Gigaton: Official album thread

[dimejinky99]

This feels no code in its unsettled structure but Yield in terms of vibe

[PHATJ]

yeah Yield is a good choice, the songs there share a sound like in Gigaton. I still feel Ten, Vs and No Code are their strongest front to back albums.

Front to back, No Code doesn’t compete with Ten or Vs. I love No Code but I don’t think the last few songs are close to the quality of those classic albums.

I think Gigaton feels like a new thing but it’s closest roots are Binaural and Yield.

[Jaeti]

If Star Wars has taught me anything its to try find at least something you like in something you hate.
Despite coming around kind of on never destination, I still really can’t stand Take the long way, but the bridge/breakdown bit is good. Deserves a better song around it but here we are.

Take the Long Way is my least favorite on Gigaton, but when I listen to it with Soundgarden in mind, I like it a lot more.

I've listened to all of Soundgarden's albums, but never really formed a relationship with most of their stuff.

Out of curiosity, can someone point to a song of theirs that TTLW most reminds you of? I generally get what everyone's saying about this song's relationship to the SG sound, but I'd be interested in a very particular point of comparison, just for my own curiosity.

[bodysnatcher]

If Star Wars has taught me anything its to try find at least something you like in something you hate.
Despite coming around kind of on never destination, I still really can’t stand Take the long way, but the bridge/breakdown bit is good. Deserves a better song around it but here we are.

Take the Long Way is my least favorite on Gigaton, but when I listen to it with Soundgarden in mind, I like it a lot more.

I've listened to all of Soundgarden's albums, but never really formed a relationship with most of their stuff.

Out of curiosity, can someone point to a song of theirs that TTLW most reminds you of? I generally get what everyone's saying about this song's relationship to the SG sound, but I'd be interested in a very particular point of comparison, just for my own curiosity.

i get way more of a Wellwater Conspiracy vibe than SG

[PHATJ]

If Star Wars has taught me anything its to try find at least something you like in something you hate.
Despite coming around kind of on never destination, I still really can’t stand Take the long way, but the bridge/breakdown bit is good. Deserves a better song around it but here we are.

Take the Long Way is my least favorite on Gigaton, but when I listen to it with Soundgarden in mind, I like it a lot more.

I've listened to all of Soundgarden's albums, but never really formed a relationship with most of their stuff.

Out of curiosity, can someone point to a song of theirs that TTLW most reminds you of? I generally get what everyone's saying about this song's relationship to the SG sound, but I'd be interested in a very particular point of comparison, just for my own curiosity.

i get way more of a Wellwater Conspiracy vibe than SG

It could fit on King Animal

[bodysnatcher]

If Star Wars has taught me anything its to try find at least something you like in something you hate.
Despite coming around kind of on never destination, I still really can’t stand Take the long way, but the bridge/breakdown bit is good. Deserves a better song around it but here we are.

Take the Long Way is my least favorite on Gigaton, but when I listen to it with Soundgarden in mind, I like it a lot more.

I've listened to all of Soundgarden's albums, but never really formed a relationship with most of their stuff.

Out of curiosity, can someone point to a song of theirs that TTLW most reminds you of? I generally get what everyone's saying about this song's relationship to the SG sound, but I'd be interested in a very particular point of comparison, just for my own curiosity.

i get way more of a Wellwater Conspiracy vibe than SG

It could fit on King Animal

oh, i've only listened to that once, i'll have to take your word for it

[PHATJ]

If Star Wars has taught me anything its to try find at least something you like in something you hate.
Despite coming around kind of on never destination, I still really can’t stand Take the long way, but the bridge/breakdown bit is good. Deserves a better song around it but here we are.

Take the Long Way is my least favorite on Gigaton, but when I listen to it with Soundgarden in mind, I like it a lot more.

I've listened to all of Soundgarden's albums, but never really formed a relationship with most of their stuff.

Out of curiosity, can someone point to a song of theirs that TTLW most reminds you of? I generally get what everyone's saying about this song's relationship to the SG sound, but I'd be interested in a very particular point of comparison, just for my own curiosity.

i get way more of a Wellwater Conspiracy vibe than SG

It could fit on King Animal

oh, i've only listened to that once, i'll have to take your word for it

King Album is a good album. It has some very underrated and overlooked songs that are absolutely worth listening to.

