Pearl Jam (self titled): Official Album Thread

[WtOB?]

Matt's drums would sound so good on this if they had room to breathe.

[yofismom]

I'll just put this here.

Black Market Avocado

1. Severed Hand - Hartford
2. Comatose - Sydney 3
3. Life Wasted - St Paul 1
4. Gone - Sydney 3
5. Unemployable - San Francisco 1
6. Army Reserve - Zagreb
7. World Wide Suicide - Vitoria
8. Marker in the Sand - Prague
9. Inside Job - Melbourne 1
10. Parachutes - Portland
11. Big Wave - Madrid
12. Wasted Reprise - Toronto 2
13. Come Back - Santa Barbara

FLAC pt 1: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?aeg10nc39n93vpb
FLAC pt 2: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?wd4qjc19f6gom6r
MP3: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?0xbtkwm2z01h2px

All from '06 tour??

[Birds in Hell]

Aw huh.

[LetMeSleep]

BiH - I've listened to that BMAvo quite a bit. Nice job. Thanks.

[Got Some]

Listened to this again the other night and really enjoyed.

Severed Hand Comatose Life Wasted all amazing!!

WWS a lot more poppier than I remember.

Army Reserve Big Wave sounded epic. a lot better than I remember. The endings are amazing .Army Reserve is very very underrated .

Inside Job is also an underrated song. I liked what they tried with this album.

They try to sound epic and it works in most part. The complete opposite to Backspacer.

I can understand people hating one and loving the other.

My track list
Severed Hand / Life Wasted / WWS / Comatose / MITS / Army Reserve/ Unenployable/ Big Wave/ Gone / Wasted Reprise/ Come Back/ Inside Job

Sorry parachutes fans . It kills the flow for me.

Army Reserve sounds awesome coming in after Marker.

[nightmareblack0206]

Really?

Wasted Reprise over Parachutes?

[nomorecrackpipes]

I misplaced this CD somewhere. Not actively looking for it.

[Thejambi]

I misplaced this CD somewhere. Not actively looking for it.

Thought I hated it till the other day I decided to give it a play. Some good stuff in there.

[LetMeSleep]

I play this album more than any other studio PJ nowadays. 9 great tracks (1-8+AR).

[evenslow]

Based on a comment in a different thread, I went back and listened to Inside Job in full for the first time in probably about 6 years.

The opening verses of this song might be the nadir of Pearl Jam. The lyrics combined with Ed trying like hell to spiff them up with an incredibly misguided delivery are just the bottoms for me.

The song has interesting pockets as it progresses but man I just don't like this song. Should not have made the record, let alone get the primo real estate of closing out the album.

Take off Gone, Big Wave, and Inside Job (and change the production) and you've got yourself a really nice rock record.

[epilogue]

Based on a comment in a different thread, I went back and listened to Inside Job in full for the first time in probably about 6 years.

The opening verses of this song might be the nadir of Pearl Jam. The lyrics combined with Ed trying like hell to spiff them up with an incredibly misguided delivery are just the bottoms for me.

The song has interesting pockets as it progresses but man I just don't like this song. Should not have made the record, let alone get the primo real estate of closing out the album.

Take off Gone, Big Wave, and Inside Job (and change the production) and you've got yourself a really nice rock record.

But it so clearly belongs because it fits the album. It has to be there because it's about finding uplift in darkness. Song don't just get left of albums, bub. No matter how bad they are. If they fit, the go on the album.

[VinylGuy]

listened to this one on vinyl after a long time...the first side is incredible...those first 4 songs are fucking amazing...

and something i didnt notice...i think the life wasted version on the vinyl doesnt feature the laugh after the bridge.

WEIRD RIGHT?

[epilogue]

listened to this one on vinyl after a long time...the first side is incredible...those first 4 songs are fucking amazing...

and something i didnt notice...i think the life wasted version on the vinyl doesnt feature the laugh after the bridge.

WEIRD RIGHT?

Interesting. I'll have to check that out. I never noticed.

[evenslow]

Based on a comment in a different thread, I went back and listened to Inside Job in full for the first time in probably about 6 years.

The opening verses of this song might be the nadir of Pearl Jam. The lyrics combined with Ed trying like hell to spiff them up with an incredibly misguided delivery are just the bottoms for me.

