Tonight was the first time I'd listened to Pearl Jam's Ten from start to finish in years. I remember waiting in line at the Den in Bloomington for the follow-up at midnight on a Monday night in 1993 or whatever year it was. (Do stores still do that anymore - open at midnight for a highly anticipated new music release? I don't see it happening just because our music and our culture is so fractured anymore, that there's not a unifying musical movement as a cultural undercurrent.)
Anyway, that's another album I haven't listened to start-to-finish in years. Kinda looking forward to seeing how it holds up.
Update: not terrible. There were a few moments - and it might be due to the production - where I said to myself: "Wow ... that sounds like (insert name of any mid-to-late 90s alt-rock band here)." I rated all the songs in Windows Media, and whereas Ten didn't have any songs that rated fewer than four stars, only four of the 12 songs on Vs. rated four or higher, and two of them ("W.M.A.", "Rats") rated only two stars.
Long story short: Ten was lightning in a bottle. And no matter what PJ has done in the ensuing years, I can forgive any of it because of how close that album is to my heart.
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Now playing: Pearl Jam - Release
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Anyway, that's another album I haven't listened to start-to-finish in years. Kinda looking forward to seeing how it holds up.
Update: not terrible. There were a few moments - and it might be due to the production - where I said to myself: "Wow ... that sounds like (insert name of any mid-to-late 90s alt-rock band here)." I rated all the songs in Windows Media, and whereas Ten didn't have any songs that rated fewer than four stars, only four of the 12 songs on Vs. rated four or higher, and two of them ("W.M.A.", "Rats") rated only two stars.
Long story short: Ten was lightning in a bottle. And no matter what PJ has done in the ensuing years, I can forgive any of it because of how close that album is to my heart.
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Now playing: Pearl Jam - Release
via FoxyTunes
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