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spike wrote:

The Argonaut wrote:Here is my abridged Gigaton

lol the arrogance of chud

Does chud still post here?

Back to fkn back top pages

Bammer wrote:

spike wrote:

The Argonaut wrote:Here is my abridged Gigaton

lol the arrogance of chud

Does chud still post here?

He doesn’t post anything that matters.

So, this is definitely a headphone go out on a walk album for me. Or, get the vinyl out and pull out the lyrics and read along. This is one of those. Last ones like this were No Code and Binaural. I think those two are transitional albums (I mean Habit, Lukin, Mankind, I'm Open are a string of subpar songs that didn't age well for me while the front side is all aces) while I think Gigaton is actually trying to compete with Yield and Riot Act in terms of being more self-assuredly Pearl Jam while also having that sense of adventure.

The last 3 albums have been "car" albums for me. With Backspacer, I could take a trip to the gas station and go pick up some food from a drive through and by the time I got home I've blasted through 3/4 of the damn album and had a hootenanny of a good time. With Gigaton, I can't exactly do that. 7 oclock or Comes Then Goes comes on and I want to almost stop the car and listen. Or, only when I've got some intentional "thinking time" in the car am I going to really dig into these songs.

This is good stuff, it's all about the setting for me. Man, the Coronavirus era is going to be all about Gigaton. Really specific time and place thing going on here with this one. We are fortunate to have this band. I can bookmark a massive chunk of my life with their albums. This one is gonna "stick" like hell. When I think of the Trump "hangover" and Coronvirus, and wanting to escape into my headphones and disappear into something that helps me make sense of this, it's gonna be Gigaton. Not that I really dig into many full albums anymore, so there's not much competition in that respect. But my trust on this band only continues to be validated....

PHATJ wrote:

Bammer wrote:

spike wrote:

The Argonaut wrote:Here is my abridged Gigaton

lol the arrogance of chud

Does chud still post here?

He doesn’t post anything that matters.

haha

Josh Evans is so good at everything

theplatypus wrote:

spike wrote:

The Argonaut wrote:Here is my abridged Gigaton

lol the arrogance of chud

I don't think that's what Argo was going for, I think he was saying that he didn't like Gigaton

nevertheless

oneway23 wrote: I listen with my ears and my brain only. Anyone else is entitled to do as they see fit.

I listen with my ass

theplatypus wrote:

oneway23 wrote: I listen with my ears and my brain only. Anyone else is entitled to do as they see fit.

I listen with my ass

LMAO

Listening My Ass Off

exactly

theplatypus wrote:

oneway23 wrote: I listen with my ears and my brain only. Anyone else is entitled to do as they see fit.

I listen with my ass

You do you, bubba

Album debuted at number 5. Pretty terrible.

Honestly not bad at all for a rock album in 2020. I guess they probably expected to debut no.1 like Backspacer and Lightning Bolt did but these are different times.

It's the band's twelfth top 5 album (all the studio albums plus the PJ20 comp hit top five). It's only their third album not to debut #1 or #2. The other two being Ten, a notoriously slow starter that only broke into the Billboard top 10 a year after release but eventually peaked at #2, and Riot Act, which also debuted and peaked at #5.

they also did like no promotion for this album, compared with the last two.

feel the retrograde spin us ROUND ROUND ROUUUUUUUUUUUJND

theplatypus wrote:Honestly not bad at all for a rock album in 2020. I guess they probably expected to debut no.1 like Backspacer and Lightning Bolt did but these are different times.

It was number one in loads of countries.

skynyrd99 wrote:feel the retrograde spin us ROUND ROUND ROUUUUUUUUUUUJND

I can feel the dawn, I can feel the earth
I can feel the living
All around, round, round, round
All around, round, round, round

oneway23 wrote:

skynyrd99 wrote:feel the retrograde spin us ROUND ROUND ROUUUUUUUUUUUJND

I can feel the dawn, I can feel the earth
I can feel the living
All around, round, round, round
All around, round, round, round

haha, I always said this song had most in common with SW