1000% backed. i haven't paid attention to the radio in at least 10 years, if not longer, so recently i've been listening to many albums i avoided due to oversaturation. this is one of them. that song "Porch" is incredible.
One of my favorites for sure. I also got sorta tired of it from all the over-playing on the radio (Nirvana was the same), but when that re-mix came out... it was like hearing it for the first time again. They really did a great job with that.
I still don't listen to it often, but I do enjoy it when I do.
post by ark at Sep 13,2012 12:48pm
aside from npr i don't even know what radio is. just one of those things that's "on" in the world, and pearl jam and nirvana are two of those great bands i'd rather not hear ever again.
This is the album that single handily got me into grunge.
It's funny seeing it from a younger persons perspective. From 91 - 95 grunge was shoved down our throats on a daily basis. I really dug that stuff in highschool but now it's probably how my parents look at disco. It just seems cheesy.
The only reason I even give Pearl Jam the time of day is because they've been my dad's favorite band for a really long time. I'd rather listen to them than Nirvana any day while we're at it.
I actually never listened to Smashing Pumpkins beyond the two or three songs that play on the radio.
Album recommendations yo.
Mellon Collie and Siamese Dream are my tops, i forget the last one they did. first one is good too. and yikes, this was one of the last great "radio bands", i have no idea what your crop listens to now. i will always have a soft spot for SP where most other bands from back then i gladly forgot about.
lol. Indeed you did. Opened thread, put phone down, posted without a reload. Shitty poster am I.
post by ShadowSDNLI at Sep 13,2012 3:43pm
Jeremy was always one of my favorites, still holds up for me to this day. Really great guitar and vocal texturing, very sophisticated yet simple modulations, very metal in terms of the melodies and chord changes despite the band being labeled based on fashion and region ("grunge"), and honestly something so far from what Nirvana could ever have been capable of that I never understood what exactly the two bands were supposed to have in common, except wearing flannel in Seattle.
Black is also really good, second half especially, and I also like Porch, Release Me, and even though I don't care to hear them more than once every couple years because they're overplayed, Alive and Evenflow.
Pearl Jam's next album was way less good - one really good song, two decent ones, and a pile of crap besides that - and after that everything they put out for at least a decade was consistently shit. That Yellow Bedwetter song has to be one of the worst things I have ever heard.
post by Ancient_Master nli at Sep 13,2012 5:01pm
cannot get on board
Eddie Vedder >> the originator of "chin rock"
i have to listen to WAAF at work most days, and despite their being overplayed to all hell, i still enjoy soundgarden, nirvana, and most alice in chains stuff every time it comes on, pearl jam however is a band that i went from feeling moderate disdain and boredom for, to fullon visceral hatred towards, this very afternoon, while mr. vedder whined "WHOOOOOUUUUUIIIIIIIIEEEEEEYYEEMM STILL UHHHLIEEEEVVVEEEEEEUUGHHHHYEAAHHHHHUHHHH", i remember cursing under my breath, "not for much longer i hope, not for much longer..."
Seriously, FUCK rhea pearljam.
