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This is possibly the most shocking album in this entire journey - yes there’s that feeling of newness that goes along with the immediate adrenaline of hearing a new album from Eddie Vedder - but more so this to my ears is a massive turn from Pearl Jam. It’s hard as fans not to expect Eddie Vedder to at some level sound like Pearl Jam - the voice so distinct and in the manner the band is on some level carrying a classic rock torch along with it. Backspacer and Lightning Bolt both made efforts I think to make more effortless rock, and Gigaton clearly more labored as a work of art (and frankly it succeeds where the other two ultimately fall a bit short of Pearl Jam’s torch). Pearl Jam carries all these classic and meaningful bands on their backs in some way for me, keeping the thread of honest rock music going. They are essential to me for that among many other things.
All this is what Earthling is not, and that is immediately jarring. The immediate feel of this album immediately recalls a sound in the 70s and 80s - like Eddie is channeling, in a no so self serious way - the spirits of Tom Petty and Fleetwood Mac and the Clash and Talking Heads, but in a way that has no shades of the self-consciousness that permeates Pearl Jam - a force that might keep Pearl Jam is check but here Eddie is free to do whatever the hell he pleases. Drop an obvious Mike Campbell riff? Why the hell not!? Plop a what now seems obviously a purposefully overwrought and frankly silly ballad in the middle of the album and release it as a single? Try and stop him. That there was a collection of musicians there with him to simply let go all of the Eddie Vedder baggage and power through an album by all rights would leave a purist aghast at this speaks even more to the point he is making.
Let’s be clear though, this still has some Eddie filter happening…intentionally tossed off rockers. In rehashing the conversations we’ve heard about between Eddie and Bono about Pearl Jam embracing and taking the mantle, this is practically what Bono would have had in mind for them. Eddie, 30 years after shunning the spotlight, whips out exactly what we’d never expect - a cohesive set of earworm pop rock songs distinctly Eddie, expressly not Pearl Jam.
Pearl Jam - No Code Pearl Jam - Vitalogy Pearl Jam - Binaural Pearl Jam - Yield Pearl Jam - Gigaton Pearl Jam - Vs. Pearl Jam - Ten Stone Gossard - Moonlander Pearl Jam Stone Gossard - Bayleaf RNDM - Ghost Riding Painted Shield Neil Young - Mirrorball Pearl Jam - Lost Dogs Eddie Vedder - Into the Wild Brad - Interiors Temple of the Dog Pearl Jam - Riot Act Mad Season - Above Eddie Vedder - Earthling RNDM - Acts Jeff Ament - Heaven / Hell Wellwater Conspiracy - The Scroll and Its Combinations Brad - Shame Brad - Best Friends? Eddie Vedder, et al - Flag Day Soundtrack Pearl Jam - Backspacer Brad Vs. Satchel Jeff Ament - While My Heart Beats Jeff Ament - I Should Be Outside Wellwater Conspiracy - Brotherhood of Electric Wellwater Conspiracy - Declaration of Conformity Wellwater Conspiracy Brad - Welcome to Discovery Park Three Fish Eddie Vedder - Ukulele Songs Pearl Jam - PJ20 Soundtrack Green River - Rehab Doll Jeff Ament - Tone Pearl Jam - Lightning Bolt Brad - United We Stand Green River - Dry As a Bone Tres Mts. - Three Mountains Mother Love Bone - Apple Mother Love Bone - Shine Green River - Come On Down Hater Hater - The 2nd Matt Cameron - Cavedweller Eddie Vedder - Matter of Time EP Three Fish - The Quiet Table Bad Radio Demos Green River - 1984 Demos Mike McCready - Sadie Original Score Mike McCready - The Glamour & the Squalor Original Score Jeff Ament - American Death Squad EP Ten Commandos The Rockfords Deranged Diction - Life Support / No Art, No Cowboys, No Rules Eddie Vedder and the Walmer High School Choir - The Molo Sessions The Rockfords - The Waiting EP
Thank you for posting your journey leading into Earthling.
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Yeah I certainly could at some point. I think Jack has something like 4 solo albums, his albums with Eleven, his one or two albums with the Red Hot Chili Peppers. I did a Chris Cornell journey last year that included Soundgarden - I could practically cut and paste those here too. I’d say I could add Dave Krusen but that would take weeks…and Candlebox.
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