rEd mozziE: PEARL JAM - "YIELD" ALBUM

".. echoes nobody hears, it goes, it goes, it goes .. like echoes nobody hears, it goes, it goes, it goes like this.."
FAITHFULL
YIELD

gRoovy YIELD SHOOTS¡ =)
TEN .. VS .. VITALOGY .. NO CODE .. LIVE ON TWO LEGS .. BINAURAL .. RIOT ACT .. LOST DOGS ..
BENAROYA HALL .. REARVIEWMIRROR .. PEARL JAM
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ALBUM: Yield
RELEASED: 3^rd February 1998
LENGTH: 48:29
SINGLES: Given to Fly and Wishlist
TRACK LISTING:
Brain of J [2:59]
Faithfull [4:18]
No Way [4:19]
Given To Fly [4:01]
Wishlist [3:26]
Pilate [3:00]
Do The Evolution [3:54]
[1:06]
MFC [2:27]
Low Light [3:46]
In Hiding [5:00]
Push me, Pull me [2:28]
All Those Yesterdays/Hummus [7:45]

MIKE McCREADY - guitar .. STONE GOSSARD - guitar .. ED VEDDER - vocals, guitar .. JEFF AMENT - bass ..JACK IRONS - drums

NOTES: PRODUCED BY BRENDAN O'BRIEN AND PEARL JAM .. MIXED BY: Brendan O'Brien, except for "Push Me, Pull Me" mixed by Nick Didia .. RECORDED BY: Nick Didia .. ADDITIONAL ENGINEERING BY: Matt Bayles .. RECORDED AND MIXED AT: Studio Litho and Studio X [Seattle] and Southern Tracks Recording and Doppler [Atlanta] .. 2nd ENGINEERS: Matt Bayles @ Studio Litho .. Sam Hofstedt @ Studio X .. and Ryan Williams @ Southern Tracks .. MASTERED AT: Rodney Mills' Masterhouse .. ALL PHOTOGRAPHY BY: Jeff Ament w/Jerry Gay, Greg Montijo, J.Glacier by p .. LAYOUT BY: Barry Ament, George Estrade, Coby Schultz & Jeff Ament courtesy of AmesBros .. ALBUM CONCEPT BY: Carpenter Newton

