If you hate the song, or hate the band why are you here? I absolutely love everything that PJ puts out, nothing really ever fails in my opinion. This song will definetly be great live.
awesome song!
Does anyone else notice how the music sounds similar to DMB's "Funny The Way It Is" at a couple parts?? I keep hearing that in the song, just interesting.
I like this song more than I do the "Got Some". I hope the loud Eddie in my car brings "Got Some" to my liking. Hearing it on Connan was good, but I know when I hear the whole line up I will probably find a place in my heart for it. I remember when Vitalogy came out I was questioning is this really the road my favorite band is going down. I absolutely love Vitalogy now. I hope we all understand that OUR BAND PJ has made some music decisions that have confused us but when we all start listening and get passed the hype, we start appreciating the true song. I love The fixer cause it screams the summer of 09'. We need to want to fix this world and economy and I think Ed is suggesting we get excited for the future and what it has to offer. Fix it DO NOT GIVE UP. Thanks PJ, and I can not wait to see you in Seattle.
true!
But, every record after vitalogy...i wasn't sure. However, they did ALL come around
except! S/T :( Since 06, has happened (yet)
Maybe I'm just being a sappy, wide-eyed fan, but I really enjoyed "The Fixer." It seems like there's a lot of hope packed into that little song. I've heard some comments about it being vague, but I think that's part of it's intended charm. When I first heard the song title, I remember wondering who or what "The Fixer" was going to represent; perhaps it would be a nod to President Obama, or maybe "The Fixer" would turn out to be a fictitous character. Now that I've heard the song, I'm of the opinion that "The Fixer" could be you, or me, or anybody who genuinely tries to make things better.
is myspace the only place to hear it? for some reason i go to the page and press play and all that jazz and it is not working... i must not be to bright i guess :?
it's in the cassette deck on the main PJ page, unless you are talking about that player not working....
Here it comes again....... our local radio station has had a field day playing it just about every hour. I've heard it 7 times now. My children's opinions - daughter no. 1 "it's not bad", daughter no. 2 "it's unconventional, different" son - danced and jumped around the room (he's 10) . I think it's the sort of song that should be a hit, pretty commercial, sounds like them. Like it, but dont want it to be bashed to death on the radio. Yeah, it's good!
Got to say I love it...It may be poppy, but its good pop, and catchy as hell. I really liked the sound of Got Some as well so hopes are high for 'BackSpacer'. There's not been enough melody in the last few PJ albums. I mean Yield & No Code are so loved here, and they are without doubt their most mellow, poppy albums. A return to this would be great instead of doom dirges like Half Full & God's Dice.
is myspace the only place to hear it? for some reason i go to the page and press play and all that jazz and it is not working... i must not be to bright i guess :?
it's in the cassette deck on the main PJ page, unless you are talking about that player not working....
Thanks! It was my computer. For some reason none of the sound was working on it last night. I fixed it but still have not listened to the song. I'll have to check it out tonight.
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Oh what a day here Down Under, great rocking new song, unexpected "hoopla" over the new song on commercial radio. Friends ringing me to say "put on radio station X, new Pearl Jam song", thanks to all those people even though I had listened to it several times... Triple M Melb had a top 5 PJ song list Given to Fly, Rearview Mirror, Daughter, Betterman, Alive.
Why can't everyday be like today..
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this song is good. the keys sound like 80's music at the end. its fun..i think this will be really loud and hard live.
remember the showbox? i could only hear the rift and it sounded great. can't wait for chitown.
that being said all of my favorite songs ever..true favorites.. took a long time to love. they all grew on me. like of the girl, present tense, immortality. songs with great lyrics and emotion.
i instantly like these songs and that scares me. anything i like off the bat i get sick of cause there's nothing to figure out
..not complaining. i swear
Yes, The Fixer definitely has the makings of a live staple. I can see myself now at the United Center as Eddie knocks me out with his amazing vocal during the chorus (Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah! Fight to get it back again!). We all know PJs music sounds better live and I think The FIxer will lose its "poppyness" in a live setting.
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Personally I prefer PJ to be on the commercial radio down-low. It's only going to bring the idiots out of the wilderness like cockroaches chasing the food scraps.
I don't need to be fighting with the fair-weather fans for 2nd & 3rd gig tix in the queue at (GOD FORBID) Ticketek.
