Yield: the happiest album in the Pearl Jam catalogue?

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  • grungehead
    grungehead Posts: 35
    In Hiding is not "happy"
  • callen
    callen Posts: 6,388
    Dirty Hank wrote:
    Here's what each is to me:
    Ten= Rage/angst
    VS.= growing up
    Vitalogy= rebellion
    No Code= culturally open
    Yield= Optimism
    Binaural= Art of making music (conceptual perhaps?)
    Riot Act= Political
    Avacado= Global Concern
    Yield=resolution
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  • callen
    callen Posts: 6,388
    Yeild is my favorite..and think it may go down as their best work.

    ....and the freakin most awesomest part....we have SVT to go along with it....wow...magical, powerful.
    10-18-2000 Houston, 04-06-2003 Houston, 6-25-2003 Toronto, 10-8-2004 Kissimmee, 9-4-2005 Calgary, 12-3-05 Sao Paulo, 7-2-2006 Denver, 7-22-06 Gorge, 7-23-2006 Gorge, 9-13-2006 Bern, 6-22-2008 DC, 6-24-2008 MSG, 6-25-2008 MSG
  • fanch75
    fanch75 Posts: 3,734
    facepollution wrote:
    Anyone else remember the first time they heard Given To Fly? I remember dancing around the room when it came on the radio - the chorus just absolutely floored me. The single most brilliant uplifting song I have ever heard!

    So yeah, anyway I totally agree it is a very positive feeling album.

    Great thread with the 10th Anniversary of YIELD coming out.

    The first time I heard GTF was when the YIELD commercial came on MTV at like 2-3am. It was a life-changing moment for me, musically.

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=6_PKg4MI-5A
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  • AdmiralPepper
    AdmiralPepper Posts: 48
    I've never seen that commercial.
  • RockKing
    RockKing Posts: 431
    Back in the day, when the YIELD thread was around, there was a lot of discussion about this. I don't think 'happy' is the right way to describe YIELD. It is neither happy nor sad. It's urgent. It's important. It's a guideline to how to overcome the external conflicts in our life. It's a wonderful feeling when you listen to it and break it down track by track and realize the lessons that are contained within in, but the reason why I don't think it is inherently 'happy' is because in order to be ready to overcome these forces, you must first YIELD to all those negative forces....and giving way and learning to first accept what those forces mean to you can be a scary feeling, and YIELD deals with all of those emotions. I find YIELD to be more of a certain shade of grey, becasue for all the white, there's black behind it all.
    --"I'm like an opening band for the sun"

    --"We’re taking pills to get along with life… the pills are YIELD and PJ’s music. Then we create words to call our own = our analysis of YIELD." - YIH
  • DiRtyFranK38
    DiRtyFranK38 Posts: 3,131
    grungehead wrote:
    In Hiding is not "happy"

    true, but it has an uplifting vibe to it.

    i think yield = reflection.
    being content with who you are, and looking back on your life, thoughts, beliefs and expressing it through music. that gives it the very uplifting, hopeful and spiritual vibe. maybe all your necassary life changes haven't been made yet, but you know you can do it.
    2006: Hartford
    2008: MSG 1, Hartford, Mansfield 2, Ed Solo NYC 1
    2009: London (O2), Philly 1, 2, 3, & 4
    2010: Hartford, Boston, MSG 1 & 2
    2011: Ed Solo Hartford
    2012: Philly (MIA Fest)
    2013: Worcester 2, Brooklyn 1 & 2, Hartford
  • Evolution1
    Evolution1 Posts: 50
    I love Yield!! It probably is my all time favorite album.
    "I am the first mammal to wear pants....yeah"
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    7/15/06 -SF, CA.
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  • glasshouse
    glasshouse Posts: 1,762
    sometimes i think no code and yield might well have been a double album.
    sure there's differences, but the individual souls of those two albums have always contained a mutual thread as far as i'm concerned. more so than any other 2 albums they've released.
    Athens, Greece: 2006/09/30

    "Call me Ishmael. Some years ago- never mind how long precisely- having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world." Herman Melville : Moby Dick
  • PissBottleMan
    PissBottleMan Union City, TN Posts: 4,155
    RockKing wrote:
    Back in the day, when the YIELD thread was around, there was a lot of discussion about this. I don't think 'happy' is the right way to describe YIELD. It is neither happy nor sad. It's urgent. It's important. It's a guideline to how to overcome the external conflicts in our life. It's a wonderful feeling when you listen to it and break it down track by track and realize the lessons that are contained within in, but the reason why I don't think it is inherently 'happy' is because in order to be ready to overcome these forces, you must first YIELD to all those negative forces....and giving way and learning to first accept what those forces mean to you can be a scary feeling, and YIELD deals with all of those emotions. I find YIELD to be more of a certain shade of grey, because for all the white, there's black behind it all.

