Bonus Song Thursday - Pearl Jam "Betterman"

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2016

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

It's Bonus Song Thursday! And Brian and Bill decide to mix things up a bit by doing an even deeper dive into a song from this week's album by spending way too much time discussing Pearl Jam's "Betterman" off the 1994 album Vitalogy. Bill tells the story of how PJ helped unlock his fandom of music while vacationing in the mountains of West Virginia with his family in 2000. He then talks about watching Touring Band 2000, the Pearl Jam concert film, and watching Eddie Vedder's hands to learn how to play Betterman, which of course leads to a little bit of a guitar demonstration. Additionally, we read a listener email that throws some artists at us that we should cover!

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Waiting, watching the clock, it's four o'clock, it's got to stop, tell him, take him no more, she practices her
0:51.3	her speeches, he opens the door, she rose over, retains to sleep. Hello, She lies in says she's in her
0:58.0	She drows in Hello and welcome to the great albums podcast, bonus song Thursday.
1:19.3	I'm Bill.
1:20.0	And I'm Brian.
1:21.1	And what were we just listening to right there, Brian?
1:23.6	Better Man by Pearl Jam.
1:25.6	Now, wait a minute, wait a minute, Brian.
1:27.4	Because what we normally do here on bonus song Thursday is first off, Better Man by Pearl Jam. Now, wait a minute, wait a minute, Brian,
1:28.9	because what we normally do here on bonus song Thursday is,
1:30.6	first off,
1:31.9	we do an episode earlier in the week
1:34.0	where we talk about an album
1:35.2	and how great it is,
1:36.3	and then we take another song
1:38.0	by the same artist
1:40.0	or something tangentially related.
1:44.9	I've got your script, Bill.
1:47.1	But it's normally off of a different album.
1:49.1	Yeah.
1:49.6	But this is off of the same album we talked about,
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