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Epic Records: E 66900 Format: 12" Gatefold LP, Black Vinyl
Includes: Original 8-page booklet and custom graphic inner sleeve.
Cover Condition: Near Mint! Sharp! Hardly ever pulled from the shelf and always stored vertically in a protective poly sleeve.
Vinyl Condition: Near Mint! Only played a few times, still like new, no surface noise! Stunning! Booklet and Inner sleeve are also near mint!
Release Info: Vitalogy is the third studio album by the American grunge band Pearl Jam, released on November 22, 1994 through Epic Records. Pearl Jam wrote and recorded Vitalogy while touring behind its previous album Vs. (1993). The music on the record was more diverse than previous releases, and consists of aggressive rock songs, ballads, and several experimental tracks. Vitalogy was packaged in a booklet that replicated material from a 1920s medical book.
For their third album, Pearl Jam again worked with producer Brendan O'Brien. The band wrote many of the songs during soundchecks during its Vs. Tour and the majority of the album's tracks were recorded during breaks on the tour.
Vitalogy was released first on vinyl on November 22, 1994, two weeks before the CD release. It debuted at number 55 on the Billboard 200 album chart. The album sold 35,000 copies in its first week of release. It was the first vinyl album to appear on the chart due to vinyl sales since the proliferation of compact discs. When Vitalogy was released on CD and cassette on December 6, 1994, it reached number one on the Billboard 200 album chart. The album sold more than 877,000 copies in its first week of release on CD and became the second-fastest-selling CD in history, behind only the band's previous release Vs. Vitalogy has been certified five times platinum by the RIAA, and, as of March 2007, has sold 4.7 million copies in the United States according to Nielsen SoundScan.
The Vitalogy album booklet and disc.The album is packaged in a booklet based on a book from the 1920s Vedder found at a garage sale. Ament stated, "Ed brought in that book, and we said man that would make a great album cover." He explained that from Vs. onwards the band tried to take different approaches to packaging its records. Ament said, "We tried really hard, to make it like a book, kind of tipped it so it opened horizontally, which pissed off record stores: they had to put it in sideways." The packaging cost an extra 50 cents per copy. Problems arose when the band discovered that later versions of the book were still under copyright. The band had to confer with their lawyers in order to work out a final version utilizing the material they wanted to include with the album.
The booklet contains outdated discussions of health and well-being. Other notes in the booklet, dealing with life and death reflections, seem to be more personal, like a message typed on one of the last pages, supposedly referring to the loss of a loved one ("I waited all day. you waited all day.. but you left before sunset.. and I just wanted to tell you the moment was beautiful. Just wanted to dance to bad music drive bad cars.. watch bad TV.. should have stayed for the sunset... if not for me."). The booklet also displays some poems or original sayings not belonging to the songs' lyrics, but to be interpreted as a commentary to the songs and, again, as a reflection on how life should or shouldn't be lived. An example is the poem typed on the "Aye Davanita" page. The song's subtitle is "The song without words", as it is an instrumental track. But the page displays a sort of poem about the wasted life of a young girl. Another episode of "intruder words" is on the "Not for You" lyrics page. After the second refrain, instead of the actual lyrics, the typed words give a hint about the Sisyphus myth ("Yeah, you call me Sisyphus love. Yeah, I move the rock. I just don't want to talk about moving the rock. Anything that distracts me from moving the rock"). The lyrics to "Whipping" are written on a copy of a petition to Bill Clinton against Pro-Life killings of abortionists. An X-ray of Vedder's teeth was pictured instead of lyrics on the page for "Corduroy".
The original title for the album was Life. The first single, "Spin the Black Circle", was released before the album was released, and on the back of the single it states "From the Epic album Life." The album title Vitalogy comes from the early 20th Century medical book from which the cover art and liner notes are based. Vitalogy literally means "the study of life."
All lyrics written by Eddie Vedder, all music composed by Dave Abbruzzese, Jeff Ament, Stone Gossard, Mike McCready, and Vedder, except where noted.
1. "Last Exit" 2:54
2. "Spin the Black Circle" 2:48
3. "Not for You" 5:52
4. "Tremor Christ" 4:12
5. "Nothingman" Ament 4:35
6. "Whipping" 2:35
7. "Pry, To" 1:03
8. "Corduroy" 4:37
9. "Bugs" 2:45
10. "Satan's Bed" Gossard 3:31
11. "Better Man" Vedder 4:28
12. "Aye Davanita" 2:58
13. "Immortality" 5:28
14. "Hey Foxymophandlemama, That's Me" (Also known as "Stupid Mop") Ament, Gossard, Jack Irons, McCready, Vedder 7:44
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