How has the Backspacer album changed your life?

buze81123
buze81123 Posts: 15
edited February 2012 in Words and Music...Communication
I am curious. Any thoughts? Because it all seems new to me. I can certainly relate in terms of listening to other rock albums and watching movies.
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  • broloco
    broloco Posts: 1,237
    I now read Tom Tomorrows cartoon in the Village Voice. I never have beforehand. 8-)
  • buze81123
    buze81123 Posts: 15
    This might seem off topic, but I actually feel like these days are like the era of the second Monkey Wrench Radio broadcast where they just took over the national airwaves for something like 2 (maybe more?) hours. I think that was in '98 during yield? Where the band shared ideas and kinds of music that they enjoy at the moment. I got a lot of positivity from that.

    On topic, I thought that releasing Backspacer under their own management was interesting. Something that they I hope they can share more of their interests on. Running business and still maintaining "value/quality" and on budget and on time is something I think a lot of people misunderstand. Because I just think that everybody wants what their working on to be desired at some level. They just don't know what is available.

    I actually have not read much Tom Tomorrow, but I liked how they got him on the last Ten Club Newsletter.
  • Nothingman54
    Nothingman54 Posts: 2,251
    The backspacer album made in want to kill myself and so did the album before that. Think they both sucked.
    I'll be back
  • eknuckles
    eknuckles Posts: 10
    Well I think the main answer for me is that it made me into a Pearl Jam fan. I had never heard a single Pearl Jam album until I heard Just Breathe and The Fixer on the radio and I decided to buy the album just to check out seeing as they had two good albums and target offered the DLC for them on Rockband. I thought it was an amazing album because of the flow of it all. it's super pumped in the beginning and then slows down to the end.

    So yeah, made me a PJ fan and here I am. I also gotta mention though that it helped me with so much at the time that I bought the album. I was going through girl troubles and so I was always pretty down and such and a friend of mine would call me up a lot to hang out with me and cheer me up. After a while, every time I heard Gonna See My Friend I thought of my friend trying to help me with my troubles. So all in all the album was one that she and I can really relate to now and it turned out to be a kind of "our" album seeing as how we both liked it and would listen to it so much while we hung out and kind of budded a romance between us and now we're together and loving PJ together...

    Anyhow, story of my life and I like it a lot!
  • pandora
    pandora Posts: 21,855
    edited February 2011
    The past 20 years have been a gas!

    Change my life? more like reinforce my life and my belief in the human connection.

    The purpose of our lives is to be happy. Pearl Jam makes me very happy, continuingly. :D
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  • the wolf
    the wolf Posts: 7,027
    eknuckles wrote:
    Well I think the main answer for me is that it made me into a Pearl Jam fan. I had never heard a single Pearl Jam album until I heard Just Breathe and The Fixer on the radio and I decided to buy the album just to check out seeing as they had two good albums and target offered the DLC for them on Rockband. I thought it was an amazing album because of the flow of it all. it's super pumped in the beginning and then slows down to the end.

    So yeah, made me a PJ fan and here I am. I also gotta mention though that it helped me with so much at the time that I bought the album. I was going through girl troubles and so I was always pretty down and such and a friend of mine would call me up a lot to hang out with me and cheer me up. After a while, every time I heard Gonna See My Friend I thought of my friend trying to help me with my troubles. So all in all the album was one that she and I can really relate to now and it turned out to be a kind of "our" album seeing as how we both liked it and would listen to it so much while we hung out and kind of budded a romance between us and now we're together and loving PJ together...

    Anyhow, story of my life and I like it a lot!

    Awesome. I love this.
    Welcome and enjoy the ride.
    Peace, Love.

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    to not question your government is unpatriotic."
    -- Sen. Chuck Hagel
  • the wolf
    the wolf Posts: 7,027
    pandora wrote:
    The past 20 years have been a gas!

    Change my life? more like reinforce my life and my belief in the human connection.

    The purpose of our lives is to be happy. Peal Jam makes me very happy, continuingly. :D

    I have to agree with Pandi. It came out in a very "shifty" time in my life.
    So I don't know that it changed my life in any way,..
    To me Backspacer is more of an affirmation,.. That everything will be,.. Okay?
    Peace, Love.

    "To question your government is not unpatriotic --
    to not question your government is unpatriotic."
    -- Sen. Chuck Hagel
  • pandora
    pandora Posts: 21,855
    the wolf wrote:
    pandora wrote:
    The past 20 years have been a gas!

    Change my life? more like reinforce my life and my belief in the human connection.

