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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen years ago) link
what Simon said.
― Where is Stephen Gobie? (Dandy Don Weiner), Friday, 18 September 2009 19:04 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen years ago) link
Must check this out, didn't care for the last couple.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Sunday, 20 September 2009 12:58 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen years ago) link
(the PEARL JAM font is pretty fugly, to be fair)
― sleighdog mcdonald (unregistered), Sunday, 20 September 2009 13:45 (fourteen 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 (fourteen years ago) link
duuuuud
― ABSOLUTELY NO SCRUBS WHATSOEVER, Sunday, 20 September 2009 14:13 (fourteen 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 (fourteen years ago) link
I really love this.
― Little starbursts of joy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 September 2009 14:51 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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
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.
i hear a lot of vedder in corin's vocals. they've chosen some of my favourite bands to tour with them in the past, thinking My Morning Jacket and Dismemberment Plan and Monkeywrench in particular (Tim Kerr plays Wembley Arena!)
― anyways when I'm chopped, dip always kicks my ass lol (stevie), Friday, 22 January 2010 16:13 (fourteen years ago) link
They are 20 years old today. I feel really old now.
― van smack, Saturday, 23 October 2010 04:17 (thirteen years ago) link
I dunno. That seems about right to me. Some albums that I loved in 1991 still feel like they came out yesterday, but Ten feels ANCIENT.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 23 October 2010 04:19 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't think they are 20 years old today.
During my sophomore year, they played on my university campus (midweek, on the steps of the gym for free) and they were going by Mookie Blaylock at the time, but that was 19 years ago.
Remember: 20 years ago, Andrew Wood died and the Mother Love Bone debut was released, I know Stone and Jeff are careerist but that seems pretty "fast".
*off to wiki*
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 23 October 2010 04:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Okay I'm wrong:
http://web.archive.org/web/20080109033804/http://www.pearljam.com/timeline/
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 23 October 2010 04:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Opened this thread because two weeks ago I saw Corin Tucker in Seattle and Eddie Vedder came out and sang for the encore. My wife is a massive S-K fan and was 15 when Ten came out and kind of lost her shit in a giddy teenage girl way.
I really wish I had yelled for them to play Hunger Strike.
― joygoat, Saturday, 23 October 2010 05:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Ten, Vs., Vitalogy, Riot Act = cYield = mostly c, with some dNo Code = somewhere in the middle of c and dthe album after Riot Act = somewhere in the middle of d and cBinaural = d
― melody-hating aggr0 nerd (San Te), Saturday, 23 October 2010 15:00 (thirteen years ago) link
backspacer = haven'th eard
I actually pulled out the hits comp the other day (since my daughter had been listening to the Lullaby Pearl Jam disc that showed up), and I think most of the stuff holds up pretty well. At the least, big bands from the past 20 years whose catalog can support a double-disc best-of (with lots of stuff left off, too) are pretty rare. I'll even rep for "Ten," esp. the remixed version that came out and took away some of the gloppier dated production flourishes.
PJ and Radiohead are two acts that sort of owe a lot to R.E.M. by osmosis, even if the connection is rarely direct. PJ in particular, though, really tempers its more objectionable aspects (like the incessant Jimi worship) by leaning in R.E.M.'s direction.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 23 October 2010 15:56 (thirteen years ago) link
So I went to see Eddie Vedder's solo show here in Chicago last night. I originally had no intention of going because, really, two hours of Eddie + ukelele didn't exactly sound promising, but I was gifted a free ticket. Turns out that the whole marketing of this tour as a support for Ukelele Songs is a bit misleading, he only played the first six or so songs on his ukelele before switching over to various guitars (and a mandolin!) for the rest of the show (barring a set closing "Dream A Little Dream". Anyway, it ended up a fantastic show. Great versions of lots of Pearl Jam hits and rarities, plus tons of covers (John Doe's "4th of July", "Crazy Mary", "Let My Love Open the Door" and a great version of Springsteen's "Open All Night" among others). My favorite was this slowed down version of "Lukin" with a mini-string session.
Eddie's a really great entertainer, which I had kinda forgotten. Told lots of funny stories between songs and threw everything into it. Even the duet with Glen Hansard (who played a great opening set, I never really understood the love for him before now) on "Falling Slowly" was really good.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:13 (twelve years ago) link
his new solo dvd is fun.
― his name was rony. rony from my cage. (stevie), Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:21 (twelve years ago) link
Also, it was super cute to see him pull up all the little kids in the crowd up onto stage for "Hard Sun".
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:23 (twelve years ago) link
I've had "I Am Mine" in my iPod for a few days; good tune.
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:27 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i'm not super into the solo albums but i feel like Eddie would be a fun solo show. he did that weird version of "Lukin" when PJ played Austin City Limits and i loved the hell out of it.
― let a :) be your ☂ (some dude), Thursday, 30 June 2011 16:23 (twelve years ago) link
Its a really great version! I still haven't seen that ACL set.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 30 June 2011 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
I don't think Eddie Vedder has ever penned a lyric that speaks to me more than "open the fridge, now I know life's worth." Truly the voice of my generation.
― some dude, Thursday, 30 June 2011 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
al- you went to ACL? or you just found the show streaming online someplace?
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Saturday, 2 July 2011 01:31 (twelve years ago) link