Dark Matter: Official Album Thread

[Gigalogy84]

Already 9 out of 11 DM songs!

Pearl Jam
4-5-24
Rogers Arena
Vancouver Canada

SETLIST

1. Wash
2. Low Light
3. Small Town
4. Given to Fly
5. Scared of Fear
6. React, Respond
7. Wreckage
8. Dark Matter
9. Daughter/Bobcaygeon (The Tragically Hip) (Ed: “Our love to Gordon…”
10. Leatherman [request from Matt Cameron]
11. Corduroy
12. Red Mosquito
13. Upper Hand
14. Won’t Tell
15. Running
16. Chloe Dancer/Crown of Thorns
17. Porch
Encore break
18. Won’t Back Down
19. Black
20.Evolution
21.Something special
22.Alive
23.Rocking in the free world
24.YLB
25.Setting Sun

That is an awesome setlist. I’m surprised they performed that many Dark Matter songs in one set. I was expecting 4 to 5 at most.

[stip]

Listening to those YouTube vids of night one - and turns out if you write a song in a room together it sounds great when you play it in a room together

[Thurman Murman]

Listening to those YouTube vids of night one - and turns out if you write a song in a room together it sounds great when you play it in a room together

These night one vids of the new songs just further confirmation that this is a really, really special new album.

[RockPusher]

Fuck me they all sound incredible live. Upper hand’s intro and outro had whole new dimensions and Wreckage was just perfection. Fuck.

[oneway23]

Listening to those YouTube vids of night one - and turns out if you write a song in a room together it sounds great when you play it in a room together

The fellas are certainly proud of this one..it's nice to see that so evident.

[DDWJMUVW]

Listening to those YouTube vids of night one - and turns out if you write a song in a room together it sounds great when you play it in a room together

The fellas are certainly proud of this one..it's nice to see that so evident.

All the vids on YT sounds and look great. They're having a great time. Can't fucking wait for august!

[oneway23]

Stone in full-on hyper-turbo duck mode during live Scared....
My heart swoons

Made my entire day.

[Oversize]

Stone in full-on hyper-turbo duck mode during live Scared....
My heart swoons

Made my entire day.

It's a great time to be a fan!

[oneway23]

Playing them live is truly where the rubber meets the road, and, these songs slot in next to the existing catalog better than any in a long time.

Seeing them played live (albeit via Youtube), it really hit me in the face how much these new songs really are a consolidation of all their existing strengths as a group.

[joostone]

Many great videos on this channel.

[dogbelly]

They sound great, holy hell.

[chadisme417]

They are clearly having a blast together on stage. And the DM songs sound amazing.

[Jaeti]

Wow.

[stip]

Playing them live is truly where the rubber meets the road, and, these songs slot in next to the existing catalog better than any in a long time.

Seeing them played live (albeit via Youtube), it really hit me in the face how much these new songs really are a consolidation of all their existing strengths as a group.

Lets see where we are at the end of the tour, but if they can give them the same feel then I think it's time for more people to really start entering this album into conversation with their 90s output.

[Release_Me]

I'm not one to judge an album by how the songs translate live, but man, these DM songs sound great live.

[Tj]

Playing them live is truly where the rubber meets the road, and, these songs slot in next to the existing catalog better than any in a long time.

Seeing them played live (albeit via Youtube), it really hit me in the face how much these new songs really are a consolidation of all their existing strengths as a group.

Lets see where we are at the end of the tour, but if they can give them the same feel then I think it's time for more people to really start entering this album into conversation with their 90s output.

Some elements of this album sit with the giants of there catalog. Proof last night when Setting Sun closed a show. When did a song first preformed live close a show? Maybe not since the off ramp.

[Tj]

I wouldnt hitch the pony to the end of the tour though. I mean they are 60 Ed will forget lyrics Mike will fall off the stage Jeff will have grumpy night. Ed's voice will suffer. It really won't kill the album. It is to be expected. I think the visual are probably a really good idea. I think in the moment in the room it probably adds a bit of power to a band that has to have lost a bit of a step. To eat some of their words from 30 years ago they should be commended. Also Ed needs a Greek fisherman hat or a Jones hunting hat.

[WaitingForBluey]

Queue the conspiracy theorists... they didn't play Stevie because they are still waiting for Wotman to teach them how to play it

[WaitingForBluey]

For real though, these songs sound really great... and this album is a certified banger

[oneway23]

Playing them live is truly where the rubber meets the road, and, these songs slot in next to the existing catalog better than any in a long time.

Seeing them played live (albeit via Youtube), it really hit me in the face how much these new songs really are a consolidation of all their existing strengths as a group.

Lets see where we are at the end of the tour, but if they can give them the same feel then I think it's time for more people to really start entering this album into conversation with their 90s output.

It didn't necessarily occur to me while watching them live. What really struck me watching the Vancouver clips was how happy it made me to see them so obviously proud of their new work.
I was also just so grateful to have new songs which I believe could eventually sit amongst the top tier in their catalog.

No...the idea that I could reasonably be thinking genuine comparisons to their 90s work hit me in a subconscious way. It wasn't the live clips, it was actually while listening through a couple of Trag's latest drafts.

As he reaches the finish line, I tried really hard to to turn off my brain and simply listen in a way that allows the album to wash over me.

I finished up, and it occurred to me that I wasn't thinking about the album in terms of some "late-era classic", or, that it was "pretty good for guys in their 60s, 34 years in."

No, this is something different. This is a fantastic Pearl Jam record, no qualification. I feel like it's the first time in at least two decades that I'm not making some kind of mental rationalization to talk about how much I love their new album. It's been a great feeling.