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  • PissBottleMan
    PissBottleMan Union City, TN Posts: 4,155
    Also, let me clarify:

    I wouldn't want to expect something exactly like YIELD or No Code.

    Push forward.

    PBM
    "We paced ourselves and we didn't rush through it and we tried to be as creative as our collective minds would let us be over some course of time instead of just trying to rush through a record"

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  • RockKing
    RockKing Posts: 431
    PissBottleMan wrote:
    Also, let me clarify:

    I wouldn't want to expect something exactly like YIELD or No Code.

    Push forward.

    PBM

    That's an important footnote. I agree. When I say 'focus', I don't mean make the same thing you did before.....but I think when you are more focused, it makes it easier to push forward and make something new. I mean, for all their similarities, No Code and YIELD are 2 entirely different albums. YIELD may have extended its them out of No Code, but musically it was a whole different direction.
    --"I'm like an opening band for the sun"

    --"We’re taking pills to get along with life… the pills are YIELD and PJ’s music. Then we create words to call our own = our analysis of YIELD." - YIH
  • BlkFlg1
    BlkFlg1 Posts: 156
    PissBottleMan wrote:
    So, it's kind of like your dad coming home and asking, "Why the hell isn't the house clean" and you say, "Because I was up stairs playing video games".

    Clean house damn it.

    PBM

    Great points. Enter the "accidental concept album" theory. They both feel like they "have a point", although that point feels vague, there is one. I don't get that from any other albums in their catalog....
    YIELD Fan Club Sergeant-At-Arms
  • PissBottleMan
    PissBottleMan Union City, TN Posts: 4,155
    BlkFlg wrote:
    Great points. Enter the "accidental concept album" theory. They both feel like they "have a point", although that point feels vague, there is one. I don't get that from any other albums in their catalog....

    Similar spaces. That's important.

    Being on the same page...unity.

    Surprisingly, in things I've read, there wasn't as much unity during No Code sessions. Doesn't show up in the end result.

    PBM
    "We paced ourselves and we didn't rush through it and we tried to be as creative as our collective minds would let us be over some course of time instead of just trying to rush through a record"

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  • jordn6971
    jordn6971 Posts: 675
    PissBottleMan wrote:
    That's a hard one for me...I usually don't listen to albums in their entirety...I really have to like a group to listen to the whole thing.

    Sadly, there are numerous Beatles, Pink Floyd, Rollings Stones, et al songs that have gone unlistened.

    PBM

    Pearl Jam is the only band that I have been able to listen to albums in their entirety. Most other bands that I like only still have a few good songs on albums that I can listen to.

    One day I was out waiting for someone to get to their cottage, and I had a few hours to spare. I went to best buy bought a copy of Yield and VS and smoked one real quick. I listened to Yield about three times through and then switched to VS. It was a good day.
    "There was a band playing in my head, and I felt like getting high"
  • Detroit2NYC
    Detroit2NYC New York, NY Posts: 337
    jordn6971 wrote:
    Pearl Jam is the only band that I have been able to listen to albums in their entirety. Most other bands that I like only still have a few good songs on albums that I can listen to.

    One day I was out waiting for someone to get to their cottage, and I had a few hours to spare. I went to best buy bought a copy of Yield and VS and smoked one real quick. I listened to Yield about three times through and then switched to VS. It was a good day.

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  • distantsun
    distantsun Posts: 265
    jordn6971 wrote:
    One day I was out waiting for someone to get to their cottage, and I had a few hours to spare. I went to best buy bought a copy of Yield and VS and smoked one real quick. I listened to Yield about three times through and then switched to VS. It was a good day.

    i like this anecdote.
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  • distantsun
    distantsun Posts: 265
    jordn6971 wrote:
    One day I was out waiting for someone to get to their cottage, and I had a few hours to spare. I went to best buy bought a copy of Yield and VS and smoked one real quick. I listened to Yield about three times through and then switched to VS. It was a good day.

    i like this anecdote.
    this post has been approved by grace6697.
  • yosi1
    yosi1 Posts: 3,272
    distantsun wrote:
    i like this anecdote.

    I like your location.
    you couldn't swing if you were hangin' from a palm tree in a hurricane.
  • fanch75
    fanch75 Posts: 3,734
    LongRd. wrote:
    Ten, Vs. Vitalogy = Musically guidance by Stone, Jeff & Mike.
    No Code & Yield = Inspirited by Jack Irons.
    post-Yield = Influenced by Eddie's politics & punk music.

