I mean.... I won't do it. I never would. But I want to.

At what point did they start phoning it in?

I want to say right about here: 29. Someday At Christmas

01. Let Me Sleep (It's Christmas Time)
02. Ramblings 1
03. Sonic Reducer
04. Ramblings 2
05. Angel
06. Ramblings 3 (Live)
07. History Never Repeats (Ed live with Neil and Tim Finn)
08. Sonic Reducer (Live with Joey Ramone)
09. Swallow My Pride (Stone and Jeff live with Green River)
10. My Way (Ed live with an Elvis impersonator)
11. Olympic Platinum
12. Smile (Live)
13. Happy When I'm Crying
14. Live For Today (by R.E.M.)
15. Solider Of Love (Live)
16. Last Kiss
17. Strangest Tribe
18. Drifting
19. Crown Of Thorns (Live with Brendan O' Brien)
20. Can't Help Falling In Love (Live)
21. Last Soldier (Live)
22. Indifference (Ed live with Ben Harper)
23. Gimme Some Truth (Live)
24. I Just Want To Have Something To Do
25. Don't Believe In Christmas (Live)
26. Sleepless Nights (Ed live with Beck)
27. Reach Down (Live with Chris Cornell)
28. I Believe In Miracles (Live)
29. Someday At Christmas
30. Better Man (Ed with Walmer High School Choir)
31. Little Sister (Live with Robert Plant)
32. Gone (Demo)
33. Love, Reign O'er Me
34. Rockin' In The Free World (Live with Bono and The Edge)
35. Santa God
36. Jingle Bells
37. Santa Cruz
38. The Golden State (Ed with Corin Tucker)
39. Turning Mist
40. Hawaii '78 (Live)
41. Falling Down (Live)
42. Alternate Jeremy (Live)
43. Better Things
44. Devil Doll (Ed with X)
45. All Night (Live with Glen Hansard, Dave Garza, and Joe Arthur)
46. In The Moonlight (Live with Josh Homme)
47. 99 Problems (Live with Jay-Z)
48. Shattered (Ed live with Jeanne Tripplehorn)
49. Imagine (Live)
50. Pendulumorphosis
51. Wishing Well
52. Redemption Song (Ed live with Beyoncé)
53. Alive (Rehearsal with Dave Krusen)
54. Around And Around

We’re almost a fifth of the way through the 21st century. Every year-long membership to a Pearl Jam fan club is a gamble you have chosen to take.

i have never not gotten the 10C tix I wanted from the lottery ... but i realize i may just be lucky

of course i never ask for GA

because PJ fans are swine and i need my personal space

The quality dropped off a cliff for the holiday singles from the 2010s. Several good singles in the decade before that.

I truly think the first "bummer" single is probably the 99 Problems one. Everything before that is pretty awesome in one way or another.

always the optimist

I'm the worst

how different the Fan Club single legacy might be if Cold Confession / Let it Ride were released on vinyl that year?

people would have loved it

never agreed with the idea they should skip it bc it was already out

still prob 10,000+ fans that have never heard it that would have loved it

and who knows maybe one could have made its way into popular channels a la Last Kiss

Are we really bummed about this? I know a few people personally that are.
I also know getting this band who don’t see or speak to one another for years in some cases , into one room to record some bullshit for a few thousand people to listen on vinyl, is impossible.

Hence the decline. The fanclub doesn’t matter any more. It’s not profitable. It’s not making any money whatsoever, (in fact it’s a drain) so just pull the plug.

Sensible thing to do at this point

I kind of am

I always hang onto the idea that the next release will be great and PJ will be 'back'

and then it doesnt happen

but Of The Earth gave me hope

That's the most sanest stuff you've ever posted.

Yeah, the worst part of this is knowing the band doesnt really communicate anymore. On stage they have a great chemistry and they get along fine, but they dont really do anything together anymore besides that. And now they dont even talk about a goddamn 45 for their fan club.
I wouldnt be so upset if they say something like ey, the fan club song will be digital for now on...Ok i could understand that....but to say ¨well, thats it¨ with no one of them talking about it its weird.

25 years is a really long time to do the same thing with the same co-workers

These are the singles that have some meaning to me. Some more than others. Olympic Platinum might be my favorite “goofy” PJ song. For some reason I’ve always found it charming and silly. I enjoyed it when I was 16 and ever since (even if I may go years without hearing it). I also noticed that only one of my choices comes post 2000 . I won’t miss the annual single. What we got after the fist decade was basically useless. That first decade though was why I held on to my membership for over a decade more. But since I dropped out of 10C, I haven’t missed it at all.

In no particular order:
Strangest Tribe/Drifting (1999)
Angel/Ramblings (1993)
History Never Repeats/Sonic Reducer/Swallow My Pride/My Way (1995)
All Night/In The Moonlight (2012)
Olympic Platinum/Smile (1996)
Let Me Sleep/Ramblings (1991)
Crown of Thorns/Can't Help Falling in Love (2000)
Sonic Reducer/Ramblings (1992)

RIP this band. They're too old to care or bother now. Kinda like us really.

We're just a bunch of complaining old men, shaking their fists at another bunch of old men.

For me the best singles are the ones who have original songs. When I first heard Turning Myst I thought it was funny, it had nice arrangement but Mike just need to stay away from the microphone. In a way it's exactly what I want from the singles, just outtakes and forgotten original songs. Some will be amazing like Strangest Tribe, some will be very bad or trivial like 'Turning Myst' or 'Santa Cruz'. But I prefer a studio recording like Turning Myst much much more than a stupid cover like 'Shattered'..
The jingle bells cover was horrible, but Santa God made it a really fun single for me. The 2006-2011 singles are a great stretch of releases. I was really underwhelmed with all the singles released since 2012.

Just give us two more singles (the 2017 and 2018 one) and please try to stick to original compositions or studio recorded covers.
I would be really ok with:

2017:
A) Again Today
B) Out of Sand

2018:
A) Can't deny me
B) Olé

Or something like that. But I fear that they will give us the performance from Ed in S-Africa or some cover they played on stage this year.

I guess this means no new update for the official Pearl Jam iPhone app?

I know nothing about their inner workings, but come on. This is an exaggeration at best or just flatly not true. When was the last 12 month span they didn’t play at least one show? So not speaking to each other for “years” is hyperbole.

But I’m sure there are long periods of time where the band doesn’t communicate. I have a number of best friends who I don’t talk to for months on end. We all do. The fact that band members go off on their own for periods of time is no reflection on the state of the band. Part of me hopes that they have some group text or something where they send each other meaningless inside jokes every once in a while, but even if they don’t, so what?

It sucks that they can’t get their act together to put out a single once a year. It sucks that it has been five years since a new record has come out. It sucks that they only play a handful of shows each year.

If I had to guess? The band (or Eddie) is concerned about their legacy and doesn’t want to put out (what they consider) mediocre material to tarnish it. I think it’s telling that Eddie hasn’t released any music on his own since Lightning Bolt. Maybe he has lost confidence in his writing ability. Bruce went through the same thing in the 90s. And since we know how much he loves to emulate Bruce...