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I don't know, I really like pretty much all of the songs on this album. I like them a lot in fact, it's strange how a tracklisting can really fool you otherwise. It's like putting a beautiful painting in an ugly frame, it's hard to train your eye to see past the unattractive presentation. It didn't click for me til I heard the songs live on the boots and listened to the original tracklisting.
I know we all have wildly different opinions but I really can't understand criticising the quality of the songwriting in this period, it was the last time they churned out material on a par with the first five albums to me. It's a crying shame they took some of the strongest songs off the album and then retracked what remained so it made no musical sense.
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I became an immediate passionate fan shortly after the release of Binaural. I was a freshman in high school in early 1999 late 2000 when I bought my first Pearl Jam bootleg. I had never owned a previous Pearl Jam CD before this bootleg, I had only heard their top hits on the radio. I was also freshly a new guitarist who was learning how to play. I totally fell in love with PJ's music and discovered them through the Verona Italy 2000 bootleg. After repeatedly listening to the Verona bootleg I bought all of their studio albums Ten - Binaural in one purchase and listened to them all in full in order one afternoon over a few hours. It's really cool to look back upon that afternoon. So I heard many live 2000 versions of songs before I ever heard their studio version counterparts. Typing about it is making me nostalgic. haha Great times. Love Pearl Jam. I have a special attachment to Binaural because it was their newest album at that time and I loved the point that the band was at and the spacey, experimental and punk feel of the songs.
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Irving wrote:
I became an immediate passionate fan shortly after the release of Binaural. I was a freshman in high school in early 1999 late 2000 when I bought my first Pearl Jam bootleg. I had never owned a previous Pearl Jam CD before this bootleg, I had only heard their top hits on the radio. I was also freshly a new guitarist who was learning how to play. I totally fell in love with PJ's music and discovered them through the Verona Italy 2000 bootleg. After repeatedly listening to the Verona bootleg I bought all of their studio albums Ten - Binaural in one purchase and listened to them all in full in order one afternoon over a few hours. It's really cool to look back upon that afternoon. So I heard many live 2000 versions of songs before I ever heard their studio version counterparts. Typing about it is making me nostalgic. haha Great times. Love Pearl Jam. I have a special attachment to Binaural because it was their newest album at that time and I loved the point that the band was at and the spacey, experimental and punk feel of the songs.
Now see that's a cool story, as well as other here..it's great hearing of people coming to Pj through alternative means, meaning not the typical ten route. For the Binaural haters I think it says a lot that so many people came to the band through Binaural. You don't hear as many of the same stories about No Code or even Yield..thanks for that Irving. Live is the best way to find them I believe and you just proved it. Verona was a great bootleg too
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dimejinky99 wrote:
Irving wrote:
I became an immediate passionate fan shortly after the release of Binaural. I was a freshman in high school in early 1999 late 2000 when I bought my first Pearl Jam bootleg. I had never owned a previous Pearl Jam CD before this bootleg, I had only heard their top hits on the radio. I was also freshly a new guitarist who was learning how to play. I totally fell in love with PJ's music and discovered them through the Verona Italy 2000 bootleg. After repeatedly listening to the Verona bootleg I bought all of their studio albums Ten - Binaural in one purchase and listened to them all in full in order one afternoon over a few hours. It's really cool to look back upon that afternoon. So I heard many live 2000 versions of songs before I ever heard their studio version counterparts. Typing about it is making me nostalgic. haha Great times. Love Pearl Jam. I have a special attachment to Binaural because it was their newest album at that time and I loved the point that the band was at and the spacey, experimental and punk feel of the songs.
Now see that's a cool story, as well as other here..it's great hearing of people coming to Pj through alternative means, meaning not the typical ten route. For the Binaural haters I think it says a lot that so many people came to the band through Binaural. You don't hear as many of the same stories about No Code or even Yield..thanks for that Irving. Live is the best way to find them I believe and you just proved it. Verona was a great bootleg too
I was also a freshman in high school when Binaural came out. But I got into the band 2-3 years earlier because my older sister made a mix tape for me that had Black on it. I fell in love with that song so I went out and bought ten. Fell in love with it so I bought vs/vitalogy/nocode. Fell in love with those and was hooked. While I was still digesting those ones Yield had come out, a few months after it came out I bought it and it instantly became my favorite.
