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Post subject: Re: Backspacer: Official Album Thread
Posted: Fri February 23, 2024 1:55 pm
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Ms Harmless wrote:
whenever I think "what's my favourite song on Backspacer?" the answer my brain continues to come up with is Speed of Sound; that's something I couldn't have predicted when it was released
yeah, it's a good one. I still enjoy the Ed solo version they gave away as part of that scavenger hunt before the album came out.
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Post subject: Re: Backspacer: Official Album Thread
Posted: Fri February 23, 2024 1:56 pm
jeeeesus relax already
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I like it a lot yeah; I wish they would have released something quicker after it. This was a very fun and quick album and I needed more after it. We waited 4 years and got Lb.
Post subject: Re: Backspacer: Official Album Thread
Posted: Fri February 23, 2024 2:05 pm
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didn't mean to bottompage this.
stip wrote:
Backspacer is probably the pearl jam album I have the hardest time internally ranking. Other than Supersonic clearly being at the bottom I like all the other songs. There are some like The End or Just Breathe that are not everyday listens but if they catch me in the right frame of mind are really powerful. And everything else falls comfortably in the really good to near great category, and all of them are quite listenable. It's not a challenging album (by design) but it's far from superficial.
Great record.
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Post subject: Re: Backspacer: Official Album Thread
Posted: Fri February 23, 2024 2:14 pm
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VinylGuy wrote:
I like it a lot yeah; I wish they would have released something quicker after it. This was a very fun and quick album and I needed more after it. We waited 4 years and got Lb.
it was absolutely not an album to release and then have a four year gap
Post subject: Re: Backspacer: Official Album Thread
Posted: Fri February 23, 2024 2:44 pm
jeeeesus relax already
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 5:10 pm Posts: 36457
stip wrote:
VinylGuy wrote:
I like it a lot yeah; I wish they would have released something quicker after it. This was a very fun and quick album and I needed more after it. We waited 4 years and got Lb.
it was absolutely not an album to release and then have a four year gap
Yeah and we already had a 4 year gap with avocado so it was too much yes.
Post subject: Re: Backspacer: Official Album Thread
Posted: Wed February 28, 2024 12:28 pm
jeeeesus relax already
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stip wrote:
ive got amongst the waves -> unthought known as the sun starts to rise. that’s nice
these are both total pearl jam comfort food songs
i used to like UK, specially when the album came out. I also got it live in the 2009 tour. With time it transformed into a song i cant stand. Not sure why, but i hear the mute palm guitar thing and i already hate it.
Inverse situation with Atw...when it came out, i didnt liked it, i was expecting something heavier based on early reports about a soaring epic song or something....and it felt flat. But with time, i got to hear the groove of the songs and now i really like it.
Wish the guitar tones were more interesting though.
Post subject: Re: Backspacer: Official Album Thread
Posted: Wed February 28, 2024 12:37 pm
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VinylGuy wrote:
stip wrote:
ive got amongst the waves -> unthought known as the sun starts to rise. that’s nice
these are both total pearl jam comfort food songs
i used to like UK, specially when the album came out. I also got it live in the 2009 tour. With time it transformed into a song i cant stand. Not sure why, but i hear the mute palm guitar thing and i already hate it.
Inverse situation with Atw...when it came out, i didnt liked it, i was expecting something heavier based on early reports about a soaring epic song or something....and it felt flat. But with time, i got to hear the groove of the songs and now i really like it.
Wish the guitar tones were more interesting though.
I like that ATW grew on you based on groove; it's what I keep saying, there's an almost island / reggae feel to the drumming that fits neatly with the subject matter, it's a fave of mine; I don't think it was "trying to be Alive"; I think listeners wanted it to be and were disappointed that it wasn't
UK, I really like too; at first it was the piano I hated, I just thought it would be a million times better without the plinky plonky; I don't feel that anymore though, especially since it's turned out that elements like that are pretty unique to Backspacer (and Lightning Bolt, but treated with so much more subtlety and care here)
Post subject: Re: Backspacer: Official Album Thread
Posted: Wed February 28, 2024 12:40 pm
jeeeesus relax already
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 5:10 pm Posts: 36457
I prefer UK to Lightning Bolt, i can say that. LB was supposed to be a better, more arena oriented song and the studio version is a very pale boring version of that with a fucking fade out at the end.
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