Lightning Bolt: the official album thread

[harmless]

It was nice to see them using a disabled person in the video. Rock music doesn't usually portray us very well.

Us? So you mean, there are disabled people posting here? Maybe coloured people as well? Women?

groetjes,
Mirella

Well, there's me, so yeah.

I know, it was just funny to emphasize, I thought.

groetjes,
Mirella

Why?

[Jorge]

What a weird turn for this thread to take.

[evenslow]

What a weird turn for this thread to take.

Yeah the first 1069 pages were quite normal.

[ABNorman]

The bit where they're "head-banging" to Getaway in the car was pretty bad. I'd understand if it was something like Blood, but come on.

Yeah this statement is unnecessarily killjoy.

Thank you somebody for saying this. The guy is excited about a new record and he gets nitpicked for it on here. Fucking unreal.

I don't think I ever said I wasn't excited about the new record. I can't wait. I just had a temporary "dancing dad" feeling about this bit. I'm not actually insulting Ed, more the whole concept of the "rocking out in the car" scene. It was a directorial choice I didn't like much. Ed doesn't need defending from this.

You ever see the iconoclasts episode with ed in? Entire thing is unintentionally hilarious. There's a bit with ed and the dude listening to big wave I think in the car.

I haven't seen it but I can imagine. It's just another example of the dumbing down. They wouldn't have done that in an EPK for any album between No Code and Riot Act.

But that's only because they were ever so fearful of seeming to have fun back in those days.

[harmless]

What a weird turn for this thread to take.

Would you rather I'd turned right rather than left?

[stupidmop]

The first clip we hear, what is that? FD? Could it be yellow moon?

Wait was it nothing? They don't mention it at the end. Hmmm

[harmless]

The bit where they're "head-banging" to Getaway in the car was pretty bad. I'd understand if it was something like Blood, but come on.

Yeah this statement is unnecessarily killjoy.

Thank you somebody for saying this. The guy is excited about a new record and he gets nitpicked for it on here. Fucking unreal.

I don't think I ever said I wasn't excited about the new record. I can't wait. I just had a temporary "dancing dad" feeling about this bit. I'm not actually insulting Ed, more the whole concept of the "rocking out in the car" scene. It was a directorial choice I didn't like much. Ed doesn't need defending from this.

You ever see the iconoclasts episode with ed in? Entire thing is unintentionally hilarious. There's a bit with ed and the dude listening to big wave I think in the car.

I haven't seen it but I can imagine. It's just another example of the dumbing down. They wouldn't have done that in an EPK for any album between No Code and Riot Act.

But that's only because they were ever so fearful of seeming to have fun back in those days.

I don't believe that, they had a lot of obvious fun. It just wasn't cringe-worthy to watch.

[Mirella]

As above, I'm not insulting Ed's choice to bob his head to the song. It is indeed head-bob-worthy.

I like the words and expressions in this thread a lot:

• Head-Bob- worthy
  hook
  bridge
  cheesy
  or something else

groetjes,
Mirella

[B]

Fucking Ed. Ruined the whole god damned album.

[E.H. Ruddock]

It was nice to see them using a ENABLED person in the video. Rock music doesn't usually portray us very well.

Fixed....

[E.H. Ruddock]

When did harmless sour on the new album?

[Mirella]

It was nice to see them using a disabled person in the video. Rock music doesn't usually portray us very well.

Us? So you mean, there are disabled people posting here? Maybe coloured people as well? Women?

groetjes,
Mirella

Well, there's me, so yeah.

I know, it was just funny to emphasize, I thought.

groetjes,
Mirella

Why?

Because I was just wondering about what kind of people were posting here, because most people are 'just' their nickname and what they write, and their avatar, unless they are friends in real life as well so you know more. Then something like this video suddenly makes it personal. And since this was about disabled (for lack of another word) people and how they are usually (not) portraited, my initial reaction was to respond in jest. Which is less fun if it has to be explained, of course. But I smiled .

groetjes,
Mirella

[scrub12]

They're doing a good job of keeping everyone interested with something new every week. It makes the wait so much easier.

Having never heard the mini leak from a while back, Getaway sounded great.

[evenslow]

They're doing a good job of keeping everyone interested with something new every week. It makes the wait so much easier.

Three months ago everyone thought they were going to fuck this up royally but it's been about as good of a rollout for an album as I've ever seen, considering they had 3 months to fill.

[Hypnos]

The first clip we hear, what is that? FD? Could it be yellow moon?

Wait was it nothing? They don't mention it at the end. Hmmm

The guitar part? I think is Sirens.

[B]

It was nice to see them using a ENABLED person in the video. Rock music doesn't usually portray us very well.

Fixed....

That enabled guy brought the NO Saints back from ruin.

[harmless]

It was nice to see them using a disabled person in the video. Rock music doesn't usually portray us very well.

Us? So you mean, there are disabled people posting here? Maybe coloured people as well? Women?

groetjes,
Mirella

Well, there's me, so yeah.

I know, it was just funny to emphasize, I thought.

groetjes,
Mirella

Why?

Because I was just wondering about what kind of people were posting here, because most people are 'just' their nickname and what they write, and their avatar, unless they are friends in real life as well so you know more. Then something like this video suddenly makes it personal. And since this was about disabled (for lack of another word) people and how they are usually (not) portraited, my initial reaction was to respond in jest. Which is less fun if it has to be explained, of course. But I smiled .

groetjes,
Mirella

OK, yeah, and I'm sorry if my reply seemed rude. It's just, you know, watch for how often disabled people are employed to interview famous bands (or anyone) on your TV screens. It's unfortunately a rarity. And if they are on TV, you can usually guarantee that a lot of attention will be paid to their disability. Not here, which I thought was good.

[B]

They could have at least had the decency to use clips from songs that haven't already leaked.

[Strat]

They're doing a good job of keeping everyone interested with something new every week. It makes the wait so much easier.

Three months ago everyone thought they were going to fuck this up royally but it's been about as good of a rollout for an album as I've ever seen, considering they had 3 months to fill.

Yea im riding first class on the PJ train lately

I was worried there for about 6 months or so....

[gems and rhinestones]

That was a waste of time really. They cut away from everything one second after another and then we hear a question asked but either no answer or just a cut up few words of the answer. I get it was a teaser type thing but honestly I got as much out of the press photos for the album as I did this.