ok evo jednog posta preuzetog sa oficijelnog Pearl jam foruma.Tice se stvari vezanih za novi album koji treba da se pojavi po svemu sudeci u aprilu.Mislim da ima interesantnih stvari.Pozdrav
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Members confirmed:
Ed Vedder - vocals, guitar
Mike McCready - guitar
Stone Gossard - guitar
Jeff Ament - bass
Matt Cameron - drums
I would say its fairly safe to assume that by looking at previous releases, some tracks will feature backing vocals from Jeff and Stone, and probably Matt too. You never know, maybe Stone or Jeff will sing lead vocals on a song (yeah, i know it's unlikely, but it's happened before, so never say never!).
Possible additional musicians:
Keneth 'Boom' Gaspar - keyboards, organ
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Producer:
Adam Kaspar
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Tentative Release Date:
11th April '06
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Possible title:
Superunowned
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Possible songs:
Of The Earth (Vedder)("a song Ed wrote that is kind of a cross between early Peter Gabriel/ Genesis and Sleater-Kinney with, like, the Who's Live at Leeds")
Parachutes (Vedder/Gossard)("It's got a beautiful melody")
Severed Hand (Gossard)("a heavy rocker")
Worldwide Suicide (Vedder)("very punky and who-ish")
Marker
Cold Concession (Vedder/Gossard/Ament/McCready/Cameron)
2x4
Crapshoot Rapture (Vedder/Gossard/McCready)(performed live at Northwest Benefit and Easy Street)
Gone (Vedder)(Ed solo, performed live at Atlantic City, day 2)
Unemployable (McCready/Cameron)
Big Job
(These are all known to exist, but it is unclear as to which will end up on the record)
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Additional Information:
The album will be released through J Records.
There are murmers from those claiming to have met the members recently that the guys will head out on tour in may, which would support the idea of an april release.
Ed has said in an interview that the album will "hopefully" come out by april
Ed took recording equipment with him to South America on the recent tour to continue work on his vocals.
The band will return to the studio to finish off the new album in January.
Jeff has stated that the band plans to tour Europe, Australia, and the US following the release of the album.
There are 25 songs written for the new record, roughly half are expected to make the final cut
McCready Interview - "We all came up with different songs for ourselves. We came in, edited and kicked out ideas. Ed's been a hardcore workhorse, experimenting with intense, layered vocals. It's hard-edge with some pop feel. It's a classic Pearl Jam record -- it's got the excitement of Vs to it. There's some powerful singing, and the music is pretty hard-rocking"
Gossard Interview - "There's a sense that we've done something special, everyone's been writing and participating in it . . . Asking a guy in the band how good the record is problematic, but to me it's freaking brilliant"
Cameron Interview - "There's a lot more up-tempo stuff, It's a lot more rockin' than our last one. We reworked everything together in the studio, It's a really healthy environment -- everyone really just wants to dig in and make the songs as good as they can be."
MTV Ament Interview - "We've been working on the material in three separate three-week chunks since February with producer Adam Kasper. Playing with the band is kind of like riding a bike at this point. We came together kind of with the idea of not bringing any complete songs initially, and just coming in with riffs and trying to write a bunch of stuff together. We probably ended up writing 10 things as a band, like full-on collaborations with everybody in the room. It feels great. The collaborated songs somehow, to me, feel better — I think just because everybody had a little say, and everybody kind of got a little piece of their personality in it. It makes us feel like a band.
In the last few years, we've learned how to communicate with each other better. And in the process, we've learned to trust one another and become friends. It's a great thing to be able to just go into a room with four other guys and be able to make music easily. It's typically easier to make music with one or two other people, or if you're playing in a situation where there's a real bandleader or single songwriter who's coming in with all the ideas and you just play. But I think in making a real band work, it feels like we kind of got through that rough patch, and it's that tired analogy of getting married and having the honeymoon and then going through the rough patch, and then going to therapy and coming out of it feeling you know each other better than ever. And the sex is better than ever! It feels a little like that.
It's the classic thing: learning how to speak so that the other person or people listen, and on the other end of that, learning how to listen. It's pretty powerful stuff when you break through, it's like you can't believe you've been missing that part of that person for that long when you finally understand the language that they're speaking. And then it makes it easier. You can be there when the person needs you, and you start to understand the way people react to things, and it makes it a lot easier to be in a band and run a business. Consequently, it makes it easier to be friends."
