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Yield (album)

1998 studio album by Pearl Jam

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 6, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Yield is the fifth studio album by American rock band Pearl Jam, released on February 3, 1998. Following a short promotional tour for its previous album, No Code (1996), Pearl Jam recorded Yield throughout 1997 at Studio Litho and Studio X in Seattle, Washington. The album was hailed as a return to the band's early, straightforward rock sound, and marked a more collaborative effort, as opposed to relying on frontman Eddie Vedder to compose the song lyrics as on the first four studio albums.

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“Yield (album)” enters the record as 1998 studio album by Pearl Jam. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Yield, album and studio can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1998, 1996, 1997—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Yield, album and studio.
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“Yield (album)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Yield, album and studio provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 6, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1998, 1996 and 1997.

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This entry incorporates text from “Yield (album)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.