Il Gruppo:
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Dave Abbruzzese - batteria
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Jeff Ament - basso
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Stone Gossard - chitarra
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Mike McCready - chitarra
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Eddie Vedder - voce
Canzoni:
Singoli
estratti:
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Go
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Animal
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Daughter
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Dissident
[uscito anche in triplo cd con la registrazione del concerto del 3 aprile 1994 al Fox
Theater di Atlanta, Georgia]
Crew:
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Prodotto da: Brendan O'Brien e Pearl Jam
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Assistenti: Nick DiDia, Kevin Scott, Adam Kasper
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Registrato a: Potatohead, Seattle, Washington
Note:
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Pubblicato il 19 ottobre 1993
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Durata: 46:17
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Ha venduto 6 milioni di copie solo negli
USA e detiene un record: nella prima settimana di vendita sono state acquistate
950.000
copie, record che verrà battuto molti anni più tardi con l'uscita del secondo
cd dei Backstreet Boys.
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Il titolo del secondo disco dei Pearl Jam è stato a lungo discusso. Le alternative erano "Shark in the Blood", "Paul's Dead"
[dal nome di Paul Hewson, ossia Bono degli U2; nelle date del Zooropa Tour aperte dai PJ , Eddie si esibì con una maglietta con questa
scritta], "Al" [dal nome di un occultista inglese degli anni '70] e "Five Against One"
[espressione che indica anche la
masturbazione, oltre che al loro rapporto conflittuale con i media]. Alla
fine il gruppo opta [spinto anche dalle pressioni della casa discografica] per
"Pearl Jam", rettificandolo in Vs quando era già stata stampata una
prima tiratura.
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La prima tiratura del disco non porta nessun titolo e ha il cd a specchio con una striscia azzurra, come i singoli estratti Ten. Invece nelle tirature successive
[quelle intitolate Vs] il cd è arancione. In America è stata pubblicata anche una versione digipack. Le foto interne di questa sono pressocché le stesse della versione normale. Invece della foto con la mano "against one" c'è un fotomontaggio con la stessa mano che contiene una finestra con il vetro rotto dietro cui c'è il busto di un uomo con i titoli delle canzone scritti sulla pelle
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Il vinile ha una copertina diversa rispetto a quella del cd e della cassetta, è uno scatto diverso ma preso dallo stesso servizio fotografico.
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Al contrario del cd, la cassetta contiene anche il testo di Indifference.
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Sul booklet il testo di Go manca del verso finale. Per motivi di censura è sostituito da una frase tra parentesi che non fa parte del testo cantato ed è
"[divine Goddess of retribution]".
All'inizio di Daughter si sente una voce [presumibilmente quella di Dave
Abbuzzese] che dice:
"hey guys, ready?"
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Glorified G è nata da una discussione tra Vedder e Abruzzese a proposito della detenzione di
armi; in sottofondo si possono ascoltare dei mormorii indecifrabili.
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Il titolo di W.M.A.
[che inizialmente era "Policeman"] sta per White Male American
[che nel secolo scorso era la definizione dell'americano doc] ed è stata ispirata da un fatto di cronaca: la morte di Malice Johnson
[afro-americano di cui compaiono la foto e il risultato dell'autopsia a fianco del
testo] dovuta al pestaggio della polizia di Detroit. La ritmica della batteria rievoca la scarica dei
[minimo 14] colpi infertigli con i manganelli dai poliziotti.
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Sotto il testo di Rats c'è la sagoma di un topo: questo è il logo dell'area di Seattle della Pro Sound Company, "Rat Sound". La stessa figura
[ma orientata in senso inverso] è rappresentata su un adesivo attaccato su una delle Les Paul di Stone, e sulle maniche della felpa indossata da Dave Abruzzese durante
l'Mtv Unplugged.
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Sulle parole di Elderly Woman ci sono gli accordi della canzone ma B non sta per SI inteso come accordo bensì per SI inteso come nota
[come basso nell'accordo di SOL], infatti la prima volta è scritto tra parentesi.
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Questo è il primo dei due cd studio suonati da Dave Abruzzese alla batteria
[nel frattempo Dave Krusen era già stato sostituito da Matt Chambelin per alcune date
live]. Il suo "pubblishing name" compare insieme quelli degli altri nella pagina "Useful Information" ed è Pickled
Fish.
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Nella stessa pagina c'è per la prima volta la sigla "Ames" ossia "Ament
Bros" [Jeff & Barry] che da allora hanno sempre curato l'artwork dei cd del PJ.
