Remember the first time you heard Versus?

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  • Tboz51
    Tboz51 Posts: 2,808
    There first album is a nice bridge between hair music and PJ.

    excellent rock and roll.
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  • Tboz51
    Tboz51 Posts: 2,808
    demetrios wrote:
    Oh yes! It was my first year @ Dartmouth High School. Took the bus at lunch break to Mic Mac Mall & picked up a cassette copy @ Sam The Record Mans (didn't own CD's that time). Played it first on my Sony Walkman. Really didn't want to go back in class but did. It was pretty much the album that changed my life. Why I remember it so is the following week my dad came back from Greece visiting the folks we heard that my grandfather died. :( The album was pretty much the only cassette tape in my walkman for that whole year till Vitalogy came around. I would listen to that one each morning to school & back.

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  • Black Diamond
    Black Diamond Posts: 25,109
    It got released the same day my newleywed bride told me that she think she made a mistake getting married.

    Took a long drive, picked it up a casette at a local store in Richmond... and had the most cathartic experience I ever had...
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  • Tboz51
    Tboz51 Posts: 2,808
    Black Diamond wrote:
    It got released the same day my newleywed bride told me that she think she made a mistake getting married.

    Took a long drive, picked it up a casette at a local store in Richmond... and had the most cathartic experience I ever had...
    Um... I gather this isn't your current wife?

    If it is not (in fact) it may have been a total blessed day. :-)
    "Honesty will always be construed as negative to a dumbass"
    :-)
  • DS1119
    DS1119 Posts: 33,497
    Sitting in my Blazer...popped that bad boy in and then... :o :shock: :o :shock: :o :shock: :o :shock: :o :shock: :o :shock: :o :shock: :thumbup: :mrgreen:
  • Black Diamond
    Black Diamond Posts: 25,109
    Tboz51 wrote:
    Black Diamond wrote:
    It got released the same day my newleywed bride told me that she think she made a mistake getting married.

    Took a long drive, picked it up a casette at a local store in Richmond... and had the most cathartic experience I ever had...
    Um... I gather this isn't your current wife?

    If it is not (in fact) it may have been a total blessed day. :-)
    No we broke up a few months later... It was a completely blessed day :D
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  • Tboz51
    Tboz51 Posts: 2,808
    Black Diamond wrote:
    Tboz51 wrote:
    Black Diamond wrote:
    It got released the same day my newleywed bride told me that she think she made a mistake getting married.

    Took a long drive, picked it up a casette at a local store in Richmond... and had the most cathartic experience I ever had...
    Um... I gather this isn't your current wife?

    If it is not (in fact) it may have been a total blessed day. :-)
    No we broke up a few months later... It was a completely blessed day :D

    I am glad to hear that...

    Life comes at you pretty fast....
    "Honesty will always be construed as negative to a dumbass"
    :-)
  • CantKeepMeHere
    CantKeepMeHere Posts: 2,177
    Vs. for me wan introduced when Pearl Jam did Animal on the VMA's.... it was more than WOW
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  • JimmyV
    JimmyV Boston's MetroWest Posts: 19,604
    I remember hearing Go for the first time. I was driving around in my very first car and listening to WAAF. It blew me away. There are other songs on that album I grew to like better but I will always remember hearing Go for the first time.
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  • mfc2006
    mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,491
    my brother drove me to Soundwaves in Houston for the midnight release. we BLARED it all the way home. :D
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  • Jerome230
    Jerome230 Posts: 903
    It was the only time I ever skipped school to go get an album. Sophomore year, I remember riding in the back of a pickup to the record store on that chilly October morning. We listened to it twice through at my friend's house, and went back to school, right around lunch time. :)
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  • pjsteelerfan
    pjsteelerfan Maryland Posts: 9,905
    The first time I heard the drums from Go was awesome.

