Pearl Jam (self titled): Official Album Thread

[stip]

So I kind of loved Gone when it came out, but really what it was was that I was pretty much starved for the kind of soaring vocals we got in the chorus which we hadn't had since Yield, really. And then just a few isolated moments here and there until Dark Matter gave us an album full of em. I haven't gone back to Gone, and Eddie soaring is Eddie soaring, but I bet Dark Matter isn't going to do this any favors

[Ms Harmless]

the organ in Gone is gorgeous

[Leatherhead]

Gone is good. I've never understood the hate.

[VinylGuy]

Sometimes VG is a source of joy and positivity, then sometimes he says horrific shit like “really feeling Gone.” Just never know when he’s gonna zig or zag.

Sometimes Trag is just a source of darkness, sourness and negativity and then he says something like “ I like the fart song” and you understand what’s happening in his life.

You wanna help him? No, I wanna see him dig deeper!

[VinylGuy]

the organ in Gone is gorgeous

Yeah I noticed it today. Loved the ending

[Ms Harmless]

Matt's snare tone for the Letterman appearance sounds great, I wish the Dark Matter one was like this

[blueviper]

Gone is good. I've never understood the hate.

I remember hearing a demo/solo (?) version beforehand that was acoustic maybe and liked it and was excited to hear it on the album. Then it came out and the full band version left something to be desired.


Side note. My iPad anticipated 80% of the next word I was going to type above. I welcome our AI overlords

[oneway23]

Gone is good. I've never understood the hate.

I remember hearing a demo/solo (?) version beforehand that was acoustic maybe and liked it and was excited to hear it on the album. Then it came out and the full band version left something to be desired.


Side note. My iPad anticipated 80% of the next word I was going to type above. I welcome our AI overlords

That was from a couple of shows they did at the Borgata Hotel & Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey on 9/30/05 and 10/1/05.
As I recall, Ed wrote it in the hotel room the night between the two shows and premiered it on night 2.

[tragabigzanda]

pearl jam sucks now

[liebzz]

I like Gone, VG. Great song.

[VinylGuy]

I remember hearing the demo and thinking mmm ed solo song. The band arrangement really surprised me in my first listen.

[Leatherhead]

ST is a transitionary album, from the PJ of old to what we have now. Which is interesting given the title of the album.

[oneway23]

Gone is the first recollection I have of genuinely turning on an Ed-penned tune.
I'd pretty much accepted them all, without qualification, up until that one.

[Leatherhead]

What is it about Gone that people don't like?

[oneway23]

What is it about Gone that people don't like?

Can't say, really...Eventually grew to like it just fine, but, at the time, I remember thinking, "this sounds stodgy."

[Birds in Hell]

I seem to recall people really didn't like the 'gas in my tank' lyric at the time, for whatever reason.

[stip]

yea they did.

its maybe? the first example of an eddie song where the band doesnt add much which probably bothered some.

I like Gone, but the verses are there pretty much there to feel the lift of the chorus/outro in comparison. its not eddie’s best presentation of what even by 2006 feels like somewhat well traveled territory

i should listen to ghost and then gone. almost like the same story with two different endings

[stip]

right, ghost has ‘i never knew soap made you taller’ the perfect counterpoint to ‘when the gas in my tank feels like money in the bank’

love mike’s first solo on ghost

[stip]

that chorus of gone was such a breath of fresh air at the time. but gone does have unthought known (or thumbing my way) syndrome hung on a less engaging frame. then they just abandoned all pretense of band participation in the end -> future days -> Comes then Goes.

the band does elevate the chorus for show. they are just at sea during the verse

[liebzz]

I always loved Gone, but it’s also connected to a moment in time. When s/t came out, I was studying for the bar exam, taking a bus into and out of New York City to upstate New York every day as the break between class and studying. Every day on the bus back from the city, I would listen to that album, and Gone came up exactly when the bus traveling up in New Jersey would hit the place where the New York City skyline would slowly come out of view, and it seemed to fit the song really well. I can still see the disappearing skyline when I hear that song.

My recollection was people hated the “This American Dream I’m disbelieving” line, as well as the clear ode to the Who with the “if nothing is everything I will have it all”. I enjoy it all and always have. Sorry folks.