People who die on the hill of "Ten, Vs, and Vitalogy were Pearl Jam's only good albums" confuse me. I can only imagine these are the middle aged men who still try to look and dress the way they did in 94 and hit on teenagers.
@Eulimnadian No Code, Yield, and Binaural is (in my opinion) the strongest run of 3 albums they have. Nobody can convince me that Bugs or Heyfoxymophandle top anything off those albums lol
I've been obsessing over the O'Brien mix of Ten. Especially with headphones... There's just so much in Jeremy alone that is lost in the original layers of reverb. The comparisons of Ten should be taught as an example of what a good producer can do.
Yeah, those songs out of context are weird...well, they are in context too, lol. But as part of the album they belong, as an experiment or art piece, something like Revolution No 9 is on the White Album.
I haven't compared the newer mix of Ten to the original. I have the original. But that sounds like a fun project.
@Eulimnadian Everyone has their own opinion on which version of Ten they prefer, especially having grown up with it... but I'm a music production nerd. There's SO much lost in the original that I never even knew was there, and Brendan O'Brien mixed most of their other albums (and Soundgarten, I belive?) while the band was never happy with the original mix (record label deciding who produced it)... I have a love for the new mix for many reasons.
It's worth a listen, either way.
@theunabeefer
I've been listening to Yield lately. Love it.