Lightning Bolt: the official album thread

[Neo]

Sirens still No.1 on the poll?

If it was a poll on RollingStone.com for general audiences and casual fans, Sirens would be No.1 i can bet, but Pearl Jam's die-hard fans voting Sirens as best one in front of all the leaked tracks so far? Strange..

[harmless]

I'm just pissed at the lack of hard songs. Getaway and MYM are not enough. I have hopes for MFS to satisfy me, but even still, I wanted some a couple more harder tracks.

im sure they still have it in them, but they are getting up there in age, they may just start to completely mellow out soon. im excited for the more mid tempo album just to see what they have put together

Ditto...i can do without their two and a half minute rockers at this point. Gimme something with a little more atmosphere and depth.

I don't want 2 and half minute rockers. I want a long 4 minute rocker like Do The Evolution or Life Wasted.

Infallible's gonna be a good mid-tempo rocker.

It MIGHT be. I'm worried it's going to be butchered and neutered with effects and synthesizers to be a weird experimental song instead of a heavy mid tempo rocker.

It will be all of those things, I'm sure. I guess my "heavy" doesn't necessarily mean loud and aggressive. I want something with the downer mood of Riot Act, and some groove. Groove will compensate for volume. That's just me.

[Dr. Van Nostrand]

Hah cut off before the song gets shite

Axe tossing near cars doesnt sound like a good idea.

here you go Dime

[harmless]

Sirens still No.1 on the poll?

If it was a poll on RollingStone.com for general audiences and casual fans, Sirens would be No.1 i can bet, but Pearl Jam's die-hard fans voting Sirens as best one in front of all the leaked tracks so far? Strange..

A lot of people think it's great.

[dimejinky99]

Yeah I've never ordered the albums from 10C as shipping to Canada doesn't seem like worth the wait when I can buy it at the store on release day.

Whereabouts are you?

Saint John, New Brunswick.

There's an island there somewhere, where the natives insist their Irish and all have Waterford accents apparently? They made the papers here last week for something or other

[hlniv]

Let us not forget this

[melonhead4]

Sirens still No.1 on the poll?

If it was a poll on RollingStone.com for general audiences and casual fans, Sirens would be No.1 i can bet, but Pearl Jam's die-hard fans voting Sirens as best one in front of all the leaked tracks so far? Strange..

I voted for Sirens, and i still think its a good song...but SW has been owning me lately.....

[dimejinky99]

Sirens still No.1 on the poll?

If it was a poll on RollingStone.com for general audiences and casual fans, Sirens would be No.1 i can bet, but Pearl Jam's die-hard fans voting Sirens as best one in front of all the leaked tracks so far? Strange..

A lot of people think it's great.

If you we're joe casual and not an active Pj fan but had heard both singles, you'd pick Sirens over MYM

[Thejambi]

This album is going to be great.

[wilkins]

Yeah I've never ordered the albums from 10C as shipping to Canada doesn't seem like worth the wait when I can buy it at the store on release day.

Whereabouts are you?

Saint John, New Brunswick.

A fellow east coaster. Nice.

You're from Hali?

St. John's originally. I've been in Ottawa since 2006.

That's what I thought originally from reading here, but wasn't there someone from Hali too or you went to the Hali show? Maybe I'm just confused.

I so wish I had made it to those SJ's shows after Halifax.

[guitar_davey]

Yeah I've never ordered the albums from 10C as shipping to Canada doesn't seem like worth the wait when I can buy it at the store on release day.

Whereabouts are you?

Saint John, New Brunswick.

There's an island there somewhere, where the natives insist their Irish and all have Waterford accents apparently? They made the papers here last week for something or other

Well, Newfoundland is an island, and there is some pretty heavy Irish lineage, so I presume it's us you're talking about. No idea about what happened in the news though...

[Dr. Van Nostrand]

Sirens still No.1 on the poll?

If it was a poll on RollingStone.com for general audiences and casual fans, Sirens would be No.1 i can bet, but Pearl Jam's die-hard fans voting Sirens as best one in front of all the leaked tracks so far? Strange..

A lot of people think it's great.

i havent voted in the poll, but if folks in the no leak club have then they may only have sirens and MYM to vote for

[guitar_davey]

Yeah I've never ordered the albums from 10C as shipping to Canada doesn't seem like worth the wait when I can buy it at the store on release day.

Whereabouts are you?

Saint John, New Brunswick.

A fellow east coaster. Nice.

You're from Hali?

St. John's originally. I've been in Ottawa since 2006.

That's what I thought originally from reading here, but wasn't there someone from Hali too or you went to the Hali show? Maybe I'm just confused.

I so wish I had made it to those SJ's shows after Halifax.

Nope, although a friend from Halifax skipped that show to come to St. John's for the two shows.

[stupidmop]

I'm hoping infallible is kinda like No Way, cause that's what it reminded me of. On that same note, I was listening to No Way earlier and wondered whether ed could pull of that same measured kinda subtly weird delivery today. I'm thinking no.

[harmless]

Sirens still No.1 on the poll?

If it was a poll on RollingStone.com for general audiences and casual fans, Sirens would be No.1 i can bet, but Pearl Jam's die-hard fans voting Sirens as best one in front of all the leaked tracks so far? Strange..

A lot of people think it's great.

If you we're joe casual and not an active Pj fan but had heard both singles, you'd pick Sirens over MYM

Well, I think that depends. The guitarist of my old band is going to think Sirens sucks, guaranteed. He used to be heavily into PJ but hasn't been interested since Yield. But he wants loud guitars from PJ. So it just depends; some big PJ fans love Sirens, some casual fans do as well. But it's not really to do with your level of fandom.

[harmless]

I'm hoping infallible is kinda like No Way, cause that's what it reminded me of. On that same note, I was listening to No Way earlier and wondered whether ed could pull of that same measured kinda subtly weird delivery today. I'm thinking no.

I kind of don't think he has any reason to make anything "weird" today. Which makes me very intrigued about what the apparently "weird" tracks on this album will sound like vocally.

[guitar_davey]

I predict this leaks on page 1182 of this thread.

[dimejinky99]

Hah cut off before the song gets shite

Axe tossing near cars doesnt sound like a good idea.

here you go Dime

Thanks fella:)

[Coach]

I think songs like Mind Your Manners, Gonna See My Friend "rock." And those are recent tunes.

[guitar_davey]

I think songs like Mind Your Manners, Gonna See My Friend "rock." And those are recent tunes.

You like GSMF Coach? Seems to get a lot of flak amongst the newer PJ rockers, but I loved it the moment I hit play on BS. If I had a gripe with it, it's that the detuned live versions don't have the same weight as the studio version. Lowering things a half step really changes the feel of the song to me (although I understand why they do it).