albums I'd consider No Code being maybe 2nd to: Vitalogy, and um...maybe Yield...maybe Vs.
― Al (sitcom), Sunday, 13 March 2005 23:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Sunday, 13 March 2005 23:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Sunday, 13 March 2005 23:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 13 March 2005 23:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Sunday, 13 March 2005 23:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 13 March 2005 23:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Sunday, 13 March 2005 23:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Sunday, 13 March 2005 23:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Sunday, 13 March 2005 23:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Sunday, 13 March 2005 23:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Sunday, 13 March 2005 23:52 (nineteen years ago) link
one thing I remember seeming novel (when I was 12, bear with me) about Vedder was that bellow. I'd never heard anyone so emotional, so involved in the singing. I have to assume it will be at least 20 years before a 12 year old can say that again.
― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 13 March 2005 23:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Sunday, 13 March 2005 23:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Sunday, 13 March 2005 23:53 (nineteen years ago) link
(x-post yet again)
― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 13 March 2005 23:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 13 March 2005 23:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Sunday, 13 March 2005 23:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Sunday, 13 March 2005 23:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Monday, 14 March 2005 00:00 (nineteen years ago) link
- The first track is great and I remember learning the simple guitar part as one of the first tunes I learnt to play. Hail, Hail kinda ruins the effect and I always skip that song.
- Tracks like Who You Are and I'm Open along with a lot of what was on Vitalogy really make me wonder why Pearl Jam have gone down in history as the "safe" AOR alternative to Nirvana who were wild and crazy. Nirvana rocked for sure but after the first two albums Pearl Jam were making some pretty odd recordings. Who Are You is NOT a grunge song for fucks sake. It's barely even a rock song.
- Off He Goes does sound like Bruce Springsteen. Very maudling.
- Red Mosquito used to be used as the background music for Talk Radio.
- Lukin is PROPER ROCKING!!!
- Around The Bend is Pearl Jam's All The Time In The World
- I'm Open is cringeworthy but I thought it was cool when I was 15.
errr... and those are my rubbish notes.
― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 14 March 2005 00:04 (nineteen years ago) link
sometimes -> smile is great. dead spots = "i'm open" and the last two or three trax.
never saw why pearl jam were considered a third-rate nirvana--they always sounded much more like a third-rate neil young + crazy horse to me.
― fauxhemian (fauxhemian), Monday, 14 March 2005 01:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 14 March 2005 01:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 14 March 2005 01:48 (nineteen years ago) link
I'm sure you realized this, but if you fold the cardboard digipak so it lays flat, you can see the outline of a pyramid with an eye in the middle.
― Jeff Reguilon (Talent Explosion), Monday, 14 March 2005 01:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 14 March 2005 02:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Simon H. (Simon H.), Monday, 14 March 2005 02:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Monday, 14 March 2005 02:19 (nineteen years ago) link
Man, I'm really surprised about the Vitalogy luv, as, from what I recall, there were a few stunt tracks ("Bugs", "foxymophandlefivedollars") that perved the rest of the batch. And "Nothingman" did no damn thang for moi. But, yeah, most of it is nice.
I'm a Yield / Binaural man, myself (w/ Binaural as the better album, but Yield being my fave), & No Code is close behind. Bless you, Al.
― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 14 March 2005 02:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Monday, 14 March 2005 02:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Monday, 14 March 2005 02:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 14 March 2005 02:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Monday, 14 March 2005 03:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― marc h., Monday, 14 March 2005 03:29 (nineteen years ago) link
Riot Act is great, but I think the problem with the last couple of albums has been that they're getting into Grateful Dead territory where the live shows surpass the album in terms of importance, and the album is just there to mark the beginning of a new tour. It's in their live shows that the new songs come into their own, and on the album they sound like it's just bare bones. "You Are" is a great song, but the album version pales in comparison to how it sounds live. Then again, maybe it's just that I've become a Deadhead. *weeps*
― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 14 March 2005 06:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Monday, 14 March 2005 08:32 (nineteen years ago) link
OTM Vegemite Grrl. I'm far from a fan, but I've seen'em live the last couple of tours. They're one of few acts who draw inspiration by their opening acts; when Sleater Kinney and Sonic Youth opened for them on the last couple of tours PJ were incredible.
