Which album started Pearl Jam's "latter days"
Was walking around the track at a local school listening to Avocado and it got my brain into the cycle of ranking PJ's latter-day albums...the ones which the band released during the second half of their career.
In my mind, it's always been either Binaural or Riot Act that kicked off this portion of the band's life. And I usually lean toward RA as the beginning.
It's kind of a pointless thought exercise (what isn't these days), but which album do you think signals the second half of the band's career? Is it Binaural or Riot Act? Or a different album altogether?
***EDIT: btw, "latter days" doesn't mean of a lesser quality.
In my mind, it's always been either Binaural or Riot Act that kicked off this portion of the band's life. And I usually lean toward RA as the beginning.
It's kind of a pointless thought exercise (what isn't these days), but which album do you think signals the second half of the band's career? Is it Binaural or Riot Act? Or a different album altogether?
***EDIT: btw, "latter days" doesn't mean of a lesser quality.
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-First album of the new millennium (they're a "90's band" after all)
-First album with Matt Cameron
-First album without Brendan O'Brien (besides Ten of course)
-The dawn of the "official bootleg" era
So that's a lot of change. Seems like a good enough point to separate early days from latter days.
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if I had to break it into halves, it’s gotta be avocado. Something about the media blitz they did and all the promos (aol interview performances etc) they seemed so....happy and easy going as opposed to always pissed off. Then backspacer had target commercials..
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'09 :Philly 1 & 2 '10: Buffalo, Newark, MSG1, MSG2
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first album with the longest break between records. Their first on their own. When they came back, to me, they just felt different than anything before.
I'll take Backspace and Gigaton over Avocado and Lightning Bolt, as far as albums I listen to all the way through in one sitting..
"Latter day albums" does not mean "the albums I don't like for personal reasons."
This is about the album that marks a shift in the band's approach to personal expression, as perceived by you, the listener. A change in tone, a change in promotion, a change in overall aesthetic, a growth or maturity.
1. Ten through Yield
2. Binaural through Self Titled
3. Backspacer through Gigaton
So to answer your Question I see Backspacer as the beginning of their latter era.
Then it would be No Code
Then again on Binaural
Later again with Avocado, also known as Avacado. Start of the faux punk
Then again on Bacspacer
Then once more on LB
This band has never been the same since Stone and Jeff sort of gave it over to ED
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Setlists became a lot more predictable. Songs didn't really change as much (look at porch 2006 compared to a porch from 13-18, the 13-18 is the same). Tags were the same. Yeah we got a couple of new covers but a 2013 pj show was pretty much the same in 2018. So I guess it was LB for me.
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To me it seems like they kind of have three eras: the 90's, most of the early 2000's and then post Backspacer.......which all neatly fit into three separate decades. Hopefully this next decade is better than the last one (off to a great start IMO)!