Pearl Jam - C or D?

Sonic Youth opened.

lol I saw that tour too, in Tampa FL. my first Pearl Jam show.

we got State of Love and Trust and Soldier of Love.

also registered to vote at that show. so I could waste my vote on Nader months later.

i like those 00’s shows, the binaural tracks sound so great live esp Insignificance

I was working in Tower Records when Ten came out. Total classic. They've shown flashes of brilliance since then, but imho the only album that comes close as an entire album to their debut is Yield. So, on balance, one classic album, the rest good to great. Near classic?

I'd say No Code is their best, and is an incredible record, and that Yield, Vs and Vitalogy are just behind it. Gigaton is excellent, too, and I don't think they've put out a bad or even average album, though I wasn't sold on Lightning Bolt.

love it when they play Fuckin' Up

Binaural is a great album; I'm a Tchad Blake fan though so the weird flange and reverb effects on the drums are like a warm blanket to me. I'm sure some people hate it the way people hate Froom.

I thought Binaural was their weakest album up to that point.

i didnt take to it at first, and it was one i didnt play much for a long time, but it has held up so well, there’s really not a bad song on the whole thing, and wuite a few tracks are faves now. Thin Air is so good, and i love Sleight of Hand

I went back and listened to the show I attended. It sounds much better than I remembered. I really did have shitty seats.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tm7y856TES0

video blocked :(

by PEARL JAM

Even if you click through?

It's the first of the two Oakland gigs without Cameron.

Oh, I was thrown off for a second. Like, Cameron is still out, is he OK? But now I understand.

oh well then i dont need to watch BECUZ I WUZ THERE BABY :D

The channel does a really nice job actually, they locate multiple filmers, edit and sync them up to soundboard recordings, they're really watchable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwOcGqP9xRI

Oakland second night^

oh nice, this is the show I was at.

The show tonight was great, honestly one of the best shows I've seen in a long time, totally celebratory, encored with "Surrender."

i just saw that on the setlist they posted!
lucky dog

Lots of Eddie all over the soundtrack to the Bear, I've noticed, and great use of Animal in the final (or maybe penultimate) episode.

lol he talked about The Bear a bunch on stage. Vedder called it the best use of Pearl Jam in any show or movie he's seen. He also did a solo "Throw Your Arms Around Me," which was also in The Bear.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6diDiMVEzbI

Wonderful: https://racketmn.com/pearl-jam-rocked-this-longtime-skeptic-into-submission-last-night

FWIW, I was weighing whether to get the "official bootleg" of the closing show of their 2000 world tour - from what I can tell, it's the closest thing to a consensus pick for their greatest concert recording ever - and it turns out someone videotaped most of the show and synced it up to the audio of said CD:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aSY-CBVdpc

Also impressed by how dynamic the audio sounds - even though their studio releases were heavily compressed by that time, it seems like the CD's for the 2000 world tour shows were not subjected to the same brickwalling and sound all the better for it.

Weird. I guess Pearl Jam is okay with watching that video on YouTube but not okay with having it embedded elsewhere?

Yell-no Webembedder

No Code (Specifically, <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aSY-CBVdpc; title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>)

(sorry, that joke didn't quite land, lol)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRWdbadgCJE

I really love when they cover Crown Of Thorns. The only MLB song I've ever really been able to tolerate it, and Eddie makes it a thing of substance and wonder.

New single “Dark matter” out today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Fx8LprPMIU

Album comes out April 19

single is kinda mid imo?

yeah, if it were any other band I wouldn't be listening all the way through

Hopefully the album is a bit more… memorable, I guess

I was hopeful when it first started, I dug the energy, but yeah pretty blah and forgettable, nice guitar solo though. I could see it developing into a ripper on stage.

Wouldn't be the first time a blah PJ studio song gained new life in their live shows.

exactly. and from memory/history the first single is often, sometimes, a song i like less than the album tracks anyway

Yeah, they have a really weird track record with lead singles, still definitely excited for the album.

i've been jamming Vitalogy in the car lately, giving the kid a primer on some crucial albums. it still sounds amazing, and it swings hard on occasion (Not For You locks into a sick groove, for example.) sometimes i'll hear these guys or Soundgarden and i just really miss this type of apex predator rock music, just absolutely professional on all fronts, and seemingly effortless in execution. my kid loves all of it, i've played him a few albums from this era and he'll be in the back seat nodding along happily. when i try to find newer bands along these lines, it's definitely more of a deep search and often a fruitless one.

I thought "Dark Matter" was pretty fucking good.

how bout dem ticket prices tho

Uh, yeah, was thinking about seeing them again this tour but, uh, no. Not quite the same band that fought to keep ticket prices low are they?

we bought tix for the Sacramento show and yeah holy fuck pass the smelling salts
like there was a moment where we almost decided not to go bcz of the cost

Fun semi-humblebrag fact: Vedder was hanging at my friend's house here last week.

nice!!

Just listening to Dark Matter now. Reaffirms my belief that the only good PJ songs since Binaural are the uptempo rockers and anything midtempo/shuffly/swingy/ballady goes in one ear and out the other.

goddamn, $175 for nosebleeds in Sacramento