Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread

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Getaway
42
13%
Mind Your Manners
8
2%
My Father's Son
38
12%
Sirens
23
7%
Lightning Bolt
21
6%
Infallible
38
12%
Pendulum
88
27%
Swallowed Whole
21
6%
Let the Records Play
7
2%
Sleeping By Myself
7
2%
Yellow Moon
32
10%
Future Days
4
1%
 
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What harmless said
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It's sort of like how Obama is just like Hitler because they both rode powerful populist movements into power, both worked to recover their countries from economic struggle, both passed education initiatives early on in their terms, and both wrote books.

Or maybe what are we even trying to do here
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Or maybe nothing is like anything because only words and subjective personal attachment makes them so.
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But yeah, in those aspects, Obama is like Hitler.
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Harmless. We call that prechorus. Pj have been doing that all throughout their career, in any amount of songs.
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And in those ways those two songs are alike.

But it doesn't mean anything at all when it comes time to evaluate them as individuals, or to decide if they are any good. So who cares?
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dimejinky99 wrote:Harmless. We call that prechorus. Pj have been doing that all throughout their career, in any amount of songs.
Thankyou for that information, dime; I shall assimilate it into my knowledge-base.
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McParadigm wrote:It's sort of like how Obama is just like Hitler because they both rode powerful populist movements into power, both worked to recover their countries from economic struggle, both passed education initiatives early on in their terms, and both wrote books.

Or maybe what are we even trying to do here
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McParadigm wrote:And in those ways those two songs are alike.

But it doesn't mean anything at all when it comes time to evaluate them as individuals, or to decide if they are any good. So who cares?
Fuck, man. You don't like Sirens. You don't care. I like Sirens. But regardless of who likes Sirens, Jorge asked how we are hearing similarities in the songs, which was not the same question as "How the fuck can you possibly like Sirens?"
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stip wrote:
McParadigm wrote:It's sort of like how Obama is just like Hitler because they both rode powerful populist movements into power, both worked to recover their countries from economic struggle, both passed education initiatives early on in their terms, and both wrote books.

Or maybe what are we even trying to do here
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harmless wrote:
McParadigm wrote:And in those ways those two songs are alike.

But it doesn't mean anything at all when it comes time to evaluate them as individuals, or to decide if they are any good. So who cares?
Fuck, man. You don't like Sirens. You don't care. I like Sirens. But regardless of who likes Sirens, Jorge asked how we are hearing similarities in the songs, which was not the same question as "How the fuck can you possibly like Sirens?"
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Who cares about this forum is the question you should be asking.
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Sorry

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I bet McP loved the 'I'm not touching you' game when he was younger.
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That's not a game, stip.
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It's a way of life.
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harmless wrote:
dimejinky99 wrote:Harmless. We call that prechorus. Pj have been doing that all throughout their career, in any amount of songs.
Thankyou for that information, dime; I shall assimilate it into my knowledge-base.

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So those two songs are differently similar but have varying levels of sucky goodness?

Is that what was decided?
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I prefer sirens but at least they can manage to play black successfully in the live setting.

sirens either needs more rehearsal or is one of those songs like sleight of hand, that should just be left for the record.
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dimejinky99 wrote:I prefer sirens but at least they can manage to play black successfully in the live setting.

sirens either needs more rehearsal or is one of those songs
Could've stopped there.
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