It was an attempt to try and kick "their fans" in the face...
And by fans I mean people who were only listening to Pearl Jam because they were cool...
The whole album is abrasive as hell and does not flow at all...
and the wankery tracks (such as this one) were specifically placed to disrupt the flow of the album as an attempt to make people wake up and realize that Pearl Jam was more than just a fad, that they were musicians and people with rights....
The only songs I would think were about Kurt were Last Exit, and possibly Immortality,...
Although Eddie has said publicly that Immortality is NOT about Kurt Cobain, he also changed the lyrics of the whole song after Kurt was found....
And though Last Exit was written before Kurt's death in '94, if you read The liner notes of Vitalogy, the lyrics for Last Exit are almost completely different from the ones the band uses...which suggests the ones in the book were the pre-suicide lyrics... and the ones they use now are about Kurt...
But overall Vitalogy was an attempt to shed "fairweather fans" with songs like Not For You and Corduroy,... but they never read the lyrics to the songs lol....
The very people Pearl Jam was trying to alienate with the music wound up liking it because it sounded cool and rocked while completely ignoring the messages directed at them...
Vitalogy was basically a demand for privacy and rights, and also a demand for free creativity, basically a semi-commercially marketable album, about being anti commercial...
That is where Vitalogy failed and No Code succeeded...
Pearl Jam completely abandoned the grunge sound and instead took on a "If you are only listening to us because we are cool, then we'll stop being cool" kind of a sound....
Vitalogy wasn't an album about Kurt's death,
It was an attempt to try and kick "their fans" in the face... And by fans I mean people who were only listening to Pearl Jam because they were cool...
The whole album is abrasive as hell and does not flow at all... and the wankery tracks (such as this one) were specifically placed to disrupt the flow of the album as an attempt to make people wake up and realize that Pearl Jam was more than just a fad, that they were musicians and people with rights....
The only songs I would think were about Kurt were Last Exit, and possibly Immortality,...
Although Eddie has said publicly that Immortality is NOT about Kurt Cobain, he also changed the lyrics of the whole song after Kurt was found....
And though Last Exit was written before Kurt's death in '94, if you read The liner notes of Vitalogy, the lyrics for Last Exit are almost completely different from the ones the band uses...which suggests the ones in the book were the pre-suicide lyrics... and the ones they use now are about Kurt...
But overall Vitalogy was an attempt to shed "fairweather fans" with songs like Not For You and Corduroy,... but they never read the lyrics to the songs lol....
The very people Pearl Jam was trying to alienate with the music wound up liking it because it sounded cool and rocked while completely ignoring the messages directed at them...
Vitalogy was basically a demand for privacy and rights, and also a demand for free creativity, basically a semi-commercially marketable album, about being anti commercial...
That is where Vitalogy failed and No Code succeeded... Pearl Jam completely abandoned the grunge sound and instead took on a "If you are only listening to us because we are cool, then we'll stop being cool" kind of a sound....
Which Ironically, was their best album :)