Dark Matter: Official Album Thread

[tommy]

If he was given the album early that means someone in the Pearl Jam camp is friends with him, trusting him with it. Is he really going to bad mouth it?

That's fine, but it doesn't mean he has to be ridiculously hyperbolic

It’s his opinion. You can’t really apply “hyperbole” if he believes it because everyone’s taste is different. Is it that hard to believe that there are people who will feel this way?

Yes

[Walker Bait]

Or, maybe he actually feels this way. Lol Doesn't mean any of you have to as well. Pinfield has always been a huge PJ fan. Not to mention if we're just comparing to PJ in the last decade then that's just LB and Gigaton. And if we're talking last decade of music in general, well.... There hasn't really been much in the way of good music that has come out in the last 10 years, let alone GREAT.

[Ms Harmless]

opinion, feeling, and fact

these are three different things (fact)

[RockPusher]

I currently have Dark Matter at 5 and Running at 4 and they may well be two of the worst songs on the album. Who knows? Maybe I’m in alignment with Pinfield.

[Monkey_Driven]

Or, maybe he actually feels this way. Lol Doesn't mean any of you have to as well. Pinfield has always been a huge PJ fan. Not to mention if we're just comparing to PJ in the last decade then that's just LB and Gigaton. And if we're talking last decade of music in general, well.... There hasn't really been much in the way of good music that has come out in the last 10 years, let alone GREAT.

wut

[Higgs]

Or, maybe he actually feels this way. Lol Doesn't mean any of you have to as well. Pinfield has always been a huge PJ fan. Not to mention if we're just comparing to PJ in the last decade then that's just LB and Gigaton. And if we're talking last decade of music in general, well.... There hasn't really been much in the way of good music that has come out in the last 10 years, let alone GREAT.

This is not true at all.

[RockPusher]

Your mileage may vary

[Monkey_Driven]

Or, maybe he actually feels this way. Lol Doesn't mean any of you have to as well. Pinfield has always been a huge PJ fan. Not to mention if we're just comparing to PJ in the last decade then that's just LB and Gigaton. And if we're talking last decade of music in general, well.... There hasn't really been much in the way of good music that has come out in the last 10 years, let alone GREAT.

This is not true at all.

If you're only listening to bands from the early 90s, sure?

[DDWJMUVW]

Guys - we’re talking music….art.

What’s great and what’s not is so highly subjective it’s not worth discussing. Consensus is impossible.

So - let Pinfield’s comment be what it is. One guy’s opinion. Nothing more/less.

[Ms Harmless]

aside from the production, both songs are just so Binaural / Riot Act to me; the weird amalgamation of parts in Running seems to come from the same band who wrote Evacuation (which I like more, naturally), and Dark Matter seems like You Are's new strapping young lad

over recent years I've done a lot of "this sounds like this" with Pearl Jam, trying to trace some of the old band I loved in the new (sometimes absolutely baffling) musical decisions and directions, but this time I think I believe myself

in time I'm definitely going to feel the sting of some great songs being marred by "pop" production choices (again!) but the songwriting itself is already higher quality than the catalogue's worst offenders, and ultimately that's all I really care about

what we know about the lyrics to "(don't) React, Respond" reminds me of the slightly silly wordplay of "Breakerfall"

I dunno, it's just nice to hear some definite middle-period influences, and I know we've got a few minutes of Yield on the way

[Strat]

Or, maybe he actually feels this way. Lol Doesn't mean any of you have to as well. Pinfield has always been a huge PJ fan. Not to mention if we're just comparing to PJ in the last decade then that's just LB and Gigaton. And if we're talking last decade of music in general, well.... There hasn't really been much in the way of good music that has come out in the last 10 years, let alone GREAT.

This is not true at all.

If you're only listening to bands from the early 90s, sure?

"Tell me you dont actually listen to music without telling me you dont listen to music"

[RockPusher]

Or, maybe he actually feels this way. Lol Doesn't mean any of you have to as well. Pinfield has always been a huge PJ fan. Not to mention if we're just comparing to PJ in the last decade then that's just LB and Gigaton. And if we're talking last decade of music in general, well.... There hasn't really been much in the way of good music that has come out in the last 10 years, let alone GREAT.

This is not true at all.

If you're only listening to bands from the early 90s, sure?

"Tell me you dont actually listen to music without telling me you dont listen to music"

Oh great let’s have another opinion measuring contest

[E.H. Ruddock]

Mine’s pretty small

[Ms Harmless]

a personal viewpoint follows certain, loose, written conventions; a snarky, sarcastic display of one-upmanship follows others

[scrub12]

Stone is going to be on Pinfield’s show tonight, so expect more tidbits.

[Strat]

Its fine if you truly think there has been no good music in the last ten years but id wager a person maybe isn't trying that hard.

To each their own though!

[oneway23]

It was one person's opinion, folks...nothing more, nothing less...put as much or as little stock into it as you'd like.

Speaking about Pinfield, not whoever said there hasn't been any good music...That's just patently ridiculous

[stip]

Outside of the rarefied air of RM I suspect Evacuation being a better song than Dark Matter would be declared insane by most. The world is large and contains multitudes.

[Ms Harmless]

I have a few favourite rock and metal albums of the last 10 years but I've been told one of them sounds like Imagine Dragons; nothing dark matters and we're all gonna die

[VinylGuy]

Outside of the rarefied air of RM I suspect Evacuation being a better song than Dark Matter would be declared insane by most. The world is large and contains multitudes.

Yeah I agree.