Avocado: 2013

CitizenRick

SENROCK wrote:

"chauffeurs" I love that description!

Definitely a rockin album. I wish they would play it in its entirety at shows!

Hey there, Sen!

Ha ha ... could you imagine any of the boys with a suit, tie and that little drivers cap on?!

The term just seemed to fit what I wanted to convey at that moment. I also might have had two 24oz Coors lights in me.

SENROCK

CitizenRick wrote:

SENROCK wrote:

"chauffeurs" I love that description!

Definitely a rockin album. I wish they would play it in its entirety at shows!

Hey there, Sen!

Ha ha ... could you imagine any of the boys with a suit, tie and that little drivers cap on?!

The term just seemed to fit what I wanted to convey at that moment. I also might have had two 24oz Coors lights in me.

Dude, that is a FUNNY thought! I can see Stone all nervous and not speaking at ALL and using a Thomas Guide instead of a gps!


and HI!!! Need to message you, lost your digits when I got a new phone :shock:

CitizenRick

SENROCK wrote:

CitizenRick wrote:

SENROCK wrote:

"chauffeurs" I love that description!

Definitely a rockin album. I wish they would play it in its entirety at shows!

Hey there, Sen!

Ha ha ... could you imagine any of the boys with a suit, tie and that little drivers cap on?!

The term just seemed to fit what I wanted to convey at that moment. I also might have had two 24oz Coors lights in me.

Dude, that is a FUNNY thought! I can see Stone all nervous and not speaking at ALL and using a Thomas Guide instead of a gps!


and HI!!! Need to message you, lost your digits when I got a new phone :shock:

Stone AND Eddie would so use a Thomas guide.

Yeah, hit me up. 2005-06', is when we began to communicate. So, it ties in well with this thread.

LloydXmas

My favorite album of the 2000's

CitizenRick

LloydXmas wrote:

My favorite album of the 2000's

Wow! Pearl Jam albums or all albums?

fox_mulderX

Wow, am I an asshole? I was just listening to S/T not too long ago but thought it hasn't aged very well at all. Songs like Unemployable, Gone, Inside Job, and Parachutes don't do it for me, anymore. The same thing is happening to Backspacer: I find myself listening to it less and less and time goes by. When I first heard about Lightning Bolt I was talking a lot of shit, but now I'm starting to have high hopes. Here's to hoping Pearl Jam gives their fans the first 'Pearl Jam' album in over ten years.

PJ_Soul

fox_mulderX wrote:

Here's to hoping Pearl Jam gives their fans the first 'Pearl Jam' album in over ten years.

Huh? What does that mean??
How about just hoping that you personally enjoy the new album more than you did the ones of the last ten years?
I personally absolutely LOVE Binaural, Riot Act, and Avocado a lot, and think that every PJ album is uniquely and noticeably 'Pearl Jam'.... whatever the fuck that means.

Oh, and no. Not liking some music doesn't make you an asshole.

smanchac1

Avocado is great.

If you have a way to play this through speakers (not pc speakers) the Ed Sullivan theater show is awesome.

The band sounds SO tight and the avocado songs all sound awesome. Love marker in the sand, severed hand.. I love all of them. I've been listening to this over the last few days.

This is a great way to hear avocado.. It's a live show but sounds like they are jamming In the studio.

Can't reccomend this enough...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flnI35_bXws

05-04-2006
Ed Sullivan Theater
New York Ny

Setlist:

World Wide Suicide
Comatose
Severed Hand
Marker In The Sand
Gone
Unemployable
Present Tense
Do The Evolution
Why Go
Porch

Kimmiebyrom

Avocado is easily top 5 for me!

nickburrows14

I remember after it came out reading how some people didn't like it and was telling a guy at work. I was saying "seems a lot of people don't like it but I just can't stop playing it"

Still love it, want the vinyl.

candleofthought

Love this album SO much! Also LOVE this boot because of my love for ST

PALAISOZAKI
TORINO, ITALY
Tue 19 September, 2006

SET 1
Go
Corduroy
Animal
Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town
Life Wasted
World Wide Suicide
Comatose
Severed Hand
Marker In The Sand
Parachutes
Unemployable
Big Wave
Gone
Wasted Reprise
Army Reserve
Come Back
Inside Job
Do The Evolution
Rearviewmirror

ENCORE 1
Jeremy
Lukin
Better Man
Black
Tremor Christ
Alive


ENCORE 2
Blood
Even Flow
Baba O'Riley
Indifference

evsgjamm

TheLuckyOnes wrote:

evsgjamm wrote:

I hear ya. I had the same thing happen to me, but from an entirely different "band" called Neverending White Lights. Stumbled on it by fluke in 2005 during a tough time and that fucking album changed the way I dealt with my stuff at that time. I played it on full blast for 3 straight days; even when I left the house, I left it cranked over the surround sound. I slept with it cranked, I ate with it cranked, I lived... with that first album titled "Act I - Goodbye Friends of the Heavenly Bodies" and I'm glad I did. Now though? I have stopped listening to it entirely. BUT it's still one of my most favorite and most certainly memorable and "effective" albums of my life. Music is life's band-aid.