[dimejinky99]

WWC that was a good record

[Ms Harmless]

Worse Dreams is awful but A Thousand Days Before is one of Soundgarden's best songs

[PHATJ]

Worse Dreams is awful but A Thousand Days Before is one of Soundgarden's best songs

Agreed

[Ms Harmless]

Worse Dreams is awful but A Thousand Days Before is one of Soundgarden's best songs

Agreed

ATDB absolutely rips, I love the Indian-style guitar riff Kim gets to rock

[PHATJ]

Worse Dreams is awful but A Thousand Days Before is one of Soundgarden's best songs

Agreed

ATDB absolutely rips, I love the Indian-style guitar riff Kim gets to rock

It’s definitely my favorite song on the album. I love it. And I actually really enjoy the first eight songs. It peters out quite a bit after that for me.

[stip]

Eddie is outstanding on this album. He nails and elevates every song.


This is their 4th best album as an album, though a few albums may have higher highs

[dimejinky99]

Are highs the point here? It has quite a few. The whole side a. Then The comedown side b

[stip]

the whole thing is cohesive enough that it doesn’t matter, no.

Though Dance is absolutely an all-timer

[Strat]

What does it mean when your favorite band as a teenager releases a new album 30 years after you first fell for them?

What does it mean when that record comes out during a global pandemic?

What does anything mean anymore?

No matter what cultural significance Gigaton ultimately does or doesn’t end up having, I still get a rush from unwrapping the plastic on a new Pearl Jam LP. Though their last three records have been relative disappointments to me, I keep listening, hoping to rekindle the fire the band lit within me in their early days. Even if the flame lasts for just a couple songs, or is fleetingly found in a soaring Eddie Vedder chorus, or a rousing guitar riff from Mike McCready or Stone Gossard, I listen for those moments where they bring me back and make me feel young again. A part of my youth that I will always treasure is still tied directly to this band, and it always will be.

Pearl Jam helped me make some sense out of my confusing teenage years, helping me feel less alone in those moments of uncertainty and isolation, and they also soundtracked those celebratory momentswhere I began discovering just who I was and what truly mattered to me. As I grew with the band, their music encouraged me to nurture my creative self during my experimental college years, when I proudly proclaimed my love of Pearl Jam by getting the Alive stickman tattooed on my ankle. They reinforced my belief that no matter where I call home, I should always have my trusty record player by my side. And their outspoken support of political and charitable causes refined how I viewed the world at large and helped me discover what my role was in making society a better place for everyone.

Nearly 30 years after they started (and almost seven years since their last record, Lightning Bolt), Pearl Jam are back with their 11th studio album, Gigaton. After spending a couple weeks with the new record, I can confidently say that it is their strongestand most assured album since 2000's Binaural. The band sounds inspired, revitalized, and remarkably of the moment. They aren't trying to capture the lightning in a bottle moments from early in their career, and they’re wise enough to not attempt to replicate themselves, though there are still strong echoes of the band’s long history, especially within Vedder's weathered, resonant vocals.

Like most of Pearl Jam's recent albums, the rockers kick things off and propel the front half of the album before giving way to a series of ballads and more relaxed, somber tunes on the latter half. But Gigaton stands out as a cohesive creative statement, with the band reflectively examining the fractured state of our fragile world (even before COVID-19) and their tenuous place in it.

"I want this dream to last forever/A wish denied to lengthen our time/I wish this moment was never ending/Let it be a lie that all futures die," Vedder sings on the wistful album closer, "River Cross." Rather than wallowing in regrets of things left undone (or rivers left uncrossed), the song is a hopeful anthem of potential change. A better way forward is possible as long as we stick together and share the light.

Pearl Jam also takes a refreshing detour on the album's first single, "Dance of the Clairvoyants." The track is a quirky, Talking Heads-like stomp (complete with Vedder's David Byrne-esque vocal delivery) with a smoothed-out '80s Bowie swing to it. The risky musical experiment (complete with bassist Jeff Ament switching to guitar and keys while guitarist Gossard plays bass) really pays off.

One of the most satisfying things about Gigaton is that the album really didn't have to happen. Pearl Jam could have kept touring to sold-out stadiums and festivals even without releasing a new record. But while they certainly took their time putting this record together (this is a band who just got around to releasing their 2017 and 2018 fan club singles, mind you), the results have the unhurried, thoughtful quality that comes from a band having the space and time to assemble only their best material.

