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View Poll Results: Favorite Album
Wonderful Rainbow 20 46.51%
Ride the Skies 8 18.60%
Hypermagic Mountain 12 27.91%
Lightning Bolt 3 6.98%
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Old 07.24.2008, 05:50 AM   #41
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I listened to the self-titled album a few times last night for the first time. I have to say, it is pretty great, even though the sound is not that focused or far from perfected.

guess my favourite Lightning Bolt albums would go:
1. Wonderful Rainbow
2. Lightning Bolt
3. Ride The Skies
4. Hypermagic Mountain
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Old 07.24.2008, 06:40 AM   #42
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i love a bit of hypermagic mountain
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Old 07.24.2008, 06:45 AM   #43
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I like them okay. I only have WR and HM. HM is cool because the 4th side is artwork etched in a blank side of vinyl.
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Old 07.24.2008, 07:56 AM   #44
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I voted for "Ride The Skies". Lightning Bolt are one of my fave live acts, full stop. They're coming back to the UK in October - hooray.
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Old 07.24.2008, 08:46 AM   #45
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Old 07.24.2008, 09:17 AM   #46
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ok i'd appreciate a little detail here on how hypermagic mountain and wonderful rainbow differ since they seem to polarise opinion so intriguingly.
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Old 07.24.2008, 10:11 AM   #47
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hypermagic is intense the whole way through and features lots of parts and more insane drumming/riffing. Also, the production is really.. um... acquired. Haha. Features a good stretch of just amazing songs; in fact I'd say almost every song on this album is a classic.

Wonderful Rainbow is a better sounding album that doesn't seem to hit you over the head as much, though the first few songs are all quite good, including "2 Towers" which is mostly one riff played for 7 minutes. Really awesome song and it definitely captures what makes Lightning Bolt so special. The last 4 or so songs on the album, however, feel really sluggish and mundane and don't hold the momentum, power, or intelligence of the rest of their work.. at least to me. If you ever hear someone pick their favorite song from the album, it's usually one of the first 5, so I think people agree to an extent.
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Old 07.24.2008, 11:10 AM   #48
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hypermagic mountain has a bit more melodies and changes in the songs while wonderful rainbow is more repetitive.
dead cowboy is their best song IMO.
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Old 07.24.2008, 11:12 AM   #49
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yes.

dead cowboy.
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Old 07.24.2008, 11:27 AM   #50
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Dead Cowboy is insane and the lyrics are hilarious for anyone who has bothered to look them up.
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Old 07.25.2008, 03:26 AM   #51
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thanks folks, i think hypermagic mountain sounds the most like my cup of tea. Amazon go!
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Old 07.25.2008, 03:40 PM   #52
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