’re both garbage let’s move on

Is this in regard to Backspacer and Lightning Bolt or Olé and Can't Deny Me? Because yes.

I didn’t like either of those songs weirdly

Nothing weird about that