Happy Birthday Avocado

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  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 31,667
    igotid88 said:
    Avocado without a doubt is the last album I’ve truly enjoyed! All the rest that have followed have fallen by the wayside..
    I wholeheartedly disagree.
    That’s fine too! I just never listen to Backspacer  or LB, Gigaton! 
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  • JimmyV
    JimmyV Boston's MetroWest Posts: 19,600
    The dearly departed WBCN in Boston played it front to back at like 9am on release day. I drove over to Newbury Comics on my lunchbreak to buy it. I had been a first five albums guy up until that point. Neither Binaural nor Riot Act really clicked for me. ST/Avocado was different. Loved it on the first listen and every listen since. Wasted Reprise is the only thing that maybe you could say was filler. Otherwise every track is great. 
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  • Got into the band during the Riot Act era so this was the first one I remember waiting for, and it didn't disappoint. Such a great record. And getting a full Life Wasted at the Ohana Encore show in 2021 was very special, didn't expect them to pull that one out.
  • pearlnin
    pearlnin Posts: 69
    Got into the band during the Riot Act era so this was the first one I remember waiting for, and it didn't disappoint. Such a great record. And getting a full Life Wasted at the Ohana Encore show in 2021 was very special, didn't expect them to pull that one out.
    Riot Act era here as well!
  • pearlnin
    pearlnin Posts: 69
    I remember the day this came out and ten club hadn’t sent my book cd yet lol 

    I went to Best Buy to pick up the normal package one and tool 10,000 days. Everybody in line had both CDs! 

    Then the next week Stadium Arcadium dropped. 

    That was an insane time for music! Silverchairs last album / NIN Year Zero! 2006/07 good times 
  • a5pj
    a5pj Hershey PA Posts: 3,976
    I remember waiting in line at Tower Records? in NYC to get the Irving Plaza ticket. Everyone around was listening to the leak or had received the album in the mail (my 10C one hadn't arrived yet) and I waited until I got the cd and listened driving back home. Drove back what 2 days later for the show. Crazy times
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  • 23scidoo
    23scidoo Thessaloniki,Greece Posts: 19,989
    How this gem stay out of the album??..HOW??

    https://youtu.be/VRBKt4cdYCk
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  • cutz
    cutz Posts: 12,254
    23scidoo said:
    How this gem stay out of the album??..HOW??

    https://youtu.be/VRBKt4cdYCk
    Good question
  • igotid88
    igotid88 Posts: 28,646
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  • JT167846
    JT167846 Posts: 996
    Happy Birthday Avocado and 10000 Days. A good day when your two favourite bands release long awaited albums.
    Stars are suns to other people.

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  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,490
    Happy Birthday!
  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,751
    I remember seeing the LP for sale and thinking why would I buy a record! Times have changed ;)

  • Shaindli1
    Shaindli1 MA Posts: 2,397
    I love everything about Avocado!
    #Grievance2025 
  • turner78
    turner78 Atlanta, GA Posts: 185
    Love the album, still don't think they've gotten it right on a release yet. The original was brickwalled and the remix, while great in certain part, just kills Inside Job. The guitars are so buried at the beginning of the song. 
  • Johnny Abruzzo
    Johnny Abruzzo Philly Posts: 12,381
    Shaindli1 said:
    I love everything about Avocado!
    Yes! This!

    I do not like that 2017 remix though.
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  • Shaindli1
    Shaindli1 MA Posts: 2,397
    Shaindli1 said:
    I love everything about Avocado!
    Yes! This!

    I do not like that 2017 remix though.
    Inside job?
    #Grievance2025 
  • Johnny Abruzzo
    Johnny Abruzzo Philly Posts: 12,381
    Shaindli1 said:
    Shaindli1 said:
    I love everything about Avocado!
    Yes! This!

    I do not like that 2017 remix though.
    Inside job?
    The whole album. The 2006 version was just fine. It reinvigorated my Pearl Jam love.
    Spectrum 10/27/09; New Orleans JazzFest 5/1/10; Made in America 9/2/12; Phila, PA 10/21/13; Phila,  PA 10/22/13; Baltimore Arena 10/27/13; Phila, PA 4/28/16; Phila, PA 4/29/16; Fenway Park 8/7/16; Fenway Park 9/2/18; Asbury Park 9/18/21; Camden 9/14/22; Las Vegas 5/16/24; Las Vegas 5/18/24; Phila, PA 9/7/24; Phila, PA 9/9/24; Baltimore Arena 9/12/24; Pittsburgh 5/16/25; Pittsburgh 5/18/25

    Tres Mtns - TLA 3/23/11; EV - Tower Theatre 6/25/11; Temple of the Dog - Tower Theatre 11/5/16
  • Shaindli1
    Shaindli1 MA Posts: 2,397
    Shaindli1 said:
    Shaindli1 said:
    I love everything about Avocado!
    Yes! This!

    I do not like that 2017 remix though.
    Inside job?
    The whole album. The 2006 version was just fine. It reinvigorated my Pearl Jam love.
    I can listen to it in a loop in the car and not get bored.
    #Grievance2025 
  • JimmyV
    JimmyV Boston's MetroWest Posts: 19,600
    Still a gem. 
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  • julieooliern
    julieooliern Posts: 1,285
    edited May 2
    🥑 Happy birthday to you