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Vitalogy

January 30, 2023

Vitalogy is the third studio album by American rock band Pearl Jam, released on November 22, 1994, on Epic Records. Pearl Jam wrote and recorded Vitalogy while touring behind its previous album Vs. (1993). The music on the record is more diverse than previous releases, and consisted of aggressive rock songs, ballads, and other stylistic elements, making it Pearl Jam's most experimental album at that period. Considered a departure from the grunge sound of the band’s first two albums, the record focuses more on punk rock and hardcore styles in its production.[2][4]

Vitalogy
Studio album by
Pearl Jam
ReleasedNovember 22, 1994 (1994-11-22)
RecordedNovember 1993 – October 1994
Studio
Genre
Length55:09
LabelEpic
Producer
Pearl Jam chronology
Vs.
(1993) 		Vitalogy
(1994) 		No Code
(1996)
Singles from Vitalogy
  1. "Spin the Black Circle"/"Tremor Christ"
    Released: November 8, 1994
  2. "Not for You"
    Released: March 21, 1995
  3. "Immortality"
    Released: June 6, 1995

The album was first released on vinyl, followed by a release on CD and cassette two weeks later on December 6, 1994. The LP sold 34,000 copies in its first week of release, and until Jack White's 2014 album Lazaretto it held the record for most vinyl sales in one week since SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991.[7] Upon its CD release, Vitalogy became the second-fastest selling album in history, behind only the band's previous release Vs., selling 877,000 copies in its first week and quickly going multi-platinum.[8] The album received critical acclaim from critics and has been certified five times platinum by the RIAA in the United States. The album was included on Rolling Stone’s 2003 and 2012 500 Greatest Albums of All Time lists at number 485, but was dropped from the 2020 edtion. It is Pearl Jam's second and last album to feature drummer Dave Abbruzzese, who was fired from the band before recording was finished. He was initially replaced by session drummers and later officially replaced by former Red Hot Chili Peppers' drummer Jack Irons, who completed the recording of the album.[9]

Recording

For the band's third album, Pearl Jam again worked with producer Brendan O'Brien. The band wrote many of the songs during soundchecks on its Vs. Tour, and the majority of the album's tracks were recorded during breaks on the tour. The first session took place late in 1993 in New Orleans, Louisiana, where the band recorded "Tremor Christ" and "Nothingman".[10] The rest of the material was written and recorded in 1994 in sessions in Seattle, Washington and Atlanta, Georgia, with the band finishing the album at Bad Animals Studio in Seattle after the tour's completion.[11] "Immortality" was written in April 1994 when the band was on tour in Atlanta.[12] Sources state that most of the album was completed by early 1994, but it was not released until November due to either a forced delay by Epic or the band's battle with ticket vendor Ticketmaster.[13]

Tensions within the band had dramatically increased by the time they were working on Vitalogy. Producer Brendan O'Brien said: "Vitalogy was a little strained. I'm being polite—there was some imploding going on."[14] Bassist Jeff Ament said that "communication was at an all-time low".[14] Drummer Dave Abbruzzese stated that the communication problems started once guitarist Stone Gossard stopped acting as the band's mediator.[14] According to Gossard, Vitalogy was the first album for which lead vocalist Eddie Vedder made the final decisions.[14] At the time, Gossard thought of quitting the band.[15] Gossard said the band was having trouble collaborating, so most of the songs were developed out of jam sessions. He added that "80 percent of the songs were written 20 minutes before they were recorded."[10] During the production of Vitalogy, lead guitarist Mike McCready went into rehabilitation to receive treatment for alcohol and cocaine abuse.[11][14]

Drums on "Satan's Bed" were performed by Abbruzzese's drum tech Jimmy Shoaf. On the day it was recorded, Abbruzzese was in the hospital having his tonsils removed. Vedder and Gossard asked for Shoaf's help to get a drum machine working, and after setting it up, the pair asked Shoaf to perform the same beat on the drums. He is credited on the lyric sheet as "Jimmy".[16] Months after finishing the initial recording sessions for Vitalogy, Abbruzzese was fired in August 1994 due to personality conflicts with other band members.[14] Gossard said: "It was the nature of how the politics worked in our band: It was up to me to say, 'Hey, we tried, it's not working; time to move on.' On a superficial level, it was a political struggle: For whatever reason, his ability to communicate with Ed and Jeff was very stifled. I certainly don't think it was all Dave Abbruzzese's fault that it was stifled."[14] Jack Irons, the original drummer for the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Abbruzzese's successor, plays drums on "Hey Foxymophandlemama, That's Me". Gossard said: "Jack entered the band right at the end of making Vitalogy. Jack's a breath of fresh air, a family man. Everybody had a strong sense of friendship with him immediately. He was just there to play drums and help out."[14]

