Vs HAPPY 20th ANNIVERSARY

Big Bank Hank
Big Bank Hank Seattle, WA Posts: 8,639
edited October 2013 in The Porch
anything and everything about Vs, your experiences and feelings about the album I rank as my favorite
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  • LukinFan
    LukinFan Florida Posts: 29,128
    VS > TEN
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  • JB128716
    JB128716 Posts: 2,064
    What's the over/under on how many songs from VS are played on 10/19 in Brooklyn?
    92 - Orlando
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  • Big Bank Hank
    Big Bank Hank Seattle, WA Posts: 8,639
    JB128716 wrote:
    What's the over/under on how many songs from VS are played on 10/19 in Brooklyn?
    it would be awesome if they play the full album, have like a 31 song setlist, this year is their first time to play Brooklyn as well
  • foodboy
    foodboy Posts: 988
    have been asking to play full albums for 5 years now. its time
  • JB128716
    JB128716 Posts: 2,064
    I'd be happy if they came out with Go and Animal and Blood.

    Three songs I love and have never heard live. Fingers crossed.
    92 - Orlando
    03 - Tampa
    08 - Tampa
    12 - DeLuna Fest, EV Orlando 1 & 2, EV Ft Lauderdale 1 & 2
    13 - Wrigley!!! ,Brooklyn 1 & 2, Hartford, OKC, Seattle
    14 - Leeds, Milton Keynes, St Louis
    16 - Ft Lauderdale, Miami, Tampa, Jacksonville, Wrigley 1 & 2
  • Big Bank Hank
    Big Bank Hank Seattle, WA Posts: 8,639
    JB128716 wrote:
    I'd be happy if they came out with Go and Animal and Blood.

    Three songs I love and have never heard live. Fingers crossed.
    all great songs
  • DevonPearl
    DevonPearl Posts: 284
    Big Bank Hank wrote:
    JB128716 wrote:
    What's the over/under on how many songs from VS are played on 10/19 in Brooklyn?
    it would be awesome if they play the full album, have like a 31 song setlist, this year is their first time to play Brooklyn as well

    I would have no problem with that! :twisted:
    It's still one of these albums i can hear without skipping.
  • Big Bank Hank
    Big Bank Hank Seattle, WA Posts: 8,639
    foodboy wrote:
    have been asking to play full albums for 5 years now. its time
    :thumbup:
  • calvo17
    calvo17 Posts: 440
    Big Bank Hank wrote:
    JB128716 wrote:
    What's the over/under on how many songs from VS are played on 10/19 in Brooklyn?
    it would be awesome if they play the full album, have like a 31 song setlist, this year is their first time to play Brooklyn as well

    That'd be cool, the full album, open with Go and close with Indifference, and open with Release the second night!
    If I knew where it was, I would take you there.
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  • oysterjar
    oysterjar NH Posts: 1,235
    My favorite album. I hope to hear a lot of Vs this tour.
    Wind this thing up.

  • DriftingByTheStorm
    DriftingByTheStorm Posts: 8,684
    Vs. is the album that took me from the place of "Pearl Jam - Ten. Its fucking phenomenal and I can't stop listening to it, but for all we know the second album will be shit." to "Holy fucking shit. I think i'm going to love this band forever". It's hard to explain. Looking back I was clearly mildly obsessed with Ten. But it never clicked for me that i LOVED pearl jam. When I heard Vs. i KNEW.

    I remember my friend telling me it had just come out (i was kinda clueless about "the scene" etc, hell it was 8th grade) and I just stopped. I think we were in between classes, he was trying to continue to his. I grabbed the back of his shoulder, and made him stop. I was like, "tell me about it! What are the songs like!" ... seriously, i grilled him, so ridiculous, like this poor kid is trying to describe "rats" and shit to me ... i'm like, "oh cool, songs about animals" .. I MUST HAVE THIS RECORD.

    I remember the two stores in my area were still all sold out of it, and I had to wait for the damn thing to show up by mail. I remember getting it and just burning the disc over and over and over again. I would go to sleep with the headphones on. It was bad. I also remember being pissed off because my friend had the lyrics for Blood in his cassette and my CD did not (i think, it was blood? or next to blood in the book?) ... fucking PJ. always messin w our heads.

    I remember us all over on the old board (AOL i think it still was) like dissecting and connecting the trails between songs. "Oooh RVM is like the continuation of Daughter, like where the shades went down. Now they are raised!" ... i remember Dissident just REALLY hitting me hard. Dissident and Leash, i think they were my two favorites for a good while.
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    If I opened it now would you not understand?
  • Big Bank Hank
    Big Bank Hank Seattle, WA Posts: 8,639
    DriftingByTheStorm wrote:
    Vs. is the album that took me from the place of "Pearl Jam - Ten. Its fucking phenomenal and I can't stop listening to it, but for all we know the second album will be shit." to "Holy fucking shit. I think i'm going to love this band forever". It's hard to explain. Looking back I was clearly mildly obsessed with Ten. But it never clicked for me that i LOVED pearl jam. When I heard Vs. i KNEW.

