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Re: Predict where Lightning Bolt will rank on RM
Posted: Thu September 26, 2013 8:01 pm
by nyquillyn
My personal PJ ranking: Last
My overall ranking: Below my 7" single of Rick Dees' Disco Duck, but above the copy of Mariah Carey's Music Box that I never returned to Columbia House on one of those "12 CDs for a Penny" deals.
RM ranking: Last
Re: Predict where Lightning Bolt will rank on RM
Posted: Thu September 26, 2013 8:32 pm
by bada
Don't see it beating the 90's stuff but I'm hoping for best of the 00's. High hopes. So 6. Maybe 5.
Re: Predict where Lightning Bolt will rank on RM
Posted: Thu September 26, 2013 8:33 pm
by Norah
bada wrote:Don't see it beating the 90's stuff but I'm hoping for best of the 00's. High hopes.
First, we're in a third decade of PJ music now. Second, no way modern Pearl Jam puts out another album as good as Binaural or Riot Act.
Re: Predict where Lightning Bolt will rank on RM
Posted: Thu September 26, 2013 8:35 pm
by harmless
bada wrote:Don't see it beating the 90's stuff but I'm hoping for best of the 00's. High hopes. So 6. Maybe 5.
"With great power comes great responsibility." -- Eddie Vedder
Re: Predict where Lightning Bolt will rank on RM
Posted: Thu September 26, 2013 8:40 pm
by BurtReynolds
this album will cement their place atop the biggest rock bands in the world today!
Re: Predict where Lightning Bolt will rank on RM
Posted: Thu September 26, 2013 8:51 pm
by bada
cutuphalfdead wrote:bada wrote:Don't see it beating the 90's stuff but I'm hoping for best of the 00's. High hopes.
First, we're in a third decade of PJ music now. Second, no way modern Pearl Jam puts out another album as good as Binaural or Riot Act.
Fine I don't see it beating anything from the 20th Century but it may be my favorite from the 21st century. For some reason I thought Binaural came out in '99. It prob wont beat Binaural.
Re: Predict where Lightning Bolt will rank on RM
Posted: Thu September 26, 2013 9:18 pm
by chewm
ill expect it to beat the last 2 albums in RM ranking, but definetey not anything else.
In mine i dont know, somewhere between 6 and 9, it constantly changes.
Re: Predict where Lightning Bolt will rank on RM
Posted: Thu September 26, 2013 9:32 pm
by stip
cutuphalfdead wrote:bada wrote:Don't see it beating the 90's stuff but I'm hoping for best of the 00's. High hopes.
First, we're in a third decade of PJ music now. Second, no way modern Pearl Jam puts out another album as good as Binaural or Riot Act.
to do that all they have to do is release another record.
Re: Predict where Lightning Bolt will rank on RM
Posted: Thu September 26, 2013 9:42 pm
by Jorge
Farmer John wrote:Third from the bottom sounds about right to me.
Re: Predict where Lightning Bolt will rank on RM
Posted: Thu September 26, 2013 9:43 pm
by Heathen
Probably tied with Backspacer in second to last position, light years from the rest.
Re: Predict where Lightning Bolt will rank on RM
Posted: Thu September 26, 2013 10:06 pm
by Mike
I have a hypothesis about the quality of Pearl Jam's albums. It's a wave. A sine wave. It started strong, peaked with Vitalogy and No Code and then dropped a little bit with each album but always remained on the strong side. The long wait for Avocado caused the huge step in the wave and the quality is now on the negative side. Lightning Bolt, our album number 10, is the first entry in a row of albums that will rise in quality with each new album. Eddie planned this all along. At the end of their career (Probably album 13) he will surf the wave and jump of it into heaven. A human being that was given to fly.
Re: Predict where Lightning Bolt will rank on RM
Posted: Thu September 26, 2013 10:10 pm
by Mike
Or maybe he will surf the universe next.
