What is it about Yield?
michaelcassio
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So, Yield is probably the most talked about album on this page, at least, it has been in the past. I think it's my favorite PJ album, but i'm not sure why. What makes this album so special to you? Is it the lyrics, guitar riffs, songs, Single Video Theory?
I think the song selection is great and the album seems to flow really well as a whole. Whether this is your favorite album or not, what is it about this record that is so compelling?
I think the song selection is great and the album seems to flow really well as a whole. Whether this is your favorite album or not, what is it about this record that is so compelling?
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I think it's the variety in the songs, and still every song on the ablum is great. No Code is my favorite but Yield is a very close second.
do the evolution to low light........perfect.
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2009 Berlin
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I wish i could understand it myself. Ten was an album where all songs flowed perfectly from one to another. Now ten isn't my favorite.. VS is but I cant fathom how much some people love yield. It has some great songs like given to fly but a lot of the songs i don't especially care for. Pilate sucks,push me pull me sucks really bad. Wishlist is just ok. I could of wrote that song. Just start every line with "I wish i was" and then insert some crap. Its like a mad lib. I wish i was jeep charokee, I wish i was a warm gyno's hand, her breasts i wouldn't come off.
Do the evolution the studio version sounds so corny to me. Its much better when its sped up live.
I think age and what album got you into PJ has a lot to do with it because there are people on this board whose favorite albums are riot act or binural. ikky.
It should ALWAYS be the most talked about album. Then came "the riot act wars," which wiped out many of the YIELD faithfull (double-ll's intented). It is our hope that many continue to be inspired and will discuss THAT WHICH is of all THINGS YIELD for many generations to come.
"You served with my father in the riot act wars?"
http://forums.pearljam.com/showthread.php?t=261171
YIELD is relevant and important for many reasons. One, (source:Single Video Theory) it was a critical juncture in the band's career and this context is huge, the first time the "mature" PJ emerged with the band collaborating, communicating, sharing songwriting credits, etc. So you get alot of variety. You can hear it as a "happy" album because it is the answer they have been searching for since Ten, the question was finally asked and articulated (instead of raged against) in YIELD's sister album: No Code. YIELD was the answer to the existential truth that PJ had been wrestling with in their career in the 90's.
It's actually the band achieving release, and you can literally hear this in the songs and flow of the album. The proof in this is how similar the next three albums woud be and how PJ's tone changed to socio-political commentary. They finally came to grips with their existence as humans and then, and only then, after the navel gazing could they serve someone else. They finally stopped looking inward and grew outside of themselves, in terms of songwriting. DTE was the first step.
Brendan O'Brien's warm production makes the album stand out (along with No Code) and the songs have the sense of becoming, of bittersweet, of lost innocence and mature wisdom. It's maybe the most melodic album and easiest to listen to, and the band "conciously" (source, multiple interviews in 97-98) chose to include the most accessible and melodic songs. Something they havent done before or since (except maybe 8).
The last point I will make is that conceptually, it just all "fits" like no other PJ album- the production, the melody, the focus on transcendence and introspection ("YIELD'ing to nature, to life, to existence). Its the most coherent work PJ has done, it's almost like a concept album. And, it speaks to some personal issues and spiritual issues that Ed and the boys haven't done as delicately or with such focus since.
Im missing a ton, but the YIELD bretheren can fill in the gaps....
and Yield contains some of my favorite lyrics.
More than that, for me, I think a lot has to do with the time period in which it was released. This was the last PJ album to come out while I was in college. When I listen to it, subconsciously, it takes me back to that time, a kid on the cusp of adulthood and the mixture of hope and sheer terror that comes with it.
None of these songs are *about* that, per se. But that's what the album means to me.
for the least they could possibly do
I feel like I was in the studio where they were recording the album. That's how good that album was. I'd love to hear something like that again but it's been awhile. :(
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2009: London (O2), Philly 1, 2, 3, & 4
2010: Hartford, Boston, MSG 1 & 2
2011: Ed Solo Hartford
2012: Philly (MIA Fest)
2013: Worcester 2, Brooklyn 1 & 2, Hartford
period.
accidental. concept. album.
first to begin with.
first time i heard yield was through phone. was talking with my brother and heard few tunes and i vaguely heard it was peal jam.
then i finally bought it. i didn't have that many CD's yet, and it was big money for me back then.
but the opening riffs. the opening lines. the openings. lost myself ammediately. just like someone said earlier. there was something bigger. they were turning themselfs around, from inner to outer. and now afterwards. thats just it. it happened to me too. i turned myself too.
yield did that for me or with me. and i've been turning myself all the way open since yield. turning myself to face what's really happening.
and the music. it flows. it screams. it stands. it's in it's right place. everything is. and you can really feel it. feel how they really feel. especially what eddie feels, cause he's the main motor, though all of 'em have contributed. it's still beginning the themes what eddie really wanted to say...
but the music, it's the most of it. the main of it. and it gets bigger every time.
pretty much the biggest record of my youth. with few others. still.
Berlin 9-23-2006
faithfull
I spent it sitting on the beach watching the waves bust against the shore listening to YIELD over and over again. To this day every time I hear a song from this record I am brought back instantly to where I was then.
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...a lover and a fighter.
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thats what Yield does man. thanks for sharing ^ thats beautiful.
I try to listen to it when I travel all over.
(MExiCo? Nooice).
I hope I see you for the Edmonton meet-up.
thanks everyone.
i really need it too right now. we are lucky.
This is a classic YIELD memory and a perfect setting to listen to it, and appropo for the albums 10th anniversary!
Vitalogy is still my favorite...as quircky as it is.
Yield was also a turning point in Pearl Jam's vision and tone of their songs...as someone said before, they became more comfortable with themselves and their ability to express different things...so many lyrics point to this..."The whole world will be different soon/The whole world will be relieved," "It's funny when things change so much, it's all state of mind," "I'll find my way from wrong, what's real/Your dream I see," "Let the rain wash away all those yesterdays."
6/23/06 Pittsburgh
6/19/08 Camden
6/20/08 Camden
6/22/08 DC
6/25/08 MSG
8/4/08 EV NYC
8/5/08 EV NYC
8/7/08 EV Newark
Also, Ed's voice was still in peak form here...it sounded different on each song and added so much. I don't get that feeling anymore.