Backspacer turns 15 years old

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  • TJ25487
    TJ25487 Posts: 1,501
    2-feign-reluctance said:
    Happy 8th you sexy lean record you!! Wore my BS tee to work to celebrate. 
    2-feign-reluctance said:
    Happy 8th you sexy lean record you!! Wore my BS tee to work to celebrate. 

  • TJ25487
    TJ25487 Posts: 1,501
    Well "I'm going to see my friends, I'm going to see my friends!" next weekend at Ohana Fest and will be blasting this CD on the way over. 
    I like the fast paced rhythmic poppines of the first half of the CD and the slower introspective edge of the second half. Also dig the artwork. 
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,473
    igotid88 said:
    DewieCox said:
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    not my fave, but I do enjoy it time to time. people saying it's their worst, you do know about LB right?
    Yes, but Backspacer is just so boring and uninspired. At 36 minutes or something a real halfassed effort imo.  At least LB takes some chances stylistically and has some diversity. BS songs are all among their worst and Unthought Known is easily the most overrated, plodding song with the cringiest lyrics in their catalog.
    Both wrong. Both albums are extremely underrated
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  • igotid88
    igotid88 Posts: 28,629
    https://consequenceofsound.net/2019/09/making-the-case-for-pearl-jam-backspacer/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
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  • on2legs
    on2legs Posts: 15,955
    igotid88 said:
    https://consequenceofsound.net/2019/09/making-the-case-for-pearl-jam-backspacer/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
    Thank you for posting that... awesome read!  I enjoyed that on so many levels.  😀
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  • vogonpoetbythelake
    vogonpoetbythelake Posts: 2,146
    Truly wonderful and insightful writing!! Thanks for sharing!!!
  • ikiT
    ikiT USA Posts: 11,059
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    igotid88 said:
    DewieCox said:
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    not my fave, but I do enjoy it time to time. people saying it's their worst, you do know about LB right?
    Yes, but Backspacer is just so boring and uninspired. At 36 minutes or something a real halfassed effort imo.  At least LB takes some chances stylistically and has some diversity. BS songs are all among their worst and Unthought Known is easily the most overrated, plodding song with the cringiest lyrics in their catalog.
    Both wrong. Both albums are extremely underrated
    opinions can't be wrong. 
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  • JPPJ84
    JPPJ84 Hamburg, Germany Posts: 3,464
    Cool article. I enjoyed the part about being a second generation fanatic because I also fit that description. Good to know there are people like us, discovering this great band  years, heck, decades later!
  • Eric Pressman
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    "Yes I'm a lucky man to count on both hands the ones I love some folks they got one others they got none". -Vedder Eddie saved my life
  • ikiT
    ikiT USA Posts: 11,059
    Eric Pressman said:
    "Yes I'm a lucky man to count on both hands the ones I love some folks they got one others they got none". -Vedder Eddie saved my life
    word up
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  • igotid88
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  • darthvedder
    darthvedder Posts: 2,667
    Nice of them to celebrate Ed's second solo album.
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,473
    edited September 2019
    ed wrote the music to 4 of the 11 tracks. I'd hardly call that a solo effort. 

    what I find more interesting is that Ed didn't collaborate musically with one other person on that record. 

    I just looked at LB and the writing is pretty much to a T the same as BS. Weird. Almost like it was a Load/Reload type situation. 
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  • BrainofBGA
    BrainofBGA Australia Posts: 4,558
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    ed wrote the music to 4 of the 11 tracks. I'd hardly call that a solo effort. 

    what I find more interesting is that Ed didn't collaborate musically with one other person on that record. 

    I just looked at LB and the writing is pretty much to a T the same as BS. Weird. Almost like it was a Load/Reload type situation. 
    Be interesting to see how the new record pans out in terms of writing music. Mike wrote the music for Can’t Deny Me. Always of interest to see who writes music for each song that makes a record. Seems of late they all write separately as opposed to jamming and writing together. 
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  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,465
    igotid88 said:

    Haha. This comes off as tounge in cheek as this:




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  • erocshifty
    erocshifty Posts: 1,170
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    ed wrote the music to 4 of the 11 tracks. I'd hardly call that a solo effort. 

    what I find more interesting is that Ed didn't collaborate musically with one other person on that record. 

    I just looked at LB and the writing is pretty much to a T the same as BS. Weird. Almost like it was a Load/Reload type situation. 
    And this is why I'm glad B'OB isn't anywhere near GIGATON. Both albums are decent and have some solid live tunes, but I'm ready for another complex & multilayered PJ album that has more collaboration from the band.  

    BS & LB feel somewhat like sister albums whereas every other album really stands on its' own merits. Both albums were also recorded in a couple of different 3 week sessions if I remember correctly? I really would like to hear what's in the vault from this era. 

    Backspacer is still fun for what it is, but this and LB are at the bottom of my PJ album rankings. Some of the material really does soar in a live setting though. 





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  • Celticskemba8
    Celticskemba8 Posts: 339
    I love Backspacer. I want to hear Unthought Known live so badly!

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