GO
Oh, please don't go out on me, don't go out on me now
Never acted up before, don't go on me now
I swear I never took it for granted, just thought of it now
Suppose I abused you, just passing it on
Go...fuck...
Once fastened, servile, now your getting sharp
Moving oh so swiftly, with such disarm
I pulled the covers over him, shoulda' pulled the alarm
Turned to my nemesis, a fool, not a fucking god
No...time...suck...my...Please...
Don't go on me [4x]
Please...oh...
Suck...blood...touch...please, tunnel vision...tuck...time...see...
Please, please, please...
Don't go on me [4x]
Please...Don't you want me...don't go on me...
Please...don't go on me..
ANIMAL
One, two, three, four, five against one
Five, five, against one
Said one, two, three, four, five against one
Five, five...five, five...five against one
Torture from you to me
Abducted from the street
I'd rather be...
I'd rather be with...
I'd rather be with an animal
Why would you wanna hurt me, oh
Oh, so frightened of your pain...yeah...ooh...
I'd rather be...
I'd rather be with...
I'd rather be with an animal
I'd rather be... [2x]
I'd rather be with an animal
I'd rather be...
I'd rather be with...
I'd rather be with an animal
I'd rather be...
I'd rather be with...
I'd rather be with an animal
Said one, two, three, four, five against one
Five, five...five, five...five against one
One, two, three, four, five against one
Five, five...five, five...five against one
DAUGHTER
You guys ready...
Alone...listless...breakfast table in an otherwise empty room
Young girl...violins...center of her own attention and
The mother reads aloud, child, tries to understand it
Tries to make her proud
The shades go down, it's in her head
Painted room...can't deny there's something wrong...
Don't call me daughter, not fit to
The picture kept will remind me
Don't call me daughter, not fit to
The picture kept will remind me
Don't call me...
She holds the hand that holds her down
She will...rise above...ooh...oh...
Don't call me daughter, not fit to }
The picture kept will remind me } [2x]
Don't call me daughter, not fit to me }
The picture kept will remind me }
Don't call me...
The shades go down [2x]
The shades go, go, go...
GLORIFIED G
Got a gun, fact I got two
That's O.K. man, cause I love god
Glorified version of a pellet gun
Feels so manly, when armed
Glorified version of a pellet gun [4x]
Double think, dumb is strength
Never shot at a living thing
Glorified version of a pellet gun
Feels so manly, when armed
Glorified version of a pellet gun [3x]
Glorified version of a...
Always keep it loaded [3x]
Kindred to be an American...
Life comes...I can feel your heart...
Ooh...life comes...I can feel your heart through your neck...
Life comes...I can feel your heart through your neck...
Like some...I can steal your heart from your neck...
Glorified...glorified...
DISSIDENT
She nursed him there, ooh, over a night
I wasn't so sure she wanted him to stay
What to say...what to say
But soon she was down, soon he was low
At a quarter past...a holy no...
She had to turn around
When she couldn't hold, oh...she folded...
A dissident is here
Escape is never, the safest path
Oh, a dissident, a dissident is here
And to this day, she's glided on
Always home but so far away
Like a word misplaced
Nothing said, what a waste
When she had contact...with the conflict...
There was meaning, but she sold him to the state
She had to turn around
When she couldn't hold...she folded...
A dissident is here
Escape is never, the safest path
Oh, a dissident, a dissident is here, oh...oh...oh...
She gave him away when she couldn't hold...no...she folded...
A dissident is here
Escape is never, the safest path
Oh, a dissident, a dissident is here, oh...
Couldn't hold on...she couldn't hold...no...she folded...
A dissident is here
Escape is never the safest place, oh...
A dissident is here
W.M.A.
He won the lottery when he was born
Took his mothers white breast to his tongue
Trained like dogs, color and smell
Walks by me to get to him
Police man [2x]
He won the lottery by being born
Big hand slapped a white male 'merican
Do no wrong, so clean cut...
Dirty his hands, it comes right off
Police man [2x]
Police stopped my brother again [3x]
Police man [2x]
Jesus greets me...looks just like me...
Do no wrong, so clean cut
Dirty his hands, it comes right off
Police man [3x]
Police stopped my brother again [3x]
Police man [2x]
Police stopped my brother again [3x]
Police man [3X]
All my pieces set me free...
Human devices set me free...
