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Post subject: Re: Backspacer: Official Album Thread
Posted: Tue April 23, 2024 12:40 am
jeeeesus relax already
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 5:10 pm Posts: 36457
RockPusher wrote:
VinylGuy wrote:
stip wrote:
Given Backspacer a listen - first pearl jam I've heard since Dark Matter. I wondered if Dark Matter would change how I think about it. Still a great album, but it certainly feels a bit more sedate. You can feel the livewire energy in the Dark Matter performances is missing. It would have really helped blow up a few of these songs, which I've always really liked (or loved) but feel like they are editing themselves
they were, they wanted to cut out a lot of what they did in ST right? a more direct and pop album. Its been a while since i listened to it and after DM i dont really want to, specially because i really dont like what Brendan did with the production and mix.
I truly believe part of this is due to keeping the integrity of demo ideas and essentially polishing turds that had the potential to be diamonds if they could have just been fucked with a bit.
yeah, im not sure really what happened, specially with the mix. But i do think, specially because the band talked about it, that his presence looms over LB a bit more, telling the band were to cut o what to do. Thats more his album i guess. And sounds awful.
Backspacer at least have the songs, and its different from the previous ones.
Post subject: Re: Backspacer: Official Album Thread
Posted: Wed May 08, 2024 11:15 pm
She / Her
Joined: Sun January 26, 2020 12:10 pm Posts: 12347 Location: Warwickshire, UK
I've pretty much fully come around on this album
divorced from all the weird events surrounding it, the uncanny valley feeling of my favourite band changing (again), the marketing decisions, the disappointment of such a "slight" sound when I wanted emotional and sonic heaviness, and definitely now that this band has restored my faith that they're still capable of that... Backspacer is just a consistently solid group of bright, fun, tightly played and produced pop songs, with a wit, and an appropriate emotional range
Post subject: Re: Backspacer: Official Album Thread
Posted: Thu May 09, 2024 12:38 am
The worst
Joined: Thu December 13, 2012 6:31 pm Posts: 40147
Ms Harmless wrote:
I've pretty much fully come around on this album
divorced from all the weird events surrounding it, the uncanny valley feeling of my favourite band changing (again), the marketing decisions, the disappointment of such a "slight" sound when I wanted emotional and sonic heaviness, and definitely now that this band has restored my faith that they're still capable of that... Backspacer is just a consistently solid group of bright, fun, tightly played and produced pop songs, with a wit, and an appropriate emotional range
Post subject: Re: Backspacer: Official Album Thread
Posted: Thu May 09, 2024 3:04 am
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Joined: Fri August 09, 2013 4:38 am Posts: 3893
stip wrote:
Ms Harmless wrote:
I've pretty much fully come around on this album
divorced from all the weird events surrounding it, the uncanny valley feeling of my favourite band changing (again), the marketing decisions, the disappointment of such a "slight" sound when I wanted emotional and sonic heaviness, and definitely now that this band has restored my faith that they're still capable of that... Backspacer is just a consistently solid group of bright, fun, tightly played and produced pop songs, with a wit, and an appropriate emotional range
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