I wanna hear "No Way"
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 12 April 2016 00:16 (eight years ago) link
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
― some dude, Tuesday, 12 April 2016 00:34 (eight years ago) link
We got "Lowlight" :)
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 12 April 2016 01:00 (eight years ago) link
omgggggg love
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 April 2016 05:25 (eight years ago) link
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 :)
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 April 2016 05:49 (eight years ago) link
"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.
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 12 April 2016 06:28 (eight years ago) link
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!
― draxx them sklounst (dog latin), Tuesday, 12 April 2016 07:59 (eight years ago) link
"Off He Goes" = favorite PJ ballad
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 12 April 2016 10:30 (eight years ago) link
I like 'Sometimes' I think. Although that is a great song.
― draxx them sklounst (dog latin), Tuesday, 12 April 2016 10:37 (eight years ago) link
"Nothingman" is mine
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 12 April 2016 13:56 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 12 April 2016 13:57 (eight years ago) link
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.
― draxx them sklounst (dog latin), Tuesday, 12 April 2016 14:01 (eight years ago) link
Is it even worth me venturing much further beyond Yield/Binaural?
― draxx them sklounst (dog latin), Tuesday, 12 April 2016 14:12 (eight years ago) link
I've made a good playlist out of the best from the s/t and Backspacer.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 12 April 2016 14:34 (eight years ago) link
i'd listen to that
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Tuesday, 12 April 2016 14:57 (eight years ago) link
There are easily 20 great songs btwn the post-Binaural albums.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 12 April 2016 15:00 (eight years ago) link
i made playlists of my favorite songs from each era (divided by drummers), these are my Matt Cameron picks:
1. Greivance2. Can't Keep3. Mind Your Manners4. The Fixer5. Undone6. Big Wave7. Light Years8. You Are9. Johnny Guitar10. Gods' Dice11. Love Boat Captain12. World Wide Suicide13. Breakerfall14. Supersonic15. Get Right16. Sad17. Thumbing My Way18. Insignificance19. I Am Mine20. Man Of The Hour21. Sleight Of Hand22. Gone
http://narrowcast.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-imaginary-pearl-jam-box-set-4.html
― some dude, Tuesday, 12 April 2016 15:28 (eight years ago) link
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
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 April 2016 16:04 (eight years ago) link
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
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 12 April 2016 20:38 (eight years ago) link
riot act does have a bad vibe. some of my favorite pj songs tucked into its sprawl though ("green disease," "get right," "you are")
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Tuesday, 12 April 2016 21:33 (eight years ago) link
of course two of the songs i named are cameron-written, huh
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Tuesday, 12 April 2016 21:34 (eight years ago) link
oh ha i'm gonna see pearl jam with my mom at jazz fest in a few weeks, sick
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Tuesday, 12 April 2016 21:40 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Jerry Lee Lewis: The Total Film-Maker (stevie), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 11:10 (eight years ago) link
favourite Pearl Jam song is a good question... Maybe I Got ID?
― draxx them sklounst (dog latin), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 11:30 (eight years ago) link
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.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 12:41 (eight years ago) link
But y'know, I was already a Mr Bungle fan so wasn't a stranger to wilfully obscure mish-mashes.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 12:42 (eight years ago) link
It's got some great tracks but it's a typical 90s eclectic 'let's do it all and mix it all up' kind of record (the kind of thing I used to love back then), but it's also really jarring. This disconnected hodge-podge of big shouty rock tracks, stoic goth-funkers, ballads and weird sketches. Def got some of their best work: 'Better Man', 'Corduroy', 'Immortality'. Not a fan of any of the rockers on here - all just sound awkward and laboured. I do like the weirdo tracks, all of them, from Pry, To to Aye Davanita. Even Bugs I used to think was teh funneh back then.
― draxx them sklounst (dog latin), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 12:52 (eight years ago) link
I recall Tremor Christ was the one I liked best.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 13:10 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, I Got ID would be in my top two or three; love the spectral Neil Young guitar solos throughout. I wrote a thing about PJ's 10 best tracks the other day for the Guardian and described the song as a grungey take on Just My Imagination; certainly, it's the best of Eddie's heartbroken-streetperson-mumbling-to-self works.
Aye Davanita is a great track in its own right, but there is SO MUCH TO SKIP on Vitalogy.
― Jerry Lee Lewis: The Total Film-Maker (stevie), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 13:10 (eight years ago) link
I love Vitalogy. "Last Exit", "Tremor Christ", "Spin the Black Circle", "Nothingman", "Betterman", "Not for You", "Whipping", "Corduroy"....even "Satan's Bed", while not a great track, has a good verse riff.
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 13:18 (eight years ago) link
Listening to it now - gotta admit the three opening tracks have all been banging.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 13:28 (eight years ago) link
I'm just not keen on things like Spin The Black Circle, Blood, Last Exit. I like 'Lukin' though - that's Pearl Jam doing heavy rock really well.
― draxx them sklounst (dog latin), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 13:32 (eight years ago) link
Ha well, I thoroughly enjoyed those four rockers that opened the record, now Nothing Man is on and I'm getting all yawny.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 13:35 (eight years ago) link
I really really don't like it on No Code the way Sometimes fades out and this horrible big brute of a track follows it up. I love 'Sometimes' and 'Hail Hail' is fine; they just don't sit nicely next to each other.
― draxx them sklounst (dog latin), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 13:38 (eight years ago) link
I love that!
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 13:45 (eight years ago) link
although point taken about their rockers. They're better at what that Grantland critic called "midtempo plus"
Done with first listen of Vitalogy in 20 years - pretty good! Definitely far smoother/more accessible than my recollections, and for all the obviously self indulgent moments it never really drags.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 14:03 (eight years ago) link
My least favourite bits were actually the two "---Man" tracks - never really liked PJ when they got too soppy.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 14:04 (eight years ago) link
those are like the best songs. Better Man is one of their best songs. You are wrong!
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 14:06 (eight years ago) link
No. They are like a tired farmer singing about tractors.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 14:07 (eight years ago) link
Strange, even as a hard rockin' teen, I always preferred Pearl Jam when they weren't being deliberately spiky and shouty. Bar a handful of exceptions, mid-tempo plus rockers, ballads, funky jams and weirdo outliers were what they were best at in my view. Not sure why that is.. Vedder's got a good hoarse shout but it feels strained and I never feel like the band gels very well when doing this.
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 14:13 (eight years ago) link
I'm listening to Yellow Ledbetter for the first time in probably 20 years. It's really good innit?
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 14:26 (eight years ago) link
i love mikey's guitar sound on that. still gets me in the feels
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 16:49 (eight years ago) link
I got id might be my favorite ... either that or Off He Goes, or Red Mosquito, or Dissident
also Just Breathe makes me cry big fat blobby tears
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 16:50 (eight years ago) link
Going again tonight. Thx stubhub. Both tickets combined were less than one purchased on Ticketmaster at face value.
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 17:14 (eight years ago) link
my favorite pearl jam song is "sad," which, wow, i'm still extremely mad that it's a b-side
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 17:28 (eight years ago) link
thats a goodun
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 17:43 (eight years ago) link
I love "Brain of J", the verse riff is one that's weirdly aggro and almost heavy metally for PJ. great chorus too.
PJ never had a lot of Zep worship, Hendrix, Neil Young, etc, were more their thing, but Yield has some songs that dialed-up the Zep a bit more. a little overboard in "Given to Fly" which is basically just the verse of "Going to California"
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 21:17 (eight years ago) link