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Re: Dark Matter: Official Album Thread
Posted: Fri December 19, 2025 2:07 am
by VinylGuy
I agree with this one being very high on the list. Mike´s solos are great and creative. He was channeling something there. But i also love what he is doing on verses too.
Re: Dark Matter: Official Album Thread
Posted: Sat December 20, 2025 4:37 pm
by Strat
Gigaton and DM are like peas and carrots.
Gigatons wings are spread and its a journey. Interesting. However, really fucking drags ont he back half of the album. I like all those songs but the sequencing is a bore.
DM sounds like crap but its a total assault of some of their best rock songs in decades. Super exciting front to back.
So, put them together...yay pj
Re: Dark Matter: Official Album Thread
Posted: Tue December 23, 2025 6:16 pm
by EBowie
Strat wrote:Gigaton and DM are like peas and carrots.
[highlight=]Gigatons wings are spread and its a journey. Interesting. However, really fucking drags ont he back half of the album. I like all those songs but the sequencing is a bore.[/highlight]
DM sounds like crap but its a total assault of some of their best rock songs in decades. Super exciting front to back.
So, put them together...yay pj
Gigaton --- I would cut Retrograde and River Cross. End the album on Comes Then Goes.
Re: Dark Matter: Official Album Thread
Posted: Tue December 23, 2025 6:35 pm
by Buby
"Won't Tell" came up on shuffle this morning, and I manually picked "Upper Hand" right after.
I'm pretty sure I like it even more now.
Re: Dark Matter: Official Album Thread
Posted: Tue December 23, 2025 7:04 pm
by Monkey_Driven
EBowie wrote:Strat wrote:Gigaton and DM are like peas and carrots.
[highlight=]Gigatons wings are spread and its a journey. Interesting. However, really fucking drags ont he back half of the album. I like all those songs but the sequencing is a bore.[/highlight]
DM sounds like crap but its a total assault of some of their best rock songs in decades. Super exciting front to back.
So, put them together...yay pj
Gigaton --- I would cut Retrograde and River Cross. End the album on Comes Then Goes.
I'd just cut Retrograde. Maybe include a certain b-side in there as well.
Re: Dark Matter: Official Album Thread
Posted: Tue December 23, 2025 10:31 pm
by epilogue
EBowie wrote:Strat wrote:Gigaton and DM are like peas and carrots.
[highlight=]Gigatons wings are spread and its a journey. Interesting. However, really fucking drags ont he back half of the album. I like all those songs but the sequencing is a bore.[/highlight]
DM sounds like crap but its a total assault of some of their best rock songs in decades. Super exciting front to back.
So, put them together...yay pj
Gigaton --- I would cut Retrograde and River Cross. End the album on Comes Then Goes.
I don't hate that.
But I'm also glad we have both of those songs.
Re: Dark Matter: Official Album Thread
Posted: Wed December 24, 2025 4:42 am
by Matters
Monkey_Driven wrote: include a certain b-side.
Re: Dark Matter: Official Album Thread
Posted: Fri January 09, 2026 6:03 pm
by Deadnote
Is the drum sound better with Dolby atmos ?
Re: Dark Matter: Official Album Thread
Posted: Fri January 09, 2026 8:01 pm
by Ms Harmless
no, but the drums are more distant under the guitars, which kind of sucks
Re: Dark Matter: Official Album Thread
Posted: Fri January 09, 2026 9:57 pm
by epilogue
The only thing the Atmos adds is... that laugh in React, Respond? It scares the shit out of me in Atmos
Re: Dark Matter: Official Album Thread
Posted: Fri January 09, 2026 11:48 pm
by RockPusher
If we ever get a properly remastered version of Dark Matter (reminiscent of what happened with the Spotify mix of the Avocado album, if I'm not mistaken), I think it could open a lot of eyes, er, ears, to the album's relative greatness.
On a related note, Won't Tell>Upper Hand>Waiting For Stevie will always be one of the best 3 song segments I've ever heard on any album. When Radiohead's King of Limbs came out, I felt similarly about the last three songs on that one (Codex>Give Up the Ghost>Separator). Just perfection together, by themselves.
Re: Dark Matter: Official Album Thread
Posted: Sun January 11, 2026 12:11 am
by Deadnote
Upper Hand is upper
React respond is devorock
Got to give is elastic
Running is fast n punk
Wreckage is radio
Setting sun is the end
Dark matter is dance of the clairvoyant
Stevie is a song I don’t know by name yet and I like it that way
Other tunes are great
Well help the whole album is great
Need to mix the drums different tho
Re: Dark Matter: Official Album Thread
Posted: Sun January 11, 2026 12:57 am
by Matters
Upper Hand is dreadful
React respond a great kick in the ass
Got to give is uplifting
Running is meh
Wreckage is blah
Setting sun is spiritual
Dark matter is interesting
Stevie is phenomenal
Re: Dark Matter: Official Album Thread
Posted: Sun January 11, 2026 9:42 am
by Deadnote
Ms Harmless wrote:no, but the drums are more distant under the guitars, which kind of sucks
Seems for me that mix would solve the issue with the powerful snare
Re: Dark Matter: Official Album Thread
Posted: Mon January 12, 2026 7:48 pm
by RockPusher
Matters wrote:Upper Hand is dreadful
What don't you like about it? Seems very classic PJ to me.
Re: Dark Matter: Official Album Thread
Posted: Mon January 12, 2026 8:10 pm
by VinylGuy
I love that one...the music, ed´s lyrics. It really gets me everytime.
Re: Dark Matter: Official Album Thread
Posted: Mon January 12, 2026 11:34 pm
by RockPusher
VinylGuy wrote:I love that one...the music, ed´s lyrics. It really gets me everytime.
Me too, but almost more importantly, it sets up WFS masterfully!
Re: Dark Matter: Official Album Thread
Posted: Tue January 13, 2026 12:41 am
by dprival78
with upper hand, i like the first half.. i like the second half.. but i just don't feel like they fit together that well
it's like there isn't enough of a build up to warrant that release. it kind of just happens.
Re: Dark Matter: Official Album Thread
Posted: Tue January 13, 2026 4:22 am
by Matters
RockPusher wrote:Matters wrote:Upper Hand is dreadful
What don't you like about it? Seems very classic PJ to me.
The intro is nice but it builds to nothing. Actually worse than nothing, it builds to a complete letdown. Ed’s vocal delivery is worse for me than anything else from him in the catalog. The end of the song is decent but I can’t sit through the middle portion to get there.
I’m glad people like it and I really enjoy most of DM but UH might be my least favorite Pearl Jam song. If it came up on shuffle I would listen to the build up and then hit skip as soon as I could.
Re: Dark Matter: Official Album Thread
Posted: Tue January 13, 2026 2:05 pm
by VinylGuy
I love the solo at the end. Reminds me of J Mascis.