"Twenty-ten, watch it go to fire!"
Yield is my favorite album of 1998. I remember exactly where I was when "Given to Fly" came on the local college radio station. I remember reading the album review in
Rolling Stone. I remember staring at the packaging and the art, looking for all the
hidden Yield signs. It was a great time to love Pearl Jam.
Todd MacFarlane was white-hot at this same time, coming off a Korn
album cover job and--of course--the
Spawn comic character. MacFarlane was given the task to do the first music video from Pearl Jam in almost exactly
six years. He had the burden to follow-up the phenomenon called "Jeremy" (that put Pearl Jam on the MTV Map all those years ago). But, Todd did it. It's history. It's superb.
