"Hail Hail" is ragged overdriven and violent. It's love in an abattoir-- chopped liver, thick lacquered lips, gore, despair-fucking amidst steaming entrails tied together with red satin ribbons. Everything about it is red-- dangerously red, feverish, up-against-the-wall, pounding away at the emptiness of everything, red skirt hitched high by bloodied knuckles. And then it opens up at the end, with Mike's chiming arpeggios finally letting some air in. It's the kind of Pearl Jam I want Pearl Jam to be. I understand why people like "Immortality" but to my ears it's staid, plodding, comically self-serious and dullllll. At least compared with a track like "Hail Hail".
"Hail Hail" is ragged overdriven and violent. It's love in an abattoir-- chopped liver, thick lacquered lips, gore, despair-fucking amidst steaming entrails tied together with red satin ribbons. Everything about it is red-- dangerously red, feverish, up-against-the-wall, pounding away at the emptiness of everything, red skirt hitched high by bloodied knuckles. And then it opens up at the end, with Mike's chiming arpeggios finally letting some air in. It's the kind of Pearl Jam I want Pearl Jam to be. I understand why people like "Immortality" but to my ears it's staid, plodding, comically self-serious and dullllll. At least compared with a track like "Hail Hail".
