Red Mosquito

Just go with it fuckface. I was proud of the work we were all doing together here.

Dammit. I just top paged myself unintentionally.

Bammer is a hot mess

some great efforts on the previous page

i will never look at my muffin pan the same way again

tragabigzanda wrote:

Bammer wrote:Just go with it fuckface. I was proud of the work we were all doing together here.

take it to the "I couldn't get my Wii to work" thread

Or the "I'm listening to Twenty One Pilots" thread

Trag you read my mind.

I was honestly about to post “it’s good to have options”

Huge Pearl Jam day for me...Listened to Gigaton, watched Touring Band while i clean my apartment and some videos from the 2005 tour i have.

Now, its Water On The Road.

I'm thinking with only a day left til i get my hands on the album there's still a chance I'll get kamikaze on someone whether it be online or on the street.

reconstruction_ seeds wrote:I'm thinking with only a day left til i get my hands on the album there's still a chance I'll get kamikaze on someone whether it be online or on the street.

bill gates is giving me stone vibes on this cnn coronavirus town hall thing

jeff = paul allen
ed = steve ballmer
matt = steve jobs
mike = "dude you're getting a dell" guy

rateyourmusic has such bad taste in pearl jam

Pearl Jam hasn’t released an album in over 12 hours. Can someone wake them up - we need new music already!

"Gigaton" word popularity on Google. You can see the week that the album was released, and now it's really taking off.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=gigaton

If we are to break this down by the level of interest per country, it looks like PJ really owes a concert to Serbia. As you cycle through the level of interest per country, the whole list just reads like a PJ tour stop, which gave me a chuckle.

For the US interest per state list, 3 of the bottom 5 were southern states. No wonder they never play the south anymore.

tragabigzanda wrote:What's the spike on "Gigatron" since the Simmons podcast?

it actually went down last week. the biggest spike was in November 2019. this just disproves how big of an effect Bill Simmons thinks he has on pop culture.

So I listened to Lightning Bolt today on my run since I have been mostly immersed in Gigaton since it came out.

I still don’t think it is a bad album at all - in fact it is mostly good, but brought down by a few poor decisions that separates it in a bad way from an album like Gigaton (which actually has a similar flow but it just crafted WAY better and sounds WAY better).

The top bad decision is the polished production which leaves the songs without the same life - they all would have sounded much better with a more natural sounding dynamic or by just altering something about the sound. The songs themselves are mostly pretty good.

On the songs, a few different touches and this album at least passes Backspacer. Sirens kills the momentum of the album pretty early on. It’s production, and frankly Eddie Vedder, turn a strong instrumental into a cheese fest. Roger Waters should have had a guest writing credit here somewhere and helped Vedder with this tune. The place he’s coming from is right on - a sort of existential fear - but the lyrics and vocal delivery comes across as a half baked Come Back when this should have been more like a Nothing As It Seems.

Lightning Bolt the song needs to get rid of the fade out and include the end jam on the live version and it’s good to go.

Infallible needs to be redone - cheesing our the chorus and dulling the musical input of the rest of the band there ruins what is such a promising song in the vein of a Tremor Christ.

The list goes on but basically it comes down to looking at a record where there’s a ton of good ideas and potential going on, but on too many of the songs someone made a poor decision and took the song in the wrong direction.

With an album like Gigaton, im not even interesting on thinking about LB.

Besides Gigaton i have been listening to a lot of PJ, boots, some side projects, Ed´s solo dvd...but LB nope. No.