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List Price: $7.99 | | Label: Sony
Salesrank: 2089
Released: December 6, 1994 |
| Our Price: $5.08 |
| Used Price: $0.46 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Vitalogy Track Listing:
1. Last Exit
2. Spin the Black Circle
3. Not for You
4. Tremor Christ
5. Nothingman
6. Whipping
7. Pry, To
8. Corduroy
9. Bugs
10. Satan's Bed
11. Better Man
12. Aye Davanita
13. Immortality
14. Hey Foxymophandlemama, That's Me
Editorial Review:
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Media Type: CD
Artist: PEARL JAM
Title: VITALOGY
Street Release Date: 12/06/1994
Domestic
Genre: ROCK/POP
Description of Vitalogy:
Vitalogy reaffirms the Seattle quintet's status as the principled, proudly confused voice of a generation. On their third album, they've found their footing as a raw, forward-looking '90s rock act that fearlessly tackles the Biggest Questions. Lead track "Spin the Black Circle" celebrates the healing power of Eddie Vedder's LP collection, but it is overshadowed by such masterstrokes as "Immortality" (which can be read, right or wrong, as a reaction to Kurt Cobain's suicide), the Lennonesque "Tremor Christ" and a thrilling anthem for the pro-choice movement, "Whipping." --Jeff Bateman
Vitalogy Reviews:
How time does change minds 
2009-10-07 - I remember when everybody I knew thought this album was a train wreck when it first came out. Really, the only decent song on this album is Better man, everything else is filler. This was a haphazardly produced album that has no tempo or feeling, but rather a compilation of songs to meet a production deadline. Apparently though time has softened opinions on this album, at least according to Amazon reviewers. So with this in mind, I removed Vitalogy from my cd case, dusted off the cover and placed the disk into the stereo. What I heard was exactly how I remembered it, mediocre material. Time definitely did not soften my opinion on this album! For all newcomers to Pearl Jam, stick with Ten, which has much more solid writing and production.
Vital growth 
2009-04-26 - This sounds like their true last attempt at a masterwork, before filler-based attributes robbed the group of completely compelling spins. Even here PJ can feel a little strained in experimental interludes, but feels utterly balanced between earnest anthems and gritty rockers.
Pearl Jam on top of there game 
2009-04-14 - This album represented a turning point to to me in the sound of Pearl Jam. It took them away from there anthematic solo driven rock songs and transformed there sound more quick poignant punk influenced numbers.
This album is a definite reflection of the time. Kurt just died and rock was in a confusing place. This seems like a response to some some of the criticism that Kurt gave to PJ saying that they were a bunch of "butt rockers". To prove there punk roots they responded with Vitalogy. It is dark, it is moody, it is fast, it is packed with angst it had attitude like the greatest of punk albums but it is still Pearl Jam. I wont go through every song but I will say that this album and the follow up No Code are two of the greatest albums to go together. They seem to talk to one another. This album is dark and filled with songs that question life and God and then No Code is a response with a much lighter view of life.
Cut the fat and this is a stellar album.
2009-02-15 - Anthemic rockers and ballads spread out across a disc containing a few instances of time wasting filler. This is Pearl Jam's mix of weird and simultaneously accessible before both traits were thrown into a blender for the follow-up, No Code. This is also the last of PJ's trio of smash hit albums before they distanced themselves from the mainstream (without compromising the listenability of the music, of course).
The "normal" songs are pretty much a continuation of some of the harder-edged stuff they did on Vs. If you like that album, the odds are you'll dig this one too. Also contains two sublime "man" ballads - better and nothing (better being the better of the mans; rimshot). I guess the most positive thing I can say about this album is that it has the most dynamics of any PJ disc. You'll have no difficulty distinguishing one song from another. No matter what I say about the experimental stuff, Vitalogy is never boring.
This album has been kind of a friend to me for years. An imperfect friend, but a perfect friend would be creepy.
Vitalogy
2008-08-07 - If you are just discovering pearl jam, this album is not for you at first. It still has some rock tunes like SPIN THE BLACK CIRCLE, CORDUROY, LAST EXIT, SATAN'S BED, NOT FOR YOU, BETTER MAN, WHIPPING. There is some experiemental stuff on here, like BUGS, AYE DAVAITA, PRY TO, and FOXYMOP HANDLE ITS ME. One other hit is TREMOR CHRIST, it charted at number 18 on the hot 100 but is now largely forgotten. But I do recomend buying this after you buy their first two records TEN and VS
