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Getaway
42
13%
Mind Your Manners
8
2%
My Father's Son
38
12%
Sirens
23
7%
Lightning Bolt
20
6%
Infallible
38
12%
Pendulum
88
27%
Swallowed Whole
21
6%
Let the Records Play
7
2%
Sleeping By Myself
7
2%
Yellow Moon
32
10%
Future Days
4
1%
 
Total votes : 328

Re: Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread

Sun January 05, 2014 10:55 am

McParadigm wrote:And while we're on the subject of pop music's changing/splintering/compartmentalizing position in the 21st century digital age, I saw this quote in an article today and was amused.

"Hating Nickelback is the last form of pop music monoculture."

:lol:

Re: Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread

Sun January 05, 2014 3:00 pm

I've always thought that Spin the Black Circle would be really fun to hear as an upbeat sounding track with a big brass band and a singer with a really inviting, friendly tone. Not like, done in a tongue in cheek way....but totally serious.

Get a sort of "in the room" sound to it like that Beirut EP....




Only instead, it's....


doot-doot doot doot dooooot
Image
Spin! Spin!

doot-doot doot doot doooot
Image
Spin the black circle!


Got Some would probably work that way, too. I'm wondering...I haven't heard it in months, but the title track off Lightning Bolt strikes me as a maybe for inclusion, too.

Goddamn, now I'm gonna be stuck listening to Beirut all day.

Re: Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread

Sun January 05, 2014 3:36 pm

they could add trumpets to every song and id be fine with it

Re: Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread

Sun January 05, 2014 3:44 pm

McParadigm wrote:I've always thought that Spin the Black Circle would be really fun to hear as an upbeat sounding track with a big brass band and a singer with a really inviting, friendly tone. Not like, done in a tongue in cheek way....but totally serious.

Get a sort of "in the room" sound to it like that Beirut EP....




Only instead, it's....


doot-doot doot doot dooooot
Image
Spin! Spin!

doot-doot doot doot doooot
Image
Spin the black circle!


Got Some would probably work that way, too. I'm wondering...I haven't heard it in months, but the title track off Lightning Bolt strikes me as a maybe for inclusion, too.

Goddamn, now I'm gonna be stuck listening to Beirut all day.

RVM would be interesting arranged with a brass section, Can't Keep also.

Re: Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread

Sun January 05, 2014 3:54 pm

dudez, GSMF would be a beast with a brass section :bammer:

Re: Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread

Sun January 05, 2014 3:54 pm

I think we have an album brewing, boys.

Re: Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread

Sun January 05, 2014 3:57 pm

McParadigm wrote:I think we have an album brewing, boys.

let's not fuck this up!
Spoiler: show
track 13: Betterman (live w/brass)

Re: Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread

Sun January 05, 2014 3:58 pm

Betterman needs oboe. And hand drums.

Re: Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread

Sun January 05, 2014 4:07 pm

All this junk will blend beautifully with B'oBs piano and lasers.

Re: Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread

Sun January 05, 2014 5:04 pm

Goodness, no.

Re: Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread

Sun January 05, 2014 5:11 pm

hopefully it's enough to bury it down in the mix.

Re: Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread

Sun January 05, 2014 5:41 pm

this album is making me horny.

Re: Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread

Sun January 05, 2014 6:44 pm

mastaflatch wrote:this album is making me horny.

she's your RKO

Re: Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread

Sun January 05, 2014 9:35 pm

warehouse wrote:they could add trumpets to every song and id be fine with it


In theory, none of the actual instruments they've used on recent albums are a problem. The problem is that none of them, least of all BoB, has any idea how to make a tasteful arrangement of said instruments. If they added brass you'd end up with something horrible.

Re: Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread

Sun January 05, 2014 9:38 pm

dimejinky99 wrote:Matts playing on this record overall is pretty great.
He's found his place at last.


It is good, yes. Slightly uninspired in one or two spots, but that's nothing new, and I'd imagine it's partly BoB telling him to tone it down for recording. Regardless, I totally forgot to do my drum review. Actually I didn't really forget as much as couldn't be bothered. Writing my novel seemed a bit more urgent.

Re: Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread

Sun January 05, 2014 10:31 pm

Is it about a drummer?

Re: Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread

Sun January 05, 2014 10:48 pm

Drum the drums of other men

Re: Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread

Sun January 05, 2014 10:49 pm

No. I obviously missed a trick. :(

Re: Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread

Mon January 06, 2014 2:07 am

This was good.
It's gotta be an RMer who penned it
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/982 ... erly-rated

Re: Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread

Wed January 08, 2014 7:56 pm

Where are the B-sides to this record? Zero? And I don't mean Betterman live.
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