This Black Friday, I was lucky enough to pick up soundtracks to Robert Rodriguez’s Desperado and Bill Conti’s score for 1987’s woeful Masters Of The Universe. Earlier in the year, at the main April event, I picked up soundtracks to the Knight Rider TV series, Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, Lost In Translation and Howard Stern’s Private Parts: The Album. The continued rise of soundtracks has meant that the last couple of RSD events have seen some interesting releases. Last year, I think my only purchase was a rainbow-coloured vinyl pressing of the B-52s’ Cosmic Thing. Back in 2012, I walked into Real Groovy on the Sunday following Black Friday and picked up their only copy of the super-limited 10” pressing of Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom, now highly sought-after but evidently not by Auckland folk at the time. Most years I’ve stumbled into my local stores on the weekend following the Friday and picked up one or two things, and some years I’ve disregarded it completely. These have always been hit or miss for me in the past. Mqs.link_PearlJamMTVUnplugged20202448.Another year, another Record Store Day: Black Friday event. Pearl Jam – Even Flow (Live MTV Unplugged)ħ. Pearl Jam – Jeremy (Live MTV Unplugged)Ħ. Pearl Jam – State of Love And Trust (Live MTV Unplugged)ģ. Pearl Jam – Oceans (Live MTV Unplugged)Ģ. One year later, this reissue (and its new mixing realised by Nick DiDia) arrives with relief. Worse still, MTV Unplugged never saw an official release until 2019 and an ultra-limited vinyl pressing for Record Store Day. It took another ten years and the release of another largely acoustic concert, Live at Benaroya Hall, to experience the band’s unplugged expertise from afar. The show lasts around 36 minutes and leaves the listener in a state of bewilderment, floating between intense pleasure and frustration. Aside from State of Love and Trust, taken from Singles, the rest of the concert allows one to appreciate part of Ten in a new light with the harrowing Black, the more spirited Even Flow and the single Alive. Shy and uncomfortable, he utters some rare hesitant sentences before suddenly transforming into an incredible and unforgettable frontman the moment the first lines of Oceans are sung. With a rare intensity, the performance exposed in plain sight Eddie Vedder’s incredible voice. In seven songs, Pearl Jam had viewers on their knees. Around three days after having finished their American tour, the five musicians headed to New York to record an acoustic show that has since become legend. At the time, Pearl Jam had only this album on their repertoire as well as the soundtrack to Cameron Crowe’s film Singles on which three of the band members played. While the album itself was reissued in four different versions in 2009, the album allows led to the recording of their legendary MTV Unplugged on the 16th of March 1992. It is again the famous Ten that we return to here in 2020. The band has not forgotten, however, that a lot of its success is owed to its intense stage performances as well as its first album, the cult and unparalleled, Ten. Accustomed to stadium performances, the band could easily have turned on autopilot, but they have nevertheless continued to innovate. Gigaton, their March 2020 album is their best work in two decades and garnered some well-deserved critical acclaim. Only a few flawlessly talented survivors remain from this blessed time. A golden age where the long-haired were transformed into beautiful losers, electric guitar-wielding poets with checked flannel shirts and tatty second-hand jeans. Yet it’s kind of naive, which is awesome.”Īh, 1990s Seattle, the birthplace of grunge and dumping ground where indie rock, punk, metal, noise pop and many more cross paths. “It’s pretty powerful, and Ed’s singing great. “We literally got off the plane from Europe, spent all day in a cavernous sound studio in New York, and did the show that night,” explained bassist Jeff Ament. Along with a handful of tracks from their aforementioned debut album, Ten. The set featured the song ‘State Of Love And Trust’ from the soundtrack of the 1992 romantic comedy Singles. Recorded just days after the completion of the band’s first ever American tour. But, other than being featured on a DVD in a 2009 reissue of their debut LP ‘Ten’. Pearl Jam recorded a live stripped back set for an MTV Unplugged session back in March 1992. Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Epic – Legacy FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Time – 35:39 minutes | 282 MB | Genre: Rock
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