So far, the band's written a total of 25 songs, but the final track listing will have around a dozen songs — and the decision about which tracks make the final cut largely rests with "Ed, because he's writing 95 percent of the lyrics".
As for the focus of Vedder's lyrical direction, or whether the album would convey any specific themes, Ament wasn't so sure.
"There's some imagery that makes me think that he's talking about the state of the union, but he's so good with words that sometimes I think it could actually end up being about a friend of his or a relationship that he's witnessed," he said. "He's so sensitive to so many different things that he can pull things out of some pretty interesting places and combine them with politics or religion or whatever. I think there's a lot of nature involved in the stuff — that's the thing that I relate to the most, the imagery around nature and wanting to keep it intact."
Ed Brazilian Radio Interview - "It's been a difficult record and it's like sometimes the harder something is, then the more valuable it becomes. It's easily the best stuff we've done but also some of the hardest stuff. It's very aggressive, because again, it's kind of a product of what it's like to be an American these days. It's pretty aggressive, especially when you turn it loud."
"It's not quite done. I'm hoping to finish the last of the songs while I'm down (in South America). If I can come back and finish the last few songs in January, then it will be out in April or something."
"We want the songs to be heard for the first time when the record comes out. I was thinking of the word 'un-owned' -- not owned by anybody - The sky is un-owned. The moon is un-owned. We're un-owned. We want to remain un-owned. The title was 'Superun-owned.' "
Mike Chicago The Loop Interview - The record is in later stages, has a shape. Too early to say what it is yet, "It's bad voodoo" to talk about it yet.
I am really Excited about the new record so far...The early mixes sound incredible. Ed is singing like I have never heard him before. With every ounce of his being and soul he is propelling the songs to a classic status. The band is firing on all cylinders making this record, we are right in the middle of recording and feel that this is the best record we have ever done."
Although Ed said that the song 'Gone' would not be released on the new album when he performed it in Atlantic City, Jeff stated in a radio interview that the rest of the band were trying to get him to reconsider, because they thought it was so good.
The fact that 25 songs were written for the new album, now 26 including 'Gone' has led many to beleive that a double album will be released. However as Stone has stated in an interview that roughlyhalf of them will make the final cut this theory seems to hold little weight. However, on a purely speculative side, that would leave a very large amount of b-sides...
Spin Magazine Article from September '05 - Pearl Jam have been recording their eighth studio album (and first for J Records) in Seattle since February. "It's a bit more rock heavy," says bassist Jeff Ament. "It feels more up-tempo and experimental. 'Cold Confession' was a 15-minute jam that we lopped down, and Ed [Vedder] wrote some amazing lyrics on the spot." Other potentials include "Parachutes,""Big Job", and "Worldwide Suicide," which came from ten days of collaborative writing, "which we haven't done since the second record."
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Song lyrics:
1) Crapshoot Rapture -
Consider me an object
Free of all infliction
Free of all conditions
Free of ambitions
I've been sittin' upside down
And then i will swing
For all eternity
Never forward
Yes i know it
Oh feeling like
Its something i never thought you'd be a part of??
Bring me to a doctor?
Maybe an asylum?
Calling on decisions
Breathing amunition
Feeling righteous?
Yeah that's not forward
Feeling like there's something i never thought you'd be part of
Coming forward
Yeah forwards, backwards
Coming close yeah
Hang on
Sail on
I'm feeling forward
But backing off
Falling down
Yeah ive been sitting upside down
And then i will slip
For all eternity
2) Gone -
No more upset mornings
No more trying evenings
It's the American Dream I am disbelieving.
When the gas in my tank feels like money in the bank
I’m gonna blow it all this time, take me one last ride.
The lights of the city, they only look good when I’m speeding
I wanna leave em all behind me because this time I’m gone
Gone, going for it all this time, gone.
In the far off distance
As my taillights fade
No one to witness but they will someday
Feel like a question is forming
And the answers
I will be what I could be
Once I get out of this town.
The lights of this city
They’ve lost all of their feeling
I wanna leave em all behind me because this time I’m gone
Gone, going for it all, this time I’m gone
Nothing is everything
I’ll have it all
If nothing is everything then I will have it all.
I’m gone.
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Song link: Crapshoot Rapture can be downloaded from the unofficial Easy Street bootleg, available from www.supergossard.it
Song link: Gone can be downloaded from the official Atlantic City (Day 2) bootleg, available from www.pearljam.com
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