Pearl Jam: The Story Behind The Album That Nearly Destroyed The Band (Vitalogy)
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Where does Vitalogy rank for you in Pearl Jam’s discography?
It's one of my favourites. "Not for you" is one of their best songs and the album's artwork is especially stunning.
Second after "Vs."... I don't like the hippie atmosphere of "Ten", all that flanger, I prefer those garage rock guitars and Dave Abbruzzese's drums from "Vitalogy" and "Vs."
it's probably my favourite album of theirs, every song on it is amazing. Immortality, Corduroy, Better man, you can't beat those songs...
Sid,
In my opinion, Vitalogy ranks below 'Ten and 'Versus'; but ahead of 'Binaural, 'Riot Act'
in my opinion, underrated
Pearl Jam is a BRAVE band.
10 and VS. Were great, they had a very marketable sound, not a bad thing. Vitalogy at times spits in the face of popular marketing and they didnt stop there. Every album since has been good, not always easily digested on the first spin, but to me those are the albums that are actually really good. I respect this band so much for this, always chasing a new angle of artistic expression, not content to just churn out "what people want".
I very much agree. No Code, for me, is where they perfected the balance of doing their own creative thing without needing to throw in a track like Bugs to sort of purposely keep things from being too mainstream.
"Corduroy" is an all-time classic and an anthem, frankly. The evolution of the song from Vitalogy to how they perform it live with the bridge done as a crowd singalong gives me chills every time.
Also, so glad my man McCready got healthy and is doing so well now.
My fave PJ song ever.
Man, I loved Vitalogy. In my time of PJ fandom, Vitalogy (IMO) was the last great album. No Code had me scratching head and after that they just continued in an opposite direction of my growing musical tastes at the time as well as what I loved of the band’s music in the first place. And I was absolutely obsessed with them up until early ‘96. Vs. and Vitalogy were my favorite records, and of course Ten right behind that. I may be quite a ways from that music now, but I still consider Vs. as one of my all time favorite albums. I got turned onto a “rock” in the middle of the grunge movement. So I was never going to be able to fight it haha. I don’t regret or deny my grunge roots.
Vitalogy is really good, No Code has a few good moments, Yield a few minutes 😉
Vitalogy felt like a letter from a friend.
100% agree with you. The angst and rawness of the band was lost after Vitalogy. No Code had me literally say "glad I didn't do anything dumb and get that Pearl Jam tattoo on my arm"
@@martyrmedia get the Badmotorfinger one 😁
Yeah, that was the last PJ album I ever bought. The allure of the band that once captured my interest just wasn't there for me.
Living in Seattle we all hear more Pearl Jam than we deserve.They need to give it a break !!
Was their best imo. Corduroy, Immortality, and Not for You are my favorites.
Also Tremor Christ.
Agreed. Great songs and the lyrics we’re fucking brilliant!!
These are all great tracks, but we're talking about the full album here. I need to understand your defense for "Bugs" and "Hey Foxymophandlemama, That's Me". Ten's worst track is the mediocre-but-fine "Deep"
@@ShaqPlaque great songs. Whats the beef?
@@chadwickwright2833Bugs is a one time experience and the ending is bafflingly bad
Oddly enough, it’s their best album in my opinion. When I saw them play a fan club concert at The Moore Theater in Seattle a couple months after it’s release, they opened with “Last Exit” (ironically a composition written by newly-fired drummer Dave Abbruzzese) and it was one of the most mind-blowing experiences of my life; that one goes to my grave with me.
Jack Irons was the one who gave Stone Gossard the original vocal tape from Eddie Vedder, which prompted the boys I'm Seattle to bring Vedder there asap from San Diego. It was meant to be on several levels.
Jack is such a great drummer
Nothingman is one of the most beautiful songs ever written.
Tremor Christ has always been one of my all time faves of Pearl Jam
Mad underrated
Nice to see another appreciating the cracked tunes of Tremor Christ
Hell yeah I love that song, it always had a weird Beatles kind of feel to it, to me anyway.
Tremor Christ is one of my favorites!! 😊💓🤘✌️
I have Tremor Christ by PJ and Jesus Christ Pose by Soundgarden back to back on a mixed CD I made back in the day. Great tunes! Always cranked when driving...maybe pressed the gas pedal a little too much at times.
