Lightning Bolt: the official album thread

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Rank Lightning Bolt

5 stars
1
1%
4 stars
4
5%
3 stars
29
37%
2 stars
30
38%
1 star
14
18%
 
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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I'll always prefer non-album second tracks on singles. Always. I'm frequently disappointed when the second track is an album track. Even when it's a great song like Insignificance. I only listened to it once before Binaural came out. Whereas something like Leatherman or Alone or Wash or whatever, I listened to over and over and over and over again. I felt I could really enjoy them and take them in because I knew they weren't album tracks.

But I'm overly precious about a lot of shit.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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Mind your arctic monkeys is what I'm now calling this.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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I love the new single. I would have been happy with 3 minutes of that opening jam; it's great. This is the first PJ track I've heard that made me think Cameron really is a beast. I think we are reaping the benefits of Cameron's time with Soundgarden. He's on fire, McCready shreds it and Eddie sounds better than expected.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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Is matt not unusually restrained on this? It's what the song needs I reckon but he'll probably be all over it, live.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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dimejinky99 wrote:Is matt not unusually restrained on this? It's what the song needs I reckon but he'll probably be all over it, live.
I thought that first, then i realize there are some hidden gems of what he is doing in all the song.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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Cool. I like this track better than anything off KA.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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durdencommatyler wrote:I think (total conjecture here) that the only thing keeping Of The Earth off Lightning Bolt would be lyrical content. To me, when I hear the live versions, Ed seems less confident than usual about the words. They seem like placeholder lines, many of them, at best. If Ed's found something to say, I expect it to be on the album.

But I'd be okay without it, too. Someday, I'd like a proper studio version. Even if its just b-side or a Lost Dogs 2 kinda thing.
I think Mike and Ed have suggested in recent interviews that "Of the Earth" probably wouldn't be on the album.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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dimejinky99 wrote:Mind your arctic monkeys is what I'm now calling this.
or we could something else
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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zoe1271 wrote:I love the new single. I would have been happy with 3 minutes of that opening jam; it's great. This is the first PJ track I've heard that made me think Cameron really is a beast. I think we are reaping the benefits of Cameron's time with Soundgarden. He's on fire, McCready shreds it and Eddie sounds better than expected.
I'm not going to cynically piss on that comment (much) but what makes you say that? I *hoped* we'd be reaping the benefits of Matt having been with Soundgarden, and I still hope we do on the album, but I don't hear that in this song. He's OK.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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spike wrote:
dimejinky99 wrote:Mind your arctic monkeys is what I'm now calling this.
or we could something else
I'm having trouble believing that's what he's singing there
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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VinylGuy wrote:
stip wrote:I did not like ole, but it had elements I liked.


One of the things that is nice about releasing a second song with the single is that it gives you more than one song to pin your expectations on.

Don't like stbc? How about tremor Christ. Don't like nais? What about insignificance. Wws and unemployable. Gtf and Pilate. Supersonic was. Poor pairing with fixer, though
True.

Although i prefer a proper b side with a single, not another song from the album im getting anyway.
oh, me too. Especially after the fact.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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spike wrote:
dimejinky99 wrote:Mind your arctic monkeys is what I'm now calling this.
or we could something else
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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Wonder if they'll do a tv show between now and album release?
Fallon? Letterman?
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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dimejinky99 wrote:
spike wrote:
dimejinky99 wrote:Mind your arctic monkeys is what I'm now calling this.
or we could something else
I'm having trouble believing that's what he's singing there
doesn't matter. in fact, it makes it better.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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It'll be one of those ones where the lyric sheet has a different lyric. Or he fills in the gap
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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dimejinky99 wrote:Wonder if they'll do a tv show between now and album release?
Fallon? Letterman?
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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E.H. Ruddock wrote:
dimejinky99 wrote:Wonder if they'll do a tv show between now and album release?
Fallon? Letterman?
Rachel Ray

Long overdue
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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E.H. Ruddock wrote:
dimejinky99 wrote:Wonder if they'll do a tv show between now and album release?
Fallon? Letterman?
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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spike wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
dimejinky99 wrote:Wonder if they'll do a tv show between now and album release?
Fallon? Letterman?
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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harmless wrote:Mike said nothing about the new album at all.

"If you're a Pearl Jam fan you're going to love it," says a proud Mike of the album, "and even if you're not, maybe it'll turn you into one!"

Why must they be so vague and patronising?
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