Pearl Jam - C or D?

I like "Green Disease." I'd like it more were it not for "G...R..EED" etc

haha i think it's cute

I'm Riot Act fan. I think it was a "cleaner" album in that some of the normally rough edges were smoothed out (and Eddie didn't yell) but despite that, I thought the songs were tightly written.

I'm listening to "Backspacer" for the first time. Solid!

"The Fixer" is fun to sing in the car.

yeah it's a pretty good rocker. a few bung notes here and there (Johnny Guitar's not a favorite).

i think 'just breathe' is one of their lovelier songs, it always makes me bawl

Supersonic is my favorite

"Just Breathe" sounds like a cousin of "Man of the Hour."

it does! I never thought of that

lol they changed the lyrics of Supersonic for one of their Seattle shows <3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q90VmGGzxTY

i love the concept and much of the execution of backspacer, i just miss mike's solos

Why am I enjoying this thread so much?

we cool

There's a nice detente to the Pearl Jam debate, or lack thereof. The band pretty smartly ceded the center to others early on, which by default left it just enough left of center, straddling the totally palatable place between "alternative" and "mainstream." Which is to say, there's nothing not-mainstream about the band, particularly, save the fact that it is not (at all) distant bastard relative Nickelback, but that's a pretty huge difference. People might not like Pearl Jam, but I don't think many truly hate them anymore, which is total counter the animus engendered by the, well, alternative.

REM, Radiohead and yes, even U2 did much the same thing. There were enough pale imitators and opportunistic copycats that even at their most insufferable they became totally defensible by dint of not being ... Coldplay, I guess.

So I watched the documentary PJ20 and actually really enjoyed it. They do seem to have dignity to them as a band. Stone Gossard seems like a nice guy.

Yeah, I mean it's basically a love letter to them from Cameron Crowe, but even with that knowledge they still seem like grounded and dignified fellas.

http://pearljam.com/countdown

Tour + a new 3-day countdown clock.

North American tour. But still another countdown clock set for three days from now, maybe that'll be the new album or single.

(xpost - beat me to it)

But of course no other Chicago stop, since they completely fucked up the pre-sales for the Wrigley shows and fucked a lot of people over.

Did they? It's the same weekend as the Pitchfork Fest. And Phish. Lots of committed fans scattered in different directions that weekend.

OAKLAND WOOOOOOOO

mr veg already called me this morning to give me the good news <3

Well, I guess they didn't really fuck it up, but I guess the Wrigleyville area has been really bitching about all the big concerts lately so apparently the residents asked for some exclusive first rights to tickets or something. Anyway, there was a special pre-pre-sale for Wrigleyville residents which ended up eating up way, way, way more than the band expected. Almost all of the residents bought the max allowed to flip. So even Ten Club members ended up being completely shut out of even getting a shot at tickets at face price. Last time I checked, tickets were going for upwards of $500 a pop on StubHub. I like Pearl Jam a lot and I'd have loved to have seen a show at Wrigley, but not for that much.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK1njeQdAVk

At just after 1:00, is that a snippet of something new? It may not be, but it doesn't immediately sound familiar either.

pumped that there's a Baltimore date, hopefully I'll get to see it.

started making playlists of fav songs from each drummer/era, goddamn i love these Jack Irons songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhODYyZVL6Y

spin spin spin the black circle

It's so cute when they write punk tunes

Production's got a dispiriting digital sheen to it, moreso than usual?

Backspacer was produced extremely "clear" too.

True, but things like the many Vedder vocal overdubs and too-clean starts and stops feel like another step further.

Eew. I like this song, and I'm sure I'll like many of the other songs on the album, but it's an album called Lightning Bolt and its cover looks like clipart.

Really? Lightning Bolt?

http://cdn.antiquiet.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/lb_cover.jpg

super meh

Sounds a little like Clutch w out the fury. I like it, good hook.

like the song quite a bit. art is whatever, but its better than the avocado one and the more i think about it, they really haven't had a decent cover since Vitalogy and even the ones before that sucked

I like the song when it shifts away from the Spin the Black circle style -- it's growing on me

And I like the mostly red/black version of the album cover, rather than the white one which looks odd to me.
But with the red background, from slightly further away, it looks like a cyclops robot!

pretty big fan of the no code polaroids

Vitalogy, No Code and Binaural are all faves, art-wise. The rest range from "eh" to "God, No!"

otm. no code artwork/packaging was kinda legendary to me as a teenager.

The cassette version of No Code was released in 8 or 9 different versions. I had the one with the bloodshot eyeball.

The ultra bleak/dour Riot Act cover suits the contents.

That cover is awful. For fuck's sake.

nov 26 Oracle Arena, Oakland - reserved fanclub tickets purchased :D :D

I have been whining for soooooooooo long about when am I going to get a real concert when are they going to tour when when when and now I am v happy

albums are nice but the live show is where it's at for me with these guys

Did anyone else call them "Pearl Cream" when they first came out? Oh that was just me and my gang? Ok.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaD_fvehAaU

I am beyond pissed that they're doing Pittsburgh but not Cleveland.

more like hurl spam

^such a joy

Loving all the grunge discussion on ILM these days, both here and in the Soundgarden album poll-threads. Tuning in for a proper revival.

Plus, finally got around to check out the O'Brien-remix of "Ten". Packs a good punch.

Wow, didn't go last night, but I guess the Pearl Jam show - like Pitchfork and Phish - got screwed up by the thunderstorms. The band played 7 songs, then Wrigley Field was evacuated. But PJ tweeted that it planned to play a full set, and indeed went on at midnight for another two hours. Show ended at 2am, 32-songs and three hours past curfew.

Haha awesome.

I looked at their London setlist from the other night, it was so close to my ideal PJ set. Really hope I get to see the Baltimore show on this tour.

http://consequenceofsound.net/2013/07/live-review-pearl-jam-at-chicagos-wrigley-field-719/