Here we pay homage to some of the best live performances of Yield songs that exist in Pearl Jam’s canon. There is definitely a great balance of those two distinctions on this record. While others became afterthoughts for the band with limited play, they turned into exciting chaser songs for the longtime fan who desired to see everything that they’d ever written live. Some of the songs from Yield were able to thrive on the big stage, and a few even became instant mainstays that sit in the top 10 of most-played songs. 13 songs that were all ready to be showcased to the universe and the concertgoer (unfortunately, back to TicketMaster again…) to experience a life lasting memory weren’t going to have their original, percussive sound.īut we all know what happened, Matt Cameron ended up being the best replacement anyone could ask for.
Jack Irons, who according to Eddie had saved the band upon his arrival in 1994, had to depart for personal reasons. It seemed like the band was finally in a good place, but it wasn’t long before they had to battle uphill again. The songs were more collaborative, took on deeper thematic subjects inspired by works of literature such as Ishmael, and blended a variety of styles and genres to create their most polished work yet.
It wasn’t until the release of Yield where we were fully able to see what they were capable of. No Code was a great start to setting up what would be the foundation of the next 27 years of the band, but it was still working out a little bit of that left over frustration carried by Vs.and Vitalogy. We can all admit Who You Are wasn’t a great first single, but beyond the mainstream pull, Pearl Jam was starting to find their maturity both musically and as full grown adults. But that’s because they were all ill-advised listening to radio stations when they told them how unsatisfying No Code was.
Outside of Pearl Jam, none of the other ‘big 4’ bands had survived that far, and if you asked any common music fan at the time, they would’ve said Pearl Jam hadn’t either. The influx of bands emanating from the Pacific Northwest had dissipated. It had been seven years since the landscape of rock ‘n’ roll changed. The most popular rock bands in the United States range anywhere from Top 40 radio mainstays such as Third Eye Blind and Matchbox Twenty, pop-punk bands who outlived the mid-90s boom in Green Day and The Offspring, and then of course, the budding nu-metal bands…I don’t need to remind you who they are.
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