Red Mosquito

A really cool Matt-tune like In The Moonlight would have been perfect to replace LTRP.

Yup. Annoyingly, that live version has put me off it even more. It's not bad (definitely not Supersonic bad) but it's just insubstantial. Just there.

stupidmop wrote:He gave em all to soundgarden. The cool band.

I bet bob hates all of matts songs. "I can't put keyboards on this"

Hahaha classic bob

So looking at RM, it's only been a few days and usually new record excitements have dissolved by now.


Maybe this really is a great record?

stip wrote:I love that they are at a point in their lives Shen they can start a solo on the lyric 'she's your rock and roll' because it's awesome and fuck you were doing it

Hell yeah! Love the last section of Lightning Bolt (the song)

harmless wrote:Yup. Annoyingly, that live version has put me off it even more. It's not bad (definitely not Supersonic bad) but it's just insubstantial. Just there.

LTRP was easily the worst sounding of the new songs last night. Felt flat and blah.

Pendulum was incredible live. Infallible has a much darker feel and good groove. I thought Sirens sounded great and was more subdued than the album. Yellow Moon was more folksy than epic. All in all they were pretty tight, if a bit restrained, on the new stuff. One other surprise - Unthought Known kicked ass, great version.

Dugg wrote:

harmless wrote:Yup. Annoyingly, that live version has put me off it even more. It's not bad (definitely not Supersonic bad) but it's just insubstantial. Just there.

LTRP was easily the worst sounding of the new songs last night. Felt flat and blah.

Pendulum was incredible live. Infallible has a much darker feel and good groove. I thought Sirens sounded great and was more subdued than the album. Yellow Moon was more folksy than epic. All in all they were pretty tight, if a bit restrained, on the new stuff. One other surprise - Unthought Known kicked ass, great version.

Weirdly, I wonder if UK would sit alongside these songs better than the Backspacer ones...

Heard the live versions of

Sirens
Pendulum
Infallible
Lightning Bolt


Hot damn!

I wish they were coming to St. Louis.

Lightning bolt
Infallible
Yellow moon
Swallowed whole
Sirens
Mind your manners
Sleeping by myself
Pendulum
Let the Records Play
Getaway
My Father's Son
Future Days

Dugg wrote:

harmless wrote:Yup. Annoyingly, that live version has put me off it even more. It's not bad (definitely not Supersonic bad) but it's just insubstantial. Just there.

LTRP was easily the worst sounding of the new songs last night. Felt flat and blah.

Pendulum was incredible live. Infallible has a much darker feel and good groove. I thought Sirens sounded great and was more subdued than the album. Yellow Moon was more folksy than epic. All in all they were pretty tight, if a bit restrained, on the new stuff. One other surprise - Unthought Known kicked ass, great version.

Couldn't agree more. Especially how great Unthought Known was. Pendulum is a perfect opener. Let the Records Play was exactly how you described it, flat and no energy. I missed the 2010 tour which most say was Eddie's worst, but last night he sounded fantastic.

Lightning Bolt was very good. Much better than what I saw (via YouTube howwever) from Wrigley .

So far these songs translate pretty damn well live.

They did exactly what I thought they'd do with LTRP, treated it all far too seriously. Eddie has no swag.

In fact they should've probably got Stone to sing it, live and on the album.

Eddie sounded real good last night huh? Great even!

bada wrote:Eddie sounded real good last night huh? Great even!

autotune or lipsync

harmless wrote:They did exactly what I thought they'd do with LTRP, treated it all far too seriously. Eddie has no swag.

That was exactly the problem. If they're gonna play it they need to make it a campy bluesy number. Not a faster boring rock song.

So guys, thanks to a very generous 10C member I've now gone to the unusual step of ordering a PJ T-shirt in 2013 (the Halloween one).

Dugg wrote:

harmless wrote:They did exactly what I thought they'd do with LTRP, treated it all far too seriously. Eddie has no swag.

That was exactly the problem. If they're gonna play it they need to make it a campy bluesy number. Not a faster boring rock song.

Yup. That rhythm needs to haaaaang back, man. And Ed needs to be a bit less self-conscious if he wants to channel Marc Bolan.

http://youtu.be/8Q2biiIlh00