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10 Reasons why Backspacer is the best album since Yield

vedpunkvedpunk Posts: 929
edited September 2009 in The Porch
10 Reasons Why:

1) Eddie's vocals may be the finest we've ever heard (on ANY album)
2) The drumming on this album has never defined a Pearl jam album but Matt just crushes it here
3) Hello melody! We've finally "got some" after the last few albums
4) Jeff Ament's best song since Jeremy (Got Some)
5) The tightest, most rocking 4 song start to an album since VS
6) Amongst The Waves (enough said)
7) Amazing, heartfealt lyrics that can create a feeling and mood in one listen
8) The solos are perfectly delivered and placed within each song (plus they f'n rock!)
9) The band sounds like they have found their mojo and are out to prove why Pearl Jam is still the best band of the last two decades
10) Brendan O'Brien (always has been the unofficial 6th member of the band)

Backspacer kills it!!!!!!!!
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  • Ledbetterman10Ledbetterman10 Posts: 16,948
    vedpunk wrote:
    10 Reasons Why:

    1) Eddie's vocals may be the finest we've ever heard (on ANY album)
    2) The drumming on this album has never defined a Pearl jam album but Matt just crushes it here
    3) Hello melody! We've finally "got some" after the last few albums
    4) Jeff Ament's best song since Jeremy (Got Some)
    5) The tightest, most rocking 4 song start to an album since VS
    6) Amongst The Waves (enough said)
    7) Amazing, heartfealt lyrics that can create a feeling and mood in one listen
    8) The solos are perfectly delivered and placed within each song (plus they f'n rock!)
    9) The band sounds like they have found their mojo and are out to prove why Pearl Jam is still the best band of the last two decades
    10) Brendan O'Brien (always has been the unofficial 6th member of the band)

    Backspacer kills it!!!!!!!!

    I agree with #4 and #11...and maybe #1 and #2. But I think the first four songs on Avocado are better and rock harder than the first four here.
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  • Jstein1978Jstein1978 Posts: 548
    TOtally agree with #6.....btw I love that it's #6!!!!!
  • 37pheet37pheet Posts: 433
    there have been better solos, than this album
  • vedpunkvedpunk Posts: 929
    True, there have been better solos but what I said was that they were perfectly delivered and placed within the songs, meaning they didn't take away from the songs but made the songs better. Did you hear the solo in Amongst The Waves!
  • reecewg2006reecewg2006 Posts: 55
    i noticed the absence of solos in this album which is what they went for, a new wave/ pop punk feel which it does give off. plus mike deserves a break for once
  • swardsward Posts: 586
    I agree on many levels. And keep in mind this is just my opinion...I also think it is the most complete album since VS. Those were the only two where I didn't have any skippers....Backspacer has joined it.
  • DewieCoxDewieCox Posts: 11,430
    1 reason it's not....... Binaural
  • eddieved24eddieved24 Posts: 107
    I my opinion, its almost as if binaural and yield had a baby. Personally I love the songwritting on binaural, it really paints a feeling in your mind, and that is how I felt after listening to back spacer the first time. It also has many of the aspects of yield I love so much, kind of a feeling of being connected to nature and almost a metaphysical touch that makes you think of your place as a human in this world, or time, or wherever the fuck we really are...unthought known/faithful. I think the #1 thing that I like about backspacer is that they really seem unafraid, songs that may have been put back on the shelf several years ago for being maybe to much of a radio hit, or to funky or too personal, they really put them selves out there for us, and for that I am grateful for having this band in my life as always
    all those paper plates......
  • WobbieWobbie Posts: 30,691
    reecewg2006 wrote:
    plus mike deserves a break for once

    I don't think Mike wants a break. :shock:
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  • clockistotimeclockistotime Los Angeles, CA Posts: 249
    i have 11 reasons...

    1 Gonna See My Friend
    2 Got Some
    3 The Fixer
    4 Johnny Guitar
    5 Just Breathe
    6 Amongst The Waves
    7 Unthought Known
    8 Supersonic
    9 Speed of Sound
    10 Force of Nature
    11 The End

    (just go with it) ;)
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  • bigbadbillbigbadbill Posts: 1,758
    clockistotime wrote:
    i have 11 reasons...

    1 Gonna See My Friend
    2 Got Some
    3 The Fixer
    4 Johnny Guitar
    5 Just Breathe
    6 Amongst The Waves
    7 Unthought Known
    8 Supersonic
    9 Speed of Sound
    10 Force of Nature
    11 The End

    (just go with it) ;)
    I was about to do that, but you beat me to it.
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  • vedder_soupvedder_soup Posts: 5,861
    1. Jeff
    2. Fucking
    3. Ament's
    4. Bass
    5. Lines
    6. Matt
    7. Fucking
    8. Cameron's
    9. Drumming
    10. Unthought known :lol:

    is that 10??
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    2010 - I watched it go to fire!
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    2012 - Manchester x 2, Amsterdam x2, Prague, Berlin x2, Stockholm, Oslo, Copenhagen,
    2014 - Sydney, EV Sydney x3

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  • Sleep.With.InnocenceSleep.With.Innocence Posts: 607
    DewieCox wrote:
    1 reason it's not....... Binaural

    +1

    (Well for the sake of this thread +10)
  • I_GOT_no_IDeaI_GOT_no_IDea Posts: 653
    vedder_soup wrote:
    1. Jeff
    2. Fucking
    3. Ament's
    4. Bass
    5. Lines
    6. Matt
    7. Fucking
    8. Cameron's
    9. Drumming
    10. Unthought known :lol:

    is that 10??
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  • FahkaFahka Posts: 3,187
    DewieCox wrote:
    1 reason it's not....... Binaural

    indeed!
  • FahkaFahka Posts: 3,187
    vedpunk wrote:
    10 Reasons Why:

    5) The tightest, most rocking 4 song start to an album since VS


    Meh.. can't agree there...
  • ZimzuMZimzuM Posts: 214
    Best Album since yield? rofl
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  • LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSunLikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun Posts: 6,097
    No Code
    Ten
    Vitalogy
    Yield

    Vs.
    BACKSPACER
    Binaural

    Riot Act
    Avocado



    so yeah i agree. but Binaural might take it back in a month or two.
  • adamdudeadamdude Posts: 100
    1. Binaural
    2. No Code
    3. Yield
    4. Vitalogy
    5. Backspacer
    6. Riot Act

    7. Vs
    8. Ten

    9. Avocado
  • adamdudeadamdude Posts: 100
    adamdude wrote:
    1. Binaural
    2. No Code
    3. Yield
    4. Vitalogy
    5. Riot Act
    6. Backspacer

    7. Vs
    8. Ten

    9. Avocado

    swapped because I cant possibly say its better than Riot Act
  • Sleep.With.InnocenceSleep.With.Innocence Posts: 607
    Yield
    vs.
    No code
    binaural
    ten
    riot act
    avocado
    backspacer
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