Dave's firing felt like a death. Absolutely heartbreaking and irreplaceable.
They did fine before him and after him.
Eddie clearly wanted the drumming to sound boring. I used to think Matt Cameron was a boring drummer in pearl jam until I saw him live with Soundgarden absolutely lighting up his kit.
Eddie got his subdued drumming wish from Irons on debatably their worst album “No Code.” I lost interest in PJ after that.
@@foodog777Christ! If you think NC is their worst album, you’re truly a moron.
@@abrahamesparza01look at the sales lol
Selling 5 million units with no videos. I remember hearing criticism about how anyone could make a music video. The thing is they had a successful (sales wise) album without music video promotion during the age of MTV
I absolutely love VITALOGY and Dave was my favorite drummer until Matt. Brilliant.
Die hard fan for life...... Spin the black circle is my favorite song and vitalogy is an incredibly great record.
Vitalogy is a masterpiece. It has this special ambience, unique !
Vitalogy was for me, PJs most mature album to date at the time. The angst anthems of 10 and VS had faded some on Vitalogy in favor of a more (less busy… wink wink) sound.
I also consider that album to be the one where the band began its adult life compared to the more youthful enthusiasm that 10 and VS had. And I think thats the case because the guys in the band were also in their mid to late 20’s and had other life experiences to influence their creativity. I, like them, also became more of an adult around then too and identify with that process and this album in that way.
Dont get me wrong, 10 and VS are IMO PJs greatest efforts with Vitalogy and No Code right behind them.
Its a great album and they are and have always been a great band!
Pfft, you have awful taste. Keep polishing that turd!
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That PearlJam "VS" Cover Picture/ArtWork, is an Album I'll Never Forget Seeing on StoreShelves for TheFirstTime!
(I Was in 'HILL'S' DepartmentStore, when I First Saw That Album.)
I loved Vitalogy, whaddya kidding me? Touched me like few other musical works. "Some die just to live..."
"Vitalogy" is great. It's the behind the scenes that was brutal... the band still sounded like a band but Dave Abbruzzese left right after this record. The drums on "Vitalogy" and "Vs." make a lot of difference.
@@redacted2275 Agree 100%. The bands sound was noticeably different, beginning on Vitalogy and more obviously on No Code and Dave leaving was the reason. He was a HUGE musical influence to their sound overall. I also agree that after Yield, the band really hasnt resembled itself sound-wise since those first 5 albums. Matt Camerons joining was something I had hoped would point them back to their roots (drum-wise) but… by then, that style of music was more of their past than their future.
Still my FAV band of all time but only really listen to the first 5 albums.
As much as I love Pearl Jam, I think Dave Abbruzzese is still their best drummer and feel the band did him dirty, which is a real shame.
My favorite Pearl Jam album and my favorite album of all time!
I love the experimentation together with the hooky rocking songs. Lyrically and musically their darkest album imo. Love it.
It's ironic Vedder turned into what he fired Dave for apparently being..
Abbruzese goes out of his way to engage with fans and talk about everything from his approach to different songs, instruments used, personal experiences and relationships etc... Eddie pretended to hate being famous because that was the cool thing to do at the time
Yeah Abruzzeze always seemed to me like the most real and down to earth guy in that band along with Ament
Vedder is that kind of idiotic superstar who likes to play virtue and get involved in meaningless fights, like in the case of Ticketmaster... Rockstars playing like social vigilantes is one of the most annoying things ever.
It's a little too convenient that Vedder hated his playing (what, it stood out to much?) and then was also a problem in the band.
He's gone Bono they forget it's the music we love not what they think
VS is my favourite Pearl Jam album… Vitalogy is also great but overall a lot less consistent due to songs like ‘Bugs’.
Bugs totally buggers the energy they were building with this album. You get built up then let down buy some goofy filler track. I still like the album but I agree VS. Was the better album.
The tracks aside from Bugs really weigh down Vitalogy, Bugs was its one true saving grace.
Yeah bugs is a strange one and if it comes on Spotify playlist while I’m driving or doing almost anything it seems out of place. When Vitalogy came out I would listen to the entire album over and over while playing an oldschool snes rpg final fantasy II. For some reason, listening while playing a video game, “bugs” didn’t seem so out of place. Many of the greatest albums have some parts that are way strange. Gotta be in the mindset I guess
Never was the same after Vitalogy, and Vitalogy wasn't great either.
