Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread

[Mine]

the ashes of Mother Love Bone

[Mike]

the ashes of Mother Love Bone

Now YOU also can rise from the ashes of Mother Love Bone.

[Lament]

A slide show of pictures of Ed with other famous people.

[harmless]

A covers album: One Direction Presents "Vitalogy".

[Lament]

A Jack White version of Getaway that completely destroys Pearl Jam's version.

[McParadigm]

A countdown clock

[Lament]

My future self's review of album #11.

[bodysnatcher]

has anyone gotten the vinyl yet? i'll be grabbing one tonight

[BurtReynolds]

A coupon for a 5% discount on axe helmets at Target.

[McParadigm]

profound disappointment

[Jorge]

Something almost bad

[@SkitchP]

profound disappointment

sorry, i just wanted to quote ghostbusters 2. Ill do better. I promise.

[harmless]

A Jack White version of Getaway that completely destroys Pearl Jam's version.

Jack White couldn't destroy a pint in a brewery!

[stip]

Been listening to this a lot since the leak. I love it but am I the only one re-tracking it already? I know this is a die hard fan habit but the album is really all over the place at times. I'm not sure why this is the only band I listen to that I ever put so much thought into that I think I can better track the record. I think it's a compliment or just a weird habit I got into a long time ago when the Binarual outtakes were released. The songs are all pretty solid though. Only a few weak tracks. I don't like the phrase "return to form" but there are tracks on here like My Father's Son and moments on Infallible" where I was reminded of 90's Eddie. I remember a while back there were complaints on here that Eddie wasn't doing enough "yeah yeahing" for the lack of a better term like he used to and there's a lot of that on here. I'm curious about how they wrote and composed these songs cause A lot of the songs sound like they could work on their own without vocals. Which reminds me of the early PJ tracks that Eddie added vocals to after they were written.

Let the Records Play is the only one I skip and Future Days is hands down the weakest closer in this band's history. It just doesn't fit thematically or musically for me. I'm okay with sentimentality, I really love Sirens, but FD is just uninspired to me. Or maybe we've had so much solo Eddie stuff, it seems redundant at this point. I really wish Of the Earth would have gotten recorded for this album it would have fit really well with the some of the darker, aggressive tracks and the hippie surfer Eddie stuff. Oh, and Yellow Moon was not at all what I was expecting. Ed belting out songs at slower tempos is another thing that I feel is reminiscent of classic era PJ.

welcome to the board

[Lament]

A picture of the fourteen year old who wrote the lyrics to My Father's Son.

[Lament]

A Jack White version of Getaway that completely destroys Pearl Jam's version.

Jack White couldn't destroy a pint in a brewery!

Jack White would bring the unhinged energy and ramshackle approach necessary to make Getaway come alive and exude a real sense of urgency. Pearl Jam in 2013 is far too calculated to do a song like this justice.

[harmless]

A Jack White version of Getaway that completely destroys Pearl Jam's version.

Jack White couldn't destroy a pint in a brewery!

Jack White would bring the unhinged energy and ramshackle approach necessary to make Getaway come alive and exude a real sense of urgency. Pearl Jam in 2013 is far too calculated to do a song like this justice.

They're anything but calculated live. Sloppy as fuck half the time.

[@SkitchP]

tight but loose

[Mine]

A slide show of pictures of Ed with other famous people Dime.

[BurtReynolds]

A PSA on the dangers of household Firemen's poles.