.. hey did anyOne knOw about the HIDDEN YIELD SIGNS in the bOOklet with this one¿ .. lOOk clOse enOugh and they be they alrighties¡ *gets out the ole magnifyin' glass*
This is .. indEEd .. oNe of my fAvourite albUms. And a fOllOw up on the albUm .. released in video form cAlled "Single Video Theory" .. is a kind of 'visual companion piece' which runs for 'bout 45 minutes with a littl' insight to the Yield sessions¡ perty grOOvy. After the release of NO CODE with it's disappOinting sAles .. and nOw with the release of their nEw albUm YIELD .. it'll be interesting to see hOw this one will be perceived .. nO dOubt the critics will hAve somethin' to sAy .. nO dOubt *shAkin head*
Hmmm the 5th albUm under their belt .. and a friGGin' brilliAnt oNe at thAt *lOl* .. hEy I dOn't cAre whether ima bein bias or nOt hErE .. bUt YIELD definitely soArs =). TheSe gUys seem mOre footloose and fancy free as thEy be nO lOnger weighed dOwn by demAnds .. expectAtions and ongoin' b.s .. it's like they've shed their skin frOm all the crAp dUrin' the past fEw yeArs and nOw .. as hinted in NO CODE .. are fEElin' mOre cOmfOrtable with themselveS and with whErE thEy stAnd. Unlike their previous albUms .. with this one the guys were more conscious perhaps in whErE they were heAdin' with eAch trAck. So insteAd of getting it in the first coupla tAkes .. there was mOre time for thOught put into the 13 tracks you get on YIELD. Tunes were demoed as the guys sat dOwn and wOrked together .. pickin' and pullin' em apArt .. mAkin' changes the arrangements .. and rehearsed until they were hAppy with the finAl take .. yAy¡ =)
Being a bAnd thAng .. Gossard and Ament have got individUal effOrts with a coUpla tracks eAch there .. Gossard with "No Way" and "All Those Yesterdays" and Ament with "Pilate" and "Lowlight" .. thErE's eVen an odd bodd frOm Iron's .. a curioUsly untitled trAck [ though it is sAid to be "The Colour Red"] with a fUnky trippy soundin' rhythm with the repeated lyrics "War .. I'm crazy .. war I'm crazy .. I'm war" in the foreground. So with all thangs considered .. the end result yOu sAy¿ .. YIELD is a well crafted albUm where the listener can expEct to heAr a wide variEty of hard rOck, acoustic rOck, and maybe a deep soul blues meaning .. y'can either say it's a good thang or a bad thang in how its come aboUt but it is INDEED .. mUsic thAt no doUbt sAys PEARL JAM all oVer .. gOtta lurv thOse gUys¡ =)
YIELD opens with a slAmming trAck in "Brain of JFK" .. this trAck alOng with the rawness of "Do The Evolution" coUld well be the VITALOGY dAys re-visited as it takes a nOd in that directiOn but as for the rest .. well there's a different fEEl to it .. from the air borne tracks like .. oh I dUnno .. "Faithfull" .. "In Hiding" and not to mention "Given To Fly" *G* to the dreamy waltzy soundin' "Lowlight" and edgy "Push Me Pull Me" right through to the almost late 60s feel to "All Those Yesterdays". They say their first single "Given To Fly" is said to sound sorta like Zeppelin's "Going To California" .. thAt I wouldn't knOw .. but that trAck is one of my big time favoUrites¡ [plUg .. plUg .. plUg .. *lOl*] McCready did say somewhere that whether it was a conscious or unconscious thing .. Zeppelin was definitely an inflUence on that .. bUt then again .. I alSo did read somewhere that YIELD is accented with all sorts of splice's from rock's history .. from Captain Beefheart to The Jefferson Airplane .. ¿¿ .. umm all befOre my time *L* but whatever the cAse .. LURV IT¡ .. rOck on¡ =)

BRAIN OF J
vVedder, McCreadyv

1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, .. sorry .. 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4
Who's got the brain of JFK?
What's it mean to us now, yeah?
Oh, it's sound insurance
But I can tell you, this is no lie
The whole world will be different soon
The whole world will be relieved
You, you've been taught, whipped into shape
Now they got you in line
Stand behind the stripes
There will be order, so give it a good mind
The whole world will be different soon
The whole world will be relieved
And by name
The name they gave me
The name I'm letting go ..
The whole world will be different seen
The whole world will be relieved
The whole world will be different soon, soon

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FAITHFULL
vVedder, McCreadyv

Plaque on the wall says that no one's slept here
Its rare to come upon a bridge that has not been around
Or been stepped on
But if I'd the notion [liner notes say: "whatever the notion"]
Were laced in our prayers
The man upstairs is used to all of this noise
I'm through with screaming
Echoes nobody hears, it goes, it goes, it goes
Like echoes nobody hears, it goes, it goes, it goes like this
We're faithfull, we all believe, we all believe it
Echoes nobody hears, it goes, it goes, it goes
We're all faithfull, we all believe, we all believe it
M.Y.T.H
Belief in the game controls that keeps us in a box of fear
We never listen
Voice inside so drowned out
Drowned you are, you are, you are a furry thing
And everything is you
Me you, you me, its all related
What's a boy to do?
Just be a darling and I will be too
Faithfull to you

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NO WAY
vGossardv

Here's a token of my open-ness
Of my need to not disappear
How I'm feeling, so revealing to me
I found my mind too clear
I just need someone to be there for .. me
I just want someone to be there for .. me
All the static in my attic-a
Shoots down my side nerve
To the ocean of my platitudes
Longitudes, latitudes, its so absurd
I just need someone to be there for ..
I just want someone to be there for ..
Someone to be there for ..
Cause I'll stop trying to make a difference
I'm not trying go make a difference
I'll stop trying to make a difference
No way
Ooh, let's call in an angel
Cause I'll stop trying to make a difference
I'm not trying to make a difference
I'll stop trying to make a difference
No way
No way, no way
Let's call in an angel
Who's calling an angel??