The 25th Anniversary of Perhaps the Greatest Pearl Jam Album of All Time - Vs.

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  • pjhawks
    pjhawks Posts: 12,912
    VS. is what  moved me fully to PJ over Nirvana. I fucking loved both Nevermind and Ten and beat the shit out of both cassettes. VS. was amazing from the 1st listen. I remember repeating Daughter and RVM as much as i could.  And i have one of the cassettes labeled Five Against One. 
  • Gern Blansten
    Gern Blansten Mar-A-Lago Posts: 22,185
    I wish I could relive that initial listen.
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  • Thirty Bills Unpaid
    Thirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    Bragging: I've seen all of Vs live (according to PJ Stattracker)!
    "My brain's a good brain!"
  • mace1229
    mace1229 Posts: 9,829
    Thirty Bills Unpaid said:
    Bragging: I've seen all of Vs live (according to PJ Stattracker)!
    Missing Glorified G and WMA.
    Not sad about WMA (other than to just complete VS) but I really love G!
  • MedozK
    MedozK Tennessee Posts: 9,212
    Thirty Bills Unpaid said:
    Bragging: I've seen all of Vs live (according to PJ Stattracker)!
    Bragging also, saw it played in Greenville.
  • BIGDaddyWil
    BIGDaddyWil Michigan Posts: 3,080
    Gern Blansten said:
    I wish I could relive that initial listen.
    .....as do I.
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  • TWHolt
    TWHolt Moncton, NB Posts: 408
    edited October 2018
    I remember orange....
    Then I remember goosebumps as the intro to Go began through my parents loud af over-ear headphones, without any noise limiting.  Then it kicked in....holy shit.
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  • darthvedder
    darthvedder Posts: 2,672
    I remember hating it because it was not Ten. What an idiot I was.
  • 2-feign-reluctance
    2-feign-reluctance TigerTown, USA Posts: 23,460
    No perhaps. Greatest LP of all time, by anyone.
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  • MedozK
    MedozK Tennessee Posts: 9,212
    2-feign-reluctance said:
    No perhaps. Greatest LP of all time, by anyone.
    Wondering when you were going to make your presence known in this thread.
  • Thirty Bills Unpaid
    Thirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    MedozK said:
    Thirty Bills Unpaid said:
    Bragging: I've seen all of Vs live (according to PJ Stattracker)!
    Bragging also, saw it played in Greenville.
    lol

    That you did.
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  • YourDirtisMyfood
    YourDirtisMyfood Boston Posts: 4,668
    Would love it if PJ did a "Joshua Tree"-type tour where they do a live concert tour playing all the songs on this album plus Whipping, Better Man (slow version) and Hard to Imagine and any other related songs to the album.  I could have sworn I read somewhere that Breath almost made it onto one of their early albums, maybe Vs. or Vitalogy but was saved for Singles.  
  • evenflow82
    evenflow82 Posts: 3,892
    edited October 2018
    Alone, breath, state of love and trust, hard to imagine, hold on, Angel, sonic reducer, betterman, dirty frank and whipping we all recorded during the post Ten/Vs sessions. 

    Impressive stuff.

    I've always wished the wasted tracks on vitalogy could have been replaced with songs like footsteps, hard to imagine, hold on, alone, etc.



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  • Wma31394
    Wma31394 Posts: 3,045
    My memory is getting a speeding ticket almost immediately after putting my tape in..ironically I got a speeding ticket the day yield came out with a cd..but yea great album, so much hype, best time in the bands history for fans hands down.
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  • EdsonNascimento
    EdsonNascimento Posts: 5,531
    My favorite pj album for sure.  
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  • danny
    danny Posts: 2,283
    fantastic album
    danny d
  • YourDirtisMyfood
    YourDirtisMyfood Boston Posts: 4,668
    The rehearsals for Daughter, RVM and Not for You from SNL are awesome, too.
  • YourDirtisMyfood
    YourDirtisMyfood Boston Posts: 4,668
    It's this Friday!!!  You all need to have a glass of wine in celebration.  Happy Anniversary, Vs.!!!!!!!
  • YourDirtisMyfood
    YourDirtisMyfood Boston Posts: 4,668
    (unless you're on the wagon)
  • tbergs
    tbergs Posts: 10,408
    YourDirtisMyfood said:
    The rehearsals for Daughter, RVM and Not for You from SNL are awesome, too.
    Some of the best versions of those songs. I listen to that trio a lot. As much as I love listening to the old school boots, I would drop dead being able to watch some of those old '93 shows with bootleg quality. Thank the music gods for SNL and the VMAs back then. Blistering performances and yet so subtle at times with the delivery.
    It's a hopeless situation...

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