    You forgot riot act having its own category:

    riot act = inspired by this thread: http://forums.pearljam.com/showthread.php?t=194846
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  • distantsun
    distantsun Posts: 265
    yosi wrote:
    I like your location.

    yosi + _____________= reunited and it feels so good.
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  • yosi1
    yosi1 Posts: 3,272
    distantsun wrote:
    yosi + _____________= reunited and it feels so good.

    Yes it does. :D

    But lets keep the conversation on track (you know so no one gets in trouble :p). I recently read Ishmael (great read), someone want to explain its significance to Yield for me?
    you couldn't swing if you were hangin' from a palm tree in a hurricane.
  • Dog Loyal
    Dog Loyal Posts: 336
    DarkStar wrote:
    i love YIELD!

    ds
    Me too.
    The kids of today should defend themselves against the Seventies Nineties.
  • PissBottleMan
    PissBottleMan Union City, TN Posts: 4,155
    yosi wrote:
    I recently read Ishmael (great read), someone want to explain its significance to Yield for me?


    It boils down to The Takers and The Leavers.

    You've got one side who believe the world belongs to them (DTE) and another group that lives in harmony with the land (PMPM).

    There are more complex concepts that we can get into...and I must refresh myself because it's been 3 years since I read Ishmael.

    There are elements in various songs...I don't think the whole album revolves around it, but there are bits and pieces scattered throughout.

    PBM
    "We paced ourselves and we didn't rush through it and we tried to be as creative as our collective minds would let us be over some course of time instead of just trying to rush through a record"

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  • yosi1
    yosi1 Posts: 3,272
    PissBottleMan wrote:
    It boils down to The Takers and The Leavers.

    You've got one side who believe the world belongs to them (DTE) and another group that lives in harmony with the land (PMPM).

    There are more complex concepts that we can get into...and I must refresh myself because it's been 3 years since I read Ishmael.

    There are elements in various songs...I don't think the whole album revolves around it, but there are bits and pieces scattered throughout.

    PBM

    Interesting. I have to relook at the lyrics to PMPM.
    you couldn't swing if you were hangin' from a palm tree in a hurricane.
  • PissBottleMan
    PissBottleMan Union City, TN Posts: 4,155
    yosi wrote:
    Interesting. I have to relook at the lyrics to PMPM.

    "I'm like an opening band for the sun"

    "I had a false belief
    I thought I came here to stay
    We're all just visiting
    All just breaking like waves"

    Much more in tune with the land instead of owning the land.

    PBM
    "We paced ourselves and we didn't rush through it and we tried to be as creative as our collective minds would let us be over some course of time instead of just trying to rush through a record"

    Wishlist Foundation: http://wishlistfoundation.org
  • jordn6971
    jordn6971 Posts: 675
    Detroit2NYC wrote:
    Hey Jordan! Are you going to Bonnaroo?

    Nope, I'm waiting to see what else they announce. My brother got tickets to the first Eddie show at the Wiltern, and we're gonna try on ticketmaster too.You going to those?
    "There was a band playing in my head, and I felt like getting high"
  • redmosquito10
    redmosquito10 Posts: 568
    Any thoughts on the general meaning of No Way? Sorry if it's been discussed before, I'm new to the Yield thread. Definitely one of my favorite songs both on Yield and ever written by Stone. Some people seem to interpret it as giving up, but personally I think the opposite, because after saying "I'll stop trying to make a difference" he immediately says "No way", which is clearly an important line, hence the title of the song. I can also see threads of Ishmael in this song, mainly in the lines I mentioned above, and in lines such as "to the oceans of my platitudes," which seems to be pretty related to the idea of the relentless insistence of "mother culture" to make humans think a certain way. Anyways, it would be great to hear other opinions
    "Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH..."
  • dcfaithful
    dcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    yield inspires me...it has such a great, liberating feel to it...the way the songs were written and arranged makes yield so great...

    this and vitalogy are my two favs
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  • likepilateihaveadog
    likepilateihaveadog Posts: 1,083
    redmosquito10 wrote:
    Any thoughts on the general meaning of No Way? Sorry if it's been discussed before, I'm new to the Yield thread. Definitely one of my favorite songs both on Yield and ever written by Stone. Some people seem to interpret it as giving up, but personally I think the opposite, because after saying "I'll stop trying to make a difference" he immediately says "No way", which is clearly an important line, hence the title of the song. I can also see threads of Ishmael in this song, mainly in the lines I mentioned above, and in lines such as "to the oceans of my platitudes," which seems to be pretty related to the idea of the relentless insistence of "mother culture" to make humans think a certain way. Anyways, it would be great to hear other opinions
    Sometimes you just gotta keep on keepin on, you know?
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