Cold Confession and Let It Ride - Avocado Outtakes

[BurtReynolds]

Someone go wake up Harmless. Shit is on.

[WtOB?]

I bet stip will hate these.

[Kevin Davis]

I need to know if more of these are going to leak, or if I should just update my "Pearl Jam Rarities" CD now.

[scrub12]

My shot at Let it Ride lyrics:

Let there be no misconceptions
This girl is collecting
Not with our circumstances
But not a victim, defenseless

She's delicate, defiant
weary, tells no lies
Just ? acceptance

She's gonna, she's gonna
gonna let it ride (x2)

like a book with no ending
read backwards, to beginning
she stands on edge with lifted wings
prepare to ascend
what she's asking for
is promises no more
She's through depending

She's gonna, she's gonna,
gonna let it ride (x2)

Tears will be alright
Death can be denied
there will be goodbyes
but she'll never leave you

clear and conscious mind
exception aside
law must step aside
let the end bring a freedom

break your body's chains
numb without the pain
love she stands a name
look around, around, you'll be there

Look around, she'll always be there

Some parts I'm not sure of, but that's my shot.

[digster]

Ed vocals in Cold...sound very very recent. His doing all his new " eeeeee eeeeeeee " he has been doing since BS.

Fuck i want them to be in the new album.

He's been doing shades of that in varying degrees since Self Titled. End of Inside Job, anyone?

The falsetto could come from All or None, also.

[Norah]

I bet stip will hate these.

seriously

[BurtReynolds]

I bet stip will hate these.

seriously

I wouldn't have it any other way.

[WtOB?]

Ed vocals in Cold...sound very very recent. His doing all his new " eeeeee eeeeeeee " he has been doing since BS.

Fuck i want them to be in the new album.

He's been doing shades of that in varying degrees since Self Titled. End of Inside Job, anyone?

The falsetto could come from All or None, also.

There's a hint of it in All Those Yesterdays, too.

[davluvsbeer]

I was just comparing these two songs to some other avocado demos that I have and it doesn't sound like they are from the same batch. These sound a little better, vocals moved to the front a little more. Anyone compare them at all?

[WtOB?]

Looks like they are loving these over on the Pit too. They are also shitting on LB, FD and O'Briens additions to newer PJ. Those guys have wised up a little in recent years.

[davluvsbeer]

Also, in ITunes they show as tracks 3/11 and 6/11. Someone get us the rest of these songs!!!

[digster]

The thing I don't get is that this blows a hole in the whole idea that you can either be accessible and mediocre or 'arty' and good; Let It Ride is catchy as hell; was stuck in my head after one listen. You can have it both ways.

[ridleybradout]

I was just comparing these two songs to some other avocado demos that I have and it doesn't sound like they are from the same batch. These sound a little better, vocals moved to the front a little more. Anyone compare them at all?

Yeah I compared as well - the others are 'rough mixes' that sounds like they're from a cassette tape, while these are properly mastered.

ID3 tags says tracks 3 and 6 of 11. According to http://www.pearljamonline.it/rs.htm these are from the earlier Dec 2004 Avocado session:

Dicembre 2004 Studio X - Seattle, WA
Ed Vedder - vocals, guitar; Stone Gossard - guitar; Mike McCready - guitar; Jeff Ament - bass; Matt Cameron - drum kit, percussion

2x4
Of The Earth
Cold Confession
World Wide Suicide
Marker
Armor
Crapshoot Rapture
Let It Ride

[BurtReynolds]

we need a poll.

[davluvsbeer]

I was just comparing these two songs to some other avocado demos that I have and it doesn't sound like they are from the same batch. These sound a little better, vocals moved to the front a little more. Anyone compare them at all?

Yeah I compared as well - the others are 'rough mixes' that sounds like they're from a cassette tape, while these are properly mastered.

