Remember the day you picked up...

JimBerkell

washedinblack91 wrote:

yeah, it's not fair, i never got a chance to stay up at midnight waiting for an album. the last time i waited at midnight for something to come out at a store was the last harry potter book. i really hope pearl jam dont release their album on the internet.

and mainly i order my pj stuff through 10c now(like avacado)... so that changes things too.

iamica

I got into Pearl Jam around the time Yield came out, so I bought the first 5 CDs at a used music store. Don't really remember buying any particular album except Avocado...walked into Target the day it came out, hadn't seen the cover art yet so I wasn't sure what to look for...finally saw an avocado with blue background, stared at it for like 5 minutes going "WTF...an avocado?"
Took it home and listened to it on the computer...I still remember the first time I heard Parachutes...I absolutely stopped everything I was doing and just stared out the window in awe (it was a beautiful day in May, by the way).

hopethatuchoke

washedinblack91 wrote:

yeah, it's not fair, i never got a chance to stay up at midnight waiting for an album. the last time i waited at midnight for something to come out at a store was the last harry potter book. i really hope pearl jam dont release their album on the internet.

You really are missing out. It was like Christmas. Very very exciting getting it to your car and listening for the first time. I remember a K-Mart near me used to put the Tuesday releases out late Monday night so I would stalk their electronics department at like 9:15 on Monday nights.

Bulldog88

I remember when I bought Ten (on cassette).... I was 12 and had to sneak to the store to buy it b\c my mom thought all 'rock' music was of the devil..haha. I had to hide the damn thing from her (along with the rest of my music collection) for 4 years. I listened to Ten evey night with my headphones after she went to bed. For me it was like opening my eyes in a whole other world, I was totally immersed in the experience.

mvluckymike

I purchased 10 through columbia house.

U R A Crazy Breed

I remember when Ten came out i was deep into Hip-Hop back then but still had love for most music forms (I was born and raised on Led Zeppelin) so i had this tape (ten) that said "not for sale" & "for sony execs only" or something like that...but i played the shit out of it and loved it but didn't stay up to date with the band and several albums later i was in a record store and i came to the PJ section and saw that they had 3 more albums out that i didn't own!! (i had heard some of the songs on the radio but i wasn't really familiar with most of them)

so i take home VS,no code & Vitalogy all at once!! well that was the beginning of my love affair and i never missed a release day after that!!

I just can't believe my stupid ass didn't go to a live concert till 2004!! All the fucking awesome shows i missed!! well live and learn.I will tell you one thing, i haven't missed them once since then and this summer was the first time i went out of state for a few shows (MSG!!..I'm from Boston) and if we don't go into a depression before the next tour i plan on going to even more shows!!

props to the creator of this thread for his love of Binaural..you have great taste in music (Binaural is fucking awesome and it gets shit on by a lot of people who claim to be fans.)

hopethatuchoke

Crazy Breed wrote:

props to the creator of this thread for his love of Binaural..you have great taste in music (Binaural is fucking awesome and it gets shit on by a lot of people who claim to be fans.)

So 20 shows, 100+ posters, countless bootlegs and an undying love for the band since 1992 mean nothing since I dislike Binaural? I'm just claiming to be a fan? Nah. I know good music when I hear it. I don't hear very much of it on there.

norm

couldn't tell ya when/where i purchased ten but every release since was on the day of release...i do miss the old days where we had to wait for the release day to hear a new album.....:)

on a side note, this morning on sirius they played evenflow and blood sugar sex magic back to back....for the summer of '92 these were the only two albums i listened to

JimBerkell

Crazy Breed wrote:

props to the creator of this thread for his love of Binaural..you have great taste in music (Binaural is fucking awesome and it gets shit on by a lot of people who claim to be fans.)

Thanks! You know, I've been seeing a lot more Binaural love around here lately... Maybe it's starting to catch on how amazing the album is!

U R A Crazy Breed

hopethatuchoke wrote:

So 20 shows, 100+ posters, countless bootlegs and an undying love for the band since 1992 mean nothing since I dislike Binaural? I'm just claiming to be a fan? Nah. I know good music when I hear it. I don't hear very much of it on there.

yeah.....if you dislike Binaural you suck!!





















































just fucking with you!:D:D:D

i just can't comprehend a PJ fan not liking such an awesome LP!!


maybe someday when your old and grey,out on your porch with your grandchildren...it will hit you like a brick...an epiphany!! you will realize how wrong you were!

