It's virtually identical.

Yeah it's very similar. Ed sings it better though

Into The Wild surprised me. I’m a Pearl Jan fan, but I have never thought it was only because of Ed. I’ve loved side projects from others in the band, but with Ed, only Pearl Jam worked. Into The Wild however is great. It’s like a lost Pearl Jam album.

Hard Sun’s not my favorite on the album, but it’s still a very solid song.

the vocals are what makes the song

"Society" is my fave

Stip, you always struck me as a massive Ed fan (often like his songs best, don’t want lyrics or vocals from the others, put forth his voice as the main talent of the band) . Did you ever like any of the side projects from the others in the band, or make a song of the moment from one of those?

Guaranteed is mine.

good choice!

I think Rise is my favorite. Or Long Nights. Or No Ceiling. Or Guaranteed. or Society.

I don't like Into the Wild except for the two covers

Strong album.



What don’t you like about it. I think it has a adventurous mood, that I really enjoy. Gois production as well, and Ed in fine form.

One of my favourite podcasts is on cinema and the guy regularly talks about amazing films that ruined Hollywood. (So a Star Wars or mission impossible that spawns a million imitators but just continues and repeated itself and narrows the field creatively.)

I think into the wild and several songs on it, does that. Few songs on there, while beautiful, just sorta seem to have trapped him into ‘ok that works’. Do that.’ And it’s carried over into everything else.

Society has taken on a new life, live. Hard sun live is exactly what you get but with some steroids. Other than that there’s no movement. On record or live.

Ed’s solo outings are so weird. They work in a bedroom or headphones better than an arena I reckon.

It's a bunch of half-finished sketches, and I never feel like listening to it

But I just remembered another song I like from it, "No Ceiling"

not really, and no. but i dont have an exhaustive knowledge of all the side projects

no ceiling and guaranteed are very good

I really do not like "Guaranteed". That level of melodic repetitiveness just loses me.

Plus there's no real variation in performance the whole way through. It reminds me of those old Napster mp3s that were just one single verse of a song looped several times.

some might say (me) that that's what a folk melody does, hymnals too

Oh man that used to piss me off

a song like "Hallelujah" is a good example of both at once