Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread

[hlniv]

I think it's more like: Big Wave > Let the Records Play > most of the rest of Pearl Jam's post-Riot Act catalogue.

Perhaps it comes back to that sense of unintellectualised abandon I so enjoy about Vs: I still hear a faint reminder of that in those songs, a willingness to indulge in the cathartic joy of loud rock n' roll for its own sake, that seems otherwise largely absent from their recent work.

So basically, those songs have got guitars.

No.

Right, they also have drums.

[Jorge]

I think it's more like: Big Wave > Let the Records Play > most of the rest of Pearl Jam's post-Riot Act catalogue.

Perhaps it comes back to that sense of unintellectualised abandon I so enjoy about Vs: I still hear a faint reminder of that in those songs, a willingness to indulge in the cathartic joy of loud rock n' roll for its own sake, that seems otherwise largely absent from their recent work.

Except "Let the Records Play" isn't particularly loud or cathartic, it's a plodding middle-of-the-road blues lite. With an incredibly irritating chorus.

[LetMeSleep]

It's a limp fart from a obese corpse.

[EJ]

I think it's more like: Big Wave > Let the Records Play > most of the rest of Pearl Jam's post-Riot Act catalogue.

Perhaps it comes back to that sense of unintellectualised abandon I so enjoy about Vs: I still hear a faint reminder of that in those songs, a willingness to indulge in the cathartic joy of loud rock n' roll for its own sake, that seems otherwise largely absent from their recent work.

Except "Let the Records Play" isn't particularly loud or cathartic, it's a plodding middle-of-the-road blues lite. With an incredibly irritating chorus.

one of the most annoying choruses in their catalog, actually

[Jorge]

It's a limp fart from a obese corpse.

It's the last gaseous discharge from the festering entrails of a bloated animal carcass, bobbing gently in the stagnant estuary of alternative rock.

[BurtReynolds]

all of the things said so far on this page are true.

[mastaflatch]

It's a limp fart from a obese corpse.

It's the last gaseous discharge from the festering entrails of a bloated animal carcass, bobbing gently in the stagnant estuary of alternative rock.

thanks guys. i laughed for the first time today

[McParadigm]

it's a death trap. it's a suicide rap. we'd better get out while we're....

fuuuuuuuuck

[Sgt. Crackpot]

It's a limp fart from a obese corpse.

It's the last gaseous discharge from the festering entrails of a bloated animal carcass, bobbing gently in the stagnant estuary of alternative rock.

thanks guys. i laughed for the first time today

[stip]

I think it's more like: Big Wave > Let the Records Play > most of the rest of Pearl Jam's post-Riot Act catalogue.

Perhaps it comes back to that sense of unintellectualised abandon I so enjoy about Vs: I still hear a faint reminder of that in those songs, a willingness to indulge in the cathartic joy of loud rock n' roll for its own sake, that seems otherwise largely absent from their recent work.

So basically, those songs have got guitars.

No.

Right, they also have drums.

Beats don't count themselves

[harmless]

I guess I don't like rock and roll for its own sake.

[harmless]

I think it's more like: Big Wave > Let the Records Play > most of the rest of Pearl Jam's post-Riot Act catalogue.

Perhaps it comes back to that sense of unintellectualised abandon I so enjoy about Vs: I still hear a faint reminder of that in those songs, a willingness to indulge in the cathartic joy of loud rock n' roll for its own sake, that seems otherwise largely absent from their recent work.

Except "Let the Records Play" isn't particularly loud or cathartic, it's a plodding middle-of-the-road blues lite. With an incredibly irritating chorus.

one of the most annoying choruses in their catalog, actually

It would actually be pretty vastly improved by being really loud. I mean, the fact that it is really hard to appreciate in the first place is worse because the guitars are so low in the mix. It should sound like T. Rex but it sounds like Jools Holland's boogie-woogie orchestra instead.

[harmless]

I don't like Muse, but at least their 'bluesy' songs are covered in thick walls of guitar.

[Dr. Van Nostrand]

I love this album

[numbers]

I love this album

Yeah, me too.

[hlniv]

It's a limp fart from a obese corpse.

It's the last gaseous discharge from the festering entrails of a bloated animal carcass, bobbing gently in the stagnant estuary of alternative rock.

thanks guys. i laughed for the first time today

Signatures suck.

But I couldn't pass this one up.

[southp]

I love this album

Yeah, me too.

yup... stuck at work right now and I'm itching to hear the album full blast on my new speakers.

[EJ]

Still listening to this a couple times a week.

[Hatfield]

I love this album

Me to. I have actually found Let the Records Play to be sounding better each time I listen. Shocked about that.

[numbers]

Yeah, these are still the Pearl Jam songs I want to hear most, 2 months out from the release.