With early 00's vocals? 4 stars.

Yeah that’s fair

It's weird to think about how much Pearl Jam I've listened to compared to people that have listened since the 90's. I didn't start listening till 06/07, but I feel like I've listened to a ton of Pearl Jam and know the music extremely well. But then I think about people that have been a fan of the band for twice as long as I have and how their views and opinions of the music/band must've changed over the many years, given how my own views have changed many times in only half the time. Then I think about how long I've still got to appreciate the music and how all my reactions to it are going to evolve and change over the decades to come. What's it going to be like to listen to Evacuation when I'm 60? Am I still going to bob my head as much? Will I still love Binaural? 27 more years is a long time. I've still got so much time to listen to Pearl Jam!

FREEEEEZINNNNN RESSS HIS HEAD ONNA PILLOW MADE OF CON-CRETE

uh yeah hyeah

Did they announce their retirement yet?

Ed already made the announcement at the Detroit show (source: letcherouslittlestump)

EEEVENNN FLOOOOOOOOOWWW

THOUGHTS ARIIIIIISE LIKE BUTT-ER FLIEIIISSSSSS

OOOOOOOOOHHHHHH

i;m thinking about thos pearl jams.

AAAANNNNDDD MY BIIIG BROTHER COME PUT THE BLAME ON MEEEE

YEAH

They announced it at their last show (can't remember name of the city, was one of those Yank shitholes beginning with D)

i recently bought the kindle version of Steven Hyden's latest book, Long Road: Pearl Jam and the Soundtrack of a Generation. I have a few amazon giftcards that have been sitting around for almost two years now, and figured i'd used some of the credit to get the book. I'd read an excerpt on The Ringer, and it was good enough.

i'm now about 90% through the book, and i've got buyers remorse. the book is a series of essays, each one focused on a different song, which hyden likens to a mixtape. there are several inaccuracies in the book. little things too, like hyden's claim that the gap in time from No Code to Yield is the smallest in terms of album releases--it's not. That would be Vs. and Vitalogy. Also, stating that PJ pissed off fans in Nassau and OKC by playing Bu$hleaguer. They didn't play it in OKC, though they did in Denver two days prior, and talked about it in OKC.

i guess i expected more from a guy who is a music critic for a living, and will sometimes tweet about PJ bootlegs he's listening to. it's just a sloppy mess of a thing. it's almost as if he didn't bother to fact check things, or have the publisher do it.

i'm pretty sure anyone on this board could've written a better collection of essays.

I could write a pretty good collection of essays. I similarly would be annoyed at the lack of attention to detail, particularly being sold as someone who was a super fan.

I personally try to avoid PJ fanboys and would not have purchased this book with my Amazon gift cards.

what’s more pathetic: being a member of pearl jam (perma-overgrown child) or attempting to make a career by writing about them as though you or they should be taken seriously

Isn’t being a member of any band a semi permanent overgrown child? Ultimately, you’d hope to take yourself serious enough to make sure the cash keeps rolling in.

If you can make a career writing about a 30-something year old machine that brings joy and fun to people’s lives, why not?

it was a rhetorical question

but the answer was





Boom

For one, posting things like this on message boards about said perma-overgrown children.

oh man, i love Kenny Mayne. will have to check this out.