Music and lyrics

 
"Better Man"
A sample of "Better Man", from Vitalogy. Considered a "blatantly great pop song" by producer Brendan O'Brien, Pearl Jam was reluctant to record it and rejected it from the band's previous album Vs. due to its accessibility. The lyrics for the song, written by Vedder, are about an abusive relationship.
"Immortality"
A sample of "Immortality", the third single released from the album. The lyrics for the song have been claimed by some to be about Kurt Cobain; however, Vedder has denied this, suggesting instead that it is about "the pressures on someone who is on a parallel train".
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In a 1995 interview, Guitar World writer Jeff Gilbert described Vitalogy as "strange" and "very eclectic". McCready agreed, saying: "There is some weird stuff on there." McCready attributed the album's sound to the group recording it on tour.[11] During this period Vedder began to contribute in a large capacity as a guitarist. Gossard said: "Vitalogy is the first one where Ed plays guitar and he wrote three to four songs. I remember thinking, 'This is so different. Is anyone going to like this?'...It had a more punk feel to it. Simple songs recorded really quickly."[3] The album has a notable lack of guitar solos compared with the band's first two albums. McCready said: "Vitalogy is not really a 'solo' album. I don't think the songs demanded solos; it was more of a rhythmic album."[11]

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic said that "thanks to its stripped-down, lean production, Vitalogy stands as Pearl Jam's most original and uncompromising album."[17] He added that "in between the straight rock numbers and the searching slow songs, Pearl Jam contribute their strangest music—the mantrafunk of 'Aye Davanita', the sub-Tom Waits accordion romp of 'Bugs', and the chilling sonic collage 'Hey Foxymophandlemama, That's Me'." "Bugs" features Vedder playing an accordion that he found at a thrift shop,[18] while "Hey Foxymophandlemama, That's Me" was created using looped recordings of real patients from a psychiatric hospital.[19]

Many of the songs on the album address the pressures of fame and dealing with the resulting loss of privacy.[20] These include "Not for You", "Pry, To", "Corduroy", "Bugs", "Satan's Bed" and "Immortality". Vedder said: "I'm just totally vulnerable. I'm way too fucking soft for this whole business, this whole trip. I don't have any shell. There's a contradiction there, because that's probably why I can write songs that mean something to someone and express some of these things that other people can't necessarily express."[18] The lyrics of "Not for You" express anger at the bureaucracy of the music industry and "how youth is being sold and exploited",[12] while Vedder said "Corduroy" is about "one person's relationship with a million people."[12] In "Pry, To" the phrase "P-r-i-v-a-c-y is priceless to me" is repeated. Many[who?] think that the lyrics of "Immortality" may be about Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain's suicide, although Vedder has denied this, suggesting instead that it is about "the pressures on someone who is on a parallel train."[12] The lyrics that appeared in the first live version of "Immortality" were altered before the song was released as part of the album. Vedder said, regarding "Nothingman", that "if you love someone and they love you, don't fuck up...'cause you are left with less than nothing."[12] "Better Man" is a song about an abusive relationship.[21] Vedder wrote the song when he was in high school and performed it with his previous band, Bad Radio. Considered a "blatantly great pop song" by producer Brendan O'Brien, Pearl Jam was reluctant to record it and had initially rejected it from Vs. due to its accessibility.[14]

Release and reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic     [17]
Chicago Sun-Times    [22]
Entertainment WeeklyB+[23]
Los Angeles Times    [24]
Pitchfork8.3/10[25]
Q     [26]
Rolling Stone     [20]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide     [27]
USA Today    [28]
The Village VoiceA−[29]

Vitalogy was released first on vinyl on November 22, 1994, two weeks before its CD and cassette release, and debuted at No. 55 on the Billboard 200 album chart.[30] The LP sold 34,000 copies in its first week of release, and, until Jack White's Lazaretto in 2014, it held the record for most vinyl sales in one week on Soundscan.[7] It was also the first album to chart on the Billboard 200 due to vinyl sales alone since the CD became the dominant format for album sales.[31] When Vitalogy was released on CD and cassette on December 6, 1994, it went to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart, selling more than 877,000 copies in its first week.[8] It was the second-fastest selling album in history, behind only the band's previous release Vs.[32] Vitalogy has been certified five times platinum by the RIAA,[9] and, as of July 2013, has sold 5.9 million copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.[33] In July 2013, Rolling Stone ranked Vitalogy second in a reader's poll of Pearl Jam's best albums.[34]

Rolling Stone staff writer Al Weisel gave Vitalogy a positive four out of five stars, describing the album as "a wildly uneven and difficult record, sometimes maddening, sometimes ridiculous, often powerful." While Weisel praised several songs, saying that " Vitalogy has a number of gripping songs that match the soaring anthems of Ten, the extended grooves of Vs. or the poetry of either record", he somewhat criticized some of the more experimental songs as "throwaways and strange experiments that don't always work".[20] Jon Pareles of The New York Times praised the album's diversity compared to the band's previous records, commenting that the band incorporated "fast but brutal punk, fuzz-toned psychedelia and judicious folk-rock, all of it sounding more spontaneous than before." He felt the band continued to be "unremittingly glum", and described the majority of the songs as "tortured first-person proclamations", commenting that "Vedder sounds more alone than ever."[35] Time reviewer Christopher John Farley singled out "Bugs" as one of the album's "share of stinkers", but added "that's one admirably experimental failure on a largely successful album."[36] Despite writing negatively of the album's "shapeless high-energy riff-rockers", Newsday staff writer Ira Robbins lauded Vitalogy's sound and called it a "compelling triumph of surface over substance".[37] In a mixed review of the album, Mark Jenkins of The Washington Post perceived a lack of subject matter or lyrical substance as Vitalogy's weakness.[38]

