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New Eddie Vedder Record and DVD Coming May 31

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  • aus_suzaus_suz Posts: 9,406
    pjjax wrote:
    Wow thats a perfect birthday present for me! Same day and all!

    Me too... Im having trouble finding it where I live tho.... :(
  • bump for NEXT MONTH
  • wolfamongwolveswolfamongwolves Posts: 2,414
    From the Irish Times - prematurely, the album of the week:

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    Eddie Veddar [sic :D ] - "Ukele [sic :lol: ] Songs" Universal ****
    When the news leaked out, a lot of people thought they were reading a headline from the Onion. Surely, the angsty lead singer of Pearl Jam couldn’t put out a whole album using just his voice and the Hawaiian four-string?

    Ukulele Songs is just that. The second big surprise is that it’s a musical triumph – a cheeky, audacious move from an unpredictable talent. This mix of originals and covers could be the surprise dinner-party hit of the year. After all, the ukulele, after years in the musical margins, is now achingly “on trend”.

    He opens with a cover of Pearl Jam’s own Can’t Keep , which works here as a short, sharp, shock introduction. What’s striking here – as in so many of the 16 songs – is how Vedder’s familiar vocal takes on a new, richer dimension when put against the most simple of musical arrangements. With all the songs under three minutes and many below two, there’s a judicious use of timing here (and, let’s face it, nobody wants ukulele noodling).

    The biggest surprise, given the limited instrumentation, is just how different he can make the songs sound. The stand-out track, Broken Heart , which features one of his most evocative vocal deliveries, is world’s apart from a song such as Light Today.

    There’s a new-found sweetness to his approach. He sings More Than You Know and Goodbye with the sort of caress we’ve never heard before. It’s a tribute to how quickly you get used to the sound that when a cello insinuates its way into Longing to Belong (the first single), you feel as if the sound has suddenly got all cluttered-up.

    At the tail-end of the album is a cover of The Everly Brothers’ Sleepless Nights (on which he is joined by Glen Hansard), before Cat Power crops up on Tonight You Belong To Me and beautifully judged Dream a Little Dream brings the magical mystery tour to an end. Buy it.
    93: Slane
    96: Cork, Dublin
    00: Dublin
    06: London, Dublin
    07: London, Copenhagen, Nijmegen
    09: Manchester, London
    10: Dublin, Belfast, London & Berlin
    11: San José
    12: Isle of Wight, Copenhagen, Ed in Manchester & London x2
  • morellomorello Auckland, New Zealand Posts: 6,217
    From the Irish Times - prematurely, the album of the week:

    1224297319503_2.jpg?ts=1305894980
    Eddie Veddar [sic :D ] - "Ukele [sic :lol: ] Songs" Universal ****
    When the news leaked out, a lot of people thought they were reading a headline from the Onion. Surely, the angsty lead singer of Pearl Jam couldn’t put out a whole album using just his voice and the Hawaiian four-string?

    Ukulele Songs is just that. The second big surprise is that it’s a musical triumph – a cheeky, audacious move from an unpredictable talent. This mix of originals and covers could be the surprise dinner-party hit of the year. After all, the ukulele, after years in the musical margins, is now achingly “on trend”.

    He opens with a cover of Pearl Jam’s own Can’t Keep , which works here as a short, sharp, shock introduction. What’s striking here – as in so many of the 16 songs – is how Vedder’s familiar vocal takes on a new, richer dimension when put against the most simple of musical arrangements. With all the songs under three minutes and many below two, there’s a judicious use of timing here (and, let’s face it, nobody wants ukulele noodling).

    The biggest surprise, given the limited instrumentation, is just how different he can make the songs sound. The stand-out track, Broken Heart , which features one of his most evocative vocal deliveries, is world’s apart from a song such as Light Today.

    There’s a new-found sweetness to his approach. He sings More Than You Know and Goodbye with the sort of caress we’ve never heard before. It’s a tribute to how quickly you get used to the sound that when a cello insinuates its way into Longing to Belong (the first single), you feel as if the sound has suddenly got all cluttered-up.

    At the tail-end of the album is a cover of The Everly Brothers’ Sleepless Nights (on which he is joined by Glen Hansard), before Cat Power crops up on Tonight You Belong To Me and beautifully judged Dream a Little Dream brings the magical mystery tour to an end. Buy it.

