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Happy Birthday Yield

FenwayFaithfulFenwayFaithful Posts: 8,626
edited February 2010 in The Porch
Yield was released on February 3, 1998, which was also my 16th birthday. Not wasting any time that day, I went directly to Newbury Comics after getting out of school, where my friend and I bought our copies with much anticipation. I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but that first listen blew my mind away. Listening to it LOUD was fantastic. I was amazed at how the band seemed reborn after the ups and downs they had faced together the past few years. My friend unfortunately passed away a few years later but every year now on this day I spin Yield, crack open a few and get nostalgic about growing up, growing older and letting Pearl Jam provide the soundtrack to my life, for better or worse. Pearl Jam is much more than 5 guys playing music. It sums up in many ways who I am as a person, where I've come from and where I need to be going. Yield, for me, is at the heart of this idea.

I am just curious if anyone else has a story or would just like to offer up a witty comment about what this monumental and breathtaking album means to them. Let's hear it.

But first let's raise a glass today to Yield. 12 years old. They grow up so fast.
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"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
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  • mcgavinjmcgavinj Posts: 311
    I remember having the radio station on 24/7 that was supposed to be playing the new PJ single 'Given To Fly'. I gave up and went to the store for a Pepsi, luckily the store had that same radio on and before I knew it the DJ says "And here's the latest from Pearl Jam". I threw my change for my drink at the teller so I could get in the car to listen to it properly. I remember driving down the road with the windows down screaming in elation. Also, the girl I was dating was diagnosed with Cancer shortly thereafter. The album became the soundtrack for a lot of things, but Low Light in particular hit me hard during this time.
    I always remember the release day for this one as well...
    Enjoy!
    If I had my turntable set up I'd be spinning all night long
  • FlaggFlagg Posts: 5,856
    FenwayFaithful wrote:
    Yield was released on February 3, 1998, which was also my 16th birthday. Not wasting any time that day, I went directly to Newbury Comics after getting out of school, where my friend and I bought our copies with much anticipation. I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but that first listen blew my mind away. Listening to it LOUD was fantastic. I was amazed at how the band seemed reborn after the ups and downs they had faced together the past few years. My friend unfortunately passed away a few years later but every year now on this day I spin Yield, crack open a few and get nostalgic about growing up, growing older and letting Pearl Jam provide the soundtrack to my life, for better or worse. Pearl Jam is much more than 5 guys playing music. It sums up in many ways who I am as a person, where I've come from and where I need to be going. Yield, for me, is at the heart of this idea.

    I am just curious if anyone else has a story or would just like to offer up a witty comment about what this monumental and breathtaking album means to them. Let's hear it.

    But first let's raise a glass today to Yield. 12 years old. They grow up so fast.
    yield.jpg

    My 26th birthday was Feb. 3rd 1998. The day I became a born again Pearl Jam
    fanatic. Before that I was just a fan. I'll have more tomorrow on this but Yield changed my life.
    DAL-7/5/98,10/17/00,6/9/03,11/15/13
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    SEA-12/6/13
    TUL-10/8/14
  • Princess KJPrincess KJ Posts: 442
    Happy Birthday Yield, and Happy Birthday OP.
    If I knew then, would I know now?

    * Perth Entertainment Centre - Mar 06, 1995
    * Melbourne Park - Mar 02, 1998
    * Brisbane QSAC- Nov 25, 2009
    * EV Solo- QPAC- March 10, 12 and 13 2011

  • craigbcraigb Posts: 806
    Princess KJ wrote:
    Happy Birthday Yield, and Happy Birthday OP.

    What he said
    "Speak clearly if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall"

    Los Angeles 10.7.2009
  • SOLAT319SOLAT319 Posts: 4,594
    Great album except for stupid Wishlist.
    I have no patience for bad music and stupid people...

    The whole world will be different soon the whole world will be RELIEVED

    #resistgezi #resistturkey #resisttaksim #direnturkiye #direngezi
    #standingman #duranadam
  • i_lov_iti_lov_it Posts: 4,007
    SOLAT319 wrote:
    Great album except for stupid Wishlist.

    Leave WISHLIST alone! haha... :P I went down the Local CD Store and Bought 'Yield' the Day it Came out... :)
  • mysameoldfriendmysameoldfriend Posts: 227
    http://youtu.be/SrI1pE5S9i4

    Love this video. They look so young!!!




