Hail Hail! This is the Pearl Jam Albums Poll

Also, poor old Jeff and all of his hats.

I love Jeff's hats

I mean if you're going to go 'poor Jeff and his hats' then you may as well go 'poor Stone and his wtf hair'

it's more that, for years, I used to read ppl joking abt how jeff has to always be wearing hats bcz lol male pattern baldness, and then he stopped wearing hats for a bit and it was like woah you have hair

the whole band is pretty follicly blessed for a bunch of guys hovering around 50

jeff wore hats bcz lol seattle

They were terrific last night!

jealous! waiting for west coast tour dates to announce, dying to see them again

they're closer to my whereabouts tomorrow, and I'm very tempted. I'm just sad that the person I saw them with 15 years ago (when I wasn't even old enough to drink) is unavailable.

I registered to vote at that Pearl Jam show too.

I'm thinking of going, but being a weeknight and knowing they'll play 3 hours is almost making it a dealbreaker :/.

woohoo. it's a garbage seat but managed to get a ticket for almost $30 below face value on StubHub for tomorrow night's show.

You're in Tampa? Sweet.

well, Orlando, but it's only like 60-75 minute drive for me. I feel like I go to Tampa for more shows than I do for O-Town.

any surprises pulled out yesterday?

"Down'

ooh

"State of Love and Trust."

I haven't heard "Jeremy" since the late '90s.

weirdly enough I got "Jeremy" when I saw them in '00, which I thought they'd be avoiding. and I got "State of Love and Trust" and "Soldier of Love" that night too.

don't suppose I'll get "Not for You" or "Spin the Black Circle".

it was the Binaural tour so we got those singles too

Did they ever say anything about Jeremy with regard to Columbine? I could imagine them finding it newly relevant after being exhausted by overplay or whatever, but could also 100% them wanting to shy away from it.

not that I remember - I think they just launched into it.

that was the tour though when Eddie was changing the lyrics to "Do the Evolution" to "I'm George Bush and my son is an ass"

My review of the show.

well done! I looked at the setlist you all got and compared with the opening night setlist and there's barely any similarity. nice.

I'm hoping for stuff like idk "Go", "Tremor Christ", "not for You", "Last Exit", "Release", "Why Go", "Sometimes", "Hail Hail", "Brain of J", "Spin the Black Circle", "Once", "Light Years", "Crazy Mary", "I Got Id"......i can't imagine being disappointed unless they play nothing but "Stupid Mop"

an hour of aye davanita

I wanna hear "No Way"

there's a new sitcom on NBC called Crowded, and i noticed that every episode of the show is named after a Pearl Jam song. that led me down the rabbit hole of learning that the show's star, Patrick Warburton, is a huge Pearl Jam fan, and Eddie actually let him pick the setlist one night in 2009. and it's got some great picks, David Puddy has great taste!

http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/pearl-jam/2009/gibson-amphitheatre-universal-city-ca-bd7f5ce.html

We got "Lowlight" :)

omgggggg love

ooh and xposts nice review alfred!

i take yr criticism re Mikey's showboating but it's one of my favorite things about the shows - he's such a cornball and he knows it. also dude has deep glam metal roots, you dont grow out of that :)

"Lukin" into "Porch" was a nice touch. opened w/ "Why Go". I'm kinda embarrassed at how poorly I know Ten material now but I haven't listened to it in a reaaaaaaaaaaaaaally long time compared to the others.

got "Off He Goes" and "Red Mosquito" too

very heavy on the hard rockers tonight, kinda surprising. felt like him doing Lennon's "Imagine" was a bit rote - I love the song but it's been covered live soooooo many times by soooooo many people.

I dropped off Pearl Jam after Yield (even though I really like that album), but I thought I'd give Binaural a go the other day and you know what, it's not bad!

"Off He Goes" = favorite PJ ballad

I like 'Sometimes' I think. Although that is a great song.

"Nothingman" is mine

I actually performed it in a 'band' for a one-off show in high school. my PJ-obsessed friend sang it and it was like euphoria for him.

I am actually looking at tickets for the Jax show now. if they become affordable, I may go again.

Vitalogy has some great ballads. 'Better Man' is great. I find it's the hoary rockers that let it down a bit.

Is it even worth me venturing much further beyond Yield/Binaural?

