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Post subject: Re: Song of the Moment: Lightning Bolt
Posted: Mon March 10, 2014 4:55 am
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Lightning Bolt (song) kicks ass.
-Matt's drums in the beginning are great, they seem to envelope me as the song gets going. -The main guitar riff is great, I like these angular sounding guitars. -Love the lasers at several parts in the song. -Ed's "YA GOTTA KNOW YOU'LL NEVER LET HER GO!" is awesome. -Song is interesting structurally. -Mike's early solo is cool, though it could be better, does a good job of lifting the song, but the actual solo is kinda lacking. -Pretty groovy, I like the grooviness. -The song has a certain kind of spacey feel to it, reminds me a bit of Binaural, I wish this spacey feel was more pronounced. -Fade out sucks.
Heard this on the radio the other night. Just like with MYM, it sounded almost like a different song. The mix sounded so much dirtier and the guitars much more pronounced.
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Post subject: Re: Song of the Moment: Lightning Bolt
Posted: Mon March 10, 2014 6:45 pm
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Leatherhead wrote:
Lightning Bolt (song) kicks ass.
-Matt's drums in the beginning are great -The main guitar riff is great -Love the lasers -Ed's "YA GOTTA KNOW YOU'LL NEVER LET HER GO!" is awesome. -Song is interesting -Mike's early solo is cool -I like the grooviness.
i have distilled this post to the essence of RM in 2014
Post subject: Re: Song of the Moment: Lightning Bolt
Posted: Mon March 10, 2014 9:38 pm
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Thejambi wrote:
Heard this on the radio the other night. Just like with MYM, it sounded almost like a different song. The mix sounded so much dirtier and the guitars much more pronounced.
Can you post a link to the radio version?
I'm still really digging this album, but Lightning Bolt is the one that feels like it could have been more. The "new wave" style production takes some of the power out. Great song all around though.
Post subject: Re: Song of the Moment: Lightning Bolt
Posted: Tue March 11, 2014 2:05 am
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this song is like being hit in the face with a 3 foot party sub and having an ice water enema at the same time
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Post subject: Re: Song of the Moment: Lightning Bolt
Posted: Tue March 11, 2014 2:15 am
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96583UP wrote:
3 foot party sub and having an ice water enema at the same time
Oddly enough, this is exactly what Ed & Sean Penn do before they go helicraptering. They each down a three footer, take an enema, and then then let it rip from high in the sky.
Post subject: Re: Song of the Moment: Lightning Bolt
Posted: Tue March 11, 2014 2:23 am
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Ed's sub will be caviar and hot sauce
Sean Penn's will be jalapenos and oysters
makes 'em extra shitty while retaining their 1 percenteryness
"helicrapter" will be the next great vocal ad lib sung to the tune of supersonic, while helicraptering
Helicrapter, gotta feel it now I need to hear it, need to feel it loud, yeah
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I think Getaway would have made such a much better single. I like Lightning Bolt, but it's not as instantly catchy as Getaway. Everyone I've played it for instantly has liked it.
Heard this on the radio the other night. Just like with MYM, it sounded almost like a different song. The mix sounded so much dirtier and the guitars much more pronounced.
Can you post a link to the radio version?
No.
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Post subject: Re: Song of the Moment: Lightning Bolt
Posted: Sat March 29, 2014 2:42 am
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Got to say, I really like when lyrical meanings challenge me enough to come online and seek opinions. This is one I think I have pegged and then I hear something and it makes me see it entirely different.
For some reason, I think this song may actually be about new technology. Think "addiction" to mobile phones, twitter, or facebook. Then read the lyrics. Curious if anyone else could see that:
She comes on like a stone But you don’t know where from she was thrown Like a burning meteor from miles high Looking for a place to land She said "Have you got yourself some sand?" And whatever you’d reply she took as yes
Now she comes out the deep With her newly planted seeds and soon you’re Thrown down on your knees and then you’ll dig And then before you know the weeds are obesely overgrown With all the wild seeds she sows in your sleep
You gotta know you’ll never let her go She's a lightning bolt! Lightning bolt! Lightning bolt!
Always something and never nothing Isn’t that the way we’re taught to be… to be Flipping through the worn out pages And stages when you knew not who to be Yeah Yeah Until the lightning strike sets you free
You gotta know you’ll never let her go She's a lightning bolt! Lightning bolt! Lightning bolt!
The crashing stormy waves erode her shoreline everyday Until the castle of her ways turns to sand She holds her lovely breast as her birds fall from her nest Flying towards the great northwest And with no repair in sight There is no god with such might As you open her world wide with such a view And your death will soon arrive as she finally decides That all her problems, they won’t die with you
A-yeah!… A-yeah!… A-yeah! Never let her go She’s a lightning bolt Never let her go She’s true
She's RKO She's a lightning bolt Uncontrollable Like you[/i]
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