let's talk about lightning bolt's wonderful rainbow

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

i don't have many clear thoughts about this album; but i've been listening to it three times a day for the last couple of weeks, and i don't see myself stopping anytime soon. it lifts my mood, makes me dance... easily album of the year so far.

so, what do you all think? is their earlier stuff as good? what else sounds like this?

― toby (tsg20), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 14:18 (twenty-three years ago)

link to lightning bolt side project
link to thread discussing ruins, magma, luttenbachers, godheadsilo, lightning bolt, etc

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 14:22 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah but there's v little LB talk on that thread!

― toby (tsg20), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 14:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Wonderful Rainbow is great as is Ride the Skies. The s/t album is just ok... it has good moments and stuff that's not as catchy as the later stuff. Ride the Skies tends to get on my nerves for being too same-sounding in places. Wonderful Rainbow is more diverse.

Search:

Two Towers
Duel in the Deep
Assassins
On Fire

The only song I don't listen to is Dracula Mountain because I had the mp3 for a long time.

I really love seeing "On Fire" and "13 Monsters" live.

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 14:30 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/l/lightning-bolt/wonderful-rainbow.shtml

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 14:46 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.stylusmagazine.com/musicreviews/lightning_bolt-wonderful_rainbow.shtml
http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/599

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 14:50 (twenty-three years ago)

This is a record that I am completely curious about. I wasn't convinced of the greatness of "Ride the Skies" and haven't picked up "Wonderful Rainbow" yet. I agree the s/t is only ok. Should I get "Rainbow"? what's new and different about it? Actually I have heard "Dracula Mountain" and do like it...

― scott m (mcd), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 15:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Melissa Maerz's Voice piece about it is stunningly great. Better than the album, even.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 15:56 (twenty-three years ago)

I hear JBR's remix of that article is even better! But it's a promo release only.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 16:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yanc3y? url?

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 16:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Wow, it is good.

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0310/maerz.php

― scott m (mcd), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 16:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Really good. Paragraph three is my favorite.

Haven't heard the album though (the disadvantages of no longer working in a record store...)

― die9o (dhadis), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 16:24 (twenty-three years ago)

If that piece doesn't make the Da Capo book I give up.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 16:25 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought it sucked.

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 16:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Thanks for the input, J-Dub!

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 16:32 (twenty-three years ago)

*reads the review*...that's overkill, sorry. If that's the point, it sucked.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 16:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Maybe it's better if you like the record. I haven't heard it yet.

― dleone (dleone), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 16:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Neither have I, though I do like what Lightning Bolt I heard. If the review was half that length or something I'd think it was brilliant, but by the end it's just looped back on it itself. "Extreme! EXTREME! EXTREME!!!!" Yes, thank you.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 16:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Some of the overkill would have made more sense for RTS

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 16:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Ned - what did you mean by "If that's the point"?

It made me want to buy the record, definitely. I liked the review a lot because I reacted to it. It's like the Invisibl Scratch Picklz of record reviews.

― scott m (mcd), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 16:40 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm saying that because I think she's got the rush of Lightning Bolt's music right in print, and that's hard to do. Conceptually I think she's trying to aim for the equivalent of what the heck it can be at its best -- a wonderful thing to aim at -- but I think this example just grinds itself out. The point was made so early on everything else was repetition rather than extrapolation (or what was extrapolation could have been better foregrounded).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 16:42 (twenty-three years ago)

A LB article without a Fort Thunder mention clearly is not giving enough context.

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 16:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Ned - That's a good point, I see what you mean re: the review. Maybe that's exactly what Lighting Bolt's albums do, too. How fitting. While I liked "Ride the Skies" an awful lot, it wore on me rather quickly. I really like the idea of Lightning Bolt and I want to like their records. I guess Sonic Youth ran into similar problems pre-Sister, didn't they ....oops did I just compare LB to SY?????!?!?!

― scott m (mcd), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 17:08 (twenty-three years ago)

God forbid Lightning Bolt escape their "context".

― Kris (aqueduct), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 17:23 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah to go by ilm, lb has some of the lamest fans evah. anyway, it's my favorite alb of the year so far

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 17:27 (twenty-three years ago)

OH NO JESS HATES ME :(:(

Way to be a winner!

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 17:42 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.pataphysics-lab.com/cgi-bin/cart.cgi?item_id=521&action=showitem

fwap.
s.

