Red Mosquito

RockPusher wrote:I’m really starting to feel the Yield comparisons more and more. This album is such a great one to spend meditative time with.

I wish I could find something about it to meditate on. Lyrics aren't enough, in the end theyre just someone's words and opinions. Lyrics that arent quality can ruin an album though. To me, Gigaton has become like a very good nursery rhyme leather-bound hardback with fantastic cover art . It's very catchy from cover to cover but after a week you already know what's in it . it doesn't matter if Ed takes an unexpected vocal detour on a bridge or verse occasionally, the instrumentation is nearly absent. They left the guitars at home.

r_s, the way you are saying this same thing over and over again in multiple threads is starting to look a lot like trolling.

he's not wrong in that this is their least guitar-centric album of all. By a lot. What surprises me is that I don't care. REM is just right behind Pearl Jam for my favorite band, and Mark Lanegan and Tom Waits behind them. So I do have lots of non-guitar heavy artists in my personal canon. But it is surprising and refreshing to see pearl jam pull it off, especially when there had not really been any prior overtures of any significance in this direction

reconstruction_ seeds wrote:

RockPusher wrote:I’m really starting to feel the Yield comparisons more and more. This album is such a great one to spend meditative time with.

I wish I could find something about it to meditate on. Lyrics aren't enough, in the end theyre just someone's words and opinions. Lyrics that arent quality can ruin an album though. To me, Gigaton has become like a very good nursery rhyme leather-bound hardback with fantastic cover art . It's very catchy from cover to cover but after a week you already know what's in it . it doesn't matter if Ed takes an unexpected vocal detour on a bridge or verse occasionally, the instrumentation is nearly absent. They left the guitars at home.

this is getting tiring

reconstruction_ seeds wrote:

RockPusher wrote:I’m really starting to feel the Yield comparisons more and more. This album is such a great one to spend meditative time with.

I wish I could find something about it to meditate on. Lyrics aren't enough, in the end theyre just someone's words and opinions. Lyrics that arent quality can ruin an album though. To me, Gigaton has become like a very good nursery rhyme leather-bound hardback with fantastic cover art . It's very catchy from cover to cover but after a week you already know what's in it . it doesn't matter if Ed takes an unexpected vocal detour on a bridge or verse occasionally, the instrumentation is nearly absent. They left the guitars at home.

Do you like jazz?

RockPusher wrote:r_s, the way you are saying this same thing over and over again in multiple threads is starting to look a lot like trolling.

That's what I said in the other thread. Nobody believed me. Well, J did, but no one else did.

stip wrote:he's not wrong in that this is their least guitar-centric album of all. By a lot.

I have a hard time really knowing what that means. To me, this album is still "guitar rock."

RockPusher wrote:

stip wrote:he's not wrong in that this is their least guitar-centric album of all. By a lot.

I have a hard time really knowing what that means. To me, this album is still "guitar rock."

this album has more guitar than Lightning Bolt did; it just includes clean and acoustic, and is perhaps lighter on the distortion than I'd prefer

every song on Lightning Bolt has a guitar as its centerpiece. Keyboards are far more prominent on this album than any other.

RockPusher wrote:

stip wrote:he's not wrong in that this is their least guitar-centric album of all. By a lot.

I have a hard time really knowing what that means. To me, this album is still "guitar rock."

I mean of course it is - I just mean compared to any other pj album

stip wrote:every song on Lightning Bolt has a guitar as its centerpiece. Keyboards are far more prominent on this album than any other.

Infallible, Pendulum and Future Days are all pretty guitar-sparse, if memory serves.

I like that this album uses guitar as texture instead of foregone conclusion

RockPusher wrote:

stip wrote:every song on Lightning Bolt has a guitar as its centerpiece. Keyboards are far more prominent on this album than any other.

Infallible, Pendulum and Future Days are all pretty guitar-sparse, if memory serves.

and then there's SBM, which retains ukulele except for an electric lead iirc?

Ms Harmless wrote:

RockPusher wrote:

stip wrote:every song on Lightning Bolt has a guitar as its centerpiece. Keyboards are far more prominent on this album than any other.

Infallible, Pendulum and Future Days are all pretty guitar-sparse, if memory serves.

and then there's SBM, which retains ukulele except for an electric lead iirc?

Heh- almost mentioned that one

"They left the guitars at home" is such an utterly bizarre take on this album

i actually dont know the primary instrumentation in infallible and pendulum- i think pendulum is a guitar. Future Days is an acoustic guitar number. its the primary instrument. there is some background piano and strings

Kevin Davis wrote:

reconstruction_ seeds wrote:

RockPusher wrote:I’m really starting to feel the Yield comparisons more and more. This album is such a great one to spend meditative time with.

I wish I could find something about it to meditate on. Lyrics aren't enough, in the end theyre just someone's words and opinions. Lyrics that arent quality can ruin an album though. To me, Gigaton has become like a very good nursery rhyme leather-bound hardback with fantastic cover art . It's very catchy from cover to cover but after a week you already know what's in it . it doesn't matter if Ed takes an unexpected vocal detour on a bridge or verse occasionally, the instrumentation is nearly absent. They left the guitars at home.

Do you like jazz?

I used to. I think i could get into it again.

Ms Harmless wrote:

RockPusher wrote:

stip wrote:every song on Lightning Bolt has a guitar as its centerpiece. Keyboards are far more prominent on this album than any other.

Infallible, Pendulum and Future Days are all pretty guitar-sparse, if memory serves.

and then there's SBM, which retains ukulele except for an electric lead iirc?

There's a uke on SBM but it's mostly guitars

Ms Harmless wrote:

RockPusher wrote:

stip wrote:every song on Lightning Bolt has a guitar as its centerpiece. Keyboards are far more prominent on this album than any other.

Infallible, Pendulum and Future Days are all pretty guitar-sparse, if memory serves.

and then there's SBM, which retains ukulele except for an electric lead iirc?

no - the uke is there but so are two other guitar lines

theplatypus wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:

RockPusher wrote:

stip wrote:every song on Lightning Bolt has a guitar as its centerpiece. Keyboards are far more prominent on this album than any other.

Infallible, Pendulum and Future Days are all pretty guitar-sparse, if memory serves.

and then there's SBM, which retains ukulele except for an electric lead iirc?

There's a uke on SBM but it's mostly guitars

I stand corrected