Q magazine gave the album four out of five stars, stating: "It speaks volumes for Pearl Jam's continuing creative acumen that they can respond so confidently to a new punk scene that has sprung up."[26] Robert Christgau of The Village Voice gave the album an A− rating, writing that "Three or four of these songs are faster and riffier than anything else in P. Jam's book, token experiments like "Bugs" are genuinely weird, and in an era of compulsory irony [Vedder's] sincerity is something like a relief—a Kurtlike relief at that."[29] David Browne of Entertainment Weekly gave the album a B+, saying that "Vitalogy marks the first time it's possible to respect the band's music as much as its stance", but "despite its musical advances, Vitalogy leaves an odd, unsettling aftertaste. You walk away from it energized, but wondering what price Eddie Vedder, and Pearl Jam, will ultimately pay for it."[23] Chicago Sun-Times writer Jim DeRogatis gave tha album three out of four stars and commended Pearl Jam for their earnest songwriting. However, DeRogatis also wrote that the album "leaves you wishing that they'd just lighten up".[22] USA Today's Edna Gundersen gave Vitalogy three and a half out of four stars and stated that it "delivers the band's most compelling, inventive and confident music to date", while calling it "the rebel yell of a band that is maturing without mellowing".[28] Los Angeles Times critic Robert Hilburn gave Vitalogy four out of four stars and viewed its music as an improvement over Pearl Jam's previous work, writing: "This isn't just the best Pearl Jam album but a better album than the band once even seemed capable of making".[24] AllMusic staff writer Stephen Thomas Erlewine gave the album four and a half out of five stars, saying: "Pearl Jam are at their best when they're fighting, whether it's Ticketmaster, fame, or their own personal demons."[17] According to The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004): "By Vitalogy PJ hit their apex … the band's creative zenith, finding them doing a Led Zeppelin III on acoustic tracks like 'Corduroy' and turning in a Tom Waits-like weird attack on 'Bugs'".[27]

Three singles were released from Vitalogy. The lead single, "Spin the Black Circle" (backed with B-side "Tremor Christ", also from the album), was the band's first to enter the Billboard Hot 100, reaching number 18.[39] At the 1996 Grammy Awards, "Spin the Black Circle" won the band its first Grammy Award, receiving the award for Best Hard Rock Performance.[40] Neither of the album's other commercially released singles, "Not for You" and "Immortality", charted on the Hot 100, but both placed on the Album Rock and Modern Rock charts. Album tracks "Better Man" and "Corduroy" also charted. "Better Man" was the most successful song from Vitalogy on the rock charts, spending a total of eight weeks at number one on the Album Rock chart and reaching number two on the Modern Rock chart.[39] At the 1996 Grammy Awards, Vitalogy received nominations for Album of the Year and Best Rock Album.[40] In 2003, the album was ranked number 492 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.[41] The magazine listed the album at number 485 on its revised list in 2012, saying it showed the band's "mastery of rock's past and future".[42] In May 2014, Loudwire placed Vitalogy at number ten on its "10 Best Hard Rock Albums of 1994" list.[43] In July 2014, Guitar World placed the album on its "Superunknown: 50 Iconic Albums That Defined 1994" list.[44]

In 2011, Pearl Jam released a remastered Vitalogy, along with Vs., in three formats: an Expanded Version, a three-CD Deluxe Edition, and a Limited Edition Collector's Boxed Set. The Expanded Version features three bonus tracks: the previously unreleased guitar/organ-only mix of "Better Man"; a previously unreleased alternate take of "Corduroy" from the Vitalogy sessions (recorded by Brendan O'Brien); and a previously unreleased demo version of "Nothingman", taken from the original DAT (recorded at John and Stu's in Seattle on October 14, 1993, featuring Richard Stuverud on drums). The three-CD Deluxe Edition features both the Legacy Versions of Vitalogy and Vs. with their bonus tracks and a copy of Live at the Orpheum Theater, Boston, April 12, 1994.[45]

Packaging

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 title Vitalogy, which literally means "the study of life",[20] came from an early 20th-century medical book that Vedder found at a garage sale. This book was also the inspiration for the album's cover art and liner notes.[14] Ament stated: "Ed brought in that book, and we said man that would make a great album cover."[14] After explaining that, from Vs. onward, the band tried to take different approaches to packaging its records, he 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."[14] Packaging the album in this way cost an extra 50 cents per copy. When the band discovered that later versions of the medical book were still under copyright, they had to confer with their lawyers as they worked out which material they wanted to utilize in the final version of the artwork.[14]

The booklet contains outdated discussions of health and well-being, as well as other notes, dealing with life and death reflections, which seem to be more personal, like a message typed on the "Immortality" page that seems to be 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."). It also includes some poems or original sayings that do not belong to the songs' lyrics, but can be interpreted as commentary on the songs or, again, as a reflection on how life should or should not be lived. An example is the poem typed on the "Aye Davanita" page. The song's subtitle is listed as "The song without words", as it is an instrumental track, but the page also displays a sort of poem about the wasted life of a young girl. Another episode of "intruder words" is on the "Not for You" page. After the second refrain, instead of the actual lyrics, the typed words give a hint about the Sisyphus myth ("Call me Sisyphus love. Yeh, I move the rock. I just don't want to talk about moving the rock. Get pictures taken of me while 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 abortion doctors. An X-ray of Vedder's teeth was pictured instead of lyrics on the page for "Corduroy".[12]

Tour

Main article: Vitalogy Tour

Pearl Jam promoted the album with tours in Asia, Oceania, and the United States in 1995.[46] The band was joined by new drummer Jack Irons. The short tour of the United States focused on the Midwest and the West Coast. The band continued its boycott against Ticketmaster during its tour of the United States, refusing to play in Ticketmaster's venue areas, but was surprised that virtually no other bands joined it in refusing to play at Ticketmaster venues.[47] The band chose to use alternate ticketing companies for the shows.

