I love Pearl Jam. I have 3 of their albums. I went to one of their concerts. It was the best show I've ever been to in my life. They just totally blew me away. Eddie Vedder is a god... and that is all.

Moment of truth: Backspacer is out today! Who's gonna go get it?

^^ i think the self titled record blows Backspacer away, no contest. maybe Vedder should move somewhere that is led by a dictator...

I'm not liking anything past Vitology, but that wont stop me from seeing Pearl Jam play the last show at the Spectrum.

Listened to the new album a few times and I love it, one of my favorite albums of the year for sure. It takes off where the last, self-titled album left off--straight-forward rock, but there is also a fair amount of mellower songs.

ozzmosis posted:

agree that Backspacer is the best album since Yield
only problem with Backspacer is that no songs really stand out but as an album flow, the songs work. It's a grower for me.

As far as their 2000s work goes, I think Binaural is an under-appreciated album. Not a lot of hooks or infectious songs, but a very atmospheric, ambitious album. I don't really remember Riot Act too well, so I can't comment--will have to give that another spin, and I loved the self-titled album.



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ten is the jim teecher

I'm loving this new album. Got Some is my fave.

And the rumor mill turns:

[grungereport.net]

BattleOfNY posted:

I have to strongly disagree with the whole Target thing. I was at Best Buy a few times and I actually heard people asking for the new album and the poor sales guy saying it's only sold at Target. I don't think many people knew it was only exclusively sold at Target. Just over the internet, in blogs, this album got a lot of hype. It's a short but tight album. I think Riot Act dragged out for wayyy too long and all the songs started to blur together. There are a few good songs on the album but again, it was as if they were all on downers when they recorded it. Something you put on before you go to sleep. Definitely not the rocking band of the 90s.

That's just me though.

That's cool. Personally, I think Riot Act has stuff on it that's as raw and real as anything on "Ten."

It's not JUST sold at Target: one of the conditions of Target getting the deal was that they make a certain number of CDs and vinyl available to indy record stores.

I doubt it not being available at Best Buy is REALLY driving down sales a significant amount. There's a theory that one of the things that killed music BEFORE file-sharing was making music available in superstores like Best Buy, Walmart, Target and so forth: it translated into a very large saturation of a very small collection of artists, and in the process both the up-and-coming act with less promotional muscle and the independent music store were left out in the cold.

Target actually paid for the Cameron Crowe video, and bought a LOT of ad-time for it, plus the situation of such an anti-corporate group getting in bed with Target generated a lot of press coverage. Basically what they're doing what the record industry used to do: negotiating distribution deals.

What I think this proves is that a major label doesn't have a lot to offer a group like Pearl Jam anymore. They're rich enough to pay all the studio bills themselves. They have all the name-recognition they need, the music press obsesses over them.

Radiohead, Pearl Jam, Nine Inch Nails, all huge names that are now unsigned, independent agents. Who knows what happens next.

Kid IRA1 posted:

dreamerm posted:

Radiohead, Pearl Jam, Nine Inch Nails, all huge names that are now unsigned, independent agents. Who knows what happens next.

Beck and Portishead, you just wait.

Beck is unsigned now? Did not know that. This jungle's getting crowded!

Pearl Jam have been getting a lot of flack for their aparent turn-around from anti-corporate misanthropic reluctant rock stars to self-promoting deal-makers. But I think the big difference is that now that they're unsigned, they get to make their own deals. Finally they're doing things on their own terms.

I know an important thing to them was to be able to sell a special-edition of the album through their fan-club. They've been trying to do that for years but Sony always torpedoed it.

Fucking. Love. Pearl Jam.

Current two fave songs:

Last Kiss (--- is this their cover, by the way? I keep forgetting >< )
Alive

I know, not even very original. I'm just getting back into them.

^ Yep. Not an excellent album but funny. The Fixer, Force Of Nature and Amongst the Waves are great songs

Just listened to Ten again yesterday. It sounds just as exciting and fresh now as it did when I first heard it nearly 20 years ago. The 2009 remix sounds even better.

i really don't know what to think of this,they could've left on a higher note for their hiatus.what do you think???
PEARL JAM KICK OFF THEIR 20th ANNIVERSARY YEAR WITH

RELEASE OF NEW LIVE COMPILATION ALBUM



"LIVE ON TEN LEGS" OUT JANUARY 18, 2011



Pearl Jam announce the release of "Live on Ten Legs," a new live compilation album that will be available through Pearl Jam's Ten Club and select digital and independent music retailers on January 18, 2011 (January 17, 2011 internationally).

Kicking off the band’s twentieth anniversary year, "Live on Ten Legs" features 18 Pearl Jam tracks recorded over the course of the band's 2003-2010 world tours by recording engineer, John Burton (full track listing below). All tracks have been newly remixed by longtime Pearl Jam engineer Brett Eliason and remastered.

"Live on Ten Legs" will be available internationally through Island Records as a digital version, CD version and a deluxe version. The deluxe version will include a CD, double LP package, four mini poster reprints, five live photos and a tour laminate. The album will be available in the United States as a digital version, CD version and vinyl version.

A Ten Club pre-sale of the CD and vinyl versions of "Live on Ten Legs" begins today at www.pearljam.com.



Deluxe version available worldwide here.


Pearl Jam's "Live on Ten Legs" is a follow up to their platinum 1998 live release, "Live on Two Legs," which consisted of performances recorded during the band's summer 1998 North American tour.



"Live on Ten Legs" Tracklisting:

1. Arms Aloft

2. World Wide Suicide

3. Animal

4. Got Some

5. State of Love And Trust

6. I Am Mine

7. Unthought Known

8. Rearview Mirror

9. The Fixer

10. Nothing As It Seems

11. In Hiding

12. Just Breathe

13. Jeremy

14. Public Image

15. Spin the Black Circle

16. Porch

17. Alive

18. Yellow Ledbetter

NIN_rocksmysocks posted:

Fucking. Love. Pearl Jam.

Current two fave songs:

Last Kiss (--- is this their cover, by the way? I keep forgetting >< )
Alive

I know, not even very original. I'm just getting back into them.

Yes, "Last Kiss" is a cover. You can read about its history here:
[en.wikipedia.org]