Lighting Bolt album cover - what does it mean to you?

VV97517
VV97517 Posts: 35
edited October 2013 in The Porch
Curious to hear opinion on the album artwork.

Lots of symbolism going on...

Mind your manners..
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  • veddertown
    veddertown Scotland Posts: 5,260
    Through the eyes of holiday whisky an evil cyclops in a yashmak with devil horns and some kind of antenna transmitting something, possibly Islamic propaganda? Can this be deemed offensive? I don't know? Is a yashmac the waterproof version? :? The album will be great and will have some cutting edge politics in the lyrics. PJ have returned the way we love them.... 8-)
    Like a book among the many on a shelf...

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  • VV97517
    VV97517 Posts: 35
    Well said...

    The waiting drove me mad... I can't wait to hear the album and more importantly read the lyrics.
  • PJ1973
    PJ1973 Winston-Salem, NC Posts: 421
    The lightning bolt is Pearl Jam's final acceptance that they are this generation's Grateful Dead, and in tribute to the Steal Your Face symbol, they went with eyeball and lightning. :)
  • RiotZact
    RiotZact Posts: 6,298
    I'm really not sure what to think of it other than it looks awesome! I've always been a sucker for black red and white.
  • gfnk001
    gfnk001 Posts: 652
    The end is near, or at least to this nut job.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6dmW_RP6g4
    living in the present tense.

    http://boe.jeff.k12.wv.us/education/staff/staff.php?sectionid=948&
  • PJ1973
    PJ1973 Winston-Salem, NC Posts: 421
    It all makes sense now! How could I have been so blind? :roll:

    I miss the X-Files....
  • danny
    danny Posts: 2,283
    aint got a clue
    danny d
  • PJ Fan est. 1990
    PJ Fan est. 1990 Posts: 1,788
    It's all a reference to religious ideology. The cyclops from Greek mythology (or at least the Odyssey) The fact there's a giant eye represents the all knowing, all seeing, omnipresence of God. The lightning bolt is a symbol for Zeus, which has culturally defused into the lightning bolt referring to the power Gods have on the world. The antennas form a cross and the crescent moon represents Islam. The sound waves represent that all of these world ideologies have been transmitted across radio and television around the world, not necessarily accurately either. We all have pre-conceived notions and we have media and pundits to blame. And to bring it full circle, the over all image is of a monster. Not necessarily the religions being the monster, but the negative extremists (WBC, Terrorists, etc.) getting all of this attention turning people off to these belief systems. The media is included in this monster.

    Mind Your Manners is a perfect example. I believe it's about the WBC.
  • PJ51390
    PJ51390 Atlanta Posts: 728
    It appears to me to be the work of Jeff. Which I like, but if you make it Orange and take away some of the detail, it looks just like RNDM art, even the PJ font is very similar to RNDM. I was hoping for something to be unique to PJ, not so much like RNDM.
  • broloco
    broloco Posts: 1,237
    Besides being very modern, bold, and graphic I see a small homage to surfer Mark Richards whose main sponsor was Lightning Bolt surfboards (we are even getting a boardshort collab, too!):

    9277188356_10f333085c_z.jpg
  • rearviewross
    rearviewross Posts: 3,055
    Clearly a sign of the SS. That along with the gun, crucifix and blood clearly indicate that the band are in fact closet Nazis. There is just no denying it.
    Forced to endure, what I cannot forgive.
  • badbrains
    badbrains Posts: 10,255
    It's a homage to the bad brains first album. I still dnt know how to fucken upload pics with my iPhone. Wtf!
  • PJ Fan est. 1990
    PJ Fan est. 1990 Posts: 1,788
    rearviewross wrote:
    Clearly a sign of the SS. That along with the gun, crucifix and blood clearly indicate that the band are in fact closet Nazis. There is just no denying it.

    That's the single cover art, not the album...but good eye though! lol
  • VV97517
    VV97517 Posts: 35
    gfnk001 wrote:
    The end is near, or at least to this nut job.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6dmW_RP6g4

    I saw this video as well...