    12 years later this album still melts my face!
  • KloddzKloddz Posts: 2,573
    Happy Birthday FenwayFaithful and Flagg; I hope you aged just as well as Yield did! ;)
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  • BiomechBiomech Posts: 34
    I remember seeing the Alive video on Headbangers Ball and liked PJ from the get go. I didn't pay much attention to the band after Vitalogy. After hearing GTF on the radio during the Yield release I was stricken again. Such a great album! Been collecting boots and memorabilia ever since.
  • elwayvedderelwayvedder Posts: 9,118
    Yep, 2/3/98 is an amazing day for me and my family all because of Yield. If it weren't for Yield and if it weren't for me holding it in my hand while buying lunch at the mall, I would have never met my friend Bill who noticed it and asked me if I liked PJ. If it werent for that day, I would have never met my wife who Bill introduced me to 3 years later. If it werent for that day and for Yield, then I would have never met my wife nor had the kids and family and life I have now. What a powerful course of events and a trajectory of my life that occurred all because of a band called "Pearl Jam" and their release of an album called "Yield" on 2/3/98.
    www.operationyellowribbon.org
  • dimitrispearljamdimitrispearljam Posts: 139,549
    happy happy one!!
    "...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
    "..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
    “..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
  • i_lov_iti_lov_it Posts: 4,007
    elwayvedder wrote:
    Yep, 2/3/98 is an amazing day for me and my family all because of Yield. If it weren't for Yield and if it weren't for me holding it in my hand while buying lunch at the mall, I would have never met my friend Bill who noticed it and asked me if I liked PJ. If it werent for that day, I would have never met my wife who Bill introduced me to 3 years later. If it werent for that day and for Yield, then I would have never met my wife nor had the kids and family and life I have now. What a powerful course of events and a trajectory of my life that occurred all because of a band called "Pearl Jam" and their release of an album called "Yield" on 2/3/98.

    Someone PASS me a "BUCKET"...lol :P
  • bunnybunny Posts: 270
    Oh,February 3, 1998 was a great day.
    hmm,,,I remember nothing...(The release date was different... :geek: )

    Happy birthday FenwayFaithfu :P you are a very kind person!
    Happy birthday Flagg :P nice to meet you!

    I wish you have a happy day★
  • dimitrispearljamdimitrispearljam Posts: 139,549
    kazuki.k wrote:
    Oh,February 3, 1998 was a great day.
    hmm,,,I remember nothing...(The release date was different... :geek: )

    Happy birthday FenwayFaithfu :P you are a very kind person!
    Happy birthday Flagg :P nice to meet you!

    I wish you have a happy day★
    hello to beautiful people in Japan
    "...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
    "..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
    “..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
  • bunnybunny Posts: 270
    dimitrispearljam wrote:
    kazuki.k wrote:
    Oh,February 3, 1998 was a great day.
    hmm,,,I remember nothing...(The release date was different... :geek: )

    Happy birthday FenwayFaithfu :P you are a very kind person!
    Happy birthday Flagg :P nice to meet you!

    I wish you have a happy day★
    hello to beautiful people in Japan

    HELLO :P
    (people?!)
  • neilybabes86neilybabes86 Posts: 16,057
    happy birthday to the BEST

    and also to the 5 deck of cards posters i managed to get :mrgreen:
    i post on the board of a band that doesn't exsist anymore .......i need my head examined.......
  • davidtriosdavidtrios Posts: 9,732
    I remember rushing out of my Junior High and walking a mile through the Chicago snow toward Best Buy. I didn't care about the swirling winds or the sub-zero temperatures because my anticipation was sky high. Viva la Yield.
  • guypjfreakguypjfreak Posts: 2,281
    mysameoldfriend wrote:
    http://youtu.be/SrI1pE5S9i4

    Love this video. They look so young!!!




    12 years later this album still melts my face!

    top of the range old son enjoyed that immensely :D
  • FlaggFlagg Posts: 5,856
    I went to Best Buy that day and spent my Best Buy gift card (or maybe it was a paper certificate, can't remember if gift cards were used then). Anyway, I knew I wanted to get Yield because I liked Given to Fly so much. Pearl Jam was always just another band to me up to that point. I mean, I really liked them, but they were just in my top 10 or whatever and over the years I sort of stopped paying attention to them. No Code didn't really do it for me, at the time. But I got the Yield CD figuring it would just go into the massive pile of CDs I had and just be part of the rotation.

    Little did I know. I think I took an hour and half drive home from a Best Buy that was 10 minutes from my house, listening over and over. I even stopped in a parking lot to read the lyrics. You can't explain why a certain record connects with you at a certain point in life, it just does. Maybe because birthdays are a time to reflect on your life and think about growing up, and I always thought Yield was the most mature of the PJ records. So maybe that's why. It was from that point forward that PJ vaulted to the top and remains there today.

