Post Random Pearl Jam-Related Thoughts You Have

[oneway23]

I miss the weird facial expressions Ed used to make, the eyes rolled up under his eyelids, the blinking

can't help but think the music would be better if he did more interesting things with his face

I've heard that the new album is a real return to involuntary ticks

[Ms Harmless]

I miss the weird facial expressions Ed used to make, the eyes rolled up under his eyelids, the blinking

can't help but think the music would be better if he did more interesting things with his face

I've heard that the new album is a real return to involuntary ticks

we can only hope, especially after the "Ed should be cancelled" thread

[Ms Harmless]

just thinking tonight about how Animal is the name of both a Pearl Jam song, and a muppet

makes you think really

[Ms Harmless]

just thinking tonight about how Animal is the name of both a Pearl Jam song, and a muppet

makes you think really

[BurtReynolds]

I need some botox

[rick malone]

The first singles post Given to Fly:

Nothing As It Seems-nice atmospheric vibe but lyrics aren't great. I would replace this on the album with Sad and make Parting Ways the first single.

I Am Mine-There really isn't a single on this album. Just a Grey mishmash and nothing that rises to their previous work.

Worldwide Suicide-Life Wasted should have been the 1st single.

The Fixer-I'll keep this. Maybe Speed of Sound but The Fixer more accurately sums up this album.

Mind Your Manners-Keep it. Again not much to pick from.

Dance of The Clairvoyants-Change it to Quick Escape. Dance is fine but Quick Escape is better. I would be fine never hearing Dance again live but Quick Escape should get semi regular play.

[Jorge]

"Parting Ways" as a lead single is a terrible idea. I like the song quite a bit but it would sink harder and quicker than NAIS did

[96583UP]

the Jeremy and Porch on MTC unplugged are legendary

[Bi_3]

I Am Mine-There really isn't a single on this album. Just a Grey mishmash and nothing that rises to their previous work.

I like I Am Mine, I even think it’s better at the live pace, but agree Riot Act is uninspired mush with no other singles on there.

[96583UP]

hot take: Mike McCready is revered more than Ed

[E.H. Ruddock]

hot take: Mike McCready is revered more than Ed

By me he is! And he’s got the loudest cheer by far at the HoF induction.

[liebzz]

Today’s the 10th and I wondered whether we would get information about the next single or something. Haven’t seen anything in the email box yet.

[bodysnatcher]

hot take: Mike McCready is revered more than Ed

By me he is! And he’s got the loudest cheer by far at the HoF induction.

He paid for those. Like how companies pay for reviews on Amazon to make them look really popular.

[96583UP]

CAAAAAAM TO BRAZIIIIIIIIIL EDDDDDDDDDDDDDDIIIEEEEEEEEEEE

[bodysnatcher]

Today’s the 10th and I wondered whether we would get information about the next single or something. Haven’t seen anything in the email box yet.

Just got it. Newsletter didn’t disappoint!!

[Ms Harmless]

Today’s the 10th and I wondered whether we would get information about the next single or something. Haven’t seen anything in the email box yet.

Just got it. Newsletter didn’t disappoint!!

did it tell you you wouldn't want to miss anything?

[bodysnatcher]

Today’s the 10th and I wondered whether we would get information about the next single or something. Haven’t seen anything in the email box yet.

Just got it. Newsletter didn’t disappoint!!

did it tell you you wouldn't want to miss anything?

Nah just hawking wares

[96583UP]

imagine you saw someone wearing that merch

[gardenparty]

2024 NCAA Tournament Coaches favorite bands

[Mike]

All the talk about the new album and what people want from Pearl Jam made me wonder how much how you got to know Pearl Jam influenced your opinion and your taste regarding Pearl Jams music. For many reviewers Pearl Jams definite best period is always 1991-1994 and here we have many fans of the middle period as well.
I got to know Pearl Jam in a pretty uncommon way. My first contact was downloading random Pearl Jam songs from Kazaa in 2002/2003 when I was 13 when someone on a forum talked about how great they are. Coming from germany, I actually never heard of them before. I didn't even know their biggest hits as they're very rarely played on the radio here. Pretty much no one else around me listened to them or knew about them which is probably pretty different to the U.S. My journey into Pearl Jam fandom was almost completely uninfluenced. After downloading some songs (I think it was Porch and Better Man) I just started to buy Pearl Jam records whenever I saw one in a record store. I had no idea which ones were the good/popular ones.
Due to this, Lost Dogs was just as influential in my Pearl Jam journey as Ten was and I never held a notion about how Pearl Jam SHOULD sound. I got to know Riot Act around the same time as I got to know Vs. Twenty years later I know all of the history and which albums are held in which regard, but I think about Pearl Jam completely differently than how they are talked about when reading reviews for example. To me, No Code or Riot Act are not experimental middle era Pearl Jam but just Pearl Jam how I got to know them from the beginning. There were already eight albums including Lost Dogs for me to discover at the same time at pretty influential teenage years. Undone is quintessential Pearl Jam to me just as Porch is.

I think this is why I'm always a bit weirded out when there is talk about Pearl Jam returning to form or Pearl Jam focusing on what they do best. Not intellectually weirded out, as I now know Pearl Jams story, but more emotionally as that is not my Pearl Jam story.