I really liked their debut. Nothing they did after that really did anything for me.
The experimental tracks on the albums second half fit the dark, unusual, abrasive tone. It felt like a soundtrack to a David Lynch movie. I used to like that unsettling, uninviting mood that the album cast on me, but over the years I bypass those experimental tracks.
There was other songs in the vault that, were they included on Vitalogy instead would have rounded it off as a consistant, rocking album.
Maybe its me, but tracks like "Bugs" havent stood the test of time to me.
"Bugs" speaks to me on a personal level. I live in a North Korean hotel, so I love making the secret police listen to that song through the bugs in my room.
Love Pearl Jam. Great music. Vitalogy is one of my favorites
Little Eddie, so threatened by Abruzezze stealing the spotlight from him.
After Vitalogy I totally lost track of what they were doing…
They seemed to lose a lot of something after the Vs album. Not that they didn't have good songs afterwards but the album quality was lacking.
I stopped listening to PJ when Vitalogy came out. Ten and VS are where it's at for me
the day i got my license i went to the mall and got vitalogy on cd, then went back to school. an epic album
Thanks for another great video! How about one on the seminal Aussie band Radio Birdman?
Never heard of them. Worth checking out??
@@waxxy8447 energy level set at 11
Ten is so perfect that it almost sounds like a Greatest Hits record. Love it. Beautiful mix of angst and anger, rebellion and reflection. VS is rage channeled into thunderous sound and the explored themes of both those albums are still prevalent now. I remember hearing Vitology for the first time and being confused. There are some cool tunes on it, some classics but something was missing. Then No Code, then Yield. I gave up after that. Perhaps I never grew up but modern Pearl Jam might as well be a completely different band made up of warbling old men recording albums sitting on rocking chairs. I'm happy as hell they can still sell out arenas and have their fans but the night and day difference is astonishing. I've tried getting into Gigaton, multiple times. Can't do it. Can't connect whatsoever
Like Eddie sings on Vitalogy, this is not for me
Oh well
Same here. You should try backspacer. If they published it during the 90s this record would be a smash hit
Matt Cameron is a WAY busier drummer than Dave.
I can't understand why Matt joined a band that cut his wings off to play safe and square 4/4 robotic beats.
I don't get it either. Abbruzese is much more based on dynamics and groove with subtle fills like 5 stroke splash rolls. Matt is the guy who brought us jesus christ pose. Listening to Matt play in pj Is like watching Jack Nicholson in cuckoos nest after the lobotomy
@@sampats89 listen to Matt's drumming in King Animal. It's insane!
He sounds like man out of prison.
@@rael2099 yeah it's a great album. I can't help but hate all of them for turning a blind eye to the mistreatment of dave. Funnily enough, Dave has stated that the only contact he still has with pearl jam is through Cameron, irons and chamberlain
DAve was a top drummer for me but yeah never liked Cameron in pearl jam, in Soundgarden yes, but pj no.
Vitality was pretty much the end of my fandom. There are a few songs I liked but I haven't listened to anything since. I have seen the band a few times since.
No code broke me. Yield had some good stuff though but after that I got into swedish melodic death metal 😁
First I smash the Like button, then I hit play
Vitalogy was the last album from PJ that I really got into. Some great songs on there, but also some odd ones. I often go digging through crates of used CDs in used music stores and at record/CD conventions. Recently I was thinking about how I can always spot Vitalogy in a crate, even if I can't read its spine because of the unique packaging.
It’s an odd size so it sticks out. The music stores gave them a lot of flack for that at the time. It didn’t fit in the cd shelving correctly.
There was never an album I was more hyped to buy. We waited outside the store for it to open the day it went on sale.
Pearl Jam had done SNL and performed "Not For You". I had recorded that episode and watched that performance over and over and was praying it would be on the new album and it was.
Vs is still my favorite PJ album but then it's Vitalogy followed by 10
I remember being a little disappointed with the album version of "Not for You" because the performance of that song on SNL was so great. I also taped it and watched it numerous times.
i remember the vinyl release was one week early. the radio stations gave eddie 4 hours to play whatever he wanted from a trailer in seattle. he brought in the fastbacks, mudhoney, kris novoselic, and jack irons made his debut with the band. they were truly the biggest band in the world.
