PRAMG Top 10

[stip]

I think Backspacer and Lightning Bolt are equally as terrible as each other (please restrain yourself, Jorge). It's not even that they're "bad" (though they are, in their own way), it's more that the band's strongest qualities are almost totally absent. I don't have any particular insight into their writing process but the songs feel very "constructed", which I suspect is partly why they're all so flat when performed live. I can't imagine any human beings standing in a room and writing songs like Got Some or Getaway or Can't Deny Me with other real, live human beings. They feel like riffs or rough ideas which were built up in the studio into something resembling "rock music", there's no genuine propulsion or spit or fire in not only the performances, but the actual writing and arrangement, particularly in comparison to relatively recent material like Comatose, Life Wasted, Big Wave, etc.

fair enough, and there are definitely some songs on Lightning Bolt that feel constructed in the way you're describing (Pendulum and Infallible come to mind, though I quite like both of those).

I don't care for the production on Infallible but it's one of the songs on LB I think is least suggestive of what I’m talking about, it has an internal logic and flow that feels quite genuine.

Constructed, at least to me, is neither good nor bad, it's just an approach. There is something calculated and deliberate about Infallible (a song I quite like) that I can't imagine coming out of a '5 guys playing in a room' session, whereas I can easily imagine Mind Your Manners being banged out together

[darth_vedder]

true story, i haven't listened to any LB song (on the album) in nearly 4 years.

[Monkey_Driven]

true story, i haven't listened to any LB song (on the album) in nearly 4 years.

Do you want a sticker?

[Anders]

Got Some
Johnny Guitar
Army Reserve
Infallible
Swallowed Whole
Cold Confession
Force Of Nature
Marker In The Sand
Parachutes
Yellow Moon

[B]

Is it time for RVM2: The PRAMG Years?
Here are official singles and a couple more riffraff. How would you order it?

Life Wasted
World Wide Suicide
Gone
Love Reign O'er Me
The Fixer
Just Breathe
Amongst the Waves
Ole
Mind Your Manners
Sirens
Lightning Bolt
Can't Deny Me
Dance of the Clairvoyants
Superblood Wolfmoon
Quick Escape
Retrograde
Get It Back

Acoustic #1
Chinese
Again Today

[Birds in Hell]

Hmm, I'll give it a crack:

Life Wasted
World Wide Suicide
Gone
Love Reign O'er Me
The Fixer
Just Breathe
Amongst the Waves
Ole
Mind Your Manners
Sirens
Lightning Bolt
Can't Deny Me
Dance of the Clairvoyants
Superblood Wolfmoon
Quick Escape
Retrograde
Get It Back

Acoustic #1
Chinese
Again Today

[JuanHamm]

Not in order

Army reserve
Got some
Whoever said
Superblood wolfmoon
Dotc
Quick Escape
Get it back
Alright
Take the long way
River cross

[Got Some]

Life Wasted
Comatose
Marker
Got Some
Just Breathe
Pendulum
Lightning Bolt
Who Ever Said
DOTC
Quick Escape

[super nintendo chalmers]

I'm still salty after attending the pop-up store release for LB. Waited for hours in line with herbs (takes one to know one) to get that crappy record.

That tour, Barclays and Hartford were the last shows I attended. I had fun at both, but I don't think I'll ever go see them again.

[Bi_3]

In no order:

Unemployable
Army Reserve
Unthought Known
Force of Nature
Pendulum
Swallowed Hole
Yellow Moon
Quick Escape
River Cross

[B]

Hmm, I'll give it a crack:

Life Wasted
World Wide Suicide
Gone
Love Reign O'er Me
The Fixer
Just Breathe
Amongst the Waves
Ole
Mind Your Manners
Sirens
Lightning Bolt
Can't Deny Me
Dance of the Clairvoyants
Superblood Wolfmoon
Quick Escape
Retrograde
Get It Back

Acoustic #1
Chinese
Again Today

Hey! You have to follow the rules. This is PRAMG, and you're not going to make any money with that attitude!

[bodysnatcher]

What a horrific list of songs

[Bi_3]

What a horrific list of songs

Is the list horrific or are the songs horrific?

[Thurman Murman]

What a horrific list of songs

Is the list horrific or are the songs horrific?

I assume the songs...

[Thurman Murman]

1. Dance of the Clairvoyants
2. Man of the Hour
3. Cold Confession
4. Love, Reign O'er Me
5. Seven O'Clock
6. Comes Then Goes
7. Severed Hand
8. Who Ever Said
9. The End
10. Sirens

[Bi_3]

1. Dance of the Clairvoyants
2. Man of the Hour
3. Cold Confession
4. Love, Reign O'er Me
5. Seven O'Clock
6. Comes Then Goes
7. Severed Hand
8. Who Ever Said
9. The End
10. Sirens

Clearly you gave up on satisfaction.

[tragabigzanda]

pearl jam sucks now

[Birds in Hell]

Something like:

Life Wasted
Comatose
Unemployable
Big Wave
Let It Ride
Johnny Guitar
Speed of Sound
My Father's Son
Dance of the Clairvoyants
Get It Back

[epilogue]

Something like:

Life Wasted
Comatose
Unemployable
Big Wave
Let It Ride
Johnny Guitar
Speed of Sound
My Father's Son
Dance of the Clairvoyants
Get It Back

I dig this a lot after the first two.

I'd replace Comatose with something like Ole, for sure. I could be talked into keeping LW but I think there are better options.

[LetMeSleep]

Marker In The Sand
Parachutes
Army Reserve
The Fixer
Johnny Guitar
Cold Confession
Let It Ride
Dance Of The Clairvoyants
Take The Long Way
Get It Back