Mad Season - Above

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  • Them-Bones
    Them-Bones Posts: 518
    Great album, Wake Up is one of the only songs that was over 6 minutes and I didn't even notice, which is a good thing
    "If my thoughts, dreams, could be seen, they'd probably put my head, in a guillotine, but it's alright ma, it's life and life only."
  • shaunmcm
    shaunmcm Posts: 20
    my favorite album from the nineties. still play it alot too. looking at a fully signed and legit copy of the vinyl on my wall :)
  • slightofjeff
    slightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    River of Deceit might be the best guitar riff Mike ever wrote.

    And I don't say that lightly.
    everybody wants the most they can possibly get
    for the least they could possibly do
  • Duder5k
    Duder5k Posts: 278
    Watching the Moore show right now. Favorite tunes would be Lifeless Dead and I Don't Know Anything. Good stuff.
  • Gremmie95
    Gremmie95 Posts: 749
    Great album. Sums up the mood in Seattle at the time it was written
  • genie
    genie Posts: 2,222
    pc_loadletter wrote:
    its alright. nothing special.

    then do tell me what you think is special. one of the reasons why i've got that album is because it was special
  • Gossard_Is_God
    Gossard_Is_God Posts: 1,031
    lance_gray wrote:
    One of my favorite, all-time albums!

    same
    Pearl Jam - London Astoria 20/4/06....One hell of a night :)

    Reading 2006 - WOOOOW!!!!!

    Paris 2006 - Fucking amazing

    Wembley 2007 :D
  • MattCameronKicksButt
    MattCameronKicksButt Posts: 4,317
    As depressing as the album is, it's comfort music to me. It reminds me of when I was a teenager.
  • lance_gray
    lance_gray Posts: 166
    MattCameronKicksButt wrote:
    As depressing as the album is, it's comfort music to me. It reminds me of when I was a teenager.

    It's also a great stoner album! Believe me, me and my friends wore that CD out back in the day.
    Dallas '98 - Dallas '00 - OKC '03 - Dallas '03

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  • Pearl Street Brewery
    Pearl Street Brewery Posts: 113
    One of my favorites, great camping album.

    I love Mike's guitar work, I wish he had this kind of artistic freedom in PJ, with long solos, rich textures....What an amazing album.
    You can hear Mike tear it apart in November Hotel! I love River of Decept, Wake Up, Long gone day...amazing shit.

    I love the live video concert as well...one of my fave concert videos...
  • Staffan
    Staffan Posts: 606
    I've had this sitting in my CD shelf for a long time now, haven't really listened to it that much, but now I'll have to give it a go in the car....or do I have to sit with headphones in a nice chair ? what do you guys think....

    peace
    Everyday................is Pearl Jam Day.

    Except Sundays, that's Ed day.

    The mind is like a parachute, it doesn't work unless it's open. FZ

  • pc_loadletter
    pc_loadletter Posts: 164
    genie wrote:
    then do tell me what you think is special. one of the reasons why i've got that album is because it was special

    why is it special? because layne is dead? the cd as a whole is just bland. there are some great songs, but most of them are just fillers. the term "special" is very subjective, so don't worry if i don't consider Above anything more than a substandard collaboration.
  • Jackieboy
    Jackieboy Posts: 78
    pc_loadletter wrote:
    why is it special? because layne is dead? the cd as a whole is just bland. there are some great songs, but most of them are just fillers. the term "special" is very subjective, so don't worry if i don't consider Above anything more than a substandard collaboration.

    As a AIC and Pearl Jam-fan I find it veeeery special to hear Mike team up with Layne. Lanegan is also cool which makes the whole thing even more special. Another thing, not to glorify, is that these guys all had addictions.

    "Isn't it so strange how far away we all are now?
    Am I the only one who remembers that summer?
    Oh, I remember, everyday, each time, this place was saved
    The music that we made
    The wind has carried all of that away"

    I think that quote from Long gone day pretty much sums up their collaboration. It's really cool.
  • pc_loadletter
    pc_loadletter Posts: 164
    Jackieboy wrote:
    As a AIC and Pearl Jam-fan I find it veeeery special to hear Mike team up with Layne. Lanegan is also cool which makes the whole thing even more special. Another thing, not to glorify, is that these guys all had addictions.

    "Isn't it so strange how far away we all are now?
    Am I the only one who remembers that summer?
    Oh, I remember, everyday, each time, this place was saved
    The music that we made
    The wind has carried all of that away"

    I think that quote from Long gone day pretty much sums up their collaboration. It's really cool.

    i can see where you're coming from. but to play devils advocate, they had addictions before and after mad season (mike and layne.. not sure about the other two). i can see it being special if they coped with their addictions by making Above but they didnt. the addictions continued and one of them is now dead. don't get me wrong i like Above, but its not that great.
  • Jackieboy
    Jackieboy Posts: 78
    pc_loadletter wrote:
    i can see where you're coming from. but to play devils advocate, they had addictions before and after mad season (mike and layne.. not sure about the other two). i can see it being special if they coped with their addictions by making Above but they didnt. the addictions continued and one of them is now dead. don't get me wrong i like Above, but its not that great.

    The bassist died from a heroin overdose in 2000 or something like that. Um, well, the way I see it, it was like junkies getting together, taking a breath of fresh air, trying to individualise themselves a bit from their main bands.
  • Niko80
    Niko80 Posts: 1,613
    Jackieboy wrote:
    The bassist died from a heroin overdose in 2000 or something like that. Um, well, the way I see it, it was like junkies getting together, taking a breath of fresh air, trying to individualise themselves a bit from their main bands.

    So two of the band members died in 2000, both from an overdose?

    Or do you mean Layne?

    Above is great
    I will swallow poison
  • pjl44
    pjl44 Posts: 10,594
    Niko80 wrote:
    So two of the band members died in 2000, both from an overdose?

    Or do you mean Layne?

    Above is great

    John Baker Saunders played bass and died of an overdose in 1999.
  • MattCameronKicksButt
    MattCameronKicksButt Posts: 4,317
    pjl44 wrote:
    John Baker Saunders played bass and died of an overdose in 1999.

    I didn't know that! :(
  • Niko80
    Niko80 Posts: 1,613
    MattCameronKicksButt wrote:
    I didn't know that! :(

    News to me too!
    Thx
    I will swallow poison
  • genie
    genie Posts: 2,222
    pc_loadletter wrote:
    why is it special? because layne is dead? the cd as a whole is just bland. there are some great songs, but most of them are just fillers. the term "special" is very subjective, so don't worry if i don't consider Above anything more than a substandard collaboration.

    i think of all the things i hate on here, i hate when people make stupid assumptions the most.

    nope it's not special because Layne is dead, neither because bassist is dead too. I like AIC but i'm not obsessed with them, i do not have their album because i wanted to hear Laynes last lyrics he sang. I do not think it's special because majority of them were junkies trying to escape. no

    I like this album because of it's music first, secondly their sound was original, and thirdly i liked it because at the time of making few songs for this album they made these songs only to soothe their mind, these few songs they've written for themselves, they were not intending to sell them in the beginning.

    that's why i think this album is absolutely amazing. how many bands out there do you know who can make slow and quiet music without it sounding shit and bland and boring?

    and yes, as someone said it's a great stoner album. this album i will hold dear to my heart

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