Yield

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  • ER182263
    ER182263 Posts: 67
    Great album!

    Here's a good interview with the band about Yield and other things.

    http://www.freewebs.com/pearljamstudy/9 ... vemars.htm

    Yield, the new one, is as good as anything the band has ever done. In certain ways -- the spaciousness of its sound, the multiplicity of perspectives that come from Jeff and Stone making strong writing contributions as lyricists as well as riff inventors, the number of memorable tracks ("Do the Evolution," "Wish List," "Pilate," "Brain of J," "Given to Fly," "Low Light") -- you could argue that it is the band's very best. David Marsh

    Daniel Quinn (author of the book Ishmael):

    Question - New interest in ISHMAEL, as I'm sure you know, has been spawned by the band Pearl Jam in the last year. Do you have any thoughts about their use of the book as inspiration for the production of their album YIELD and more specifically the song "Do the Evolution"? Just wondering if you'd heard it and what you thought.
    ...and the response:
    YIELD sits on my desktop and I often give it a listen (in fact, writing this answer gave me an excuse to play it again). A teacher once told me that even though he wasn’t teaching ISHMAEL or the material in ISHMAEL, the book had changed the WAY he teaches. This pleased me more than if he’d said he was teaching my ideas. Another went to a lot of trouble to try to capture all the ideas in my books in a ninety-minute “motivational” speech. I told him he shouldn’t just try to capture my ideas in his words, he had to go BEYOND my ideas to find his OWN ideas, his OWN way of motivating people. This is what Eddie Vedder has done. He hasn’t tried to express my ideas in his songs. Changed by reading my work, he’s written songs he wouldn’t have written two years ago—but his own songs, not any songs I would ever write (if I were a song-writer). Inspiration is very different from recapitulation. The credits of he movie INSTINCT say it was “inspired” by ISHMAEL, but it makes no effort to recapitulate ISHMAEL. Of the songs in YIELD, “Do the Evolution” comes closest to being an expression of my ideas, but I suspect Vedder would find many other, more subtle connections. Two or three writers have changed my life forever in works I haven’t read for decades. I’m certainly not writing anything they would write---but the “inspiration” they gave me never goes away.
  • TooMuchBlood
    TooMuchBlood Posts: 312
    I can't believe there's no "Yield" night. Eleven years ago at midnight I picked up the CD at Penn State. It was my first time in line for a midnight sale. I had really found Pearl Jam six months before their fifth record came out despite having all their discs. It still might be my favorite. From about 2004 to 2007, I know it was. What a great record.
  • Dog Loyal
    Dog Loyal Posts: 336
    TooMuchBlood wrote:
    I can't believe there's no "Yield" night. Eleven years ago at midnight I picked up the CD at Penn State. It was my first time in line for a midnight sale. I had really found Pearl Jam six months before their fifth record came out despite having all their discs. It still might be my favorite. From about 2004 to 2007, I know it was. What a great record.
    Yield night is tonight at 10 pm. Here.

    Edited to add, I meant to say 10 PM EST.
    The kids of today should defend themselves against the Seventies Nineties.
  • Pearl Sam
    Pearl Sam Posts: 88
    What a great, great record. I think I am objective when I say that Yield is one of the best kept secrets in Rock history. It's undoutedly affected me more than any other album I've experienced. I could argue that Yield is of better taste than anything any band still active today has produced, with the exception of some works by WIlco, Radiohead and My Morning Jacket. And, that's not to say that Yield is lesser than those, but I could accept arguments on those fronts.

    This album has been the subject of much discussion. What is being Yielded to? Ed suggests "nature" on SVT. However, I believe it can also be interpreted as Yielding to oneself. That is, Yielding for the purpose of freedom, and spontaneity. I believe getting to know oneself, nature and spontaneity are at least moderately intertwined.

    Who is doing the Yielding? Man, I believe.

    What role does love play in the record? It's alive in every song - every one of them. Both romantic and plutonic love is referred to in Yield.

    How many double meanings within the songs? Not sure here, and it depends on the listener. But, there are undoubtedly several most would agree on. Ed is a master of double meanings. E.g. the end of Faithfull.
  • YieldInHiding
    YieldInHiding Posts: 1,841
    TooMuchBlood wrote:
    I can't believe there's no "Yield" night. Eleven years ago at midnight I picked up the CD at Penn State. It was my first time in line for a midnight sale. I had really found Pearl Jam six months before their fifth record came out despite having all their discs. It still might be my favorite. From about 2004 to 2007, I know it was. What a great record.

