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Let's Actually Listen to the Album: Pearl Jam
Posted: Fri December 28, 2012 4:04 pm
by stip
old thread archived here
listen to the album and share your thoughts
Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Pearl Jam
Posted: Thu September 12, 2013 2:09 pm
by WaitingForBluey
What could have been?
1. Life Wasted
2. World Wide Suicide
3. Comatose
4. Severed Hand
5. Marker in the Sand
6. Parachutes
7. Unemployable
8. Big Wave
9. Let It Ride
10. Of the Earth
11. Army Reserve
12. Come Back
13. Cold Confession
Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Pearl Jam
Posted: Thu September 12, 2013 2:12 pm
by EJ
bluestate wrote:What could have been?
1. Life Wasted
2. World Wide Suicide
3. Comatose
4. Severed Hand
5. Marker in the Sand
6. Parachutes
7. Unemployable
8. Big Wave
9. Let It Ride
10. Of the Earth
11. Army Reserve
12. Come Back
13. Cold Confession
It probably could've been even better than this. There may be more gems for KurtLeon to uncover from these recording sessions.
Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Pearl Jam
Posted: Thu September 12, 2013 2:19 pm
by Norah
EJ wrote:bluestate wrote:What could have been?
1. Life Wasted
2. World Wide Suicide
3. Comatose
4. Severed Hand
5. Marker in the Sand
6. Parachutes
7. Unemployable
8. Big Wave
9. Let It Ride
10. Of the Earth
11. Army Reserve
12. Come Back
13. Cold Confession
It probably could've been even better than this. There may be more gems for KurtLeon to uncover from these recording sessions.
Still plenty of dead weight there.
Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Pearl Jam
Posted: Thu September 12, 2013 2:46 pm
by Lounge Lizard
cutuphalfdead wrote:
Still plenty of dead weight there.
Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Pearl Jam
Posted: Thu September 12, 2013 2:50 pm
by Dr. Van Nostrand
bluestate wrote:What could have been?
1. Life Wasted
2. World Wide Suicide
3. Comatose
4. Severed Hand
5. Marker in the Sand
6. Parachutes
7. Unemployable
8. Big Wave
9. Let It Ride
10. Of the Earth
11. Army Reserve
12. Come Back
13. Cold Confession
i like the looks of it, even though im not one of the Inside Job haters, i do like the idea of CC closing the album, and Gone is my least favorite, so LiR would be good replacing it
Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Pearl Jam
Posted: Thu September 12, 2013 2:54 pm
by stupidmop
World Wide Suicide
Comatose
Severed Hand
Parachutes
Big Wave
Of the Earth
Let It Ride
Unemployable
Army Reserve
Cold Confession
Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Pearl Jam
Posted: Thu September 12, 2013 2:56 pm
by Jorge
But I don't wanna
Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Pearl Jam
Posted: Thu September 12, 2013 2:56 pm
by EJ
theplatypus wrote:But I don't wanna
Let's.
Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Pearl Jam
Posted: Thu September 12, 2013 2:58 pm
by Norah
Severed Hand
Marker In The Sand
Unemployable
Word Wide Suicide
Parachutes
Let It Ride
Army Reserve
Of The Earth
Wasted Reprise
Cold Confession
Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Pearl Jam
Posted: Thu September 12, 2013 3:07 pm
by EJ
cutuphalfdead wrote:Severed Hand
Marker In The Sand
Unemployable
Word Wide Suicide
Parachutes
Let It Ride
Army Reserve
Of The Earth
Wasted Reprise
Cold Confession
I like the looks of that. But, I'd still want Comatose in there somewhere. Its a good song, but the album cut unfortunately sounds like nails on a chalkboard.
Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Pearl Jam
Posted: Thu September 12, 2013 4:08 pm
by southp
I had this playing on my way into work this morning.
Tracks 1-7 are fantastic... one of the my favourite sequences on any album.
Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Pearl Jam
Posted: Thu September 12, 2013 4:42 pm
by liebzz
Is this an attempt to steer the conversation away from this album on the Lightning Bolt in a black hole thread?
Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Pearl Jam
Posted: Thu September 12, 2013 5:36 pm
by WaitingForBluey
liebzz wrote:Is this an attempt to steer the conversation away from this album on the Lightning Bolt in a black hole thread?
Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Pearl Jam
Posted: Thu September 12, 2013 5:40 pm
by iceagecoming
I'd go for:
Life Wasted
WWS
Comatose
Severed Hand
Marker
Parachutes
Unemployable
Let it Ride
Army Reserve
Come Back
Wasted Reprise
Cold Confession
Let it Ride and Army Reserve feel like sibling songs (sonically), and removing Gone and Inside Jobs strips the album of pretension. Big Wave is okay, but sounds like a B-side to me.
This would have been my 3rd favourite PJ album.
Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Pearl Jam
Posted: Thu September 12, 2013 5:47 pm
by WaitingForBluey
I wasn't trying to start a tracklist debate really... I was just trying to say that there are a lot of really strong elements on S/T, and from those sessions, that suggest that PJ nearly pulled off the near impossible... that is, make a classic album (10 out of 10) that rivals the greatness of their first 3 albums... (which is what we've all been clamoring for, regardless of whether or not you're willing to admit that yourself)... BUT they just seem to miss a few important pieces of the puzzle and instead it's just a really good album (8 out of 10) ...and not the career-defining gem that it was originally hyped up to be.
Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Pearl Jam
Posted: Thu September 12, 2013 5:49 pm
by warehouse
outside of production, i never really got the hate for this album. i think wws, marker and severed hand can hold up to just about anything they've done. there's some real good songs on here.
Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Pearl Jam
Posted: Thu September 12, 2013 6:03 pm
by liebzz
bluestate wrote:I wasn't trying to start a tracklist debate really... I was just trying to say that there are a lot of really strong elements on S/T, and from those sessions, that suggest that PJ nearly pulled off the near impossible... that is, make a classic album (10 out of 10) that rivals the greatness of their first 3 albums... (which is what we've all been clamoring for, regardless of whether or not you're willing to admit that yourself)... BUT they just seem to miss a few important pieces of the puzzle and instead it's just a really good album (8 out of 10) ...and not the career-defining gem that it was originally hyped up to be.
Change that to first 5 and you'll start to get me on this. My personal taste tells me that this album is the closest for me to hold up to those first 5. I'd be say first 6 if Mirrorball was considered a Pearl Jam album featuring Neil Young instead of a Neil Young album featuring Pearl Jam - I've been listening and rediscovering that album again for probably the 5th cycle of appreciation recently.
Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Pearl Jam
Posted: Thu September 12, 2013 6:18 pm
by stip
iceagecoming wrote:I'd go for:
Life Wasted
WWS
Comatose
Severed Hand
Marker
Parachutes
Unemployable
Let it Ride
Army Reserve
Come Back
Wasted Reprise
Cold Confession
Let it Ride and Army Reserve feel like sibling songs (sonically), and removing Gone and Inside Jobs strips the album of pretension. Big Wave is okay, but sounds like a B-side to me.
This would have been my 3rd favourite PJ album.
this is also what I would have done and it too likely would have been my third favorite album
Re: Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Pearl Jam
Posted: Thu September 12, 2013 6:32 pm
by its_not_1974
warehouse wrote:outside of production, i never really got the hate for this album. i think wws, marker and severed hand can hold up to just about anything they've done. there's some real good songs on here.
The production kills most of the times I get the urge to listen to the album. There is good music on there, but since it doesn't even have the relative change of direction Backspacer did, it's just an album full of nice songs that constantly lose out to the rest of their work.
Unemployable is a beast.