At 57 minutes, Gigaton is the longest record of the band's career, yet there are few unnecessary moments. The band is both stretching out and coming closer together, tapping into the dynamic creative partnership that has fueled them all these years. For a longtime fan, these new songs offer a sense of emotional escape, fitful unease, steadfast belief, and a personal reconnection and collective recalibration. Gigaton is a boisterous creative check in to make sure the kids are still alright.

And if nothing else, Gigaton is an affirmation that this band I pledged my soul (and skin) to in the '90s hasn't led me astray. The kid I was when I discovered Pearl Jam is still alive within me, and their music is an uninhibited, exhilarating reminder to enjoy my youth no matter how old I get.


http://www.citypages.com/music/pearl-ja ... WwsZCMxOGY

[tragabigzanda]

pearl jam sucks now

[Strat]

cant wait for people to quote that entire post for the next three pages

You really need some alone time huh

[McParadigm]

What does it mean when your favorite band as a teenager releases a new album 30 years after you first fell for them?

What does it mean when that record comes out during a global pandemic?

What does anything mean anymore?

No matter what cultural significance Gigaton ultimately does or doesn’t end up having, I still get a rush from unwrapping the plastic on a new Pearl Jam LP. Though their last three records have been relative disappointments to me, I keep listening, hoping to rekindle the fire the band lit within me in their early days. Even if the flame lasts for just a couple songs, or is fleetingly found in a soaring Eddie Vedder chorus, or a rousing guitar riff from Mike McCready or Stone Gossard, I listen for those moments where they bring me back and make me feel young again. A part of my youth that I will always treasure is still tied directly to this band, and it always will be.

Pearl Jam helped me make some sense out of my confusing teenage years, helping me feel less alone in those moments of uncertainty and isolation, and they also soundtracked those celebratory momentswhere I began discovering just who I was and what truly mattered to me. As I grew with the band, their music encouraged me to nurture my creative self during my experimental college years, when I proudly proclaimed my love of Pearl Jam by getting the Alive stickman tattooed on my ankle. They reinforced my belief that no matter where I call home, I should always have my trusty record player by my side. And their outspoken support of political and charitable causes refined how I viewed the world at large and helped me discover what my role was in making society a better place for everyone.

Nearly 30 years after they started (and almost seven years since their last record, Lightning Bolt), Pearl Jam are back with their 11th studio album, Gigaton. After spending a couple weeks with the new record, I can confidently say that it is their strongestand most assured album since 2000's Binaural. The band sounds inspired, revitalized, and remarkably of the moment. They aren't trying to capture the lightning in a bottle moments from early in their career, and they’re wise enough to not attempt to replicate themselves, though there are still strong echoes of the band’s long history, especially within Vedder's weathered, resonant vocals.

Like most of Pearl Jam's recent albums, the rockers kick things off and propel the front half of the album before giving way to a series of ballads and more relaxed, somber tunes on the latter half. But Gigaton stands out as a cohesive creative statement, with the band reflectively examining the fractured state of our fragile world (even before COVID-19) and their tenuous place in it.

"I want this dream to last forever/A wish denied to lengthen our time/I wish this moment was never ending/Let it be a lie that all futures die," Vedder sings on the wistful album closer, "River Cross." Rather than wallowing in regrets of things left undone (or rivers left uncrossed), the song is a hopeful anthem of potential change. A better way forward is possible as long as we stick together and share the light.

Pearl Jam also takes a refreshing detour on the album's first single, "Dance of the Clairvoyants." The track is a quirky, Talking Heads-like stomp (complete with Vedder's David Byrne-esque vocal delivery) with a smoothed-out '80s Bowie swing to it. The risky musical experiment (complete with bassist Jeff Ament switching to guitar and keys while guitarist Gossard plays bass) really pays off.

One of the most satisfying things about Gigaton is that the album really didn't have to happen. Pearl Jam could have kept touring to sold-out stadiums and festivals even without releasing a new record. But while they certainly took their time putting this record together (this is a band who just got around to releasing their 2017 and 2018 fan club singles, mind you), the results have the unhurried, thoughtful quality that comes from a band having the space and time to assemble only their best material.

At 57 minutes, Gigaton is the longest record of the band's career, yet there are few unnecessary moments. The band is both stretching out and coming closer together, tapping into the dynamic creative partnership that has fueled them all these years. For a longtime fan, these new songs offer a sense of emotional escape, fitful unease, steadfast belief, and a personal reconnection and collective recalibration. Gigaton is a boisterous creative check in to make sure the kids are still alright.

