Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread

[harmless]

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.

I don't hear it...

https://v.cdn.vine.co/v/videos/659809C9 ... X7Czo4f.c6

Yeah I don't think it is either. The Vine clip has drums in it.

[Juvenal]

Bored of Future Days. Christ almighty I'm falling asleep

it's fucking terrible. absolutely no real redeemable qualities. it will suck the life out of any live show, as it did at Wrigley.

Compared to Yellow Moon, it's a retarded ginger step child.

[solace]

Bored of Future Days. Christ almighty I'm falling asleep

it's fucking terrible. absolutely no real redeemable qualities. it will suck the life out of any live show, as it did at Wrigley.

Compared to Yellow Moon, it's a retarded ginger step child.

[Walker Bait]

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 was thinking this too!!

[Mike]

I love that the guitars are so much clearer than in the leak. Getaway sounds good.

[harmless]

HAHA I JUST NEEDED TO UPDATE ITUNES

There are too many damn threads. BRB.

[LetMeSleep]

To think: instead of SBM or FD we could have had Of The Earth

Yes. Yellow Moon into Of The Earth and done. Long instrumental jam to end too.

[McParadigm]

To think: instead of SBM or FD we could have had Of The Earth

Yes. Yellow Moon into Of The Earth and done. Long instrumental jam to end too.

I'd kill LTRP a thousand times before SBM or FD.

[Mike]

I love Getaway even more now.

[Jorge]

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.

I don't hear it...

https://v.cdn.vine.co/v/videos/659809C9 ... X7Czo4f.c6

Yeah I don't think it is either. The Vine clip has drums in it.

Yeah, that's not it. Hmm.

[skilesare]

Of all days to be working until 11:30pm AST...dammit. Is there an iPhone link??

Same link...works on my iphone. open it from safari and it opens in itunes.

[LetMeSleep]

To think: instead of SBM or FD we could have had Of The Earth

Yes. Yellow Moon into Of The Earth and done. Long instrumental jam to end too.

I'd kill LTRP a thousand times before SBM or FD.

Absolutely. I like the idea of killing those 3 though. Well at least for the album. First 8 tracks are strong (LB excluded) and then a weak final 4 (YM excepted)

[PJMosquito]

Pendulum is incredible. Might be the best track on here, hell, the best PJ track in over three albums. To think, it was recorded for Backspacer

[darth_vedder]

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.

I don't hear it...

https://v.cdn.vine.co/v/videos/659809C9 ... X7Czo4f.c6

Yeah I don't think it is either. The Vine clip has drums in it.

Yeah, that's not it. Hmm.

Hmm is right. What the hell song is that? That guitar sounds fantastic but I'm not hearing it anywhere on this album.

[Monkey_Driven]

Entertainment Weekly's Review:
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20742772,00.html

It can be painfully obvious that Pearl Jam's got a surfer dad as head guru in charge. Three-quarters through their muscular and tender 10th album, Eddie Vedder, now 48, jumps on the itchy, pretty ''Swallowed Whole'' like a man fresh from a vision quest: ''Whisper songs inside the wind/Breathing in forgiveness/Like vibrations with no end/Feel the planet humming.'' Why shouldn't the earth move for a guy who, since the release of PJ's last album, married the mother of his two kids and saw his crew celebrated with the Cameron Crowe doc Pearl Jam Twenty?

In fact, the band has thrived this long by heeding an oceanlike motion, shifting with crack assurance from choppy and punky to swelling and gorgeous, as if an enigmatic wind stirs it all up. Lightning Bolt hurls down a new, if unsurprising, preoccupation: mortality. Vedder wonders whether the bell tolls for him on the otherwise easygoing ''Sirens,'' a piano-plunking ballad to rank with their classics, and human life itself seems to be ''tempting fate'' on the album's knotty, lovely centerpiece, ''Infallible.'' That song is what every heal-the-world rock anthem should want to be when it grows up: profound enough not to pretend there's a solution — or that life doesn't go on. B+

[harmless]

I think that the most farcical thing about FD is the thickly layered vocal harmonies. In the second (?) chorus, Ed is wailing a high harmony in the background, in the same way you'd wail an ad-lib, which is pointless. Otherwise, the song is nice enough.

[Thurman Murman]

To think: instead of SBM or FD we could have had Of The Earth

Yes. Yellow Moon into Of The Earth and done. Long instrumental jam to end too.

Yeah i'd take that!

[Blenheim Augustine]

Like most of what I heard, but is this the least coherent PJ album ever? The songs don't seem to belong together.

And - LTRP WTF? Shitstorm.

[Hypnos]

Is nobody going to rip this thing?!!! Please, I´m dying here.

[Iowaska_Experience]

The solo on YM is a bit jarring, but I like the song a lot overall, after one listen. First listen of Pendulum, not so much. Not really fond of the extraneous vocal stuff Ed was doing at the end.