@@STONESGAMmost of their live versions are better than the album versions of the songs. The albums just never totally captured that live energy.
@@STONESGAM the SNL version of Not for You is better because the vocals sound more VS era Pearl Jam. The album version vocals sound more like how Eddie's voice would sound from that era moving ahead.
@@ColorsBright I mean I loved the Vitalogy album and VS but I just felt Not For You didn't feature the best recording they could have done. It sounded a little rough without the energy of the live performance especially towards the end of the song.
Maybe it's because I loved that live performance so much and I had it in my head how I wanted it to sound on the album that I felt a little let down. Still enjoy the song but it wasn't one of the main highlights of that album for me and it should have been.
For me Yield is Pearl Jams last great album.. there is just something about Yield I extremely love... It has almost a long road trip sound to the whole album.
Dave's drum style too busy? His drum style is what kept pearl jam from being boring.
Jack was the best
@@robpaxson4455 no
Matt Cameron is the only other drummer they've had that is close to Dave's level, and matt is shit in pj. Abbruzese, vinnie Paul and Jim chamberlin are the best drummers of that decade and eddie the scumbag robbed us of getting to enjoy more of king Abbruzese
Exactly. Dave and Jack were great. The drummer from Soundgarden, i just dont think his style fits the band so great
Pearl Jam started out strong and quickly went off their original path. I love the first 2 albums but lost interest around Vitalogy. They really devolved since the early days of grunge. The music just lost that harder edge.
Great comment!
Well put. Couldn’t agree more.
Spin the black circle from Vitalogy is more harder edge than any song on Ten, maybe only blood from VS can top of it...
@@thomasdrish8488we don’t disregard the experimental stuff, we like it. Stretching their musical wings and trying new stuff leads to growth and new styles. If musicians didn’t do that we’d still be listening to classical music and nothing else.
They turned into a rickety sounding folk rock band
Phenomenal Album. Their last Great one! It was all downhill after Vitalogy..
Switches between #1 and #2 but #1 for album art. I bought the CD and Vinyl even though I didn't have a working record player
That's actually one of my favorite albums from Pearl Jam. And Tabitha😍 was she hot!
I really liked Vitalogy immediately and still do. Unfortunately, I really don't think they have recorded anything above even mediocre level since the Yield album (which is a masterpiece). This is just my opinion, and surely not the popular one.
After yellow ledbetter came out,I had a really hard time finding anything else that I liked from PJ on any of their other albums,I guess you could say I am a Pearl Jam fan from YL and everything before it!!!
That’s when I stopped trying to like Pearl Jam and came to terms with the fact that I really only like Ten.
So true ten just hits different
That’s too bad for you, you missed out on a lot great music they’ve produced since Vitalogy
You missed out
Not really. They're pretty bland
You don't dig Not For You?
Vitalogy is my favorite PJ album.
Poor Eddie Vedder. I hope he becomes happy one day. He is such tortured soul.
ps. I remember Dave pizzing off Eddie because he gave an in interview with Drummer magazine and the band was all about staying out of the media at this point.
I believe that's why they fired Dave.
@@sstaners1234 or is it really humor or just plain facts? I'm sure Eddie would agree with me. God bless his soul.
Poor Eddie Vedder? Come on. There are people in this world who have real problems. I call bullshit on that
He's a phony. Industry puppet. Pearl Jam tried to fight Ticketmaster years ago, and lost. Meanwhile, ZZ Top and Kid Rock did a tour for 20 bucks a ticket, and it was a success. Pretending to be against a corporate entity to maintain street cred is just, well, phony.
B-b-b-b-but the rest of the People in the World aside from Eddie Vedder😭😭😭 @@olehillbilly4331 relax sis
I do remember models wearing grunge clothing, and always found it strange. Lots of grunge clothing was inexpensive and practical, and now these high fashion models were wearing it, instead of their usual high-end fare. Bizarre, to be certain.
Ten and VS is the only 2 albums I ever liked
I bought their first 3 albums. The first two were great the third one not so much. Didn't buy another PJ album after that.
