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Backspacer is to Pearl Jam is what...

Paul AndrewsPaul Andrews Posts: 2,489
edited September 2009 in The Porch
Whether this is ever considered their 'best' album is irrelevant, they've made a mid-career album that kicks arse! It deserves widespread appeal and commercial success. But they have not 'sold out' in any way. It takes a different journey than their other albums, but it is simply brilliant. You put all this album on and listen first to last song and go on a journey with the band.

Comparisons to classic albums... Backspacer is to Pearl Jam is what...

Back In Black is to AC/DC
The Black Album is to Metallica
Exile On Main St is to Rolling Stones


Your turn...
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  • Stephen FlowStephen Flow Posts: 3,327
    The Who by Numbers is to The Who
  • tcaporaletcaporale Posts: 1,577
    Accelerate is to R.E.M.
  • Ledbetterman10Ledbetterman10 Posts: 16,948
    Paul Andrews wrote:
    Back In Black is to AC/DC
    The Black Album is to Metallica

    ??

    Your turn...

    But I thought those albums define those bands
    2000: Camden 1, 2003: Philly, State College, Camden 1, MSG 2, Hershey, 2004: Reading, 2005: Philly, 2006: Camden 1, 2, East Rutherford 1, 2007: Lollapalooza, 2008: Camden 1, Washington D.C., MSG 1, 2, 2009: Philly 1, 2, 3, 4, 2010: Bristol, MSG 2, 2011: PJ20 1, 2, 2012: Made In America, 2013: Brooklyn 2, Philly 2, 2014: Denver, 2015: Global Citizen Festival, 2016: Philly 2, Fenway 1, 2018: Fenway 1, 2, 2021: Sea. Hear. Now. 2022: Camden, 2024: Philly 2

    Pearl Jam bootlegs:
    http://wegotshit.blogspot.com
  • DanimalDanimal Posts: 2,000
    Britny Fox is to Britny Fox
    "I don't believe in PJ fans but I believe there is something, not too sure what." - Thoughts_Arrive


  • Paul AndrewsPaul Andrews Posts: 2,489
    Ledbetterman10 wrote:
    Paul Andrews wrote:
    Back In Black is to AC/DC
    The Black Album is to Metallica

    ??

    Your turn...

    But I thought those albums define those bands

    Yes they do, and depending on the commercial and radio success of this album, it could do the same, but most diehard fans don't consider them as defining albums - that usually happened earlier in the band's career.
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  • UKDaveUKDave Posts: 5,557
    Ledbetterman10 wrote:
    Paul Andrews wrote:
    Back In Black is to AC/DC
    The Black Album is to Metallica

    ??

    Your turn...

    But I thought those albums define those bands

    Nah... they're both massively successful but transitional at the same time...

    Back In Black doesn't define AC/DC - how about the Bon Scott era albums???
    Black Album also unlike what came before and most of what came after...
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  • imissyoualreadyimissyoualready Posts: 438
    "Desperate Measures" is to Ryan Kralik

    www.myspace.com/ryankralik


    ....It's legitimate.
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  • FlaggFlagg Posts: 5,856
    tcaporale wrote:
    Accelerate is to R.E.M.

    Great one.
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  • Ledbetterman10Ledbetterman10 Posts: 16,948
    UKDave wrote:
    Ledbetterman10 wrote:
    Paul Andrews wrote:
    Back In Black is to AC/DC
    The Black Album is to Metallica

    ??

    Your turn...

    But I thought those albums define those bands

    Nah... they're both massively successful but transitional at the same time...

    Back In Black doesn't define AC/DC - how about the Bon Scott era albums???
    Black Album also unlike what came before and most of what came after...

    Well I meant 'to the masses." I'd say that Master of Puppets or And Justice....defines Metallica. I don't know much about AC/DC so I don't know. But by the popularity factor, It'd be Ten is to Pearl Jam as Black Album is to Metallica.
    2000: Camden 1, 2003: Philly, State College, Camden 1, MSG 2, Hershey, 2004: Reading, 2005: Philly, 2006: Camden 1, 2, East Rutherford 1, 2007: Lollapalooza, 2008: Camden 1, Washington D.C., MSG 1, 2, 2009: Philly 1, 2, 3, 4, 2010: Bristol, MSG 2, 2011: PJ20 1, 2, 2012: Made In America, 2013: Brooklyn 2, Philly 2, 2014: Denver, 2015: Global Citizen Festival, 2016: Philly 2, Fenway 1, 2018: Fenway 1, 2, 2021: Sea. Hear. Now. 2022: Camden, 2024: Philly 2

    Pearl Jam bootlegs:
    http://wegotshit.blogspot.com
  • SomethingCreativeSomethingCreative Kazoo, MI Posts: 3,398
    Stephen Flow wrote:
    The Who by Numbers is to The Who


    I couldn't agree more...if you're a Who by Numbers fan that is.
    "Well, I think this band is incapable of sucking."
    -my dad after hearing Not for You for the first time on SNL .
  • youngsteryoungster Boston Posts: 6,576
    In Through the Out Door is to Led Zeppelin.
    He who forgets will be destined to remember.

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  • Paul AndrewsPaul Andrews Posts: 2,489
    Ok, here goes...

    Machine Head - Deep Purple
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  • Paul AndrewsPaul Andrews Posts: 2,489
    or

    Hysteria is to Def Leppard
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