    YAY!! :D
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  • RedMosquito22RedMosquito22 Posts: 8,158
    That's a review!!
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  • Blu ray will be a Best Buy exclusive and will be available on the 31st. After a month 10c and amazon will be able to ship and sell it.Best Buy has it for 16.99 :D
  • demetriosdemetrios Posts: 96,950
    Blu ray will be a Best Buy exclusive and will be available on the 31st. After a month 10c and amazon will be able to ship and sell it.Best Buy has it for 16.99 :D

    Yep, and again, another USA Best Buy Exclusive release.

    It's just funny. We have many Best Buy stores here in Canada. We even a website . http://www.bestbuy.ca . And as alway's, it's "exclusive to the USA". The Vs/Vitalogy + T-shirt Box Set's were again, a USA exclusive release. Why?

    Please, whoever is running Pearl Jam goodies outside of the 10club store, stop doing exclusive stuff to only one country. Please! If you do, at least a company that would ship outside of it's own country.
  • demetrios wrote:
    Blu ray will be a Best Buy exclusive and will be available on the 31st. After a month 10c and amazon will be able to ship and sell it.Best Buy has it for 16.99 :D

    Yep, and again, another USA Best Buy Exclusive release.

    It's just funny. We have many Best Buy stores here in Canada. We even a website . http://www.bestbuy.ca . And as alway's, it's "exclusive to the USA". The Vs/Vitalogy + T-shirt Box Set's were again, a USA exclusive release. Why?

    Please, whoever is running Pearl Jam goodies outside of the 10club store, stop doing exclusive stuff to only one country. Please! If you do, at least a company that would ship outside of it's own country.

    the best buy exclusives in the US-only aren't exclusive to Pearl Jam. there have been tonnes of US-only BB exclusives for many bands. it's very frustrating being a Canadian release-wise.
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  • with all the excitment of the last few days, i almost forgot about all these goodies arrive on my doorstep in the coming weeks!

    btw, that is a review and a half! thanks for posting
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  • demetriosdemetrios Posts: 96,950
    demetrios wrote:
    Blu ray will be a Best Buy exclusive and will be available on the 31st. After a month 10c and amazon will be able to ship and sell it.Best Buy has it for 16.99 :D

    Yep, and again, another USA Best Buy Exclusive release.

    It's just funny. We have many Best Buy stores here in Canada. We even a website . http://www.bestbuy.ca . And as alway's, it's "exclusive to the USA". The Vs/Vitalogy + T-shirt Box Set's were again, a USA exclusive release. Why?

    Please, whoever is running Pearl Jam goodies outside of the 10club store, stop doing exclusive stuff to only one country. Please! If you do, at least a company that would ship outside of it's own country.

    the best buy exclusives in the US-only aren't exclusive to Pearl Jam. there have been tonnes of US-only BB exclusives for many bands. it's very frustrating being a Canadian release-wise.

    It sure is. :(
  • C'mon MopC'mon Mop Posts: 7
    is it just me or does the new eddie vedder album cover look like the tool stinkfist video?
    dc
  • demetriosdemetrios Posts: 96,950
    DC263007 wrote:
    is it just me or does the new eddie vedder album cover look like the tool stinkfist video?

    When I first saw that cover artwork I thought it was from that video too.
  • Music For RhinosMusic For Rhinos Posts: 1,693
    Won't be long...

    I really need something like this in my life right now.
  • C'mon MopC'mon Mop Posts: 7
    my birthday is may 31...thanks for the birthday music eddie...go cubs!
    dc
  • PilateOfTheStormPilateOfTheStorm Posts: 4,319
    Won't be long...

    I really need something like this in my life right now.
  • wolfamongwolveswolfamongwolves Posts: 2,414
    http://www.antiquiet.com/reviews/2011/05/eddie-vedder-ukulele-songs-review/
    Eddie Vedder Shines His Tropical Heartlight On ‘Ukulele Songs’ ****
    By Johnny Firecloud
    Thursday, May 19, 2011


    Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder’s second solo effort is a beautifully intimate collection of love songs, but the experience demands an emotional investment that will limit replay value for the tech-spaz masses. Make no mistake: rather than a gathering of Rock songs stripped to fit an instrumentation concept, this is most definitely a ukulele album, in both spirit and sound. All the trappings associated with such must be fully considered when listening, because the delicate nature of the record’s instrument centerpiece doesn’t support the weight of high-energy expectation.

    Ukulele Songs doesn’t offer the slightest hint of a turn down Vedder’s familiar Who-tinged Rock alleyways, and Eddie checks his signature activist sentiment at the dock before hitting the island. These are lyrically potent and, often, poignant heart songs through and through, many of which were written during a time of significant transition in his life; Within the past decade, Vedder has divorced his teenage sweetheart, remarried and begun a family. And it clearly shows.

