YIELD is the best album ever, by any band, at any time.

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  • PhillyPJ
    PhillyPJ Posts: 1,268
    YIELD
  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,893
    PhillyPJ said:
    YIELD


  • ddeschler
    ddeschler Posts: 688
    No Code has always been my favorite.  Also partial to Riot Act.  Yield is pretty good too though.  Lol.  Ten not too shabby either.
    I've seen quite a few Pearl Jam shows.
  • im an ear
    im an ear San Diego, CA Posts: 245
    I know it’s MY favorite album of all time! Best produced PJ album IMO and some of my favorite songs ever (In Hiding, Wishlist, MFC, etc). Even love the b-sides! Long live Yield!!!
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  • Zod
    Zod Posts: 10,916
    ddeschler said:
    No Code has always been my favorite.  Also partial to Riot Act.  Yield is pretty good too though.  Lol.  Ten not too shabby either.

    Yield was my gateway to No Code.   Like many other people I didn't know what to make of No Code when it first came out.  I gave it a few listens then stopped listening to it for a while.   Yield on the other hand, I loved it from the first second I heard given to fly. Played the shit out of the given to fly single cd, and love the album from the first playthrough.

    I went back and revisited No Code after that and fell in love with it too... but Yield's the album that turned me from fan to superfan :)  That and the Missoula '98 show :)
  • mcgruff10
    mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 29,146
    That 98 tour is still my favorite.  
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me......
  • 2-feign-reluctance
    2-feign-reluctance TigerTown, USA Posts: 23,462
    mcgruff10 said:
    That 98 tour is still my favorite.  
    Five of the finest albums in existence making up those sets?! PJ reached a new level on that tour for sure. 
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  • Gern Blansten
    Gern Blansten Mar-A-Lago Posts: 22,508
    Zod said:
    ddeschler said:
    No Code has always been my favorite.  Also partial to Riot Act.  Yield is pretty good too though.  Lol.  Ten not too shabby either.

    Yield was my gateway to No Code.   Like many other people I didn't know what to make of No Code when it first came out.  I gave it a few listens then stopped listening to it for a while.   Yield on the other hand, I loved it from the first second I heard given to fly. Played the shit out of the given to fly single cd, and love the album from the first playthrough.

    I went back and revisited No Code after that and fell in love with it too... but Yield's the album that turned me from fan to superfan :)  That and the Missoula '98 show :)
    Same...my first PJ album purchase was Vitalogy.  I bought NC, listened a few times then kind of forgot about it.  Yield made me a superfan.

    I really did the same thing with Binaural/Riot Act too.  Kind of forgot about them and then they became my favorites.
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  • PhillyPJ
    PhillyPJ Posts: 1,268
    YIELD
  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,893
    PhillyPJ said:
    YIELD

  • heartofadog
    heartofadog Portland, OR Posts: 357
    Just saw this thread for the first time and I am inclined to agree with the OP and the title of the thread. 
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  • aurelgugus
    aurelgugus France & Luxembourg Posts: 499
    You might have never listened to Dark side of the moon or OK Computer then …
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  • mdgsolo
    mdgsolo Posts: 796
    I’d put No Code and S/T in front of it but it did have some great tunes..
  • bmurray06
    bmurray06 Austin, Texas Posts: 164
    Pearl Jam will always be my favorite band of all time, but I'll have to say Radiohead's 'OK Computer' is my perfect album. 
  • bigbiggzy
    bigbiggzy Posts: 844
    I love Yield. Period. Top 5 most favorite PJ album…and def on my ‘deserted island’ top 10. 

    Those middle years/albums…pure perfection for my money 🥰…

    The Yield tour was the first time I saw the band live (I’m sure that has a little something to do with it). I also turned 20 the year the album came out. Formative years. 

    No Code and Yield (and in some ways Binaural) all feel connected. Interesting years for this band (96 - 00). 