Man, Tabitha Soren was a Grade-A hottie in those days.
I love vitalogy , I think they were at their peak of their creativities when this album out , they explored so many different song characters and sounds and also the lyrics .. compare to ten and Vs...
I just don't get people who can't accept such a dynamic progression,
come on .... as musician you know they should keep on evolving , and exploring wider colours, can not always stay in the same pattern forever...
Here’s the ticketmaster feud video I did ruclips.net/video/Hml5FHp5ouM/видео.html
I thought the album that really killed their early success was No Code. The sound of that album was just considered too weird and out of place for consumers at the time. After that minor blip they made a comeback with Yield, and luckily it worked because they are still going strong today.
I didn't like Pearl Jam until Vitalogy. I thought they were cheesy. Vitalogy was fun and serious at the same time...that's what a young guy in the 90's wanted to hear.
Vitalogy was really good. It's the newer albums that are fairly boring.
10 is great. You can keep the rest.
I wish virology actually did break the band up. Once Abrusese was kicked out, nothing they’ve done has gripped me. I’m also sick of Vedder’s little political tantrums.
Dave Abroosie - thanks Tabitha
anything after Ten put me to sleep
Wow I miss the early - mid 90s ....
And just for reference, the track Immortality makes reference to Kurt Cobain a few times.
Eddie has denied that. He wrote the song before Kurt’s death. There were a lot of parallels to the things they were both going through.
I love this album despite it having many songs I hate, haha.
Have you done an episode focusing on Brendan O’Brien?
Not yet
I always felt that Not for You could've been about Kurt
I’m really struggling to believe the album art cost the band $2 million. 😮That’s unfathomable.
think they got their return on investment, they still sellin that book to this day
I think that is just creating a legend, how could it possibly cost that much? Moreover....I don’t think they paid for it so much as lowered their share a teeny bit. They knew it would sell pretty well at that time.... Pearl Jan were always the Dad rock band to me even in my teens in the 90’s... Vedder was the epitome of the ‘earnest sincere fame hating Rock singer’ who tried a bit too hard.
They had to buy or pay a licensing fee because the book design was copyrighted. They also designed the cd case to resemble the book and that made it a slightly different size than standard cds, so it ended up costing 50 cents more per cd to manufacture.
@@leinonibishop9480 Excellent! Thank you for the explanation.
@@DonSulis my pleasure. Have a great day.
That was the album that made me stop listening Pearl Jam for good.
Have you ever been back?
By end of the decade their main fanbase were the same people who also listened to Hootie & the Blowfish and Dave Matthews lol
My memory was working at a theater in 94 and making a parody of Better Man. Can't find a better job. Waiting watching the clock its almost time to get off. It was a funny waste of time between shows.
The first 3-4 PJ albums are amazing IMO. However, can't decide which I like more, Vitalogy or Vs . The music got noticeably more boring after the original drummer was gone, THAT is for sure!
Abruzzeze wasn't the original drummer. Krusen was the drummer who played on Ten but left the band for rehab after the recording.
If you ever do a video on what happened to Kittie that would be awesome
Coming soon
Love Vitalogy!
10, VS, Vitalogy, No Code are great albums the rest is not important!
it did destroy the band. they haven't put anything decent out since Vs
It's Eddie Vedder being a diva and also beginning his delusional mutation into a Z-list Neil Young. Although at that time Pearl Jam was obnoxiously entitled but at least they walked the walk (the Ticketmaster debacle, not releasing videos) and not just talked the talk like nowadays. The two records after "Vitalogy", "No Code" and "Binaural" are so boring and pretentious... in a time when Radiohead was releasing "OK Computer," a record ten times more relevant than Vedder's assumption that "he is a big deal." He's not.
He is/was Bono v2, and also an industry plant.
Yield comes after No Code but yeah other bands started blowing them away. PJ became less relevant, by design I guess.
I still have the first three album's on LP and CD .didn't really follow them that much did see them on the LOLLAPALOOZA tour 1992 .
You sure don't see record stores like that anymore like in the video
wow they really got suckered on that last bit with the book design. probably hundreds of thousands of people could've pulled that off for 10 grand (at most). insane how money leaks in this industry.
