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Seattle1974Seattle1974 Posts: 81
edited October 2013 in The Porch
In the excited to run up to the LB release, I pulled out Avocado this week (after having not listened to it in a few years). This album still kicks ass and is much better than I remembered and much better than it gets credit for. Saw on one of the other posts that many of you put this low on your list. Can't believe that! I am hoping to hear a few of these songs this tour.
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  • Stephen FlowStephen Flow Posts: 3,327
    This is a great album. Parachutes is such an underrated song. This album kind of suffers from bad mastering though... I hope they remaster it in the distant future.
  • KB262864KB262864 Posts: 67
    I love Avocado. It is definitely my favorite album since Yield. And I like a lot of their music from the 2000s, I just like Avocado best. I think it has a great flow to it. I agree Parachutes is very underrated. I love Life Wasted, Severed Hand, and Army Reserve. Sometimes an album is as much about where you are in your life, as where the band is. Avocado really hit me back in 2006, and I still love it today.

    I agree, I hope they play a lot of these on the fall tour.
  • guitar101guitar101 Sutton, ON Posts: 397
    I did the same thing this week and had a similar reaction. Ive always liked the album, but having given it some space lately before coming back to it i realized how solid it really is. Army reserve is currently a new favorite. Parachutes was a song i didnt really even care for previously but after hearing it in london in july it has become one of my absolute favorite pearl jam songs.
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  • Seattle1974Seattle1974 Posts: 81
    guitar101 wrote:
    I did the same thing this week and had a similar reaction. Ive always liked the album, but having given it some space lately before coming back to it i realized how solid it really is. Army reserve is currently a new favorite. Parachutes was a song i didnt really even care for previously but after hearing it in london in july it has become one of my absolute favorite pearl jam songs.


    I am right there with you on Army Reserve. Love that song. I cannot help but belt out this one...

    I can see it coming. Looks like lightning in my child's eye..
  • CTD10CTD10 Posts: 351
    In my top 3 PJ albums....love it. Some of the songs really hit me at the time. Listen to it at least once every few weeks.....haven't heard LB yet...waiting till Tuesday. Cant wait
    ctd
  • thefin190thefin190 Posts: 918
    CTD10 wrote:
    In my top 3 PJ albums....love it.

    Definitely top 3 along with No Code and Vs. Yield might be 4th, but I am certainly digging Lightning Bolt so far!
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  • DriftingByTheStormDriftingByTheStorm Posts: 8,684
    Yeah.
    I still really like it.
    My Comatose high kind've wore off, and Severed Hand was never really my favorite,
    but the album is still rock solid.
    My biggest complaint about avocado is simply, tracking wise,
    it falls off the energy cliff after Big Wave leaving almost 1\3rd of the album to crawl past.
    I cherish those last five songs, but man is it a slow back half.

    Still though, if you just squint a little at Backspacer while examining the Pearl Jam catalog,
    you really can't say they've faultered, even in the back half of their life. Hopefully they can manage an REM-like grace in to the silver years of their recording career. Maybe some of the later albums will be higher water marks than others, but on the whole I am now comfortable that they can do this. :D
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  • mrpink90mrpink90 Posts: 415
    love it, cant believe its so undervalued in pj fandom. like it much better than binaural, riot act, and backspacer.
  • Your Camaro's hoodYour Camaro's hood Posts: 80
    I always regarded Avocado in much the same way as Yield - an album that was so strong it reminded a lot of people this band was still around. Riot Act has really grown on me over the years, but it took some time. A lot of people I know had their doubts after Riot Act, and Avocado came along and saved the day. Yield the same, even more crucial, kind of impact. Alternative Nation was dead by 1998 and lots of folks had moved on. That album was the biggest game changer of their career, in my opinion, as I knew a lot of younger fans who really discovered the band on the strength of Yield. Anyway, yeah... Avocado fucking rules.
  • MT236122MT236122 Pittsburgh Posts: 137
    I agree completely with the posters - Avacado is an unrated album by the PJ community. Inside Job & Gone are 2 of favorite songs in the catalog. Unemployable & Army Reserve are incredible songs as well. Give some love to Avacado
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