Gigaton: Official album thread

[VinylGuy]

I really like they are all BUT mike doing lyrics.

[VinylGuy]

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/

Jerome Turner and Al Nostreet are back!!

[Ms Harmless]

Hoping O'Brien's contributions are more Around the Bend and less Future Days. Not thinking that's likely, though.

I think the best news we have about this is that BoB is *not* playing on "River Cross", so we shouldn't have a "Future Days" scenario

I actually liked (what I assume is) his keyboard line in the climax of "Lightning Bolt"; to me it had a slightly cringy but ear-pleasing 80s Springsteen charm to it; I can imagine that's as bad as it'll get

[dad]

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

without doing a full-on search, I feel like I remember theplatypus posted something along the lines of, “I caught the rhythm but my cock was full.”

[Ms Harmless]

I really like they are all BUT mike doing lyrics.

yup

I can't help *almost* liking "Inside Job"; the lyrics are just *too* abstract and... blah, for me

[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

omg is that actually the lyric?

I don't believe it is

without doing a full-on search, I feel like I remember theplatypus posted something along the lines of, “I caught the rhythm but my cock was full.”

haha it's definitely not the lyric, I've always just heard "I caught a rabbit" and the actual lyrics aren't any better

[Ms Harmless]

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

yep that's the one, it's so bad

[Ms Harmless]

I just don't want Ed writing meta about the awesomeness of rock n roll again

[IndioShoeThrower]

https://www.stereogum.com/2076010/pearl ... valuation/

[EJ]

and we know we have water / ice already; those little auditory flourishes were always archetypally Pearl Jam and I've missed them

pretty sure that's just a toilet flushing

[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

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.

totally!

[Ms Harmless]

and we know we have water / ice already; those little auditory flourishes were always archetypally Pearl Jam and I've missed them

pretty sure that's just a toilet flushing

I got shit! so much it don't shooooooow

[Monkey_Driven]

https://www.stereogum.com/2076010/pearl-jam-gigaton-review/franchises/premature-evaluation/

This is very encouraging and well written.

[dad]

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

without doing a full-on search, I feel like I remember theplatypus posted something along the lines of, “I caught the rhythm but my cock was full.”

haha it's definitely not the lyric, I've always just heard "I caught a rabbit" and the actual lyrics aren't any better

yeah, I know. I just remember getting a kick out of it.

[Mike]

The final act of the album is particularly ruminative, starting with the hazy lope of “Buckle Up,” a dreamlike Stone Gossard composition. With a lilting guitar line reminiscent of R.E.M.’s “We Walk” and Eddie Vedder in full reverie, plus a part where background vocals and guitar fuzz mimic a horn section, it’s sneakily one of the weirdest songs on the album and should pleasantly surprise fans of middle-era Pearl Jam.

Expectations for Buckle Up rising

[IndioShoeThrower]

https://www.stereogum.com/2076010/pearl-jam-gigaton-review/franchises/premature-evaluation/

This is very encouraging and well written.

Agreed. About as good as we can hope for at this point.

[Ms Harmless]

The final act of the album is particularly ruminative, starting with the hazy lope of “Buckle Up,” a dreamlike Stone Gossard composition. With a lilting guitar line reminiscent of R.E.M.’s “We Walk” and Eddie Vedder in full reverie, plus a part where background vocals and guitar fuzz mimic a horn section, it’s sneakily one of the weirdest songs on the album and should pleasantly surprise fans of middle-era Pearl Jam.

Expectations for Buckle Up rising

oof, wow, yeah

also "Take The Long Way" is sounding more and more like something I need to hear yesterday

I was worried that those songs or "Never Destination" would be this album's "Supersonic" but that's becoming less likely; I know I'm repeating myself but if SBWM is Ed's only chance at punk self-indulgence we're fine, imo

[EJ]

The final act of the album is particularly ruminative, starting with the hazy lope of “Buckle Up,” a dreamlike Stone Gossard composition. With a lilting guitar line reminiscent of R.E.M.’s “We Walk” and Eddie Vedder in full reverie, plus a part where background vocals and guitar fuzz mimic a horn section, it’s sneakily one of the weirdest songs on the album and should pleasantly surprise fans of middle-era Pearl Jam.

Expectations for Buckle Up rising

makes me think of No Way. which is a very good thing.

[Anders]

https://www.stereogum.com/2076010/pearl-jam-gigaton-review/franchises/premature-evaluation/

This is very encouraging and well written.

Yes, that was a solid review.

[Strat]

Often times pearl jams music has come at the exact right time in my life.

Thats why its hard for me to relate the music to others in manner that is devoid of intense fandom attachment.

The above review makes me think this album, once again, may be coming at the exact right time for me.

I hope so.