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How has the Backspacer album changed your life?

buze81123buze81123 Posts: 15
edited February 2012 in Words and Music...Communication
I am curious. Any thoughts? Because it all seems new to me. I can certainly relate in terms of listening to other rock albums and watching movies.
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  • brolocobroloco Posts: 1,237
    I now read Tom Tomorrows cartoon in the Village Voice. I never have beforehand. 8-)
  • buze81123buze81123 Posts: 15
    This might seem off topic, but I actually feel like these days are like the era of the second Monkey Wrench Radio broadcast where they just took over the national airwaves for something like 2 (maybe more?) hours. I think that was in '98 during yield? Where the band shared ideas and kinds of music that they enjoy at the moment. I got a lot of positivity from that.

    On topic, I thought that releasing Backspacer under their own management was interesting. Something that they I hope they can share more of their interests on. Running business and still maintaining "value/quality" and on budget and on time is something I think a lot of people misunderstand. Because I just think that everybody wants what their working on to be desired at some level. They just don't know what is available.

    I actually have not read much Tom Tomorrow, but I liked how they got him on the last Ten Club Newsletter.
  • Nothingman54Nothingman54 Posts: 2,251
    The backspacer album made in want to kill myself and so did the album before that. Think they both sucked.
    I'll be back
  • eknuckleseknuckles Posts: 10
    Well I think the main answer for me is that it made me into a Pearl Jam fan. I had never heard a single Pearl Jam album until I heard Just Breathe and The Fixer on the radio and I decided to buy the album just to check out seeing as they had two good albums and target offered the DLC for them on Rockband. I thought it was an amazing album because of the flow of it all. it's super pumped in the beginning and then slows down to the end.

    So yeah, made me a PJ fan and here I am. I also gotta mention though that it helped me with so much at the time that I bought the album. I was going through girl troubles and so I was always pretty down and such and a friend of mine would call me up a lot to hang out with me and cheer me up. After a while, every time I heard Gonna See My Friend I thought of my friend trying to help me with my troubles. So all in all the album was one that she and I can really relate to now and it turned out to be a kind of "our" album seeing as how we both liked it and would listen to it so much while we hung out and kind of budded a romance between us and now we're together and loving PJ together...

    Anyhow, story of my life and I like it a lot!
  • pandorapandora Posts: 21,855
    edited February 2011
    The past 20 years have been a gas!

    Change my life? more like reinforce my life and my belief in the human connection.

    The purpose of our lives is to be happy. Pearl Jam makes me very happy, continuingly. :D
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  • the wolfthe wolf Posts: 7,027
    eknuckles wrote:
    Well I think the main answer for me is that it made me into a Pearl Jam fan. I had never heard a single Pearl Jam album until I heard Just Breathe and The Fixer on the radio and I decided to buy the album just to check out seeing as they had two good albums and target offered the DLC for them on Rockband. I thought it was an amazing album because of the flow of it all. it's super pumped in the beginning and then slows down to the end.

    So yeah, made me a PJ fan and here I am. I also gotta mention though that it helped me with so much at the time that I bought the album. I was going through girl troubles and so I was always pretty down and such and a friend of mine would call me up a lot to hang out with me and cheer me up. After a while, every time I heard Gonna See My Friend I thought of my friend trying to help me with my troubles. So all in all the album was one that she and I can really relate to now and it turned out to be a kind of "our" album seeing as how we both liked it and would listen to it so much while we hung out and kind of budded a romance between us and now we're together and loving PJ together...

    Anyhow, story of my life and I like it a lot!

    Awesome. I love this.
    Welcome and enjoy the ride.
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  • the wolfthe wolf Posts: 7,027
    pandora wrote:
    The past 20 years have been a gas!

    Change my life? more like reinforce my life and my belief in the human connection.

    The purpose of our lives is to be happy. Peal Jam makes me very happy, continuingly. :D

    I have to agree with Pandi. It came out in a very "shifty" time in my life.
    So I don't know that it changed my life in any way,..
    To me Backspacer is more of an affirmation,.. That everything will be,.. Okay?
    Peace, Love.

    "To question your government is not unpatriotic --
    to not question your government is unpatriotic."
    -- Sen. Chuck Hagel
  • pandorapandora Posts: 21,855
    the wolf wrote:
    pandora wrote:
    The past 20 years have been a gas!

    Change my life? more like reinforce my life and my belief in the human connection.

