Pearl Jam

Don't forget "Given to Fly" = "Going to California"

 

1. Go
2. Save You
3. Hail, Hail
4. Breakerfall
5. Brain of J.

I, too, celebrate their entire catalog, though "Vs." and "Riot Act" are standouts for me.

 

You're reaching. I do, though, think Yield is the best Christian rock album ever. Now I may be reaching.

 

Along those lines, don't forget how "Glorified G" = Hendrix' "Crosstown Traffic."

I'm getting back into Pearl Jam after falling out of fandom with the third album. to me, those first two albums are as good a 1-2 punch as any modern band has ever recorded. "Vs" might be a desert island disc.

Edit: Plain old, I've heard others say the same thing about Yield.

 

The opening riff to "Pretty Vacant" by the Sex Pistols = the opening riff to "Rearviewmirror"
Every Neil Young and Crazy Horse garage rocker = "Smile"
"Little Wing" by Jimi Hendrix = "Yellow Ledbetter"

The cool thing is that Pearl Jam have always worn their influences on their sleeves and never shied away from giving shout-outs to the bands they liked. Those moves always seemed a lot less like theft and a lot more like tributes.

 

How about top 10

Parting Ways
Release
Rearviewmirror
Hail, Hail
Grievance
Not For You
In Hiding
Long Road
Immortality
Jeremy

 

Does anybody remember Adam Sandler as Opera Man's crush on Eddie Vedder... (straight off a Web site)

[Image of musical guest Pearl Jam -- instead of another aria, Operaman's next item is an operatic parody of Pearl Jam's song "Evenflow"]

Eeyo zama dama dingy dong
Operaman's a big Pearl Jam fan-o
[image of Pearl Jam lead singer Eddie Vedder]
Whoa deeyo zaya moya ding doo
Eddie Vedder's even better
Looking in person-o
Eeyo zama dama ding dong
I wish he didn't have a girlfriend-o
Oh, no-a!
Eeyo I'm not saying I'm gay I'm just saying there comes a time in every man's life when he questions his own sexuality!...
Oh no!

 

Release
Breathe
Black
State of Love and Trust
Garden

 

One word. Five letters

BLACK

End of discussion

 

Ah, they played that one a little too much on the radio for my taste. Same thing with Alive.

 

Too melodramatic.

 

You can get their new single for free at https://bootlegs.pearljam.com

It's pretty good. The site is the band's official site where you can download entire shows for like $10. It's got lots of other crap on there like every song they're ever played, how many times they've played it and where they played it at.