Rank the Lightning Bolt tracks

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  • JTH wrote:
    "Infallible" is far and away the best of the bunch and possibly their best song (on an album) since "Nothing as it Seems."

    I'll do you one better....best album cut since Given to Fly.
  • gbpat54gbpat54 Posts: 69
    To early for me to rank....but I will say that so far the songs I'm digging the most are:
    Infallible, Swallowed Whole, Pendulum, Sirens, Yellow Moon, Getaway, My Father's Son, Mind Your Manners, Let the Records Play, Lightning Bolt, Sleeping By Myself, & Future Days.... :lol:
  • 1. Sirens
    2. Infallible
    3. Lightning Bolt
    4. Swallowed Whole
    5. Pendulum
    6. Getaway
    7. Yellow Moon
    8. Sleeping By Myself
    9. Mind Your Manners
    10. My Father's Son
    11. Future Days
    12. Let The Records Play
    One man stands alone, awaiting, for her to come home.
    Eyes are closed,.. You cannot know.
    But his heart don't seem to roam.
  • aurynsdadaurynsdad Posts: 863
    Sirens
    Pendulum
    Swallowed Whole
    Yellow Moon
    Let the Records Play
    Infallible
    Future Days
    Lightning Bolt
    Sleeping by Myself
    Getaway
    My Father's Son
    Mind Your Manners

    Risers for me lately include Future Days (the "I believe" part is blowing my mind) and Let the Records Play.
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  • achardingacharding Posts: 359
    I wanna try...

    Infallible
    Pendulum
    Yellow Moon
    Getaway
    Swallowed Whole
    My Father's Son
    Lightning Bolt
    Sirens
    Sleeping By Myself
    Let The Records Play
    Mind Your Manners
    Future Days

    I'm pretty set on the top 6...the rest move around a bit, but never past the top 6...Future days is always in last place, though.
  • Very hard to do but I will try. This is an amazing album with tons of unbelievably written songs. Wish it had been mixed differently in spots but these are going to be amazing live songs. I also will probably change my mind but here goes.

    1. Infallible -the last minute and half or so might be the best I've ever heard Ed sound on a studio recording
    2. Pendulum -I hear hints of indifference as well as of the girl and it is an amazing song
    3. Sirens -am I crazy or has no one brought up how the album version is way different than the video version? the album version has completely changed the guitars that are playing chords...has added pink floyd-y pedal steel effects during the chorus...also some changes in the vocals (or at least how they were mixed). Weird that there are 2 versions that they officially put out. If anyone knows anything about it I'd be interested to hear about it...
    4. Yellow Moon -I hear traces of light years and hard sun and this song might continue to rise on this list for me
    5. Swallowed Whole
    6. Lightning Bolt -really cool but i feel like i need at least 20 more listens before i really start knowing this song
    7. Getaway-I feel like I should have this rated higher but i can't figure out which song i could move down
    8. Future Days (wish i could figure out how to delete the piano at the beginning & end)
    9. Sleeping By Myself -being a guitarist I absolutely love the lead riff the guys created for this song...wish they didn't cut to a uke for like 5 seconds midway through the song. otherwise a really cool take on a great song ed wrote. it doesn't fit on the album but i don't care I'll always take a song the guys are willing to put out rather than cutting a track from the album
    10. Mind Your Manners-good song but i'm not a huge fan of pj's punkies song. kinda reminds of spin the black circle
    11. Let the Records Play
    12. My Father's Son
  • pdalowskypdalowsky Doncaster,UK Posts: 15,170
    really couldn't do this after 4/5 listens.

    but infallible is standing out time and time again as a masterpiece.

    Its been a long time since I liked any record by any artist right the way through

    this record is a gem
  • 1. Sirens
    2. Getaway 3.Yellow Moon 4.Infallible 5. Pendulum(this 4 songs,change all the time,not figure out how to rank them yet)
    6. Swallowed Whole
    7. Lightning Bolt
    8. Mind Your Manners
    9. My Father's Son
    10. Let The Records Play
    11. Future Days
    12. Sleeping By Myself

    this is really an awesome record..i frikkin enjoy it..
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  • JTHJTH Chicago Posts: 3,238
    JB194401 wrote:
    3. Sirens -am I crazy or has no one brought up how the album version is way different than the video version? the album version has completely changed the guitars that are playing chords...has added pink floyd-y pedal steel effects during the chorus...also some changes in the vocals (or at least how they were mixed). Weird that there are 2 versions that they officially put out. If anyone knows anything about it I'd be interested to hear about it...
    You may be crazy, but it has nothing to do with noticing differences between the album version and the video version.

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  • YLed2YLed2 Posts: 5,534
    Let The Records Play I feel is already an underrated song I feel like on this album. I still don't have my official ranking out there yet, but I think LTRP will be somewhere in the middle tier and I think it's kind of a cool, different bluesy song like they've never done before.

    Plus, you know Mike is going to be all over the place during this song live and will be spinning off the planet with a shredding, extended bluesy solo where he goes absolutely ape shit.
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