Lightning Bolt: the official album thread

[stip]

Love
Mind Your Manners
Sleeping By Myself
Lightning Bolt

Quite Like
Sirens
Infallible
Pendulum
Yellow Moon
Swallowed Whole
Future Days

Fine, but skippable
Getaway
Let the Records Play
My Father's Son

[stip]

This is my pretty typical breakdown for all PJ albums that aren't the first three or Backspacer. There's just a bit of movement in terms of how many songs I'd throw in the love category. Pearl Jam very rarely dips below 'fine, but skippable'

[Wendy Carlos's Twin]

Harmless has a broken pee pee.

[PHATJ]

Fine
Lightning Bolt
Pendulum
Yellow Moon

Decent but skippable
Infallible
Sirens
Mind Your Manners
Future Days
Getaway
My Father's Son

Garbage
Let the Records Play
Swallowed Whole
Sleeping By Myself

[bodysnatcher]

Sure, Why Not?
Pendulum
Mind Your Manners
Lightning Bolt
Yellow Moon
My Father's Son

I'll Listen While Finding Something Else on Spotify
Sirens
Let The Records Play
Swallowed Whole
Sleeping By Myself

Ich Don't Think So
Future Days
Getaway
Infallible

[Kevin Davis]

Like
My Father's Son
Sirens
Infallible
Swallowed Whole
Sleeping By Myself

Have been known to not dislike on occasion:
Lightning Bolt
Pendulum
Yellow Moon

Probably my four least favorite PJ songs:
Getaway
Mind Your Manners
Let the Records Play
Future Days

[ridleybradout]

Still enjoy
Swallowed Whole
My Father's Son
Lightning Bolt

Still tolerate:
Pendulum
Mind Your Manners
Getaway
Infallible

Almost forgotten they exist and more than okay with that:
Sirens
Let the Records Play
Sleeping By Myself
Yellow Moon
Future Days

[Jorge]

Like:
Swallowed Whole
My Father's Son
Sleeping By Myself

Greh:
Lightning Bolt
Mind Your Manners
Getaway
Yellow Moon

Ugh:
Sirens
Let the Records Play
Pendulum

UUGGHH:
Future Days
Infallible

[WtOB?]

good stuff
sirens
lightning bolt
pendulum
yellow moon
swallowed whole

ah yeah
mind your tanners
getaway

hmm.. dunno about that
sleeping by myself
future days

lol what? no you can't come into my house
my fathers son
infallible
let the records play

Like
My Father's Son
Sirens
Infallible
Swallowed Whole
Sleeping By Myself

Have been known to not dislike on occasion:
Lightning Bolt
Pendulum
Yellow Moon

Probably my four least favorite PJ songs:
Getaway
Mind Your Manners
Let the Records Play
Future Days

same except i would move infallible and getaway into the middle category

[stip]

what always kinds of surprises me about these lists for later albums is that, for all the shellacking they take around here, people are generally fine with the bulk of the album. Not favorites, and perhaps disappointing given the esteem with which we hold our favorites, but not the unmitigated disaster that we tend to associate with it. And I say I'm surprised because this is how I feel about the majority of pearl jam's albums. They have three perfect or near perfect records, and then a series of mixed bags with a few songs I love, a few songs I like, a few songs that I don't mind but generally skip, and occasionally 1-2 I just won't listen to.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Are you guys really ranking LB songs again?!

[LetMeSleep]

Songs I'd actively seek out
-

Songs that I wouldn't skip
Getaway
My Fathers Son
Sirens
Infallible
Swallowed Whole

Songs that I'd hit skip halfway through
Pendulum
Sleeping By Myself
Yellow Moon

Songs that are just shit
Mind Your Manners
Lightning Bolt
Future Days
LTRP

[Thurman Murman]

The Good:
Getaway
My Father's Son
Sirens
Lightning Bolt
Pendulum
Yellow Moon

The Bad:
Infallible
Swallowed Whole

The Ugly:
Mind Your Manners
Let The Records Play
Sleeping By Myself
Future Days

[tragabigzanda]

There is near-universal appreciation for My Father's Son, which makes me happy.

[Birds in Hell]

My Father's Son and Let the Records Play are the only two good songs on here, the rest are varying shades of mediocre to bad.

Sleeping By Myself, Future Days, Yellow Moon and Pendulum are pretty much the worst things they've ever done.

[E.H. Ruddock]

There is near-universal appreciation for My Father's Son, which makes me happy.

I hate it. Sorry.

[tragabigzanda]

There is near-universal appreciation for My Father's Son, which makes me happy.

I hate it. Sorry.

I said "near."

[epilogue]

GREAT
Mind Your Manners
Sirens
Infallible
Pendulum
Yellow Moon

GOOD
My Father's Son
Let the Records Play
Sleeping By Myself
Future Days

FINE
Getaway
Lightning Bolt

BAD
Swallowed Whole

[Anders]

Like:
Yellow Moon
Infallible
Swallowed Whole

Could have been better:
Pendulum
Lightning Bolt
Getaway

Disappointing:
Let The Records Play
Sirens
Sleeping By Myself
My Father's Son

Delete delete delete:
Future Days
Mind Your Manners