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| | Backspacer | | | Music Artist : | | Pearl Jam | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Universal Music Group | | Release Date : | | 2009-11-10 | | Store Price : | | $18.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $18.98 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Gonna See My Friend
2. Got Some
3. The Fixer
4. Johnny Guitar
5. Just Breathe
6. Amongst The Wave
7. Unthought Known
8. Supersonic
9. Speed Of Sound
10. Force Of Nature
11. The End
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Best PJ's hands down.
Submitted on: 2009-11-15 |
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| This band was one of my favorites in highschool and then faded away in importance to me. This CD makes me feel like a kid on Christmas all over again. I can't get enough. |
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 What do you expect?
Submitted on: 2009-11-14 |
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So, I've been listening to Pearl Jam since the day Alive premiered on MTV. I watched that video and left my mouth on the floor only to close it when I was running out the door for the record store (Musicland in SpringHill Mall to be accurate - Anyone remember those?)
Funny thing is that Smells Like Teen Spirit premiered immediately after and it was background music to the awe I was in over the Pearl Jam sound.
I still get chills when I hear that album, and the songs off of the Singles soundtrack. And then Vs. came out and I was in the parking lot of Rose Records in Crystal Lake, IL waiting for the midnight release party (Remember those, do they even happen anymore? Does anyone ever get excited about music these days?) Vs. was decent but it was immediately obvious that the face of Pearl Jam was changing and the innocence and soul of that band (on vinyl) was never going to be the same. I don't know what drives bands to mediocrity but rare are the few that can keep the magic of their sound alive album after album, to continue evolving and reinspiring the hope and emotion that drives us all to listen.
For me, had Pearl Jam never released another album besides Ten, I'd have been happier.
Then there is the third album, and it hada a few decent tracks on it, but mostly, the departure continued. Everything after became a blur of albums and songs that I have been completely incapable of attaching to. I've found no emotion, no hook, no sounds worth lending my ear. I'll admit that I go back and try to give all the other albums a chance, No Code, Yield, Binaural, etc, but like I said, I couldn't tell you where one album ends and the next starts. Where are the beautiful layers and the mystical tones of Eddies voice? When was the last time he actually sang? I miss grunge, it was the best period of music in the last 30 years, and I wish there was still music and evolution in sound as intense as the bands of that period coming out. All of the greats have become as muddy and boring as the crap that gets played on the radio. I only wish the next best thing was coming but I fear the worst.
That was until Eddie released his work on the Into the Wild soundtrack and my faith was restored. I haven't sat and listened to an album beginning to end and enjoyed one track more than the next since the early 90's, and for me, this is what I want to hear.
This new album will get its listen and I hear some radio friendly poppy smile inducing stuff on here, but I don't want to smile, I want to feel, and I want to be drawn to tears so that when the smile comes its not for 3 overplayed minutes, but for 3 decades. |
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Best in a long time
Submitted on: 2009-11-12 |
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| I am on the "best since Yeild" boat. I actually think its better than yeild. Call me crazy, I love this album. Its upbeat, catchy rock and roll with a bit of edge that we have grown to love from them but yet with new lyrical perspectives as they age. |
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 surprisingly melodic
Submitted on: 2009-11-11 |
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Pearl Jam was never one of the most melodic bands out there, but for this album, Backspacer, the band seemed to care especially hard about delivering great vocal melodies.
What's even MORE amazing is just how much of a focus on powerful, intense, and heavy alternative rock the album features. This is one *extremely* heavy album, and not just by Pearl Jam's standards either. This is one powerhouse of a rock album.
Some people may complain about the shortness of the album, but when the album cooks from beginning to end with THIS much intensity, it's hard to complain about a running time a bit shorter than we've come to expect, not just from Pearl Jam, but from ALL albums nowadays. After all, compact discs can hold, what? 80 minutes of music? This album doesn't come anywhere close to that.
Overall, it's about the quality of the songwriting above everything else, and Pearl Jam has definitely proven they have the talent to write great vocal melodies, and with an album like Backspacer, they now have the songwriting to match their desire to just rock out for this one. |
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Not really that Pearl Jamish
Submitted on: 2009-11-11 |
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| People are commenting that this might PJ best album since Yield. When is the last time you listened to Riot Act all the way through, uninterrupted? Its a million miles away good. I listened to Backspacer and its maybe one of their worst, if not the worst album of their career. Even some of the all-time greats make a lousy album. Clearly, this is a forgettable album. Still love PJ and will see the show... |
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