The tour of the United States faced various troubles. Ament said the band and its crew had to "[build] shows from the ground up, a venue everywhere we went".[14] In June 1995, the band was scheduled to play at San Francisco, California's Golden Gate Park in front of 50,000 people. Before the concert, Vedder was forced to stay at a hospital after suffering from the effects of food poisoning. He left the hospital to play the show, but he was not able to finish and ended up performing just seven out of 21 songs with the band.[48] Neil Young filled in for Vedder for the rest of the show that day. Vedder said: "That whole [Golden Gate Park] thing was a blur based on some bad food. It was really, really bad. Looking back at it, it doesn't seem as intense as it was, but it was horrible. I just felt not human and looking back I should have got through that show somehow, and I think the fact that Neil [Young] was there made me feel like I could get off the hook in some way and I did go out for a few songs."[14] Because of Vedder's health, the band was forced to cancel the remaining dates of its tour of the United States.[15] Some dates were later reinstated, while the rest were rescheduled for the fall. About canceling the dates, Vedder said: "I think we all agreed that it had gotten insane, that it was no longer about the music."[49] Ament later said: "We were so hardheaded about the 1995 tour. Had to prove we could tour on our own, and it pretty much killed us, killed our career."[14]

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Eddie Vedder. All music is credited to Pearl Jam with the exceptions as (*). Actual music composers listed below.

No.TitleMusicLength
1."Last Exit"Dave Abbruzzese, Stone Gossard2:54
2."Spin the Black Circle"Gossard[50]2:48
3."Not for You"Vedder[51]5:52
4."Tremor Christ"Jeff Ament, Mike McCready[51]4:12
5."Nothingman" (*)Ament4:35
6."Whipping"Vedder[3]2:34
7."Pry, To"Abbruzzese, Ament, McCready, Gossard, Vedder1:03
8."Corduroy"Vedder[12]4:37
9."Bugs"Vedder[52]2:44
10."Satan's Bed" (*)Gossard3:30
11."Better Man" (*)Vedder4:28
12."Aye Davanita"Abbruzzese, Ament, McCready, Gossard, Vedder2:57
13."Immortality"Vedder[12]5:28
14."Hey Foxymophandlemama, That's Me" (*) (Also known as "Stupid Mop"[53])Ament, Gossard, Jack Irons, McCready, Vedder7:28
Total length:55:09

Reissue bonus tracks

All lyrics are written by Vedder.

No.TitleMusicLength
15."Better Man" (guitar and organ only mix)Vedder3:55
16."Corduroy" (alternate take)Vedder[12]4:44
17."Nothingman" (1993 demo featuring Richard Stuverud on drums)Ament4:36

Outtakes

"Hard to Imagine", a song previously rejected from Vs.,[54] was also recorded during the Vitalogy sessions. This version found its way on to the soundtrack for the 1998 film Chicago Cab. "Hard to Imagine" is also included on the 2003 rarities compilation Lost Dogs, though that version is the one from the Vs. sessions.[55] According to Gossard, "Hard to Imagine" was cut from Vitalogy because it did not fit with the other songs the band was writing at the time.[56]

"Out of My Mind", which is featured as a B-side on the "Not for You" single, was premiered on the band's 1994 spring tour of the United States and was played twice.[57] According to Vedder, the song was just a live improv.[58]

Personnel

Charts and certifications

Singles

Year Single Peak chart positions
US
[39]		 US Main
[39]		 US Mod
[39]		 AUS
[59]		 CAN
[92]
[93]
[94]		 GER
[95]		 IRE
[96]		 NLD
[97]		 NOR
[98]		 NZ
[68]		 SWE
[99]		 UK
[74]
1994 "Spin the Black Circle" 18 16 11 3 — 92 6 21 5 2 16 10
"Tremor Christ" — 16 16 — 67 — — — — — — —
1995 "Better Man" — 1 2 — 9 — — — — — — —
"Corduroy" — 22 13 — — — — — — — — —
"Not for You" — 12 38 29 — — 26 — — 10 — 34
"Immortality" — 10 31 51 62 — — — — 29 — —
"—" denotes singles that did not chart.

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Further reading

External links

  • Vitalogy at Discogs
  • Vitalogy information and lyrics at pearljam.com
  • 1906 edition of Vitalogy: Encyclopedia of Health and Home at the Internet Archive.