Binaural was the first album that I scoured the net every day for more info on. Listening to the Bridge Benefit webcast in 1999 was one of the coolest things in the world at the time.
When the album finally came out I loved it so much that I proclaimed it as my favorite, but when the new album hysteria died down I realized there were a few things wrong with the album and that Yield was still my favorite. But Binaural has always been either my second or third favorite, depending on when you asked me.
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can someone please tell me what this song means? resignate isn't even a word, as far as i know. is it another evolution is correct song? i just can't put it together. if someone could, line by line, even offer a decent interpretation, i'd appreciate it.
Gods' Dice lyrics
it's out of my hands, making your hands meet stumble as it's crumbling out of reach it's in the cards on destiny your sanity in tow designate my luck ah resignate... this power has no roots to guide, no role... trust in rusted minds refused to go unwillingness, it's meaningless to walk away in vain designate my will ah designate my fill resignate my will is crashing, synapses flashing slow ah days like frame by frame, where do they go? yeah why fight? forget it cannot spend it after i go roll 'em high... throw them again... all gods' dice... monkey driven, call this living, hahah ah too much thought, it's overwrought, a hole minding yours, what's mine not yours will finish us off a-designate my life ah designate my view ah resignate my will, my will, my will, i will resignate my god
can someone please tell me what this song means? resignate isn't even a word, as far as i know. is it another evolution is correct song? i just can't put it together. if someone could, line by line, even offer a decent interpretation, i'd appreciate it.
Gods' Dice lyrics
it's out of my hands, making your hands meet stumble as it's crumbling out of reach it's in the cards on destiny your sanity in tow designate my luck ah resignate... this power has no roots to guide, no role... trust in rusted minds refused to go unwillingness, it's meaningless to walk away in vain designate my will ah designate my fill resignate my will is crashing, synapses flashing slow ah days like frame by frame, where do they go? yeah why fight? forget it cannot spend it after i go roll 'em high... throw them again... all gods' dice... monkey driven, call this living, hahah ah too much thought, it's overwrought, a hole minding yours, what's mine not yours will finish us off a-designate my life ah designate my view ah resignate my will, my will, my will, i will resignate my god
This is what Jeff said about the song:
"That came out of kind of a conversation with somebody who's a pretty hardcore Greek Orthodox Catholic...I think I've been walking that line for a long time whether do I believe in God or am I my own God or where am I in that whole scheme of things. I think it has a lot to do about judgment. I'm still trying to figure out what that song's about...but judging anybody who has any sort of belief system whether they believe in God or not."
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StoneIrons wrote:
inglishteecher wrote:
can someone please tell me what this song means? resignate isn't even a word, as far as i know. is it another evolution is correct song? i just can't put it together. if someone could, line by line, even offer a decent interpretation, i'd appreciate it.
Gods' Dice lyrics
it's out of my hands, making your hands meet stumble as it's crumbling out of reach it's in the cards on destiny your sanity in tow designate my luck ah resignate... this power has no roots to guide, no role... trust in rusted minds refused to go unwillingness, it's meaningless to walk away in vain designate my will ah designate my fill resignate my will is crashing, synapses flashing slow ah days like frame by frame, where do they go? yeah why fight? forget it cannot spend it after i go roll 'em high... throw them again... all gods' dice... monkey driven, call this living, hahah ah too much thought, it's overwrought, a hole minding yours, what's mine not yours will finish us off a-designate my life ah designate my view ah resignate my will, my will, my will, i will resignate my god
This is what Jeff said about the song:
"That came out of kind of a conversation with somebody who's a pretty hardcore Greek Orthodox Catholic...I think I've been walking that line for a long time whether do I believe in God or am I my own God or where am I in that whole scheme of things. I think it has a lot to do about judgment. I'm still trying to figure out what that song's about...but judging anybody who has any sort of belief system whether they believe in God or not."
I assume that the title and some of the meaning comes from the Einstein quote that says something like "God does not play dice with the universe". Seems to be about whether or not everything that happens is scripted and organized or if it is all chaos that is totally out of everybody's hands.
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