    Things that make you go hmm...

    I believe it's a take on religion as well and the idea of knowing what we think we know vs the truth.whatever that is
  • washedinblack91
    washedinblack91 Posts: 3,079
    PJ Fan est. 1990 wrote:
    rearviewross wrote:
    Clearly a sign of the SS. That along with the gun, crucifix and blood clearly indicate that the band are in fact closet Nazis. There is just no denying it.

    That's the single cover art, not the album...but good eye though! lol
    could also apply to the album cover as well, with the black, red, and white.
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  • ItIsAllAboutPJ
    ItIsAllAboutPJ S.B., CA Posts: 829
    gfnk001 wrote:
    The end is near, or at least to this nut job.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6dmW_RP6g4

    :lol: That's the weirdest looking dog I've ever seen!
    Even when I squint I can't see what he sees. Some people have way too much time on their hands.
  • Go Beavers
    Go Beavers Posts: 9,702
    ItIsAllAboutPJ wrote:
    gfnk001 wrote:
    The end is near, or at least to this nut job.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6dmW_RP6g4

    :lol: That's the weirdest looking dog I've ever seen!
    Even when I squint I can't see what he sees. Some people have way too much time on their hands.

    What's even more interesting is how he is completely sincere and believes it 100%, when it's obviously one of those situations where someone has their conclusion made up, and then looks for confirmation of that belief in everything they look at. I'm mean, clearly that's a pig on the album art, not a dog. But I'm sure we could connect pigs to the devil in some way. I wonder if the guy know Ed lived in San Diego? Hmmmm.....wait a second. Maybe the guy really is on to something :lol:
  • PJ Fan est. 1990
    PJ Fan est. 1990 Posts: 1,788
    VV97517 wrote:
    gfnk001 wrote:
    The end is near, or at least to this nut job.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6dmW_RP6g4

    I saw this video as well...

    Things that make you go hmm...

    I believe it's a take on religion as well and the idea of knowing what we think we know vs the truth.whatever that is

    EDDIE VEDDER WAS LIVING IN SAN DIEGO WHEN HE FIRST STARTED WITH PEARL JAM!!! THIS GUY SPEAKS THE TRUTH!!!!
  • PJ Fan est. 1990
    PJ Fan est. 1990 Posts: 1,788
    Go Beavers wrote:
    ItIsAllAboutPJ wrote:
    gfnk001 wrote:
    The end is near, or at least to this nut job.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6dmW_RP6g4

    :lol: That's the weirdest looking dog I've ever seen!
    Even when I squint I can't see what he sees. Some people have way too much time on their hands.

    What's even more interesting is how he is completely sincere and believes it 100%, when it's obviously one of those situations where someone has their conclusion made up, and then looks for confirmation of that belief in everything they look at. I'm mean, clearly that's a pig on the album art, not a dog. But I'm sure we could connect pigs to the devil in some way. I wonder if the guy know Ed lived in San Diego? Hmmmm.....wait a second. Maybe the guy really is on to something :lol:

    The thing we all forget is that it will never be known the exact date and time of the rapture. I'm pretty sure that that is written in the bible. People who try to figure it out are wasting their time. lol
  • rearviewross
    rearviewross Posts: 3,055
    PJ Fan est. 1990 wrote:
    VV97517 wrote:
    gfnk001 wrote:
    The end is near, or at least to this nut job.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6dmW_RP6g4

    I saw this video as well...

    Things that make you go hmm...

    I believe it's a take on religion as well and the idea of knowing what we think we know vs the truth.whatever that is

    EDDIE VEDDER WAS LIVING IN SAN DIEGO WHEN HE FIRST STARTED WITH PEARL JAM!!! THIS GUY SPEAKS THE TRUTH!!!!

    So let me get this straight. The ancient Egyptians had images of Christ in their hieroglyphs? It all makes sense if you let go of all rational thought and intelligence.
    Forced to endure, what I cannot forgive.

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