Random Pearl Jam References

[Sloppy Dupree]

Maybe Questlove should replace Matt C.

[Hatfield]

Ed also gave a shoutout to Questlove but not Captain Kirk who was carrying the tunes and way more prominent

Kirk didn't nail Waiting and was okay for most of Corduroy, but he was holding it all in for that ending.

Ed wrote quite the jam vehicle. I imagine lots of guitarist would love to play over that ending.

[worldwithyourheart]

heard Won't Tell recently at a Starbucks in downtown Atlanta

[96583UP]

Maybe Questlove should replace Matt C.

ha you spelled Dave A with a Q and some other letters

[96583UP]

Ed also gave a shoutout to Questlove but not Captain Kirk who was carrying the tunes and way more prominent

Kirk didn't nail Waiting and was okay for most of Corduroy, but he was holding it all in for that ending.

Ed wrote quite the jam vehicle. I imagine lots of guitarist would love to play over that ending.

it is a good jam vehicle indeed

if Ed would simply honor the original bridge

there would be no more land war in eastern europe

[scrub12]

Bill Burr talked about sitting next to Ed at the SNL show and how nice he was on his podcast this week.

[Sloppy Dupree]

Bill Burr talked about sitting next to Ed at the SNL show and how nice he was on his podcast this week.

That’s funny. I mostly know Burt’s joke about how Eddie pretended to hate being famous.

[96583UP]

Ed loves cash

[scrub12]

Bill Burr talked about sitting next to Ed at the SNL show and how nice he was on his podcast this week.

That’s funny. I mostly know Burt’s joke about how Eddie pretended to hate being famous.

He said he told Ed he hated him because Pearl Jam made all his favorite metal bands disappear but he eventually came around to the band. Ed just laughed and said he was happy he came around on the band before asking what metal bands he liked.

Think he called Ed “the sweetest guy.”

[wease]

Bill Burr talked about sitting next to Ed at the SNL show and how nice he was on his podcast this week.

That’s funny. I mostly know Burt’s joke about how Eddie pretended to hate being famous.

He said he told Ed he hated him because Pearl Jam made all his favorite metal bands disappear but he eventually came around to the band. Ed just laughed and said he was happy he came around on the band before asking what metal bands he liked.

Think he called Ed “the sweetest guy.”

Who were his favorite metal bands?

[Birds in Hell]

It doesn't make a lot of sense, it was primarily the glam/hair metal stuff that fell out of favour in the early 90s (maybe that's what Bill Burr was really into!) but that process was happening long before Pearl Jam really hit it big.

In many ways, Pearl Jam were pretty late to the party and closer to riding the already-existing alternative wave, like Stone Temple Pilots etc. Bands like Jane's Addiction, Faith No More, Living Colour and Soundgarden were already releasing successful major label records in the late 80s and Nevermind was an absolute smash in 1991 and hit number one on the Billboard charts in January 1992 (famously displacing Michael Jackson), a time when Pearl Jam were still playing small clubs and bars in Europe and playing third down the bill to RHCP.

I don't think it was until later in 1992 things really started to pick up steam for the band: MTV Unplugged aired in May that year, the Lollapalooza tour started in July and the Jeremy single/video came out in August. By that stage, any transition away from hair metal was already well underway.

Anyway, it was probably just a way for Burr to break the ice.

[96583UP]

i wonder if Burr ever had big metal hair

[stip]

It doesn't make a lot of sense, it was primarily the glam/hair metal stuff that fell out of favour in the early 90s (maybe that's what Bill Burr was really into!) but that process was happening long before Pearl Jam really hit it big.

In many ways, Pearl Jam were pretty late to the party and closer to riding the already-existing alternative wave, like Stone Temple Pilots etc. Bands like Jane's Addiction, Faith No More, Living Colour and Soundgarden were already releasing successful major label records in the late 80s and Nevermind was an absolute smash in 1991 and hit number one on the Billboard charts in January 1992 (famously displacing Michael Jackson), a time when Pearl Jam were still playing small clubs and bars in Europe and playing third down the bill to RHCP.

I don't think it was until later in 1992 things really started to pick up steam for the band: MTV Unplugged aired in May that year, the Lollapalooza tour started in July and the Jeremy single/video came out in August. By that stage, any transition away from hair metal was already well underway.

Anyway, it was probably just a way for Burr to break the ice.

Pearl Jam was the latest of the big 4 to break (and mother love bone wasnt going to kill hair metal), but they rapidly eclipsed Nirvana at the time, and when pearl jam gets really big you reach that critical mass of cultural dominance that dethrones the hair metal genre. nirvana breaks through. pearl jam and nirvana elevate things from a scene/niche to cultural juggernaut that transcends just one super popular band

[stip]

eclipsed in the US

[Sloppy Dupree]

Maybe Questlove should replace Matt C.

ha you spelled Dave A with a Q and some other letters

Dave A was definitely great. He’s my number two after Jack. Sorry, Matt.

