Pearl Jam (self titled): Official Album Thread

[igotworms]

Big fan of Gone. One I'm still waiting to see them play live.

[Ms Harmless]

lol what is happening, Gone is dogshit

fuck you

[tragabigzanda]

pearl jam sucks now

[guitar_davey]

I love Gone.

[liebzz]

Back in 2006, I listened to this album every day on the bus home from bar exam prep. At the exact moment each day that this song was playing I would see the Manhattan skyline as we were heading north. It’s the vision i just associate with the song, and I count myself a big defender of this one. A song that exists in that time and place for me.

[epilogue]

Gone is a genuine highlight. I adore that song.

[Monkey_Driven]

Shut the board down now

[Jorge]

I like parts of it. The chorus is just so unmusical

[Matters]

What does that mean?

[Jorge]

"Unmusical" is an adjective meaning "not pleasing to the ear"

[Matters]

No, that’s made up. Music is musical by definition.

[Jorge]

Alright mr. literal

[Matters]

If you had said the verses, I would have agreed.

[Jorge]

At least the verses don't sound like he's totally winging it, flailing around in reach for a half-remembered melody

[Matters]

They don’t sound “pleasing to the ear”

The chorus does though.

[Jorge]

Between the two of us we make up one fan of this totally mediocre song

[Matters]

Agree. Gone means something though. It invokes more feeling than say WWS or Severed Hand. A mediocre song that moves someone will always be valued over one that doesn’t.

[Ms Harmless]

I definitely think the chorus is a rare moment in PRAMG Pearl Jam where we have the opposite of word salad -- the melody sounds like it's making too much effort to account for the lack of words -- but if it means losing the beautiful parts of the song (and that melody, which is nice in itself) just because of an underwritten chorus, nah, it's not that bad

funny story: I used to think lyrics were "I'm gooooooone.... goooooone... this time I'm... goooo-eee-ooooo-eeeeee-ooooo-hooone... goooone... this time I'm.... goooooo-hoooo-oooooon"

when there's actually a few more words than that, but Ed's enunciation being like it is, he kinda just creates a weird whale sound out of it

anyway, I'm glad about a flawed PJ song that I can accept the flaws of these days, and this one was an album favourite almost immediately

some of my other favourite bands have written weak choruses too, but what's around it is so nice it's not ruined; I'll take that over a song that gets destroyed with its chorus

[tragabigzanda]

pearl jam sucks now

[warehouse]

EV solo Gone>whole band Gone