Happy 27th YIELD

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  • TJ25487
    TJ25487 Posts: 1,501
    Bump! I say we have a Yield birthday month instead of just one day in honor of my favorite release. IMO it felt like Yield unofficially ushered out the grunge movement much like grunge killed hair metal. Yield was the band older, more mature, less angry and finding their new voice for the years to come. If Dark Matter turns out to be their final opus they can hold their heads high! Cheers to Yield. 
  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,815
    Shaindli1 said:
    Fucking epic album!

    Indeed. 
  • JT167846
    JT167846 Posts: 996
    Ten will always be my favourite ever album but the sentimentality of Yield as it was the album they were  touring when I first saw them brings it to first equal. Would have loved to have seen all of it live-am missing No Way, Pilate and PMPM, and I don't spin it as much now, but if any of it is on and I'm fully engaged with it I remember just how seriously fucking good it is.
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  • marcPJfan
    marcPJfan Austin, TX Posts: 852
    mcgruff10 said:
    marcPJfan said:
    I remember going to Best Buy to buy the cd as soon as they opened.  This was the first tour I went to multiple shows.  Of any band.  Chicago, STL, Dallas, Meadowlands, MSG x 2, Merriweather, DC.  To be 21 again.
    Same!  I hit up 8 shows that tour: tibetan freedom concert, la x 2, camden x 2, meadowlands and msg x 2.  I turned 21 that November....good times.  pretty sure you and I have really close fan club numbers (139XXX). 
    Damn.  That’s pretty cool.  November 7 is my bday.  135xxx is my membership number.
    09/16/95, 09/16/96, 06/29/98, 07/02/98, 07/05/98, 09/08/98, 09/10/98, 09/11/98, 09/18/98, 09/19/98, 06/13/99, 10/30/99, 10/31/99, 05/29/00, 05/30/00, 10/14/00, 10/17/00, 10/18/00, 11/05/00, 10/20/01, 10/21/01, 12/06/02, 04/05/03, 04/06/03, 06/09/03, 10/22/03, 09/24/04, 05/12/06, 05/13/06, 05/27/06, 05/28/06, 07/22/06, 07/23/06, 06/11/08, 06/12/08, 08/01/08, 09/21/09, 09/22/09, 10/04/09, 05/03/10, 05/04/10, 05/06/10, 05/07/10, 07/02/11, 09/03/11, 09/04/11, 10/23/11, 11/15/13, 11/16/13, 10/19/14, 10/25/14, 10/26/14, 11/28/15, 04/23/16, 08/05/16, 08/07/16, 09/09/17, 08/18/18, 09/02/18, 09/04/18, 10/01/21, 10/02/21, 05/06/22, 05/07/22, 05/12/22, 05/13/22, 08/31/23, 09/02/23, 09/13/23, 09/15/23, 09/18/23, 09/19/23, 05/16/24, 08/29/24, 08/31/24, 09/15/24, 09/17/24, 04/29/25, 05/01/25, 05/16/25, 05/18/25
  • Zod
    Zod Posts: 10,914
    I love Yield.  I didn't full understand or appreciate No Code when it first came out and drifted a while.  Yield was different.  Given To Fly was a kickass first single. I bought it immediate spun the shit out GTF/Pilate/Leatherman.   I lived in a smaller town so the local record stores weren't great and didn't get albums on release day.  I asked a coworker who commuted in to grab me a copy.

    I'd only ever seen PJ at Lolla in my early/mid teen's, so a powerful but short afternoon set.  Missoula was my first real Pearl Jam show.  It sucked me right in.   We ended up doing Missoula because we weren't sure if we'd back in time for our local Vancouver show.   I was doing a cross Canada Trip with one of my best friends, so my insurance plan was to cheat for a few days and drive south of Calgary to Missoula.  Show was amazing and hooked me right in.  We made it back 2 days before the Vancouver show and hung out in Kamloops for a few days, then scored amazing size stage tickets when they were announce on the radio near Hope (where the filmed Rambo).   Then I got back from trip, was maybe home 2 days, and I go to my brother, hey you want to go Seattle? And we race down for the second Seattle show and got there about 5 minutes before PJ started to play.

    So many good memories of Yield and the tour.   I'm never 100% sure what my favourite PJ album is, but Yield is usually at the top of the list.

