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  • vito
    vito Chicago Posts: 2,029
    Everyone hears songs differently but, I definitely agree that because most everyone has 3 tiers of different songs solidifies the point that we have been given a great album! Just getting to River Cross and I hear no filler and honestly not a single song I will be skipping. After 1 listen of BS and LB I knew there was 3-4 songs on both albums that I never had to hear again. Big shout out to Josh Evans the album sounds amazing! I will be happy to slot this gem in at #6 behind the first 5 which, to me in whatever order can never be anything but the first 5. Now let's get this damn virus extinct and get the boys back on the road playing these songs live. Stay safe everyone.
    ALPINE VALLEY MUSIC THEATRE 1992
    SUMMERFEST MILWAUKEE 1995
    ALPINE VALLEY MUSIC THEATRE 1998
    UNITED CENTER CHICAGO1998
    THOMPSON-BOLING ARENA KNOXVILLE 1998
    ALPINE VALLEY MUSIC THEATRE 2000
    ALLSTATE ARENA ROSEMONT 2000
    ALPINE VALLEY MUSIC THEATRE 2003
    HERSHEYPARK STADIUM 2003
    TOLEDO SPORTS ARENA 2004
    AIR CANADA CENTRE TORONTO 2005
    UNITED CENTER CHICAGO 2006
    UNITED CENTER CHICAGO 2006
    VERIZON CENTER DC 2008
    UNITED CENTER CHICAGO 2009
    NATIONWIDE ARENA COLUMBUS 2010
    PJ20 NIGHT 1 Alpine Valley Music Theatre 2011
    PJ20 NIGHT 2 Alpine Valley Music Theatre 2011
    1ST MARINER ARENA BALTIMORE 2013
    IWIRELESS CENTER MOLINE 2014
    XCEL ENERGY CENTER ST. PAUL 2014
    CHICAGO 1 Wrigley Field 2016 
    CHICAGO 2 Wrigley Field 2016
    CHICAGO 1 Wrigley Field 2018
    CHICAGO 2 Wrigley Field 2018
    BOSTON 2 Fenway Park 2018
    ENTERPRISE CENTER SAINT LOUIS 2022
    Eddie Vedder Auditorium Theatre CHICAGO 2008

  • vito
    vito Chicago Posts: 2,029
    edited March 2020
    One last thought and I really hate doing this and it actually bothers me when everyone says they hear Zeppelin here and Rage there and on and on and on but, jesus does Eddie sound like Peter Gabriel on River Cross? Especially when he's crooning 'Can't hold me down' I love it anyways!!
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    ALPINE VALLEY MUSIC THEATRE 1992
    SUMMERFEST MILWAUKEE 1995
    ALPINE VALLEY MUSIC THEATRE 1998
    UNITED CENTER CHICAGO1998
    THOMPSON-BOLING ARENA KNOXVILLE 1998
    ALPINE VALLEY MUSIC THEATRE 2000
    ALLSTATE ARENA ROSEMONT 2000
    ALPINE VALLEY MUSIC THEATRE 2003
    HERSHEYPARK STADIUM 2003
    TOLEDO SPORTS ARENA 2004
    AIR CANADA CENTRE TORONTO 2005
    UNITED CENTER CHICAGO 2006
    UNITED CENTER CHICAGO 2006
    VERIZON CENTER DC 2008
    UNITED CENTER CHICAGO 2009
    NATIONWIDE ARENA COLUMBUS 2010
    PJ20 NIGHT 1 Alpine Valley Music Theatre 2011
    PJ20 NIGHT 2 Alpine Valley Music Theatre 2011
    1ST MARINER ARENA BALTIMORE 2013
    IWIRELESS CENTER MOLINE 2014
    XCEL ENERGY CENTER ST. PAUL 2014
    CHICAGO 1 Wrigley Field 2016 
    CHICAGO 2 Wrigley Field 2016
    CHICAGO 1 Wrigley Field 2018
    CHICAGO 2 Wrigley Field 2018
    BOSTON 2 Fenway Park 2018
    ENTERPRISE CENTER SAINT LOUIS 2022
    Eddie Vedder Auditorium Theatre CHICAGO 2008

