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All rights reserved.| Track Listing 1. Brain Of J 2. Faithful 3. No Way 4. Given To Fly 5. Wishlist 6. Pilate 7. Do The Evolution 8. Untitled Song 9. MFC 10. Low Light 11. In Hiding 12. Push Me Pull Me 13. All Those Yesterdays
Album Notes YIELD contains a hidden track.Pearl Jam: Eddie Vedder (vocals, guitar); Stone Gossard, Mike McCready (guitar); Jeff Ament (bass); Jack Irons (drums).Recorded at Studio Litho and Bad Animals, Seattle, Washington; Southern Tracks Recording and Doppler, Atlanta, Georgia."Do The Evolution" was nominated for the 1999 Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance and Best Short Form Music Video. YIELD was nominated for the 1999 Grammy Award for Best Recording Package.Nay-sayers and trends be damned. Pearl Jam's follow-up to 1996's NO CODE continues down the path of aggressive rock and roll, existential musings and musical experimentation. This isn't your older brother's grunge. Opening with the hard-driving "Brain Of J," YIELD goes from a punky swagger representing man's arrogance in asserting his lofty place on the food chain ("Do The Evolution") to a free jazz approach and a disembodied Vedder vocal questioning the meaning of life ("Push Me, Pull Me"). Most of YIELD continues to ply the standard Pearl Jam sound: Vedder's pained emoting, the interesting use of dynamics between McCready and Gossard's guitars and solid rhythm-work from the Ament/Irons rhythm section. Rather than falling into the creative rut many huge bands succumb to, Pearl Jam's music has instead developed its own identity while still walking the fringes of the unorthodox. Hence the inclusion of a weird, untitled percussive instrumental cut in Jack Irons' home studio and an Eastern-flavored hidden track pointing towards the influence of the late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Editorial Reviews Rolling Stone Magazine (02/19/1998) Spin (03/01/1998) New Musical Express (01/31/1998) Entertainment Weekly (02/06/1998) Rolling Stone (02/19/1998) | |||||||||||||
Reviews I bought this album to help me complete my Pearl Jam collection. It's not their best album but they can't do much wrong for me! I love the slow songs: Faithful, Wishlist and the inspirational Given to Fly. PJ released quite a few experimental records and the experiments were not always perfect, but at least they never stand still. They are still rockin'. Their best albums in my opinion are Ten, No Code, Rear View Mirror and the new one, Pearl Jam. I don't think you'd put Yield in that list but some of the songs on it are well worth more than one listen , even if for Ed's fantastic voice alone. Pearl Jam play the music I waited all my life to listen to, and Ed's is the one voice that stands out as the best I've ever heard. Can't you tell I love this band?! Review ID: 10000000001218965 Was this review helpful? Report this review |
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