Welcome to the Great Albums podcast. I'm Bell.

And I'm Brian.

And what are we talking about today, Brian?

2009's Backspacer by Pearl Jam.

Hey! What we do here every week on the podcast is take an album of music and talk about what makes it great.

We try to have the conversation around the music that fans do and then follow it up with a track-by-track review in which we talk about the things

we love about the songs and things we think about while listening to them. I like that.

And we are actually going to do this without a guest this week. We often have guests join us,

but this week we actually had taken a trip down to Nashville, Tennessee for the Nashville Rock and Pod Expo.

So this episode is going to be a slightly different format than what we normally do.

We're not going to do a full track-by-track review.

We only got into a few songs that we felt were representative of the album.

Because we only had a limited time on stage.

We had to allow plenty of other podcasts time to do their thing as well.

However, we got more than just me and Brian's stories this time around.

Because normally, you know, we ask our guests, how'd you get into the album?

And, you know, Brian and I share our own stories occasionally,

but this time we got to get a few people from the expo who were there in attendance, other podcasters,

and a few fans of the show,

to talk about their own Pearl Jam stories

of how they got into the band or if they just had a fun story.

Yeah, yeah.

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