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Post subject: Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Yield
Posted: Fri April 05, 2024 1:09 pm
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liebzz wrote:
Farmer John wrote:
liebzz wrote:
This one is next on the list, so we’ll cover:
Yield: Brain of J, No Way, Faithfull, Given to Fly, Wishlist, Pilate, Do the Evolution, red dot , MFC, Low Light, In Hiding, Push Me Pull Me, All Those Yesterdays
B-sides: Given to Fly (instrumental) (PJ20), You (Lost Dogs), Leatherman (Given to Fly single), Whale Song (Lost Dogs), Last Kiss (single), Soldier of Love (single)
Live: Give Way - Release, Brain of J, Animal, Faithfull, In My Tree, I Got Id, Corduroy, Even Flow, Spin the Black Circle, Given to Fly, Hail Hail, MFC, State of Love and Trust, Do the Evolution, Alive, Black, Immortality
You should replace "You" from Lost Dogs (with Matt) with "U' from the Wishlist single (with Jack)
Agreed, except U is not on Spotify, which is lame.
Yeah that's a shame. At least they have Leatherman on there
Post subject: Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Yield
Posted: Fri April 05, 2024 1:11 pm
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Farmer John wrote:
liebzz wrote:
Farmer John wrote:
liebzz wrote:
This one is next on the list, so we’ll cover:
Yield: Brain of J, No Way, Faithfull, Given to Fly, Wishlist, Pilate, Do the Evolution, red dot , MFC, Low Light, In Hiding, Push Me Pull Me, All Those Yesterdays
B-sides: Given to Fly (instrumental) (PJ20), You (Lost Dogs), Leatherman (Given to Fly single), Whale Song (Lost Dogs), Last Kiss (single), Soldier of Love (single)
Live: Give Way - Release, Brain of J, Animal, Faithfull, In My Tree, I Got Id, Corduroy, Even Flow, Spin the Black Circle, Given to Fly, Hail Hail, MFC, State of Love and Trust, Do the Evolution, Alive, Black, Immortality
You should replace "You" from Lost Dogs (with Matt) with "U' from the Wishlist single (with Jack)
Agreed, except U is not on Spotify, which is lame.
Yeah that's a shame. At least they have Leatherman on there
U is the superior version full stop.
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Post subject: Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Yield
Posted: Fri April 05, 2024 3:56 pm
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What makes Yield such a delight? It’s all in the timing. For one thing, there’s the matter of the band’s internal dynamics. They had actually become friends. (Given their brush with blinding stardom, it’s forgivable that it took them seven years.) This combined with their musical familiarity lends the record a tightness that comes across totally effortless.
Mike McCready and Stone Gossard truly find a great blend as a four-armed guitar monster. Gone is the standard division of labor (Stone’s arena-sized riffs driving Mike’s blues-drenched soloing). Instead, you have a record stacked with great guitar parts woven into a perfect tapestry. They spent Vitalogy and No Code dismantling the Pearl Jam™ guitar logic and Yield is the fruit of good labor.
Eddie Vedder’s voice is also at its on-record peak. He had matured past the soaring baritone that made early Pearl Jam so iconic (and then so imitated, and then so parodied), and he hadn’t yet reached the point where years of screaming his lungs out on tour took their toll. He’s singing at the peak of his dynamic and tonal range and it’s like a vintage tube amp—ranging from warm and rich to a broken-up growl depending on how hard he hits it. If the last time you heard Eddie Vedder sing was “Daughter”, you owe it to yourself to listen to “Brain of J”.
Then there’s the rhythm section. Admittedly, this is the area in which I am least articulate, but I will say that Jack Irons is my favorite of Pearl Jam’s many drummers. Instead of Dave Abbruzzese's always huge all the time playing or Matt Cameron’s overly-intellectual approach, Jack Irons is expressive, a little off kilter, and always locked into exactly what the song needs. Faithfull is probably the best drum track on any Pearl Jam record. Then there's Jeff Ament. He isn’t putting on a bass technique clinic. He’s just laying down a bottom end that’s so consistently spot on that it’s almost subliminal.
What makes Yield such a delight? It’s all in the timing. For one thing, there’s the matter of the band’s internal dynamics. They had actually become friends. (Given their brush with blinding stardom, it’s forgivable that it took them seven years.) This combined with their musical familiarity lends the record a tightness that comes across totally effortless.
Mike McCready and Stone Gossard truly find a great blend as a four-armed guitar monster. Gone is the standard division of labor (Stone’s arena-sized riffs driving Mike’s blues-drenched soloing). Instead, you have a record stacked with great guitar parts woven into a perfect tapestry. They spent Vitalogy and No Code dismantling the Pearl Jam™ guitar logic and Yield is the fruit of good labor.
Eddie Vedder’s voice is also at its on-record peak. He had matured past the soaring baritone that made early Pearl Jam so iconic (and then so imitated, and then so parodied), and he hadn’t yet reached the point where years of screaming his lungs out on tour took their toll. He’s singing at the peak of his dynamic and tonal range and it’s like a vintage tube amp—ranging from warm and rich to a broken-up growl depending on how hard he hits it. If the last time you heard Eddie Vedder sing was “Daughter”, you owe it to yourself to listen to “Brain of J”.
