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  • goldrush
    goldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,866
    Vitalogy
    I love the Vitalogy, Yield and Riot Act covers pretty much equally. Vitalogy just gets the nod (this time)
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  • Glorified KC
    Glorified KC KCMO Native Posts: 2,814
    No Code
    I do really like Vitalogy's vinyl.  It was definitely made for vinyl and not CD.  A couple of months ago I found a 1994-released vinyl and had to buy it.

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  • Glorified KC
    Glorified KC KCMO Native Posts: 2,814
    No Code
    Ten is the only one to not get a vote.
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  • HesCalledDyer
    HesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,501
    Binaural
    I prefer the white Lightning Bolt cover over the black.  The big arc looks so much better in black than red, and the eye looks more like an eye with the white sclera.  I don't even know if it's supposed to be an eye, but that's what I've always seen.  (Maybe my love of the Zelda franchise has bled its way into my love of Pearl Jam.)
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  • Glorified KC
    Glorified KC KCMO Native Posts: 2,814
    No Code
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  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,683
    Riot Act
    cdthomas1981 said:
    Spiritual_Chaos said:
    cdthomas1981 said:
    Ray J. T. said:
    cdthomas1981 said:
    I agree there’s no wow factor on their covers, but that’s why I enjoy them so much.  No Code is my favorite given the innovation with the polaroids on the cover and inside of the booklet.
    Agreed that none of the covers really make you step back and say wow. The wow factor has always been in the song writing. Ill take that over any album artwork any day. 
    While it's not "wow" I still covet how they put together their album artwork and booklets.  I just feel authenticity of the band when I go through them.  They're always staying true to themselves.
    Up till Riot Act.

    Avocado, (especially) backspacer and Lightning Bolt are misfires. No way around that.
    That's fair enough.  You mentioned the digital gradients on those three.  What makes that different? 
    It looks like shit. It looks like what I did the first weeks in Photoshop in the late 90s.
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  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,683
    Riot Act
    HesCalledDyer said:
    I  (Maybe my love of the Zelda franchise has bled its way into my love of Pearl Jam.)

    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • Glorified KC
    Glorified KC KCMO Native Posts: 2,814
    No Code
    We now have 120 votes and ZERO for Ten!  
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  • JPPJ84
    JPPJ84 Hamburg, Germany Posts: 3,464
    edited August 2019
    Yield
    cdthomas1981 said:
    We now have 120 votes and ZERO for Ten!  
    Doesn’t mean no one likes it. It’s just not at the very top. For anyone. It’s definitely not last on my list.
  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,683
    edited August 2019
    Riot Act
    cdthomas1981 said:
    We now have 120 votes and ZERO for Ten!  
    Tens cover looks like shit.
    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • Glorified KC
    Glorified KC KCMO Native Posts: 2,814
    No Code
    JPPJ84 said:
    cdthomas1981 said:
    We now have 120 votes and ZERO for Ten!  
    Doesn’t mean no one likes it. It’s just not at the very top. For anyone. It’s definitely not last on my list.
    You're right about that, Julie.  i shouldn't make it sound as if it's the worst.  When I think about it from a casual perspective, I would think that cover would be the most iconic out of the bunch.  However, none of us are casual PJ fans.
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  • Abe Froman
    Abe Froman Posts: 5,398
    No Code
    Spiritual_Chaos said:
    cdthomas1981 said:
    We now have 120 votes and ZERO for Ten!  
    Tens cover looks like shit.
    Its super cheesy.  Last on my list for sure.  I still love it for the obvious reason of its where it all started and thats the record that hooked me back in 91'
  • pearljammr78
    pearljammr78 Posts: 1,613
    edited August 2019
    No Code
    VS always seemed more iconic to me. That poor sheep’s face. Just said so much to me being a high schooler in puberty. 

    Ten just seems like a oh shit we need something cover. 
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  • Glorified KC
    Glorified KC KCMO Native Posts: 2,814
    No Code
    pearljammr78 said:
    VS always seemed more iconic to me. That poor sheep’s face. Just said so much to me being a high schooler in puberty. 

    Ten just seems like a oh shit we need something cover. 
    Ten may not be their best, but if you showed a non-PJ all 10 album covers, the only one they would be able to pick out is Ten.
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  • bootlegger10
    bootlegger10 Posts: 16,301
    Vitalogy
    Vitalogy is very simple but awesome.
  • Glorified KC
    Glorified KC KCMO Native Posts: 2,814
    No Code
    bootlegger10 said:
    Vitalogy is very simple but awesome.
    Totally agree.
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  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,683
    Riot Act
    cdthomas1981 said:
    pearljammr78 said:
    VS always seemed more iconic to me. That poor sheep’s face. Just said so much to me being a high schooler in puberty. 

    Ten just seems like a oh shit we need something cover. 
    Ten may not be their best, but if you showed a non-PJ all 10 album covers, the only one they would be able to pick out is Ten.
    Ofc. But that doesnt say much in If its good looking or not. 

    Selfititled is worse though. Ten atleast has some handcrfted thing going for it
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  • Glorified KC
    Glorified KC KCMO Native Posts: 2,814
    No Code
    Spiritual_Chaos said:
    cdthomas1981 said:
    pearljammr78 said:
    VS always seemed more iconic to me. That poor sheep’s face. Just said so much to me being a high schooler in puberty. 

    Ten just seems like a oh shit we need something cover. 
    Ten may not be their best, but if you showed a non-PJ all 10 album covers, the only one they would be able to pick out is Ten.
    Ofc. But that doesnt say much in If its good looking or not. 

    Selfititled is worse though. Ten atleast has some handcrfted thing going for it
    I could say that No Code isn’t good looking, but I think it’s the coolest, most unique and the one that I covet the most.
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  • hadfiiw
    hadfiiw Posts: 218
    Yield
    I really like the Yield cover best.  Message hidden in plain sight.  

    But that is just as the cover.  The inside of the album (booklet, gatefold, etc) is a whole other topic.  
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  • Glorified KC
    Glorified KC KCMO Native Posts: 2,814
    No Code
    hadfiiw said:
    I really like the Yield cover best.  Message hidden in plain sight.  

    But that is just as the cover.  The inside of the album (booklet, gatefold, etc) is a whole other topic.  
    The hidden yield signs in the booklet is awesome.
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