    Great post RK.

    There is optimism...but there must be action in order for that optimism to come to fruition.

    On the flip side, I've made that argument (and it's just a theory) that there is a negative element to this album..."a warning side on the road ahead"...quite literally, if you will.

    I miss our discussion of YIELD and I hope with the 10th anniversary of it's release on the way that more in depth conversations spring up.

    PBM
    "We paced ourselves and we didn't rush through it and we tried to be as creative as our collective minds would let us be over some course of time instead of just trying to rush through a record"

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  • RockKing
    RockKing Posts: 431
    PissBottleMan wrote:
    I miss our discussion of YIELD and I hope with the 10th anniversary of it's release on the way that more in depth conversations spring up.

    I was just talking last night about how much I missed talking about YIELD. I was looking through my archived copy of the old YIELD thread....there was some amazing stuff in there. So I share your optimism, or hope, that the 10th anniversary sparks some new discussions.
    --"I'm like an opening band for the sun"

    --"We’re taking pills to get along with life… the pills are YIELD and PJ’s music. Then we create words to call our own = our analysis of YIELD." - YIH
  • BlkFlg1
    BlkFlg1 Posts: 156
    RockKing wrote:
    I was just talking last night about how much I missed talking about YIELD. I was looking through my archived copy of the old YIELD thread....there was some amazing stuff in there. So I share your optimism, or hope, that the 10th anniversary sparks some new discussions.


    yes, the 10th anniversary approaches! Great post RK. YIELD feels happy because it's the closest to "god" the band has come. Its the feeling of transcendence from a matrure point of view (Ten being that from a more adolescent place).
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  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,327
    Yield = happy
    Be Excellent To Each Other
    Party On, Dudes!
  • Rhinocerous Surprise
    Rhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    No Code = question
    Yield = answer
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  • PissBottleMan
    PissBottleMan Union City, TN Posts: 4,155
    Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:
    No Code = question
    Yield = answer

    Expand.

    PBM
    "We paced ourselves and we didn't rush through it and we tried to be as creative as our collective minds would let us be over some course of time instead of just trying to rush through a record"

    Wishlist Foundation: http://wishlistfoundation.org
  • Rhinocerous Surprise
    Rhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    PissBottleMan wrote:
    Expand.

    PBM

    Seems to me that No Code was the band questioning themselves... who they were, where they stood with the other members of the band, with the press, with the industry as a whole, with the fans... A very conflicted record.
    Yield, on the other hand, seems to be the band coming to terms with who they were/are - even if that meant accepting they didn't have all the answers. It just sounds to me like there was a wisdom gained in between No Code and Yield.

    I'll try and come up with something more coherent in a while.:p
    Smokey Robinson constantly looks like he's trying to act natural after being accused of farting.
  • YieldInHiding
    YieldInHiding Posts: 1,841
    Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:
    Seems to me that No Code was the band questioning themselves... who they were, where they stood with the other members of the band, with the press, with the industry as a whole, with the fans... A very conflicted record.
    Yield, on the other hand, seems to be the band coming to terms with who they were/are - even if that meant accepting they didn't have all the answers. It just sounds to me like there was a wisdom gained in between No Code and Yield.

    I'll try and come up with something more coherent in a while.:p

    I love your post and your screen name. We need more folks like you around this place.
    No longer overwhelmed it seems so simple now.
  • Rhinocerous Surprise
    Rhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    YieldInHiding wrote:
    I love your post and your screen name. We need more folks like you around this place.

    Cheers! :)
    Smokey Robinson constantly looks like he's trying to act natural after being accused of farting.
  • PissBottleMan
    PissBottleMan Union City, TN Posts: 4,155
    Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:
    Seems to me that No Code was the band questioning themselves... who they were, where they stood with the other members of the band, with the press, with the industry as a whole, with the fans... A very conflicted record.
    Yield, on the other hand, seems to be the band coming to terms with who they were/are - even if that meant accepting they didn't have all the answers. It just sounds to me like there was a wisdom gained in between No Code and Yield.

    I like where you're going...just wanted to hear more in detail.

    PBM
    "We paced ourselves and we didn't rush through it and we tried to be as creative as our collective minds would let us be over some course of time instead of just trying to rush through a record"

    Wishlist Foundation: http://wishlistfoundation.org
  • facepollution
    facepollution Posts: 6,834
    fanch75 wrote:
    Great thread with the 10th Anniversary of YIELD coming out.

    The first time I heard GTF was when the YIELD commercial came on MTV at like 2-3am. It was a life-changing moment for me, musically.

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=6_PKg4MI-5A

    Woah! Never seen that before, but that gave me serious goosebumps! I don;t think I'll ever get tired of that song.

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