Pearl Jam - C or D?

"all these...
i got bugs
i got bugs in my room
bugs in my bed
bugs in my ears
their eggs in my head
bugs in my pockets
bugs in my shoes
bugs in the way i feel about you
bugs on my window
trying to get in
they don't go nowhere
waiting, waiting...
bugs on my ceiling
crowded the floor
standing, sitting, kneeling...
a few block the door
and now the question's:
do i kill them?
become their friend?
do i eat them?
raw or well done?
do i trick them?
i don't think they're that dumb
do i join them?
looks like that's the one
i got bugs on my skin
tickle my nausea
i let it happen again
they're always takin' over
i see they surround me, i see...
see them deciding my fate
oh, that which was once...was once up to me...
now it's too late
i got bugs in my room...one on one
that's when i had a chance
i'll just stop now
i'll become naked
and with the...i'll become one"

Oh yeah!! Now I'm ready for some shots and good times!

Otherwise, Pearl Jam is a horrible, horrible nightmare.

Most of Vitalogy, No Code, and Yield sound great.

Yup. But I'll stand by the quiet songs on the first one.

I don't understand the Pearl Jam hatred. Compared to other bands on the radio like Nickelback, Creed and Fuel, they're the Beatles, Elvis and Dave Clarke 5 combined.

They're also one of the best cover bands around, with killer versions of Let My Love Open the Door, and tons of others. Eddie Vedder does a great version of X's Poor Girl, backed by teh Supersuckers.

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.

http://digicollage.com/music/pearl_jam.jpg

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.

yeah, uptempo single and short running time have me feeling pretty optimistic about picking this up this weekend

That's right, I need to make sure I swing by Target on Sunday.

'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.

yeah...the idea of PJ of all bands doing kind of a tight poppy almost new wave record is strangely appealing

what Simon said.

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!

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

Must check this out, didn't care for the last couple.

i like the presence of multiple eugene levys on the sleeve... the album is ACE.

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.

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

(the PEARL JAM font is pretty fugly, to be fair)

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)

duuuuud

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!

I really love this.

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.

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.

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.

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.

love the kinda unassuming way they throw in weird time signatures on "Fixer" though

When I delete "Amongst the Waves," I can listen to this all day.

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.

Every time I hear "Got Some," I think, "damn, I guess Ament was listening to those opening acts."

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.

So a real return to form then, eh? People seem to be really liking this.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!)

They are 20 years old today. I feel really old now.

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.

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*

Okay I'm wrong:

http://web.archive.org/web/20080109033804/http://www.pearljam.com/timeline/

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.

Ten, Vs., Vitalogy, Riot Act = c
Yield = mostly c, with some d
No Code = somewhere in the middle of c and d
the album after Riot Act = somewhere in the middle of d and c
Binaural = d

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.

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.