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  • Last-12-Exit
    Last-12-Exit Charleston, SC Posts: 8,661
    I got the CD and the tape. I had a walkman I used for wrestling tournaments. I can remember being a junior in hs that winter and playing the tape in that walkman 100 times when we made the 2 hour trip to the Kokomo duals. Every time I hear the studio version of any song from Vitalogy it reminds me of that bus ride and that tournament. Good memories.
  • whispering hands
    whispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
    I was living in my car, travel king from ranch to ranch trying to find foremen that would let me intern there fir my Equine psychology credits, and I remember parking outside of The Wherehouse, a record store in Temecula Ca. (This was the same week I applied to intern for Reba Macentire on her Tennessee Walker ranch out there). There was a midnight sale for the CD, ( I didn't even know they were reading albums on vinyl then!!) I had a camping alarm, that failed to go off, but I had asign in my windshield window that said Vitalogy or death.. And at 11:45 some guy knocked on my window and with the most excited smile on his face, woke me up in time enough to get in the long ass line. His girlfriend looked at me when I hot out, and asked her boyfriend, do you know that girl?? And he said no.. But she is here for the same reason we are! I'll never forget that! I bought the cassette and the CD, and I don't know why. I only had a cassette player in my car!! I didn't get to open or play that cd for almost a year, when a bunk mate saw I was carrying around an opened CD, bought me a boo box type CD player for my birthday that summer! Lmao and the card was signed his name followed by, just fucking listen to your fucking Pearl Jam CD already! By then, No Code was almost out!! Lol Ahhhhh memories!!
  • Ledbetterman10
    Ledbetterman10 Posts: 16,991
    edited November 2014
    I don't even know where to begin praising this album.
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  • MSnider44
    MSnider44 San Diego Posts: 746
    Happy birthday, Vitalogy.

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  • BALLBOY
    BALLBOY Australia Posts: 1,035
    This is their most challenging album & their best. You cannot praise enough & it would take forever☺☺
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  • joseph33
    joseph33 Washington DC Posts: 1,341
    When i was a freshman in high school,i remember a classmate singing the opening lines of Betterman. That day i went out and bought it on cd. The next day at school i was humming the same opening lines.
  • whispering hands
    whispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
    Do you know how crazy it is to think, I was finished with the in house portion of my University work, and doing internships, while some were still in HS?? Or worse yet not even born yet?? God I feel old.. I've grown old with this best band in the world!! Kinda beat really.. Crazy and freaky, but neat!
  • whispering hands
    whispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
    whispering hands said:

    Do you know how crazy it is to think, I was finished with the in house portion of my University work, and doing internships, while some were still in HS?? Or worse yet not even born yet?? God I feel old.. I've grown old with this best band in the world!! Kinda beat really.. Crazy and freaky, but neat!

    It's even worse thinking this about Ten!! Oh good god.. I think I need to go rest my old bones and contemplate this..... ;-)
  • Abe Froman
    Abe Froman Posts: 5,379
    I posted this in another thread about Vitalogy too...

    Ill never forget getting this vinyl at midnight a week before the cd release, coming home to my parents house, put on my dads headphones and dropping the needle. Wow. I had no idea how fucking mind blown I was about to be! Now, I already loved the first two records and was fully hooked on PJ at this point (18 yrs old) but this record for lack of better words just "sealed the deal" for me. Vitalogy for me took things to a new level. Probably at first due to a lot of the experimentation factor on it. My only knock on PJ at the time was they were too "commercial". Ha! so stupid and snobby but it was how I felt. The kinda avant garde tracks on it somehow made Pearl Jam seem "real" to me. It made a snobby music fan feel like he was right all along about these guys being different than the other cookie cutter shit bands at the time. Not to mention that the rest of the tracks on Vitalogy are obviously fantastic and still some of my favorites (STBC, Corduroy). Anyway, enough rambling. Just got sentimental for a minute seeing this thread. Took me back 20 yrs laying on my parents living room floor that night, not knowing I would be hooked forever.
  • evsgjamm
    evsgjamm Posts: 2,108
    best thread in a long time IMO.

    I picked up 3 copies of Vitalogy on vinyl over the last 10 years and have given away two of them to very deserving fans in that time. The vitals of vitalogy invite vigor in my veins & on their vingt 'versary I vill enjoy the vintner's vino. Mooze: your story brought joy into my face today.
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  • smg97791
    smg97791 Posts: 151
    Maybe my fav PJ album of all time, neck and neck with No Code. I purchased this album on CD at Target in Pasadena, New Years Eve, waiting for the Rose Parade the next day. I was 15 years old.
  • igotid88
    igotid88 Posts: 28,624
    edited December 2014
    I don't hear the little guitar part at the beginning of Corduroy anymore.
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  • mwplum
    mwplum Posts: 1,542
    Yeah...I remember waiting outside a snowy A & B Sound in Vancouver for the midnight release.
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  • igotid88
    igotid88 Posts: 28,624
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8BCZm7UJ1g&feature=youtu.be&noredirect=1
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  • Last-12-Exit
    Last-12-Exit Charleston, SC Posts: 8,661
    igotid88 said:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8BCZm7UJ1g&feature=youtu.be&noredirect=1

    And to think, stone thought this wasn't their best work...
  • igotid88
    igotid88 Posts: 28,624
    Vitalogy release part 2. Cd
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  • october22
    october22 Posts: 2,533
    I love Vitalogy. I was 14 and bought it the day it came out. Actually, I asked my mom to buy it for me and she had it waiting for me when I got home from school. I'll never forget what it felt like running up to my room, tearing it open, throwing in the disk and pouring over the liner notes. The weird jazzy intro followed by Dave and then that guitar crunch. Pure awesome.

    However, I do remember a strong sentiment of disappointment around my high school about it and I was definitely in that camp. It just didn't have the punch that the previous two did. It was weird that our mothers didn't want to change the station when Pearl Jam came on shitty Z100 (I'm looking at you Betterman). I sort of resented that record because of Betterman. It's funny to think that this is the album that sort of damaged my love for this band in the early part of their careers and now I regard it as one of their two or three best.
  • igotid88
    igotid88 Posts: 28,624
    october22 said:

    I love Vitalogy. I was 14 and bought it the day it came out. Actually, I asked my mom to buy it for me and she had it waiting for me when I got home from school. I'll never forget what it felt like running up to my room, tearing it open, throwing in the disk and pouring over the liner notes. The weird jazzy intro followed by Dave and then that guitar crunch. Pure awesome.

    However, I do remember a strong sentiment of disappointment around my high school about it and I was definitely in that camp. It just didn't have the punch that the previous two did. It was weird that our mothers didn't want to change the station when Pearl Jam came on shitty Z100 (I'm looking at you Betterman). I sort of resented that record because of Betterman. It's funny to think that this is the album that sort of damaged my love for this band in the early part of their careers and now I regard it as one of their two or three best.

    Z100 changed their format at that time to a more alternative station with some pop.
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