I've made a good playlist out of the best from the s/t and Backspacer.

i'd listen to that

There are easily 20 great songs btwn the post-Binaural albums.

i made playlists of my favorite songs from each era (divided by drummers), these are my Matt Cameron picks:

1. Greivance
2. Can't Keep
3. Mind Your Manners
4. The Fixer
5. Undone
6. Big Wave
7. Light Years
8. You Are
9. Johnny Guitar
10. Gods' Dice
11. Love Boat Captain
12. World Wide Suicide
13. Breakerfall
14. Supersonic
15. Get Right
16. Sad
17. Thumbing My Way
18. Insignificance
19. I Am Mine
20. Man Of The Hour
21. Sleight Of Hand
22. Gone

http://narrowcast.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-imaginary-pearl-jam-box-set-4.html

s/t and Backspacer are really, *really* worthwhile listens

Riot Act has some good tracks but I dont enjoy that album v much personally speaking, kind of has a bad vibe for me

oh and Lightning Bolt is p great too

I'm sure I've linked elsewhere but these guys do great work in marrying up the official bootlegs to any (non smartphone) footage they elicit, results are nearly always super watchable.

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn-WEUogXBFbwfm3nmGN3rw/videos

riot act does have a bad vibe. some of my favorite pj songs tucked into its sprawl though ("green disease," "get right," "you are")

of course two of the songs i named are cameron-written, huh

oh ha i'm gonna see pearl jam with my mom at jazz fest in a few weeks, sick

felt like him doing Lennon's "Imagine" was a bit rote

Eddie's a real cornball too, but mostly he makes it work. I do not want to hear this, though.

Off He Goes might be my favourite PJ song. No Code definitely my favourite album, though they're all strong, tbh. Sirens off Lightning Bolt is such a ridiculous song, right on the edge of being fatally over-the-top - and yet it still works so well.

favourite Pearl Jam song is a good question... Maybe I Got ID?

I'm quite surprised Vitalogy won, it's the album that turned me off them after being bang into Ten and Vs. I remember it being this wilfully obscure mish-mash. I was only 15 or something, sure there's loads of good stuff going on that I didn't get.

But y'know, I was already a Mr Bungle fan so wasn't a stranger to wilfully obscure mish-mashes.

FWIW, I kind of prefer the remixes and remakes of the Ten songs. The 'Redux' mixes are generally better, but the single version of "Even Flow" (a re-recording with Dave Abbruzzese on drums) is definitive IMHO and the single mix for "Jeremy" is the best one they did (even though they do censor out the word "fuck").

This was my favourite US rock band in the mid-late 90s. But until now I have listened to very little past Yield.

I've read Binaural being described as their "art-rock" album. Listening now and uh, am I missing something? This is their mist straight-shooting, least "arty" album since Ten, surely?

I love "art-rock" Pearl Jam. I'll put a playlist together

i'd been meaning to make an 'art rock' pearl jam playlist ever since i bumped this thread in november, now that i have actually heard all of their albums (no idea about non-album tracks tho). as i said, if a compilation existed of all their attempts to be an art rock band I would buy it - such stuff definitely interests me most with them.

i wouldn't just include full songs, i'd have things like 'pry, to' and 'red bar' (or red dot or whatever people call it), short interludes which i think rather get to the point rather easily.

as for binarual specifically.. well every album between vitalogy and riot act - except yield - i have seen described as 'art rock'. i think the main thing binaural has in that regard are the roomy lengthy psychedelic tracks that are peppered throughout like 'nothing as it seems' (the lead single no less), 'of the girl', 'sleight of hand' and 'parting ways'. maybe 'rival' as well.

https://www.stereogum.com/2259686/the-10-best-pearl-jam-songs-of-the-21st-century/lists/10-best-songs/

I think there's an argument to say Yield is one of their more experimental albums hah.

Here's an attempt at a rough tracklist for an Art Rock Pearl Jam comp, bearing in mind I don't know much past Yield. Haven't established a track order yet. Any suggestions welcome https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7gQqP8IQW2FqRYNS2moMZc?si=0MSfiOAFQGqBWNfuNC5PZw&pi=ZuS1lMpKSH6ra

The new album is actually pretty good BTW. They sound invigorated

I recommend Who You Are and Nothing As It Seems. I know they were singles but they were 'difficult' singles

i think yield's status as a back to basics album is overstated, as such records usually are, but in terms of experimental tracks i can't think of anything that would fit except red bar and push me pull me. i get why it might seem like the least arty album in that broader sequence.

I love Push Me Pull Me

Yeah I get what you mean. I dunno, Yield has a vibe, an undercurrent. There's something eerie going on under there. The best PJ does