UNPOPULAR PEARL JAM OPINIONS

[Leatherhead]

Come Back rules.

[blueviper]

Come Back rules.

Wtf

[lvc]

Is it unpopular to say Garden is a top 5 Ten track? Always loved it.

I don't think it would be unpopular to say any track off of that album is top 5 on the album.

I think Garden is their most Skynyrd-like song in the catalog. I always get a Simple Man vibe from it.

[tragabigzanda]

pearl jam sucks now

[VinylGuy]

i never cared much for both Garden and Deep. Those two were skipped a lot back then.

[wease]

Is it unpopular to say Garden is a top 5 Ten track? Always loved it.

I don't think it would be unpopular to say any track off of that album is top 5 on the album.

I think Garden is their most Skynyrd-like song in the catalog. I always get a Simple Man vibe from it.

this is a fascinating comparison i'd never considered, but i can hear it.

It’s the arpeggio picking.

[Sloppy Dupree]

Garden is maybe the one Ten song where I genuinely love the production and can’t picture it sounding any other way. It makes sense they don’t play it much live.

[Birds in Hell]

Garden is maybe the one Ten song where I genuinely love the production and can’t picture it sounding any other way. It makes sense they don’t play it much live.

They play it all the time these days!

It's been played at around 20% of Dark Matter shows so far.

That's more often than Animal, Hail Hail or Last Exit.

[lowlight79]

I think removing Gigaton from Dark Matter tour outside of some songs showing up rarely was the way to go. Those songs never sounded right to me live.

[stip]

id like to see quick escape, retrograde, and maybe never destination stay in rotation, based on the ones i got

[Val]

Come Back rules.

Wtf

It's a popular opinion therefore I move to strike

[lvc]

I feel the need to bump some stuff because the first page of topics is inundated with locked march madness threads. Is that an unpopular pearl jam opinion or just a fact?

Ten is the Forrest Gump of 90s music.

[Buby]

Ten is the Forrest Gump of 90s music.

Fact.

[liebzz]

Ten is the Forrest Gump of 90s music.

Fact.

I’m not closed to the idea, but you gotta explain how this analogy works… unless you posit that Oceans is really a love song about Jen-nay.

[lvc]

Ten is the Forrest Gump of 90s music.

Fact.

I’m not closed to the idea, but you gotta explain how this analogy works… unless you posit that Oceans is really a love song about Jen-nay.

Forrest Gump = actually good movie that got insanely popular until its ubiquity turned it's character and charming idiosyncrasies into punchlines. Its own earnestness was turned against it by a cynical world.

[Buby]

Ten is the Forrest Gump of 90s music.

Fact.

I’m not closed to the idea, but you gotta explain how this analogy works… unless you posit that Oceans is really a love song about Jen-nay.

Forrest Gump = actually good movie that got insanely popular until its ubiquity turned it's character and charming idiosyncrasies into punchlines. Its own earnestness was turned against it by a cynical world.

That's a good description.
I tend to lean more towards the overrated/bloated aspects of it.

[McParadigm]

Oh see I thought you were saying that ten was miserable jack off boomer fetishism, “saved” (not really) by some excellent performances

[lvc]

Oh see I thought you were saying that ten was miserable jack off boomer fetishism, “saved” (not really) by some excellent performances

Exactly. Its own earnestness was turned against it by a cynical world.

[Clem Halibut]

Evacuation is a great song.
Rival is one of their best songs
Music is subjective

[lvc]

Evacuation is a great song.
Rival is one of their best songs
Music is subjective

1) Evactuation might be a great song in someone else's catalogue. I've never cottoned to it, Pearl Jam-wise.
2) This is objectively true
3) This is objectively true