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Re: 11th album rumors and speculation
Posted: Wed February 13, 2019 12:42 am
by VinylGuy
Im cranking LB right now.
FUUUUUCK the first 4 songs are so goddamn good
Re: 11th album rumors and speculation
Posted: Wed February 13, 2019 12:50 am
by numbers
Strat wrote:dimejinky99 wrote:Baskspacer is great and is a better record than any band has a right to release at this late stage in its career.
Even if you don’t like it, at least they tried something different and still managed to do it through their own prism. Maybe it would have been universally loved if they’d dropped their own prism entirely. But here we are.
I think Backspacer suffers only because its 1 of 2 albums in the last 10 years.
It would be like if Neil Young released Trans and then didnt release anything again until Broken Arrow
This is true.
Re: 11th album rumors and speculation
Posted: Wed February 13, 2019 1:00 am
by digster
I do think there's some songwriting deficiencies that can't be overcome, but the opening four tracks of BS are the finest part of it, IMO, hewing relatively close to the idea they had going in of making a quick, nimble record. It just that it goes completely off the rails after that, both in terms of the songwriting as well as in adhering to the original idea. Those first four songs fit pretty easily into that idea of a poppier album looking back towards groups like The Cars and other times when new wave met pop, but then this happens...
Just Breathe
Amongst the Waves
Unthought Known
Supersonic
...and it keeps going like that. It feels like the album loses the thread of what it wants to be about ten minutes into it.
Re: 11th album rumors and speculation
Posted: Wed February 13, 2019 1:10 am
by dimejinky99
digster wrote:I do think there's some songwriting deficiencies that can't be overcome, but the opening four tracks of BS are the finest part of it, IMO, hewing relatively close to the idea they had going in of making a quick, nimble record. It just that it goes completely off the rails after that, both in terms of the songwriting as well as in adhering to the original idea. Those first four songs fit pretty easily into that idea of a poppier album looking back towards groups like The Cars and other times when new wave met pop, but then this happens...
Just Breathe
Amongst the Waves
Unthought Known
Supersonic
...and it keeps going like that. It feels like the album loses the thread of what it wants to be about ten minutes into it.
That’s fair looking at it as a whole.
I could point out that we’re making assumptions based on its short run time and it’s front loaded. There’s quality all over the record but it’s liddle section is where it sags then it’s wuality at the back.
Re: 11th album rumors and speculation
Posted: Wed February 13, 2019 1:10 am
by dimejinky99
VinylGuy wrote:Im cranking LB right now.
FUUUUUCK the first 4 songs are so goddamn good
Can’t argue with that.
Re: 11th album rumors and speculation
Posted: Wed February 13, 2019 1:12 am
by VinylGuy
If you forget about RM, LB is such a good album.
I mean im singing to Sleeping By Myself like there is no tomorrow.
Re: 11th album rumors and speculation
Posted: Wed February 13, 2019 1:18 am
by dimejinky99
Red mosquito would fit really well on lightning bolt.
About 6 or 7 tracks in
Midway.
Re: 11th album rumors and speculation
Posted: Wed February 13, 2019 1:20 am
by VinylGuy
Is this Ed's most engaged performance since....Binaural?
Re: 11th album rumors and speculation
Posted: Wed February 13, 2019 1:26 am
by dimejinky99
I think ed would keel over and die if he ever engaged with red mosquito
Are we talking about the same thing?
Re: 11th album rumors and speculation
Posted: Wed February 13, 2019 1:37 am
by VinylGuy
dimejinky99 wrote:I think ed would keel over and die if he ever engaged with red mosquito
Are we talking about the same thing?
i was talking about Ed's performance in LB.
Re: 11th album rumors and speculation
Posted: Wed February 13, 2019 4:47 am
by verb_to_trust
Ed has definitely read PJ Chat
Re: 11th album rumors and speculation
Posted: Wed February 13, 2019 5:13 am
by Sgt. Crackpot
verb_to_trust wrote:Ed has definitely read PJ Chat
Can confirm.
Via PM
evpussidestroyer420 wrote:is there no pleasing you fucks?
Re: 11th album rumors and speculation
Posted: Wed February 13, 2019 11:11 am
by dimejinky99
Sgt. Crackpot wrote:verb_to_trust wrote:Ed has definitely read PJ Chat
Can confirm.
Via PM
evpussidestroyer420 wrote:is there no pleasing you fucks?
Re: 11th album rumors and speculation
Posted: Thu February 14, 2019 3:25 am
by epilogue
Re: 11th album rumors and speculation
Posted: Thu February 14, 2019 6:31 pm
by gardenparty
dimejinky99 wrote:VinylGuy wrote:Im cranking LB right now.
FUUUUUCK the first 4 songs are so goddamn good
Can’t argue with that.
1-3 really is a nice start to the album.
Don't like Sirens as 4
Re: 11th album rumors and speculation
Posted: Thu February 14, 2019 7:19 pm
by Chris_H_2
gardenparty wrote:dimejinky99 wrote:VinylGuy wrote:Im cranking LB right now.
FUUUUUCK the first 4 songs are so goddamn good
Can’t argue with that.
1-3 really is a nice start to the album.
Don't like Sirens
as 4
Re: 11th album rumors and speculation
Posted: Thu February 14, 2019 7:35 pm
by bodysnatcher
i had to sit here for about 20 seconds and remember what the first 3 songs on LB are
Re: 11th album rumors and speculation
Posted: Thu February 14, 2019 8:27 pm
by verb_to_trust
bodysnatcher wrote:i had to sit here for about 20 seconds and remember what the first 3 songs on LB are
Mind Your Manners is first right? I don't know 2 and 3
Re: 11th album rumors and speculation
Posted: Thu February 14, 2019 8:53 pm
by surfndestroy
Musically I like Lightning Bolt. But the songwriting doesn't take into account Ed's current vocal range and stylings. The music swells in places where Ed's vocals only act like a drag.
Re: 11th album rumors and speculation
Posted: Fri February 15, 2019 5:15 pm
by bune
bodysnatcher wrote:i had to sit here for about 20 seconds and remember what the first 3 songs on LB are
It's an awkward admission, but I barely take the time to learn song titles anymore when I'm listening to music. If I like it I like it and if I don't I delete it from the computer.
