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Re: Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread
Posted: Mon October 07, 2013 9:27 pm
by harmless
stupidmop wrote:Im only up to sirens so far, so this is premature, but im gonna say at the very least they should have swapped sirens and ltrp. You know, if they were insisting on keeping them
Re: Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread
Posted: Mon October 07, 2013 9:27 pm
by Iowaska_Experience
Pendulum = Sleight of Hand
Re: Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread
Posted: Mon October 07, 2013 9:27 pm
by darthvedder81
PJ albums always take a while for me to formulate a final opinion but so far I'm pretty negative.
When Sleeping By Myself came on I thought it was generic Spotify streaming commercial jingle music. It's pretty hideous and has no reason being on a full PJ album. Swallowed Whole has no place here either. It's an Ed solo tune and nothing more.
I was surprised how half-baked the whole thing feels. Infallible, Pendulum and Yellow Moon all show promise but they don't seem finished to me (YM comes closest to sounding done).
LB has no character or coherence. It sounds exactly like an album done in two sessions 18 months apart because well...
I like Getaway and Sirens a lot and I don't hate MYM anymore. The rest is just blah. 5 or 6/10. Weakest PJ album.
Re: Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread
Posted: Mon October 07, 2013 9:28 pm
by Jorge
darthvedder81 wrote: Swallowed Whole has no place here either. It's an Ed solo tune and nothing more.
Huh?
Re: Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread
Posted: Mon October 07, 2013 9:28 pm
by skilesare
Loved Infallible. Here goes pendulum!
Re: Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread
Posted: Mon October 07, 2013 9:29 pm
by jtr101
theplatypus wrote:darthvedder81 wrote: Swallowed Whole has no place here either. It's an Ed solo tune and nothing more.
Huh?
I second the Huh? on that one
Re: Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread
Posted: Mon October 07, 2013 9:29 pm
by CupidStunt
theplatypus wrote:darthvedder81 wrote: Swallowed Whole has no place here either. It's an Ed solo tune and nothing more.
Huh?
Yeah, this baffles me. For me it's saving it to an extent.
Re: Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread
Posted: Mon October 07, 2013 9:29 pm
by Hypnos
Can´t listen. I´m really frustrated.
Re: Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread
Posted: Mon October 07, 2013 9:29 pm
by EJ
Yeah, Swallowed Whole is pretty good. Could be a single actually.
Re: Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread
Posted: Mon October 07, 2013 9:30 pm
by Blenheim Augustine
Like SBM on this - never listened much to Uke Songs.
Yellow Moon sounds a little like a b-side from the period between Ten and Vs. I mean that in a nice way.
Also - neither of these is the Vine song. So what the hell was the Vine song? Scott Stapp? B-side? Stray Cats 2019?
Re: Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread
Posted: Mon October 07, 2013 9:30 pm
by skilesare
I can't ever imagine them playing Pendulum live.
Re: Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread
Posted: Mon October 07, 2013 9:30 pm
by McParadigm
darthvedder81 wrote:When Sleeping By Myself came on I thought it was generic Spotify streaming commercial jingle music
Re: Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread
Posted: Mon October 07, 2013 9:30 pm
by Blenheim Augustine
jtr101 wrote:theplatypus wrote:darthvedder81 wrote: Swallowed Whole has no place here either. It's an Ed solo tune and nothing more.
Huh?
I second the Huh? on that one
Aw huh?
Re: Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread
Posted: Mon October 07, 2013 9:30 pm
by darthvedder81
theplatypus wrote:darthvedder81 wrote: Swallowed Whole has no place here either. It's an Ed solo tune and nothing more.
Huh?
What's not to get? It sounds like something from Into the Wild not a Pearl Jam song.
Re: Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread
Posted: Mon October 07, 2013 9:30 pm
by thelurkertoo
pendulum best track (of the unleaked tracks)
Getaway is my favorite on the record.
Re: Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread
Posted: Mon October 07, 2013 9:31 pm
by Jorge
Blenheim Augustine wrote:Like SBM on this - never listened much to Uke Songs.
Yellow Moon sounds a little like a b-side from the period between Ten and Vs. I mean that in a nice way.
Also - neither of these is the Vine song. So what the hell was the Vine song? Scott Stapp? B-side? Stray Cats 2019?
I think SBM is the Vine song.
Re: Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread
Posted: Mon October 07, 2013 9:31 pm
by Juvenal
Jesus fucking Christ Yellow Moon!
Re: Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread
Posted: Mon October 07, 2013 9:31 pm
by mastaflatch
Hypnosomnia wrote:Can´t listen. I´m really frustrated.
Re: Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread
Posted: Mon October 07, 2013 9:31 pm
by LetMeSleep
Getaway
MYM
MFS
Sirens
Infallible
Pendulum
Swallowed Whole
Yellow Moon
These are good songs (MYM at a stretch). Thanks PJ for enough to keep me happy. 5 from session 1 and 3 from session 2.
Re: Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread
Posted: Mon October 07, 2013 9:32 pm
by Strat
Hmm.
Feels like the second half doesnt earn its rightful place on the record. I dont feel the need to come down emotionally by the time we get to near the end of the record...
SBM - Not sure what I heard.
Yellow Moon - Underwhelming on first listen
FD - Why? Why? Why? Fuck you BOB and Eddie for wasting a track on yourselves. If the band isn't playing on the song then its not PJ. The only way this song could have worked is if the emotional ride was tense enough up to that point for a cathartic release. Doesnt happen.
I fucking love everything up through pendelum though.