    The purpose of our lives is to be happy. Peal Jam makes me very happy, continuingly. :D

    I have to agree with Pandi. It came out in a very "shifty" time in my life.
    So I don't know that it changed my life in any way,..
    To me Backspacer is more of an affirmation,.. That everything will be,.. Okay?
    :wave: "it's ok in here...Bob" what commercial was that anyways...
    some fish talking to some guy...????
    my brain ain't what it used to be

    anywho everything is ok with PJ :D

    Hope life is treating you well....
  • BinauralJamBinauralJam Posts: 14,158
    There's music out there that has changed my life, but Backspacer aint on the list.
  • mysticweedmysticweed Posts: 3,710
    BinauralJam wrote:
    There's music out there that has changed my life, but Backspacer aint on the list.


    same here
    of all the pj music
    and
    all of the profound effects
    that it has had on me many many times

    backspacer is not even in the same league with the first eight

    and not on the same planet with ten(redux), vs, and binaural (which has recently become my #3 pj album)
    fuck 'em if they can't take a joke

    "what a long, strange trip it's been"
  • sawyerjamsawyerjam Posts: 140
    It made me realize Brendan O'Brien can produce a bad Pearl Jam record. The production is awful. This is the same guy who produced Vs-Yield right?
  • the wolfthe wolf Posts: 7,027
    chickweed wrote:
    BinauralJam wrote:
    There's music out there that has changed my life, but Backspacer aint on the list.


    same here
    of all the pj music
    and
    all of the profound effects
    that it has had on me many many times

    backspacer is not even in the same league with the first eight

    and not on the same planet with ten(redux), vs, and binaural (which has recently become my #3 pj album)

    That's what makes music such an amazing art form yeah?
    Different feelings at different times from different people all from the same record.

    I was supposed to put my first "solo" record out last summer.
    I balked, and thank God. I shutter to think about the album that would have been released at the time.
    The same 11 songs will be out this year, and its an entirely different album.

    Different headspace, different vibes.

    To me,.. that's the beauty of music.
    Peace, Love.

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    to not question your government is unpatriotic."
    -- Sen. Chuck Hagel
  • Gerald RicheyGerald Richey Posts: 56
    It was very special to me because I got to take my ten year old daughter to Key arena show her first concertwas pearl jam and so was mine back in the early 90's
    no more crowbars to my head
  • Abe FromanAbe Froman Posts: 5,280
    edited March 2011
    Nothingman54 wrote:
    The backspacer album made in want to kill myself and so did the album before that. Think they both sucked.

    Why are you on here then?
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  • Got a hard hard headGot a hard hard head Posts: 638
    I used to be a big U2 fan. Save the odd stumble (in my opinion) of October and Zooropa (I never understood that album) each and every album was the soundtrack to my life.

    Then came "All That You Can't Leave Behind". And it just wasn't there for me anymore. That certain something that made the quintessential U2 was gone. And it was less evident on the next album.

    The same happened to me with Radiohead when they reached Hail To The Thief.

    And then there was Backspacer and now I'm left wondering what's coming next for Pearl Jam. My emotive reaction on listening this album was nowhere near the excitement I felt about it pre-release.

    I can't remember the last time I listened to it. I find myself instead reaching for Vitalogy or Ten or Yield or Riot Act or...anything. I'm a little apprehensive now and so yes, in one sense, Backspacer has changed my life.
    It's gonna be a glorious day...
  • Gibson72Gibson72 Posts: 1,245
    It changed my life as I became $12 poorer for the better.
    Gibson1972
  • ShimmyMommyShimmyMommy Posts: 7,505
    It saved my husband
    Lots of love, light and hugs to you all!
  • FrankieGFrankieG Posts: 9,100
    The Backspacer album had a good run...
    All of the songs have sunken vey low on my Favorite Songs list...

    It has made me dislike the newer PJ more.
    It has made some friends like PJ more (cause it's more "pop"..)

    Just Breathe has been played 6 times, in the last 6 concerts I have been too. It's wayy worse than playing Even Flow everynight. :lol: Atleast McCready can melt my face off 8-)
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  • JP33JP33 Posts: 1,348
    Unthought Known has really had an impact on my mentality of society and that what we are living in is such a game
  • unlost dogsunlost dogs Posts: 12,553
    I love "Unthought Known" but I'm not sure it has changed my life.

