Pearl Jam (self titled): Official Album Thread

[PHATJ]

Marker, Unemployable, and Parachutes are the standouts to me these days.

Those three plus Army Reserve and Come Back.

So, like half the album?

Army Reserve is good too. Come Back is hit or miss for me.

Depends what you mean by “standouts”. None of those songs are better than the best songs on any of the previous albums.

[Monkey_Driven]

Marker, Unemployable, and Parachutes are the standouts to me these days.

Those three plus Army Reserve and Come Back.

So, like half the album?

Army Reserve is good too. Come Back is hit or miss for me.

Depends what you mean by “standouts”. None of those songs are better than the best songs on any of the previous albums.

I'm just yanking your chain.

[VinylGuy]

Army Reserve is so good. The groove there..its something else. I love the ending and specially the guitars.

[PHATJ]

Army Reserve is so good. The groove there..its something else. I love the ending and specially the guitars.

I agree it’s good, maybe the best on the album.

[VinylGuy]

I think my favorite is Severed Hand. It has everything i love about the band.

[PHATJ]

Favorites on the album and songs I generally enjoy:
Army Reserve
MITS
Unemployable
Come Back
Parachutes


Decent:
Gone
Big Wave
Severed Hand

Rather not:
Life Wasted
Comatose

Bad:
Inside Job
Wasted Reprise

Awful:
WWS

[liebzz]

I think my favorite is Severed Hand. It has everything i love about the band.

I agree. It’s only weakness, if you see it as such, is the obvious reach back to Porch, and even then there’s something awesome about that too. It also helps that it at least feels like the band just rocking out and it has that great jam to end it.

[wease]

I hate Come Back and Parachutes so much

[epilogue]

what do you like so much about the song?

I love the lyrics. I love the sound of the guitars. I love Ed's delivery. I love the shift between the versus and the chorus. I love the melody of the chorus and the way it fights to float. The overall album production is the only thing I don't love about the song, really. To me, it's top tier Pearl Jam. I'd stack it up next to their heaviest hitters.

But I suppose if you made me boil it down to just one single element, it's the lyrics. That song really speaks to me and encapsulates how I feel about the themes the song is exploring and it says what it needs to say in a way that doesn't feel preachy to me, nor does it feel weightless. It strikes the right tone and at the time made me really think about how I interact with those issues/themes/ideas.

[PHATJ]

I hate Come Back and Parachutes so much

Dude

[epilogue]

I think my favorite is Severed Hand. It has everything i love about the band.

I. Goddamn. Love. Severed. Hand.

[epilogue]

GREAT
Severed Hand
Marker
Parachutes
Unemployable
Big Wave
Gone
Army Reserve

GOOD
Live Wasted
World Wide Suicide
Come Back

FINE
Inside Job
Wasted Reprise

NO THANK YOU
Comatose

[VinylGuy]

what do you like so much about the song?

I love the lyrics. I love the sound of the guitars. I love Ed's delivery. I love the shift between the versus and the chorus. I love the melody of the chorus and the way it fights to float. The overall album production is the only thing I don't love about the song, really. To me, it's top tier Pearl Jam. I'd stack it up next to their heaviest hitters.

But I suppose if you made me boil it down to just one single element, it's the lyrics. That song really speaks to me and encapsulates how I feel about the themes the song is exploring and it says what it needs to say in a way that doesn't feel preachy to me, nor does it feel weightless. It strikes the right tone and at the time made me really think about how I interact with those issues/themes/ideas.

Yeah, the lyrics are great. Im not sold on the chorus...the music is so good and he delivers such a weird chorus.

[McParadigm]

Marker is my favorite rocker on that album.

[Blaine Ryan]

what do you like so much about the song?

I love the lyrics. I love the sound of the guitars. I love Ed's delivery. I love the shift between the versus and the chorus. I love the melody of the chorus and the way it fights to float. The overall album production is the only thing I don't love about the song, really. To me, it's top tier Pearl Jam. I'd stack it up next to their heaviest hitters.

But I suppose if you made me boil it down to just one single element, it's the lyrics. That song really speaks to me and encapsulates how I feel about the themes the song is exploring and it says what it needs to say in a way that doesn't feel preachy to me, nor does it feel weightless. It strikes the right tone and at the time made me really think about how I interact with those issues/themes/ideas.

Count me in on the "Gone" love. One of my favorites.

[epilogue]

Count me in on the "Gone" love. One of my favorites.

I don't know who your are Blaine Ryan but I want to buy you a beer.

[Blaine Ryan]

Count me in on the "Gone" love. One of my favorites.

I don't know who your are Blaine Ryan but I want to buy you a beer.

Haha! Long time lurker, occasional poster. I'm trying to be more active.

[epilogue]

Count me in on the "Gone" love. One of my favorites.

I don't know who your are Blaine Ryan but I want to buy you a beer.

Haha! Long time lurker, occasional poster. I'm trying to be more active.

Welcome. And please PLEASE keep posting.

[Leatherhead]

This album has been climbing and climbing for me since about 2010/11.

[PHATJ]

This album has been climbing and climbing for me since about 2010/11.

It doesn’t climb for me but it continues to widen the gap between good PJ and everything that follows.