I Pearl Jam continuano a percorrere la loro lunga strada, come ci è dato vedere dalla copertina stessa di questo nuovo e forse fin troppo rilassante disco, che ci mostra, in modo mai prima d'ora più palese, il volto più introspettivo della band.
Ci troviamo di fronte infatti a ben sette ballate più o meno elettriche su un totale di tredici pezzi; si pone allora il problema di decidere quale grado di severità usare nel giudicare il lavoro, cercando di vedere le singole canzoni per quel che sono, indipendentemente dalla loro lentezza.
Prima di tutto è certo che se fossero stati i Bon Jovi a mettere sette ballate in un disco, esso si sarebbe rivelato di una palla mostruosa,mentre i Pearl Jam hanno saputo scrivere dei pezzi diretti figli degli anni 70 ed in particolar modo di Neil Young, che godono in linea di massima di una buona ispirazione.
Il problema è forse che pur non essendoci veri e propri passi falsi, non si grida neanche quasi mai al miracolo, quindi ”Yield" è da ritenersi un buon album di una band, che ha un pò perso le sue caratteristiche migliori in quella immediatezza e spontaneità compositiva che caratterizzò gli esordi, diretta figlia di band seminali come Green River e Mother Love Bone.
Volendoci legare al passato, le canzoni nuove ricordano molto più da vicino le ballate e i monenti più veloci di "Vitalogy" piuttosto che di "No Code", con la differenza che qui non ci sono veri e propri momenti inutili, in quanto l'unica traccia che non può essere definita una vera e propria canzone è addirittura senza titolo e rappresentata da un pallino rosso, con il batterista Jack Irons intento a rumoreggiare nella propria cucina, posto a metà album con l'intento di fungere da pausa, prima di riprendere il discorso musicale con la seconda parte del disco.
Tra le cose migliori troviamo il primo singolo "Given To Fly", scritto da Gossard, ballata elettrica dove una chitarra in lento crescendo allla U2 accompagna la voce di Eddie fino a farla esplodere; va detto che qui però il riff introduttivo è rubato più o meno spudoratamente a quello di "Going To California" di zeppeliniana memoria...
Abbiamo poi "No Way" forse il pezzo migliore del lotto, dove spicca il sofferto lamento di chi si sente diverso da un certo tipo di comportamento e modo di pensare predominante ed opprimente.
Ma il brano forse più particolare per una band come i Pearl Jam risponde al nome di "Do The Evolution", dove il cantato sempre ispirato di Eddie si scontra con un riffing una volta tanto rock'n roll di Gossard.
"Low Light" sarebbe perfetta per chiudere od aprire un loro concerto tenendo i riflettori al minimo e gli accendini accesi; è tutto merito di Eddie in apertura di secondo lato lo stupendo pezzo intitolato "MFC" che, in qualche modo a noi sconosciuto, lega il cantante alla nostra capitale.
Per ultimo da segnalare un brano registrato in low-fi, dal testo parlato e dal titolo "Push Me, Pull Me" cantato in coro: fate attenzione il testo è immenso ,e forse è stato scritto da Vedder pensando ad un amico morto, che qualche anno fa cantava di giovani spiriti....
Elenco tracce e testi
01 Brain Of J. (03:00)
Who's got the brain of JFK?
What's it mean to us now, yeah?
Pause, it sounds distrust.
I can tell ya this is no lie
The Whole world will be different soon
The whole world will be relieved
The Whole world will be different soon
The whole world will be relieved
You, you been taught, whipped into shape
Now they've got you in line
Stand behind the stripes
That will be yours; so give it good mind
The Whole world will be different soon
The whole world will be relieved
The Whole world will be different soon
The whole world will be relieved
(Slow Part)
Lend my name
The name they gave me
The name I'm letting go..
The Whole world will be different soon
The whole world will be relieved
The Whole world will be different soon
The whole world will be relieved
The whole world will be different
The whole world will be relieved
The Whole world will be different soon
SOON!
03 In Hiding (05:00)
I shut and locked the front door
No way in or out
I turned and walked the hallway
And pulled the curtains down
I knelt and emptied the mouth of every plug around
But nothing's sound, nothing's sound
I stayed where my last cap left me
Ignored all my rounds
Soon I was seeing visions and cracks along the walls
They're upside down
I swallow my words to keep from lying
I swallow my face just to keep from biting, I, I..
I swallowed my breath and went deep, I was diving, diving
I surfaced and all of my being was enlightened
Now...I'm in hiding, yeah
I'm in hiding, yeah
I'm in hiding, yeah
I'm in hiding
It's been about three days now
Since I've been aground
No longer overwhelmed and it seems so simple now
It's funny when things change so much
It's all state of mind
I swallowed my words to keep from lying
I swallowed my face just to keep from biting, I, I
I swallowed my breath and went deep, I was diving, I was diving
I surfaced and all of my being was enlightened
Now I'm in hiding, yeah
I'm in hiding, yeah
I'm in hiding, yeah
Now I'm in hiding, yeah
I'm in hiding, yeah
I'm in hiding, yeah
I'm in hiding, yeah
I'm in hiding...
04 Push Me, Pull Me (02:28)
I had a false belief; I thought I came here to stay.
We're all just visiting, all just breaking like waves.
The oceans made me, but who came up with love?
Push me, pull me, push me, but pull me out.