    Indifference is still in my top 5 of all time.
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  • Niko80
    Niko80 Posts: 1,613
    VS is and will always be my favorite PJ album. This album has it all, and gives you a little something from every pearl jam corner. The band memebers were playing great, the sound is tremendous and the songwriting was interesting and creative (something that has been lacking lately imo).
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  • themessenger
    themessenger Dallas Posts: 1,320
    I remember hearing vs. for the 1st time when I was in 8th grade. It completely changed my musical tastes and was I was hooked. I love putting my headphones on and cranking up Go, it just gets me amped up still today. I love the drums and bass line WMA and Rats,and the raw emotion in Ed's voice in Indifference. Just epic.
  • JMo
    JMo Posts: 1,071
    Jerome230 wrote:
    It was the only time I ever skipped school to go get an album. Sophomore year, I remember riding in the back of a pickup to the record store on that chilly October morning. We listened to it twice through at my friend's house, and went back to school, right around lunch time. :)

    I too skipped school to go buy this, but I didn't return.

    It was freshman year. I went to class until about 845, walked off campus and down to the record shop for a 9am opening. Just me and 3 other people waiting. I think one of them was there for the new Rush album or something. I just remember being so excited to get that CD. I tore off the plastic and opened that special packaging (which not many cd's had back then), looking through it the whole way home. Since I was the only person home, I cranked my boom box up and soaked in those drums! Life changing, for sure. Ten was special, but I didn't get Ten on it's first release day. Vs was like my baby. The newborn I got to bring home.
  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,881
    This is a very cool thread, love hearing how other folks experienced it for the first time.

    I was thinking about this on my drive in this AM (as I fucking blasted Vs. of course!) and had a few additional thoughts.

    1, this was the most impacting 'first listen' of any of PJ's albums for me. (Sounds like it was for many)
    2, the reason why was because they didn't really change all of that much from Ten at first listen (nuances grew with each listen of course and now I feel they are very different albums) and it really hit me like someone took a 5 step jog and then smacked me in the face. Just absolutely rocked through the whole first play. Didn't get bored with any of the songs, none of them 'took time to appreciate' as is so frequently the case with new albums. It was a 12 song attack on my psyche.
    3, I think 'Go' and 'Animal' are still the best 1-2 punch to open any of their records. (And that is really a large statement as most of their albums open like a house on fire)
    4, On reflection this is also the way I felt about Backspacer for the first few songs. I know some disregard the album as a whole as too commerical/poppy (and I got that feeling as I worked further into the album, which I love very much btw) but when I popped it in for the first time and heard 'Gonna See My Friend' and 'Got Some' I really felt like an old friend had come over to share a joint with me. Beautiful!
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  • Tboz51
    Tboz51 Posts: 2,808
    I love that so many people ditched something to get their Versus on...

    It is fitting fashion in the true form of EV (high school drop out).

    :D
    "Honesty will always be construed as negative to a dumbass"
    :-)
  • iamdirtyfrank
    iamdirtyfrank Posts: 207
    Unfortunately I didn't get to hear vs til '98, I was 15 at the time and just getting into music, aerosmith were my first love. It so happened my uncle had come to visit and he had a Vs cassette in his car. When I walked in to the house I was carrying an Aerosmith-Pump cd. He started asking me about what other bands I was into and if I'd heard of Pearl Jam. I said I knew Alive but that was about it. He took me for a drive and turned that stereo up quite loud. He was so passionate about the littlest things in the music and that passion sold it for me. He bought me a copy on cd from a virgin megastore plus Ten and Yield as it was new at the time. From there I spread the gospel.

    I love my uncle for many reasons but driving me around listening to pearl jam will never be beaten.
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  • A satellite forever orbiting
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    no.
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  • Thirty Bills Unpaid
    Thirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    Can recall my buddies and I knew of the release. They got it before me and were quick to acknowledge that "It's freaking awesome!"

    Unable to wait anymore, I blitzed down to Spinners and bought the CD. Had to wait to get home to play it (cassette player in the car... CD car stereos were rare and expensive then). Got home, put it in... oh yeah!

    Defined me at the time. Recorded it on to a 90 minute cassette and ran several times with my sports walkman blasting it in my ears. Animal... nice. GG... nice. The whole album... nice.
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