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What is it about Pearl Jam?
coachchris
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I was talking to a coworker about my passion for Pearl Jam and the number of shows I've been to etc. She then asked "What is it about Pearl Jam that you love so much?"
I can go on for hours about setlists, traveling to different cities, meeting new and old friends but it made me wonder.....is their one video I could show her which would sum it all up perfectly.
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I can go on for hours about setlists, traveling to different cities, meeting new and old friends but it made me wonder.....is their one video I could show her which would sum it all up perfectly.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwamCGQU7_s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDqqlPN0x9o
Leaving is for the answering machine.
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Can't say I've run into anyone who "hates" them.
Most people seem to be lukewarm or "yeah, they're pretty cool".
My husband was lukewarm, but he saw them with me in Cincinnati and now he gets it. I went this summer to a festival of his bands and though I didn't like his bands at all, I understood it and had a really great time. Sometimes seeing a band just gives you an appreciation, even if they aren't someone that you would normally listen to.
Even though I saw them, I can't pull an appreciation together for Cannibal Corpse, though.
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This reminds of how I feel about Pearl Jam. If you strip everything bare and just speak about the language of the songs -- they give us pleasure. Nobody invests in anything unless they enjoy it. I enjoy Pearl Jam's songs. It doesn't matter how dark, funny, or thought-inspiring. The fact is that when I hear a PJ song, I'm totally immersed in the language of the music -- the instrumentation, the lyrics, the mood, the history, the in-the-moment performance. They give it all. Each song has its own thing. Especially with the songs that I'm unsure of, I want to know more because they plant something in the language that I want to know more about.
I feel like the best things in life are uncertain, and Pearl Jam songs have an element of uncertainty that make me wonder what I should be thinking about next. Their catalog is not so extensive that if I were crazy I could have memorized them all and moved on. But I don't want to memorize them all and move on. They make me think deeply so that I'm always learning. What is that bass line? What does that lyric really mean? Why do fans react a certain way at this specific moment? If they didn't leave me questions, I would have no reason to keep coming back . . . 20 years later.
From a literary perspective, that is the definition of genius. It's the questions that matter, not the answers. "I don't question her existence, her modern needs . . . " In that lyric alone, a million questions arise, and that's what it is about Pearl Jam for me.
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But I will never forget two moments where my wife did understand a little more.
The first was after an EV show during his first solo tour, and she thought Ed's voice was amazing.
The other was after I forced he to watch PJ20. She looked at me after it was over and says, "Ok, I get it now..."
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I try to find out what it is. It is all of what you said. And then for me, there is another element. I am so familiar with them. So I love their music. And since I am familiar with it so much, I am having a fantastic time at the shows, I am "into it". I can get overwhelmed in such a way by stuff that I don't know yet too, but then it has to be something really really really good. To me. I guess I am a habit animal. Even if I have seen a PJ song a thousand times, I can still get goosebumps. Just because I am in that space. At that moment. With tons of others who are like me in that respect. And I feel at home with their music. It calms me down, it fuels me, it makes me think. As a non native speaker maybe in a different way than for a native speaker. Or not. I don't know. do we have to explain it?