So if there were no angels would there be no sin?
You better stop me before I begin.
But let me say:
If I behave, can you arrange a spacious hole in the ground?
Somewhere nice, make it nice
Where the land meets high tide.
Push me, pull me, or pull me out.
Like a cloud dropping rain I'm discarding all thought.
I'll dry up leaving puddles on the ground.
I'm like an opening band for the sun.
Push me, pull me, or just pull me out out out ..
I've had enough, said enough, felt enough, I'm fine.
08 Faithfull (04:19)
Plaque on the wall says that no one's slept here
It's rare to come upon a bridge that has not been around
Or been stepped on
Whatever the notions, we laced in our prayers
The man upstairs is used to all of this noise
I'm through with screaming
And echoes nobody hears, it goes, it goes, it goes
Like echoes nobody hears, it goes, it goes, it goes
We're faithful, we all believe, we all believe it (4X)
And echoes nobody hears, it goes, it goes, it goes (2X)
We're faithful, we all believe, we all believe it (3X)
So faithful, we all believe, we all believe it
M.Y.T.H. is
Belief in the game controls that keeps us in a box of fear
We never listen
Voice inside so drowned out
Drowned you are, you are, you are everything
And everything is you
Me you, you me, it's all related
What's a boy to do?
Just be darling and I will be too
Faithful to you
10 Given To Fly (04:01)
He could have tuned in, tuned in, but he tuned out
a bad time, nothing could save him
Alone in a corridor, waiting, locked out
he got up out of there, ran for hundreds of miles
He made it to the ocean
had a smoke in a tree
The wind rose up, set him down on his knee
Wave came crashing like a fist to the jaw,
Delivered him wings, "Hey, look at me now..."
Arms wide open with the sea as his floor
Oh, oh oh...
He's flying! Woah!
Whole! Woah! Oh...
Floated back down 'cause he wanted to share
his key to the locks on the chains he saw everywhere
But first he was stripped, and then he was stabbed
by faceless men, well...fuckers, he still stands.
And he still gives his love, he just gives it away
the love he recieves is the love that is saved
And sometimes is seen a strange spot in the sky
a human being that was given to fly
Flying! Woah...
Whole! Flying! Woah...
Flying Woah...
Oh Woah...
11 Wishlist (03:27)
I wish I was a neutron bomb
for once I could go off
I wish I was a sacrifice
but somehow still lived on
I wish I was a sentimental
ornament you hung on
the Christmas tree, I wish I was
the star that went on top
I wish I was the evidence
I wish I was the grounds
for fifty million hands upraised and opened toward the sky
I wish I was a sailor with
someone who waited for me
I wish I was as fortunate
as fortunate as me
I wish I was a messenger
and all the news was good
I wish I was the full moon shining
off a Camaro's hood
I wish I was an alien
at home behind the sun
I wish I was the souvenir
you kept your house key on
I wish I was the pedal break
that you depended on
I wish I was the verb to trust
and never let you down
I wish I was a radio song
the one that you turned up
I wish ...
12 Pilate (03:01)
Talk of circles, punching out
Looking in, drawing circles down
Falling off the south marking ground
Talking out of turn, drawing circles down
Like Pilate, I have a dog
Like Pilate, I have a dog
Walks me out of town, still one's a crowd
Making angels in the dirt, looking up, looking all around
Like Pilate, I have a dog (obeys, listens, kisses, loves)
Like Pilate, I have a dog (obeys, listens, kisses, loves)
Stunned by my own reflection
It's looking back, sees me too clearly
And I swore I'd never go there again
Not unlike a friend that
Politely drags you down, you down, you down, you down
Like Pilate, I have a dog (obeys, listens, kisses, loves) }x4
13 Do The Evolution (03:54)
I'm ahead, I'm a man
I'm the first mammal to wear pants, yeah
I'm at peace with my lust
I can kill 'cause in god I trust, yeah
It's evolution, baby
I'm at peace, I'm the man
Buying stocks on the day of the crash, yeah
On the loose, I'm a truck
All the rolling hills, I'll flatten them out, yeah
It's herd behavior, uh huh
It's evolution, baby
Admire me, admire my home
Admire my son, he's my clone
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah
This land is mine, this land is free
I'll do what I want but irresponsibly
It's evolution, baby
I'm a thief, I'm a liar
There's my church, I sing in the choir:
Hal-le-lu-jah
Hal-le-lu-jah
Admire me, admire my home
Admire my son, admire my clones
Cause we know, appetite for a nightly feast
Those ignorant Indians got nothing on me
Nothin', why?
Because, it's evolution, baby!
I am ahead, I am advanced
I am the first mammal to make plans, yeah
I crawled the Earth, but now I'm higher
2010, watch it go to fire
It's evolution, baby
It's evolution, baby
Do the evolution!
Come on
C'mon, c'mon!
15 MFC (02:28)
Sliding out of reverse into drive, this
Wheel will be turning right, then straight
Off in the sunset she'll ride
She can remember a time denied
Stood by the side of the road, spilled like wine now
She's out on her own and I'm high
There's no leaving here
Ask- I'm an ear
She's disappeared
They said that timing was everything
Made him want to be everywhere
There's a lot to be said for nowhere
There's no leaving here
Ask- I'm an ear
He's disappeared
There's no leaving here
Ask- I'm an ear
Fuck it- we've disappeared
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