Remember the first time you heard Versus?
Second albums are usually the gut check of any band. They usually form the life long connection with a fan base, or quickly end the relationship.
Remember how hearing Animal made you feel? How passionate Blood was?
Remember how you played that cassette from side to side to side to side?
How the connection was so powerful on Daughter that it made you tear up and think of your well..... daughter?
Only to find out later that it wasn't exactly a pro dad and daughter song?
Do you have another band you love so much you scratch and claw to get to the front row just to see Ed read lyrics to Chloe Dancer on the floor?
Do you follow another band that (even has) 10+ albums. All of which you can re-sight 90+percent of the lyrics on?
Now.... Find some perspective in your life if you want to quit the fan club, burn down the 10C or think you are special or above happenstance.
Accidents happen and mistakes are made. Be happy to be alive in the time of Pearl Jam...
"The dissident, the dissident, the dissident is here...."
Good Day
Remember how hearing Animal made you feel? How passionate Blood was?
Remember how you played that cassette from side to side to side to side?
How the connection was so powerful on Daughter that it made you tear up and think of your well..... daughter?
Only to find out later that it wasn't exactly a pro dad and daughter song?

Do you have another band you love so much you scratch and claw to get to the front row just to see Ed read lyrics to Chloe Dancer on the floor?
Do you follow another band that (even has) 10+ albums. All of which you can re-sight 90+percent of the lyrics on?
Now.... Find some perspective in your life if you want to quit the fan club, burn down the 10C or think you are special or above happenstance.
Accidents happen and mistakes are made. Be happy to be alive in the time of Pearl Jam...
"The dissident, the dissident, the dissident is here...."
Good Day

"Honesty will always be construed as negative to a dumbass"
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very funny, thank you...
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Funny you say it that way....
I always thought Daughther into Glorified G into Dissident was the greatest 3 songs ever on any album I had ever heard...
I always listened to them in that mind set.
Good memories, thanks for saying it.
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Bravo on the approach. It seems like people think the 10C membership fee gets a fuckload more than that money gets you anywhere else these days!
I remember going side to side to side, just as you describe. Wow, 'Go' and 'Rvm' just blew me away. It was one of those albums that I saw a band tour in support of where I already knew all of the lyrics to the 'new' songs. Pearl Jam has a way with that!
That tour was the first time I saw them (2x) and that first show is still my favorite show ever for a number of reasons....none of which have to do with playlist or the normal reasons one might rank a show highly.
Love it!
Ironic you post this this way... I remember thinking in 92 how bad I wanted to go somewhere and see them.... How unbelievably unattainable that would be to a broke ass loser.
I wish now (obviously) I had done what Jason Leung did and found a way to indulge and chase them.... I know now that given a chance next year in the US I will probably see every show....
It is time for me to quit finding reasons not to go.
Thanks for your thoughts...
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Funny you say that, i almost lost my job attending the Alpine shows this year. At a time where good jobs are nice to have or hard to come by, there was just no way i was missing that show!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am still fence ridden over Europe.... It is like my journey to Kilimanjaro.....
I wanna wave to all my friends....
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"Ben, the two of us need look no more"
Fucking brilliant!
What a homage.
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The songs that struck my attention wasn't Animal or Blood, they were Go, Dissident, WMA, Rats and Small town...
I remember exactly where I was when I heard it... how excited I was.. and it was raining outside.
That was a great day.
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No chance to change cars I'd guess?
That's what we all should do... Plan a trip 6 hours away on release day and burn thru the album 6 times.
Leave a hour or so to desenthesize (probably terribly misspelled) with some Creed to counter balance.
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Life is a series of moments.
I don't remember every album... I think Versus was the album I was BADLY wanting to be good.
Locally there was a band called Sweet FA that had a really cool first album.
I popped in the second album and my heart sank. :-/
It sucked and I still listen to Sweet FA every once in a while.
Heart of Gold, go YouTube it.
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excellent rock and roll.
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I knew you were genius... Dartmouth? Whoa!
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Took a long drive, picked it up a casette at a local store in Richmond... and had the most cathartic experience I ever had...
If it is not (in fact) it may have been a total blessed day. :-)
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I am glad to hear that...
Life comes at you pretty fast....
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