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Post subject: Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Pearl Jam
Posted: Thu September 12, 2013 2:09 pm
Future Drummer
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What could have been?
1. Life Wasted 2. World Wide Suicide 3. Comatose 4. Severed Hand 5. Marker in the Sand 6. Parachutes 7. Unemployable 8. Big Wave 9. Let It Ride 10. Of the Earth 11. Army Reserve 12. Come Back 13. Cold Confession
Post subject: Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Pearl Jam
Posted: Thu September 12, 2013 2:12 pm
Fake NYC Setlist Relayer
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 3:15 pm Posts: 7021
bluestate wrote:
What could have been?
1. Life Wasted 2. World Wide Suicide 3. Comatose 4. Severed Hand 5. Marker in the Sand 6. Parachutes 7. Unemployable 8. Big Wave 9. Let It Ride 10. Of the Earth 11. Army Reserve 12. Come Back 13. Cold Confession
It probably could've been even better than this. There may be more gems for KurtLeon to uncover from these recording sessions.
Post subject: Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Pearl Jam
Posted: Thu September 12, 2013 2:19 pm
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EJ wrote:
bluestate wrote:
What could have been?
1. Life Wasted 2. World Wide Suicide 3. Comatose 4. Severed Hand 5. Marker in the Sand 6. Parachutes 7. Unemployable 8. Big Wave 9. Let It Ride 10. Of the Earth 11. Army Reserve 12. Come Back 13. Cold Confession
It probably could've been even better than this. There may be more gems for KurtLeon to uncover from these recording sessions.
Post subject: Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Pearl Jam
Posted: Thu September 12, 2013 2:50 pm
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bluestate wrote:
What could have been?
1. Life Wasted 2. World Wide Suicide 3. Comatose 4. Severed Hand 5. Marker in the Sand 6. Parachutes 7. Unemployable 8. Big Wave 9. Let It Ride 10. Of the Earth 11. Army Reserve 12. Come Back 13. Cold Confession
i like the looks of it, even though im not one of the Inside Job haters, i do like the idea of CC closing the album, and Gone is my least favorite, so LiR would be good replacing it
Post subject: Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Pearl Jam
Posted: Thu September 12, 2013 3:07 pm
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cutuphalfdead wrote:
Severed Hand Marker In The Sand Unemployable Word Wide Suicide Parachutes Let It Ride Army Reserve Of The Earth Wasted Reprise Cold Confession
I like the looks of that. But, I'd still want Comatose in there somewhere. Its a good song, but the album cut unfortunately sounds like nails on a chalkboard.
Post subject: Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Pearl Jam
Posted: Thu September 12, 2013 5:40 pm
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I'd go for:
Life Wasted WWS Comatose Severed Hand Marker Parachutes Unemployable Let it Ride Army Reserve Come Back Wasted Reprise Cold Confession
Let it Ride and Army Reserve feel like sibling songs (sonically), and removing Gone and Inside Jobs strips the album of pretension. Big Wave is okay, but sounds like a B-side to me.
Post subject: Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Pearl Jam
Posted: Thu September 12, 2013 5:47 pm
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Joined: Thu March 21, 2013 1:08 am Posts: 2464 Location: Pennsyltucky
I wasn't trying to start a tracklist debate really... I was just trying to say that there are a lot of really strong elements on S/T, and from those sessions, that suggest that PJ nearly pulled off the near impossible... that is, make a classic album (10 out of 10) that rivals the greatness of their first 3 albums... (which is what we've all been clamoring for, regardless of whether or not you're willing to admit that yourself)... BUT they just seem to miss a few important pieces of the puzzle and instead it's just a really good album (8 out of 10) ...and not the career-defining gem that it was originally hyped up to be.
Post subject: Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Pearl Jam
Posted: Thu September 12, 2013 5:49 pm
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outside of production, i never really got the hate for this album. i think wws, marker and severed hand can hold up to just about anything they've done. there's some real good songs on here.
Post subject: Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Pearl Jam
Posted: Thu September 12, 2013 6:03 pm
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bluestate wrote:
I wasn't trying to start a tracklist debate really... I was just trying to say that there are a lot of really strong elements on S/T, and from those sessions, that suggest that PJ nearly pulled off the near impossible... that is, make a classic album (10 out of 10) that rivals the greatness of their first 3 albums... (which is what we've all been clamoring for, regardless of whether or not you're willing to admit that yourself)... BUT they just seem to miss a few important pieces of the puzzle and instead it's just a really good album (8 out of 10) ...and not the career-defining gem that it was originally hyped up to be.
Change that to first 5 and you'll start to get me on this. My personal taste tells me that this album is the closest for me to hold up to those first 5. I'd be say first 6 if Mirrorball was considered a Pearl Jam album featuring Neil Young instead of a Neil Young album featuring Pearl Jam - I've been listening and rediscovering that album again for probably the 5th cycle of appreciation recently.
Post subject: Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Pearl Jam
Posted: Thu September 12, 2013 6:18 pm
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iceagecoming wrote:
I'd go for:
Life Wasted WWS Comatose Severed Hand Marker Parachutes Unemployable Let it Ride Army Reserve Come Back Wasted Reprise Cold Confession
Let it Ride and Army Reserve feel like sibling songs (sonically), and removing Gone and Inside Jobs strips the album of pretension. Big Wave is okay, but sounds like a B-side to me.
This would have been my 3rd favourite PJ album.
this is also what I would have done and it too likely would have been my third favorite album
Post subject: Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Pearl Jam
Posted: Thu September 12, 2013 6:32 pm
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warehouse wrote:
outside of production, i never really got the hate for this album. i think wws, marker and severed hand can hold up to just about anything they've done. there's some real good songs on here.
The production kills most of the times I get the urge to listen to the album. There is good music on there, but since it doesn't even have the relative change of direction Backspacer did, it's just an album full of nice songs that constantly lose out to the rest of their work.
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