The song has interesting pockets as it progresses but man I just don't like this song. Should not have made the record, let alone get the primo real estate of closing out the album.

Take off Gone, Big Wave, and Inside Job (and change the production) and you've got yourself a really nice rock record.

But it so clearly belongs because it fits the album. It has to be there because it's about finding uplift in darkness. Song don't just get left of albums, bub. No matter how bad they are. If they fit, the go on the album.

Bad is bad and bad don't belong nowhere.

[stip]

it's like when your kid brings home that honor society bumper sticker. There's a lot of pressure to put it on the car.

[Norah]

it's like when your kid brings home that honor society bumper sticker. There's a lot of pressure to put it on the car.

Yeah, you tape it to the window so it can be easily removed.

[epilogue]

it's like when your kid brings home that honor society bumper sticker. There's a lot of pressure to put it on the car.

AL

[epilogue]

it's like when your kid brings home that honor society bumper sticker. There's a lot of pressure to put it on the car.

Yeah, you tape it to the window so it can be easily removed.

This ain't your first rodeo.

[mikejasond]

It's probably my third favorite of their albums next to Ten and Vs. which are about tied for me.

I like Vitalogy, especially the mixing on Eddie's vocals cutting through and think the first five tracks (Last Exit, Spin the Black Circle, Not For You, Tremor Christ, Nothingman) are all awesome and make you think the album's going to be great. But then it completely dies in the second half and they pad Corduroy, Better Man, and Immortality with a bunch of other stuff. They honestly should have just made it an eight song album and I would have thought it was a classic. I just can't love the album because of how much the first five songs makes the album seem great and you realize it's not even halfway done and has only three more really good songs on it.

No Code and Yield were okay. They had great tracks and also very unmemorable ones. By Binaural and Riot Act it just seemed to me like every song was this listless drone of a song with some exceptions on each album, but overall I just couldn't get into them.

I was convinced I hated all the Pearl Jam albums of this decade because I had heard Backspacer and thought it was terrible (Though a couple songs grew on me like Force of Nature and Got Some I still don't love it.)

Then I listened to S/T.

Wow. I just loved it. It had a new energy that none of their other stuff had ever had. It reminded me of the first two albums in that it felt so unique to me. A blend of The Who, punk, and the groove of the older albums. I loved Pearl Jam because they brought something special to their genre. The middle years and Backspacer just seemed pretty generic and boring to me but this, while so different from Ten and Vs. was unique and had a new life.

Life Wasted in my opinion is the best opening track they've ever done. It opens with an explosion. The verse chorus AND bridges are great, the solo is awesome. I like Go and Last Exit as album openers, but they always just seem like album openers to me. they never really stand alone to me as their own full songs but Life Wasted does and it works as a badass album opener.

Then World Wide Suicide comes in. It sounds a lot like songs they've done in the past. But it's so much better. It opens with a bang and I love that it's high energy but it has a groovy beat to it. The pre-choruses on this song is one of my favorite ever Pearl Jam sections. It's just so cool and Eddie sounds badass barrelling forward and spitting out lyrics with just the guitar.

Then Comatose continues to further the theme of songs Pearl Jam has TRIED to do in the past but finally perfected on this album. This is much better than their other punk efforts. It's much better than Brain of J or Spin the Black Circle in my opinion.

I'm not going to go song by song but most of the other songs are great too. Parachutes and Come Back get special mentions for being awesome. I can't think of a bad song on the album. I guess I'm not the biggest fan of Marker in the Sand? But it's still good. I love the beginning and the feel of it. Maybe Big Wave I guess? They haven't had an album with this many quality songs since Vs.


I don't know what else to say but they never made an album like this before or after. I love the energy and sound, and think they emerged from the shaky years of Binaural and Riot Act of trying to find themselves and failing to finally finding a Pearl Jam sound that is awesome and DIFFERENT from their old sound, and then unfortunately they never found it again going away from it on Backspacer. I think this was what Pearl Jam should have logically evolved to and am dissappointed they didnt.

[yofismom]

I like it a lot. It's probably #4 for me.

Have you seen this thread? http://forums.theskyiscrape.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=29