Post subject: Re: You Never Forget Your First Time: Binaural
Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 7:47 pm
Got Some
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I was thinking this over last night...
Sad replaces Rival... Rival moves to Riot Act... on one of the live mix cds i made, Rival works so good with 1/2 Full and You Ares bluesy feel... also would give Binaural one more uptempo song...
anyway... Ill always remember it, im almost positive now, it was the first PJ album I bought... (I know for sure it was the first new release, but I think i bought 10 after Binaural)
Its weird, I was in 8th grade when all those Seatle Bands hit the scene... and wasnt really friends with anyone who liked that music... by high school... my neighbor had gotten me into DJ'ing... and EnVogue was my favorite group??? haha by the mid 90's... I found Elvis... whos live band, simply FUCKING ROCKS... Jerry Scheff (Elvis's bass player) also played on a certain song called L.A.Woman from the doors... how can you not like that song? he also played on that whole album which included Riders of the Storm (how can you not like that bass line...) so Elvis got me into the doors (Via Jerry) which led me to Hendrix, the Beatles, CCR, The Stones, Zeppelin... so on...
99 I get my first PC / Internet... Bro gets on my pc gets napster on it... starts downloading Chemical Brothers and that crap he was listening too... I find just endless Elvis and doors and Hendrix boots... along comes this doors Hall of Fame performace, where a guy named Ed sings his fucking heart out... I got my PC in Sept of 99... Binaural came out in Nov right? so with in a few months... I got my first taste of a PJ album...
and now I listen to PJ more then anyone else... (But Elvis is still my fav... that band simply rocks... but thats a whole nother topic)
Heres a lil odd thing I found years later though... which kinda put the whole thing full circle for me... the doors did 2 albums after Morrison died, I dont have either, but I did find a couple bootlegs of shows they did... theres a song (the name skips my mind at the moment but i could dig it out if someones really interested) on the boots... that totally sounds like "Of the Girl"
and, as someone else pointed out to me... because of the Elvis/Jerry = Jerry/the doors = Eddie/Pearl Jam connection... you can do the 5 degrees of seperation / Kevin Bacon game with virtually ANYONE in Rock-n-Roll from the 50's - current...
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Post subject: Re: You Never Forget Your First Time: Binaural
Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 11:52 am
Former PJ Drummer
Joined: Thu Nov 25, 2004 3:00 pm Posts: 19826 Location: Alone in a corridor
MadTIGERmaN wrote:
Sad replaces Rival... Rival moves to Riot Act... on one of the live mix cds i made, Rival works so good with 1/2 Full and You Ares bluesy feel... also would give Binaural one more uptempo song...
I don't know man. Rival is an important part of the listening to Binaural with headphones experience for me.
Post subject: Re: You Never Forget Your First Time: Binaural
Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 2:00 pm
Banned from the Pit
Joined: Tue Jul 31, 2007 1:46 pm Posts: 59
Angus wrote:
MadTIGERmaN wrote:
Sad replaces Rival... Rival moves to Riot Act... on one of the live mix cds i made, Rival works so good with 1/2 Full and You Ares bluesy feel... also would give Binaural one more uptempo song...
I don't know man. Rival is an important part of the listening to Binaural with headphones experience for me.
i agree....although SAD and EDUCATION should have been on the album (i know, i know, age old debate)
Post subject: Re: You Never Forget Your First Time: Binaural
Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 2:01 pm
Spambot
Joined: Thu Aug 09, 2007 4:04 pm Posts: 3
I remember being so excited to hear Parting Ways for the first time, because it sounded so familiar. Then it hit me, that they had a soundcheck jam with the Parting Ways riff from years before; a jam that I really liked. Then it turned out this unknown jam had finally surfaced.
On the downside, i thought that Thin Air had been ruined, because it was too stiff and ridged in comprarison to the bridge school benifit performance that preceeded the album recording.
Post subject: Re: You Never Forget Your First Time: Binaural
Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 2:16 pm
Yeah Yeah Yeah
Joined: Tue May 30, 2006 2:48 pm Posts: 3115 Location: Edinburgh/Lincoln, UK
Uneducation wrote:
I remember being so excited to hear Parting Ways for the first time, because it sounded so familiar. Then it hit me, that they had a soundcheck jam with the Parting Ways riff from years before; a jam that I really liked. Then it turned out this unknown jam had finally surfaced.
On the downside, i thought that Thin Air had been ruined, because it was too stiff and ridged in comprarison to the bridge school benifit performance that preceeded the album recording.
The Parting Ways jam was from 1996, yes?
It used to be available on TSIS concert chronology thing before it's layout changed.
Post subject: Re: You Never Forget Your First Time: Binaural
Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 4:14 pm
Former PJ Drummer
Joined: Thu Nov 25, 2004 3:00 pm Posts: 19826 Location: Alone in a corridor
iceagecoming wrote:
Uneducation wrote:
I remember being so excited to hear Parting Ways for the first time, because it sounded so familiar. Then it hit me, that they had a soundcheck jam with the Parting Ways riff from years before; a jam that I really liked. Then it turned out this unknown jam had finally surfaced.
On the downside, i thought that Thin Air had been ruined, because it was too stiff and ridged in comprarison to the bridge school benifit performance that preceeded the album recording.
The Parting Ways jam was from 1996, yes?
It used to be available on TSIS concert chronology thing before it's layout changed.
Barcelona 96. I think it's on one of those sites with PJ mp3's but don't ask me which one.
Post subject: Re: You Never Forget Your First Time: Binaural
Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 4:20 pm
Got Some
Joined: Mon Mar 13, 2006 1:02 am Posts: 2560 Location: Dallas/Atlanta/Savannah
ah now something I can chime in on.
as iv said endless times before, this record got me into pearl jam. up to that point all i had heard wad daughter and ten, and while I like that stuff now, I didnt care for it then.
I was on a plane, I think it was on my trip to thailand, maybe, and I borrowed the cd from my step brother. I was blown away, especially by light years. I was a fan from then on, though I wouldnt go on to discover their music till a while later.
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Post subject: Re: You Never Forget Your First Time: Binaural
Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 5:43 pm
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nick--do you want to have your riot act post up for thursday?
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Post subject: Re: You Never Forget Your First Time: Binaural
Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 11:24 pm
Force of Nature
Joined: Tue Feb 22, 2005 9:45 am Posts: 904
I don't remember too well my first couple of listens to this album. However, I still recall REALLY wanting to like the CD, and being secretly disappointed. I was almost ashamed of my disappointment because I had never felt that way about a PJ album before.
I loved Yield and saw many shows on the 1998 tour. Tour dates were set for summer 2000 in advance of the album release and I already had plans to see several shows, even in Europe. So I was really ready to have another great PJ record.
But it just didn't click with me. Even when hardcore fans on the Five Horizons board were raving about it I just could not say that I liked it very much. The feelings I have about the album now are largely the same as what I had then: The album has a depressing feeling to it and it does not flow well. Songs like NAIS and Sleight of Hand are very respectable standing alone but don't fit well on the tracklist or in live setlists. Light Years and Of The Girl immediately stood out to me as the best tracks and my opinion hasn't changed 7 years later. Parting Ways later grew on me. But a lot of the other songs just didn't do it for me. I thought the lyrics were weaker than on previous albums and the Soon Forget just sounded like throw away bullshit.
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