Pearl Jam

it seems like the announcements are going slowly. today they announced a july show in los angeles

 

Sweet! We're ranking albums now.
My list:

1) No Code
2) Lost Dogs (I can count this one, right?)
3) Yield
4) Binaural
5) Vitalogy
6) Ten (even tho this is prolly my least-listened-to PJ CD lately. I simply listened to it so much back in the day, I'm burnt on it. Still love to hear the songs live tho.)
7) Vs.
8) Riot Act (nothing against it. I like this CD a lot too. Something has to come in last.)

 

Tyler, Nirvana is NO WHERE CLOSE to the level of the Beatles, and the only reason they're so revered today is because Cobain put a gun to his temple. In fact, Ten continues to outsell Nevermind by a few million.

 

Look, I think The Beatles were the greatest group of all time, hands down...but Nirvana were amazing. They really changed music and opened the door for bands like Pearl Jam.
And there's a very straight line from "I'm So Tired" and "Yer Blues" to "Pennyroyal Tea".
I love Pearl Jam, but they're not quite as good as Nirvana. To continue with the British Invasion analogy, they're The Rolling Stones to Nirvana's Beatles. (Soundgarden were The Who, Mudhoney are The Kinks) And the reason their records sell better than "Nevermind" is that 1) they're still alive, 2) Eddie Vedder may be a gloomy gus, but he's not suicidal and 3) their music is a little more commercially palatable.

 

Opened the door for bands like Pearl Jam? lmao. uh, nevermind and ten were both released in 1991. And Pearl Jam played a gig a few days after meeting, and people at that first show were instantly telling friends 'you gotta check out this band and their singer.' yeah, 'smells like' got earlier radio play, but they didn't open any doors for PJ. Soundgarden had been around, and the bands, along with AinC, just happened to release great albums around the same time, so they all got clustered together as 'alternative' and 'grunge.'

 

Buddy told me PJ's on SNL 4/15.

 

Any chance Stone can kill Horatio Sanz with a guitar while he's there?

 

I know "Nevermind" and "Ten" were released in the fall of 1991 (I was a 20 year old college student and that was the peak of my record buying days). But there was more of a buzz early on about Nirvana...I remember reading about Pearl Jam, but "Smells Like Teen Spirit" hit the radio and MTV first...I didn't hear "Alive" until Christmas break. And the immediate success of "Nevermind" coupled with "Ten" and "Badmotorfinger" dropping at the same time caused all the grungemania.
Again, I'm not dissing Pearl Jam. If things had lined up right, "Ten" might have been the big record that broke first and "Nevermind" would have been the steady slow burner that sold for months and months. I'm just saying that Nirvana got there first and they triggered the media frenzy.

 

Funny thing. MTV, when they used to play music videos, used to run down their top 100 of all time each year. For a couple of years it was "Jeremy." Kurt Cobain puts a shotgun in his mouth, and all of a sudden "Smell Like Teen Spirit" is No. 1.

 

I always thought it was Herbie Hancock's "Rock-itt" followed by "Sledgehammer" followed by "Thriller". Guess whatever's cool is it.

 

no code
vitalogy
vs.
ten
yield
riot act
binaural

random thoughts:

wishlist and last kiss do serve a purpose, great times to run and take a piss.

push me pull me is a great song, they played it a few times on the 98 tour and i thought it was great, especially the constitution hall show.

songs i haven't seen live that i want to see played before i die/the band breaks up:

1) jeremy
2) soldier of love (CHA CHA CHA! almost the best part of the song.)
3) AROUND THE fucking BEND
4) oceans
wash
let my love open the door
act of love
alone
fatal
dirty frank
satan's bed
hard to imagine
out of my mind
brother
push me pull me
smile
long road

 

Not All Those Yesterdays? or were you at the one show they played it at?

The best "rare" song I've seen live was Sonic Reducer. Love that one.