Hail Hail! This is the Pearl Jam Albums Poll

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i thought no code or ten would win

Anyone read this?

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9825387/pearl-jam-career-overrated-underrated-properly-rated

hmmm

i think i really dislike steven hyden

After 15 years, I'm giving up trying to like Eddie Vedder's voice. its a shame bacause I think i'd like Pearl Jam otherwise.

― tomofthenest, Thursday, 1 October 2009 12:21 (4 years ago) Permalink

After 15 years, I'm giving up trying to like Pearl Jam. its a shame bacause I think i'd like Eddie Vedder otherwise.

(The Eddie Vedder/Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan song "The Long Road" from the Dead Man Walking soundtrack is my favorite thing he's ever done. Melancholy perfection.)

that article got really tiresome to read really quickly

grantland's simmonsian obsession with classifying everything is so zzzz to me

That article spends a lot of words to say very little of actual value.

I don't disagree with most of its assertions, except the Ten love.

He's right about Jack Irons, but relistening to Yield this morning, it's a lot patchier than I remember it, and 'flow' is most certainly not its thing.

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

"Green Disease" is great, imo one of the highlights of their later work is that they seem to want to nab some of the sprightliness and economy of some of their opening acts (eg sleater-kinney, dismemberment plan, supergrass, idlewild)

Ha, the one time I saw Pearl Jam was because Idlewild was opening. Stadium show at U of MT, seats behind the stage... not ideal.

'Corduroy'is the only song I can think of that sounds like Miracle Legion AND the Foo Fighters.
It's not at all a stretch to imagine Mark Mulcahy singing it/not at all a stretch to imagine Dave Grohl writing that riff.

Haha, when I caught Pearl Jam the first time they were my favourite band, Idlewild were supporting and they were my second favourite band. My Dad will forever be my hero for not only letting me skip two days of school but driving me 8 hours each way to see them as he realised how important it was for me.

And 'Cropduster' and 'You Are' get plenty of my love, Brad. Matt Cameron needs to write more damn songs.

Been making my way through the Pearl Jam discography recently. I haven't paid them much attention post-Vitalogy and for whatever reason have decided that now I'm going to explore the rest of it.

Anyway, I just remembered a joke that I made when Yield came out. Upon flipping the CD over and seeing Brain of J as the first track, I asked, What - like Primus Drummer of White Zombie Guitarist?

Thank you and sorry.

Side two of Vitalogy is so much fun. I forgot how great Aye Davanita is.

If a compilation existed of all their attempts to be an art rock band I would buy it.

Compile it here!

I'll need someone else to as I'm only just reacquainting myself with this stuff. But I recently relistened to No Code after many years and it's got me in the mood. I recall Binaural and Riot Act exhibiting this side of the band now and then too.

You two have been busy this morning.

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