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Vitalogy is the third studio album by American rock band Pearl Jam released on November 22 1994 on Epic Records Pearl Jam wrote and recorded Vitalogy while touring behind its previous album Vs 1993 The music on the record is more diverse than previous releases and consisted of aggressive rock songs ballads and other stylistic elements making it Pearl Jam s most experimental album at that period Considered a departure from the grunge sound of the band s first two albums the record focuses more on punk rock and hardcore styles in its production 2 4 VitalogyStudio album by Pearl JamReleasedNovember 22 1994 1994 11 22 RecordedNovember 1993 October 1994StudioBad Animals Seattle Southern Tracks Atlanta Doppler Atlanta Kingsway New OrleansGenrePunk rock 1 2 3 4 grunge 5 6 Length55 09LabelEpicProducerBrendan O BrienPearl JamPearl Jam chronologyVs 1993 Vitalogy 1994 No Code 1996 Singles from Vitalogy Spin the Black Circle Tremor Christ Released November 8 1994 Not for You Released March 21 1995 Immortality Released June 6 1995The album was first released on vinyl followed by a release on CD and cassette two weeks later on December 6 1994 The LP sold 34 000 copies in its first week of release and until Jack White s 2014 album Lazaretto it held the record for most vinyl sales in one week since SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991 7 Upon its CD release Vitalogy became the second fastest selling album in history behind only the band s previous release Vs selling 877 000 copies in its first week and quickly going multi platinum 8 The album received critical acclaim from critics and has been certified five times platinum by the RIAA in the United States The album was included on Rolling Stone s 2003 and 2012 500 Greatest Albums of All Time lists at number 485 but was dropped from the 2020 edtion It is Pearl Jam s second and last album to feature drummer Dave Abbruzzese who was fired from the band before recording was finished He was initially replaced by session drummers and later officially replaced by former Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Jack Irons who completed the recording of the album 9 Contents 1 Recording 2 Music and lyrics 3 Release and reception 4 Packaging 5 Tour 6 Track listing 7 Outtakes 8 Personnel 9 Charts and certifications 9 1 Weekly charts 9 2 Year end charts 9 3 Decade end charts 9 4 Certifications 9 5 Singles 10 References 11 Further reading 12 External linksRecording EditFor the band s third album Pearl Jam again worked with producer Brendan O Brien The band wrote many of the songs during soundchecks on its Vs Tour and the majority of the album s tracks were recorded during breaks on the tour The first session took place late in 1993 in New Orleans Louisiana where the band recorded Tremor Christ and Nothingman 10 The rest of the material was written and recorded in 1994 in sessions in Seattle Washington and Atlanta Georgia with the band finishing the album at Bad Animals Studio in Seattle after the tour s completion 11 Immortality was written in April 1994 when the band was on tour in Atlanta 12 Sources state that most of the album was completed by early 1994 but it was not released until November due to either a forced delay by Epic or the band s battle with ticket vendor Ticketmaster 13 Tensions within the band had dramatically increased by the time they were working on Vitalogy Producer Brendan O Brien said Vitalogy was a little strained I m being polite there was some imploding going on 14 Bassist Jeff Ament said that communication was at an all time low 14 Drummer Dave Abbruzzese stated that the communication problems started once guitarist Stone Gossard stopped acting as the band s mediator 14 According to Gossard Vitalogy was the first album for which lead vocalist Eddie Vedder made the final decisions 14 At the time Gossard thought of quitting the band 15 Gossard said the band was having trouble collaborating so most of the songs were developed out of jam sessions He added that 80 percent of the songs were written 20 minutes before they were recorded 10 During the production of Vitalogy lead guitarist Mike McCready went into rehabilitation to receive treatment for alcohol and cocaine abuse 11 14 Drums on Satan s Bed were performed by Abbruzzese s drum tech Jimmy Shoaf On the day it was recorded Abbruzzese was in the hospital having his tonsils removed Vedder and Gossard asked for Shoaf s help to get a drum machine working and after setting it up the pair asked Shoaf to perform the same beat on the drums He is credited on the lyric sheet as Jimmy 16 Months after finishing the initial recording sessions for Vitalogy Abbruzzese was fired in August 1994 due to personality conflicts with other band members 14 Gossard said It was the nature of how the politics worked in our band It was up to me to say Hey we tried it s not working time to move on On a superficial level it was a political struggle For whatever reason his ability to communicate with Ed and Jeff was very stifled I certainly don t think it was all Dave Abbruzzese s fault that it was stifled 14 Jack Irons the original drummer for the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Abbruzzese s successor plays drums on Hey Foxymophandlemama That s Me Gossard said Jack entered the band right at the end of making Vitalogy Jack s a breath of fresh air a family man Everybody had a strong sense of friendship with him immediately He was just there to play drums and help out 14 Music and lyrics Edit Better Man source source A sample of Better Man from Vitalogy Considered a blatantly great pop song by producer Brendan O Brien Pearl Jam was reluctant to record it and rejected it from the band s previous album Vs due to its accessibility The lyrics for the song written by Vedder are about an abusive relationship Immortality source source A sample of Immortality the third single released from the album The lyrics for the song have been claimed by some to be about Kurt Cobain however Vedder has denied this suggesting instead that it is about the pressures on someone who is on a parallel