Live Playlists

MikeLove

I got into PJ through the 2000 boots. I never got into the studio material. When Backspacer came out, I began buying the boots with backspacer tunes on them and assembled a Backspacer Live (yes I found a Speed of Sound somewhere, under the couch I think, I really don't remember) and enabled me to see more deeply into each of the songs and appreciate the album much more (probably album of the year IMHO). I just did the same thing for Avocado last night. To be honest, I did not really excite me when I first listened to it but I am now able to see for the first time what a truly inspired album that was. I am now going to do this with each album. Riot Act is next. I have to say I did not like Riot Act, probably my least favorite studio album but I am excited to listen to a live playlist of it. I am sure I will see what more closely what the band intended after listening to each cut live in sequential order. The amazing fun is the versions picked for the songs which can be substituted in and out.

Sleep.With.Innocence

MikeLove wrote:

I got into PJ through the 2000 boots. I never got into the studio material. When Backspacer came out, I began buying the boots with backspacer tunes on them and assembled a Backspacer Live (yes I found a Speed of Sound somewhere, under the couch I think, I really don't remember) and enabled me to see more deeply into each of the songs and appreciate the album much more (probably album of the year IMHO). I just did the same thing for Avocado last night. To be honest, I did not really excite me when I first listened to it but I am now able to see for the first time what a truly inspired album that was. I am now going to do this with each album. Riot Act is next. I have to say I did not like Riot Act, probably my least favorite studio album but I am excited to listen to a live playlist of it. I am sure I will see what more closely what the band intended after listening to each cut live in sequential order. The amazing fun is the versions picked for the songs which can be substituted in and out.

You need to do the live sections based on the years the albums came out.

My point is that Evenflow in 92 sounds 1000 times better than even flow in 2009.

CantKeepMeHere

I have also done this for myself over the years and it is a startling revelation
the idea of an album is just that track 1 to track last - a complete body of work
when ever Pearl Jam is putting out a new album I will start with Ten and listen to each one all the way through over the week then hear the "new" album all the way through afterwords
It is kinda cool and what you thought was the weakest album may come up a position while what you believe to be the strongest may be replaced by a new number one
enjoy the live ride dude

PJ_Lukin

I think you are going to be pleasantly surprised. For one thing, PJ was mighty pissed off when they recorded that record and it comes out in the live performances. Matt has a few songs on there and the complicated composition of them is quite a bit different from what PJ fans are used to. Songs like Get Right, Cropduster and even You Are are hard to digest on first listen. They do grow on you though. Good luck getting all 15 of the songs.

i_lov_it

Sleep.With.Innocence wrote:

MikeLove wrote:

I got into PJ through the 2000 boots. I never got into the studio material. When Backspacer came out, I began buying the boots with backspacer tunes on them and assembled a Backspacer Live (yes I found a Speed of Sound somewhere, under the couch I think, I really don't remember) and enabled me to see more deeply into each of the songs and appreciate the album much more (probably album of the year IMHO). I just did the same thing for Avocado last night. To be honest, I did not really excite me when I first listened to it but I am now able to see for the first time what a truly inspired album that was. I am now going to do this with each album. Riot Act is next. I have to say I did not like Riot Act, probably my least favorite studio album but I am excited to listen to a live playlist of it. I am sure I will see what more closely what the band intended after listening to each cut live in sequential order. The amazing fun is the versions picked for the songs which can be substituted in and out.

You need to do the live sections based on the years the albums came out.

My point is that Evenflow in 92 sounds 1000 times better than even flow in 2009.

Or whatever versions "Floats ya Boat"...Loved the Early 90's though! except for DAVE A ***Obsession*** with Cymbals! :roll:

PJ_Lukin

i_lov_it wrote:

Or whatever versions "Floats ya Boat"...Loved the Early 90's though! except for DAVE A ***Obsession*** with Cymbals! :roll:

What are you talking about?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPGiwRfGGkU&feature=PlayList&p=DFEDB0FC0A626C06&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=35

RiotZact

i_lov_it wrote:

Sleep.With.Innocence wrote:

MikeLove wrote:

I got into PJ through the 2000 boots. I never got into the studio material. When Backspacer came out, I began buying the boots with backspacer tunes on them and assembled a Backspacer Live (yes I found a Speed of Sound somewhere, under the couch I think, I really don't remember) and enabled me to see more deeply into each of the songs and appreciate the album much more (probably album of the year IMHO). I just did the same thing for Avocado last night. To be honest, I did not really excite me when I first listened to it but I am now able to see for the first time what a truly inspired album that was. I am now going to do this with each album. Riot Act is next. I have to say I did not like Riot Act, probably my least favorite studio album but I am excited to listen to a live playlist of it. I am sure I will see what more closely what the band intended after listening to each cut live in sequential order. The amazing fun is the versions picked for the songs which can be substituted in and out.

You need to do the live sections based on the years the albums came out.

My point is that Evenflow in 92 sounds 1000 times better than even flow in 2009.

Or whatever versions "Floats ya Boat"...Loved the Early 90's though! except for DAVE A ***Obsession*** with Cymbals! :roll:

Dave A was the greatest Pearl jam drummer ever, maybe not quite as good as matt but i prefer dave... don't be a hater.

ManOfTheHour75

You need to do the live sections based on the years the albums came out.

My point is that Evenflow in 92 sounds 1000 times better than even flow in 2009.

I Couldn't disagree with you more, not every song sounds better live from the era it was released. With the exception of maybe Deep,Once and Blood I think PJ from 05-09 plays circles around PJ in the early 90's. They are 1000 times the musicians they were at that point in their career. Listen to Evenflow from LA 3 and LA 4 in 09, it blows away anything from the early years. Of course that's just my opionion.

cajunkiwi

They're better musicians technically now, but the energy they played with back in the day more than made up for it. They were an absolute... pardon the pun... force of nature on stage, like a Category 5 hurricane that was bottled up and then unleashed in a two-hour span. There's a reason people drool over Drop In The Park and Atlanta '94. You won't get as many bum notes these days, and they've certainly tightened up as a band, but they don't have the energy they had in the early 90s (which is understandable, since they're in their 40s and not in their 20s any more). So if you want live versions of their older stuff, get them from older boots - they have an incendiary raw quality to them that middle age has taken away. Their older covers were better too - I have a version of Rocking in the Free World from '92 (I think it was '92 - the Pink Pop festival version with Pulled Up as an intro) that blows away any version of RitFW they've done since.

And You Are is a killer song... I love the CD version, and I love the Life at the Garden version even more. Great riff/beat

MikeLove

I made the live playlist of Avocado last night and listened to it in its entirety. I found the guitar play to be stunning. It is truly amazing how despite my efforts to get into the studio album I just could not embrace it but when I listen to the "album" live, I get a clearer picture of the music as intended and love it. Avocado Live will be in my heavy rotation for a while. The real test will be Riot Act.