Red Mosquito

From what I can remember:

1. Vs (i was at the local record store every week asking for news)
2. Binaural (the articles/production hype had me pumped plus i liked nais a lot)
3. Gigaton (mutiple false reports of a new album, the 7 yrs and just seems like a very long wait after hearing legit news of the upcoming album)
4. Yield (the hype plus i heard a pre release live version or leak of brain of j and liked it really well)
5. No Code (part of the intrigue was the cards/album cover, if i remember correctly)

This one for two reasons:

1) longest wait between albums;

2) we are now fully ingrained in instant gratification culture of needing all the information at our fingertips at once. Whereas I had the patience to listen to that first single (I bought the CD singles for say Vitalogy, No Code, Yield, Binaural, and Riot Act before the albums came out) and just kind of be happy and be a little anxious to get the album, I am now used to just getting the album at once.

Yeah I agree with liebzz. The band never adjusted to the culture of instant gratification, which makes their roll outs even worse than they already have to be given how lazy they are about recording.

I'd say the wait between Riot Act and S/T. At that point, it was the longest break between albums. The band left Sony and most people were excited to see what they'd come up with in their own time frame. Their tours in between were fantastic and the release of Lost Dogs put my fandom at near-peak levels. Plus, they really slow-trickled details out about recording.

For this recent one, even though its been a really long break, I've been really indifferent. Touring endlessly with that damn Lightning Bolt set up hasn't helped. My interest level is nowhere near it was back in the early 00's. Just hope to be pleasantly surprised after 2 subpar albums.

Im guessing this one because its been too long.

But pretty much every PJ release was met with anxiety for me. Binaural and RA were two very special for me. And ST too, 4 years around that time was very long.

The gap between Riot Act and Self-Titled seemed to take forever, but the band stayed pretty busy in those off years looking back at it.

Gigaton

Coach wrote:Gigaton

The two years of no touring didn't help.

Gigaton is probs the first PJ record I've been interested in that I didn't hear a leak of before its release...at least so far. I was checked out during Backspacer and LB releases. No idea if those leaked tho.

Ten just happened. Vs was at the start of my being a fan. Vitalogy was a good wait. No Code onwards always felt like long waits.

Binaural came at a time I was really ready for an album. Loved NAIS when I first heard it.

It feels more blurry for recent albums, but S/T and Gigaton are both good picks.

I don't remember the waits for any previous albums.

easily the gap between ten and vs. i remember august 1993 and our record store had a listing of new, upcoming releases and it mentioned "pearl jam, five against one" with a tbd as the date. that wait was excruciating.

B wrote:I don't remember the waits for any previous albums.

I dont remember any for the first 5, but i feel like NAIS came out a couple of months before binaural and that wait was tough, and i feel like all since have been tough as well

Riot Act and S/T were the two pearl jam albums I NEEDED the most, so those waits felt the longest.

Which albums had the release date delayed? Yield did right? Any others?

Definitely Gigaton. I'm anxious to hear something else from it, because I really want it to be good. I was kinda burnt out on PJ when the self-titled came out, couldn't care less at the time of Backspacer, and we had the leaks and a very active and lively community here for Lightning Bolt.

No Code, which was the first "new" Pearl Jam album for me. My friends and I spent the entire summer of 1996 scouring neighborhood trash cans for discarded Pepsi points, in order to fulfill our end of an illicit deal with the local record store clerk who promised to let us buy the album three days in advance of the release date, on the day the store got its shipment, if we brought him 100 Pepsi points for him to put towards the leather jacket he wanted. Easily the most epic quest I've ever undertaken in the service of an album.

It's been a really long time since I've felt impatient waiting for a new album to come out. There's so much out there to keep my attention now; in the '90's I only listened to like eight or nine bands, so those releases were real milestones.

Kevin Davis wrote:No Code, which was the first "new" Pearl Jam album for me. My friends and I spent the entire summer of 1996 scouring neighborhood trash cans for discarded Pepsi points, in order to fulfill our end of an illicit deal with the local record store clerk who promised to let us buy the album three days in advance of the release date, on the day the store got its shipment, if we brought him 100 Pepsi points for him to put towards the leather jacket he wanted. Easily the most epic quest I've ever undertaken in the service of an album.

Did you make the deal?

Matters wrote:

Kevin Davis wrote:No Code, which was the first "new" Pearl Jam album for me. My friends and I spent the entire summer of 1996 scouring neighborhood trash cans for discarded Pepsi points, in order to fulfill our end of an illicit deal with the local record store clerk who promised to let us buy the album three days in advance of the release date, on the day the store got its shipment, if we brought him 100 Pepsi points for him to put towards the leather jacket he wanted. Easily the most epic quest I've ever undertaken in the service of an album.

Did you make the deal?

We fell a little short but he took pity on us.