Free Yield LP!! Buuut..... Winner! :)
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!
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!
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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
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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.
Part of the reason I like it is it is the last album with Jack Irons
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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!
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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
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Btw it was Present Tense that sealed the deal lol
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.
And thank god they have never and will never have their Godfather III.
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.
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!
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!
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!
May be a little too fitting, eh?!
col giveaway, thanks
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!
I still remember who I was with and where I bought it the day the "official" CD came out in Feb. 98... Best Buy
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My hand was holding it out in front of me so the disc would not skip (I looked like a running pizza delivery guy) but I didn't care.
Jogging while listening to Wishlist is something that you just don't see anymore.
My favorite album had to be Vs, I remember lining up at my local record store at midnight of the release to get the album after being blown away by Ten. I remember putting that disc into my car stereo an driving around all night listening to it and just being completely floored. So Vs will alway have a soft spot in my heart for that reason. I still remember it like it was yesterday. I would love to have a chance to have Yield on vinyl, even if it isn't flawless. Thank you for the chance. :thumbup:
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It changes on my mood but it revolves around 3 albums constantly.
Vitalogy.
It came out on record a few weeks before the CD release. Had to drive a long way to obtain it. It was worth the trip.
I still have this very record in my possession today.
Thanks for letting me share!
10-4-96 \ 5-6-10
9-6-98 \ 5-7-10
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My favorite is Vitalogy. It's like riding in a car on the highway in a big city. You speed up and you're going 80 m.p.h then you slow down to 20 then speed back up. It's a wild ride and I love it. Till stupid mop that's when you end up in a 20 car pile up.
Yield has always been my favorite, from first listen. I got a Ten cassette after hearing two songs and hardly listened to side two for a long time. Vs. sounded rushed and "more of the same". Vitalogy felt a little indulgent with Bugs, Aye Davanita, Pry To and Stupid Mop. And No Code had great songs, but didn't have a good album feel.
Then Yield happened. 1998 was a great year for me, having got a job that turned into a career and buying a house. I had a recording studio that was a great "listening room" and about 1200 albums to choose from (all gone now...). Yield was the first Pearl Jam album that I could put on and listen to a whole side without the urge to get up and move the needle. One of the big draws of listening to vinyl is that you can put the album on and enjoy 23 minutes of music before you have to flip the record. With Yield it didn't matter which side I put on, I could let it play all the way through and enjoy every minute of it. It really feels like an "album".
And the band seemed comfortable with being "rock stars" for the first time. First video since "Jeremy". Songs like "Wishlist" and "Given to Fly" sound so accessible (which is what almost kept "Betterman" off of Vitalogy). And "Faithfull" & "NO Way" are my 2nd and 3rd favorite songs... right behind "In Hiding"
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Yield is actually my favorite album. It came out when I was in college (one of the best years of my life) and the album that changed Pearl Jam from one of my favorite bands to my absolute, unquestioned favorite band. I don't know why, but everything clicked on this album for me. There are songs on other albums that I like more than the Yield songs, but this almost (to me) is perfect from start to finish.
Also - I met my wife that year and new she was the one she told me that Wishlist was her favorite song. You can question the song choice but I'll be damned if you can question a Pearl Jam girl! I put a ring on her finger the following summer and we've been happily married since.