    Thus, the PJ frontman shows his most intimate colors as a romantic balladeer in this 16 track collection, but with a running time of under 35 minutes there’s little danger of drowning in the sap. Only two songs cross the three minute mark, leaving most impressions soaked in a sense of fleeting, like sand slipping through the fingers.

    In a recent Chicago Tribune interview, Vedder explained the ukulele’s impact on his songwriting. “I learned so much about music by playing this little, miniature songwriting machine, especially about melody. The motto is less strings more melody. I was able to apply it to whatever I’m trying to write. It’s become part of songwriting for me, the knowledge I gained from hearing the melodies come out, and then applying that to guitar or vocals.”

    Jammers know Can’t Keep well as the opening track to PJ’s Riot Act, but will delight in hearing the song as it was originally intended. As is the case with certain quieter Vedder compositions, sometimes the full band treatment squeezes the intimate spirit from the song in the Pearl Jam world. It’s fully intact here, and thus far easier to envision the setting that much of the record is implied to have sprung from: an isolated island paradise, feet covered in sand, a moment of bliss translated into music. The vigorous strumming suggests an urgency in the proud defiance, his primal wailing at the end a token of free-spirit bliss.

    Eddie’s known among his peers for vanishing acts, lengthy jaunts to remote island surf spots with the likes of wave god Kelly Slater, where he spends considerable time amongst the waves between campfire creative sessions (as increasingly evidenced through Pearl Jam’s catalogue). The consistency of sound on Ukulele Songs allows the listener – if they should permit – to immerse themselves in the romantic tropicalia of the album’s origins without a tethering reminder of the swarms of reality.

    Among those halfway out the door before the needle drops, there’s little defending the teenage-spark affection of a line such as “Sun sets on this ocean / Never once on my devotion” in Without You. But for the initiated and immersed, the kindest of all sledgehammers hits center chest when he sings “I’ll keep on healing all the scars that we’ve collected from the start / I’d rather this than live without you,” through a gorgeously cascading melody, with a naked declaration of warts-and-all grownup acceptance and true love rising through the ruins of yesteryear’s agonies. Prepare to hear this played at many future weddings between those who’ve gone enough rounds with life to empathize.

    Seductive, crushing allegiance in sonic fluidity, Satellite was written from the perspective of Lorri Davis Echols, steadfast wife of Damien Echols of the controversially incarcerated West Memphis 3. It’s just one of several that Vedder debuted during two solo performances in the early Spring of 2002, alongside You’re True, Goodbye and Broken Heart, but among those decade-old gems, Satellite stands clear as the most captivatingly majestic, a heartwrenching testament to unwavering devotion in the face of nearly insurmountable odds. The doubled vocal chorus is a burst of rich color, Vedder’s self-harmonizing tenor blanketing the moment like so many stars in an island sky.

    If Satellite is best from those early debuts, You’re True is easily the most transformed, with a completely new second verse, bridge and rhythm shift. The track suffers as a result of the changed lyrics, but maintains its gorgeously melodic uke exit. Meanwhile, the overdue acknowledgement of betrayal in Sleeping By Myself leaves a hole within, a strong competitor for heartbreaker of the record against the sad sendoff of Goodbye (“And for what feels like the first time / I don’t know where you are tonight / I guess that this is goodbye”).

    Ukulele Songs is littered with non-musical moments as well, glimpses into personal instants or subtle mood manipulations – the Zippo-flick cigarette light before Goodbye, for instance, or Eddie’s incredulous laugh at the Longing to Belong onset. The eight-second Hey Fahkah consists entirely of Ed messing up a chord, laughing (perhaps drunkenly) to himself and uttering an alien grunt. But crashing waves and footsteps walking through guide us into (and out of) Light Today, a short revelation built on a circling, simple riff. It’s a mood-builder, a short trip down to the water for a moment of revelation before returning to the fire.

    Glen Hansard works a fantastic accompanying harmony on Sleepless Nights, a yearner we’re sure to see at the PJ20 festival weekend. It’s powerful, but outshined by the overdose of adorable that is Tonight You Belong to Me, a reworking of the classic song from The Jerk, with Vedder as Steve Martin and Cat Power as Bernadette Peters. No trumpet solo this time around, however – but the magic is undiminished.

