Song of the Moment: Lightning Bolt

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Rate Lightning Bolt

5 Stars
34
24%
4 Stars
59
42%
3 Stars
22
16%
2 Stars
8
6%
1 Star
12
9%
Betterman (live)
4
3%
 
Total votes: 139

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Re: New Song: Lightning Bolt

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This turned into a 5 star song for me. It just soars and I know everyone hates the fade out, but I think it's one of the better parts of the song, how he sings "like you!" and Mike (?) goes into that guitar, and it's just firing on all cylinders, fading out. Never really ending, just going on into infinity.
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Re: New Song: Lightning Bolt

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flannelking wrote: My gf had never heard of Pearl Jam until I sent her the Siren's video. She said she liked it a lot and sang it while walking that day. Then she asked, is "jam pearl" your favorite band? haha! I thought it was cute.
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Re: New Song: Lightning Bolt

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theplatypus wrote:
flannelking wrote: My gf had never heard of Pearl Jam until I sent her the Siren's video. She said she liked it a lot and sang it while walking that day. Then she asked, is "jam pearl" your favorite band? haha! I thought it was cute.
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Re: New Song: Lightning Bolt

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theplatypus wrote:
flannelking wrote: My gf had never heard of Pearl Jam until I sent her the Siren's video. She said she liked it a lot and sang it while walking that day. Then she asked, is "jam pearl" your favorite band? haha! I thought it was cute.
She doesn't even exist, does she.

in some realm or state, she does.
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Re: New Song: Lightning Bolt

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flannelking wrote:
theplatypus wrote:
flannelking wrote: My gf had never heard of Pearl Jam until I sent her the Siren's video. She said she liked it a lot and sang it while walking that day. Then she asked, is "jam pearl" your favorite band? haha! I thought it was cute.
She doesn't even exist, does she.

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Re: New Song: Lightning Bolt

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mastaflatch wrote:
flannelking wrote:
theplatypus wrote:
flannelking wrote: My gf had never heard of Pearl Jam until I sent her the Siren's video. She said she liked it a lot and sang it while walking that day. Then she asked, is "jam pearl" your favorite band? haha! I thought it was cute.
She doesn't even exist, does she.

in some realm or state, she does.
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Re: New Song: Lightning Bolt

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Yes, my friends, in a perfect world I would walk the littered streets of a filipino mountain village. I would spot her there, a stunning young virgin with the charm of innocence and grunge naivety, 28 years of age. Our eyes would meet and with a rather harsh live version of Thin Air playing in the background from the boom box of an elderly English parlor owner behind the counter with his young filipina bride swaying in tune sporting a flannel mini skirt while a motorbike zoomed past overloaded with 7 passengers, one balancing teeter-tottering roosters on his cranium and another propped on the handlebars shedding a coconut with his teeth for 10 pesos, she would ask, excuse me 'fine sir, could you tell me who is doing the song I hear play'? In which I would reply in my deepest baritone, 'yes, my dear, it is Pearl Jam. I know them well'. She would then utter the sweet words I long to hear, 'is Jam Pearl your favorite band'? I would then reply, 'why yes, my love, it most certainly is'. My vicarious adventure would start at that moment as I began unveiling the Pearl Jam kaleidoscope. We would marry and she would learn the way of the grunge cowboy.
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Re: New Song: Lightning Bolt

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I heard the Wrigley version of this song. For the life of me I can't figure out why some yayhoos here despise it.
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flannelking wrote:I heard the Wrigley version of this song. For the life of me I can't figure out why some yayhoos here despise it.
of course :|
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malice wrote:
flannelking wrote:I heard the Wrigley version of this song. For the life of me I can't figure out why some yayhoos here despise it.
of course :|

By the way, as defined on urbandictionary.com. Yayhoo was originally used to describe a certain tribe of wild individuals found in Kentucky mountain regions. Daniel Boone once described them as a race of wild hairy giants, well known for bad behavior & violent etc.

I'm guessing they also smelled very bad and had offspring who would be inept at recognizing great Pearl Jam tunes.
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Re: New Song: Lightning Bolt

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flannelking wrote:
malice wrote:
flannelking wrote:I heard the Wrigley version of this song. For the life of me I can't figure out why some yayhoos here despise it.
of course :|

By the way, as defined on urbandictionary.com. Yayhoo was originally used to describe a certain tribe of wild individuals found in Kentucky mountain regions. Daniel Boone once described them as a race of wild hairy giants, well known for bad behavior & violent etc.

I'm guessing they also smelled and had offspring who would eventually be inept at recognizing great Pearl Jam tunes.
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Re: New Song: Lightning Bolt

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I challenge every inhabitant of this ghastly forum to a pledge of honesty! I haven't heard this album, only the song, but there is no way LB should rank lower than 3rd best on the album. Its probably the very best song on the album!
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That might've been the case if there weren't better ones.
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theplatypus wrote:
flannelking wrote: My gf had never heard of Pearl Jam until I sent her the Siren's video. She said she liked it a lot and sang it while walking that day. Then she asked, is "jam pearl" your favorite band? haha! I thought it was cute.
She doesn't even exist, does she.
She probably exists. He gets pretty condescending about her in later posts, which is a sure sign of a male response to an actual female.
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Re: New Song: Lightning Bolt

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mray10 wrote:
theplatypus wrote:
flannelking wrote: My gf had never heard of Pearl Jam until I sent her the Siren's video. She said she liked it a lot and sang it while walking that day. Then she asked, is "jam pearl" your favorite band? haha! I thought it was cute.
She doesn't even exist, does she.
She probably exists. He gets pretty condescending about her in later posts, which is a sure sign of a male response to an actual female.
actual female what though, one wonders?
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Re: New Song: Lightning Bolt

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malice wrote:
mray10 wrote:
theplatypus wrote:
flannelking wrote: My gf had never heard of Pearl Jam until I sent her the Siren's video. She said she liked it a lot and sang it while walking that day. Then she asked, is "jam pearl" your favorite band? haha! I thought it was cute.
She doesn't even exist, does she.
She probably exists. He gets pretty condescending about her in later posts, which is a sure sign of a male response to an actual female.
actual female what though, one wonders?
I enjoyed this mray10 post.
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Re: New Song: Lightning Bolt

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mray10 wrote:
theplatypus wrote:
flannelking wrote: My gf had never heard of Pearl Jam until I sent her the Siren's video. She said she liked it a lot and sang it while walking that day. Then she asked, is "jam pearl" your favorite band? haha! I thought it was cute.
She doesn't even exist, does she.
She probably exists. He gets pretty condescending about her in later posts, which is a sure sign of a male response to an actual female.

Your reply is typical of a female's critical analysis of a male being condescending toward a female. Would you like to date?
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okay, now i'm on board the flannel king express.
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Chooo chooo!
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Re: New Song: Lightning Bolt

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So this is most likely the third single - short clips of a promo video for the song at 10:16...

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