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Post subject: Re: Pearl Jam (self titled): Official Album Thread
Posted: Tue June 27, 2023 10:11 pm
Production Police
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Kevin Davis wrote:
"No logical precedent" was probably too strong of a phrase -- I can definitely see likenesses between the pairs of songs you listed, though I would stop short of saying they sound like each other. I think all of them have prevailing aesthetic and/or musical and/or emotional qualities that make them more different than similar, but I can absolutely see what you're saying.
yeah i don't mean to be too pedantic here. But apart from DOTC, it's tough to identify anything from ST onward that I'd recognize as uncharted territory.
Post subject: Re: Pearl Jam (self titled): Official Album Thread
Posted: Tue June 27, 2023 10:47 pm
jeeeesus relax already
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 5:10 pm Posts: 36502
I loved this one when it came out, then kinda forgot about it after the amazingly good 2006 tour. But it came back very strong in 2020, and now its one of my favorites from them, not only the album but the whole phase, SNL, the magazine covers, festivals...felt they were in a very good and strong moment.
Life Waster, WWC, Comatose, Severed Hand, Parachutes, Unemployable, Big Wave, Army Reserve and Inside Job remain as favorites from their catalogue.
Post subject: Re: Pearl Jam (self titled): Official Album Thread
Posted: Wed June 28, 2023 12:24 pm
A Return To Form
Joined: Mon September 16, 2013 10:51 am Posts: 152
Lounge Lizard wrote:
I bought Avocado and 10 000 Days on the same day. Guess which record gets tons of replays from me to this day?
So... there's that.
Which one? Avocado and you love it? Or 10,000 days and you love that?
I always liked 10,000 Days, it was my first Tool release at the time but I had a new appreciation for it after Fear Inoculum came out. Wish they just cut Vigniti Tres from it too, pointless dead space for a gimmick
Post subject: Re: Pearl Jam (self titled): Official Album Thread
Posted: Wed June 28, 2023 1:34 pm
Broken Tamborine
Joined: Wed September 11, 2013 3:36 pm Posts: 487
I do wonder what the reception to S/T would have been if they'd followed through with it being a concept album / rock opera as originally planned. You can pretty much pick through the songs and work out the narrative and running order. I think Ed said that the release of American Idiot torpedoed the idea.
I do wonder what the reception to S/T would have been if they'd followed through with it being a concept album / rock opera as originally planned. You can pretty much pick through the songs and work out the narrative and running order. I think Ed said that the release of American Idiot torpedoed the idea.
Post subject: Re: Pearl Jam (self titled): Official Album Thread
Posted: Thu June 29, 2023 12:17 am
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igotworms wrote:
I do wonder what the reception to S/T would have been if they'd followed through with it being a concept album / rock opera as originally planned. You can pretty much pick through the songs and work out the narrative and running order. I think Ed said that the release of American Idiot torpedoed the idea.
he did this with the early albums, as well. ten, vs and vitalogy are all borderline concept albums w/ larger narratives.
edit: i also don't think the rock opera thing was planned, as much as it was EV just revisiting the way he tracked albums. i think 'cold confession' was intended to end the album, but 'inside job' is super important to mccready and kinda ends the story the same way.
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