They had to pay licensing fees because the book was copyrighted and they made the cd case a non standard size, and with the new paper style cover instead of plastic case, which made it cost more to manufacture.
@@leinonibishop9480 my point is, they could've made a comparable insert for nothing. Pearl Jam made dumb decisions as a band. they chose not to make videos, and its their band, their choice, but a band is a business and it was dumb. the booklet NOBODY wouldve cared about if it was slightly altered or certain things weren't there from the OG copyrighted book. Vedder thought he was a god and everyone would love it. most didnt care. their fight against Ticketmaster was just dumb, they could've easily joined forces with other entities to donate money to join the fight. Again, all good intentions but dumb moves for a band. If you dont wanna make money then sure, but you need money to buy 3 million dollars worth of inserts. cant have the cake and eat it too.
@@flipnap2112 actually that is the whole point. They wanted the album to look a certain way artistically and were willing to lose the money to do that. Quite a lot of people appreciate the information and artwork supplied in their album inserts. It’s part of the whole package, style, and identity of the band.
They didn’t promote their albums with videos because they wanted less fame and they didn’t care about losing money then either. In fact when asked about the low sales for no code, Eddie said “good, I like it. Maybe we can be more normal now”.
They did try to get other people to join them against Ticketmaster but other bands and promoters, etc weren’t willing to step up.
No one in Pearl Jam is complaining about not having enough money. They have never complained about that.
They continually did stuff that cost them because they value more important things than money.
@@leinonibishop9480 All fair points. I think the success of Ten swallowed them up, it just got too big and they weren’t in it just for that, they definitely got that point across. Props to them for making the kind of music they wanted, even if it lost them many listeners along the way.
Ten and Gigaton is amazing.
Pearl Jam is my favorite band, but it feels like little by little they would lose their grunge essence through time with their following albums.
1st two albums were good downhill from there for me
You mean every album after Ten, bit by bit.
I played the shit out of this album in middle school.
I love Vitalogy
Can we all agree that Tabitha Soren was a babe?
Imagine your debut album be aiming as big as it did and trying to follow that up. That would stress me out completely knowing that I have to try and do better than something I did that was already big on it’s own.
Tabitha Soren
Vs is my favourite PJ album, its a masterpiece, The debut album 10 is special as well but they lost me a bit on Vitalogy. There are some good songs on it, Better Man is a perfect rock song but the album as a whole is a bit of a weird mess, its like its trying to be the 90's version of Beatles White album or something and the final track on the album is like wtf? that shit gave me nightmares as a kid
After Dave left I stopped listening to Pearl Jam. Eddie was jealous of Dave and when Dave was on the cover of Drummers World he showed Eddie and Eddie threw it at him. He said Dave overplayed on Unplugged and was too technical. No Code was a mess and you had to call a 1 800 # for tickets and nobody could get thru to get tickets.
Eddie is a pretentious tool.
I've said it a million times, that album could've been outstanding. But Pearl Jam's insistence on writing and performing "ballads" drags their work into mediocrity. You want more Bugs and Heyfoxymophandlemamathatsme? Here. Have Nothing Man and Better man.
It's their best record
I tried to return this album because I hated it so bad
I’ve been an amateur musician for 40+ years. I only have 4 bands that I will not listen to. Motley Cru, poison, Nickelback, and Pearl Jam. That’s all I’m going to say.
Why are you watching this video and spending so much time commenting then?
Okay. Now I know why I never liked Vitalogy.
Last album of theirs I bought. After this it was forgettable music and die-hard, cult like fans.
My condolences on it's failure to destroy,
Great video.
I'm so mad that they fired Abbruzzese. Rest of their albums are mid besides those first three
He did play too busy though, especially evident on their Unplugged session
@@al1976-v7m I thought unplugged is far better than Nirvana. Definitely could have played softer, would have been interesting to hear much softer versions of their songs
@alexlackner1945 He also played with style and brought a funk to PJ that will never be matched. Dave A was the best PJ drummer
Yeah i liked his drumming on the records, very punchy, but his Unplugged session was not very nuanced.
@@al1976-v7m what is worse too busy? Not busy enough.
Hey, Ed needed to back off the drummer!
He’s not a drummer!
You don’t ask a hairstylist to give an opinion on a figure skater🤷🏻♀️