  • byrn3535
    byrn3535 Posts: 127
    edited March 2020
    Full album review on YT (click pic)

    https://youtu.be/5n7tvZE_ZEQ
    Byrn, (bye - earn)
    "I wanna live my life with the volume full"
  • PJ5a1
    PJ5a1 Oceanside, NY Posts: 458
    Get Right would like a chat with all of you! THE WORST SONG !

    this record is amazing.  Thanks to the boys for putting this together. It’s on another level from anything they’ve released in some time.  

    Share the light won’t hold us down. 
    If I were Eddie Vedder, would you like me any better? - Local H
  • tbergs
    tbergs Posts: 10,415
    Is you don't like Comes Then Goes, you may be dead inside. Damn that is a beautiful song. It's In to the Wild era Eddie sounding music. Love the guitar and his vocals.
    It's a hopeless situation...
  • Smarter_Than_U
    Smarter_Than_U Posts: 515
    On first listen, I like the first four songs and the last four songs a lot. They are experimental and keep the listener on their toes but not alienating at all. Production is well done- songs flow perfectly from one to the next through the whole album. The middle songs feel to me a little like dad rock /lighting bolt esque. Predictable and rely too heavily on uninteresting power chords and vocal ticks/tricks that have become cliche for EV. Maybe the middle songs will grow on me w/future listens. But I’ll take 8 new cool PJ songs any day! Night night. 
    "Goddamn Romans. Sure know how to make a ... drum room." --Matt Cameron
  • ruggs1996
    ruggs1996 Posts: 586
    Very original album. Never heard production on a PJ album like this. Literally sounds like them live and it's amazing.
    Camden 2 (2008) 
    Philly 1 and 4 (2009)
    Newark (2010)
    MSG 1 (2010)
    Toronto 1 and 2 (2011)
    Brooklyn 1 and 2 (2013)
    Philly 2 (2013)
    Greenville (2016)
    Columbia (2016)
    MSG 2 (2016)
    Fenway 2 (2016)
    EV NJPAC (2022)
    MSG (2022)
    Denver (2022)
  • drakeheuer14
    drakeheuer14 Posts: 4,623
    It’s everything I wanted. I would have ordered the songs differently, but all around I love it. 

    Pendulum into Retrograde to open my next show please! 
    Pittsburgh 2013
    Cincinnati 2014
    Greenville 2016
    (Raleigh 2016)
    Columbia 2016
  • cutz
    cutz Posts: 12,259
    Think tickets  for shows just got more difficult.
  • rcharest17
    rcharest17 Posts: 7
    Smellyman said:
    D-Rod said:
    Smellyman said:
    mcgruff10 said:
    TJ25487 said:
    mcgruff10 said:
    I have eaten crow and must admit DOTC is fucking awesome kick ass song.  It is so different yet refreshing at the same time. 
    Chew slowly my friend! Taste that shit. hahaha!  I was never a big fan of "You Are" but DOTC is great. The ending is hauntingly good. 
    You are is still imo the worst song ever written by pearl jam. 
    Future Days would like a word


    I will take your You Are, Future Days and raise you Hitchhiker 

    Lost Dogs don't count!


    Hitchhiker still better though.  :)
    Smellyman said:
    D-Rod said:
    Smellyman said:
    mcgruff10 said:
    TJ25487 said:
    mcgruff10 said:
    I have eaten crow and must admit DOTC is fucking awesome kick ass song.  It is so different yet refreshing at the same time. 
    Chew slowly my friend! Taste that shit. hahaha!  I was never a big fan of "You Are" but DOTC is great. The ending is hauntingly good. 
    You are is still imo the worst song ever written by pearl jam. 
    Future Days would like a word


    I will take your You Are, Future Days and raise you Hitchhiker 

    Lost Dogs don't count!