All my pieces set me free... [2x] } [2x]
Human devices set me free... [2x] }
BLOOD
Spin me round, roll me over, fuckin' circus
Stab it down, one way needle, pulled so slowly
Drains and spills, soaks the pages, fills their sponges
It's my blood [2x]
Paint Ed big...Turn Ed into...One of his enemies...
It's my blood [3x]
Stab it down, fill the pages, suck my life out
Maker of my enemies...
Take...my...
Fuck...fuck...fuck...fuck...fuck...fuck...
REARVIEWMIRROR
I took a drive today
Time to emancipate
I guess it was the beatings made me wise
But I'm not about to give thanks, or apologize
I couldn't breathe, holdin' me down
Hand on my face, pushed to the ground
Enmity gaged, united by fear
Forced to endure what I could not forgive...
I seem to look away
Wounds in the mirror waved
It wasn't my surface most defiled
Head at your feet, fool to your crown
Fist on my plate, swallowed it down
Enmity gaged, united by fear
Tried to endure what I could not forgive
Saw things [4x]
Clearer [2x]
Once you, were in my...Rearviewmirror...
I gather speed from you fucking with me
Once and for all I'm far away
I hardly believe, finally the shades...are raised...hey...
Saw things so much clearer }
Once you, once you... } [3x]
Rearview mirror }
Saw things so much clearer [4x]
Once you...oh yeah...rearview mirror [4x]
RATS
They don't eat, don't sleep
They don't feed, they don't se ethe
Bare their gums when they moan and squeak
Lick the dirt off a larger one's feet
They don't push, don't crowd
Congregate until they're much too loud
Fuck to procreate till they are dead
Drink the blood of their so called best friend
They don't scurry when something bigger comes their way
Don't pack themselves together and run as one
Don't shit where they're not supposed to
Don't take what's not theirs, they don't compare
They don't scam, don't fight
Don't oppress an equals given rights
Starve the poor so they can be well fed
Line their holes with the dead ones bread
They don't scurry when something bigger comes their way }
Don't pack themselves together and run as one } [2x]
Don't shit where they're not supposed to }
Don't take what's not theirs, they don't compare... }
Rats...They don't compare [2x]
Ben, the two of us need look no more [5X]
ELDERLY WOMAN BEHIND THE COUNTER IN A SMALL TOWN
I seem to recognize your face
Haunting, familiar, yet I can't seem to place it
Cannot find the candle of thought to light your name
Lifetimes are catching up with me
All these changes taking place, I wish I'd seen the place
But no one's ever taken me
Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away... [2x]
I swear I recognize your breath
Memories like fingerprints are slowly raising
Me you wouldn't recall, for I'm not my former
It's hard when you're stuck upon the shelf
I changed by not changing at all, small town predicts my fate
Perhaps that's what no one wants to see
I just want to scream...hello...
My god it's been so long, never dreamed you'd return
But now here you are, and here I am
Hearts and thoughts they fade...away...
Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away... [2x]
Hearts and thoughts they fade...away...
Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away... [3x]
Hearts and thoughts they fade...
LEASH
Troubled souls unite, we got ourselves tonight, oh...
I am fuel, you are friends, we got the means to make amends
I am lost, I'm no guide, but I'm by your side
I am right by your side, yeah...
Young lover I stand
It was their idea, I proved to be a man
Take my fucking hand
It was their idea, I proved to be a man
Will myself to find a home, a home within myself
We will find a way, we will find our place...
Drop the leash, drop the leash... } [3x]
Get outta' my fuckin' face }
Drop the leash, we are young [2x]
Oh, get outta' my fuckin' face...
Drop the leash, drop the leash...
Get outta' my, my...
Delight, delight, delight in our youth...oww...
Get outta' my fuckin' face...
INDIFFERENCE
I will light a match this mornin', so I won't be alone
Watch as she lies silent, for soon night will be gone
Oh, I will stand arms outstretched, pretend I'm free to roam
Oh, I will make my way, through, one more day in Hell...
How much difference does it make
How much difference does it make, yeah...
I will hold the candle till it burns up my arm
Oh, I'll keep takin' punches until their will grows tired
Oh, I will stare the sun down until my eyes go blind
Hey, I won't change direction, and I won't change my mind
How much difference does it make
Mmm, how much difference does it make...how much difference...
I'll swallow poison, until I grow immune
I will scream my lungs out till it fills this room
How much difference [2x]
How much difference does it make [2x]
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