Re: 12th album rumors and speculation
Posted: Sat November 04, 2023 1:06 am
LBC is definitely better than I am Mine.
I definitely disagreeLeatherhead wrote:LBC is definitely better than I am Mine.
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Re: 12th album rumors and speculation
Posted: Sat November 04, 2023 7:10 pm
Re: 12th album rumors and speculation
Posted: Sat November 04, 2023 9:15 pm
epilogue wrote:I definitely disagreeLeatherhead wrote:LBC is definitely better than I am Mine.
Re: 12th album rumors and speculation
Posted: Sat November 04, 2023 9:16 pm
best song on Riot Act
Re: 12th album rumors and speculation
Posted: Sat November 04, 2023 9:57 pm
LBC > Evenflow
Re: 12th album rumors and speculation
Posted: Sat November 04, 2023 10:12 pm
calm down tommy
Re: 12th album rumors and speculation
Posted: Sun November 05, 2023 8:53 am
LBC is such good cheese. When they kick into “hold me and make it the truth” it’s one of the best moments on the album.
No retrack. No b-sides.
You Are is a masterpiece.
Arc is as good as it gets. Top shelf Pearl Jam.
5 stars:
Can’t Keep
LBC
Cropduster
You Are
Help Help
Arc
No retrack. No b-sides.
You Are is a masterpiece.
Arc is as good as it gets. Top shelf Pearl Jam.
5 stars:
Can’t Keep
LBC
Cropduster
You Are
Help Help
Arc
Re: 12th album rumors and speculation
Posted: Sun November 05, 2023 9:02 pm
PJ have dipped their toes into some cheese over the last fifteen years or so, but I've never considered LBC cheesy whatsoever.
I can understand people not liking the title, although that never bothered me either.
I can understand people not liking the title, although that never bothered me either.
Re: 12th album rumors and speculation
Posted: Sun November 05, 2023 10:57 pm
Yes. “You Are” is the best song on Riot Actstip wrote:best song on Riot Act
Re: 12th album rumors and speculation
Posted: Mon November 06, 2023 3:20 am
“Love boat captain, take the reigns and steer us towards the clear, here.guitar_davey wrote:PJ have dipped their toes into some cheese over the last fifteen years or so, but I've never considered LBC cheesy whatsoever.
I can understand people not liking the title, although that never bothered me either.
It’s already been sung but it can’t be said enough, all you need is love.”
It’s the nice cheese you bring to your aunt’s house on Christmas Eve. Cambozola maybe. Delicious.
Re: 12th album rumors and speculation
Posted: Mon November 06, 2023 5:51 am
Matters wrote:“Love boat captain, take the reigns and steer us towards the clear, here.guitar_davey wrote:PJ have dipped their toes into some cheese over the last fifteen years or so, but I've never considered LBC cheesy whatsoever.
I can understand people not liking the title, although that never bothered me either.
It’s already been sung but it can’t be said enough, all you need is love.”
It’s the nice cheese you bring to your aunt’s house on Christmas Eve. Cambozola maybe. Delicious.
Given the subject matter of the song, it's perfect.
Re: 12th album rumors and speculation
Posted: Mon November 06, 2023 7:44 am
I'd say Future Days, Sirens and Jusy Breathe are the only pure cheese songs in their catalogue.guitar_davey wrote:PJ have dipped their toes into some cheese over the last fifteen years or so, but I've never considered LBC cheesy whatsoever.
I can understand people not liking the title, although that never bothered me either.
Re: 12th album rumors and speculation
Posted: Mon November 06, 2023 12:53 pm
is cheese just sentimentality you arent moved by? those are all songs seemingly about Ed’s family but open hearted longing and protectiveness is in their DNA
Re: 12th album rumors and speculation
Posted: Mon November 06, 2023 3:59 pm
This is a really good question.stip wrote:is cheese just sentimentality you arent moved by? those are all songs seemingly about Ed’s family but open hearted longing and protectiveness is in their DNA
One of the main reasons I (and many others) gravitated to Pearl Jam is the authenticity in Ed's lyrics. I mean, it doesn't get any more sentimental than Black, but hearing that song at the height of the power ballad hair metal era, it landed differently than those types of songs because it felt intensely personal and relatable.
For whatever reason, songs like Sirens and Future Days feel like they veer a bit into the saccharine, although I can't put my finger on exactly what it is. I'm sure EV means what he's singing just as much as he did with Black, but there's a poppy corniness to my ears that wasn't there years ago -- those tunes feel like Desmond Child or Diane Warren could have co-written them, and Pearl Jam never felt like that to me once upon a time.
The other culprit for me, cheese-wise, is the rock songs that feel a little too poppy and throwaway, lyrically-speaking -- Supersonic, Infallible, and LTRP would be three of the worst offenders for me. I guess there's a lack of gravitas that at one time was never absent in their songwriting.
Re: 12th album rumors and speculation
Posted: Mon November 06, 2023 10:23 pm
Just Breathe does not belong with those other two. It has *immensely cheesy* production but it's guitar progression, singing and lyrics are beautiful and if not vintage Pearl Jam at least very high quality EV.igotworms wrote:I'd say Future Days, Sirens and Jusy Breathe are the only pure cheese songs in their catalogue.guitar_davey wrote:PJ have dipped their toes into some cheese over the last fifteen years or so, but I've never considered LBC cheesy whatsoever.
I can understand people not liking the title, although that never bothered me either.
(FWIW I love the poetry of Sirens, and generally view its problems as partially production as well- it feels like it was Frankenstein-stitched together)
Re: 12th album rumors and speculation
Posted: Mon November 06, 2023 10:29 pm
Sirens problem is that the music doesn’t match the lyrics to me. Sirens musically to me always sounded like it should one of those slow burn Nothing As It Seems songs, not a ballad on mortality. There’s a place for that, just not here in my ears.
Re: 12th album rumors and speculation
Posted: Mon November 06, 2023 10:55 pm
Agree about Just Breathe.RockPusher wrote:Just Breathe does not belong with those other two. It has *immensely cheesy* production but it's guitar progression, singing and lyrics are beautiful and if not vintage Pearl Jam at least very high quality EV.igotworms wrote:I'd say Future Days, Sirens and Jusy Breathe are the only pure cheese songs in their catalogue.guitar_davey wrote:PJ have dipped their toes into some cheese over the last fifteen years or so, but I've never considered LBC cheesy whatsoever.
I can understand people not liking the title, although that never bothered me either.
(FWIW I love the poetry of Sirens, and generally view its problems as partially production as well- it feels like it was Frankenstein-stitched together)
Re: 12th album rumors and speculation
Posted: Mon November 06, 2023 10:59 pm
it would be nice to just get a hint of what the new Pearl Jam song sounds like, I feel like nothing says "we don't care much about it" than not describing its sound at all
Re: 12th album rumors and speculation
Posted: Mon November 06, 2023 11:11 pm
I actually feel the band does care a lot.
Re: 12th album rumors and speculation
Posted: Mon November 06, 2023 11:17 pm
You're thinking of Faith No MoreVinylGuy wrote:I actually feel the band does care a lot.