Binaural: Official Album Thread

[Thejambi]

Objectively speaking....Sad is fucking sweet.

[digster]

I do really like Sad, but I think that stature it gets round here is a little much. If it were on the album, I don't think it would crack the top 5, possibly more.

[Lament]

While it has probably slipped all the way down to #5 for me by now, this was the only album to ever temporarily replace Vitalogy as my favorite Pearl Jam album. For about the first year it was out I found it to be so engaging that it made the previous albums seem fairly uninteresting in comparison. It felt like this and Primal Scream's XTRMNTR were my soundtrack for the entire 2000 US election cycle.

[Jorge]

Lament, let's fix that avatar. It's been bugging me.

[Lament]

Lament, let's fix that avatar. It's been bugging me.

Haha, I'll see what I can do. It's a pretty obscure TV character. Any suggestions?

[Jorge]

Does anybody else see a broken link where his avatar is supposed to be? Is it just me?

[stip]

It is not just you

[Lament]

It is not just you

Uh oh. Did I upload it wrong? It shows up on my screen. Has it always been that way?

[stip]

For me

[Lament]

For me

I had no idea. Let me try to change it to something else...

[Lament]

Is it working now?

[digster]

Yep. Nice pick, too.

[Lament]

Thanks!

[WaitingForBluey]

When LD originally came out I was one of the first to join the "OMFG look at what Binaural could have been!" club. But now, or at least some time in the last year or so, I realize that Binaural is just perfect the way it is. Probably comes in somewhere between 5th-7th in my PJ album rankings. But in terms of sentimental favorites, it's right up there with No Code and Riot Act. (Note: As in "sentimental favorite", I mean those PJ albums that hold much more love and adoration from me than their overall album ranking would actually suggest.)

[stupidmop]

Definitely my favourite right now. After the first three tracks its perfection, and the only track I'm meh about is gods dice. It's the only album I can think of as a unified almost concept album.

I love sad but I'm not sure it would have fit with the other songs, plus that would have been 2 songs about lost loved ones and lightyears definitely fits, can't lose that.

[hlniv]

I know this has been done to death- but re-tracking Binaural is just too interesting to not go back and attempt every so often..

I recently re-discovered this album for the 2nd or third time in the last decade, and as always, I am struck by how unique this album sounds and the layered audio gold that exists bubbling below the surface. Binaural with headphones is a forgotten Pearl Jam gem of an experience, and one that I don't know that we'll get again. While the original set of songs and tracklisting was good (not great), I certainly believe the full set of recordings from this time period paints a very complete and rounded picture of a band at what I think was the height of their creativity. More refined and fuller than No Code, more atmosphere than Yield, and simply better songs than most of what has come since.

The collection of the following 22 tracks is amazing when you consider that the recordings were all done in around a year of each other (i think that's accurate). I put together this tracklist, and it's been burning through my headphones for the last week or so. The ebbs and flows and the variety of styles is to me, one of the best examples of what this band is capable of. Use the Lost Dogs version of non-binaural tracks, and don't leave out the two TB 2000 instrumentals, they are great transitional pieces. I kept the beginning and end of the album unchanged. The three most difficult pieces to fit in my opinion were God's Dice, Evacuation, and Hitchhiker. There are a bunch of awesome sequences below...

Set this playlist up, put on the headphones, lay back and enjoy an hour and 15 minutes of heaven.

1. Breakerfall
2. God's Dice
3. Grievance
4. Fatal
5. Sad
6. Rival
7. Of the Girl
8. In the Moonlight
9. Thin Air
10. Drifting
11. Foldback
12. Education
13. Nothing as it Seems
14. Insignificance
15. Harmony
16. Light Years
17. Strangest Tribe
18. Sleight of Hand
19. Evacuation
20. Hitchhiker
21. Soon Forget
22. Parting Ways

[WaitingForBluey]

I know this has been done to death- but re-tracking Binaural is just too interesting to not go back and attempt every so often..

I recently re-discovered this album for the 2nd or third time in the last decade, and as always, I am struck by how unique this album sounds and the layered audio gold that exists bubbling below the surface. Binaural with headphones is a forgotten Pearl Jam gem of an experience, and one that I don't know that we'll get again. While the original set of songs and tracklisting was good (not great), I certainly believe the full set of recordings from this time period paints a very complete and rounded picture of a band at what I think was the height of their creativity. More refined and fuller than No Code, more atmosphere than Yield, and simply better songs than most of what has come since.

The collection of the following 22 tracks is amazing when you consider that the recordings were all done in around a year of each other (i think that's accurate). I put together this tracklist, and it's been burning through my headphones for the last week or so. The ebbs and flows and the variety of styles is to me, one of the best examples of what this band is capable of. Use the Lost Dogs version of non-binaural tracks, and don't leave out the two TB 2000 instrumentals, they are great transitional pieces. I kept the beginning and end of the album unchanged. The three most difficult pieces to fit in my opinion were God's Dice, Evacuation, and Hitchhiker. There are a bunch of awesome sequences below...

Set this playlist up, put on the headphones, lay back and enjoy an hour and 15 minutes of heaven.

1. Breakerfall
2. God's Dice
3. Grievance
4. Fatal
5. Sad
6. Rival
7. Of the Girl
8. In the Moonlight
9. Thin Air
10. Drifting
11. Foldback
12. Education
13. Nothing as it Seems
14. Insignificance
15. Harmony
16. Light Years
17. Strangest Tribe
18. Sleight of Hand
19. Evacuation
20. Hitchhiker
21. Soon Forget
22. Parting Ways

Thunderclap?

[hlniv]

Thunderclap?

Left it out on purpose. Nice piece, but a little long and rambling, and plus I wanted this to fit on a typical disc. 5:00+ for Thunderclap was just too much

[E.H. Ruddock]

Thought that said hinny for a second.

[WaitingForBluey]

Left it out on purpose.