From BO'B: "If you like Pearl Jam, you'll love this. And if you haven't listened to Pearl Jam in awhile, I think it's going to bring you in. That's the whole idea."
That's a pretty horrible quote, but looking at the last sentence again, the suggestion seems to be this album might do that, as opposed to the last one. Louder, more aggressive, who knows, but maybe BO'B thought about bringing people back in this time, rather than reaching for a new crowd. Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe.
Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15
Posted: Mon September 02, 2013 4:53 pm
by EJ
harmless wrote:From BO'B: "If you like Pearl Jam, you'll love this. And if you haven't listened to Pearl Jam in awhile, I think it's going to bring you in. That's the whole idea."
That's a pretty horrible quote, but looking at the last sentence again, the suggestion seems to be this album might do that, as opposed to the last one. Louder, more aggressive, who knows, but maybe BO'B thought about bringing people back in this time, rather than reaching for a new crowd. Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe.
Pretty sure that was a Mike quote.
BoB doesn't know what the album sounds like yet: "You tell me."
Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15
Posted: Mon September 02, 2013 4:54 pm
by harmless
EJ wrote:
harmless wrote:From BO'B: "If you like Pearl Jam, you'll love this. And if you haven't listened to Pearl Jam in awhile, I think it's going to bring you in. That's the whole idea."
That's a pretty horrible quote, but looking at the last sentence again, the suggestion seems to be this album might do that, as opposed to the last one. Louder, more aggressive, who knows, but maybe BO'B thought about bringing people back in this time, rather than reaching for a new crowd. Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe.
Pretty sure that was a Mike quote.
BoB doesn't know what the album sounds like yet: "You tell me."
This was from a more recent article. But yeah, Mike's was similar.
Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15
Posted: Mon September 02, 2013 5:06 pm
by numbers
If bob says its the best song on the record, that probably just means its the cheesiest.
Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15
Posted: Mon September 02, 2013 5:10 pm
by Dr. Van Nostrand
numbers wrote:If bob says its the best song on the record, that probably just means its the cheesiest.
Or that he plays on it also
Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15
Posted: Mon September 02, 2013 5:13 pm
by harmless
It really depends on whether he's able to see a song for its own merits, how diverse he can be as a producer. His past career suggests he'll produce to fit a specific project's needs; he'll work to the brief. If that brief is what it sounds like Backspacer was, that's what he'll do. So I'm waiting to see if we find out Lightning Bolt was meant to be something different. I'm not expecting something vastly different, but in the important stuff, a difference would be nice.
Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15
Posted: Mon September 02, 2013 5:16 pm
by harmless
I've gone from worrying about the piano on FD, though, to worrying about his presence across the album. I was forgetting just how much he plays on Backspacer. "Sorry Boom, big fella, you're not needed today. Probably not tomorrow either. How about I just call you if we need you." Sheesh.
Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15
Posted: Mon September 02, 2013 5:18 pm
by stip
Iirc, pearl jam wanted backspacer to sound like backspacer and so it makes sense to give BoB a greater degree of control if they thought he could produce the results. I am not sure they would surrender control if reaching for a sound that was more in their conventional wheelhouse.
We shall see
Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15
Posted: Mon September 02, 2013 5:19 pm
by harmless
stip wrote:Iirc, pearl jam wanted backspacer to sound like backspacer and so it makes sense to give BoB a greater degree of control if they thought he could produce the results. I am not sure they would surrender control if reaching for a sound that was more in their conventional wheelhouse.
We shall see
Everything took much longer this time, so a bit more depth is what's implied.
Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15
Posted: Mon September 02, 2013 5:21 pm
by Iowaska_Experience
this is pretty good:
Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15
Posted: Mon September 02, 2013 5:26 pm
by harmless
That's great.
Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15
Posted: Mon September 02, 2013 5:27 pm
by Lounge Lizard
Iowaska_Experience wrote:this is pretty good:
A ha ha wow!
I prefer it to the original, I swear
Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15
Posted: Mon September 02, 2013 5:28 pm
by bada
They should just let this guy do their videos.
Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15
Posted: Mon September 02, 2013 5:31 pm
by harmless
For all that I love that video, I'm glad it's just a throwaway thing rather than a concept PJ Inc. got hold of. I don't want an album full of cartoons this time.
Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15
Posted: Mon September 02, 2013 5:35 pm
by Dr. Van Nostrand
harmless wrote:That's great.
Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15
Posted: Mon September 02, 2013 5:48 pm
by stip
I particularly enjoyed the skeleton background singers
Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15
Posted: Mon September 02, 2013 5:50 pm
by harmless
Yeah that was a nice touch.
Holy shit I want this album. What do you say we all congregate here tomorrow night while the listening party is on, and.... listen to the silence?
Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15
Posted: Mon September 02, 2013 5:52 pm
by Dr. Van Nostrand
harmless wrote:Yeah that was a nice touch.
Holy shit I want this album. What do you say we all congregate here tomorrow night while the listening party is on, and.... listen to the silence?
Im pretty sure ill be in.
Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15
Posted: Mon September 02, 2013 5:53 pm
by harmless
Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15
Posted: Mon September 02, 2013 5:54 pm
by Lounge Lizard
Dr. Van Nostrand wrote:
harmless wrote:Yeah that was a nice touch.
Holy shit I want this album. What do you say we all congregate here tomorrow night while the listening party is on, and.... listen to the silence?
Im pretty sure ill be in.
We all will.
It'll be appropriate to change are avatars to a picture of some nerd with a sign that says "loser".
