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LoathedVermin72 wrote:
All this Ten talk got me to give this a spin yesterday. Man, what a fucking album. Eddie's voice really was incredible in its prime. Every song is great. Sometimes I almost think it's crazy that we rank any other PJ album above this (I still do, but sometimes it does seem crazy). For some reason, "Alive" hit me hard emotionally this time, despite having heard it 500 times before.
this relisten reminded me just how incredible Jeremy is
I had the burn out phase a long time ago and then i listened to a boot and realize how good the song is. From then, its just a song i cant skip. It also helps that the band plays it with the same fucking emotion since day 1.
Jeremy, Rearviewmirror, Do the Evolution, Dance, and Seven O’Clock are the primary instances where I feel like an above-the-grade Pearl Jam song was matched to a perfect in-studio delivery and was then also filtered through purely elevatory production choices.
I think over the many years I've heard this record (it was the first PJ album I heard, though probably not the first I became obsessed with), Jeremy, Oceans and Release have floated to the top in my opinions of the songs.
Joined: Sun January 26, 2020 12:10 pm Posts: 11706 Location: Warwickshire, UK
McParadigm wrote:
Jeremy, Rearviewmirror, Do the Evolution, Dance, and Seven O’Clock are the primary instances where I feel like an above-the-grade Pearl Jam song was matched to a perfect in-studio delivery and was then also filtered through purely elevatory production choices.
pretty awesome that we can name some Gigaton songs among the greats!
Joined: Mon March 30, 2020 11:59 pm Posts: 1421 Location: sleep sac in a bivouac
Ms Harmless wrote:
McParadigm wrote:
Jeremy, Rearviewmirror, Do the Evolution, Dance, and Seven O’Clock are the primary instances where I feel like an above-the-grade Pearl Jam song was matched to a perfect in-studio delivery and was then also filtered through purely elevatory production choices.
pretty awesome that we can name some Gigaton songs among the greats!
No kidding!
_________________ Hear the sound...In the distance, now...Could be thunder...Or a crowd
i'm not sure i'll ever listen to this album again unless its on the radio. i feel like i can name a live version of every song off the top of my head i like more. most of them are going to be unplugged, but the european tour for ten, the live tv performances, they all top the album for me. most of it is eddie vedder. early in their career he was one of the best live singers ever.
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 2:02 am Posts: 15145 Location: Gigatown
digster wrote:
I think over the many years I've heard this record (it was the first PJ album I heard, though probably not the first I became obsessed with), Jeremy, Oceans and Release have floated to the top in my opinions of the songs.
Joined: Sun January 26, 2020 12:10 pm Posts: 11706 Location: Warwickshire, UK
I think I just realised something I've been trying to articulate about what is "the best" about Ten
because even though it's not my favourite Pearl Jam album anymore, I feel in my very soul that it is "the best" at many things, and -- in this moment anyway -- the best at one thing in particular
I think this album has the highest number of exciting *song intros* of any album; regardless of where the songs go -- and a few I find anti-climactic as an older woman -- they all sound so exciting, so gripping, and so promising, when they start up
"Alive", "Jeremy", "Porch", "Deep"
they all say "get in bitch, we're going for a ride"
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