ID3 tags says tracks 3 and 6 of 11. According to http://www.pearljamonline.it/rs.htm these are from the earlier Dec 2004 Avocado session:

Dicembre 2004 Studio X - Seattle, WA
Ed Vedder - vocals, guitar; Stone Gossard - guitar; Mike McCready - guitar; Jeff Ament - bass; Matt Cameron - drum kit, percussion

2x4
Of The Earth
Cold Confession
World Wide Suicide
Marker
Armor
Crapshoot Rapture
Let It Ride

Ah very good. I should have gone there and looked, but I'm just too excited to think!

[WtOB?]

I was just comparing these two songs to some other avocado demos that I have and it doesn't sound like they are from the same batch. These sound a little better, vocals moved to the front a little more. Anyone compare them at all?

Yeah I compared as well - the others are 'rough mixes' that sounds like they're from a cassette tape, while these are properly mastered.

ID3 tags says tracks 3 and 6 of 11. According to http://www.pearljamonline.it/rs.htm these are from the earlier Dec 2004 Avocado session:

Dicembre 2004 Studio X - Seattle, WA
Ed Vedder - vocals, guitar; Stone Gossard - guitar; Mike McCready - guitar; Jeff Ament - bass; Matt Cameron - drum kit, percussion

2x4
Of The Earth
Cold Confession
World Wide Suicide
Marker
Armor
Crapshoot Rapture
Let It Ride

I wanna hear 2x4 and that Of The Earth session pretty bad right now.

"Aw yeah nah we never got that one right in the studio" - I bet they got it spot on the first time around and Ed's as wrong as he was about CC and LIR.

[scrub12]

Cold Confession lyric attempt:

He scared himself, into a trance
ducking down rivers, secretly
He floated out, into the ocean
of his worst dream, of his rough sea?
of all the men he could trust
he was not one of them, always hurting himself
this scars and seams?, the wounds are tone
whatever time had healed, it's still too cold
A life washed away, like words in the sand
and when the high tide came, so went his brain
a troubled past, a troubled future
a troubled way leaning on a bar stool
when strobelight stop, he finally saw
navigation towards a brand new course
but to himself the memory clear
cold confession only, that only he could hear

He let himself scream, he let himself cry
let himself reach the other side
there was on cries, there was no crows
just forgiveness, allowed himself
accepted the past, then set it free
oh and it ran off like an animal with ease
he holds the bruise?, he holds their star
in his pure arms, in his clear heart
He's safe now, he's back in her breast
he saw his path, and changed it, chased it, at last

[ItsOkay]

How refreshing to immediately hit repeat because you ENJOY these, not because you WANT to enjoy them.

[digster]

Tears will be alright
Death can be denied
there will be goodbyes
but she'll never leave you

clear and conscious mind
exception aside
law must step aside
let the end bring a freedom

break your body's chains
numb without the pain
love she stands a name
look around, around, you'll be there

Fucking hell, Pearl Jam.

[Sgt. Crackpot]

Cold Confession lyric attempt:

He scared himself, into a trance
ducking down rivers, secretly
He floated out, into the ocean
of his worst dream, of his rough sea?
of all the men he could trust
he was not one of them, always hurting himself
this scars and seams?, the wounds are tone
whatever time had healed, it's still too cold
A life washed away, like words in the sand
and when the high tide came, so went his brain
a troubled past, a troubled future
a troubled way leaning on a ?
when strobelight stop, he finally saw
navigation towards a brand new course
but to himself the memory clear
cold confession only, that only he could hear

He let himself scream, he let himself cry
let himself reach the other side
there was on cries, there was no crows
just forgiveness, allowed himself
accepted the past, then set it free
oh and it ran off like an animal with ease
he holds the bruise?, he holds their star
in his pure arms, in his clear heart
He's safe now, he's back in her breast
he saw his path, and changed it, chased it, at last

Wow, there's actually been some thought put into these. The lyrics are intelligent and have feeling.

There's no way these will fit on LB.