older than Mick Jagger was when the Stones released Bridges to Babylon.
Seems like it could make a good thread. Patterson Hood, David Yow, Steve Albini ...
Lol, I just looked up Mariah Carey, and wiki says "Born March 27, 1969 or 1970 (age 49–50)" wtf?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 7 February 2020 15:46 (four years ago) link
It’s not polite to ask a lady about her age.
― dad genes (morrisp), Friday, 7 February 2020 15:56 (four years ago) link
I didn't read beyond her birthday(s), but I'm fairly certain there is more embarrassing information in that wikipedia entry.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 7 February 2020 16:02 (four years ago) link
"Dance" got me excited about the prospect of a weird late-career PJ album but unfortunately it's largely just boring and shaggy :/
― brechtian social distancing (Simon H.), Monday, 23 March 2020 23:23 (four years ago) link
It's rather dull, despite a sharp mix. Without knowing the credits, it sounds like acoustic Eddie Veder songs fleshed out by the band but unable to reject their garrulousness.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 23 March 2020 23:26 (four years ago) link
Yeah, that sounds right. Real missed opportunity.
― brechtian social distancing (Simon H.), Monday, 23 March 2020 23:41 (four years ago) link
Do they credit their songs to individual writers, or just to the band as a whole?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 24 March 2020 00:03 (four years ago) link
individual writers
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 24 March 2020 00:15 (four years ago) link
I really love it.
― Pinche Cumbion Bien Loco (stevie), Tuesday, 24 March 2020 00:29 (four years ago) link
I see they just released their eleventh album Gigaton. Had no idea but will play the singles for the heck of it
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 22:41 (four years ago) link
It's a muddle.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 23:09 (four years ago) link
"Comes Then Goes" and "Buckle Up" are the best from a band still trying to sound as if they weren't middle aged since their twenties; they worry themselves to death.
I am deeply biased obv but i really love the album so far. “Quick Escape” is my current favorite — mainly bc of the unashamed Zeppelin feel of the jangly riff & badass drums.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 23:27 (four years ago) link
I don’t think they are trying to NOT sound middle aged imo, they are not that cynical. I think they are more ok with being middle aged than most bands their age; and the varying styles is more just they just like pushing the boat out together :D
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 23:30 (four years ago) link
I think the new one's excellent. And yes, Quick Escape is totally as if PhysGraf-era Zeppelin were a post-punk group.
― Pinche Cumbion Bien Loco (stevie), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 06:30 (four years ago) link
how much you love the new album witll depend on how much you believe in vedder, and i've always been a believer.
I believe in him, the arrangements often tangle themselves in knots.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 10:40 (four years ago) link
As usual I'm into the non-ballads which makes up about half of Gigaton. "Dance" sounds much better as Track 3 than on its own -- I don't think it was a great lead single choice.
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 15:30 (four years ago) link
weird to realize Eddie Vedder is older than Mick Jagger was when the Stones released Bridges to Babylon.He’s almost as old as Time Out of Mind-era Dylan!― dad genes (morrisp), Friday, February 7, 2020 10:39 AM (one month ago)
This is fucked. Jagger and Dylan felt 55 or older when those records came out. PJ still feels perpetually 40.
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 15:45 (four years ago) link
As usual I'm into the non-ballads which makes up about half of Gigaton.
I like the slower-paced stuff as well, but Never Destination is a belter and an album highlight for me.
― Pinche Cumbion Bien Loco (stevie), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 16:21 (four years ago) link
I haven't heard the new album, but I heard a second of I think "Retrograde" on the radio and for that second I thought it sounded like Dave Matthews Band. Though maybe not as much as (iirc) "Glorified G" sounded like DMB.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 4 August 2020 21:40 (three years ago) link
Anyone feel like reviving their fandom or rediscovering the band, or diving into live shows, I highly recommend the 2003 Benaroya Hall live show for your Sunday vibes Marks somewhat of a turning point in Eddie’s relationship w the audience but also the band sounds incredible & Mikey gives some truly show stopping solos - entire show has a definite introspective feel but positive & laid-back, rather than dour or maudlin
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 9 August 2020 19:47 (three years ago) link
Though maybe not as much as (iirc) "Glorified G" sounded like DMB.
o_O!
think you meant another song. I ain't ever heard no DMB song that sounds like Glorified G.
