― Josh Love (screamapillar), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 13:47 (twenty years ago) link
1. Porch2. Oceans3. In My Tree4. Who You Are5. Do the Evolution6. All Those Yesterdays7. Corduroy8. Bugs9. Present Tense10.Given to Fly
Their music: classic. Stone Gossard's record label: classic. Eddie Veddar's duet with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (who he studied with at one point) on the Dead Man Walking soundtrack: classic.
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 13:55 (twenty years ago) link
However, calling Pearl Jam a "grunge" band: DUD!!!!!
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 19:06 (twenty years ago) link
― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 19:11 (twenty years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 19:13 (twenty years ago) link
Allegedly the new album's cover.
― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 19:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― dr lulu (dr lulu), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 20:14 (eighteen years ago) link
Still OTM nearly 4 years later.
― Edward Bax (EdBax), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 20:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 20:48 (eighteen years ago) link
"all these...i got bugsi got bugs in my roombugs in my bedbugs in my earstheir eggs in my headbugs in my pocketsbugs in my shoesbugs in the way i feel about youbugs on my windowtrying to get inthey don't go nowherewaiting, waiting...bugs on my ceilingcrowded the floorstanding, sitting, kneeling...a few block the doorand now the question's:do i kill them?become their friend?do i eat them?raw or well done?do i trick them?i don't think they're that dumbdo i join them?looks like that's the onei got bugs on my skintickle my nauseai let it happen againthey're always takin' overi see they surround me, i see...see them deciding my fateoh, that which was once...was once up to me...now it's too latei got bugs in my room...one on onethat's when i had a chancei'll just stop nowi'll become nakedand with the...i'll become one"
Oh yeah!! Now I'm ready for some shots and good times!
Otherwise, Pearl Jam is a horrible, horrible nightmare.
― John Justen (johnjusten), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 20:56 (eighteen years ago) link
Most of Vitalogy, No Code, and Yield sound great.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 21:02 (eighteen years ago) link
Yup. But I'll stand by the quiet songs on the first one.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 21:05 (eighteen years ago) link
I don't understand the Pearl Jam hatred. Compared to other bands on the radio like Nickelback, Creed and Fuel, they're the Beatles, Elvis and Dave Clarke 5 combined.
They're also one of the best cover bands around, with killer versions of Let My Love Open the Door, and tons of others. Eddie Vedder does a great version of X's Poor Girl, backed by teh Supersuckers.
― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 21:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 21:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― dr lulu (dr lulu), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 21:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― erklie (erklie), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 22:38 (eighteen years ago) link
i really like courderoy. that's a good song.
i find them kinda loveable now, for just keepin' on keepin' on....but i don't really ever listen to them.
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 23:02 (eighteen years ago) link
http://digicollage.com/music/pearl_jam.jpg
― Christopher Costello (CGC), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 23:50 (eighteen years ago) link
OK, I have to admit I really dig the opening trio on their new record. They've gone all Accelerate on us, 11 tracks in 36 minutes.
― Simon H., Friday, 18 September 2009 15:41 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, uptempo single and short running time have me feeling pretty optimistic about picking this up this weekend
― bitches love me on friendster (some dude), Friday, 18 September 2009 15:45 (fifteen years ago) link
That's right, I need to make sure I swing by Target on Sunday.
― Size-zero-brigade-embrace-token-chubby-chops (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 18 September 2009 15:50 (fifteen years ago) link
'Fixer' has a great Replacement-y feel that they haven't really done before...I'm really excited to hear the rest of the album.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Friday, 18 September 2009 18:08 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah...the idea of PJ of all bands doing kind of a tight poppy almost new wave record is strangely appealing
― bitches love me on friendster (some dude), Friday, 18 September 2009 18:10 (fifteen years ago) link
what Simon said.
― Where is Stephen Gobie? (Dandy Don Weiner), Friday, 18 September 2009 19:04 (fifteen years ago) link
New album arrived today...the fast songs are awesome, so tight and rocking, like they're digging around in their rock/punk/metal roots finally. The slower tempo ones are pretty cool...only jarring note is the one that sounds like an outtake from Into The Wild. Not a bad thing, just kind of glaring. But overall, cool!! Can easily throw this on repeat. Easily, and happily. And occasionally dance while I'm doing it!
― VegemiteGrrrl, Sunday, 20 September 2009 04:46 (fifteen years ago) link
I like Pearl Jam but we all agree this is the worst album cover of 2009, right?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8c/Pearl_jam_backspacer.jpg
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Sunday, 20 September 2009 12:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Must check this out, didn't care for the last couple.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Sunday, 20 September 2009 12:58 (fifteen years ago) link
i like the presence of multiple eugene levys on the sleeve... the album is ACE.