    Scroll down a bit or go to the next page. We made an announcement and everything.
    No longer overwhelmed it seems so simple now.
  • Back_Pedal
    Back_Pedal Posts: 1,171
    Wow, 11 years today? I only discovered it a few months ago...
    Thanks EPOTTSIII!
    "Vinyl or not, you will need to pay someone to take RA of your hands" - Smile05
    424, xxx
  • FirstExit
    FirstExit Los Angeles Posts: 973
    Yield. Just saying.
  • letsongsprotest
    letsongsprotest Novi, MI Posts: 552
    Yield. Oh how I love thee.
    There's a trapdoor in the sun.
  • Gmoney
    Gmoney Posts: 1,618
    Hello, Yield. I know I've been listening to Backspacer and Riot Act a lot lately, but you're still my favorite child.
    Further back and forth a wave will break on me, today...
  • dcfaithful
    dcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    Low Light. Simply beautiful.
    7/2/06 - Denver, CO
    6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
    8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
    9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
    9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
    9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
  • PJammer4life
    PJammer4life Los Angeles Posts: 2,669
    All Those Yesterdays LA Night 4..Faithful LA night 3..Wishlist LA Night 4..In Hiding still hiding...
    Bridge Benefit 1994, San Francisco 1995, San Diego 1995 1 & 2, Missoula 1998, Los Angeles 2000, San Diego 2000, Eddie Vedder/Beck 2/26/2002, Santa Barbara 2003, Irvine 2003, San Diego 2003, Vancouver 2005, Gorge 2005, San Diego 2006, Los Angeles 2006 1 & 2, Santa Barbara 2006, Eddie Vedder 4/10/08, Eddie Vedder 4/12/08, Eddie Vedder 4/15/08, 7/12/2008, SF 8/28/09, LA 9/30/09, LA 10/1/09, LA 10/06/09, LA 10/07/09, San Diego 10/09/09, Eddie Vedder 7/6/2011, Eddie Vedder 7/8/2011, PJ20 9/3/2011, PJ20 9/4/2011, Vancouver 9/25/2011, San Diego 11/21/13, LA 11/24/13, Ohana 9/25/21, Ohana 9/26/21, Ohana 10/1/21, EV 2/17/22, LA Forum 5/6/22, LA Forum 5/7/22, EV 10/1/22, EV 9/30/23
  • dcfaithful
    dcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    PJammer4life wrote:
    All Those Yesterdays LA Night 4..Faithful LA night 3..Wishlist LA Night 4..In Hiding still hiding...

    Got In Hiding @ Chicago. Was awesome!
    7/2/06 - Denver, CO
    6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
    8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
    9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
    9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
    9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
  • YieldInHiding
    YieldInHiding Posts: 1,841
    Thanks for keeping this thread going folks! Looking forward to possibly hearing some more YIELD in KC in May!!
    No longer overwhelmed it seems so simple now.
  • Gmoney
    Gmoney Posts: 1,618
    How about another Yield night once spring has sprung (the best time to listen to Yield)
    Further back and forth a wave will break on me, today...
  • YieldInHiding
    YieldInHiding Posts: 1,841
    Gmoney wrote:
    How about another Yield night once spring has sprung (the best time to listen to Yield)

    Sure thing. I think this was the first year in a while that the YFC hasn't done a YIELD Night. Damn responsibilities!
    No longer overwhelmed it seems so simple now.
  • airblue1
    airblue1 Posts: 413
    I Yield to Posting on this thread!!!
    But man Yield is great, however the older I get it stays the same age!!!!
    Hail To the Victors
    I refer to those in front...
  • The Waiting Trophy Man
    The Waiting Trophy Man Niagara region, Ontario, Canada Posts: 12,158
    Can you fuckin believe that YIELD is almost 15 fuckin years old!? February 3rd!

    Been spinning it lots lately. Watched/listened to Single Video Theory for about a week straight earlier this month, too.

    Bought Yield on the day of release and it's still as powerful as it was then.
    Another habit says it's in love with you
    Another habit says its long overdue
    Another habit like an unwanted friend
    I'm so happy with my righteous self
  • 2-feign-reluctance
    2-feign-reluctance TigerTown, USA Posts: 23,462
    Such an amazing record! Midnight sale at our local when I was in college. By the I got to the checkout, had heard the entire thing on the store turntable.
    www.cluthelee.com
  • Riverrunner
    Riverrunner Posts: 2,419
    Will always be my favorite. And although it came out in February, I didn't buy it or listen to it until May. I'm sorry I lost those 3.5 months. :)
    The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way it treats its animals. Ghandi
  • fanch75
    fanch75 Posts: 3,734
    The Waiting Trophy Man wrote:
    Can you fuckin believe that YIELD is almost 15 fuckin years old!? February 3rd!

    Been spinning it lots lately. Watched/listened to Single Video Theory for about a week straight earlier this month, too.

    Bought Yield on the day of release and it's still as powerful as it was then.

    Fuckin' A, man.
    Do you remember Rock & Roll Radio?

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