train Problems playing these files See media help In a 1995 interview Guitar World writer Jeff Gilbert described Vitalogy as strange and very eclectic McCready agreed saying There is some weird stuff on there McCready attributed the album s sound to the group recording it on tour 11 During this period Vedder began to contribute in a large capacity as a guitarist Gossard said Vitalogy is the first one where Ed plays guitar and he wrote three to four songs I remember thinking This is so different Is anyone going to like this It had a more punk feel to it Simple songs recorded really quickly 3 The album has a notable lack of guitar solos compared with the band s first two albums McCready said Vitalogy is not really a solo album I don t think the songs demanded solos it was more of a rhythmic album 11 Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic said that thanks to its stripped down lean production Vitalogy stands as Pearl Jam s most original and uncompromising album 17 He added that in between the straight rock numbers and the searching slow songs Pearl Jam contribute their strangest music the mantrafunk of Aye Davanita the sub Tom Waits accordion romp of Bugs and the chilling sonic collage Hey Foxymophandlemama That s Me Bugs features Vedder playing an accordion that he found at a thrift shop 18 while Hey Foxymophandlemama That s Me was created using looped recordings of real patients from a psychiatric hospital 19 Many of the songs on the album address the pressures of fame and dealing with the resulting loss of privacy 20 These include Not for You Pry To Corduroy Bugs Satan s Bed and Immortality Vedder said I m just totally vulnerable I m way too fucking soft for this whole business this whole trip I don t have any shell There s a contradiction there because that s probably why I can write songs that mean something to someone and express some of these things that other people can t necessarily express 18 The lyrics of Not for You express anger at the bureaucracy of the music industry and how youth is being sold and exploited 12 while Vedder said Corduroy is about one person s relationship with a million people 12 In Pry To the phrase P r i v a c y is priceless to me is repeated Many who think that the lyrics of Immortality may be about Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain s suicide although Vedder has denied this suggesting instead that it is about the pressures on someone who is on a parallel train 12 The lyrics that appeared in the first live version of Immortality were altered before the song was released as part of the album Vedder said regarding Nothingman that if you love someone and they love you don t fuck up cause you are left with less than nothing 12 Better Man is a song about an abusive relationship 21 Vedder wrote the song when he was in high school and performed it with his previous band Bad Radio Considered a blatantly great pop song by producer Brendan O Brien Pearl Jam was reluctant to record it and had initially rejected it from Vs due to its accessibility 14 Release and reception EditProfessional ratingsReview scoresSourceRatingAllMusic 17 Chicago Sun Times 22 Entertainment WeeklyB 23 Los Angeles Times 24 Pitchfork8 3 10 25 Q 26 Rolling Stone 20 The Rolling Stone Album Guide 27 USA Today 28 The Village VoiceA 29 Vitalogy was released first on vinyl on November 22 1994 two weeks before its CD and cassette release and debuted at No 55 on the Billboard 200 album chart 30 The LP sold 34 000 copies in its first week of release and until Jack White s Lazaretto in 2014 it held the record for most vinyl sales in one week on Soundscan 7 It was also the first album to chart on the Billboard 200 due to vinyl sales alone since the CD became the dominant format for album sales 31 When Vitalogy was released on CD and cassette on December 6 1994 it went to No 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart selling more than 877 000 copies in its first week 8 It was the second fastest selling album in history behind only the band s previous release Vs 32 Vitalogy has been certified five times platinum by the RIAA 9 and as of July 2013 has sold 5 9 million copies in the United States according to Nielsen SoundScan 33 In July 2013 Rolling Stone ranked Vitalogy second in a reader s poll of Pearl Jam s best albums 34 Rolling Stone staff writer Al Weisel gave Vitalogy a positive four out of five stars describing the album as a wildly uneven and difficult record sometimes maddening sometimes ridiculous often powerful While Weisel praised several songs saying that Vitalogy has a number of gripping songs that match the soaring anthems of Ten the extended grooves of Vs or the poetry of either record he somewhat criticized some of the more experimental songs as throwaways and strange experiments that don t always work 20 Jon Pareles of The New York Times praised the album s diversity compared to the band s previous records commenting that the band incorporated fast but brutal punk fuzz toned psychedelia and judicious folk rock all of it sounding more spontaneous than before He felt the band continued to be unremittingly glum and described the majority of the songs as tortured first person proclamations commenting that Vedder sounds more alone than ever 35 Time reviewer Christopher John Farley singled out Bugs as one of the album s share of stinkers but added that s one admirably experimental failure on a largely successful album 36 Despite writing negatively of the album s shapeless high energy riff rockers Newsday staff writer Ira Robbins lauded Vitalogy s sound and called it a compelling triumph of surface over substance 37 In a mixed review of the album Mark Jenkins of The Washington Post perceived a lack of subject matter or lyrical substance as Vitalogy s weakness 38 Q magazine gave the album four out of five stars stating It speaks volumes for Pearl Jam s continuing creative acumen that they can respond so confidently to a new punk scene that has sprung up 26 Robert Christgau of The Village Voice gave the album an A rating writing that Three or four of these songs are faster and riffier than anything else in P