May 26, 2019: It's All State of Mind (Read on The Porch Episode 19)

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 because I knew "In Hiding" was toward the end. I went pretty deep into learning more about the song and found a lot of the same facts that you guys did. The lyrics to this song really cut deep for me. When I first decided my favorite lyric to "In Hiding" I put down the same lyric that Kate went with:

No longer overwhelmed and it seems so simple now
It's funny when things change so much
It's all state of mind

However, after spending more time with the song I ended up changing it to the following:

I swallowed my breath and went deep, I was diving, I was diving. I surfaced and all around me was enlightened

This song is a lyrical masterpiece. The fact that I constantly debate in my mind what line means the most to me epitomizes how strong Eddie's writing was on this song. I'm still having a hard time putting it ahead of "Do the Evolution" in my top 3, but that's a great problem to have. There isn't another track on Yield that I relate to more than this song.

Forced to endure, what I could not forgive,

Chris

Comments

October 17, 2010: RIP Mozart for Guitar

Hi Brad and Brad, I first want to mention that I can't remember the last time I laughed as hard as I did while listening to you two and Clint Wells go on about spoonfuls of flour and uncooked spaghetti. I almost had to pull my car over as I was driving home during that part of the episode! Since Eddie Van Halen passed away on October 6th, I've been listening to a lot of Van Halen. I didn't really get into them until 10-15 years ago, but I consider them to be one of my favorite bands of all-time. Eddie was truly an innovator on shredding guitar solos and may be my favorite lead guitarist ever. I saw Mike's comment on Pearl Jam's Twitter feed referencing how he began playing guitar shortly after their first record came out. He goes so far to say "it sounded like Eddie was from another planet" and "Eddie was like Mozart for guitar. Changed everything and he played with Soul." I know the guys have covered Van Halen here-and-there and I looked

December 26, 2020: Someday at Christmas

Hi Brad and Brad, First, I hope you guys have had a Happy Holidays. Secondly, I really enjoy your solo episodes. They have a deejay format to them which also feels personable in getting to know each of your lives and what has influenced you to be who you are now. I hadn't taken the time to get to know Someday at Christmas until after listening to BradB's recent episode. Pearl Jam does a great job in covering the song, and I prefer Stevie Wonder's version over the Jackson 5. Especially, after reading the lyrics and reading some interpretations of the song. At the time the song was released, the Vietnam War was still underway. The lyrics seem to voice opposition to the war itself, but also express the hope for racial and economic equality. Unfortunately, that message still resonates strongly. Stevie Wonder was one of the artists that shaped my musical interests when I was a teenager. I'm very glad the guys chose to cover this song for a Christmas single and have

December 31, 2020: Low Light

Hi Jessi and Kate, I have been way behind on my podcasts the last several weeks. The main reason is because myself and a friend started our own podcast! It's not Pearl Jam themed , however it's consumed a decent amount of my week preparing for each recording. So we now have a hit on the Dink-O-Meter for both of you. First Jessi and now Kate! I can't remember if I have proposed the Dink-O-Meter to you yet, but I have it as a three-tiered system: Dinky: Just your average dinky, will only skip if streaming Rinky-Dinky: Automatic skipper, even when listening to vinyl Stinky-Dinky: It's like nails on a chalkboard to you Based on Jessi's response to Parachutes, I have that somewhere between Rinky-Dinky and Stinky-Dinky. I would have to let Jessi be the final judge on that. For Kate's remarks to Low Light, I have it somewhere between Dinky and Rinky-Dinky, however I'm inclined to believe it's closer to Dinky because I wasn't able to note as many hot

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