It'd be nice to hear, for sure.

back to the same old complaints about ed's voice.

i think jeff's recent comments broke our spirit. see you in 2014.

New RNDM!

Even RNDM get it.

Long breaks between new music makes fans lose interest/bored!!!!!

Especially in this digital age!!!

Kelly Curtis worst manager ever!!!

I think I like this fresh new angle of complaint. Gents, what do you got as far as Kelly Curtis hate goes? Fire away!

I hear he encouraged Ed to sing in as breathy a style as possible.

I heard Kelly Curtis wrote Inside Job.

So "I'm Alive" is going to be the Pearl Jam musical highlight of 2013. If that chronology is true they could have released three records. Instead the longer they leave it the more pressure they will feel for the record to be a "pearl jam" record. Why didn't they just break up at PJ20? It's not like this is even remotely of interest to them any more apart from cashing in by playing festivals and mega concerts. Good on them but its not a direction I imagined or hoped the band would go.

What the fuck is going on? We've been hearing the same thing from Jeff in interviews. Do they even want to record this album?

It's really hard to get excited about tunes that the band themselves aren't fussed enough about to actually want to get finished.

It's funny that a band as considerate of its fans and proud of its own music from a live perspective, in so far as length and energy of shows, super-diverse set-lists, a reasonable commitment to touring etc seems to have lost its passion to create that same music.


This. Very much.

re: EPs, totally.

We discussed this in a thread on the old board.

I'm willing to bet PJ ain't gonna release a masterpiece at this stage, so why not record 4 or so songs and release it via the internets. A few months later release a few more songs, and repeat cycle.

Maybe that's a stupid idea, I don't know, but waiting 4 years between new material is stupid too. Just make some fuckin' tunes, and release them.

yeah the ep thing sounds pretty good...just release some digital tracks and some cool vinyl...and play those songs live, rearrange them , have fun with those songs live....it was kinda rare to see a rolling stone story of Jeff Ament´s RNDM.

also: 2014 > 2013

RIP Pearl Jam

From today's LA Times:


EXCLUSIVE: Eddie Vedder long ago made his mark in Hollywood, writing and/or recording notable songs for “Dead Man Walking,” “Eat Pray Love” and most of the “Into The Wild” soundtrack, among others.
You can soon add another notch to his filmic resume. The Pearl Jam frontman will pen and record a new track for “Out of the Furnace,” the dark thriller starring Christian Bale that will hit theaters this year. Several previously recorded Vedder songs also probablly will be featured in the film, according to a person familiar with the production who was not authorized to talk about it publicly.

Starring Bale and Woody Harrelson and directed by Scott Cooper, the drama has a brooding, Pearl Jam-ish quality: It tells the story of two brothers in a down-and-out Pennsylvania town who get caught up in the web of violent crime.

Vedder hardly needs Hollywood to up his profile. But he may get that boost just the same with this film. Cooper previously directed “Crazy Heart,” which stirred plenty of attention for its tunes: The T Bone-Burnett produced soundtrack was widely acclaimed, and Ryan Bingham’s “The Weary Kind" won an Oscar, a Grammy and a Golden Globe.

Vedder and his band have been mixing it up with moviedom lately. The band was the subject of the 2011 documentary, “Pearl Jam: Twenty,” in which the normally press-ambivalent group allowed early enthusiast Cameron Crowe to interview and shoot them behind the scenes. The result was an in-depth look at a group that has managed to move past its reluctant voice-of-a-generation beginnings and endure for more than two decades.

“I think pretty much everything in the last 10 years has been really good. We're in a kind of golden-years period. We have families now, and we're just really happy to be playing live,” Vedder told The Times at the Toronto Film Festival about 16 months ago. “Before that it was harder. I'm not saying we're diamond-like, but we were formed by pressure, and it seems like in the last 10 years we've been able to cut the diamond and see the facets.”

how many times has strat posted this?

Welcome it, warehouse.

the last time i saw pearl jam, jay z came out. no shot

I'd be all for something like that.

Once upon a time, I remember reading an interview with (someone from Radiohead, I think it was) Thom Yorke. And he mused about where the band goes from here. He talked about releasing sets of singles and EP and putting artwork on the website, allowing fans to make their own album. They could put whatever songs they liked in whatever order they liked and download the artwork and have an album.

Since a lot of us already do this kind of thing (retracking Pearl Jam albums) I think this could be a great outlet for Pearl Jam. No more would we have to worry about them leaving the best stuff on the cutting room floor. Just release a group of songs here and a group of songs there and let us build it however we want.

pearl jam gave all the members the money to do what they want. now they are all doing exactly the type of music they like to do. it seems jeff, stone and ed are into completely different music right now. matt is helping soundgarden get back the 15 years they've missed. getting together for an album has less to do with creating a sound they all enjoy but more of a 'hey guys remember when...' right now it doesn't seem like a priority to any of them.

Honestly, though, I don't care about the break between albums. I know it cools off a lot of the fan base. But it doesn't have that affect on me. I love this band. The distance between albums doesn't hurt my fandom or cause me to lose interest in the band.

Seems like most of the artists I love take their sweet time: Tom Waits, Terrence Malick. PT Anderson, Pearl Jam, David Lynch, etc.

I like this idea.