Free Yield LP!! Buuut..... Winner! :)

PJ_Soul

I dropped my brand new Yield LP and it got a scratch on it... actually more like a big scuff. It's still very playable, and i bought it sealed and played it only three times before dropping it. :fp: The jacket isn't perfect but in probably NM- condition (it was sealed - just a jacket that looks like it was sealed for a long time). There is a click when the needle goes over the scuff for maybe half of the first side. Sometimes a little click, sometimes a louder one (but in better shape than most of the original LB records, and no skips!). Anyway, i don't feel right taking money for it, but it should still be nice for someone who doesn't own it yet and can't afford to buy one! I will cover shipping for North America. If it's overseas please pay shipping - warning, it will be expensive. $35 just to the UK without tracking. :shock:

I know a record with a scratch on it isn't exactly prime pickins, but just going with the first to reply is boring, so how about if you want it, tell us by posting why your fave PJ album (of the day) is your fave, and i'll draw a random name in a week? I am always curious to know why people pick their favorite PJ album...... Of course, given the less-than-sweet deal i'm throwing out, i'm not sure there will be any responses! If there aren't any, then it goes to the first to just say they want it.

UPDATE:
imstillalive26 is the winner! Thanks for taking part everyone!

scratched vinyl

I'm definitely interested, very generous offer and thanks for a shot at it!

My current favorite is Lightning Bolt. I always play new PJ albums on pretty much constant rotation until the next one comes out, and LB has some nice deep cuts that gives it the ability to sustain multiple (and multiple, and multiple) spins. Pendulum and Yellow Moon for instance give it some grit that BS lacked. Solid album front to back. Obviously I have some staples in the back catalogue that I probably rank higher if push comes to shove, but I'm definitely spinning LB the most right now. Plus with my iPod on my car Getaway is the first and last song every listen

Cheers!

ajgonzal

Great offer and hoping to be the random winner...

Favorite of mine right now is Self-Titled. I admittedly wrote this one off a few years after it came out as I thought it lacked the range of some of the other PJ albums. After revisiting it recently with a new set of headphones, it has grown on me and is now in the regular rotation. The album also gained new life after hearing more of the album performed live over the last few tours.

CJ260717

Yield is my favorite album!

Part of the reason I like it is it is the last album with Jack Irons

PJ_Soul

scratched vinyl wrote:

I'm definitely interested, very generous offer and thanks for a shot at it!

My current favorite is Lightning Bolt. I always play new PJ albums on pretty much constant rotation until the next one comes out, and LB has some nice deep cuts that gives it the ability to sustain multiple (and multiple, and multiple) spins. Pendulum and Yellow Moon for instance give it some grit that BS lacked. Solid album front to back. Obviously I have some staples in the back catalogue that I probably rank higher if push comes to shove, but I'm definitely spinning LB the most right now. Plus with my iPod on my car Getaway is the first and last song every listen

Cheers!

Thanks! I like your screen name for this thread very much.

PJ_Soul

ajgonzal wrote:

Great offer and hoping to be the random winner...

Favorite of mine right now is Self-Titled. I admittedly wrote this one off a few years after it came out as I thought it lacked the range of some of the other PJ albums. After revisiting it recently with a new set of headphones, it has grown on me and is now in the regular rotation. The album also gained new life after hearing more of the album performed live over the last few tours.

I LOOOOOOVE ST. Highly underrated by a lot of fans IMO (whatever that means ).

whofeelslikeadrank

No Code. I have Yield. No Code is amazing... Awesome of you to do this

jlaustin

What a great offer, PJ Soul!

Maybe Yield is somehow cursed. I have obtained all of my PJ vinyl on the secondary market, except LB, and they all are in perfect condition - except Yield that skips on Brain of J. :evil:

Don't enter me in the contest, just wanted to share in your Yield pain!

My favorite album is Ten, but love them all and feel very fortunate to have them all on vinyl.

Again, really nice offer! Love this community!

jm257212

Awesome giveaway
My fav is No Code
Why? Because this was the album I used to convince my new girlfriend at the time, that pearl jam was sooooo amazing.. 17 years later we have been married for 12 yrs, have a 10 yr old son and have seen pj together well over 30 Times.
Thanks for the chance

John
Btw it was Present Tense that sealed the deal lol

bosshogg18

My favorite album is Yield and not just saying that. I have loved Pearl Jam since Ten, but it was when Yield came out in 1998 that I became a fanatic. I used to listen to the album for weeks at a time and watched Single Video Theory almost nightly. I still listen to Yield at least every few weeks. Love every song...even Red Dot.
My first show was also on the Yield tour (7-22-98 in Seattle), I also became a 10C member right after the show. While Pearl Jam continues to kickass, I still compare everything to Yield.
I would love the opportunity to have this on vinyl but it is always pretty expensive. And bonus if I somehow win you wouldn't have to even wrap it half as much when you ship it as I did when you won my raffle a couple of months ago.
Thanks for the opportunity.