I relate to that 100%. Happened to me totally unexpectedly with Nada Surf's The Weight is a Gift. A band i had never heard of except for (crappy) song, and that album really grabbed me and spoke to me about loss, relationships, maturing, and letting go. I should probably listen to it again right now actually....

i wish a PJ album would hit me that hard again...No Code was the last one to hit me as a united whole of an album, for me personally. I love Yield and all of the rest after, but none of 'em have been life-changing (tho many of the songs alone are...)
cheers

MAD RESPECT. It makes me wonder, why has a Pearl Jam album in it's in entirety, never ever ever EVER made me feel the way that unknown Neverending White Lights album did? Some things just don't have answers I suppose. On the other hand, there are individual songs by Pearl Jam that I'll ball my eyes out to when I sing them out loud along with Ed. Numero uno being "Release" - right when he says "Oh dear dad, can you see me now. I am myself. Like youuuuuuuu, somehowwwww... oh i WAIT UP.... in ...the DARRRRK..... FOR YOU TO .. SPEEEAK TO MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeee.... I III OhhhPEN'UuuuP.... RELEASE MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeee .. RELEASE MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeee ... RELEASE MEEEE EE EEEE EEEEEEEeeeeeee aye.. RELEASE MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE (usually start crying ferociously here)eeeeeeeee.....OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH aye.... oHHHHHHHHHH oo OH oh oh Oahohhhh. ahohhhh ahEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE(then for some reason i start smiling... even laughing right here) eeeeeeee HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeah" ya. that line *sniff sniff*

mdgsolo

Easily in my top 9 favorite studio albums...

...at least for a few more weeks

javis el errante

we were discussing MITS a few days ago, how great that song is, ST is my second fav, and I concur with Alli aka PJ_Soul, ST, Binaural and Riot Act kick ass, I was really buzzed with the release of that album since a few months before I say PJ live for the first time, and this album wasn't anything like Binaural and Riot Act, which kick ass, but this one is more rock and roll, I love it, and I agree with the dude who said that Inside Job is the best PJ closer of all PJ albums, I listen to it the day before yesterday and I still love it as much as the first time I listened to it, Comatose, Severed Hand, MITS, Unemployable, Army Reserve and Inside Job are too much for one album, of course Life Wasted and WWS rocks, Parachutes and Gone are pretty damn good too, and in the past years, with shows and PJ20 film I grew a lot of love for LW, WR and Come back. My top PJ albums is Vitalogy, and even though ST didn't blow my mind and amazed me as much as Vitalogy did, ST is pretty close to Vitalogy... time to listen to ST again, this time reading the lyrics...

CrookedTom

I prefer it as an album to Riot Act, although there are a handful of majestic Riot Act songs that are better than anything on Avocado - I'm talking about I Am Mine, All Or None and Arc.

Like: Life Wasted, Worldwide Suicide, Severed Hand, Unemployable & Army Reserve are all great. Not their best, but solid tunes, that I would always welcome creeping into a setlist. Like the energy in Big Wave, however this song gets alot of stick on here. Much prefer it to Get Right, Ghost, Help Help, Save You from Riot Act though. Love the intro to Inside Job and the early verses, kind of loses its way by the end though.

Don't Like : Production, compressed, too much loudness - The worst produced studio album by Pearl Jam in my opinion. Eddie's voice seems to be straining. Comatose sounds like a band 'trying' to be heavy. Come Back is an absolute cheeseball, and Gone is just plain ordinary. Never cared for Parachutes, when I compare that song to All Or None, Nothingman, Black, Off He Goes, or Around The Bend, it really is nowhere near the best of their ballads.

fox_mulderX

PJ_Soul wrote:

fox_mulderX wrote:

Here's to hoping Pearl Jam gives their fans the first 'Pearl Jam' album in over ten years.

Huh? What does that mean??
How about just hoping that you personally enjoy the new album more than you did the ones of the last ten years?
I personally absolutely LOVE Binaural, Riot Act, and Avocado a lot, and think that every PJ album is uniquely and noticeably 'Pearl Jam'.... whatever the fuck that means.

Oh, and no. Not liking some music doesn't make you an asshole.

I just meant that Riot Act was the last album that felt like it was Pearl Jam. Their newer stuff seems more middle of the road. Sure, every album has that distinct Pearl Jam sound, but the 'feel' has been different since '03.

SomethingCreative

candleofthought wrote:

Love this album SO much! Also LOVE this boot because of my love for ST

PALAISOZAKI
TORINO, ITALY
Tue 19 September, 2006

SET 1
Go
Corduroy
Animal
Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town
Life Wasted
World Wide Suicide
Comatose
Severed Hand
Marker In The Sand
Parachutes
Unemployable
Big Wave
Gone
Wasted Reprise
Army Reserve
Come Back
Inside Job
Do The Evolution
Rearviewmirror

ENCORE 1
Jeremy
Lukin
Better Man
Black
Tremor Christ
Alive


ENCORE 2
Blood
Even Flow
Baba O'Riley
Indifference

Anyone know where I can find a copy of this?

Kimmiebyrom

OP, you just nailed it. So true.