[lecherouslittlestump]

It doesn't make a lot of sense, it was primarily the glam/hair metal stuff that fell out of favour in the early 90s (maybe that's what Bill Burr was really into!) but that process was happening long before Pearl Jam really hit it big.

In many ways, Pearl Jam were pretty late to the party and closer to riding the already-existing alternative wave, like Stone Temple Pilots etc. Bands like Jane's Addiction, Faith No More, Living Colour and Soundgarden were already releasing successful major label records in the late 80s and Nevermind was an absolute smash in 1991 and hit number one on the Billboard charts in January 1992 (famously displacing Michael Jackson), a time when Pearl Jam were still playing small clubs and bars in Europe and playing third down the bill to RHCP.

I don't think it was until later in 1992 things really started to pick up steam for the band: MTV Unplugged aired in May that year, the Lollapalooza tour started in July and the Jeremy single/video came out in August. By that stage, any transition away from hair metal was already well underway.

Anyway, it was probably just a way for Burr to break the ice.

Pearl Jam was the latest of the big 4 to break (and mother love bone wasnt going to kill hair metal), but they rapidly eclipsed Nirvana at the time, and when pearl jam gets really big you reach that critical mass of cultural dominance that dethrones the hair metal genre. nirvana breaks through. pearl jam and nirvana elevate things from a scene/niche to cultural juggernaut that transcends just one super popular band

bush was way bigger than nirvana and Pj combined (and probably still is). At one point in the 90s they estimated 70% of the US population owned a copy of Sixteen Stone

In 2025 Pj can barely sell out an EU tour and bush is playing stadiums globally

[McParadigm]

mother love bone wasnt going to kill hair metal

Of all the goofy ahistorical fables that rock ‘n’ roll tells about itself, “Nirvana killed hair metal/saved rock ‘n’ roll“ is by far the lamest. Please include a trigger warning.

[tragabigzanda]

pearl jam sucks now

[blueviper]

It doesn't make a lot of sense, it was primarily the glam/hair metal stuff that fell out of favour in the early 90s (maybe that's what Bill Burr was really into!) but that process was happening long before Pearl Jam really hit it big.

In many ways, Pearl Jam were pretty late to the party and closer to riding the already-existing alternative wave, like Stone Temple Pilots etc. Bands like Jane's Addiction, Faith No More, Living Colour and Soundgarden were already releasing successful major label records in the late 80s and Nevermind was an absolute smash in 1991 and hit number one on the Billboard charts in January 1992 (famously displacing Michael Jackson), a time when Pearl Jam were still playing small clubs and bars in Europe and playing third down the bill to RHCP.

I don't think it was until later in 1992 things really started to pick up steam for the band: MTV Unplugged aired in May that year, the Lollapalooza tour started in July and the Jeremy single/video came out in August. By that stage, any transition away from hair metal was already well underway.

Anyway, it was probably just a way for Burr to break the ice.

Pearl Jam was the latest of the big 4 to break (and mother love bone wasnt going to kill hair metal), but they rapidly eclipsed Nirvana at the time, and when pearl jam gets really big you reach that critical mass of cultural dominance that dethrones the hair metal genre. nirvana breaks through. pearl jam and nirvana elevate things from a scene/niche to cultural juggernaut that transcends just one super popular band

bush was way bigger than nirvana and Pj combined (and probably still is). At one point in the 90s they estimated 70% of the US population owned a copy of Sixteen Stone

In 2025 Pj can barely sell out an EU tour and bush is playing stadiums globally

Spotify
Bush: 3.9M monthly listeners

Pearl Jam: 14.3M monthly listeners

ok.

[Birds in Hell]

It doesn't make a lot of sense, it was primarily the glam/hair metal stuff that fell out of favour in the early 90s (maybe that's what Bill Burr was really into!) but that process was happening long before Pearl Jam really hit it big.

In many ways, Pearl Jam were pretty late to the party and closer to riding the already-existing alternative wave, like Stone Temple Pilots etc. Bands like Jane's Addiction, Faith No More, Living Colour and Soundgarden were already releasing successful major label records in the late 80s and Nevermind was an absolute smash in 1991 and hit number one on the Billboard charts in January 1992 (famously displacing Michael Jackson), a time when Pearl Jam were still playing small clubs and bars in Europe and playing third down the bill to RHCP.

I don't think it was until later in 1992 things really started to pick up steam for the band: MTV Unplugged aired in May that year, the Lollapalooza tour started in July and the Jeremy single/video came out in August. By that stage, any transition away from hair metal was already well underway.

Anyway, it was probably just a way for Burr to break the ice.

Not a big deal, but STP was formed in 1989.

That's true but they weren't signed to a label until April 1992, very much part of the post-Nevermind, 'alternative goldrush' era.

Anyway, here's a bunch of kids wearing brand new Nirvana shirts attending the Sydney Big Day Out in January 1992, four months after the album's release - and Krist Novoselic directly asked about the album's meteoric success: