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Rating: - Not a mediocre Pearl Jam album at all - it's a classic

When I was given this album 3 or 4 years ago I was pretty much a PJ virgin, having only heard the big classics like Alive and Jeremy on the radio and not much else. I was immediately impressed by the album's brooding atmosphere, and it soon grew to become one of my top 10 albums of all time and you will immediately be hooked. This is a finely crafted work of art that belongs in the collection of every music lover.

Rating: - Don't wait for your ears to drop off! Buy it, now!

Pearl Jam have always been a critic's worst nightmare. Defining the Seattle based band has been a massive task for journalists since Pearl Jam's second album back in '93, most journalists passed them off as 'grunge'; yet to claim that this album is grunge would be a major mistake.

'Yield' compiles the qualities of every previous album and folds them up in to a neat package. The foggy riffs of 'Vs.' still remain, backed up by the melodic ballads of 'No Code'. The great thing about this album is it manages to remain diverse, yet still keeps in tide with the unmistakable Pearl Jam 'sound'. And that's the great thing about this album, unlike some of its predeccesors, 'Yield' defines Pearl Jam 100%; just not in words...

I'm not going to sit here and give you a review of each track. If you have an ounce of common sense, you'd go out an buy this. It's good for people who have never heard anything other than 'Jeremy' from Pearl Jam (cheers MTV). And the fans love it too. This is a great album to start a music collection off, it is cheap, nicely packaged, and essentially a great album and everyone has a different view about it.

Don't wait for your ears to drop off! Buy it, now!

Rating: - Underrated - vastly

This album is thoughtful but has some great tunes. The first seven odd tracks are excellent, but the two best tracks are "Low Light" and "All Those Yesterdays" towards the end of the album. To me this album sounds like the bell tolling for grunge, as Vedder gives the last rites to a bloated genre, but it is a very fine epitaph. Now I wish someone would hurry up and do the same with nu metal.

Rating: - So far so Pearl Jam

Hard rocking is not the term to describe Yield. People will use it for this purpose, but they are either mistaken or acting with a highly developed sense of post-modern error. Yield fails to scorch the hide of the aural sense in much the same way as baking powder has been found consistently under whelming to coke fiends. But nonetheless it has much to recommend it. Yield does not occupy the same dynamic territory as No Code, and is, in general, a more definably nineties record - all chromatic chord changes and slashed guitar chords. There are dull songs here (Faithfull, Wishlist, Pilate, Low Light) but also good rockers (Brain Of J and Given To Fly) and a great song in No Way, showing that Pearl Jam still occasionally have it. It is a shame that Yield is not a great Pearl Jam record, because it features the not inconsiderable drumming talents of Jack Irons, whose temperament and sense of restraint could have done so much good to their music, had his stay not been so short lived (this was his only record with them). By this stage in Pearl Jam's career we have stopped expecting great records, but this offering does not fall far short of what could realistically be hoped for. Having found their place in the world (all be it a less ambitious one than some would have liked it to be), Pearl Jam seem to be content, which may be responsible for much of the sense of non-event in these tracks.

Rating: - Best road sign in existence!

It's Pearl Jam! At their best once again creating fantastic songs. It focuses alot more on quieter melodies than the fast paced songs like Brain of J and Do the Evolution. Buy it!

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