stip wrote:Spotify Montly Listens - Pearl Jam and their classic rock forebears (in the millions)
The Beatles: 34.5
The Rolling Stones: 28.6
The Who: 8.6
Pink Floyd: 18.6
Led Zeppelin: 18.2
Bruce Springsteen: 16.2 Pearl Jam: 13.7 (note that Eddie has 3 million additional as a solo artist. Temple of the Dog has 1.6)
The Doors: 11.9
Tom Petty: 11.1
The Ramones: 6.3
Neil Young: 3.6
Grateful Dead: 2.3
And Pearl Jam next to the other giant artists of their era
Red Hot Chili Peppers: 33.3
Nirvana: 30.9
Green Day: 30.5
Radiohead: 26.3
Metallica: 25.2
U2: 22.2
Foo Fighters:20.8
Oasis: 20.5
R.E.M.: 17.6 Pearl Jam: 13.7
Smashing Pumpkins: 10.9
Counting Crows: 10.2
Rage Against the Machine: 9.8
Alice in Chains: 7.5
Soundgarden: 7.4
Stone Temple Pilots: 6
Tool: 4.3
Bush: 3.3
Live: 3.1
Dave Matthews Band: 2.4
Clem Halibut wrote:Holy Cow
This discussion has gotten WAY off track.
The bridge of Dark Matter is fantastic and it has gotten better with each listen.
It's my favorite part of the song
IDLES don't even know how to write a bridge and are just a flavor of the month.
They're not even the best post punk redux band out there right now.
As for the Foo Fighters. The only reason they are more popular than Pearl Jam right now, is because the majority of the world have terrible taste in music, and because Dave Grohl is a needy whore who can't control himself when it comes to seeking constant validation from the mainstream. Everything the man does is driven by self promotion. The Foo Fighters haven't been remotely interesting in a long time. Their first 2 or 3 albums are okay at best - mostly inconsistent & nothing on the level of importance or cultural significance of any of the first 5 or 6 Pearl Jam records.
EVERLONG & Dave's drumming on Them Crooked Vultures and QOTSA, are the only work of his that could be considered legendary. All the rest is just filler and no killer.
Clem Halibut wrote:Holy Cow
This discussion has gotten WAY off track.
The bridge of Dark Matter is fantastic and it has gotten better with each listen.
It's my favorite part of the song
IDLES don't even know how to write a bridge and are just a flavor of the month.
They're not even the best post punk redux band out there right now.
As for the Foo Fighters. The only reason they are more popular than Pearl Jam right now, is because the majority of the world have terrible taste in music, and because Dave Grohl is a needy whore who can't control himself when it comes to seeking constant validation from the mainstream. Everything the man does is driven by self promotion. The Foo Fighters haven't been remotely interesting in a long time. Their first 2 or 3 albums are okay at best - mostly inconsistent & nothing on the level of importance or cultural significance of any of the first 5 or 6 Pearl Jam records.
EVERLONG & Dave's drumming on Them Crooked Vultures and QOTSA, are the only work of his that could be considered legendary. All the rest is just filler and no killer.
Can't wait for the new Pearl Jam record.
…and Nirvana.
Of course Nirvana
“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
― Charles Bukowski
I bet the Grateful Dead would be tops on that spotify list if spotify had all of those bootlegs that GD fans listen to. They don't listen to studio shit at all. But they'll talk your ear off about minute 3:37 of Drums and Space from the 83 Philly show.
Clem Halibut wrote:
IDLES don't even know how to write a bridge and are just a flavor of the month.
They're not even the best post punk redux band out there right now.
This conversation makes my nether-regions itch...The 'Mats wipe the floor with any of these johnny come latelys anyhow
We still make records to be listened to — not that everyone will listen to a record track one to twelve in a row or side A or Side B — but we still make 'em in case somebody does want to listen to it like that, that's how we make em…
E.H. Ruddock wrote:I bet the Grateful Dead would be tops on that spotify list if spotify had all of those bootlegs that GD fans listen to. They don't listen to studio shit at all. But they'll talk your ear off about minute 3:37 of Drums and Space from the 83 Philly show.
tragabigzanda wrote:And as much as I hate to admit it, it has nothing to do with drum sounds or quality of lyrics. The PJ fans buy the tickets, maybe pat themselves on the back for the percentage that funnels through the Vitalogy foundation, then go plunk all their cash into extractive public markets so they can retire with three flat-screen TVs.
The young people beating the shit out of each other at an IDLES show are at least open to the idea of challenging that same system with every fiber of their being.
