Binaural: Official Album Thread

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5 Stars: A top tier album
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4 Stars: A very good album
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3 Stars: Average
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2: Stars: I expect more
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1 Star: Embarrassing
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dad wrote:guys, Habit is a good song.
True, but it ain't no NAIS.
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dad wrote:guys, Habit is a good song.
This wasn't always true, but it's true now.
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Binaural is 23 years old! Let’s reignite the age old debate of what would have made the best album of this stuff (for me it is among my favorite albums of theirs yet I also think they could have done better with the material they had). My take of an ideal track list:

1) Of the Girl
2) Breakerfall
3) Gods’ Dice
4) Evacuation
5) Sad
6) Grievance
7) Nothing As It Seems
8) Insignificance
9) Education
10) Fatal
11) Hitchhiker
12) In the Moonlight
13) Rival
14) Thin Air
15) Light Years
16) Sleight of Hand
17) Parting Ways

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Any tracking that keeps Sad (Letter to the Dead) is automatically better. Lose NaiS and my god, it would be perfect.
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23 years old damn, i still remember the day i went for the cd. I went three times to the record store because it wasnt there yet, but it was coming. Third time the guy just put out the album and said "please go"
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VinylGuy wrote:23 years old damn, i still remember the day i went for the cd. I went three times to the record store because it wasnt there yet, but it was coming. Third time the guy just put out the album and said "please go"
was that guy dave a?
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no, the owner of a record store i went three times to ask the very same thing

" SO IS THE NEW PJ HERE ALREADY?"
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This is a compilation I made with a bunch of improvs of the Binaural era. Seems a good time to repost it.


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Some good stuff there.
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pearl jam sucks now
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tragabigzanda wrote:except parting ways, that still sucks
But it doesn't.
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epilogue wrote:I take a lot of heat for hating Habit. But I feel like as long as there are NAIS haters out there, y'all can leave me the fuck alone!
I love both tunes.
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No, Habit does kind of suck.
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Monkey_Driven wrote:No, Habit does kind of suck.
:hooray:
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beat it, haters.
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pearl jam sucks now
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Hypnosomnia wrote:This is a compilation I made with a bunch of improvs of the Binaural era. Seems a good time to repost it.


I remember this. Great shit - thanks again.
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VinylGuy wrote:23 years old damn, i still remember the day i went for the cd. I went three times to the record store because it wasnt there yet, but it was coming. Third time the guy just put out the album and said "please go"
My excitement got the better of me and got it on a cassette tape :lol:
One of the worst audio experiences in my life.
Although my first copy of Vitalogy also was a tape, the recording quality on it was miles above Binaural somehow.
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epilogue wrote:
Monkey_Driven wrote:No, Habit does kind of suck.
:hooray:
It definitely sucks.
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4/5 wrote:
epilogue wrote:
Monkey_Driven wrote:No, Habit does kind of suck.
:hooray:
It definitely sucks.
You’ve all listened to it all the way through right?
Every sentence in my head, someone else has said.
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