Yield: Official Album Thread

[VinylGuy]

It would be fun if they forgot to include Hummus on this two vinyl edition

[dad]

I can't remember if it's on the repress from 2016.

[VinylGuy]

its not

[dad]

well, Hummus is listed on the tracklist for the 25th Anniversary.

[stip]

and just like that All Those Yesterdays loses its closer status

[dad]

c'mon, this is serious.

[VinylGuy]

and just like that All Those Yesterdays loses its closer status

I really hope we get a scene with Sarah Jessica Parker saying this while holding a Yield vinyl in the next season of her series

[stip]

c'mon, this is serious.

nothing could be more serious!

[Farmer John]

This seriously changes everything.

I will be cancelling my afternoon plans to instead focus on my updated album closer rankings.

[dad]

keep us posted.

[Farmer John]

keep us posted.

I'm all done! Turns out Hummus is #1

[dad]

keep us posted.

I'm all done! Turns out Hummus is #1

a seriously great surprise.

[tragabigzanda]

pearl jam sucks now

[dad]

if Hummus is the closer, why don't we have a thread for it?

[dad]

the absolute disrespect...

I'd like to file a formal complaint.

[Farmer John]

What a mess

[Happy Trees]

got an email that the shipping label has been created.

Hang in there, it will be applied in a couple of weeks.

[dad]

got an email that the shipping label has been created.

Hang in there, it will be applied in a couple of weeks.

i live for disappointment.

[Kevin Davis]

This "Hummus" issue seems pretty inflammatory on the surface, but there is no need to worry. The E-Z Album Closer Identifaction Matrix (EZ-ACIM) has a guideline for this.

Yield has been out for 25 years, with "All Those Yesterdays" clearly designated as the album closer, insofar as it meets the easy-to-understand, no-sensible-person-would-ever-contradict-this criteria of "the last listed track on the album that is not otherwise identified as a bonus track."

A variant version owned by a comparatively small number of people does not displace the original, nor does it become the new standard for what constitutes "the real album." Many albums have multiple, canonically insignificant variants -- differing international tracklists, limited edition content, different tracklists for vinyl vs. CD/digital, different mixes, remixes, edited/censored versions, etc. This 25th anniversary vinyl-only reissue of Yield is likewise a variant, and should be treated as such.

I would think this would go without saying, but the infallible, irrefutable, seriously-KD-it-just-makes-such-an-incredible-amount-of-sense-I-can't-believe-no-one-ever-thought-to-put-it-in-these-terms-before principle upon which the EZ-ACIM is anchored assumes that the variation of the album being discussed is the most familiar, widely distributed, "standard" version of the album. But then, prior to the ongoing and completely unnecessary "Immortality"/"Stupid Mop" confusion, I would have assumed that the baseline criteria laid out by the EZ-ACIM went without saying as well, so this probably bears laying out here.

[Strat]

Writers block is closing track on binaural.

Master slave ends ten

Whatever the hell that thing is at end of avocado ends that.

We clear? Good.