Post subject: Which PJ album was the best the first time you heard it?
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 10:41 pm
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I see a lot of "ranking the albums" or "what's the worst album" posts lately...but what about the best PJ on the first listen?
My favorite is No Code, but thinking back to the first time I heard it, I was like "was that it?" So it didn't hit me hard. Neither did Riot Act or S/T. Yield was good, but I remember thinking it was too front-heavy. Ten doesn't count for me, because I actually never listened to it fully in its first year release.
I think mine comes down to Vs. or Binaural. I am going to say Binaural because as it kept going on I thought it was getting better. Sleight of Hand and Parting Ways were just great at the end of the album. Vs. was great, too, but I do remember thinking that it was nothing like Ten.
Your thoughts?
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Post subject: Re: Which PJ album was the best the first time you heard it?
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 10:47 pm
Force of Nature
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Ten - Simply because I was born September 24 1991, and this was played in the car on the way home. And as I was a baby, apparently it kept me quiet. I hadn't heard any of the other PJ albums until around 2004/2005 when I decided that I'd been listening to Ten for almost 13-14 years and needed something new. So I got the rest and to this day I don't find anything better than Ten. VS and Vitalogy come kind of close.
I also like the S/T one, that was really well done. Plenty of people bash it but I think it's creative and a new sound for the band.
I guess in a way, I've come to love every album regardless of first impression. I hated Riot Act but a couple of months ago, it was all I could listen to. I gained a huge appreciation for it.
Post subject: Re: Which PJ album was the best the first time you heard it?
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 11:52 pm
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Vitalogy is probably the album that impressed me the most after the first listen, but it's down the list now, Binaural probably impressed me least after the first try and it's my favirote album now.
Post subject: Re: Which PJ album was the best the first time you heard it?
Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 1:40 am
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Vitalogy. I heard Do The Evolution as my first pearl jam song, went to a record store and brought Yeild and Vitalogy. Loved both of them to death but with Last Exit and STBC opening Vitalogy just dominated everything.
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Post subject: Re: Which PJ album was the best the first time you heard it?
Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 1:41 am
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Funnily enough my friend who was a pearl jam fan burn me Ten a few weeks later and I said to her afterwards: what is the big deal with this, Jeremy is one of their biggest hits!!?
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Post subject: Re: Which PJ album was the best the first time you heard it?
Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:04 am
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Ten or Vitalogy
I loved S/T the first time I heard the whole thing, but I had already gotten to know the songs that were leaked so it's hard to count that one.
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Post subject: Re: Which PJ album was the best the first time you heard it?
Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 3:25 pm
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Vs. for me. I didn't get into them w/ Ten, and with pretty much every release I'm disappointed on first listen. After a few spins, and maybe even a few years (Binaural, No Code) I really open up to them. Vs. and Yield were the only two I really loved on first listen.
Post subject: Re: Which PJ album was the best the first time you heard it?
Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 3:54 pm
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No Code.
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Post subject: Re: Which PJ album was the best the first time you heard it?
Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 4:53 pm
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Post subject: Re: Which PJ album was the best the first time you heard it?
Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 6:42 pm
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Lost Dogs was instant love. So was LO2L and Benaroya.
The studio albums usually put me for a loop, and it takes a little time to accept them for what they are, but Yield was fairly easy to love. Vs too, but I was a bit young, and probably didn't love it at the very first listen.
I'd have to say Vs. I was already sold on the band with Ten but I was introduced to it one single at a time. I bought Vs. the day it came out, went straight home and listened over and over. It was the perfect album.
Vitalogy's first listen.... I still remembered Corduroy standing out right away, but I was so confused by the end of the album. What the hell was Stupid Mop? What was Aye Davanita? I just didn't get it.
No Code ... I didn't HATE it on my first listen, but I was a bit upset that it wasn't as rock as the others. I wasn't ready for this new style from PJ.
Yield was an instant classic. For me it was their return to rock. DTE was an instant classic. After Vs. I'd put Yield as my next best first impression.
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