Vitalogy

Joerock
Joerock Posts: 129
edited March 2010 in The Porch
I Finally Get It!!!

Like all Pearl Jam music, I tend to strongly dislike it at first. This was no exception for Vitalogy. Last night during another case of insomnia, I put Vitalogy in to give it another go. This time, for some reason, I got it! it just makes sense now!

At first I had a really hard time listening to it because of some tracks like Aye Davanita and foxymophandlemamma. I also hated Satan's Bed.

Listening to this album again for some reason clicked. It made sense with my mental state at this point in my life and I love it now.

Pearl Jam, for me, has for some reason been an acquired taste like coffee and reading. For every album it has been like this. I think it makes me appreciate PJ even more because I go through this initial struggle to understand them.

I feel that it's better than a band or song you hear that immediately becomes your favorite, because in a year or two you will probably have found another band or song, and you will have forgotten your previous one.

anyway, I just wanted to share my late revelation to you all.

Merry Christmas,
-Joe
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2010 - Bristow, VA
2013 - Charlottesville, VA
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  • pjtradeking
    pjtradeking Posts: 4,045
    Welcome aboard! :-)
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  • mattoscarson
    mattoscarson Posts: 39
    When Vitalogy was first released, I really liked it. After about 100 listens, I put it down for about 4 years. Then, oh my...I re-discovered it in a huge way. This is one of the best albums ever released IMO.
  • 81
    81 Needing a ride to Forest Hills and a ounce of weed. Please inquire within. Thanks. Or not. Posts: 58,276
    it's not for you
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  • redeye
    redeye Posts: 620
    great album, my 2nd fav after yield
  • Johnny Abruzzo
    Johnny Abruzzo Philly Posts: 12,437
    81 wrote:
    it's not for you

    Ba-duh-chum :lol:

    Besides being the only Pearl Jam album with significant amounts of filler, the rest of this album is really awesome. I'd never really appreciated Tremor Christ for some reason, until very recently. On the other hand, Immortality is a long-time favorite and my current "favorite song" (by anyone). This is also the first PJ album (maybe anyone's album) that I bought the day it came out, so it has some specialy significance. Of course, my vinyl isn't holding up so well...
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  • cippociappo
    cippociappo Posts: 692
    Vitalogy is awesome :D
    Makes me ache, makes me shake...
    ...is it so wrong to think that love can keep us safe?
  • Anarmyofpeace
    Anarmyofpeace Posts: 254
    I LOOOOVEEE Satan's Bed!!!!!!!
  • FenwayFaithful
    FenwayFaithful Posts: 8,626
    A spanking...that's the only thing I need so much.
    "FF, I've heard the droning about the Sawx being the baby dolls. Yeah, I get it, you guys invented baseball and suffered forever. I get it." -JearlPam0925
  • Mathius
    Mathius Posts: 49
    Vitology for me has always brought me back to being in high school when I had zero self-esteem and raging hormones. Everytime I hear the album cut of Betterman it transports me back to that time.
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  • goo
    goo Posts: 226
    I think Vitalogy will always be the band's finest work besides VS.
  • tcaporale
    tcaporale Posts: 1,577
    My personal favorite album of theirs - sure, there's filler, but it only serves to enhance the mood of the album.
  • Ledbetterman10
    Ledbetterman10 Posts: 17,003
    It's DEVIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINE....................OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

    You know what it's like...right?
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  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,725
    good for u..
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  • TT8270
    TT8270 Posts: 429
    Felt a sudden urge to listen to some VITALOGY!! 8-)

    So I put my headphones on and started going through songs and I really had forgotten what a SOLID PURE MAGICAL record this is! :o

    I mean I can listen to it all the way through without the need to skip ANY of the songs. And yes, heyfoxymophandlemama does it for me. I just love the way the intensity grows on that one. :think:

    This is Pearl Jam's proudest moment. I really have to get this on VINYL!

    "And, i can still fantasize, but i keep it to myself...
    Keep it to myself...keep it to myself...
    ...that i can walk without hands of theirs...
    And, i can still fantasize, but i keep it to myself...
    Keep it to myself...keep it to myself...
    I think i deserve to be loved, don't you?
    ...that i can walk without hands of theirs...
    And, i can still fantasize, but i keep it to myself...
    Keep it to myself...keep it to myself...
    I think i deserve to be loved, don't you?
    Very much so... "
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  • TheVan218
    TheVan218 Posts: 302
    My favorite album of all time. Once you look really deep into it and you realize, "oh my god, this is a man's struggle", and almost vicariously you live Eddie's life, you see that this album is just so damn beautiful, in a creepy, eerie, falling apart at the seems type of way.
  • baldoallornone
    baldoallornone Posts: 211
    I agree, Vitalogy gets a bad rap. As far as Ed's voice and the guitar sound it's the rawest i've ever heard them sound on a record.

    Too bad I Got Id and Long Road couldn't have been recorded just a year or so earlier and made it on the record. Personally they would have been a great substitute for the filler crap like Foxy Mop Handle...blah, blah and Pry To. I could do without Bugs although at least it's more of a "traditional formatted" song.

    Anyway, cheers!
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  • DiRtyFranK38
    DiRtyFranK38 Posts: 3,131
    blunt + aye davanita + sunshine = heaven. 8-)
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  • TT8270
    TT8270 Posts: 429
    baldoallornone wrote:
    As far as Ed's voice and the guitar sound it's the rawest i've ever heard them sound on a record.!

    Yeah, the whole production (or anti-production) is something that really shines on Vitalogy. It's raw, punky, edgy and captures song's live-vibe perfectly.
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    Pearl Jam - 2000-06-30
    Fugazi - 2000-10-10
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  • baldoallornone
    baldoallornone Posts: 211
    TT8270 wrote:
    baldoallornone wrote:
    As far as Ed's voice and the guitar sound it's the rawest i've ever heard them sound on a record.!

    Yeah, the whole production (or anti-production) is something that really shines on Vitalogy. It's raw, punky, edgy and captures song's live-vibe perfectly.

    Word! I was just thinking if they ever put out anything that could be remotely considered "punk" it would be that one. I think it is cool because I've heard that it was mostly all songs Ed put together. If that is true it really is the only album that shows his influences directly.
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    2000 - St. Louis
    2003 - West Palm Beach, St. Louis, Champaign, Bonner Springs, and East Troy
    2004 - St. Louis, Asheville, and Kissimmee
    2005 - Kitchener and London, Ontario
    2006 - Chicago Night 1, Cincinnati, and St. Paul Night 1
    2007 - Lollapalooza
    2010 - St. Louis and Noblesville
    2011 - East Troy PJ20 Night 1 and Night 2
    2013 - Wrigley and Oklahoma City
    2014 - St. Louis and Memphis
    2016 - Lexington
    2018 - Wrigley Night 1 

    "I know I was born and I know that I'll die...the in between is mine"
  • youngster
    youngster Boston Posts: 6,576
    Great LP. Vitalogy, No Code, and Yield are probably one of the few 3 great albums in a row put out by a band.
    He who forgets will be destined to remember.

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