Favorite PJ album cover

wnh1977wnh1977 Iowa Posts: 639
edited March 2009 in The Porch
Of the 8 studio albums, what one has your favorite album cover?

I'll have to vote for YIELD
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2000: 8/15, 8/18, 10/9, 10/11, 10/12
2003: 6/18, 6/21, 6/22
2005: 9/9, 9/28
2006: 5/16, 5/17, 6/26, 6/27
2007: 8/5
2009: 8/23, 8/24
2010: 5/3, 5/4, 5/21
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2013: 7/19, 11/16
2014: 10/3, 10/9, 10/12, 10/17
2016: 4/16, 8/20, 8/22
2018: 8/18, 8/20, 9/2
2022: 9/18
2023: 8/31, 9/2, 9/5
2024: 5/18, 6/29
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  • demetriosdemetrios Posts: 93,797
    Your avatar! 8-)
  • Thorns2010Thorns2010 Posts: 2,201
    wnh1977 wrote:
    Of the 8 studio albums, what one has your favorite album cover?

    I'll have to vote for YIELD

    Then was is No Code your avatar??

    Anyway....hmm....I think I 'm going to go with Binaural.
  • greenmannygreenmanny Posts: 766
    I like the vintage look of Vitalogy.
  • CommyCommy Posts: 4,984
    riot act or vs.
  • Jeremys SpokenJeremys Spoken Posts: 7,578
    Binaural. I love the Cosmos.
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  • smg97791smg97791 Posts: 151
    take a guess
  • goldrushgoldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,612
    I'd say either Yield (because I still love hunting for all the Yield signs) or No Code (because the vinyl looks so cool when the panels are opened up)
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  • Vedder_Girl77Vedder_Girl77 Posts: 4,335
    I like the Binaural cover the best!!
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  • Vitalogy.

    The whole album's artwork is incredible and so unique :mrgreen:
    Been to this many PJ shows: Reading 2006 London 2007 Manchester & London 2009 Dublin, Belfast, London, Nijmegen & Berlin 2010 Manchester 1 & Manchester 2 2012...

    ... and I still think Drive-By Truckers are better.
  • lowenanlowenan Posts: 79
    I love the concepts of Vitalogy and No Code, the stylishness of the Yield cover and concept, the cool Riot Act cover. Ten, Vs, and Pearl Jam don't do much for me, neither as covers nor concepts. As concept, the Binaural cover+booklet falls behind Vitalogy and No Code, but if you simply look at the covers, I've always loved the Binaural one.
  • ledveddermanledvedderman Posts: 7,761
    Binaural with Yield coming in at a close second...
  • arqarq Posts: 8,049
    I can't decide between yield and binaural :ugeek:
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  • bee_boybee_boy Posts: 384
    Yield and Binaural... the whole mysterious aura of both covers gives me goosebumps, specially while listening to their music :)
  • mfc2006mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,484
    No Code.
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  • PolPol Posts: 60
    Vitalogy - great concept. Love that old book/vintage feel to it.
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  • bigeye21bigeye21 Posts: 981
    Yield
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  • Pol wrote:
    Vitalogy - great concept. Love that old book/vintage feel to it.
    You mean just like the actual Vitalogy itself? ;)
    Been to this many PJ shows: Reading 2006 London 2007 Manchester & London 2009 Dublin, Belfast, London, Nijmegen & Berlin 2010 Manchester 1 & Manchester 2 2012...

    ... and I still think Drive-By Truckers are better.
  • PolPol Posts: 60
    Pol wrote:
    Vitalogy - great concept. Love that old book/vintage feel to it.
    You mean just like the actual Vitalogy itself? ;)

    Precisely! It's rather an interesting book and what PJ took from it and implemented into "Vitalogy" I thought was really great. And also old books rock! You can't beat the smell they have. That my friends is the smell of knowledge! :D
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  • CROJAM95CROJAM95 Posts: 10,023
    in this order

    Vitalogy
    Binaural
    Yield
    No Code
    RIOT ACT
    VS
    AVOCADO
    TEN

    They are all pretty cool
  • mrshock13mrshock13 Posts: 472
    The coolest one to look at probably has to be either Yield or Binaural, though I really like the riot act figures, those are pretty cool. The most nostalgic, though, has to be the Vs. cover, for me at least. This was the first PJ album I got. My cousin, also a Pearl Jam fan, gave it to me for Christmas when I was 12. I was like "What is this?!?! What's the sheep/goat/thing on the front." Then, on the 5 hour drive from Chicago back to Cleveland after Christmas, I listened to the album for about 4 of those hours. That album pretty much started my respect and love of the band.
  • mickeyratmickeyrat Posts: 41,126
    Whatever the new one's going to be called. Just cuz it's NEW!!!!!!!!
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  • FenwayFaithfulFenwayFaithful Posts: 8,626
    I love it that the kid who started this thread has the No Code avatar, but he chooses Yield. Of my own heart on this one, however. I take Yield every day of the week.

    I can't keep gushing about Yield, but here's more: The open road has limitless possibilities. To be young and to hear this record really opens one's mind to the possibilities out there. I've been thinking a lot lately about the similarities between Yield and Into The Wild. Think about it and draw your own conclusions. Every time i see that cover, I think of "Sometimes you see a strange spot in the sky, a human being that was Given To Fly". I also think of the part in Forrest Gump when Jenny is dying and Forrest is telling her about how beautiful the sky was when he was running, not knowing where Heaven ends and the Earth began. She's like, "I wish I could have been there with you." And he goes, "You were." Gets me every time.

    That cover is way better than those stupid skeletons on Riot Act or an f'n Avocado. The problem is, with the advent of CD's, cover artwork has fallen off. I mean, come on, look at the cover art of the Stone's '70s catalogue.

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  • youngsteryoungster Boston Posts: 6,576
    I'd have to say Binaural. I learned so much more about Astronomy by reading the inserts. At first I thought the front cover was an eye of some sort. Gotta appreciate that.
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