    Looking back at the band’s history just before this time - seems like we all owe “Uncle Neil” a debt of gratitude. 
    Seems like all of PJ benefited from their work with him just before this stretch of records/touring (No Code, Yield, Binaural).  

    It also seems like the PJ camp held Yield and accompanying tour as something special (at least at that point in their 8 years as a band). 
  • Gern Blansten
    Gern Blansten Mar-A-Lago Posts: 22,508
    bigbiggzy said:
    I love Yield. Period. Top 5 most favorite PJ album…and def on my ‘deserted island’ top 10. 

    Those middle years/albums…pure perfection for my money 🥰…

    The Yield tour was the first time I saw the band live (I’m sure that has a little something to do with it). I also turned 20 the year the album came out. Formative years. 

    No Code and Yield (and in some ways Binaural) all feel connected. Interesting years for this band (96 - 00). 

    Looking back at the band’s history just before this time - seems like we all owe “Uncle Neil” a debt of gratitude. 
    Seems like all of PJ benefited from their work with him just before this stretch of records/touring (No Code, Yield, Binaural).  

    It also seems like the PJ camp held Yield and accompanying tour as something special (at least at that point in their 8 years as a band). 
    Yeah Yield was my wake up PJ album and first time seeing them on tour.  Yield/Binaural/Riot Act (although Bin and RA took awhile to grow on me....years for RA) are the trifecta in my opinion.

    The first PJ album I bought was Vitalogy
    Remember the Thomas Nine !! (10/02/2018)
    The Golden Age is 2 months away. And guess what….. you’re gonna love it! (teskeinc 11.19.24)

    1998: Noblesville; 2003: Noblesville; 2009: EV Nashville, Chicago, Chicago
    2010: St Louis, Columbus, Noblesville; 2011: EV Chicago, East Troy, East Troy
    2013: London ON, Wrigley; 2014: Cincy, St Louis, Moline (NO CODE)
    2016: Lexington, Wrigley #1; 2018: Wrigley, Wrigley, Boston, Boston
    2020: Oakland, Oakland:  2021: EV Ohana, Ohana, Ohana, Ohana
    2022: Oakland, Oakland, Nashville, Louisville; 2023: Chicago, Chicago, Noblesville
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  • The Rock
    The Rock Posts: 1,439
    bigbiggzy said:
    I love Yield. Period. Top 5 most favorite PJ album…and def on my ‘deserted island’ top 10. 

    Those middle years/albums…pure perfection for my money 🥰…

    The Yield tour was the first time I saw the band live (I’m sure that has a little something to do with it). I also turned 20 the year the album came out. Formative years. 

    No Code and Yield (and in some ways Binaural) all feel connected. Interesting years for this band (96 - 00). 

    Looking back at the band’s history just before this time - seems like we all owe “Uncle Neil” a debt of gratitude. 
    Seems like all of PJ benefited from their work with him just before this stretch of records/touring (No Code, Yield, Binaural).  

    It also seems like the PJ camp held Yield and accompanying tour as something special (at least at that point in their 8 years as a band). 
    It's weird, I still always think of No Code/Yield as the middle hears records but at this stage the self-titled Avocado record is actually the middle years!
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  • bigbiggzy
    bigbiggzy Posts: 844
    Ha - I know. I still kinda (generically) lump everything post VS as the “middle”… But you’re right - at this point 30 + years in - S/T is currently more middle than what was out in the mid to late 90s. 
  • bigbiggzy
    bigbiggzy Posts: 844
    bigbiggzy said:
    Yeah Yield was my wake up PJ album and first time seeing them on tour.  Yield/Binaural/Riot Act (although Bin and RA took awhile to grow on me....years for RA) are the trifecta in my opinion.

    The first PJ album I bought was Vitalogy
    Yeah. Makes sense. 

    So - From time to time…I enjoy going back and forth in my head on the pairings of albums.  

    Like - if the bands albums or chunks of years were chapters of a book - what albums/years kinda go together to make up a chapter?  
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