Jam s book token experiments like Bugs are genuinely weird and in an era of compulsory irony Vedder s sincerity is something like a relief a Kurtlike relief at that 29 David Browne of Entertainment Weekly gave the album a B saying that Vitalogy marks the first time it s possible to respect the band s music as much as its stance but despite its musical advances Vitalogy leaves an odd unsettling aftertaste You walk away from it energized but wondering what price Eddie Vedder and Pearl Jam will ultimately pay for it 23 Chicago Sun Times writer Jim DeRogatis gave tha album three out of four stars and commended Pearl Jam for their earnest songwriting However DeRogatis also wrote that the album leaves you wishing that they d just lighten up 22 USA Today s Edna Gundersen gave Vitalogy three and a half out of four stars and stated that it delivers the band s most compelling inventive and confident music to date while calling it the rebel yell of a band that is maturing without mellowing 28 Los Angeles Times critic Robert Hilburn gave Vitalogy four out of four stars and viewed its music as an improvement over Pearl Jam s previous work writing This isn t just the best Pearl Jam album but a better album than the band once even seemed capable of making 24 AllMusic staff writer Stephen Thomas Erlewine gave the album four and a half out of five stars saying Pearl Jam are at their best when they re fighting whether it s Ticketmaster fame or their own personal demons 17 According to The New Rolling Stone Album Guide 2004 By Vitalogy PJ hit their apex the band s creative zenith finding them doing a Led Zeppelin III on acoustic tracks like Corduroy and turning in a Tom Waits like weird attack on Bugs 27 Three singles were released from Vitalogy The lead single Spin the Black Circle backed with B side Tremor Christ also from the album was the band s first to enter the Billboard Hot 100 reaching number 18 39 At the 1996 Grammy Awards Spin the Black Circle won the band its first Grammy Award receiving the award for Best Hard Rock Performance 40 Neither of the album s other commercially released singles Not for You and Immortality charted on the Hot 100 but both placed on the Album Rock and Modern Rock charts Album tracks Better Man and Corduroy also charted Better Man was the most successful song from Vitalogy on the rock charts spending a total of eight weeks at number one on the Album Rock chart and reaching number two on the Modern Rock chart 39 At the 1996 Grammy Awards Vitalogy received nominations for Album of the Year and Best Rock Album 40 In 2003 the album was ranked number 492 on Rolling Stone magazine s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time 41 The magazine listed the album at number 485 on its revised list in 2012 saying it showed the band s mastery of rock s past and future 42 In May 2014 Loudwire placed Vitalogy at number ten on its 10 Best Hard Rock Albums of 1994 list 43 In July 2014 Guitar World placed the album on its Superunknown 50 Iconic Albums That Defined 1994 list 44 In 2011 Pearl Jam released a remastered Vitalogy along with Vs in three formats an Expanded Version a three CD Deluxe Edition and a Limited Edition Collector s Boxed Set The Expanded Version features three bonus tracks the previously unreleased guitar organ only mix of Better Man a previously unreleased alternate take of Corduroy from the Vitalogy sessions recorded by Brendan O Brien and a previously unreleased demo version of Nothingman taken from the original DAT recorded at John and Stu s in Seattle on October 14 1993 featuring Richard Stuverud on drums The three CD Deluxe Edition features both the Legacy Versions of Vitalogy and Vs with their bonus tracks and a copy of Live at the Orpheum Theater Boston April 12 1994 45 Packaging EditThe 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 title Vitalogy which literally means the study of life 20 came from an early 20th century medical book that Vedder found at a garage sale This book was also the inspiration for the album s cover art and liner notes 14 Ament stated Ed brought in that book and we said man that would make a great album cover 14 After explaining that from Vs onward the band tried to take different approaches to packaging its records he 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 14 Packaging the album in this way cost an extra 50 cents per copy When the band discovered that later versions of the medical book were still under copyright they had to confer with their lawyers as they worked out which material they wanted to utilize in the final version of the artwork 14 The booklet contains outdated discussions of health and well being as well as other notes dealing with life and death reflections which seem to be more personal like a message typed on the Immortality page that seems to be 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 It also includes some poems or original sayings that do not belong to the songs lyrics but can be interpreted as commentary on the songs or again as a reflection on how life should or should not be lived An example is the poem typed on the Aye Davanita page The song s subtitle is listed as The song without words as it is an instrumental track but the page also displays a sort of poem about the wasted life of a young girl Another episode of intruder words is on the Not for You page After the second refrain instead of the actual lyrics the typed words give a hint about the Sisyphus myth Call me Sisyphus love Yeh I move the rock I just don t want to talk about moving the rock Get pictures taken of me while 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 abortion doctors An X ray of Vedder s teeth was pictured instead of lyrics on the page for Corduroy 12 Tour EditMain article Vitalogy Tour Pearl Jam promoted the album with tours in Asia Oceania and the United States in 1995 46 The band was joined by new drummer Jack Irons The short tour of the United States focused on the Midwest and the West Coast The band continued its boycott against Ticketmaster during its tour of the United States refusing to play in Ticketmaster s venue areas but was surprised