Red Mosquito

I mean, Gigaton seemed to have at these a moderately consistent theme and mood.

I will invest so much more time in these first few songs because they're stand alone. Nothing else on the album will get this focused a deep dive just because the time will be divided between 10 other songs.

it did

liebzz wrote:I mean, Gigaton seemed to have at these a moderately consistent theme and mood.

they usually have a consistent theme because Eddie writes most of the lyrics and he is generally writing around a specific headspace. But musical/compositional unity is less so. Lightning Bolt and Gigaton didn't feel like they came out of the same moment, recording wise, in the way that the songs on say, ten, did

It's getting ugly.

2 underwhelming songs out of 2, and the snippet we got from Something Special doesn't look great either.

We still haven't heard any of the songs that belong to my favorite clips from the Metal Door Leak. This has me super stoked.

RockPusher wrote:We still haven't heard any of the songs that belong to my favorite clips from the Metal Door Leak. This has me super stoked.

same, every other metal door snippet sounded better than these

DeeDee wrote:It's getting ugly.

2 underwhelming songs out of 2, and the snippet we got from Something Special doesn't look great either.

It’s expectations. This seems like a very different album than Gigaton. At this point, with Dark Matter I am expecting Backspacer with snarl. Gigaton fit among maybe a bit more cerebral of a space. They aren’t always going to be there, and thankfully I still don’t think they are in the resigned in getting older phase that Lightning Bolt seemed to be.

None of this is particularly surprising if you listened to Earthling and Hackney Diamonds.

I said this a long while ago, but I expect this to be S/T to Gigaton's Riot Act. Sonicly and lyrically.

liebzz wrote:

Monkey_Driven wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

Monkey_Driven wrote:Question from Trag. Would all of the business related decisions be more tolerable to you if the music of the past 15 years was better? Let's say at the level of the last two RHCP albums with John?

Yes. I tolerate the knowledge that Anthony Kiedis is most likely a serial sexual predator because I enjoy his dumb, fun music. But that's what I signed up for with RHCP back in 1994, and I've never had any expectations otherwise.

You're a man of many layers. I respect it (other than the whole sexual predator brush off).

In Trag’s defense, some people here still seem to enjoy Arcade Fire.

Not to mention Lennon, Page, Bowie, etc.

Michael jackson is the fucking king of pop still.

DeeDee wrote:It's getting ugly.

2 underwhelming songs out of 2, and the snippet we got from Something Special doesn't look great either.

Sky is falling chicken little!

DeeDee wrote:It's getting ugly.

2 underwhelming songs out of 2, and the snippet we got from Something Special doesn't look great either.

I'll admit it, im underwhelmed by what i've heard so far. But Running, at least on paper, was always the red flag to me. I'm just hoping that my initial hunch was right that it was always going to be a bottom two song on this record for me.

Pearl Jam are causing the polar ice caps to melt

Strat wrote:Michael jackson is the fucking king of pop still.

Strat wrote:Michael jackson is the fucking king of pop still.

i was taking my younger daughter on a tour of Michael Jackson. Bad (album) has not held up at all. Thriller is still incredible

stip wrote:

Strat wrote:Michael jackson is the fucking king of pop still.

i was taking my younger daughter on a tour of Michael Jackson. Bad (album) has not held up at all. Thriller is still incredible

Bad has enough incredible hits that i think it keeps it afloat

i dunno. Nothing besides smooth criminal worked for me

stip wrote:i dunno. Nothing besides smooth criminal worked for me

Yea well you also hate the best pearl jam music so

Are you joking? "The Way You Make Me Feel" is on there