― popeye's arse (Neanderthal), Sunday, 9 August 2020 20:21 (three years ago) link
loool wtf i missed that O_o Josh. My dude. Just, no.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 9 August 2020 20:25 (three years ago) link
ALWAYS KEEP IT LOAAAADdddddded in the space betweeeeeeen your heart and mind
― popeye's arse (Neanderthal), Sunday, 9 August 2020 20:33 (three years ago) link
i mean tbf dave coopted the vedder vibe that would later become a de rigeur style eg creed; the grunge screamers (staley, cornell) were more my thing and harder to pull off. nb i think vedder is an incredible vocalist, nothing inherently wrong with his style but it really got picked up by some lames
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Sunday, 9 August 2020 21:35 (three years ago) link
I mean, sure, but that just happens to be one song where he yells his head off though :)
wonder if JiC meant "Elderly Woman"...
― popeye's arse (Neanderthal), Sunday, 9 August 2020 21:39 (three years ago) link
Up until the point where the vocals come in I think you could make an argument that it sounds like the band that did "What Would You Say" was trying something in a heavier style. At least that's what popped into my head when I first read Josh's post.
― cwkiii, Monday, 10 August 2020 02:05 (three years ago) link
stop yr making me nauseous
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 10 August 2020 03:34 (three years ago) link
take a damp washcloth, move it around your forehead in an even flow
― popeye's arse (Neanderthal), Monday, 10 August 2020 03:35 (three years ago) link
SO HELP ME I WILL TURN THIS CAR AROUND
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 10 August 2020 03:36 (three years ago) link
make sure to check your
rear view mirror
when backing out
― popeye's arse (Neanderthal), Monday, 10 August 2020 03:42 (three years ago) link
hate u
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 10 August 2020 04:25 (three years ago) link
Yeah, I meant the opening. I never listen to that PJ album, but that intro I hear a lot and always turn off because it sounds like one of the few DMB songs I know. Drum sound especially.
I learned yesterday, when I was reading up on the Chapman stick after learning that Midnight Oil used it a couple of times, that this Pearl Jam song is also one of the few where Jeff Ament supposedly uses a Chapman stick.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 10 August 2020 12:36 (three years ago) link
I dig the many-Vedders coda
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 14:06 (nine months ago) link
^still amazing
― swing out sister: live in new donk city (geoffreyess), Saturday, 7 November 2020 05:13 (three years ago) link
too bad the rest of the album was a bore :(
― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Saturday, 7 November 2020 14:40 (three years ago) link
the last album (gigatron) is good? it seems to me. I haven't spent any appreciable time with PJ since Vitalogy after which my interests went elsewhere, but I spent this week with Yield (great!) and No Code (very good) and this one seems to be as good as them.
― akm, Sunday, 16 May 2021 19:32 (two years ago) link
Agreed. It's a little overlong, but I definitely think it's better than anything they've done in some time.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 17 May 2021 14:25 (two years ago) link
I dug out Yield and No Code the other day. Goddamn, Yield is great. Maybe my fave
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Monday, 17 May 2021 14:27 (two years ago) link
No Code is my favorite, but partially because it is tied to a very specific time and experience in my life.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 17 May 2021 14:30 (two years ago) link
Gigatron is already 13 months old?! Damn. I still dig "Comes Then Goes" and "Buckle Up."
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 17 May 2021 14:32 (two years ago) link
I still wish it had been a whole record of "Clairvoyants"-style genre experiments.
― intern at pelican brief consulting (Simon H.), Monday, 17 May 2021 16:15 (two years ago) link
I thought the same thing Simon, but on the other hand I don't know that these guy would have been capable of keeping the quality of those experiments up that high for an entire album. I like these guys more than most, but their "experimentation" ain't what it was 25 years ago.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 17 May 2021 16:21 (two years ago) link
I thought the threat revive happened because it's Dave Abraurdasfasdljl;'s birthday.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 17 May 2021 16:28 (two years ago) link
a very happy birthday to dave applebee's
― intern at pelican brief consulting (Simon H.), Monday, 17 May 2021 16:29 (two years ago) link
Yes, definitely hoping Dave Abrasivezine is having a wonderful day.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 17 May 2021 17:02 (two years ago) link
I still don't know why he was sacked/left.
― Maresn3st, Monday, 17 May 2021 17:18 (two years ago) link
Dave Astrozeneca was not a bad drummer for them
― akm, Monday, 17 May 2021 17:18 (two years ago) link
apparently he was sacked/left because he was too rockstar
didn't Vedder get miffed because Abracadabra gave press interviews and was happy?
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 17 May 2021 17:25 (two years ago) link