    It was also my gateway to No Code.  After listening to Yield, I also fell in love with No Code, so it was all win.
  • mcgruff10
    mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 29,145
    marcPJfan said:
    mcgruff10 said:
    marcPJfan said:
    I remember going to Best Buy to buy the cd as soon as they opened.  This was the first tour I went to multiple shows.  Of any band.  Chicago, STL, Dallas, Meadowlands, MSG x 2, Merriweather, DC.  To be 21 again.
    Same!  I hit up 8 shows that tour: tibetan freedom concert, la x 2, camden x 2, meadowlands and msg x 2.  I turned 21 that November....good times.  pretty sure you and I have really close fan club numbers (139XXX). 
    Damn.  That’s pretty cool.  November 7 is my bday.  135xxx is my membership number.
    november 13th here!  graduated in 96.
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me......
  • marcPJfan
    marcPJfan Austin, TX Posts: 852
    mcgruff10 said:
    marcPJfan said:
    mcgruff10 said:
    marcPJfan said:
    I remember going to Best Buy to buy the cd as soon as they opened.  This was the first tour I went to multiple shows.  Of any band.  Chicago, STL, Dallas, Meadowlands, MSG x 2, Merriweather, DC.  To be 21 again.
    Same!  I hit up 8 shows that tour: tibetan freedom concert, la x 2, camden x 2, meadowlands and msg x 2.  I turned 21 that November....good times.  pretty sure you and I have really close fan club numbers (139XXX). 
    Damn.  That’s pretty cool.  November 7 is my bday.  135xxx is my membership number.
    november 13th here!  graduated in 96.
    Nice!  95 here
    09/16/95, 09/16/96, 06/29/98, 07/02/98, 07/05/98, 09/08/98, 09/10/98, 09/11/98, 09/18/98, 09/19/98, 06/13/99, 10/30/99, 10/31/99, 05/29/00, 05/30/00, 10/14/00, 10/17/00, 10/18/00, 11/05/00, 10/20/01, 10/21/01, 12/06/02, 04/05/03, 04/06/03, 06/09/03, 10/22/03, 09/24/04, 05/12/06, 05/13/06, 05/27/06, 05/28/06, 07/22/06, 07/23/06, 06/11/08, 06/12/08, 08/01/08, 09/21/09, 09/22/09, 10/04/09, 05/03/10, 05/04/10, 05/06/10, 05/07/10, 07/02/11, 09/03/11, 09/04/11, 10/23/11, 11/15/13, 11/16/13, 10/19/14, 10/25/14, 10/26/14, 11/28/15, 04/23/16, 08/05/16, 08/07/16, 09/09/17, 08/18/18, 09/02/18, 09/04/18, 10/01/21, 10/02/21, 05/06/22, 05/07/22, 05/12/22, 05/13/22, 08/31/23, 09/02/23, 09/13/23, 09/15/23, 09/18/23, 09/19/23, 05/16/24, 08/29/24, 08/31/24, 09/15/24, 09/17/24, 04/29/25, 05/01/25, 05/16/25, 05/18/25
  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,815
    An incredible album. My local HMV record had a few cool promo items for it's release. Man, do I miss those days. Much Music & HMV had a contest to see Pearl Jam in Phoenix. There were Pearl Jam Yield sign banners, posters, stickers, an interview CD, HMV / Yield worker tags etc..  The team that worked on advertising & promoting Yield, did a hell of a job.






  • TJ25487
    TJ25487 Posts: 1,501
    demetrios said:
    An incredible album. My local HMV record had a few cool promo items for it's release. Man, do I miss those days. Much Music & HMV had a contest to see Pearl Jam in Phoenix. There were Pearl Jam Yield sign banners, posters, stickers, an interview CD, HMV / Yield worker tags etc..  The team that worked on advertising & promoting Yield, did a hell of a job.






    I still have a Yield sign triangle metal key chain! 
  • Guy Dudebro
    Guy Dudebro Posts: 1,483

  • OfThePearl
    OfThePearl Posts: 965
    TJ25487 said:
    demetrios said:
    An incredible album. My local HMV record had a few cool promo items for it's release. Man, do I miss those days. Much Music & HMV had a contest to see Pearl Jam in Phoenix. There were Pearl Jam Yield sign banners, posters, stickers, an interview CD, HMV / Yield worker tags etc..  The team that worked on advertising & promoting Yield, did a hell of a job.






    I still have a Yield sign triangle metal key chain! 
    Me too!
    Luckily I had 2, because I left one on the rental car key ring while traveling to PJ shows. I realized it before I boarded my plane home, and called the rental counter. It never turned up despite many communications.
    I hope someone enjoyed it as much as I did!
    The remaining one doesn't leave home.
    If I had a spare, I would use it.
  • JT167846
    JT167846 Posts: 996
    Anyone remember the CD packaging having a distinctive smell?

    I know it sounds weird and trust me shoving my nose into album booklets isn't the first thing I do when I give new albums a spin but...yeah it smelled different. 
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  • Sirens4
    Sirens4 Posts: 622
    JT167846 said:
    Anyone remember the CD packaging having a distinctive smell?

    I know it sounds weird and trust me shoving my nose into album booklets isn't the first thing I do when I give new albums a spin but...yeah it smelled different. 
    Yes i do, and i bought another copy a couple years ago and it didn’t have the 1998 smell 
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  • May 30th
    May 30th Posts: 1,900
    Still remember buying this cd at Kingsway Garden Mall in Edmonton when I was thirteen years old. Tracks 1-3 are the best!!!! Loved the packaging so much as well back then. 

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