Gigaton: Official album thread

[LoathedVermin72]

Parting Ways is such a dreadfully boring song

THANK GOD I’m not the only one who feels this way.

What a snoozer.

Yeah it’s my least favorite on Binaural (excluding Soon Forget)

[WtOB?]

oh c’mon.

[MikeyIsGod]

It’s been said before, but Ed’s vocal delivery on that album has gotten better with time. Coming on the heels of the Binaural cycle, it did sound tired and bored at first. But over time, I think many on RM have come to view it as more of a creative choice — a sense of being wary and beleaguered by the politics of the time — and its captured beautifully.

The only PJ album to get significantly better with age for me.

good post. it's also post roskilde which explains the mood.

yea i get this now more than i did then. it still slots in the lower half of their albums for me though.

[MikeyIsGod]

Parting Ways is such a dreadfully boring song

THANK GOD I’m not the only one who feels this way.

What a snoozer.

Yeah it’s my least favorite on Binaural (excluding Soon Forget)

what!?!? this is why i love this song. and this is why i put so much emphasis on live shows. this song just elevates the mood/vibe. fucking killer ending!

[Vindicator]

Parting Ways is such a dreadfully boring song

THANK GOD I’m not the only one who feels this way.

What a snoozer.

Yeah it’s my least favorite on Binaural (excluding Soon Forget)

what!?!? this is why i love this song. and this is why i put so much emphasis on live shows. this song just elevates the mood/vibe. fucking killer ending!

fucking fantastic song and it's amazing live. I wonder if people even like Pearl Jam how can you not feel that song. I can understand PRAMG hate but cmon, that song is a gem

[WtOB?]

[mikejasond]

Parting Ways is such a dreadfully boring song

THANK GOD I’m not the only one who feels this way.

What a snoozer.

Yeah it’s my least favorite on Binaural (excluding Soon Forget)

what!?!? this is why i love this song. and this is why i put so much emphasis on live shows. this song just elevates the mood/vibe. fucking killer ending!

Man, what happened to Eddie T_T

[MikeyIsGod]

Parting Ways is such a dreadfully boring song

THANK GOD I’m not the only one who feels this way.

What a snoozer.

Yeah it’s my least favorite on Binaural (excluding Soon Forget)

what!?!? this is why i love this song. and this is why i put so much emphasis on live shows. this song just elevates the mood/vibe. fucking killer ending!

fucking fantastic song and it's amazing live. I wonder if people even like Pearl Jam how can you not feel that song. I can understand PRAMG hate but cmon, that song is a gem

what's PRAMG? i've seen that a couple times now.

[pappas]

Post Riot Act Money Grab

man i miss the early RA era of PJ

never ever has there been a better live version of Breakerfall as this one

[Bammer]

I like every Pearl Jam song and never skip any of them.

[PHATJ]

I’ve always loved Breakerfall.

[taffer]

Oh, i didn't know that Billy Corgan is a drummer for Ed's side band, whoa.

[Lounge Lizard]

If the rest of the album is filled with Mind Your Manners/CDM, and Future Days/Sleeping By Myself-like songs, I might cry.

As someone who has listened to the new album - don't worry. You're in for a treat

How do you "like" a post around here

[LetMeSleep]

If the rest of the album is filled with Mind Your Manners/CDM, and Future Days/Sleeping By Myself-like songs, I might cry.

As someone who has listened to the new album - don't worry. You're in for a treat

How do you "like" a post around here

I'd start by finding another post to 'like'.

[Lounge Lizard]

If the rest of the album is filled with Mind Your Manners/CDM, and Future Days/Sleeping By Myself-like songs, I might cry.

As someone who has listened to the new album - don't worry. You're in for a treat

How do you "like" a post around here

I'd start by finding another post to 'like'.

Something I don't know about Stump?

[Sgt. Crackpot]

If the rest of the album is filled with Mind Your Manners/CDM, and Future Days/Sleeping By Myself-like songs, I might cry.

As someone who has listened to the new album - don't worry. You're in for a treat

How do you "like" a post around here

I'd start by finding another post to 'like'.

Something I don't know about Stump?

He's full of shit.

[Lounge Lizard]

He's full of shit.

Oh

[LetMeSleep]

I'm pretty sure the only poster who may have heard any of the album (and those probably rough mixes) would be Dime.

[Lounge Lizard]

I'm pretty sure the only poster who may have heard any of the album (and those probably rough mixes) would be Dime.

That Bill Simmons guy too, I'm guessing.

(I know, I know, he's not an RM poster)

[stip]

Dance of the Clairvoyants works because it's a strong song with good ideas which they committed to, not because it's weird or unusual.

I don't know, I think it's both. The whole thing certainly falls apart if there's not a strong song at the core, but I do think at least part of why this song not only works but feels exciting is because it explores an aesthetic realm that isn't completely tiresome to us. Which isn't to say it's weird (how weird can it be if it borrows from a bunch of familiar aesthetic sources which we all immediately recognized?), but part of why this song feels so engaging (to me, anyway) is because my brain isn't automatically white-noising all the parts of the song that would traditionally comprise my schema for what Pearl Jam are supposed to sound like. Again, to your point, you could probably say the same thing about "Turning Mist," so clearly the mere quality of being an outlier is not sufficient in itself, but I think that element of side-step was absolutely necessary for them at this point. As much as we all say, "I just want good songs," I don't think this song -- even if the delivery and performance quality were the same -- would have been nearly as satisfying if not for some of its purely novel, superficial elements.

thats a fair point. this got to be evaluated on its own terms in a way a more traditional song wouldnt/couldnt be