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%
 
Total votes: 78

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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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mastaflatch wrote:i think it's only Ed's isolated guitar/vocals from the Wrigley show. definitely not a proper studio recording, not even a demo IMO. still better without the fucking sissy keyboards.

Yea, for sure.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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I just cleansed myself with a little "let it ride"
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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Still cheesy as fuck. I mean its ok but its a straight up gooey love song. Ed sounds nice mostly, cept for the usual pronunciation weirdness.

The studio version is gonna be godawful man, its cheesy with just a dude and a guitar, add the piano and who knows what the fuck else and well....
Strat wrote:
mastaflatch wrote:i think it's only Ed's isolated guitar/vocals from the Wrigley show. definitely not a proper studio recording, not even a demo IMO. still better without the fucking sissy keyboards.

Yea, for sure.
I thought ed sounded too good for it to be live and halfway through a show.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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stupidmop wrote:Still cheesy as fuck. I mean its ok but its a straight up gooey love song. Ed sounds nice mostly, cept for the usual pronunciation weirdness.

The studio version is gonna be godawful man, its cheesy with just a dude and a guitar, add the piano and who knows what the fuck else and well....
Strat wrote:
mastaflatch wrote:i think it's only Ed's isolated guitar/vocals from the Wrigley show. definitely not a proper studio recording, not even a demo IMO. still better without the fucking sissy keyboards.

Yea, for sure.
I thought ed sounded too good for it to be live and halfway througha show.

id have to listen to the wrigley video again but im pretty certain that is just the isolated track. The strumming and guitar sounds super live
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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Could be a SDB feed, but you'd pick up some crowd noise form the mic no?
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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stupidmop wrote:Still cheesy as fuck. I mean its ok but its a straight up gooey love song. Ed sounds nice mostly, cept for the usual pronunciation weirdness.

The studio version is gonna be godawful man, its cheesy with just a dude and a guitar, add the piano and who knows what the fuck else and well....
Strat wrote:
mastaflatch wrote:i think it's only Ed's isolated guitar/vocals from the Wrigley show. definitely not a proper studio recording, not even a demo IMO. still better without the fucking sissy keyboards.

Yea, for sure.
I thought ed sounded too good for it to be live and halfway through a show.

I think the studio is the only way to save this song.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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I don't think this is a demo. It sounds pretty much exactly like the live video. Lots of "theeurrrrgh".
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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"i hate this song" "that song blows" "this song sucks!" [time elapses] [isolated track surfaces] "oh my god, can i have it?" "PM me please!" "I wanna hear it!"

silly stuff. also, oh my god, can i have it? PM me please. I wanna hear it!
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I like your use of square brackets there.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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harmless wrote:It's pretty nice, but a patchy performance. I'm not dreading the studio version anyway since the arrangement doesn't sound too bad (real piano apparently).
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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I would like to hear this.
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everything wrote:"i hate this song" "that song blows" "this song sucks!" [time elapses] [isolated track surfaces] "oh my god, can i have it?" "PM me please!" "I wanna hear it!"

silly stuff. also, oh my god, can i have it? PM me please. I wanna hear it!
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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everything wrote:"i hate this song" "that song blows" "this song sucks!" [time elapses] [isolated track surfaces] "oh my god, can i have it?" "PM me please!" "I wanna hear it!"

silly stuff. also, oh my god, can i have it? PM me please. I wanna hear it!
Well we wanna see if it's better than the first version we heard... seems pretty simple to me.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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HardTI wrote:
stupidmop wrote:Still cheesy as fuck. I mean its ok but its a straight up gooey love song. Ed sounds nice mostly, cept for the usual pronunciation weirdness.

The studio version is gonna be godawful man, its cheesy with just a dude and a guitar, add the piano and who knows what the fuck else and well....
Strat wrote:
mastaflatch wrote:i think it's only Ed's isolated guitar/vocals from the Wrigley show. definitely not a proper studio recording, not even a demo IMO. still better without the fucking sissy keyboards.

Yea, for sure.
I thought ed sounded too good for it to be live and halfway through a show.

I think the studio is the only way to save this song.
I'm a sucker for sparse acoustic tracks, so even if i liked this song i'd probably end up prefering the demo (or whatever this is). But i don't see how more bells and whistles will help it any. Specially in the form of that piano.

I'm not shitting on the song btw, i can see why people would like it, just ain't my thang.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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Yeah, this isn't very good. Really boring as an acoustic-only song. I'm actually looking forward to what BOB will add to it.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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I don't really want to answer PMs about this, guys. The Gmail account is what you want.
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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PM me. Pretty please!
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whos got the gmail account info?
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Re: Lightning Bolt - October 15

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stupidmop wrote:
HardTI wrote:
stupidmop wrote:Still cheesy as fuck. I mean its ok but its a straight up gooey love song. Ed sounds nice mostly, cept for the usual pronunciation weirdness.

The studio version is gonna be godawful man, its cheesy with just a dude and a guitar, add the piano and who knows what the fuck else and well....
Strat wrote:
mastaflatch wrote:i think it's only Ed's isolated guitar/vocals from the Wrigley show. definitely not a proper studio recording, not even a demo IMO. still better without the fucking sissy keyboards.

Yea, for sure.
I thought ed sounded too good for it to be live and halfway through a show.

I think the studio is the only way to save this song.
I'm a sucker for sparse acoustic tracks, so even if i liked this song i'd probably end up prefering the demo (or whatever this is). But i don't see how more bells and whistles will help it any. Specially in the form of that piano.

I'm not shitting on the song btw, i can see why people would like it, just ain't my thang.
I don't think it'll be that piano, though. I think it's a real one, according to a review we've had.
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