― snarf, Tuesday, 4 March 2003 18:12 (twenty-three years ago)

the above review (posted by snarf! snarf!) is believing.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 18:31 (twenty-three years ago)

jess, I think you're confusing LB fans with Sugarbabes fans. :)

― jack cole (jackcole), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 18:42 (twenty-three years ago)

I saw Chippendale play what I would consider to be a straight jazz set today, with sax accompaniment. It was stunning. (Jon & Ian - sorry, he wasn't supposed to play, he decided at the last minute to borrow another band's kit and play with the sax guy. About twenty people were there.) It was the furthest from his normal style I've ever seen him stray.

― Dave Fischer, Wednesday, 5 March 2003 06:29 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't have much to add except that I bought this album yesterday and it exploded my head. So good.

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Thursday, 6 March 2003 17:50 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

Pointless revival just to say OH FUCK IT'S SO GOOD I wish I'd bought it earlier. So FULL and loud and thick and last time I thought Chippendale was doing most of the work but this time it's about equal or maybe even Gibson's in charge, doing huge dumb great riffs w/C. doing precision detail work oh man I like it lots.

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Monday, 6 September 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I just downloaded it yesterday. I think that it is both wonderful and a rainbow.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 6 September 2004 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I have not listened to it yet.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 6 September 2004 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

It's more an album than a rainbow, but it IS wonderful.

― Wonderful Album (Andrew Thames), Monday, 6 September 2004 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think it's anything like as odd as that Maerz review makes out, if it was aiming at a paraphrase of the rec in text.

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Monday, 6 September 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think Lightning Bolt sounds like Metalica unlike JESS HARVELL

― MATH BLASTER MYSTERY! (ex machina), Monday, 6 September 2004 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I think the crash cymbal was mixed too quietly :/

― MATH BLASTER MYSTERY! (ex machina), Monday, 6 September 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

They need Zorn or Albini to produce them.

― MATH BLASTER MYSTERY! (ex machina), Monday, 6 September 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

i played this at work the other day for a few minutes but was shouted down

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 6 September 2004 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)

they didnt like when i played the happy hardcore record either, but i refused to let them take that off

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 6 September 2004 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Once again the people must be FORCED TO ROCK.

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Monday, 6 September 2004 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.cinema.com/image_lib/634_2178_thumb.jpg

IS THIS YOU, JESS?

― MATH BLASTER MYSTERY! (ex machina), Monday, 6 September 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

oh you can do better than that

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 6 September 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 6 September 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

actually, maybe not

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 6 September 2004 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

do you dislike Belle and Sebastian? XPOST

― MATH BLASTER MYSTERY! (ex machina), Monday, 6 September 2004 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

i do not.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 6 September 2004 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

hee hee i can't wait til my w01f 3y3z review leaks to ilm...i'll never hear the end of it.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 6 September 2004 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

My roommate plays this a lot lately. It is a cool thing to be distracted by.

― Sonny, Ah!, Monday, 6 September 2004 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

They were awesome as fuck in Williamsburg on Saturday and yeah, this album rule hard.

― Reed Rosenberg (reed), Monday, 6 September 2004 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I like it too.

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Monday, 6 September 2004 19:14 (twenty-one years ago)

hee hee i can't wait til my w01f 3y3z review leaks to ilm...i'll never hear the end of it.

-- jess

So now reviews are leaking?

― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 6 September 2004 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Jess in an inflated sense of importance shocka

― MATH BLASTER MYSTERY! (ex machina), Monday, 6 September 2004 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't heard any other Lightning Bolt records but I bought this last fall and I'm suprised I still dig it to the extent that I do. They're one of the few bands these days I actually want to see live.

― herbert hebert (herbert hebert), Monday, 6 September 2004 20:12 (twenty-one years ago)

everyone starting from age 3 and up should be required to listen to this by law. maybe then people would have some common sense.

― seahorse genius (seahorse genius), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 13:58 (twenty-one years ago)

OTM. fuckin' CLASSIC.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

i sold it after a week, i'm more partial to "13 monsters".

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
the sign of someone who does not collect

― dean? (deangulberry), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 16:20 (twenty-one years ago)

i can lead you through the zone gygax

― MATH BLASTER MYSTERY! (ex machina), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

THEY WERE SO NOT AWESOME AS FUCK IN WILLIAMSBURG ON SATURDAY.

xpost

― ddb (ddb), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

That middle drone in "2 Towers" is some of the best music I've ever heard

― President Evil, Saturday, 15 September 2007 08:33 (eighteen years ago)

heavier than heavy

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Sunday, 16 September 2007 01:18 (eighteen years ago)

this album is way too flowery

― CaptainLorax, Monday, 17 September 2007 01:08 (eighteen years ago)

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.