And if nothing else, Gigaton is an affirmation that this band I pledged my soul (and skin) to in the '90s hasn't led me astray. The kid I was when I discovered Pearl Jam is still alive within me, and their music is an uninhibited, exhilarating reminder to enjoy my youth no matter how old I get.


http://www.citypages.com/music/pearl-ja ... WwsZCMxOGY

cant wait for people to quote that entire post for the next three pages

[PHATJ]

What does it mean when your favorite band as a teenager releases a new album 30 years after you first fell for them?

What does it mean when that record comes out during a global pandemic?

What does anything mean anymore?

No matter what cultural significance Gigaton ultimately does or doesn’t end up having, I still get a rush from unwrapping the plastic on a new Pearl Jam LP. Though their last three records have been relative disappointments to me, I keep listening, hoping to rekindle the fire the band lit within me in their early days. Even if the flame lasts for just a couple songs, or is fleetingly found in a soaring Eddie Vedder chorus, or a rousing guitar riff from Mike McCready or Stone Gossard, I listen for those moments where they bring me back and make me feel young again. A part of my youth that I will always treasure is still tied directly to this band, and it always will be.

Pearl Jam helped me make some sense out of my confusing teenage years, helping me feel less alone in those moments of uncertainty and isolation, and they also soundtracked those celebratory momentswhere I began discovering just who I was and what truly mattered to me. As I grew with the band, their music encouraged me to nurture my creative self during my experimental college years, when I proudly proclaimed my love of Pearl Jam by getting the Alive stickman tattooed on my ankle. They reinforced my belief that no matter where I call home, I should always have my trusty record player by my side. And their outspoken support of political and charitable causes refined how I viewed the world at large and helped me discover what my role was in making society a better place for everyone.

Nearly 30 years after they started (and almost seven years since their last record, Lightning Bolt), Pearl Jam are back with their 11th studio album, Gigaton. After spending a couple weeks with the new record, I can confidently say that it is their strongestand most assured album since 2000's Binaural. The band sounds inspired, revitalized, and remarkably of the moment. They aren't trying to capture the lightning in a bottle moments from early in their career, and they’re wise enough to not attempt to replicate themselves, though there are still strong echoes of the band’s long history, especially within Vedder's weathered, resonant vocals.

Like most of Pearl Jam's recent albums, the rockers kick things off and propel the front half of the album before giving way to a series of ballads and more relaxed, somber tunes on the latter half. But Gigaton stands out as a cohesive creative statement, with the band reflectively examining the fractured state of our fragile world (even before COVID-19) and their tenuous place in it.

"I want this dream to last forever/A wish denied to lengthen our time/I wish this moment was never ending/Let it be a lie that all futures die," Vedder sings on the wistful album closer, "River Cross." Rather than wallowing in regrets of things left undone (or rivers left uncrossed), the song is a hopeful anthem of potential change. A better way forward is possible as long as we stick together and share the light.

Pearl Jam also takes a refreshing detour on the album's first single, "Dance of the Clairvoyants." The track is a quirky, Talking Heads-like stomp (complete with Vedder's David Byrne-esque vocal delivery) with a smoothed-out '80s Bowie swing to it. The risky musical experiment (complete with bassist Jeff Ament switching to guitar and keys while guitarist Gossard plays bass) really pays off.

One of the most satisfying things about Gigaton is that the album really didn't have to happen. Pearl Jam could have kept touring to sold-out stadiums and festivals even without releasing a new record. But while they certainly took their time putting this record together (this is a band who just got around to releasing their 2017 and 2018 fan club singles, mind you), the results have the unhurried, thoughtful quality that comes from a band having the space and time to assemble only their best material.

At 57 minutes, Gigaton is the longest record of the band's career, yet there are few unnecessary moments. The band is both stretching out and coming closer together, tapping into the dynamic creative partnership that has fueled them all these years. For a longtime fan, these new songs offer a sense of emotional escape, fitful unease, steadfast belief, and a personal reconnection and collective recalibration. Gigaton is a boisterous creative check in to make sure the kids are still alright.

And if nothing else, Gigaton is an affirmation that this band I pledged my soul (and skin) to in the '90s hasn't led me astray. The kid I was when I discovered Pearl Jam is still alive within me, and their music is an uninhibited, exhilarating reminder to enjoy my youth no matter how old I get.


http://www.citypages.com/music/pearl-ja ... WwsZCMxOGY

cant wait for people to quote that entire post for the next three pages

Nice