Red Mosquito

Upon its release, Vitalogy simultaneously had casual fans jumping ship while cementing the band’s cult status with die hards.

this is still the one

It really is.

It is

It is the bee's knees.

bees had no knees prior to the release of this album.

Someday the price be paid.

I saw the Springsteen movie the other night and it is terrible in almost every way (not every way, the performances are good), but as I sat there I started reflecting that the events in that movie take place in the early 1980s which mean we could easily be just 5-10 years away from a similar biopic type movie being made about Pearl Jam. Sure, sure, they'd probably never allow it ... but, people get old and, well, hey Bruce did and Dylan did. You never know.

As bad as it was I at least found the idea of the Springsteen film (focusing on one album or career turning point) more interesting than most of the life retrospective biopics that get made (Bohemian Rhapsody, Ray, whatever the Elton one was called, etc etc).

For Pearl Jam, the turning point movie would clearly be about Vitalogy. You've got a band at the top of the world, but it's utter chaos. You can start toward the end of the 1994 tour where they're writing and debuting new material, but the Cobain thing is happening, and Ed is losing his shit.

Meanwhile, you've got the Ticketmaster fee drama going on, after the tour that continues and ultimately leads to the summer tour being canceled and Jeff and Stone appearing in front of Congress.

Later that summer of course Stone fires Dave over a plate of eggs. Surely we could get a couple nice scenes about how that relationship went bad before the eggs hit the fan.

Then you've got the album coming together and the push/pull between Stone and Ed. STBC is an obvious way to illustrate this. Not only is the album almost all Ed songs but then Ed is totally changing the tempo on this riff Stone brings in. Meanwhile, Ed has this harebrained idea for packaging and they are fighting with the label about not having jewel cases, there's probably at least one guy at Epic/Sony who has some concerns about all the experimental tracks.

Could almost be interesting.

Sadly, the version that would actually get made would be called "Better Men" and have a lot of flashbacks to a young Ed watching his mom get beat up, write song about it, and then, many many years later, share that song with his band just when the studio was demanding a hit. But by god they would stand strong and not let them put it out as a single.

I fucking love this fucking album

a great example of what "grunge" could be

this album is in my forever rotation

i can always come back to it

and be enthralled

I'll listen to it again...Someday.

Someday > Bugs

igotworms wrote:Someday > Bugs

Good god yes