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I mean, to the extent we can imagine this without including all the logical consequences let's erase that album from history without changing anything else: Would anyone have ever cared about Pearl Jam? Would Vs.

I like the line about "the full moon shining off a Camaro's hood," but man, some of these lyrics …Ģ. "Given To Fly" tries, not entirely unsuccessfully, to recapture Ten's soaring grandeur (via Zep) "Wishlist" is a very goofy but very catchy ballad, probably the most upfront and straightforward pop number the band has ever penned. But while it's not an unpleasant album, it's not a memorable one, either.

where Eddie Vedder was not guiding the songwriting in some totalitarian-seeming fashion). Yield was the band supposedly "returning" to their roots (it was the first album since 1992's Vs. No, I call it their Black Period because Yield was the first of three consecutive Peal Jam albums whose artwork was dominated by the color black, and for me, the sound on those albums is thus suitably dreary and void-like (the second Black Period album is Binaural the third is … coming up next on this list).

Yield (1998): Yield was the beginning of what I like to call Pearl Jam's "Black Period." Now, this is a confusing term, and I don't believe anyone else has adopted it (or employed it, to my knowledge), probably in part because Pearl Jam has a very popular song called "Black," and that's not what I'm making reference to here.