    The purpose of our lives is to be happy. Peal Jam makes me very happy, continuingly. :D

    I have to agree with Pandi. It came out in a very "shifty" time in my life.
    So I don't know that it changed my life in any way,..
    To me Backspacer is more of an affirmation,.. That everything will be,.. Okay?
    :wave: "it's ok in here...Bob" what commercial was that anyways...
    some fish talking to some guy...????
    my brain ain't what it used to be

    anywho everything is ok with PJ :D

    Hope life is treating you well....
  • BinauralJam
    BinauralJam Posts: 14,158
    There's music out there that has changed my life, but Backspacer aint on the list.
  • mysticweed
    mysticweed Posts: 3,710
    BinauralJam wrote:
    There's music out there that has changed my life, but Backspacer aint on the list.


    same here
    of all the pj music
    and
    all of the profound effects
    that it has had on me many many times

    backspacer is not even in the same league with the first eight

    and not on the same planet with ten(redux), vs, and binaural (which has recently become my #3 pj album)
    fuck 'em if they can't take a joke

    "what a long, strange trip it's been"
  • sawyerjam
    sawyerjam Posts: 140
    It made me realize Brendan O'Brien can produce a bad Pearl Jam record. The production is awful. This is the same guy who produced Vs-Yield right?
  • the wolf
    the wolf Posts: 7,027
    chickweed wrote:
    BinauralJam wrote:
    There's music out there that has changed my life, but Backspacer aint on the list.


    same here
    of all the pj music
    and
    all of the profound effects
    that it has had on me many many times

    backspacer is not even in the same league with the first eight

    and not on the same planet with ten(redux), vs, and binaural (which has recently become my #3 pj album)

    That's what makes music such an amazing art form yeah?
    Different feelings at different times from different people all from the same record.

    I was supposed to put my first "solo" record out last summer.
    I balked, and thank God. I shutter to think about the album that would have been released at the time.
    The same 11 songs will be out this year, and its an entirely different album.

    Different headspace, different vibes.

    To me,.. that's the beauty of music.
    Peace, Love.

    "To question your government is not unpatriotic --
    to not question your government is unpatriotic."
    -- Sen. Chuck Hagel
  • Gerald Richey
    Gerald Richey Posts: 56
    It was very special to me because I got to take my ten year old daughter to Key arena show her first concertwas pearl jam and so was mine back in the early 90's
    no more crowbars to my head
  • Abe Froman
    Abe Froman Posts: 5,381
    edited March 2011
    Nothingman54 wrote:
    The backspacer album made in want to kill myself and so did the album before that. Think they both sucked.

    Why are you on here then?
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  • Got a hard hard head
    Got a hard hard head Posts: 638
    I used to be a big U2 fan. Save the odd stumble (in my opinion) of October and Zooropa (I never understood that album) each and every album was the soundtrack to my life.

    Then came "All That You Can't Leave Behind". And it just wasn't there for me anymore. That certain something that made the quintessential U2 was gone. And it was less evident on the next album.

    The same happened to me with Radiohead when they reached Hail To The Thief.

    And then there was Backspacer and now I'm left wondering what's coming next for Pearl Jam. My emotive reaction on listening this album was nowhere near the excitement I felt about it pre-release.

    I can't remember the last time I listened to it. I find myself instead reaching for Vitalogy or Ten or Yield or Riot Act or...anything. I'm a little apprehensive now and so yes, in one sense, Backspacer has changed my life.
    It's gonna be a glorious day...
  • Gibson72
    Gibson72 Posts: 1,245
    It changed my life as I became $12 poorer for the better.
    Gibson1972
  • ShimmyMommy
    ShimmyMommy Posts: 7,505
    It saved my husband
    Lots of love, light and hugs to you all!
  • FrankieG
    FrankieG Abingdon MD Posts: 9,100
    The Backspacer album had a good run...
    All of the songs have sunken vey low on my Favorite Songs list...

    It has made me dislike the newer PJ more.
    It has made some friends like PJ more (cause it's more "pop"..)

    Just Breathe has been played 6 times, in the last 6 concerts I have been too. It's wayy worse than playing Even Flow everynight. :lol: Atleast McCready can melt my face off 8-)
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  • JP33
    JP33 Posts: 1,348
    Unthought Known has really had an impact on my mentality of society and that what we are living in is such a game
  • unlost dogs
    unlost dogs Greater Boston Posts: 12,553
    I love "Unthought Known" but I'm not sure it has changed my life.

    I do, however, have a new empathy for drummers floating in space.
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