― jesus mighty lord chewy (stevie), Sunday, 20 September 2009 13:02 (fifteen years ago) link
i fucking h8 Tom Tomorrow and his smug unfunny comix. on the other hand, i'm not sure Pearl Jam has ever had a good album cover.
― some dude, Sunday, 20 September 2009 13:26 (fifteen years ago) link
I dunno — their batting average is pretty low, but the cover of Ten is as great and iconic as its reputation suggests, imo.
the covers of their singles are beautiful on occasion; ex.:
http://991.com/newgallery/Pearl-Jam-Wishlist-112261.jpg
― sleighdog mcdonald (unregistered), Sunday, 20 September 2009 13:44 (fifteen years ago) link
(the PEARL JAM font is pretty fugly, to be fair)
― sleighdog mcdonald (unregistered), Sunday, 20 September 2009 13:45 (fifteen years ago) link
also
http://www.ugo.com/music/songs-about-school/images/entries/Jeremy.jpg
http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/4159/64902.jpg(front)
http://www.o-level.net/data/olevel/_/70726f647563742f393933393236393535362e6a70670032353000.png(back)
― sleighdog mcdonald (unregistered), Sunday, 20 September 2009 13:54 (fifteen years ago) link
duuuuud
― ABSOLUTELY NO SCRUBS WHATSOEVER, Sunday, 20 September 2009 14:13 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm not in love with the Tom Tomorrow art...and there's a TERRIBLE rendering of the whole band on the last page of the cd booklet. All of his people end up looking like porn blowup doll versions of themselves. But the music's good!
― VegemiteGrrrl, Sunday, 20 September 2009 22:19 (fifteen years ago) link
I really love this.
― Little starbursts of joy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 September 2009 14:51 (fifteen years ago) link
I think Matt Cameron joining the band has been a great unifier...the whole rhythm section on this album is really noticeable, and so tight and interesting.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Friday, 25 September 2009 15:04 (fifteen years ago) link
I dunno...on 2 listens I'm still kinda just grateful that this is better than the last couple albums, but I still feel like they haven't used Cameron much to his full potential since Binaural.
― some dude, Friday, 25 September 2009 15:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Really? I feel like Matt's beats are a real driving force on the fast-paced songs, like Fixer and Supersonic, where everything kind of merges in behind his beatz.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Friday, 25 September 2009 15:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah those songs are good, and I might like his work on the new album as I listen to it more. But I feel like at first they were maybe trying to give him something to sink his teeth into given that Pearl Jam's songs tend to be more rhythmically straightforward than Soundgarden's, but nowadays he/they are content to just do those meat'n'potatoes uptempo rock songs.
― some dude, Friday, 25 September 2009 15:50 (fifteen years ago) link
love the kinda unassuming way they throw in weird time signatures on "Fixer" though
― some dude, Friday, 25 September 2009 15:51 (fifteen years ago) link
When I delete "Amongst the Waves," I can listen to this all day.
― Simon H., Wednesday, 28 October 2009 01:58 (fourteen years ago) link
I want to throw out there the idea - and I could be crazy - that Eddie is trying to sing like Corin Tucker in spots on this record. I love "Got Some," but every time I listen to it, especially after the "got some if you need it..." part, I feel like I wish she was singing it instead.
― smash your phonograph in half, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 02:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Every time I hear "Got Some," I think, "damn, I guess Ament was listening to those opening acts."
― Simon H., Wednesday, 28 October 2009 02:42 (fourteen years ago) link
I want to throw out there the idea - and I could be crazy - that Eddie is trying to sing like Corin Tucker in spots on this record.
you know i have always said, since 'dig me out' first came out, that corin has a very vedder-esque vocal.
― it's like a Shark-Cage but for "Your Junk" AKA Your Penis & Balls (stevie), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 08:10 (fourteen years ago) link
So a real return to form then, eh? People seem to be really liking this.
― Pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 22 January 2010 11:12 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't know if its so much a return to form - its leaner, tighter, 'punk'-er than they've gone before. but its a great record, very engaged and wild-eyed.
― anyways when I'm chopped, dip always kicks my ass lol (stevie), Friday, 22 January 2010 11:29 (fourteen years ago) link
xxxp
The only time I ever saw either Pearl Jam or Sleater-Kinney was when they toured together. There's definitely a mutual admiration society going on there.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 22 January 2010 11:45 (fourteen years ago) link
From the first time I heard S-K (One Beat), I thought that they were at least coming from the same place as Pearl Jam. Interesting that they toured together.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 22 January 2010 12:25 (fourteen years ago) link
That tour was dispiriting. When S-K came onstage, the shall we say loutish elements of PJ's audience started to snicker. "Who are these dikes?" a dude a few feet away from me said. And S-K lost some of their dynamism and tension in an open-air setting. But, yeah, great idea for a tour.
― Blue Fucks Like Ben Nelson (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 22 January 2010 12:32 (fourteen years ago) link