that virtually no other bands joined it in refusing to play at Ticketmaster venues 47 The band chose to use alternate ticketing companies for the shows The tour of the United States faced various troubles Ament said the band and its crew had to build shows from the ground up a venue everywhere we went 14 In June 1995 the band was scheduled to play at San Francisco California s Golden Gate Park in front of 50 000 people Before the concert Vedder was forced to stay at a hospital after suffering from the effects of food poisoning He left the hospital to play the show but he was not able to finish and ended up performing just seven out of 21 songs with the band 48 Neil Young filled in for Vedder for the rest of the show that day Vedder said That whole Golden Gate Park thing was a blur based on some bad food It was really really bad Looking back at it it doesn t seem as intense as it was but it was horrible I just felt not human and looking back I should have got through that show somehow and I think the fact that Neil Young was there made me feel like I could get off the hook in some way and I did go out for a few songs 14 Because of Vedder s health the band was forced to cancel the remaining dates of its tour of the United States 15 Some dates were later reinstated while the rest were rescheduled for the fall About canceling the dates Vedder said I think we all agreed that it had gotten insane that it was no longer about the music 49 Ament later said We were so hardheaded about the 1995 tour Had to prove we could tour on our own and it pretty much killed us killed our career 14 Track listing EditAll lyrics are written by Eddie Vedder All music is credited to Pearl Jam with the exceptions as Actual music composers listed below No TitleMusicLength1 Last Exit Dave Abbruzzese Stone Gossard2 542 Spin the Black Circle Gossard 50 2 483 Not for You Vedder 51 5 524 Tremor Christ Jeff Ament Mike McCready 51 4 125 Nothingman Ament4 356 Whipping Vedder 3 2 347 Pry To Abbruzzese Ament McCready Gossard Vedder1 038 Corduroy Vedder 12 4 379 Bugs Vedder 52 2 4410 Satan s Bed Gossard3 3011 Better Man Vedder4 2812 Aye Davanita Abbruzzese Ament McCready Gossard Vedder2 5713 Immortality Vedder 12 5 2814 Hey Foxymophandlemama That s Me Also known as Stupid Mop 53 Ament Gossard Jack Irons McCready Vedder7 28Total length 55 09 Reissue bonus tracks All lyrics are written by Vedder No TitleMusicLength15 Better Man guitar and organ only mix Vedder3 5516 Corduroy alternate take Vedder 12 4 4417 Nothingman 1993 demo featuring Richard Stuverud on drums Ament4 36Outtakes Edit Hard to Imagine a song previously rejected from Vs 54 was also recorded during the Vitalogy sessions This version found its way on to the soundtrack for the 1998 film Chicago Cab Hard to Imagine is also included on the 2003 rarities compilation Lost Dogs though that version is the one from the Vs sessions 55 According to Gossard Hard to Imagine was cut from Vitalogy because it did not fit with the other songs the band was writing at the time 56 Out of My Mind which is featured as a B side on the Not for You single was premiered on the band s 1994 spring tour of the United States and was played twice 57 According to Vedder the song was just a live improv 58 Personnel EditPearl Jam Dave Abbruzzese drums except on Hey Foxymophandlemama That s Me and Satan s Bed Bass guitar and tremolo guitar on Aye Davanita Jeff Ament bass guitar vocals double bass black and white photography Stone Gossard guitar vocals mellotron Jack Irons drums on Hey Foxymophandlemama That s Me Mike McCready guitar slide guitar Eddie Vedder vocals guitar accordion on Bugs credited as e v for book concept theory of Vitalogy typist Additional musicians and production Barry Ament layout John Burton Caram Costanzo Karl Heilbron Adam Kasper Kevin Scott Trina Shoemaker assistance Nick DiDia engineering Brett Eliason recording mixing on Hey Foxymophandlemama That s Me Lance Mercer 8 Baby photo Brendan O Brien production piano pipe organ Hammond organ recording Pearl Jam production Jimmy Shoaf drums on Satan s Bed Joel Zimmerman art directionCharts and certifications EditWeekly charts Edit Chart 1994 PeakpositionAustralian Albums ARIA 59 1Austrian Albums O3 Austria 60 7Danish Albums Hitlisten 61 4Dutch Albums Album Top 100 62 7Finnish Albums Suomen virallinen lista 63 3French Albums SNEP 64 22German Albums Offizielle Top 100 65 8Irish Albums IRMA 66 1Japanese Albums Oricon 67 28New Zealand RMNZ 68 1Norwegian Albums VG lista 69 7Portuguese Albums AFP 66 4Scottish Albums OCC 70 5Spanish Albums PROMUSICAE 71 11Swedish Albums Sverigetopplistan 72 1Swiss Albums Schweizer Hitparade 73 17UK Albums OCC 74 4US Billboard 200 75 1Chart 1995 PeakpositionCanadian Albums RPM 76 2 Year end charts Edit Chart 1994 PositionAustralian Albums ARIA 77 12Dutch Albums Album Top 100 78 64Chart 1995 PositionAustralian Albums ARIA 79 31German Albums Offizielle Top 100 80 67New Zealand Albums RMNZ 81 20US Billboard 200 82 6Decade end charts Edit Chart 1990 1999 PositionUS Billboard 200 83 76Certifications Edit Region Certification Certified units salesAustralia ARIA 84 3 Platinum 210 000 Canada Music Canada 85 5 Platinum 500 000 Netherlands NVPI 86 Gold 50 000 New Zealand RMNZ 87 Platinum 15 000 Poland ZPAV 88 Gold 50 000 Spain PROMUSICAE 89 Gold 50 000 United Kingdom BPI 90 Gold 100 000 United States RIAA 91 5 Platinum 5 000 000 Sales figures based on certification alone Shipments figures based on certification alone Singles Edit Year Single Peak chart positionsUS 39 US Main 39 US Mod 39 AUS 59 CAN 92 93 94 GER 95 IRE 96 NLD 97 NOR 98 NZ 68 SWE 99 UK 74 1994 Spin the Black Circle 18 16 11 3 92 6 21 5 2 16 10 Tremor Christ 16 16 67 1995 Better Man 1 2 9 Corduroy 22 13 Not for You 12 38 29 26 10 34 Immortality 10 31 51 62 29 denotes singles that did not chart References Edit Staff April 17 2014 1994 The 40 Best Records From Mainstream Alternative s Greatest Year Rolling Stone Retrieved April 19 2022 a b Pearl Jam s Vitalogy represents a change in the band s sound Hair and Flannel Retrieved April 18 2022 a b c Interview 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