Gigaton: Official album thread

[Monkey_Driven]

Evenslow and Strat were set to sit right next to each other in St. Louis. It will be the best day ever.

Goddammit. Wease was going to be there too!

This will happen at some point soon!

Man. I was also supposed to hang out with MonkeyDriven, and snatch in denver!

That's a party I'll definitely hate missing. Man!

You could hypothetically join our hypothetical meet up!

Really? Then I'm hypothetically in!

Excellent!

[burl jam]

Is anyone else surprised that Gigaton hasn't featured on more best albums of 2020 lists? Or are those lists reserved for more of the same?

[tragabigzanda]

pearl jam sucks now

[burl jam]

Not surprised at all. The people who make those lists are in their 20s-30s, so it makes sense that PJ isn’t important or interesting to them

...but they're including Dylan and Springsteen's latest.

[Monkey_Driven]

I believe it has more to do with timing of its release.

[tragabigzanda]

pearl jam sucks now

[Tuolumne]

the culture is *heavily* tilted towards 2 groups - Boomers and Millenials. Boomers are the parents of the Millenials. GenX is generally the ignored middle child.

[liebzz]

I think it was #10 on Consequence of Sounds list.

[RockPusher]

the culture is *heavily* tilted towards 2 groups - Boomers and Millenials. Boomers are the parents of the Millenials. GenX is generally the ignored middle child.

Yeah but we love it that way. Underdog champion is our avatar.

[VinylGuy]

I think it was #10 on Consequence of Sounds list.

yeah, it is.

Music lists are super boring tough. Its pretty much the same in all music publications.

[tragabigzanda]

pearl jam sucks now

[Birds in Hell]

I'm not sure a new Pearl Jam album is very consequential for anyone outside of the Pearl Jam universe.

It's a big deal for (some) Pearl Jam fans, but the ripples don't really extend beyond the pond.

[Leatherhead]

Pearl Jam exists in a weird place in the music world.

[VinylGuy]

yeah, for sure.

I think Matt said that the streaming numbers werent really huge for them or their peers, and he guessed that only artists like The Weekend or Taylor Swift really make money from that.

In terms of hype, they have for sure. Pretty much every music or art outlet gave PJ news or album review.

[digster]

I'm not sure a new Pearl Jam album is very consequential for anyone outside of the Pearl Jam universe.

It's a big deal for (some) Pearl Jam fans, but the ripples don't really extend beyond the pond.

Yes, I think it's a combination of this and, at least in the States, it's release date coming at pretty much the same time that the severity of COVID was really starting to hit (daily deaths jumped by almost a thousand in just the week after it was released). I think it was hard for anything to really have much attention in that context in the U.S., and no one ever really went back to it.

[tragabigzanda]

pearl jam sucks now

[epilogue]

Money is the only true meaningful measure of success, happiness, and artistic merit.

[Jorge]

Money is the only true meaningful measure of success, happiness, and artistic merit.

Agreed!

[knee tunes]

one star

[tragabigzanda]

pearl jam sucks now