Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Vitalogy

[VinylGuy]

yes, im bored with Better Man. Yes, i dont want to listen to it again or live.

Ahh, but when appears its just

CANTTT FIND A BETTEEEEER.....


Ageless.

[Ms Harmless]

the oooo-oooooooh-ooooooh adlibbing at the end of Betterman is some of my favourite

[VinylGuy]

Dudes, Immortality is a top ten for me, and its just PJ at its finest...again, blues meets Neil Young meets Fugazi....Ed delivery is wonderful i love when he sings in this registre

and the band tight as hell...Its Dave and Jeff's show. And Mike. And Stone.

What a classic.

[VinylGuy]

I mean....i guess Foxy is cool because of Jack and te guitars just hammering it down??

[VinylGuy]

Fantastic experience to blast Vs and Vitalogy so close to each other, they sound so different really. Vitalogy is the one album they didnt try to replicate in sound right? it totally feels like a capsule of its time, not maybe in sound so much, but in what Eddie was trying to do with the band.

[liebzz]

The Immortality off Give Way is my evidence that Jack actually played it the best of them.

[VinylGuy]

The Immortality off Give Way is my evidence that Jack actually played it the best of them.

yeah, that version is so fucking great

[Val]

don't need a bandage! got a hard, hard head

Isn’t it don’t need a helmet, got a hard, hard head

[Ms Harmless]

don't need a bandage! got a hard, hard head

Isn’t it don’t need a helmet, got a hard, hard head

lol yes it is, I was tired

the bandage is somewhere else though I think

[Val]

don't need a bandage! got a hard, hard head

Isn’t it don’t need a helmet, got a hard, hard head

lol yes it is, I was tired

the bandage is somewhere else though I think

Don’t need a bandage, there is too much blood

[Ms Harmless]

don't need a bandage! got a hard, hard head

Isn’t it don’t need a helmet, got a hard, hard head

lol yes it is, I was tired

the bandage is somewhere else though I think

Don’t need a bandage, there is too much blood

yes! thank you

[digster]

I've been making my way through the catalog for the first time in quite a while, and it's easy for me to forget how amazing this opening 5-song salvo is.

Last Exit
Spin the Black Circle
Not For You
Tremor Christ
Nothingman

Not only how good they are, but how well done they are. Those takes equal practically every live version of those songs I've heard.

[liebzz]

Don’t mean to push, but you forgot Whipping!

[Kevin Davis]

My timeline is fuzzy on when the Vitalogy recording sessions were -- had all of those songs been road-tested before being recorded? I definitely think it is the last PJ album where all of the songs had been played live prior to the album release (minus the interludes and oddities of course).

[darth_vedder]

That opening 6 is really strong, maybe only topped by No Code for me.

Also, Tremor Christ might be my favorite Pearl Jam song.

[stip]

My timeline is fuzzy on when the Vitalogy recording sessions were -- had all of those songs been road-tested before being recorded? I definitely think it is the last PJ album where all of the songs had been played live prior to the album release (minus the interludes and oddities of course).

Just about all of them. that was a road album for sure

[hlniv]

No Code and Yield had a few, but not many

Maybe only these:?
Red Mosquito
Habit
Lukin
Brain of J

Why wasn't Brain of J on No Code?

[stip]

it was taking up the space habit occupied i suspect

[Bi_3]

I've been making my way through the catalog for the first time in quite a while, and it's easy for me to forget how amazing this opening 5-song salvo is.

Last Exit
Spin the Black Circle
Not For You
Tremor Christ
Nothingman

Not only how good they are, but how well done they are. Those takes equal practically every live version of those songs I've heard.

It's not just the takes, the way these are recorded and the production is perfection to me. I wish they had stuck with that style on the harder songs on No Code.