Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread

[Rangi Guy]

I think Unthought Known is head and shoulders above Lightning Bolt.

As for the album itself - I'm still really enjoying it

[Heathen]

I've listened to this maybe three times this year (including just now), and the best I can say for it is that it has an almost complete lack of impact on me.

My experience:
1.Getaway starts, and I think its nice enough.
2.I get bored by the time MYM starts. I check my email, fight about movies on RM, etc...
3.The awfulness of Future Days jars me back into the chilling reality that I'm actually listening to a Post Riot Act Moneygrab™ era album, and I quickly turn it off.
4.I wonder what happened to my life, particularly the last 45 minutes.

Well, at least you stole the music and didn't have to buy it, right?

Spotify. I wouldn't waste the harddrive space.

You just made Eddie Vedder and the Pearl Jams $0.071 or so richer. Congrats.

[BurtReynolds]

I've listened to this maybe three times this year (including just now), and the best I can say for it is that it has an almost complete lack of impact on me.

My experience:
1.Getaway starts, and I think its nice enough.
2.I get bored by the time MYM starts. I check my email, fight about movies on RM, etc...
3.The awfulness of Future Days jars me back into the chilling reality that I'm actually listening to a Post Riot Act Moneygrab™ era album, and I quickly turn it off.
4.I wonder what happened to my life, particularly the last 45 minutes.

Well, at least you stole the music and didn't have to buy it, right?

Spotify. I wouldn't waste the harddrive space.

You just made Eddie Vedder and the Pearl Jams $0.071 or so richer. Congrats.

too much.

[Revelator]

A year later My Father's Son is still my favorite LB track, by a mile.

[southp]

This album has held up very well for me. I still play it at least 1-2 times per month.
The first three tracks are fun and up-tempo enough to grab my attention each listen, but then I really get into the 2nd half of the album. Everything but LTRP really.

Favourites are still: Yellow Moon, Swallowed Whole and Sirens. Meanwhile, I was iffy on LB at first but I really dig the title track now.

[Alex]

i listened to lightning bolt two or three times all the way through, shortly after it was released. the only song i can distinctly remember is sleeping by myself. not because it's particularly good, but because it was a break from the formless mid-tempo sludge of the songs surrounding it.

[VinylGuy]

The second part is too mid tempo for me. Thats the main drag; songs like SW or Ltrp needed to more rocking.

[Alex]

The second part is too mid tempo for me. Thats the main drag; songs like SW or Ltrp needed to more rocking.

i think they need to less rocking, in general.

i mean, would it kill them to go acoustic? they have all the energy and rebellion of family men in their 50s. they need to stick to campfire songs like 'drifting.'

[dimejinky99]

I've listened to this maybe three times this year (including just now), and the best I can say for it is that it has an almost complete lack of impact on me.

My experience:
1.Getaway starts, and I think its nice enough.
2.I get bored by the time MYM starts. I check my email, fight about movies on RM, etc...
3.The awfulness of Future Days jars me back into the chilling reality that I'm actually listening to a Post Riot Act Moneygrab™ era album, and I quickly turn it off.
4.I wonder what happened to my life, particularly the last 45 minutes.

Well, at least you stole the music and didn't have to buy it, right?

Spotify. I wouldn't waste the harddrive space.

You just made Eddie Vedder and the Pearl Jams $0.071 or so richer. Congrats.

"I ordered eggs at a little restaurant in Seattle and it was $9.50."

[EJ]

Ed likes to let the records play.

[VinylGuy]

The second part is too mid tempo for me. Thats the main drag; songs like SW or Ltrp needed to more rocking.

i think they need to less rocking, in general.

i mean, would it kill them to go acoustic? they have all the energy and rebellion of family men in their 50s. they need to stick to campfire songs like 'drifting.'

While i get that; the energy from the first 3 songs is something i want to hear in a full album.

[Alex]

The second part is too mid tempo for me. Thats the main drag; songs like SW or Ltrp needed to more rocking.

i think they need to less rocking, in general.

i mean, would it kill them to go acoustic? they have all the energy and rebellion of family men in their 50s. they need to stick to campfire songs like 'drifting.'

While i get that; the energy from the first 3 songs is something i want to hear in a full album.

this isn't about what you want

[epilogue]

I think Unthought Known is head and shoulders above Lightning Bolt.

As for the album itself - I'm still really enjoying it

Song to song?

Yeah, I might like Unthought Known better. But it would be close. Neither do much for me in terms of Pearl Jam songs, though.

[Rangi Guy]

I think Unthought Known is head and shoulders above Lightning Bolt.

As for the album itself - I'm still really enjoying it

Song to song?

Yeah, I might like Unthought Known better. But it would be close. Neither do much for me in terms of Pearl Jam songs, though.

There's something about Unthought Known that I really like - it's lacking in Lightning Bolt.

[Strat]

I hate unthought known.

[epilogue]

I hate unthought known.

Feel the sky blanket you....

[Alex]

let's rank the albums

[Leatherhead]

Yea, unthought known sucks balls.

[Alex]

sometimes i feel like the pearl jam forum is a creation of my psyche, in which i've created hundreds of strangers--characters who take the opposite position to mine in matters regarding pearl jam, for reasons unthought known.

[Leatherhead]

Listening to Sirens on the LB live comp that Ridleybradout put together, I can confidently say I'm a fan of this song.