Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 3:19 pm Posts: 1294 Location: Oakville, Ontario Gender: Male
from a British Independent record dealer called Birdpages...
they gave it 3 stars (i'm guessing out of 5)
sounds like a good review, at least one more deserving of a 3..
Pearl Jam: Binaural (Epic)
Though all the classic ingredients are in place – the solid, punky riffs and Vedder’s edgy bluster – one wonders how long PJ will fight itself for definition after defining themselves as boldly and soundly as they did on ‘Ten’, ‘Vs.’, and ‘Vitalogy’.
Witness the fire breathing opening threesome, ‘breakerfall’, ‘god’s dice’, and ‘evacuation’ that crunch ya like the glory days or Eddie’s shards of glass lyricism and dusky bellow which reverberate the dark shadows cast over ‘light years’, ‘nothing as it seems’, ‘thin air’ and ‘of the girl’. And as always, the playing (especially the intertwining electricity of guitarists McGready and Gossard) is furiously majestic.
Yet, with all this going on, ‘Binaural’ sounds so . . .dense, like the band was rolled up in a fire blanket and left to forcefully blast its way through forty miles of wet cotton. Perhaps this is what PJ and producer Tchad Blake wanted but it dulls the monstrous sturm and drang we love the band for.
Joined: Sat Nov 27, 2004 2:04 pm Posts: 17 Location: Ohio
A really good review, because I tend to agree that the production on Binaural isn't what it could be (louder guitars please!). The album deserves at least a 4 star, though.
Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 3:37 pm Posts: 520 Location: Norway Gender: Male
Is there anybody else out there who, like me, both love and hate (or maybe dislike, hate is too strong) the production of Binaural?
I mean, the sound of songs like Of The Girl, Parting Ways, NAIS, Light Years and other I think is amazing. Really love the sound. Then again, mostly on the "heavier" songs, it's like something's kinda missing. Then again (again), I kinda like it too...
How about a new remastered, remixed, reproduced edition of Binaural?
Like The Beatles' "Let It Be - Naked", only the other way 'round
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When I listened to Binaural for the first time, it was on a car CD player. When I finally bought my own copy, I listened to it on my walkman, and I have never been blown away by production like that before. It echoes round your headphones, NAIS and Insignificance standing out as perfect examples of how the album is layered. The rockier songs do, I'll concede, lack a certain 'punch'. Fantastic songs, as the review says, it's the production that lets them down. Without 3 point surround sound or headphones, it does sound flat and thick, but with them, it's like being in the studio with them. Blake did an awesome job producing the album, we just have to have the technology to hear it how it was intended.
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