Yield CD Booklet "Harmony Not a Through Road"
hawkeye8388
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Since Yield came out I alway enjoyed the picture inside the cd booklet with the Harmony sign (I made a copy of it and have it posted in my work cube). I believe the picture was taken by Jeff Ament in a backroad in Northern California.
The picture is a soothing reminder of the landscape and picketline fence that I would see trout fishing as a young adult and brings back great memories. For years I always interpreted the picture as saying the feeling of harmony is not a through road. Basically nothing comes easy or without resistance.
Yesterday I looked at the picture and noticed the sign for Harmony has a arrow pointed to the left and the Not a Through Road sign is for the road straight ahead. Maybe harmony is found if you take a left instead of staying on the current road?
All these years intrepeting the picture one way and now I have another. Thoughs on what the picture represents? Regardless, I love the angle the sun was at creating shadows across the road and hills.
The picture is a soothing reminder of the landscape and picketline fence that I would see trout fishing as a young adult and brings back great memories. For years I always interpreted the picture as saying the feeling of harmony is not a through road. Basically nothing comes easy or without resistance.
Yesterday I looked at the picture and noticed the sign for Harmony has a arrow pointed to the left and the Not a Through Road sign is for the road straight ahead. Maybe harmony is found if you take a left instead of staying on the current road?
All these years intrepeting the picture one way and now I have another. Thoughs on what the picture represents? Regardless, I love the angle the sun was at creating shadows across the road and hills.
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But I do know that I still haven't found the YIELD sign on every page yet. :mad:
Great post. Just when I thought we've dissected all aspects of this album, you've raised an interesting topic.
I like this interpretation based on the topic you've raised:
We can easily turn and go the easy route...live a carefree life.
"What are you running from?
Taking pills to get along
Creating walls to call your own
So no one catches you?
Drifting off and doing all the things...
That we... all do"
Or, we can continue on, face the realities of life and try to make it through the hard road ahead...hopefully, for the better.
"You've got time... you've got time to escape
There's still time... it's no crime to escape
It's no crime to escape... it's no crime to escape
There's still time, so escape
It's no crime, crime.."
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Urban myth!
Q: I've noticed in the Yield lyric sheets included with the CD that there are "hidden" yield signs in some of the pictures. Is this something Jeff Ament thought of?
A: Sure.
They are on most of the pages.
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how can there be a yield sign in the middle of the ocean, or on top of a mountain lol?
First pic: It's on the right tower
MFC: It's above the head of the guy on the left on the motorcycle
Push me Pull me: It's on the sign that's at the right
Do the Evolution: In the grass at the right of the tent
Faithfull: One of the windows at the top in the middle is triangular
Chinese restaurant pic:It's the triangle on the middle thing
Brain of J: On Jack's shirt
Low Light: On the tail of the left bird
Whishlist: On the opened mailbox on the thing that's sticking out, it's hard to see, it's upside down
Middle pic: In the water, the mountain reflecting on the left side
Given to Fly: Ok...it's on the statue's torso. No I'm not crazy! If you stare at it for a couple of decates, you see a slight discoloration on its torso...
Swimming Eddie: In the water, on the very left side
In Hiding: This is the only one that I am incapable to see. It's supposedly on the rocks at the bottom right...
Pilate: In the sky, on the right side about at the same hight as Jeff's hand(I see 2 of them actually)
No Way: Ok it's in the background, more on the left side. See it? Good.
Mountain pic: It's on the fence.One of the pics is triangular, on the left side.
Red dot: On the left side at the bottom of the wall on a really weird angle
All those yesterdays: On the right side, there's a tombstone with a yield sign at the top of it
Last pic: On the right side of the path, you follow the road and you'll see a little triangle on the side of it.
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PJ MOMENT: Have Yield on and All Those Yesterdays...read these lyrics at the moment they came on in the song...sweet moment!!!!
if you look at the bottom right corner there is a flat rock with three little rocks sittng on top of it. It's the one on the very right.
Sydney: November 21 2024, November 23 2024
hey... turn the pic upside down and look at the bottom right rocks....upside down it will be top left but theres deffinately a triangle there
The first post on the old YIELD thread would have cleared this up instantly. :(
It's been a year this month that thread's been gone. :(
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http://www.vitalogy.de/sleightofhand/harmony.jpg
i did not know this (yield sign on every page of the booklet).interesting.
"Call me Ishmael. Some years ago- never mind how long precisely- having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world." Herman Melville : Moby Dick
long live the YIELD thread! forever immortalized as the bitchin'est thread ever.
sigh.