Re: Dark Matter: Official Album Thread
Posted: Wed April 17, 2024 4:22 pm
bluestate wrote:Whoever called it that they would release a third single 2 days before release, would you like to play lottery tickets for me?
bluestate wrote:Whoever called it that they would release a third single 2 days before release, would you like to play lottery tickets for me?
I admire your stamina. Wreckage is an all timer.Jaeti wrote:I am ssssssstill holding out.
Fucking. Leak.
bluestate wrote:Whoever called it that they would release a third single 2 days before release, would you like to play lottery tickets for me?
A leak last year said Dark Matter and Wreckage would be the singles.RAG319 wrote:Agreed. Makes no sense to me other than they think mainstream fans only care about rockin' Pearl Jam. But isn't Last Kiss like their biggest single? Sure, this wouldn't have made the hard rock charts, but it's far and away better than Dark Matter and Running. I mean Dark Matter, fine. But Running as a single makes 0 sense.tragabigzanda wrote:Just staggering that they would release those two other songs to promote this album. This is a 4- maybe 5-star song with some obvious production flaws. Those other are are bad songs with bad production on top.Thurman Murman wrote:Oh Wreckage is just gorgeous...easily my favorite of the 3 songs officially released so far.
They continue to confound at every possible chance.
Absolutely. I've only heard the 3 songs but Wreckage sure sounds like the perfect 2nd release to me.tragabigzanda wrote:Just staggering that they would release those two other songs to promote this album. This is a 4- maybe 5-star song with some obvious production flaws. Those other are are bad songs with bad production on top.Thurman Murman wrote:Oh Wreckage is just gorgeous...easily my favorite of the 3 songs officially released so far.
They continue to confound at every possible chance.
Running was effectively just an album track dropped early to my mind; they didn't make a big fuss over it, nobody didRAG319 wrote:Agreed. Makes no sense to me other than they think mainstream fans only care about rockin' Pearl Jam. But isn't Last Kiss like their biggest single? Sure, this wouldn't have made the hard rock charts, but it's far and away better than Dark Matter and Running. I mean Dark Matter, fine. But Running as a single makes 0 sense.tragabigzanda wrote:Just staggering that they would release those two other songs to promote this album. This is a 4- maybe 5-star song with some obvious production flaws. Those other are are bad songs with bad production on top.Thurman Murman wrote:Oh Wreckage is just gorgeous...easily my favorite of the 3 songs officially released so far.
They continue to confound at every possible chance.
This seems rightlecherouslittlestump wrote:A leak last year said Dark Matter and Wreckage would be the singles.RAG319 wrote:Agreed. Makes no sense to me other than they think mainstream fans only care about rockin' Pearl Jam. But isn't Last Kiss like their biggest single? Sure, this wouldn't have made the hard rock charts, but it's far and away better than Dark Matter and Running. I mean Dark Matter, fine. But Running as a single makes 0 sense.tragabigzanda wrote:Just staggering that they would release those two other songs to promote this album. This is a 4- maybe 5-star song with some obvious production flaws. Those other are are bad songs with bad production on top.Thurman Murman wrote:Oh Wreckage is just gorgeous...easily my favorite of the 3 songs officially released so far.
They continue to confound at every possible chance.
I think DM did way better than expected. So instead of cannibalising airplay, they tossed out Running as a promo single to tide us over.
Complete speculation, who knows.
Maybe the music video they teased was for Wreckage
Let’s buy it togethertragabigzanda wrote:No, and I'm still on the fence. I'll be at RSD for a Wilco release so I may grab it depending on how they whole thing shakes out. I'd be just as fine not owning it.wease wrote:Did you order it?tragabigzanda wrote:Just staggering that they would release those two other songs to promote this album. This is a 4- maybe 5-star song with some obvious production flaws. Those other are are bad songs with bad production on top.Thurman Murman wrote:Oh Wreckage is just gorgeous...easily my favorite of the 3 songs officially released so far.
They continue to confound at every possible chance.
bluestate wrote:If I had to pay $20 shipping so my album would show up 3 days late (entirely missing opening weekend) then wtf did Demetrios do to get it 2 days early?!

I couldn't agree more; I don't hear anything in these snare drums that I don't always hear in Matt's snare drums, for better and worseEBowie wrote:Just listened to Wreckage for the first time. I'm a drummer and the drums sound fine to me. On the 2006 tour, Matt often used the Mike Bordin (Faith No More) Yamaha signature snare drum - a copper shell. Matt, in recent years especially, gravitates more towards darker sounding snare drums, such as copper.
I just don't agree.tragabigzanda wrote:But it doesn't even sound like copper. It just sounds like a Linn drum through a PA.EBowie wrote:Just listened to Wreckage for the first time. I'm a drummer and the drums sound fine to me. On the 2006 tour, Matt often used the Mike Bordin (Faith No More) Yamaha signature snare drum - a copper shell. Matt, in recent years especially, gravitates more towards darker sounding snare drums, such as copper.
Has this ever been said honestly about a lecherous post before?? We live in amazing times.Monkey_Driven wrote:This seems rightlecherouslittlestump wrote:A leak last year said Dark Matter and Wreckage would be the singles.RAG319 wrote:Agreed. Makes no sense to me other than they think mainstream fans only care about rockin' Pearl Jam. But isn't Last Kiss like their biggest single? Sure, this wouldn't have made the hard rock charts, but it's far and away better than Dark Matter and Running. I mean Dark Matter, fine. But Running as a single makes 0 sense.tragabigzanda wrote:Just staggering that they would release those two other songs to promote this album. This is a 4- maybe 5-star song with some obvious production flaws. Those other are are bad songs with bad production on top.Thurman Murman wrote:Oh Wreckage is just gorgeous...easily my favorite of the 3 songs officially released so far.
They continue to confound at every possible chance.
I think DM did way better than expected. So instead of cannibalising airplay, they tossed out Running as a promo single to tide us over.
Complete speculation, who knows.
Maybe the music video they teased was for Wreckage