    Sure, I come on here and bitch and moan about them and tour dates and whatever else like a lot of people, but nothing they or 10C does will ever make me forget that afternoon.
    DAL-7/5/98,10/17/00,6/9/03,11/15/13
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    MTL-9/15/05, OTT-9/16/05
    PHL-5/27/06,5/28/06,10/30/09,10/31/09
    CHI-8/2/07,8/5/07,8/23/09,8/24/09
    HTFD-6/27/08
    ATX-10/4/09, 10/12/14
    KC-5/3/2010,STL-5/4/2010
    Bridge School-10/23/2010,10/24/2010
    PJ20-9/3/2011,9/4/2011
    OKC-11/16/13
    SEA-12/6/13
    TUL-10/8/14
  • arqarq Posts: 8,012
    Oooh my dear Yield my love and appreciation has only grown with time, you're like a good wine!
    "The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it"
    Neil deGrasse Tyson

    Why not (V) (°,,,,°) (V) ?
  • mfc2006mfc2006 Posts: 37,412
    i truly didn't know what to expect from Yield after hearing No Code. to this day, No Code is still THE record for me. but i remember that i was out of town visiting my old girlfriends parents in Salina, KS. they all thought i was nuts for leaving to pick it up at midnight. from the opening countdown of "Brain of J", i knew that this would be a much different trip than they'd taken me on with their previous 4 records. it's an amazingly good record & seems to capture all of the different "moods" of the band. i still listen to it all the time & someday, i'll hear it on vinyl. happy bday, Yield!
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  • dannydanny Posts: 2,278
    i will raise several large vodkas!!!!!!!!!!!
    danny d
  • FenwayFaithfulFenwayFaithful Posts: 8,626
    How cool is the finish of Low Light, In Hiding, Push Me Pull Me and All Those Yesterdays?
    "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
  • PJ_LukinPJ_Lukin Posts: 2,049
    Their best record, period.
    pj%2520album%2520yield.jpg
    Brain Of J.
    Faithfull
    No Way
    Given To Fly
    Wishlist
    Pilate
    Do The Evolution
    Untitled
    MFC
    Low Light
    In Hiding
    Push Me, Pull Me
    All Those Yesterdays
    ~!~ Peace ~!~ Love ~!~ Pearl Jam ~!~
  • CantKeepMeHereCantKeepMeHere Posts: 2,177
    edited February 2010
    YIELD - YIELD - YIELD

    I Have No Words...


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Upf5NZVY6b0 <---In Hiding
    Post edited by CantKeepMeHere on
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  • CantKeepMeHereCantKeepMeHere Posts: 2,177
    Found this from "last year" and just had to repost it... awesome story

    Report this postReply with quoteRe: The first time I ever saw Pearl Jam, I...
    by FirstExit » January 31st, 2009, 6:04 pm

    ...I was 6 years old. Being a "90's kid", I of course had my handy Sony Walkman Cassette Player (I wasn't old enough for CDs at age 7, per my parents). I asked my mom to record a tape of songs that were typical for a 7 year old child to listen. You know, your traditional Children's/Disney Channel singalong stuff. My mom decided that for her to stomach the perpetual play that the tape would have, she would have to include something she enjoyed, so she decided to include this new tune called "Given To Fly". When I heard it on my Walkman I was blown away. Honestly, I wasn't even blow away. I don't think it's possible to be blown away at 7. I can't put my finger on what I liked about it. It wasn't the guitars, bass, drums, vocals, or lyrics. I couldn't truly grasp music at age 7, but who can? Hearing Pearl Jam for the first time was just, for a lack of a better term, "love at first earful".

    I was surprised on my 7th birthday (in 1998) to receive the Yield album. My dad wasn't too happy about it. As I opened the tri-folded album case, what fell out was even better - two tickets to see Pearl Jam at the Meadows in Hartford. The first time I SAW Pearl Jam was on September 13th, 1998. Barely able to see the stage while standing on my chair, I made out almost every song that was played, amidst the "dancing" in the aisle, which was really angry security and pepper spray. 7 years old. Now I'm here.
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  • dreamtonicdreamtonic Posts: 129
    I remember it more clearly than any other album release. I went down to Schoolkids Records in Chapel Hill for my first ever midnight sale. Lots of folks in the store. The whole street was empty but inside was like a secret party. Smiles all around. I got back to my dorm room and my roommate was asleep so I sat at my desk pretty much in the dark and listened to the new album on headphones. I instantly fell for those huge, soaring sounds.... I kept the album on repeat until about 3am. I just couldn't stop. It was awesome.
  • GmoneyGmoney Posts: 1,618
    edited February 2010
    Best Album. Ever. Nothing better than letting Yield hibernate all winter and then breaking her out the first day that spring is in the air.
    Post edited by Gmoney on
    Further back and forth a wave will break on me, today...
  • aneutronbombaneutronbomb Posts: 787
    happy birthday yield!!! (my 2nd fave pj album and holdin strong!!)

    and happy birthday fenway faithful!!
    and fuck me if I say somethin you dont wanna hear, fuck me!
    and fuck me if you only hear what you wanna hear
    fuck me...if I care...but im not leavin here
  • Drop1The0LeashDrop1The0Leash Posts: 954
    Happy Birthday Fenway Faithful! Love the new picture man, you always seem to give me a good chuckle. From boat shoes to step brothers pictures.
    2006: Albany
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    2009: Albany 1-2(EV), Philly 3
    2010: Boston, MSG I
    2013: Buffalo, Brooklyn II, Hartford
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