Re: Predict where Lightning Bolt will rank on RM
Posted: Thu September 26, 2013 10:10 pm
by hlniv
Mike wrote:I have a hypothesis about the quality of Pearl Jam's albums. It's a wave. A sine wave. It started strong, peaked with Vitalogy and No Code and then dropped a little bit with each album but always remained on the strong side. The long wait for Avocado caused the huge step in the wave and the quality is now on the negative side. Lightning Bolt, our album number 10, is the first entry in a row of albums that will rise in quality with each new album. Eddie planned this all along. At the end of their career (Probably album 13) he will surf the wave and jump of it into heaven. A human being that was given to fly.
Very nice. Seems to fit actually
He's been planning it since he surfed his first wave. Yep.
While the theory is sound, did a 2 year old annotate that sine wave?
Re: Predict where Lightning Bolt will rank on RM
Posted: Thu September 26, 2013 10:11 pm
by Mike
hlniv wrote:Mike wrote:I have a hypothesis about the quality of Pearl Jam's albums. It's a wave. A sine wave. It started strong, peaked with Vitalogy and No Code and then dropped a little bit with each album but always remained on the strong side. The long wait for Avocado caused the huge step in the wave and the quality is now on the negative side. Lightning Bolt, our album number 10, is the first entry in a row of albums that will rise in quality with each new album. Eddie planned this all along. At the end of their career (Probably album 13) he will surf the wave and jump of it into heaven. A human being that was given to fly.
Very nice. Seems to fit actually
He's been planning it since he surfed his first wave. Yep.
While the theory is sound, did a 2 year old annotate that sine wave?
I was lazy and did it with paint and a mouse. Problem with my beautiful mouse writing?
Re: Predict where Lightning Bolt will rank on RM
Posted: Thu September 26, 2013 10:11 pm
by harmless
Album #11 - return to form. The jocks and the hipsters will be equally as interested.
Re: Predict where Lightning Bolt will rank on RM
Posted: Thu September 26, 2013 10:12 pm
by hlniv
Tuolumne wrote:One question (not sure if this has been discussed before): Why do we not include Lost Dogs in these things? It's a frickin double album of original studio material. It may technically be a "compilation" and some of the songs appear in some rare places, but it is an absolutely essential piece in understanding their creative output. And if considered, it would make it pretty far into people's reanking. I think TSIS and RM need to reassess this, as well as the general fan community. They have 10 albums prior to Lightning Bolt, not 9, as far as I'm concerned.
Good idea
Once Lightning Bolt is released and absorbed, we need a new consensus thread for Lost Dogs and LB.
Put it on the thread posting calendar for 12/1/13.
Re: Predict where Lightning Bolt will rank on RM
Posted: Thu September 26, 2013 10:12 pm
by WtOB?
this thread should just be called "how well will lightning bolt hold up against avocado?"
Re: Predict where Lightning Bolt will rank on RM
Posted: Thu September 26, 2013 10:14 pm
by harmless
Re: Predict where Lightning Bolt will rank on RM
Posted: Thu September 26, 2013 10:14 pm
by hlniv
Mike wrote:hlniv wrote:Mike wrote:I have a hypothesis about the quality of Pearl Jam's albums. It's a wave. A sine wave. It started strong, peaked with Vitalogy and No Code and then dropped a little bit with each album but always remained on the strong side. The long wait for Avocado caused the huge step in the wave and the quality is now on the negative side. Lightning Bolt, our album number 10, is the first entry in a row of albums that will rise in quality with each new album. Eddie planned this all along. At the end of their career (Probably album 13) he will surf the wave and jump of it into heaven. A human being that was given to fly.
Very nice. Seems to fit actually
He's been planning it since he surfed his first wave. Yep.
While the theory is sound, did a 2 year old annotate that sine wave?
I was lazy and did it with paint and a mouse. Problem with my beautiful mouse writing?
Oh, yes, you're right. It does look like it was written by the hand of a little rodent.
Really, I'm impressed. It's a special type of brain to turn numbers and opinions into a geometric pattern. And it does seem like LIghtning Bolt is going to follow the curve up.
Oh, and it does provide full explanation for why Backspacer is clearly the bottom of the PJ album barrel. No further explanation needed. The cause has been uncovered.
Re: Predict where Lightning Bolt will rank on RM
Posted: Thu September 26, 2013 10:15 pm
by tommymtcom
Probably 8th - above Backspacer and Avacado. Depending on how the rest of the songs go it could move to 7th ahead of Vs.