EdsonNascimento

Wow! Tremendous. Vs is my favorite. Aside from it having some of the greatest songs in their catalog, sophomore efforts tend to lag. In sports, in school, in music. It's the sort of make or break year, thing, whatever. You have a first great something, but can you follow it up with a Godfather II, or is all you have left in you a Godfather III? Well, Vs is the definition of Godfather II - the first album was incredible - howd they make the masterpiece a follow up? Well, I don't need to figure that out,bc PJ did it.




And thank god they have never and will never have their Godfather III.

PJ_Soul

scurtis said in a PM ( posted with permission):

My fav album is Vs. I was about 15 when it came out and i remember just not being able to wait to get home to listen to it. I even got in trouble in class for singing animal to my self during a test, I hadn't even noticed, being an introvert it was quite embarrassing. Lots of great memories associated with at album.

B Robinette

My favorite album is Yield, I've been a fan since Ten but the Yield album and tour is when I was hooked. My college roommates first had Yield and that is where the obsession began. In my opinion, Songs 2 through 11 are arguably the best run of songs on any album ever, not that the other songs are bad I just really like the songs in the middle of the album. I've always wanted to get Yield on vinyl, but I don't want to pay the prices on ebay. Thanks for the opportunity.

adusick

Awesome, thanks for the chance and your generosity!

No Code would be my favorite. The feeling back then in '96... PJ had experienced the explosion of success, and this album seemed to divide fans a bit. Not me. The slight decline in popularity only made me more obsessed

There was just this mysticism around the album. I remember hearing Who You Are for the first time on a radio station that barely came in, and I recorded that song on cassette, replaying and replaying despite the fuzziness and radio static. Fell in love with the track, and remember picking up the CD... wow. The packaging is the best of ANY album out there. The polaroids, the hidden no code symbol, the witchcraft cd art, etc... and then the rest of the music, wow. Contains many of my faves... in my tree, present tense, habit, red mosquito. The album as a whole work of art just blew my 14 year old mind at the time!

I think the reason I picked No Code is the memories and fondness of that time back then - will never get it back but the music can still take you there.

Thanks again!

Akennelley

This really is an awesome giveaway...thanks for the opportunity!
My favorite album right now is probably No Code. It's just really cool how it was the album that PJ used to get completely out of the public eye first of all. I think it has the best artwork of all of the albums with the polaroids and the cover. The songs are so versatile, with gems like Present Tense and Sometimes, slower acoustic songs like Off He Goes and Around the Bend, and then really fast-paced, punk rock songs like Lukin and Hail Hail. It's just a masterpiece from beginning to end.
Thanks again!

VedHead

Ironically, Yield is my favorite album!

Liked all of the albums leading up to Yield, but this one just grabs me... Especially In Hiding. It was released at a time when I spent hours driving each week and had the CD set to repeat over and over again. Fond memories turning it up loud and rolling down the windows in the winter to stay awake.

Just started spinning the vinyls and have only been able to buy the 3 remastered plus Backspacer and LB. Traded for No Code. Would love to have Yield. Thanks for the chance!

scratched vinyl

PJ_Soul wrote:

scratched vinyl wrote:

I'm definitely interested, very generous offer and thanks for a shot at it!

My current favorite is Lightning Bolt. I always play new PJ albums on pretty much constant rotation until the next one comes out, and LB has some nice deep cuts that gives it the ability to sustain multiple (and multiple, and multiple) spins. Pendulum and Yellow Moon for instance give it some grit that BS lacked. Solid album front to back. Obviously I have some staples in the back catalogue that I probably rank higher if push comes to shove, but I'm definitely spinning LB the most right now. Plus with my iPod on my car Getaway is the first and last song every listen

Cheers!

Thanks! I like your screen name for this thread very much.

May be a little too fitting, eh?!

yellowledbetterman80

Vs. love this album, it was the album that got me into Pearl Jam and I still think its their best.

col giveaway, thanks

nothingman203

Very cool of you. I had to let my copy go recently to pay some bills (shit happens).

Right now I've been listening to Ten a lot. I'm not sure if it was because of the new version of release from that movie, but I have listened to it once a day at least for the last week. Went through almost the entire catalog during my drive up north for the holidays but Ten was played way more than others for some reason.

Thanks for the chance!

ezekiel rocks

My current favorite album is vitalogy. Actually it has been since I first bought and then played it. Got an opportunity to see them live in 95 at golden state park. Been hooked ever since and it continues to be my favorite album. Immortality, spin the black circle and last exit are classic songs.

spnoone

i've been listening to lightning bolt exclusively (for just the pearl jam portion of my listening) since it came out, so i'd have to call that the current favorite. that stretch from tracks 5 to 9 is just ridiculously good. but it also has songs that, if i voiced my opinion of them, i'd get banned. so yield is still my default answer for favorite pearl jam album. yield doesn't have the energy of vs, or the range of riot act, etc. it just has the best songs. and winning it would spare a relative having to overpay for it as an inevitable future christmas gift request, so thanks.