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darth_vedder wrote:Most of my conversations about PJ IRL are trying to convince people they don’t (didn’t) suck. To this day all people seem to know is Ten and Vs. but know very little of the Vitalogy through Riot Act run. When I play them anti Ten songs, like Who You Are, Tremor Christ, BOJ, Of The Girl, All Night, Insignificance, I Got Shit, etc...they generally seem to be pleasantly surprised.

This happened a lot from the mid 90s up until about Riot Act.

darth_vedder wrote:Most of my conversations about PJ IRL are trying to convince people they don’t (didn’t) suck. To this day all people seem to know is Ten and Vs. but know very little of the Vitalogy through Riot Act run. When I play them anti Ten songs, like Who You Are, Tremor Christ, BOJ, Of The Girl, All Night, Insignificance, I Got Shit, etc...they generally seem to be pleasantly surprised.

When they would tell me they preferred stuff like New Radicals and Coldplay, I would just smile and nod.

darth_vedder wrote:Most of my conversations about PJ IRL are trying to convince people they don’t (didn’t) suck. To this day all people seem to know is Ten and Vs. but know very little of the Vitalogy through Riot Act run. When I play them anti Ten songs, like Who You Are, Tremor Christ, BOJ, Of The Girl, All Night, Insignificance, I Got Shit, etc...they generally seem to be pleasantly surprised.

Uhh...yup.

I had a chat about Pearl Jam not too long ago with an under 30 who works in the music industry (not a musician) and he adores PJ. His favorite album is S/T.

durdencommatyler wrote:I had a chat about Pearl Jam not too long ago with an under 30 who works in the music industry (not a musician) and he adores PJ. His favorite album is S/T.

Is your foot still sore?

Sgt. Crackpot wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:I had a chat about Pearl Jam not too long ago with an under 30 who works in the music industry (not a musician) and he adores PJ. His favorite album is S/T.

Is your foot still sore?

SO sore

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E.H. Ruddock wrote:

bodysnatcher wrote:Never really supported them anyway in any monetary sort of way

I went to a Wishlist meetup once, does that count? It was in Seattle and it was insufferable

I can only imagine...

*hard to imagine

The bar was 1/2 Full of fkn losers

No way

Whitey McTeeth wrote:No way

How ya doing, Whitey?

Not too bad. Saw an in for some sweet Jam wordplay. How is everyone else doing?

Missed you buddy, and love that you just randomly popped up with a PJ pun

I’ve been waiting patiently since this baby hit 300.

Come Back Whitey

Bammer wrote:

darth_vedder wrote:Most of my conversations about PJ IRL are trying to convince people they don’t (didn’t) suck. To this day all people seem to know is Ten and Vs. but know very little of the Vitalogy through Riot Act run. When I play them anti Ten songs, like Who You Are, Tremor Christ, BOJ, Of The Girl, All Night, Insignificance, I Got Shit, etc...they generally seem to be pleasantly surprised.

When they would tell me they preferred stuff like New Radicals and Coldplay, I would just smile and nod.

Heh. Let them listen to that pleb shit. If they can't understand something like Of The Girl then they're lost.

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Pearl Jam. The music is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of musical theory most of the songs will go over a typical listener's head. There's also Eddie's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his lyrics - his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these songs, to realize that they're not just fun rockers - they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Pearl Jam truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the anguish in an Eddie lyric like "he lit a match and laid in bed" which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev's Russian epic Fathers and Sons. I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Eddie's genius unfolds itself on their iPods. What fools... how I pity them. And yes by the way, I DO have a Stickman tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- And even they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand.

There are many reasons why that post has to take home the RMie for post of the year.

welp, they did it guys. officially found the bottom of the fucking barrel.

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