SIRIUSXM PJ RADIO YIELD 15TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL

SiriusXM Pearl Jam Radio celebrates the 15th Anniversary of Yield this weekend with The Faithfull Forum - a special in depth, fan-involved program. We'll be opening up the phone lines for your participation and recollections on this classic album along with live tracks, b-sides and other goodies related to Yield.

Tune in Saturday Feb. 2nd at 4pm EST/1pm PST for this live special.

One of pearl jams finest albums. The last great brendon obrien/pearl jam album.

Obriens work on tracks like faithful/no way/all those yesterday's are sublime IMHO

faithful (and In Hiding) have always struck me as songs that sound half finished.

Faithful is one of the best songs this band has ever written

Faithful is one of the best songs this band has ever written

So good, starts slow, picks up into a pretty rocking song and finishes back slow like it started, and though the music is what hooked me first on this one, the lyrics and Eds delivery really makes it for me now.
Plus my wife and i have a line from it on our wedding rings

It's taken me a long time to sort of "get" (and I hate that word in this context) Yield. It didn't click with me until last year. But I never felt like any of the songs (save Red Dot) felt half finished. What about those songs makes you feel that way?

I'm sure I have probably articulated this on the old board somewhere better than I will here. Even though they have the rich sound that the rest of Yield does, there is something about them that always seemed thin--like they were waiting to layer the really good parts on. Other mid tempo songs like GTF (which I love) and No Way (which I don't) still found much fuller than these do.

As was pretty astutely observed in that other thread, this is really the point where PJ started writing more subdued anthems (in a lot of ways GTF is the last of that old guard--or at least the hinge between these two periods) and I started to lose some interest in them (post vitalogy there are really only 4 PJ anthems that I love, for a certain definition of anthem). But still, No Way is hardly an old fashioned PJ anthem and it still feels like there is just more going on there musically than these songs. I think I miss the layering in them that are in most of the other really good ones.


I am also don't really like the verses (or the main riff, to be honest) in In Hiding and Faithful has, after a very promising first verse, sometimes seems a little too ham fisted for my tastes. Also not a tremendous fan of how Eddie sounds on either of these songs.

I feel like I tend to agree with your opinions more than most other people on the board, but I don't get this at all.

Well, maybe just this tiny bit. The lyrics for In Hiding feel a little ... first draft to me. I like them well enough and I get the idea, but they're a bit awkward and it feels like it all doesn't come together very well. Still like the song quite a bit despite that, and musically I think that song is wonderful.

this album is so effin' good

Yeah, this...Vitalogy used to be my clear number one, but I think Yield may have overtaken it.

Yeah, this...Vitalogy used to be my clear number one, but I think Yield may have overtaken it.