Hi Jessi and Kate, If you guys consider starting a club to support wearing deodorant, count me in.  I have a hard time standing myself without it, let alone other people.  Yield has been my favorite album of Pearl Jam's for quite some time.  I really gained a personal connection with the music on the record when initially listening to it.  It wasn't until getting to know you guys, the Brads and the rest of the podcast community that I started to go in and understand the lyrics.  SPT actually read an email of mine last October where I discussed my favorite lyric in each track.  If you asked me to rank my top 3 tracks on Yield before the podcast community, it would have looked like this: 1. Given to Fly 2. Faithfull 3. Do the Evolution I've always enjoyed "In Hiding" and one of my favorite things about Yield is the fact that I know it's later in the album and that initially made me want to listen to Yield in it's entirety becau

Hi Brad and Brad, After listening to The Porch Podcast's episode on " Not For You ," featuring the one and only Brad Lyons, I found myself getting back into Vitalogy.  This has been a go-to for me, when I feel like things are starting to slip from my control and I need something more aggressive to vent my frustration.  I feel like I can relate to the message of the record, in terms of the feeling of not wanting to change who you are at your core, just because you've achieved some kind of status or role in life.  When I first got the CD, I would pretty much anticipate getting through every track ahead of "Betterman" skipping a few on the way.  It was one of my favorite songs when I first got into the band.  Now several years later, when I listen to the record from front-to-back, I forget that "Betterman" is even on the track list.  It doesn't hit me until halfway through "Satan's Bed" that "Betterman" is

Hi Brad and Brad, I finished listening to the second installment of BrAD Radio a couple of days ago.  I'm really enjoying the "D.J." type of format and am looking forward to BradB giving it a go in the near future.  One thing that BradL mentioned was how he will purchase vinyl because of the album artwork.  I've always found album artwork fascinating and really enjoy Pearl Jam's.  A little while back, I ranked the studio albums from my favorite to least and this is what I came up with. 1. No Code 2. Yield 3. Binaural 4. Backspacer 5. Lightning Bolt 6. Vitalogy 7. Avocado 8. Riot Act 9. Ten 10. Vs. No Code may very well be my favorite album artwork of any band or musician.  I love the Polaroids and the fact they lined them up to make the "No Code symbol" with an eye inside of a triangle.  Yield is second for me, because I love the fact that a Yield sign is off of a road where it makes no sense to have one.  Pl

Hi Jessi and Kate , Other than “Betterman," the track I listened to the most when I first exposed myself to Vitalogy was “Not For You.” It’s about as raw of a song as it gets with Pearl Jam and the emotion swings throughout give me goosebumps sometimes.  You guys, with Brad Lyons , talked quite a bit about the meaning and lyrics to the song, but I’d like to give my take on the music.  Out of the catalog, this song I find to be the most interesting musically.  It’s a big reason why the last time I took the time to rank my top 10 studio track last year , I had it at #4, but if I had ranked it before “Present Tense” and “Corduroy” grew on me, it would have been #2 behind “Given to Fly.”  The beginning of the song, I make out the sound of someone leaving a tea kettle boiling on a stove top.  It’s like the pressure of the song is building and the roof is about to get blown off.  Then Eddie goes into a very tense tone through the first few lines of the song and t