Gigaton: Official album thread

[Anders]

jeff, stone and matt writing lyrics again....

Fully agree.

[EJ]

Crossed the border to Morocco/ Kashmir then Marakesh/ The lengths we had to go to then/To find a place Trump hadn’t fucked up yet

uhhh

there’s Sitting Bullshit as our sitting president

oh my

this is what I was afraid of

[stip]

Crossed the border to Morocco/ Kashmir then Marakesh/ The lengths we had to go to then/To find a place Trump hadn’t fucked up yet

uhhh

there’s Sitting Bullshit as our sitting president

oh my

this is what I was afraid of

still better than Can't Deny Me

[verb_to_trust]

Is it going to be like that stupid Neil Young live album where instead of the audience you hear a bunch of animal noises?

I hope so. That sounds awesome

[verb_to_trust]

jeff, stone and matt writing lyrics again....

guys, this is NOT a good thing...

Yeah, leave it all to the "she was a stunner and I am stunned" guy

[binauralsounds]

jeff, stone and matt writing lyrics again....

guys, this is NOT a good thing...

Yeah, leave it all to the "she was a stunner and I am stunned" guy

BACK OFF

[scrub12]

This all sounds encouraging. It wasn’t listed as a standout but I’m interested in Take the Long Way because Cameron writes interesting stuff, but also a backing vocalist. That’s a first.

[Release_Me]

From what I read, 9 of the 12 songs have lyrics from Eddie. That leaves just 3 from the other band members. Not a disaster even if I prefer Eddie writing the lyrics.

[stip]

jeff, stone and matt writing lyrics again....

guys, this is NOT a good thing...

Yeah, leave it all to the "she was a stunner and I am stunned" guy

Eddie has some clunkly lyrics on occasion. Stone and Matt in particular rarely have a line that lands. Jeff, at his best, is okay.

[EJ]

This all sounds encouraging. It wasn’t listed as a standout but I’m interested in Take the Long Way because Cameron writes interesting stuff, but also a backing vocalist. That’s a first.

He certainly does. Been listening to his demos recently from previous albums.

[scrub12]

Here’s another piece with 10 tidbits about the album. Most are listed in the review but a few are not. On my phone so maybe I missed this being posted.

https://www.guerrillacandy.com/2020/03/ ... s-gigaton/

[EJ]

jeff, stone and matt writing lyrics again....

guys, this is NOT a good thing...

Yeah, leave it all to the "she was a stunner and I am stunned" guy

Jeff, at his best, is okay.

More importantly Jeff has great bass lines. Unfortunately a lot of it gets buried under Ed.

[stip]

All these guys are great musical songwriters as far as the music goes

[Anders]

jeff, stone and matt writing lyrics again....

guys, this is NOT a good thing...

Yeah, leave it all to the "she was a stunner and I am stunned" guy

Eddie has some clunkly lyrics on occasion. Stone and Matt in particular rarely have a line that lands. Jeff, at his best, is okay.

I think Stone and Matt both have some excellent lyrics.

[Ms Harmless]

Comes Then Goes sounds like it might be boring, but everything else sounds at least interesting. Also excited to hear all this interstitial music/nature sound stuff.

I'll actually take "boring" over show-stoppingly embarrassing; as long as there's no "Supersonic gone and took my soul / I caught a rabbit but my cock was slow", I'm happy; so I'm hoping "boring" is just "unassuming" here; if it's solid but doesn't try to draw attention to itself, that will be good and even refreshing at this point

I'm excited about background noise / ambience, as well as the possibility that those might cause the tracks to run together; something like the animal snort type noises before "Rival", and we know we have water / ice already; those little auditory flourishes were always archetypally Pearl Jam and I've missed them

[Mike]

I'm only excited by other members writing lyrics because most of the times it means they also wrote/invented the vocal melody. Eddie changes the melody up a bit but the idea is mostly the same which resulted in some really great songs in the past. I would not call the lyrics themselves very good.

[tragabigzanda]

pearl jam sucks now

[Mike]

Comes Then Goes sounds like it might be boring, but everything else sounds at least interesting. Also excited to hear all this interstitial music/nature sound stuff.

I'll actually take "boring" over show-stoppingly embarrassing; as long as there's no "Supersonic gone and took my soul / I caught a rabbit but my cock was slow", I'm happy; so I'm hoping "boring" is just "unassuming" here; if it's solid but doesn't try to draw attention to itself, that will be good and even refreshing at this point

Yeah, a lot of my favorite Pearl Jam songs would sound pretty boring if I only read a description of them in a review. Not worried about that one, yet.

[stip]

Comes Then Goes sounds like it might be boring, but everything else sounds at least interesting. Also excited to hear all this interstitial music/nature sound stuff.

I'll actually take "boring" over show-stoppingly embarrassing; as long as there's no "Supersonic gone and took my soul / I caught a rabbit but my cock was slow", I'm happy; so I'm hoping "boring" is just "unassuming" here; if it's solid but doesn't try to draw attention to itself, that will be good and even refreshing at this point

I'm excited about background noise / ambience, as well as the possibility that those might cause the tracks to run together; something like the animal snort type noises before "Rival", and we know we have water / ice already; those little auditory flourishes were always archetypally Pearl Jam and I've missed them

omg is that actually the lyric?

I don't believe it is

[Monkey_Driven]

"Supersonic gone & took my soul
I caught the rhythm but the clock was slow yeah"