Binaural: Official Album Thread

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This has the weakest opening of any Pearl Jam album. The first three songs are all meh. Picks up with Light Years though.
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Breakerfall/Gods’ Dice/Evacuation is definitely stronger than Backspacer’s start and Lightning Bolt as well.
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liebzz wrote:Breakerfall/Gods’ Dice/Evacuation is definitely stronger than Backspacer’s start and Lightning Bolt as well.
And Ten and Vitalogy and Riot Act and Pearl Jam.
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lecherouslittlestump wrote:This has the weakest opening of any Pearl Jam album. The first three songs are all meh. Picks up with Light Years though.
Bullshit. It's one of the best and you know it.
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Wendy Carlos's Twin wrote:
lecherouslittlestump wrote:This has the weakest opening of any Pearl Jam album. The first three songs are all meh. Picks up with Light Years though.
Bullshit. It's one of the best and you know it.
Seriously. Fuck the stump
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what was the deal with this with the different producer and then they brought in BOB

I always felt like the first 3 could have sounded much better on the album and it would have made for a very different experience
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96583UP wrote:what was the deal with this with the different producer and then they brought in BOB
It was a Zack Snyder / Joss Whedon situation
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i was just reading the wikipedia page

NAIS' lyrics were written by Jeff, about growing up in Montana?

that's kind of lame

I always thought it was about John Baker Saunders
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lecherouslittlestump wrote:This has the weakest opening of any Pearl Jam album. The first three songs are all meh. Picks up with Light Years though.
nah. Light Years is the first and only weak part.
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bodysnatcher wrote:
lecherouslittlestump wrote:This has the weakest opening of any Pearl Jam album. The first three songs are all meh. Picks up with Light Years though.
nah. Light Years is the first and only weak part.
After all these years, I’ve finally come around on Light Years.
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PHATJ wrote:
bodysnatcher wrote:
lecherouslittlestump wrote:This has the weakest opening of any Pearl Jam album. The first three songs are all meh. Picks up with Light Years though.
nah. Light Years is the first and only weak part.
After all these years, I’ve finally come around on Light Years.
first, the reimagined In My Tree. and now this?

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bodysnatcher wrote:
PHATJ wrote:
bodysnatcher wrote:
lecherouslittlestump wrote:This has the weakest opening of any Pearl Jam album. The first three songs are all meh. Picks up with Light Years though.
nah. Light Years is the first and only weak part.
After all these years, I’ve finally come around on Light Years.
first, the reimagined In My Tree. and now this?

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:lol: You might be right.
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tragabigzanda wrote:
bodysnatcher wrote:Light Years is the first and only weak part.
Our blossoming friendship just took a pretty big hit.
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that song has just never done it for me. there are moments i like, but as a whole, it's one i skip often
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it's too clunky and calculated for the heart on sleeve sentiment in the chorus. The first verse is overwritten, too. Good bridge though, and I do like the second verse
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It’s the last minute that moves the needle for me, so to speak.
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I fucking love Light Years.
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chewm wrote:I fucking love Light Years.
Fuck yeah.
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wease wrote:
chewm wrote:I fucking love Light Years.
Fuck yeah.
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Light Years is a classic to me, and one of the seven or eight Binaural songs that should be counted among the band's absolute best. Its a beautiful, powerful song.
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