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 14 March 2005 14:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Monday, 14 March 2005 15:07 (nineteen years ago) link
I think Binaural is their most underrated album - not a real dud track in the lot.
― Simon H. (Simon H.), Monday, 14 March 2005 15:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 14 March 2005 15:16 (nineteen years ago) link
I remember selling Bi... back as soon as I heard a live record that had most of the songs on it and thinking "wow, maybe I'll just buy the live records as they come out, the songs sound better than on the studio records."
― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 14 March 2005 16:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― stevie (stevie), Monday, 14 March 2005 16:19 (nineteen years ago) link
BRING ON THE DOPEY ONE-LINERS HATERS
― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 14 March 2005 16:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Monday, 14 March 2005 16:29 (nineteen years ago) link
I'm tempted to say part of the problem w/ Vs. is the sequencing. Starting w/ "Go", and THEN following w/ "Animal", it's a bit too much. And then jupming from GET OUT OF MY FUCKING FACE to "Indifference" ... meh. Still have a soft spot for "Rats", though, which quotes Michael Jackson's "Ben", doesn't it? Oh, Edward - so pointed, your social commentary.
GOT A GUNFACT I GOT TWOTHAT'S OK MANCAUSE I LOVE GODGLORIFIED VERSION OF A PELLET GUNFEEL SO MANLYWHEN AAAAAAAAAAAAARMED
― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 14 March 2005 16:51 (nineteen years ago) link
"Sometimes": wow, it's been awhile since I've been this up close and personal with the veddster.
"Hail Hail": wow, we produce the fuck out of rock these days. we also don't sound this incomprehensible.
― miccio (miccio), Monday, 14 March 2005 16:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Monday, 14 March 2005 17:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Monday, 14 March 2005 17:03 (nineteen years ago) link
"Who We Are": I haven't heard this track since it came out ("Smile" and "Hail, Hail" were the radio picks, really). Al was fuckin' right about the drums. WTF. this is so hippie.
― miccio (miccio), Monday, 14 March 2005 17:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Monday, 14 March 2005 17:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Monday, 14 March 2005 17:07 (nineteen years ago) link
I have no idea! I don't think I've gotten within light years of any Pearl Jam side project. All my drinking money these days gets spent on keeping up with members of Veruca Salt.
― David R., Tuesday, 24 July 2007 15:07 (sixteen years ago) link
I saw a Brad music video on 120 Minutes once. It was a gentle AC piano ballad with Shawn Smith asking you to think what makes you laugh and think what makes you sing. Stone was putting some sparse wacka-chicka on it.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 15:14 (sixteen years ago) link
All I remember about the Mad Season song they'd play on the radio is jesus christ I hate Layne Stanley.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 15:15 (sixteen years ago) link
RIVER OF DECEIT
oh fuck you miccio
― David R., Tuesday, 24 July 2007 15:19 (sixteen years ago) link
"the only direction to go is down"
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh
― David R., Tuesday, 24 July 2007 15:20 (sixteen years ago) link
I remember a Brad song with lots of slap-bass.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 15:20 (sixteen years ago) link
haha yeah I think Stone had to get his funk jones elsewhere once Pearl Jam banished its wah wah pedal/touring with RHCP/"Dirty Frank" beginnings post-Vs..
― Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 15:38 (sixteen years ago) link
still a great record!!
― ian, Friday, 18 December 2009 22:22 (fourteen years ago) link
they were on an episode of Austin City Limits recently, and Eddie did "Lukin" ACOUSTIC WITH A STRING SECTION and they also played "Red Mosquito" w/ Ben Harper on slide guitar, it was like the whole thing was geared toward No Code geeks like me.
― some dude, Friday, 18 December 2009 22:24 (fourteen years ago) link
weird that probably my 2 most enthusiastic threads ever (this & Philadelphia Freeway) were revived on the same day.
― some dude, Friday, 18 December 2009 22:27 (fourteen years ago) link
"Smile" sounds great.
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 March 2011 13:47 (thirteen years ago) link