The magic moments on Gigaton

hrd2imgn

Yeah I admit it, I LOVE this album!

What (if you have any) moments are just magical to you on this record?

Love the vocals in Seven O'Clock, especially at the 3:20 mark when he sings:
His best days gone, hard to admit
Throwing angry punches with nothing to hit
Luminous thoughts were once all he had
Fading lights, lost eloquence
There's still a fire in the engine room
Knows relief will be coming soon

love the whole entire mix of vocals, keys, guitar everything

The end of Retrograde-  cannot get enough of the power chords

Comes and Goes- love the vocals and background vocals

Alright- love the intro guitar and synth   KEEP IT FOR YOURSELF.......Drum fills...DAMN

Dance-OTC- Bass line is one of my favorites

Superbloodwolfmoon-  guitar solo and post solo guitar for that minute or so

Overall this album  is one of my favorite Ed vocal performances Albums in the entire catalog

What do you LOVE on this album????  If you want to troll something, find a post by BostonLou please

BF89905

Who Ever Said ..... From about the 2:30 mark to the 4:30 spot..... fantastic stuff

Stove

The female bg vox on "Take the Long Way"

tschav

I’ll add the smooth bass humming along in Quick Escape, but otherwise 100% agree on that list.

lastexitlondon

I agree on the bass. Also mikes  parts . Great

2-feign-reluctance

Retrograde is a BEAST live. I love the ending to Whoever Said. Reminds me of one of my favorite parts of Vs when they do that little outtro on Blood. 

Kearn5y

BF89905 said:

Who Ever Said ..... From about the 2:30 mark to the 4:30 spot..... fantastic stuff

There's still a fire in the engine room - Best line in the whole album

Gern Blansten

hrd2imgn said:

Yeah I admit it, I LOVE this album!

What (if you have any) moments are just magical to you on this record?

Love the vocals in Seven O'Clock, especially at the 3:20 mark when he sings:
His best days gone, hard to admit
Throwing angry punches with nothing to hit
Luminous thoughts were once all he had
Fading lights, lost eloquence
There's still a fire in the engine room
Knows relief will be coming soon

love the whole entire mix of vocals, keys, guitar everything

The end of Retrograde-  cannot get enough of the power chords

Comes and Goes- love the vocals and background vocals

Alright- love the intro guitar and synth   KEEP IT FOR YOURSELF.......Drum fills...DAMN

Dance-OTC- Bass line is one of my favorites

Superbloodwolfmoon-  guitar solo and post solo guitar for that minute or so

Overall this album  is one of my favorite Ed vocal performances Albums in the entire catalog

What do you LOVE on this album????  If you want to troll something, find a post by BostonLou please

I would have said exactly what you did for Seven, Retro and Alright

For the outro on Seven...I thought it was going back and forth with "Much to be done" then "More should be" but the lyrics I'm looking up say "Much to be" instead of "More should be" which changes my vibe.

I swear I hear "More should be" which seems brilliant to me

And the end of Retro....I just love the "Hear the sound" vocal. Reminds me so much of Cropduster and 1/2 Full. Love that shit

cincybearcat

BF89905 said:

Who Ever Said ..... From about the 2:30 mark to the 4:30 spot..... fantastic stuff

I'll have to check the time stamps...but this is likely my favorite part of the entire album as well.  But I love the vast majority of the album ...

I could do without Retrograde, Come then goes, and most of the time River Cross too nowadays though

tino_11

I would have chosen the exact same as the OP. Those are all brilliant. 

There’s something musically that connects seven o’clock, alright and the end of retrograde in my mind. Would love to hear that sound further developed across a whole album. 

mfc2006

Great list. Truly love this album. 

Another thing that jumps out to me is when Stone starts that crunchy rhythm guitar riff that plays off the bass line while Mike is going off towards the end of Quick Escape.

boobooliscious

I realize that the song takes a lot of heat, but my daughter is a neuro-ICU nurse. Add to that the fact that last week I had a slip on the tile in the bathroom and almost didn't make it to the hospital. So I realize that it's situational to me, but Buckle Up has its hooks in me big time. Stone always finds a way to get inside my head.