    I do, however, have a new empathy for drummers floating in space.
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  • Green CircleGreen Circle Posts: 5,192
    I am all about the end. Very moving song, and really
    helped me get through my father in laws passing.
    "...And I fight back in my mind. Never lets me be right.
    I got memories. I got shit so much it don't show."
  • WhyGo91WhyGo91 Posts: 639
    last summer my friends and I took a road trip from chatham illinois (where im from) all the way down to florida. We listened to almost nothing but this album the whole way, and now every time i listen to it, it reminds me of good times :)
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  • morellomorello Posts: 6,217
    Yep, Backspacer has changed my life & definitely for the better. :) I hadn't listened to PJ for years, since about 1996 until a guy I used to work with played me EV's ItW which I loved. I bought Backspacer, liked it, then the 2009 Backspacer tour happened, I went to the Auckland show & my life was changed! Next day bought every other album, joined 10c & have been on here pretty well every day since(except for a day or 2 when I was in Oz last week for EV's tour. :lol: ). So yeah Backspacer, or the Backspacer tour maybe, changed my life!! :D
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  • TranscendentalTranscendental Posts: 160
    It hasnt. It wasnt that good of an album. Only good albums influence my life.
  • hockeygrrlhockeygrrl Posts: 141
    Wow. Never realized there was such negativity for Backspacer...maybe because I'm not too regular on the forums. Backspacer came to me at a rough time in my life, as many of the PJ albums seem to do, and it spoke to me loudly. I love the album from beginning to end, and feel that I have grown with the band. I'm at a different point in my life than I was when Binaural came out or even further back when No Code came out, and it just hit home with me. The End really helped me because, even though the real meaning is much deeper, it helped me with the loss of a very important friendship.
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  • marcosmarcos Posts: 2,112
    It got me through all the negativity about it from these forums, :lol:
  • TJ25487TJ25487 Posts: 1,479
    It reenergized me as a Pearl Jam fan just like most of their new releases. Can't beat that.
  • thefixer9thefixer9 Posts: 9,376
    It made me a Pearl Jam fan for good and it has become my favorite record of all time! :mrgreen:
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  • tremorstremors Posts: 8,051
    hockeygrrl wrote:
    Wow. Never realized there was such negativity for Backspacer...maybe because I'm not too regular on the forums. Backspacer came to me at a rough time in my life, as many of the PJ albums seem to do, and it spoke to me loudly. I love the album from beginning to end, and feel that I have grown with the band. I'm at a different point in my life than I was when Binaural came out or even further back when No Code came out, and it just hit home with me. The End really helped me because, even though the real meaning is much deeper, it helped me with the loss of a very important friendship.


    I agree with a lot of this. And well put. When Backspacer came out I was completely in dire straits (not the band believe me). Where I was you couldn't really get access to or play music - so I had to get my brother to put the newly released backspacer on an mp3 player for me - and the device was malfunctioning, so he only managed to get one new song a day to me (but at least they reached me in order!). So, for a period of many days all I had to live for was the next song coming. Playing Backspacer each day I immediately heard a light, an energy, hope, passion - which was just what I needed. My family were all around me and I was clinging to them, and songs like Just Breathe and Amongst the Waves really made an impact on me as they stood by me. Hearing Eddie's voice, so charged up and passionate, and speaking from the heart, and personal was an incredible boost. Speed of Sound was where I was at - as I tried to make it through each night, with just a distant dream that I might survive. This song was my companion for the lonely nights.....

    So Backspacer had a massive impact on my life in late 2009, a time I will never forget - nor will I forget my gratitude for how much Backspacer helped me to stay afloat. It also rekindled my passion and commitment to this band.

    Now when I listen to Backpacer, in much more settled times it affects me differently. It leaves me colder - I find it harder to relate to the energy, the vulnerability and the passion, and sometimes the songs don't work for me as they once did. I can see why some people are put off by some of the lyrics. Other days it hits me with its positivity and energy and sounds really great.

    Overall I have come to think of Backspacer as an album which you most need in hard times, but when the weather is fine it is more average. When it really connected with me it was due to the power of the positivity and love in Eddie's songwriting, his passion, which was so far away from where I was, but which reminded me that better times were possible.
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  • Nick BauderNick Bauder Posts: 8
    I have been a Pearl Jam Fan for several years now. They are by far mt favorite band. Although Ten is my favorite album (of all time) I very much enjoyed Backspacer. It reminded me a lot of Vitalogy. Backspacer has that same raw punky feel mixed with a smoothness that only Pearl Jam can pull off. Of course I purchased Backspacer at Target, as most people did, but I also picked up a copy at Music For A Song that was in a more standard gate-fold package. I am not sure where this edition came from or if it is rare or not. If anyone could share some light on this matter it would be greatly appreciated. As for the songs on the album, they are very strong although I think the weakest song is The Fixer. It just sounds a little too much mainstream to me.
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