Steve Dunne

1991 - Ten - ex-gf gave it to me during college finals week
1993 - Vs. - Strawberry's (CT)
1994 - Vitalogy - xmas present for myself
1996 - No Code - don't remember
1998 - Yield - Tampa (FL) - first played it at Gold's Gym in North Tampa
1998 - LOTL - Syracuse NY
2000 - Binaural - Syracuse NY
2000/01 - bought Mansfield 8/30/00 show in Rochester NH Walmart
2003 - Riot Act - Warwick (RI)
2006 - Pearl Jam - StopnShop (CT)

pearljam132112

the first time i put in Yeild and hear Brain of J.

what an amazing effect.
i was having such a bad weekend, and i felt this ultimate wave to relief and reassurance that i almost cried.

smile05

Vitalogy first day it was released.

My auntie (RIP) bought it for me while i was at work, knew she had so i never peedled so fast to get home. Heard a ton of reviews that Corduroy would just be a true PJ classic, just couldnt believe how fuckin unreal that song sounded and still done 14 years later. Oh yeah Last Exit melted me also.

JimBerkell

pearljam132112 wrote:

the first time i put in Yeild and hear Brain of J.

what an amazing effect.
i was having such a bad weekend, and i felt this ultimate wave to relief and reassurance that i almost cried.

Once they played the Do the Evolution video... i felt the same way... that video is still my favorite music video...

rrivers

hopethatuchoke wrote:

I miss those days. We have albums on the internet weeks early and the days of lining up at midnight are long gone.

I agree.

fractus

mvluckymike wrote:

I purchased 10 through columbia house.

Columbia house, haha. Wow, are they even still around. I was a little shit though. Got my 10 cds free and never lived up to buying the rest. bad I know

CitizenRick

StrangestTribe27 wrote:

It was the week that the Greatest Hits cd came out. My friend was having a get together and when another friend invited me he decided that wasn't cool and gave him shit for it. He proceeded to tell me that I could come, but i knew it was out of guilt. So i passed and was going to go to the movies instead by myself. I got to the street where I could either take the right to the movies or take the other right to the mall. I chose the mall. I am well known for buying cds of bands I don't know. I like the excitement of not knowing what they are going to be like. Well, I bought Rearviewmirror. That cd changed my life forever. Everything that I had been going through in my life (won't get into it for the sake of time) was answered right there. I'm not a religious person, but I found my religion that day. I will say one thing. When my mom left out of the blue one day and moved to North Carolina, I listened to Rearviewmirror for a week straight on repeat so that I would remember why I was so upset and would not forget why. Everytime I hear that song now I am remembered about what it is like to try to run from something that is so prevalent in your life. I would not trade that emotion for anything. I still listen to it daily, and when I scrounge up enough money to get a tattoo I plan on getting a Rearviewmirror with the stickman inside it to signify how i felt during that time and who it was who helped me keep my head up high.

This is the epitomy of the power of music...and especially the power of Pearl Jam!

When a song/album hits you like a ton of bricks...and changes your life forever!

I bought every album... starting with Vs... at a midnight release at the same Tower Records in Campbell CA.

Self titled will be the last one because Tower Records has since become a Petco.

I will miss my ritual.

JimBerkell

CitizenRick wrote:

This is the epitomy of the power of music...and especially the power of Pearl Jam!

When a song/album hits you like a ton of bricks...and changes your life forever!

I bought every album... starting with Vs... at a midnight release at the same Tower Records in Campbell CA.

Self titled will be the last one because Tower Records has since become a Petco.

I will miss my ritual.

You know... I've never waited at midnight for a cd... only dvds... i guess it has a lot to do with this modern era of music and such... really is a sad thing.

Left Porch

I don't recall how I got it, but I remember coming home from school everyday for easily a month and putting on Yield and totally rocking out to it. Still my favorite album, good times.

CitizenRick

JimBerkell wrote:

You know... I've never waited at midnight for a cd... only dvds... i guess it has a lot to do with this modern era of music and such... really is a sad thing.

Yeah...I was always behind the times when it came to getting music "leaks" early on the internet.

I loved PJ releases and going at midnight and waiting in a line (every release had a line around the building) and talking music with other people.

This last album though...I did listen to the AOL free listen a few days before the Avocado release.

It was kind of sad to not get the first listen in my truck. Now I get nothing.