DissidentRival74

The line/verse that sticks with me the most off this album is:
"Caught the butterfly broke it's wing and put it on display.
Stripped of all it's beauty once it could not fly high away."

I don't know - just love those lyrics in so many ways. So beautifully tragic....

Abe Froman

The last 90 seconds of Retrograde (favorite on the album) into River Cross is a perfect ending of the album. 

The bass kicking in at the end of WES

The bass throughout Quick Escape combined with the lyrics of this one. This song fucks!

DOTC - the entire song. I love the unique sound PJ pulled off on this one. 

Alright - I almost forget how much I love this song until it comes on. Has a great atmospheric sound

Gern Blansten

Abe Froman said:

The last 90 seconds of Retrograde (favorite on the album) into River Cross is a perfect ending of the album. 

The bass kicking in at the end of WES

The bass throughout Quick Escape combined with the lyrics of this one. This song fucks!

DOTC - the entire song. I love the unique sound PJ pulled off on this one. 

Alright - I almost forget how much I love this song until it comes on. Has a great atmospheric sound

Interesting

mfc2006

boobooliscious said:

I realize that the song takes a lot of heat, but my daughter is a neuro-ICU nurse. Add to that the fact that last week I had a slip on the tile in the bathroom and almost didn't make it to the hospital. So I realize that it's situational to me, but Buckle Up has its hooks in me big time. Stone always finds a way to get inside my head.

Love Buckle Up.

hrd2imgn

Love the da da....da da da da fa vocals in buckle up

pjhawks

agree with most of the above except Buckle Up.  Just doesn't do anything for me. Another great moment for me is the below.

Love these lines in Superblood Wolfmoon.  they flow so perfectly with the music there to me.

She was a stunner and I am stunned
The first thought and second thought was could be the one

I was a prisoner, her keys and her cuffs
Yeh, I was feeling fortunate to be locked up

But the world kept a spinning, always felt like it was ending
And love notwithstanding, we are each of us fucked

Gern Blansten

Yeah I don't connect with Buckle Up at all. I like that other people do but I just don't. Same with Let the Records Play. Stone kind of lost me on those two.

pthomn

I wish I could have heard River Cross at MSG.


I wish this moment was never ending

Abe Froman

Gern Blansten said:

Yeah I don't connect with Buckle Up at all. I like that other people do but I just don't. Same with Let the Records Play. Stone kind of lost me on those two.

I agree. I love the record but Buckle Up is by far the worst on the record. Glad others enjoy it but for me it’s a skip every time. 

mpedone

I totally understand people not liking Buckle Up. It reminds me a little of Parachutes - it's there, it's different, some people like it, I don't think anyone would have been upset if it had been left off the album.

CP218430

I enjoyed this album for all the reasons above but listening to it live (in person) and on the boots has given it a whole new level. Retrograde live is bliss and I'm beyond thankful to have heard it bleed into Last Exit in St. Louis - best moment of the tour? I didn't care for Buckle Up but that version from Quebec gave me a whole new appreciation for, just astonishing. Whoever Said is going to stand alongside Getaway and Hail Hail as the song we need to hear more. Seven O'Clock will find a cult following just like Inside Job did and the people calling it a crowd killer probably aren't wrong now but that song was the first cut that I absolutely loved on listen 1. Again, I don't know where River Cross belongs but Matt's power drumming at the end of an already emotional song is just too good to be denied. DotC is just a fascinating cut and a great song. Can I go back to how fucking good Retrograde is? Thanks for letting me do that. Quick Escape is just a ferocious unrelenting song. I love it. 

Edved82

To me, Comes Then Goes seems a pretty special song. It doesn't seem to get much love whatsoever but I love it. The last 2 minutes or so of Quick Escape is some of the heaviest stuff they've done. Love Gigaton, its a great late-career album.

lastexitlondon

For me buckle up is the only skip on the  album

Go Beavers

I just love this section from Who Ever Said:

Our freedoms fraught with danger being circumscribed
A life cut short and circumcised

A rubble of commandments from the road, step aside
A rubble of commandments in the road, step aside

demetrios

Who Ever Said & Retrograde kick ass .. LIVE!

And that ending jam of Who Ever Said .. LOVE IT!