    Hitchhiker still better though.  :)
    D-Rod said:
    Smellyman said:
    mcgruff10 said:
    TJ25487 said:
    mcgruff10 said:
    I have eaten crow and must admit DOTC is fucking awesome kick ass song.  It is so different yet refreshing at the same time. 
    Chew slowly my friend! Taste that shit. hahaha!  I was never a big fan of "You Are" but DOTC is great. The ending is hauntingly good. 
    You are is still imo the worst song ever written by pearl jam. 
    Future Days would like a word


    I will take your You Are, Future Days and raise you Hitchhiker 

  • Abe Froman
    Abe Froman Posts: 5,381
    Just listened for the first time. Wow!  I can’t wait to listen again as I got a shipping notification that vinyl will arrive tomorrow!  
  • rcharest17
    rcharest17 Posts: 7
    Whoever is talking smack about You Are needs to get their head checked...
  • stratmad
    stratmad Posts: 211
    It’s been a long time since a song moved me to tears of sadness, anger and hope. 

    River Cross 
  • stratmad
    stratmad Posts: 211
    Have to say also Who Ever Said didn’t go the way I anticipated it to. Probably the best album opener since Can’t Keep. 
  • gettingright
    gettingright Posts: 550
    After 2 listens:

    Tier 1: SBWM, DotC, Quick Escape, 7 O’clock, long way, who ever said, river cross, retrograde
    Tier 2: Alright, Buckle Up, Comes Then Goes
    Tier 3: Never Destination (that chorus just sounds to me like an alt-country rock song; the rest of it is cool, though)


    "...what a different life had i not found this love with you..."
  • axellaire8
    axellaire8 Belgium Posts: 235

    1996: Paris/2006: Paris/2007: Werchter/2010: Werchter/2012: Amsterdam 1 and Werchter/2014: Amsterdam 1&2 and Werchter/2018: Amsterdam 1&2 and Werchter/2022: Werchter and Amsterdam 2

    EV: 2012: Amsterdam/2017: Antwerpen/2019: Bruxelles

  • PJWGIII
    PJWGIII Chicago, IL Posts: 811
    Instant Reaction Thoughts...

    - Stephen Hyden's review was the most accurate IMO.
    - Album Opener/Closer pairing is up there with the all time great PJ pairings
    - DOTC was a great outlier single pick, and the lyrics resonate even more now
    - The videos are a really cool art exploration and it was a fun way to get introduced to the album, but I can't wait to listen to it straight up ASAP

    Listening to BS Podcast right now.
    "Red Rover, Red Rover, Mike McCready – Take Over!!" - E.V.

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    EV:
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  • axellaire8
    axellaire8 Belgium Posts: 235
    axellaire8 said:

    Review in Belgium. Pearl jam at the top of their art!!!

    1996: Paris/2006: Paris/2007: Werchter/2010: Werchter/2012: Amsterdam 1 and Werchter/2014: Amsterdam 1&2 and Werchter/2018: Amsterdam 1&2 and Werchter/2022: Werchter and Amsterdam 2

    EV: 2012: Amsterdam/2017: Antwerpen/2019: Bruxelles

  • JPPJ84
    JPPJ84 Hamburg, Germany Posts: 3,464
    ^^ cool, my school French is rusty af but I could read that :)
  • PJammin'
    PJammin' Posts: 1,913
    tbergs said:
    Is you don't like Comes Then Goes, you may be dead inside. Damn that is a beautiful song. It's In to the Wild era Eddie sounding music. Love the guitar and his vocals.
    That’s an amazing song. The lyrics are deep and heartbreaking too if you listen to what he’s revealing. 
    I died. I died and you just stood there. I died and you watched. I died and you walked by and said no. I'm dead.

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