Red Mosquito

...well, it will be in two days.

I was a senior in high school, skipped out with some friends at lunch, bought it at Best Buy, went to an apartment to smoke a few bowls, listen to it, and go back to school. I had just seen them for the first time exactly a year before, and had already heard N4Y, Betterman, Satan's Bed, Whipping and Corduroy from various live tv or radio appearances. Although I felt like I already knew most of the songs, I was blown away by the first half of the album... Such a smoking run of songs to begin an album (Last Exit, Spin the Black Circle, Not for You, Tremor Christ, Nothingman, Whipping, Corduroy), which is why it's my favorite PJ album to-date... but I remember initially being pretty pissed that they 'wasted' so much valuable time and space with Bugs, Aye Davanita, and Stupid Mop. Still, Bugs is the low point of the album, but I now think of Aye Davanita and Stupid Mop as the most clever, unique, and risky artistic moves the band has made.

More than anything, though, the tracks on Vitalogy have a raw, underproduced sound, filled with passion and intensity that is now long gone. On this album, they sound like the greatest rock band in the world, playing together in a small room...

...and there's THIS guy!

I found a copy of the actual antique Vitalogy book in a Washington thrift store a while back. That was cool.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:I found a copy of the actual antique Vitalogy book in a Washington thrift store a while back. That was cool.

Are you gonna mail it to Ruddo to have him sign it?

I got the vinyl a week before the cd came out I felt very cool.

i like pearl jam i like vitalogy i like all the songs on this

What were all those dreams we shared those many years ago?

They've been covered with the ashes of MLB i mentioned earlier.

Iholdthepain wrote:...and there's THIS guy!

For getting fired right at the end of the album, it probably has the best studio drumming of any Pearl Jam release. If it takes a great studio performance to get fired, Matt is safe.

Still their best album in the midst of a stellar run.

I remember when I was 20.

I dread the "Lightning Bolt is 20..." thread.

Fuck balls, if I'm still posting on an internet forum in my 50's...

If there's still a planet in 2033 I'll blow it up myself.

Lament wrote:If there's still a planet in 2033 I'll blow it up myself.

I'd like to help. Let's make a pact, we'll meet at times square on the stroke of midnight of October 11, 2033. I'll bring beer, you bring something large enough to blow up a planet.

I don't want to be in New York when the world ends. Let's meet somewhere better.

Also, I'm gonna bring Aubrey Plaza with so that her and I can make love as the world explodes.

I like this thread

I don't like that it has been 20 years

20 years from now I can get discounts for senior early bird dinners

I don't like that

All I ask is that you spin it today...

Happy 20th to my favorite pj album...

Sgt. Crackpot wrote:I dread the "Lightning Bolt is 20..." thread.

Fuck balls, if I'm still posting on an internet forum in my 50's...

When that thread happens Lightning Bolt will still be the third newest record, though the band will still be technically active.

twenty years...cant believe it...

Im still totally blown away by the journey from Ten to Yield..a consistent unquantifiable leap in creativity and development. Cant think of another band who took such a vast leap in such a relatively short space of time.,.

dimejinky99 wrote:Cant think of another band who took such a vast leap in such a relatively short space of time.,.

--->

and this is...well it is

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/ ... k_20141122