Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Yield

[stip]

it does seem like a song recorded a few years prior to everything else. On the other hand, they worked DTE in there as well. Although DTE has just enough defeatist/sardonic/fuck it energy to make sense on Yield.

[Chloe]

phase

[Chloe]

BoJ works great as an opener on the album... but I can't imagine the order being any different. This album seriously is perfect to me.

[Chloe]

The build in GTF.... gives me chills
"a wave came crashing"... that guitar build into those lyrics is great.

[digster]

BoJ works great as an opener on the album... but I can't imagine the order being any different. This album seriously is perfect to me.

I agree...Brain of J is perfect on the record, but I think it would probably only work as an opener. I always felt like Yield was, in part, closing the chapter on a lot of the issues plaguing Ed when he wrote Vitalogy and the like, and Brain of J kind of has one eye on their past material and one eye towards Yield. It acts as a pretty great bridge between the material.

[Hypnos]

In case anyone want In Hiding without the fadeout.
http://www.tunescoop.com/play/323330393 ... hiding-mp3

[Blenheim Augustine]

BoJ works great as an opener on the album... but I can't imagine the order being any different. This album seriously is perfect to me.

I agree...Brain of J is perfect on the record, but I think it would probably only work as an opener. I always felt like Yield was, in part, closing the chapter on a lot of the issues plaguing Ed when he wrote Vitalogy and the like, and Brain of J kind of has one eye on their past material and one eye towards Yield. It acts as a pretty great bridge between the material.

I think it's been said before, but it then makes sense when he says "i'm through with screaming" in the next song (although he throws in a few on GTF and DTE). BoJ fits much better on this than No Code although No Code would have benefited from another good rocker.

[hlniv]

In case anyone want In Hiding without the fadeout.
http://www.tunescoop.com/play/323330393 ... hiding-mp3

I'd like to hear this. But man, that link seems sketchy.

How about somebody else puts it up somewhere else?

[Hypnos]

Is this better?
http://www.sendspace.com/file/nw2j6q

[knee tunes]

I love the extraneous noises on push me pull me

I just Yield

[Jorge]

In case anyone want In Hiding without the fadeout.
http://www.tunescoop.com/play/323330393 ... hiding-mp3

I'd like to hear this. But man, that link seems sketchy.

How about somebody else puts it up somewhere else?

It's just "In Hiding" from Yield with the outro from the Single Video Theory performance stitched on at the end.

[Hypnos]

In case anyone want In Hiding without the fadeout.
http://www.tunescoop.com/play/323330393 ... hiding-mp3

I'd like to hear this. But man, that link seems sketchy.

How about somebody else puts it up somewhere else?

It's just "In Hiding" from Yield with the outro from the Single Video Theory performance stitched on at the end.

What? I don´t know what you´re talking about!

[Hypnos]

Ok now, this is an almost perfect version, seemless edition: In Hiding (without fadeout):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti5kk22HCBM&

[hlniv]

Ok now, this is an almost perfect version, seemless edition: In Hiding (without fadeout):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti5kk22HCBM&

Very nice.

Now if I could just figure out how to rip 256+ mp3's from youtube....

[Hypnos]

http://www.sendspace.com/file/drlefe

[stip]

okay, lets do some Lets Actually Listening!

[stip]

Brain of J: It say something about how good pearl jam's opening songs usually are that this one is probably just 5. Great fuzzy riff. I am not normally a fan of Jack's drumming, but his sloppy style fits in really well here. The drums seem really loud in the mix. They overpower the solo.

It's cool how tight and loose this song is at the same time

I always thought Eddie's little falsetto moments in this one were a bit weird.

Pretty angry song for Yield. This would have fit in well on No Code's grab bag, and works well there thematically as well. It promises a different album than we end up getting on Yield


Faithful: Nice transition. I get why people like faithful so much, but this is definitely in my top 5 most overrated Pearl Jam songs. Like so much of No Code, I think I just don't like the way Eddie sounds here as much as I do on other albums--there is a nasal, almost whiny quality to parts of it (esp in the verses).

The looseness Jack brings to the band is a turn off to me here. I think I'd like this more (especially the bridge) if it felt tighter. As is, this song has always felt a little bit incomplete to me--like a rough mix.

is there a piano in the chorus?

I do like the riff, I just feel like it needs to transition into something tighter/fuller.

I think this is the first (but not the last) pearl jam anthem to start to feel, if not by the numbers, like it still lost something

[Jorge]

Jack's drumming is one of the best things about "Faithfull"

[stip]

No Way: This song feels full in a way faithful didn't. The music is great--such a heavy sarcastic riff. Like Dirty Frank's wordly older brother. I've come around to the playful melody over the years, and even the lyrics a bit, although I'm generally not a fan of stone as a writer.

But ugh, I hate this chorus. 15 years out and I still think this thing is stupid, and totally kills the song for me. Maybe more than any other pearl jam chorus except possibly Habit. Music is fine, though

One of the weaker bridges too. A lyric I don't like and a farting guitar.

This one really starts out promising and deflates pretty quickly.

Also my usual No Code/Yield era issue with how Eddie sounds.

Jack's drumming also works well here.

Given To Fly: Like RVM, this is one I've cooled on a bit over the years just due to how much I have played it, but I still know exactly why I think this is one of their best songs every time I hear it. It is everything a pearl jam anthem should be, and everything that Faithful and In Hiding aren't. the hushed intimacy of Eddie's vocals in the verses, the warmth in the guitar. The song wraps you up into itself almost immediately, in a way faithful just can't be bothered to.

I do wish Eddie was a little less hoarse on the screams in the chorus, but he comes down from it so nicely I don't really care--the verse/chorus/verse transitions in this one are fantastic.

I like Matt's take on this one more than Jack's. I feel like Jack is playing along to a different song.

That little bit stone plays towards the end of the second verse is really cool. Like fingers running down your back. Ditto his 'rythmic things that butt against each other' part during the chorus

The way Eddie' sings 'the love he receives is the love that is saved' is everything that's so great about him as a vocalist.

I love how the outro eases you out of the song and into Wishlist.

[Norah]

Jack's drumming is one of the best things about "Faithfull"

absolutely