Lament wrote:I can't tell whether I'm listening to Red Mosquito or Sleight of Hand unless I check my ipod screen.
Isn't it pretty much the same song just with different lyrics?
Re: Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread
Posted: Wed February 12, 2014 10:32 pm
by Jorge
Seriously, what a weird comment.
Re: Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread
Posted: Wed February 12, 2014 10:35 pm
by Lament
Rangi Guy wrote:Isn't it pretty much the same song just with different lyrics?
Let's be honest, are the lyrics even all that different?
Re: Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread
Posted: Wed February 12, 2014 10:35 pm
by mastaflatch
Mine wrote:
mastaflatch wrote:
dimejinky99 wrote:
Mine wrote:
dimejinky99 wrote:
stip wrote:
dimejinky99 wrote:
stip wrote:I'll defend some songs that aren't popular (like The Fixer) as flat out really good songs. Future Days is a guilty pleasure, but I have to hope it was written that way--if you can write a guilty pleasure unironically.
FD exists in a complete irony vacuum. Sadly.
It does, but it's also so unapologetic about its own sincerity that it is (I think) completely self-aware.
I know what eds going for with this and things like it. But can he achieve it anymore?
Compare FD to something like man of the hour. I know which I think succeeds and which fails. But I'm not sure why the other fails.
I don't think the 2 are comparable in the sense that i think they're both intentionally the way they are. Maybe The End would be a better comparison.
The end is better
Future Days sounds like a pastiche of PJ album closers except that it's completely unintentional. the band have been BO'Bed big time with that one. i'm sure that Jeff discreetly rolls his eyes with contempt when it's played live.
Jeff can't tell. He keeps writing versions of Red Mosquito since 96.
Re: Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread
Posted: Wed February 12, 2014 10:38 pm
by dimejinky99
Rangi Guy wrote:
Lament wrote:I can't tell whether I'm listening to Red Mosquito or Sleight of Hand unless I check my ipod screen.
Isn't it pretty much the same song just with different lyrics?
Red mosquito, song x, half full. All from the same tree
Where's spenno?
Re: Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread
Posted: Wed February 12, 2014 10:42 pm
by Lament
Didn't Neil Young write Song X?
Wait, maybe Jeff secretly wrote it while Ed was secretly writing Against the 70s.
Re: Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread
Posted: Wed February 12, 2014 10:43 pm
by dimejinky99
Neil wrote it yeah. And Pj stole it.
And ripped it off several times afterwards
Re: Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread
Posted: Wed February 12, 2014 10:51 pm
by mastaflatch
dimejinky99 wrote:
Where's spenno?
Re: Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread
Posted: Wed February 12, 2014 10:52 pm
by bodysnatcher
mastaflatch wrote:
dimejinky99 wrote:
Where's spenno?
I wish people were as funny as they think they are
Re: Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread
Posted: Wed February 12, 2014 10:54 pm
by Rangi Guy
bodysnatcher wrote:
mastaflatch wrote:
dimejinky99 wrote:
Where's spenno?
I wish people were as funny as they think they are
I pretty much need a laugh track to decide if something's funny these days
Re: Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread
Posted: Wed February 12, 2014 11:00 pm
by mastaflatch
Rangi Guy wrote:
bodysnatcher wrote:
mastaflatch wrote:
dimejinky99 wrote:
Where's spenno?
I wish people were as funny as they think they are
I pretty much need a laugh track to decide if something's funny these days
Re: Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread
Posted: Wed February 12, 2014 11:42 pm
by bodysnatcher
mastaflatch wrote:
Rangi Guy wrote:
bodysnatcher wrote:
mastaflatch wrote:
dimejinky99 wrote:
Where's spenno?
I wish people were as funny as they think they are
I pretty much need a laugh track to decide if something's funny these days
I accept that role
Re: Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread
Posted: Wed February 12, 2014 11:43 pm
by Rangi Guy
bodysnatcher wrote:
mastaflatch wrote:
Rangi Guy wrote:
bodysnatcher wrote:
mastaflatch wrote:
dimejinky99 wrote:
Where's spenno?
I wish people were as funny as they think they are
I pretty much need a laugh track to decide if something's funny these days
I accept that role
Is this thread funny?
Re: Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread
Posted: Wed February 12, 2014 11:48 pm
by dimejinky99
I am exactly as funny as I think I am.
Which is to say, not very funny at all:)
Re: Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread
Posted: Wed February 12, 2014 11:49 pm
by dimejinky99
And I'm not alone.
*ahem*
Re: Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread
Posted: Wed February 12, 2014 11:56 pm
by sweeper
Not sure if it's been mentioned here but Lightning Bolt will be the next radio single in the U.S. It'll happen March 4th.
Re: Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread
Posted: Wed February 12, 2014 11:58 pm
by gardenparty
sweeper wrote:Not sure if it's been mentioned here but Lightning Bolt will be the next radio single in the U.S. It'll happen March 4th.
Re: Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread
Posted: Thu February 13, 2014 12:07 am
by mastaflatch
gardenparty wrote:
sweeper wrote:Not sure if it's been mentioned here but Lightning Bolt will be the next radio single in the U.S. It'll happen March 4th.
so they seem to have fun making radio edits
Re: Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread
Posted: Thu February 13, 2014 12:11 am
by harmless
The radio edit will start fading out halfway through the second verse.
to decide if something's funny these days
