Dark Matter: Official Album Thread

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Rank Dark Matter

5 Stars
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56%
4 Stars
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31%
3 Stars
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9%
2 Stars
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1%
2 Star
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0%
%#*! Andrew Watt
5
2%
 
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Hypnosomnia wrote:The scans from MOJO:

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DDWJMUVW wrote:Hey

This seems to be a MUCH higher quality clip of Running.

It's sounds great though my Sonos FIVE speakers in stereo.

https://darkmatter.pearljam.com/audio/0315.mp3
it's definitely higher quality
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Strat wrote:This mojo article is mostly rehashing their history so far. Thanks Fricke! Never heard any of this before!

One new tidbit from Ament/Ed about the first couple rehearsals though
Pearl Jam is only good from 1991-1994 and the year of the most current album
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"We could become one last setting sun/Or be the sun at the break of dawn/let us not fade"

Classic Ved. I like that.
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pearl jam sucks now
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There is so fucking little in that article about the new record. Geezes christ. Its like a worse version of PJ20.
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the UK doesn't really care about PJ beyond a legacy band
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Ms Harmless wrote:the UK doesn't really care about PJ beyond a legacy band
Yea but i think it was written by David Fricke
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ah OK
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Strat wrote:This mojo article is mostly rehashing their history so far. Thanks Fricke! Never heard any of this before!

One new tidbit from Ament/Ed about the first couple rehearsals though
its the right kind of story if the goal is to (re) introduce people to the band, though an odd cd accompianment if that was the goal

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Ms Harmless wrote:
DDWJMUVW wrote:Hey

This seems to be a MUCH higher quality clip of Running.

It's sounds great though my Sonos FIVE speakers in stereo.

https://darkmatter.pearljam.com/audio/0315.mp3
it's definitely higher quality
I tried updating the URL to several other numbers to see if there are any other clips not published yet but no dice.
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I stopped reading it once I saw the "2 star" Binaural review.
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Ms Harmless wrote:
DDWJMUVW wrote:Hey

This seems to be a MUCH higher quality clip of Running.

It's sounds great though my Sonos FIVE speakers in stereo.

https://darkmatter.pearljam.com/audio/0315.mp3
it's definitely higher quality
it is


its not the kind of chorus Id expect in a 2 minute song. I really like what im hearing, especially in the context of the mid/late album cool down space
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Monkey_Driven wrote:I stopped reading it once I saw the "2 star" Binaural review.
Same. But then I continued once I saw 5 stars for No Code.
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were you reading backwards?
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5 star no code and 2 star binaural is an interesting split

my big wtf was 3 stars for vs
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stip wrote:were you reading backwards?
Shut up!
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stip wrote:my big wtf was 3 stars for vs
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stip wrote:
Ms Harmless wrote:
DDWJMUVW wrote:Hey

This seems to be a MUCH higher quality clip of Running.

It's sounds great though my Sonos FIVE speakers in stereo.

https://darkmatter.pearljam.com/audio/0315.mp3
it's definitely higher quality
it is


its not the kind of chorus Id expect in a 2 minute song. I really like what im hearing, especially in the context of the mid/late album cool down space
me too, I think I'll be really happy with this one
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if this album fails in any area, I don't think it'll be melody
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