    I remember my friend telling me it had just come out (i was kinda clueless about "the scene" etc, hell it was 8th grade) and I just stopped. I think we were in between classes, he was trying to continue to his. I grabbed the back of his shoulder, and made him stop. I was like, "tell me about it! What are the songs like!" ... seriously, i grilled him, so ridiculous, like this poor kid is trying to describe "rats" and shit to me ... i'm like, "oh cool, songs about animals" .. I MUST HAVE THIS RECORD.

    I remember the two stores in my area were still all sold out of it, and I had to wait for the damn thing to show up by mail. I remember getting it and just burning the disc over and over and over again. I would go to sleep with the headphones on. It was bad. I also remember being pissed off because my friend had the lyrics for Blood in his cassette and my CD did not (i think, it was blood? or next to blood in the book?) ... fucking PJ. always messin w our heads.

    I remember us all over on the old board (AOL i think it still was) like dissecting and connecting the trails between songs. "Oooh RVM is like the continuation of Daughter, like where the shades went down. Now they are raised!" ... i remember Dissident just REALLY hitting me hard. Dissident and Leash, i think they were my two favorites for a good while.
    :clap:
  • Big Bank Hank
    Big Bank Hank Seattle, WA Posts: 8,639
    DriftingByTheStorm wrote:
    Vs. is the album that took me from the place of "Pearl Jam - Ten. Its fucking phenomenal and I can't stop listening to it, but for all we know the second album will be shit." to "Holy fucking shit. I think i'm going to love this band forever". It's hard to explain. Looking back I was clearly mildly obsessed with Ten. But it never clicked for me that i LOVED pearl jam. When I heard Vs. i KNEW.

    I remember my friend telling me it had just come out (i was kinda clueless about "the scene" etc, hell it was 8th grade) and I just stopped. I think we were in between classes, he was trying to continue to his. I grabbed the back of his shoulder, and made him stop. I was like, "tell me about it! What are the songs like!" ... seriously, i grilled him, so ridiculous, like this poor kid is trying to describe "rats" and shit to me ... i'm like, "oh cool, songs about animals" .. I MUST HAVE THIS RECORD.

    I remember the two stores in my area were still all sold out of it, and I had to wait for the damn thing to show up by mail. I remember getting it and just burning the disc over and over and over again. I would go to sleep with the headphones on. It was bad. I also remember being pissed off because my friend had the lyrics for Blood in his cassette and my CD did not (i think, it was blood? or next to blood in the book?) ... fucking PJ. always messin w our heads.

    I remember us all over on the old board (AOL i think it still was) like dissecting and connecting the trails between songs. "Oooh RVM is like the continuation of Daughter, like where the shades went down. Now they are raised!" ... i remember Dissident just REALLY hitting me hard. Dissident and Leash, i think they were my two favorites for a good while.
    :clap:
  • Big Bank Hank
    Big Bank Hank Seattle, WA Posts: 8,639
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  • Big Bank Hank
    Big Bank Hank Seattle, WA Posts: 8,639
    DevonPearl wrote:
    Big Bank Hank wrote:
    JB128716 wrote:
    What's the over/under on how many songs from VS are played on 10/19 in Brooklyn?
    it would be awesome if they play the full album, have like a 31 song setlist, this year is their first time to play Brooklyn as well

    I would have no problem with that! :twisted:
    It's still one of these albums i can hear without skipping.
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  • oysterjar
    oysterjar NH Posts: 1,235
    I was in 5th grade, 10 years old. I didn't know much about current music but my parents were Rock only folks, and I followed. I was the oldest but one of my best friends had two older bothers, 4 and 7 years older than us. His brother had a shirt with the Vs album cover on it. I knew who PJ was but didn't know the album, yet. Since then it is always my "favorite display of the boys artistic ability". This album punched Pearl Jam into my brain, never to let go. My favorite.
    Wind this thing up.

  • Big Bank Hank
    Big Bank Hank Seattle, WA Posts: 8,639
    to me Vs separated the real Pearl Jam fans from the casual MTV Pearl Jam fans, Vs was far less polished than Ten, just real music for real music fans every song is great, my all time favorite
  • Kimmiebyrom
    Kimmiebyrom Posts: 1,832
    One of only 2 albums I play with absolutely no skipping. Every single song is pure gold. Dissident first did it for me, later it was Go and then of course RVM. Surprisingly it's not my #1, that belongs to Yield, but it's top 3 no question. It's a Saturday morning ritual to put it on and clean house. My 5 year old belts out Dissident like you wouldn't believe (she looooooves Jeff - her words).

    Love my VS yes I do.
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  • The Waiting Trophy Man
    The Waiting Trophy Man Niagara region, Ontario, Canada Posts: 12,158
    Didn't get vs until Xmas of '93 but loved it and listened to it all the time. Love angry Eddie and man Dave A hammered the drums. He was the right drummer for that record, that's for sure.

    Still my favourite album cover. It's perfect. Says it all right there.
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  • bigbadbill
    bigbadbill Posts: 1,758
    Next year I'm going to buy my copy of Vs. a beer for its 21st birthday.
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