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Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Lightning Bolt

Posted: Mon June 09, 2014 4:27 am
by Leatherhead
VinylGuy wrote:MYM is awesome guys, love the lyrics too.
Yea, I really like MYM. I'd put it up there with a lot of pre-PRAMG songs.

Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Lightning Bolt

Posted: Thu June 12, 2014 7:23 am
by dimejinky99
Yellow moon sorta sounds like that blind melon song, no rain.

A little bit

Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Lightning Bolt

Posted: Thu June 12, 2014 3:28 pm
by stip
Lightning bolt is the only CD i have on my desktop at work, and one of the speakers on the computer is broken. The beginning of Getaway is actually kinda cool this way.

Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Lightning Bolt

Posted: Thu June 12, 2014 3:32 pm
by stip
Infallible sounds like my speaker can't stop farting

Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Lightning Bolt

Posted: Thu June 12, 2014 3:35 pm
by stip
the chorus is still really good though. I wonder if people would like it more in a different song.

Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Lightning Bolt

Posted: Thu June 12, 2014 3:37 pm
by stip
the swallowed whole intro also sounds a bit better since the whole thing is muted and so that sub par tone on Eddie's guitar blends into the rest of the song better.

Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Lightning Bolt

Posted: Thu June 12, 2014 3:55 pm
by stip
The swallowed whole solo (the whole thing, actually) sounds really good on these shitty speakers. It takes some of the gloss off of the song--it makes the whole thing sound dirtier.

Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Lightning Bolt

Posted: Thu June 12, 2014 4:00 pm
by stip
lightning bolt has lots of cool moments happening underneath the main song that I like a lot which are lost here, but again the dirtier sound gives the song a grittier edge that I like,

Man, this experience really hammers home just how shiny this album is.

Sirens next.

Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Lightning Bolt

Posted: Thu June 12, 2014 4:04 pm
by Norah
you spelled shitty wrong

Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Lightning Bolt

Posted: Thu June 12, 2014 4:05 pm
by stip
Sirens wasn't as good. This is a song that needs to embrace its glorious excess. It's a ridiculously over the top anthem, and the core song here suffers a bit having that excesses toned down.

The solo was a bit better, but I really don't like the Sirens solo, despite my appreciation for the rest of the song.

Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Lightning Bolt

Posted: Thu June 12, 2014 4:06 pm
by stip
cutuphalfdead wrote:you spelled shitty wrong
that took me too long to get.

Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Lightning Bolt

Posted: Thu June 12, 2014 4:07 pm
by stip
MYM is better as is. But that's one of my favorite PJ songs, period.

Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Lightning Bolt

Posted: Thu June 12, 2014 4:07 pm
by stip
the chorus of MYM is one of my favorite moments in their catalog.

Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Lightning Bolt

Posted: Thu June 12, 2014 4:09 pm
by stip
LTRP is better without the gloss.

Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Lightning Bolt

Posted: Thu June 12, 2014 4:13 pm
by dimejinky99
cutuphalfdead wrote:you spelled shitty wrong

I own a ton of pj stuff I don't want. I'll give it to whomever if they'll just make chud a mod.

Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Lightning Bolt

Posted: Thu June 12, 2014 4:15 pm
by stip
Future Days sounds better this way--more intimate. But some of the beautiful coloration in that song is lost. So I guess it's a wash.

Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Lightning Bolt

Posted: Thu June 12, 2014 4:19 pm
by stip
Pendulum needs a Binaural treatment. This is a bit too dusty, gives it an almost western feel that actually is kinda cool in the second half of the song, but less so in the first.

Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Lightning Bolt

Posted: Thu June 12, 2014 4:23 pm
by dimejinky99
Overall? This album does deserve this level of inspection. Just saying, stip

Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Lightning Bolt

Posted: Thu June 12, 2014 4:50 pm
by stip
Oh, I agree. I've never argued otherwise.

Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Lightning Bolt

Posted: Thu June 12, 2014 5:14 pm
by dimejinky99
Most epic DJ. Typo of all time.

I meant doesn't deserve