Pearl Jam (self titled): Official Album Thread

[tragabigzanda]

pearl jam sucks now

[VinylGuy]

I loved this one when it came out, then kinda forgot about it after the amazingly good 2006 tour. But it came back very strong in 2020, and now its one of my favorites from them, not only the album but the whole phase, SNL, the magazine covers, festivals...felt they were in a very good and strong moment.

Life Waster, WWC, Comatose, Severed Hand, Parachutes, Unemployable, Big Wave, Army Reserve and Inside Job remain as favorites from their catalogue.

[Lounge Lizard]

I bought Avocado and 10 000 Days on the same day.
Guess which record gets tons of replays from me to this day?

So... there's that.

[Huell]

I bought Avocado and 10 000 Days on the same day.
Guess which record gets tons of replays from me to this day?

So... there's that.

Which one? Avocado and you love it? Or 10,000 days and you love that?

I always liked 10,000 Days, it was my first Tool release at the time but I had a new appreciation for it after Fear Inoculum came out. Wish they just cut Vigniti Tres from it too, pointless dead space for a gimmick

[warehouse]

both great albums and deserve regular spins

[Lounge Lizard]

I bought Avocado and 10 000 Days on the same day.
Guess which record gets tons of replays from me to this day?

So... there's that.

Which one? Avocado and you love it? Or 10,000 days and you love that?

10 000 Days, of course.

[igotworms]

I do wonder what the reception to S/T would have been if they'd followed through with it being a concept album / rock opera as originally planned. You can pretty much pick through the songs and work out the narrative and running order. I think Ed said that the release of American Idiot torpedoed the idea.

[Monkey_Driven]

I do wonder what the reception to S/T would have been if they'd followed through with it being a concept album / rock opera as originally planned. You can pretty much pick through the songs and work out the narrative and running order. I think Ed said that the release of American Idiot torpedoed the idea.

I think it would be worse.

[JuanHamm]

I can't even begin to imagine how bad a Pearl Jam Rock opera would be.

[dad]

I can't even begin to imagine how bad a Pearl Jam Rock opera would be.

[wease]

KD i like the spirit of where your head's at, but:

Army Reserve sounds like You Are

I guess kinda but You Are doesn’t change time signatures like Reserve does.

Parachutes sounds like All Those Yesterdays

Just with the picked acoustic riff, I suppose. I had never even thought about it before you mentioned it.

Come Back taps into the R&B throwback vibes of Last Kiss and Leaving Here

And fails miserably.

[liebzz]

Come Back reimagined as a Gov’t Mule song is actually quite nice:

https://open.spotify.com/track/1mJlwizX ... KQ60gOBjBg

[igotworms]

I was not aware of that cover. Reasonable.

[wease]

Me either. Better than the original.

[liebzz]

Me either. Better than the original.

I was there, man! (Actually I was).

[zeb]

I can't even begin to imagine how bad a Pearl Jam Rock opera would be.

[warehouse]

I do wonder what the reception to S/T would have been if they'd followed through with it being a concept album / rock opera as originally planned. You can pretty much pick through the songs and work out the narrative and running order. I think Ed said that the release of American Idiot torpedoed the idea.

he did this with the early albums, as well. ten, vs and vitalogy are all borderline concept albums w/ larger narratives.

edit: i also don't think the rock opera thing was planned, as much as it was EV just revisiting the way he tracked albums. i think 'cold confession' was intended to end the album, but 'inside job' is super important to mccready and kinda ends the story the same way.

[zeb]

Yeah but is the concept just what's mainly bugging Eddie at the time?

Ten - Family, abandonment, etc
Vs - Dealing with an incredible amount of fame
Vitalogy - Same as Vs but way more plus a little social commentary

[warehouse]

i think 'vitalogy' is probably the most autobiographical, but it's not just the themes on the album, its the sequence.

"don't go on me"
"I'd rather be with an animal"

one song is a response to the song before it.

[liebzz]

i think 'vitalogy' is probably the most autobiographical, but it's not just the themes on the album, its the sequence.

"don't go on me"
"I'd rather be with an animal"

one song is a response to the song before it.

Did you mean Vs.?