Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15
Posted: Sat September 14, 2013 2:33 pm
These tracks are MYM trying to sound like pop songs trying to sound like MYM.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15
Posted: Sat September 14, 2013 2:34 pm
LTRP has grown on me. Even thought he chorus is still a little "Charles in Charge", the guitar playing is phenomenal and that alone is worth a listen.
Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15
Posted: Sat September 14, 2013 2:35 pm
Really?harmless wrote:Tbf, MYM was a very different song to all of these, and it wasn't representative at all.
I feel differently. I think MYM is a close relative of all these. OK, it's punk rawk and all that but it's mostly in a major key and has this happy upbeat atmosphere in it's melody.
Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15
Posted: Sat September 14, 2013 2:37 pm
they're really great great songs. what about ed voice? mike solos? for me it has nothing to do with Backspacer, sounds much more solid. 
Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15
Posted: Sat September 14, 2013 2:37 pm
Not sure about that, I wouldn't call it 'happy' even if it's upbeat. The riff isn't half as 'happy' as these are. It's not claw-your-face-off aggressive but it's more hard-hitting than these.Lounge Lizard wrote:Really?harmless wrote:Tbf, MYM was a very different song to all of these, and it wasn't representative at all.
I feel differently. I think MYM is a close relative of all these. OK, it's punk rawk and all that but it's mostly in a major key and has this happy upbeat atmosphere in it's melody.
Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15
Posted: Sat September 14, 2013 2:39 pm
Naturally.harmless wrote:Not sure about that, I wouldn't call it 'happy' even if it's upbeat. The riff isn't half as 'happy' as these are. It's not claw-your-face-off aggressive but it's more hard-hitting than these.Lounge Lizard wrote:Really?harmless wrote:Tbf, MYM was a very different song to all of these, and it wasn't representative at all.
I feel differently. I think MYM is a close relative of all these. OK, it's punk rawk and all that but it's mostly in a major key and has this happy upbeat atmosphere in it's melody.
But to me it's hard hitting in the same shiny mood with the others.
Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15
Posted: Sat September 14, 2013 2:40 pm
I expect Pearl Jam to sound like Pearl Jam. There is some new stuff in these songs that I haven't heard them try before and that's all I ask of them.@SkitchP wrote:Basically these songs sound like Pearl Jam trying to sound like Pearl Jam.
Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15
Posted: Sat September 14, 2013 2:41 pm
Nail meet head.HardTI wrote:I expect Pearl Jam to sound like Pearl Jam. There is some new stuff in these songs that I haven't heard them try before and that's all I ask of them.@SkitchP wrote:Basically these songs sound like Pearl Jam trying to sound like Pearl Jam.
Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15
Posted: Sat September 14, 2013 2:41 pm
We can agree there, absolutely. I think the track fits with these fine, I just meant that before we had these, we might have expected them to be different, leading some to be even more disappointed that they weren't. MYM was "OK" to some of the haters, but if other songs had been in a more similar vein, that "OK" could've become really good. But then not everyone agrees with me that a song can be lifted or brought down by its context.Lounge Lizard wrote:Naturally.harmless wrote:Not sure about that, I wouldn't call it 'happy' even if it's upbeat. The riff isn't half as 'happy' as these are. It's not claw-your-face-off aggressive but it's more hard-hitting than these.Lounge Lizard wrote:Really?harmless wrote:Tbf, MYM was a very different song to all of these, and it wasn't representative at all.
I feel differently. I think MYM is a close relative of all these. OK, it's punk rawk and all that but it's mostly in a major key and has this happy upbeat atmosphere in it's melody.
But to me it's hard hitting in the same shiny mood with the others.
Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15
Posted: Sat September 14, 2013 2:42 pm
Django Butterworth wrote:Nail meet head.HardTI wrote:I expect Pearl Jam to sound like Pearl Jam. There is some new stuff in these songs that I haven't heard them try before and that's all I ask of them.@SkitchP wrote:Basically these songs sound like Pearl Jam trying to sound like Pearl Jam.
Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15
Posted: Sat September 14, 2013 2:43 pm
don't worry about it guys, skitch is a huge douche bag.
Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15
Posted: Sat September 14, 2013 2:43 pm
Django Butterworth wrote:I find I am much happier if I take each new record as a separate piece and don't try to compare it stuff they have done previously.
Given that, I am enjoying the shit out of these.
Exactly how I feel. Why compare to 90's PJ? I'm not an angst filled, over emotional teenager anymore so I don't expect the band to be. If I heard "Black" for the first time now that I'm in my mid 30's I'd think it was an overreaction to a high school relationship type song. Would not appeal to me and my life now. I'd probably think, "Why are these guys trying to over dramatize an end of a relationship?" Shit happens.
I think these songs are solid songs. They are upbeat and happy, I can live with it. Jeff sounds great in these and I'm surprised how go Ed sounds.
Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15
Posted: Sat September 14, 2013 2:44 pm
Oh yes it can, there is no doubt about that.harmless wrote:But then not everyone agrees with me that a song can be lifted or brought down by its context.
But there are songs and there are songs.
Some are self sufficient to a degree of not needing any sort of context at all.
Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15
Posted: Sat September 14, 2013 2:45 pm
Damn, so he's overweight too.WtOB? wrote:don't worry about it guys, skitch is a huge douche bag.
Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15
Posted: Sat September 14, 2013 2:45 pm
Yup.Lounge Lizard wrote:Oh yes it can, there is no doubt about that.harmless wrote:But then not everyone agrees with me that a song can be lifted or brought down by its context.
But there are songs and there are songs.
Some are self sufficient to a degree of not needing any sort of context at all.
Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15
Posted: Sat September 14, 2013 2:45 pm
Im loving these songs 
Pearl Jam has not let down. They still got it after 22 years there still growing.
Pearl Jam has not let down. They still got it after 22 years there still growing.Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15
Posted: Sat September 14, 2013 2:46 pm
if anything, some of these songs are pearl jam trying to be something they're not.
Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15
Posted: Sat September 14, 2013 2:47 pm
he's super unattractive.Lounge Lizard wrote:Damn, so he's overweight too.WtOB? wrote:don't worry about it guys, skitch is a huge douche bag.
Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15
Posted: Sat September 14, 2013 2:48 pm
Or progressing into something you don't like. I think anyone pushing forward could be said to be being 'who they're not'.WtOB? wrote:if anything, some of these songs are pearl jam trying to be something they're not.
Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15
Posted: Sat September 14, 2013 2:48 pm
This must be referring LTRPWtOB? wrote:if anything, some of these songs are pearl jam trying to be something they're not.