Wed March 13, 2013 2:12 am
Wed March 13, 2013 1:26 pm
warehouse wrote:wtf is "arc"?
Wed March 13, 2013 2:01 pm
Wed March 13, 2013 3:02 pm
Blenheim Augustine wrote:warehouse wrote:wtf is "arc"?
I'm not sure where to start in comparing Arc to Jeremy, but I'm amused at how defensive people get when you make an observation that Ten is musically more of an outlier than Backspacer in the band's career. They've never returned to that sound which is why lots of people like Ten but like nothing else the band has done and vice versa.
liebzz wrote: The wordless moaning that you hate is in Better Man (Vitalogy), Unemployable (s/t), The Fixer (Backspacer) - just off the top of my head.
Wed March 13, 2013 3:04 pm
Wed March 13, 2013 5:08 pm
liebzz wrote:There are remnants of the sound throughout their work just not as obvious maybe? The large riffage is found in Vs. - specifically Glorified G, Dissident, and Leash - all of which musically fit on Ten and thematically all but Glorified G fit. Big Wave and Severed Hand also have elements of that kind of riffage, and Life Wasted has a huge McCready solo in it. The wordless moaning that you hate is in Better Man (Vitalogy), Unemployable (s/t), The Fixer (Backspacer) - just off the top of my head.
While the production on the original album does lend a time and place to what finishes had on these albums back then, I think the redux does a great job of modernizing the sound to extent that it sounds much less like a product of that awkward moment between the glossy finishes of the late 80s early 90s album and the starker production that seemed to be more commonplace as the 90s progressed.
Wed March 13, 2013 5:58 pm
Wed March 13, 2013 10:00 pm
darth_vedder wrote:1993 to 1998 PJ is best.
91 and 92 are very good, as is 2000 to 2003.
2009 to present sucks donkey ass.
Wed March 13, 2013 10:59 pm
Wed March 13, 2013 11:02 pm
Wed March 13, 2013 11:26 pm
Wed March 13, 2013 11:38 pm
Birds in Hell wrote:darth_vedder wrote:1993 to 1998 PJ is best.
91 and 92 are very good, as is 2000 to 2003.
2009 to present sucks donkey ass.
Can't argue with that.
Thu March 14, 2013 9:45 pm
Fri March 15, 2013 12:54 am
KurtLeon wrote:Birds in Hell wrote:darth_vedder wrote:1993 to 1998 PJ is best.
91 and 92 are very good, as is 2000 to 2003.
2009 to present sucks donkey ass.
Can't argue with that.
I could say I like 2005-2009 era too.
Fri March 15, 2013 12:55 am
stip wrote:KurtLeon wrote:Birds in Hell wrote:darth_vedder wrote:1993 to 1998 PJ is best.
91 and 92 are very good, as is 2000 to 2003.
2009 to present sucks donkey ass.
Can't argue with that.
I could say I like 2005-2009 era too.
I like every era a lot and some a lot more than others
Fri March 15, 2013 1:24 am
nightmareblack0206 wrote:Just hit a J and have SOLAT from 10 legacy. ...I DARE THOSE YOU DO SAME AND TELL ME THEY WEREN'T AMAZING
Fri March 15, 2013 1:24 am
Birds in Hell wrote:darth_vedder wrote:1993 to 1998 PJ is best.
91 and 92 are very good, as is 2000 to 2003.
2009 to present sucks donkey ass.
Can't argue with that.
Wed March 27, 2013 1:41 pm
Bursting with intensely personal songs that sound universal by virtue of their oversized, near-operatic emotionalism, Ten was neither subtle nor particularly cool, which helped it communicate better and more profoundly with more people than any other rock record of its time. Along with Metallica’s Black Album and Radiohead’s OK Computer, Pearl Jam’s Ten is easily one of the most influential mainstream rock records of the last 20 years. The power of Ten was so great that it eventually stood apart from Pearl Jam; as Vedder and his increasingly marginalized supporting cast distanced themselves from the record’s gauche chest-thumping by churning out progressively restrained, more “mature,” and less expressive music, Ten was dusted off by other bands and recycled again and again. Today, Pearl Jam is a popular touring band and intermittently successful on the charts; Ten, meanwhile, is still all over modern-rock radio, though only a handful of the songs are actually by Pearl Jam.
...I remember hearing the first single from Ten, the vaguely Skynyrd-esque lighter-waving anthem “Alive,” between Bad Company and Styx songs on my town’s top AOR station, “The Rockin’ Apple” WAPL.
...In the video, which the band insisted be culled from a not-especially-polished live performance, Pearl Jam looks like a glam band in dress-down mode; in other words, just like Tesla. (Except McCready, who’s decked out in full cowboy-and-blouse Stevie Ray gear.)
...“Alive” is one of Pearl Jam’s most famous songs, but it didn’t come close to making the kind of atomic impression that “Smells Like Teen Spirit” did. Ten was more of a slow burn; if memory serves, the next single, “Even Flow,” was played on MTV 57 times an hour during the first half of ’92, an impressive feat considering “Even Flow” was a pretty lousy song that made no fucking sense whatsoever.
...Still, the video for “Even Flow” succeeded in doing for Pearl Jam what the “Pour Some Sugar On Me” video had done for Def Leppard four summers earlier: It made you wish really hard that Pearl Jam would come somewhere near your town very soon.
...Vedder lets out the same epic “whoa!” that Bruce Springsteen should’ve trademarked in 1978 after he released Darkness On The Edge Of Town. The single version of “Jeremy” was remixed to extend Vedder’s climactic “whoa!” for several extra beats, a slight but important change that amped up the song’s dramatic impact. (Vedder’s greatest vocal performances tend to be practically wordless; see Ten’s mush-mouthed closer, “Release,” and the essential “Jeremy” B-side “Yellow Ledbetter,” which fans have been trying to decipher for 18 years.)
Wed March 27, 2013 5:41 pm
Ten, meanwhile, is still all over modern-rock radio, though only a handful of the songs are actually by Pearl Jam.
Wed March 27, 2013 9:53 pm