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sitting in my room listening to vs...

in eds treein eds tree Posts: 539
edited July 2010 in The Porch
and i am instantly transported back to 7th grade when i would sit in my room and listen to vs. over and over and over and over and over again. we moved around a lot growing up, and we had just moved from anchorage, alaska back to california, but in a new city where i didn't know anyone. vs. came out a few months into the 7th grade. junior high is awful for everyone, but to be brand new in a place with no friends was just miserable. that album was a lifesaver. i was at that age when i was discovering music for myself, not just what my folks listened to or what was on the radio. i remember thinking that Ten was the most genius thing i had ever heard when it came out. there was no way they could top that. then they released vs. jesus. my fate was sealed. i would never be the same.


listening to the studio version from start to finish still gives me the chills. every album is special to me, but there is something special about ed's voice on vs.
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  • Black DiamondBlack Diamond Posts: 25,107
    It was the perfect soundtrack to a bitter and angry marriage and subsequent divorce... Sealed my love for the band...
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  • theserialthrillatheserialthrilla Posts: 15,760
    Black Diamond wrote:
    It was the perfect soundtrack to a bitter and angry marriage and subsequent divorce... Sealed my love for the band...


    and thats why i felt you ...you bitch.. :lol:
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  • CJMST3KCJMST3K Posts: 9,722
    From Ed's vocals to the band's tight performance, it's the best performance of the band in a studio album, and it's the only album I can make from beginning to end with no temptation to fast forward.
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  • in eds treein eds tree Posts: 539
    i feel like i take so much of this album for granted when they play it live, because they have put so much out since then. when i listen to the studio version of rearviewmirror...fuck. i can't help but remember how i felt the first time i listened to it. ten was/is amazing, and got me into the band for sure, but vs. is what made me a lifer.

    saaaaaaaaawwwwwwww thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinggggsssssss
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  • rival.rival. Posts: 7,775
    studio RVM is a monster. i hardly listen to studio PJ anymore, mostly stick to bootlegs. but i recently threw VS in when i was driving the other day and i couldn't believe how powerful sounding go & rvm were.

    speaking of RVM... at the end you hear the sound of drumsticks getting thrown up against something or getting spiked to the ground. wasn't it rumored that dave purposely threw them against a wall out of anger for ed & brendan o'brien because neither were satisfied how the drumming sounding at the end of the song and made him do like 100 takes till he got it right?

    if that were the case i would LOVE to see a single video theory during the VS days. lot of anger in that one room!
  • Hugh Freaking DillonHugh Freaking Dillon Posts: 14,010
    I heard many of the songs from VS live before the album came out. Gimli Mudfest. August 14, 1993. Along with most of Ten.

    Even Flow
    Why Go
    Deep
    Jeremy
    Animal
    Glorified G
    Daughter
    Go
    State
    Garden
    Blood
    Alive
    Black
    Once
    Porch
    Indifference
    Sonic Reducer
    RITFW
    Baba

    What a show. VS is still in my top 2 PJ albums.
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  • CJMST3KCJMST3K Posts: 9,722
    Billy Pumpkin wrote:
    I heard many of the songs from VS live before the album came out. Gimli Mudfest. August 14, 1993. Along with most of Ten.

    Even Flow
    Why Go
    Deep
    Jeremy
    Animal
    Glorified G
    Daughter
    Go
    State
    Garden
    Blood
    Alive
    Black
    Once
    Porch
    Indifference
    Sonic Reducer
    RITFW
    Baba

    What a show. VS is still in my top 2 PJ albums.

    I'd pay ANY amount of money to hear that setlist with Dave. You're a lucky man!! :shock:
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  • rival.rival. Posts: 7,775
    Billy Pumpkin wrote:
    I heard many of the songs from VS live before the album came out. Gimli Mudfest. August 14, 1993. Along with most of Ten.

    Even Flow
    Why Go
    Deep
    Jeremy
    Animal
    Glorified G
    Daughter
    Go
    State
    Garden
    Blood
    Alive
    Black
    Once
    Porch
    Indifference
    Sonic Reducer
    RITFW
    Baba

    What a show. VS is still in my top 2 PJ albums.

    wow, just looked up that show on fivehorizons. "Despite Ed's drinking, PJ is very high energy and intense." :lol:
  • TT8270TT8270 Posts: 429
    The Gimli show is taped being one of the best early pro-shot PJ performances. Ed is SO drunk.
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  • CJMST3KCJMST3K Posts: 9,722
    TT8270 wrote:
    The Gimli show is taped being one of the best early pro-shot PJ performances. Ed is SO drunk.


    'twas one of the best VHS boots I ever had. Back in the day when their performance made my heart beat with antici.... pation.
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  • davetendaveten Posts: 143
    vs,great fucking lp!!!
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  • StoneAmentStoneAment Posts: 393
    VS = best PJ album for me

    Everything just clicked into perfect place. They wrote every song together (though you can still hear who the primary writer was on most tracks, I still maintain Indifference sounds like a Jeff Ament classic), I also think Ed's lyrics might've been at their peak, again Indifference but also the story telling of Small Town and Dissident. I also love how Blood is the first track on Side 2, it means I can start the side on RVM and pretend Blood doesn't exist ;)
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  • evenflow82evenflow82 Posts: 3,891
    Vs. is great; a true classic.

    Ed vocals and Dave A's drums are THE best.
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  • CJMST3KCJMST3K Posts: 9,722
    evenflow82 wrote:
    Vs. is great; a true classic.

    Ed vocals and Dave A's drums are THE best.


    Pearl Jam at their musically highest moment.
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