Then there’s the rhythm section. Admittedly, this is the area in which I am least articulate, but I will say that Jack Irons is my favorite of Pearl Jam’s many drummers. Instead of Dave Abbruzzese's always huge all the time playing or Matt Cameron’s overly-intellectual approach, Jack Irons is expressive, a little off kilter, and always locked into exactly what the song needs. Faithfull is probably the best drum track on any Pearl Jam record. Then there's Jeff Ament. He isn’t putting on a bass technique clinic. He’s just laying down a bottom end that’s so consistently spot on that it’s almost subliminal.
Faithfull and In Hiding are so fun to play on guitar
Do the Evolution & Brain of J too
I loved the Yield tour This album was probably the peak of my PJ fandom
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Post subject: Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Yield
Posted: Fri April 05, 2024 4:58 pm
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lvc, do you like neil young? this and no code are the era where it feels like he is trying out neil young as a vocal inspiration moving away, as you say, from his earlier signature soaring baritone
Post subject: Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Yield
Posted: Sat April 06, 2024 12:18 pm
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lvc wrote:
What makes Yield such a delight? It’s all in the timing. For one thing, there’s the matter of the band’s internal dynamics. They had actually become friends. (Given their brush with blinding stardom, it’s forgivable that it took them seven years.) This combined with their musical familiarity lends the record a tightness that comes across totally effortless.
Mike McCready and Stone Gossard truly find a great blend as a four-armed guitar monster. Gone is the standard division of labor (Stone’s arena-sized riffs driving Mike’s blues-drenched soloing). Instead, you have a record stacked with great guitar parts woven into a perfect tapestry. They spent Vitalogy and No Code dismantling the Pearl Jam™ guitar logic and Yield is the fruit of good labor.
Eddie Vedder’s voice is also at its on-record peak. He had matured past the soaring baritone that made early Pearl Jam so iconic (and then so imitated, and then so parodied), and he hadn’t yet reached the point where years of screaming his lungs out on tour took their toll. He’s singing at the peak of his dynamic and tonal range and it’s like a vintage tube amp—ranging from warm and rich to a broken-up growl depending on how hard he hits it. If the last time you heard Eddie Vedder sing was “Daughter”, you owe it to yourself to listen to “Brain of J”.
Then there’s the rhythm section. Admittedly, this is the area in which I am least articulate, but I will say that Jack Irons is my favorite of Pearl Jam’s many drummers. Instead of Dave Abbruzzese's always huge all the time playing or Matt Cameron’s overly-intellectual approach, Jack Irons is expressive, a little off kilter, and always locked into exactly what the song needs. Faithfull is probably the best drum track on any Pearl Jam record. Then there's Jeff Ament. He isn’t putting on a bass technique clinic. He’s just laying down a bottom end that’s so consistently spot on that it’s almost subliminal.
Nailed it. ”effortless tightness” is a great way to describe their playing on this record. Everything feels flowy, even the harder, more angular songs like BOJ and DTE. This is the album with the most layers of sound, or at least, where each layer can be heard on its own without screaming for the spotlight.
Post subject: Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Yield
Posted: Sat April 06, 2024 7:21 pm
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Thanks for those fantastic analysis. Totally agree with Yield being the album with the most layered sounds. There is continuity and flow between songs (roads, wind, waves). Each song is good on it's own but it's a great, great album to listen from Brain of J to Hummus.
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Post subject: Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Yield
Posted: Sun April 07, 2024 1:08 am
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I had spoken about the album a bit. I think they got it right 100% with the song selection. B-sides here are fun. Leatherman is perfect as a b-side, and the correct U is in a similar vein. Last Kiss and Soldier of Love made their kicking around debuts on I think the US tour, and they too are covers that you wouldn’t have expected from them at the time.
Give Way, even though it is a bit short of the full show, is a really nice new addition to the club here. Brain of J and Evolution performances are spectacular here, though hearing Jack play and break into the final jam on Immortality makes the whole damn thing. They were just so good at this point.
Post subject: Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Yield
Posted: Mon April 08, 2024 3:06 pm
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stip wrote:
lvc, do you like neil young? this and no code are the era where it feels like he is trying out neil young as a vocal inspiration moving away, as you say, from his earlier signature soaring baritone
I like electric Neil for sure. I can definitely hear it on No Code. I like that in Yield he brought back the angry vocal sound of Vitalogy but on a song like Brain of J which at least has something approaching a sense of humor. Also, Brain of J is the song that taught me that nobody knows where JFK's brain is.
Post subject: Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Yield
Posted: Tue April 16, 2024 10:12 pm
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All Those Yesterdays is such a beautiful song...this studio version is perfect and i love how Ed sounds and appears on a side when you are listening on headphones.
Post subject: Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Yield
Posted: Wed April 17, 2024 2:31 am
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I've been listening to some PJ albums straight through for the first time in a while in the lead up to hearing the new one later this week, and this album's still a minor miracle. I don't know if this is Ed's best album vocally, but it may be where he has the most dexterity. He can do the soaring anthems (GTF, In Hiding), he can do Stone's odder offerings (No Way, Yesterdays), he can do extremely hushed ballads (Wishlist), as well as throat-rippers like Brain of J and Evolution. It's still a wild album, that luckily I feel has finally started getting the acclaim it deserves in the past number of years.
Post subject: Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Yield
Posted: Wed April 17, 2024 2:56 am
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Yield was pretty much loved from the beginning i think, it was not a divisive album at all, and got hits too so new crowds...Maybe the old guard of PJ fans kinda hated it when it came out? but it was way beloved than No Code
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