    Ukulele Songs won’t be received well in Rock circles, and younger Pearl Jam fans without personal reference will find themselves divided by the sounds of a man in midlife stride, embracing his mortality and wearing his heart on his sleeve. But for those of us who know what to expect, or have had their journey thus far lit in some way by Vedder’s more personal compositions, it’s a long-awaited moonlit gem.
    93: Slane
    96: Cork, Dublin
    00: Dublin
    06: London, Dublin
    07: London, Copenhagen, Nijmegen
    09: Manchester, London
    10: Dublin, Belfast, London & Berlin
    11: San José
    12: Isle of Wight, Copenhagen, Ed in Manchester & London x2
  • Yellow LedbellyYellow Ledbelly Posts: 3,749
    demetrios wrote:
    DC263007 wrote:
    is it just me or does the new eddie vedder album cover look like the tool stinkfist video?

    When I first saw that cover artwork I thought it was from that video too.
    As did i
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  • aus_suzaus_suz Posts: 9,406
    Great review from Johnny Firecloud....

    Love the last line

    it’s a long-awaited moonlit gem.
  • PilateOfTheStormPilateOfTheStorm Posts: 4,319
    1 week!
    1 week!
    1 week!

    :D:D:D:D
  • LloydXmasLloydXmas Posts: 7,539
    Will I be able to walk into a best buy on the 31st and buy this DVD. Or is it through 10c only?
  • Mike's SideMike's Side Posts: 961
    Can't wait!!!! made no attempts at getting it early and I've stayed away from the reviews. Looks like a Tuesday night with my new music and toes in the sand.
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  • wolfamongwolveswolfamongwolves Posts: 2,414
    1 week!
    1 week!
    1 week!

    :D:D:D:D

    2 days!
    2 days!
    2 days!

    I will be highly surprised if this isn't on the shelves in Ireland on Friday
    93: Slane
    96: Cork, Dublin
    00: Dublin
    06: London, Dublin
    07: London, Copenhagen, Nijmegen
    09: Manchester, London
    10: Dublin, Belfast, London & Berlin
    11: San José
    12: Isle of Wight, Copenhagen, Ed in Manchester & London x2
  • 71step2871step28 Posts: 2,249
    1 week!
    1 week!
    1 week!

    :D:D:D:D

    2 days!
    2 days!
    2 days!

    I will be highly surprised if this isn't on the shelves in Ireland on Friday
    exactly :D
    2 days - 2 days - 2 days :lol:
    according to Amazon.de the DVD will be in my mailbox on 27th May :D
  • Paulina87Paulina87 Poland Posts: 3,303
    71step28 wrote:
    1 week!
    1 week!
    1 week!

    :D:D:D:D

    2 days!
    2 days!
    2 days!

    I will be highly surprised if this isn't on the shelves in Ireland on Friday
    exactly :D
    2 days - 2 days - 2 days :lol:
    according to Amazon.de the DVD will be in my mailbox on 27th May :D

    same here, it should be in polish shops on Friday :D
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  • snertsnert Posts: 219
    Good news!

    I have had an e-mail from HMV telling me my EV Blu-ray is on its way. Plus i paid £12.99 for it!
  • wolfamongwolveswolfamongwolves Posts: 2,414
    snert wrote:
    Good news!

    I have had an e-mail from HMV telling me my EV Blu-ray is on its way. Plus i paid £12.99 for it!

    Still waiting for my confirmation from Play...
    93: Slane
    96: Cork, Dublin
    00: Dublin
    06: London, Dublin
    07: London, Copenhagen, Nijmegen
    09: Manchester, London
    10: Dublin, Belfast, London & Berlin
    11: San José
    12: Isle of Wight, Copenhagen, Ed in Manchester & London x2
  • SS68933SS68933 Posts: 16
    NPR is streaming the album right now:


    http://www.npr.org/2011/05/25/136649054 ... c=fb&cc=fp
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  • Sambo BagginsSambo Baggins Posts: 203
    Just listened to the whole album on NPR. IMHO this is worst stuff ED has ever put his name on.

    Just not feeling it. I can take a song or two on the uke but a whole album dedicated to it seems a big stretch.

    Start the fussin but I don't think this album is any where near the quality or depth of the Into the Wild album.

    At least there is plenty of other new stuff coming out next week.
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  • MN282585MN282585 Posts: 115
    I got the Album today in Germany...but no DVD/BluRay...so i will look what tomorrow will bring :D
  • 71step2871step28 Posts: 2,249
    MN282585 wrote:
    I got the Album today in Germany...but no DVD/BluRay...so i will look what tomorrow will bring :D
    the DVD was shipped out today from Amazon.de, will be here tomorrow :D
    I'm not getting the album on CD, I pre-ordered the vinyl though and will receive the download link for it from 10c :)
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