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pj albums save lives/souls... BackSpacer

KC16857KC16857 Posts: 3
edited September 2009 in The Porch
Yet again a very timely Pearl Jame release with soul soothing/saving music; I won't go into the gory details but Pearl Jam was instrumental in my healing after my mother's death and my husband's death - and now - after leaving LA and back in the midwest, drowning in settling, lost with no direction, aching... now Backspacer - thank you so so so much. I can breathe again.
KC
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  • rebornFixerrebornFixer Posts: 4,901
    I hear ya.
  • musicismylife78musicismylife78 Posts: 6,116
    i know what you mean, but I still am trying to work this one in terms of my own life. Avocado fit so perfectly, in 2006 with my worldview, how it felt like the apocalypse was coming, and how utterly stressed and wierd I felt about the war and everything.

    But this album seems so wierd. Still does. The political is missing

    Seems to me an album about enjoying family and friends and music and using those things to cope with the world in chaos whether thats the Depression or the war, or global warming or whatever. Unthought Known seems to be specifically about this. The idea that yes, the world has gone to hell, that things seem so messed up at times that its so overwhelming, but that all one really needs to do to cope with that, and gain strength in these times is to look at the stars and nature and how beautiful everything really is. Powerful message, that is.

    I have said it 50 million times before, but this is unlike any other PJ album. Who would have thought this band would make a record 36 minutes long, with lyrics predominantly about love and domesticity, and have songs extoling the beauty of stars. I wouldnt have guessed it
  • musicismylife78musicismylife78 Posts: 6,116
    KC16857 wrote:
    Yet again a very timely Pearl Jame release with soul soothing/saving music; I won't go into the gory details but Pearl Jam was instrumental in my healing after my mother's death and my husband's death - and now - after leaving LA and back in the midwest, drowning in settling, lost with no direction, aching... now Backspacer - thank you so so so much. I can breathe again.


    which songs deal with being lost and trying to find your place in your view KC?
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