That song has "hit" written all over it...love it!
well said
"...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
"..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
“..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
hey I'm just wondering how good the sound quality is on this song streaming on myspace. I mean I'm thinking it will sound much better in my car stereo or home sound system than this. Will the CD version be much higher quality than what we're hearing now, or will there really be much difference at all?
I didn't like the track at all. It sounds as if it came right off S/T
The recording is too down the middle...no atmosphere or mood
Ten - Riot Act (love them all equally)
S/T - not so much
Backspacer - worried
It sounds to me like Ed is channeling Robert Plant solo albums with his vocal slides. That is not a bad thing, but it is a thing I have already heard. And I really liked it the first time, so it's kinda deja vu or deja entendu, as the case may be. I'm not quite as excited as I might be because of this feeling. So, I'm not sure what I think of it. I guess I'll know better when I get the whole album.
If you hate the song, or hate the band why are you here? I absolutely love everything that PJ puts out, nothing really ever fails in my opinion. This song will definetly be great live.
We might be here out of a realistic outlook on life. Kinda sad to think, but no way are you ever going to love everything, say, your spouse does. You are going to hate some of things they do. I mean actually hate. And you will love that person in a way that makes your appreciation of the band awfully pale.
That said, I have hated some of the stuff Pearl Jam has put out. Mostly, I've hated just one song--Last Kiss. But, I've disliked a lot of stuff, too. Then again, on the balance, I've loved a lot of stuff they've put out. Way more than the stuff I've hated or that has simply annoyed me. So, I stick around. Because I appreciate them way more than not. But, they're not perfect. Only I am perfect--and in No Way does my spouse hate anything about me. How could he hate anything about me, but still love me over all? Doesn't make sense. The way I see it, the minute he doesn't like one thing I do, he should just divorce me. That's the way clear-headed, mature people handle things. >;)
I more or less agree with VITO'S comments regarding the new single. They HAVEN'T really broken any new ground since YIELD, which is my personal favourite album. Fixer is a good tune, but nothing great, and let's face it, we do kinda expect greatness from the PJ camp everytime they sneeze ! However, I do like the up tempo nature of the two new tunes and suspect that Backspacer will be a huge imrovement on the frankly mediocre Avocado album. Do not understand why it so revered when it by far the weakest effort of their truly exceptional career. I think that by putting themselves back in the hands of Brendan "Bud" O'Brien once again will make all the difference, as he really is one of the true greats of modern era music production.
As much as I REALLY LOVE mATT cAMERON, his style was best suited to Soundgarden, Temple of the Dog, Hater etc and I feel that PJ lost something truly special when Jack Irons sadly became unavailable. For me, No Code and Yield marked a very uniquely creative segment in the PJ story.
VERY excited about the new album though and hopefully getting a ticket for the Shepherds Bush show !!!
The World of music is a better place with the PJ boys in it and have enriched my life now for 25 years, so honestly and humbly I say Muchas Gracias.
I agree with most of that...EXCEPT, that the creative juices stopped after Yield!?!?!?
My friend, you don't believe this to be true with a masterpiece such as Binaural???
Breakerfall, Light Years, Nothing as it Seems, Of the Girl, Rival, Sleight of Hand...I mean, CAHM ON!!! haha....
Not only was the song writing/lyrics fantastic, but the recording was so...ah! I can't even explain it. There is a mood on that record that we will never hear/see/feel again. Just like Vitalogy, VS. , and No Code
I guess I am little shocked and shaken that everyone doesn't agree with me! haha
“Late Pearl Jam” isn’t a phrase that typically has us reaching for our headphones, but “The Fixer,” the single from the band’s forthcoming Backspacer, might inspire us — and here we even paraphrase the song — to love again. It can’t be a coincidence that it’s exactly three minutes long: The track is pure and simple pop rock of the highest order, the kind of thing we’ve hoped Eddie Vedder would turn his restless attention toward for years now. He wants to fix things, uncross signals, “get it back again,” and we’re sharing so earnestly in the sentiment that we feel it would be an injustice to relate it to the populist bent of this music."
I have seen a couple others, one from EW, and they were positive as well.
36 hrs or so later, I still love this song. Pearl Jam's Start Me Up.
I have been listening to The Fixer for 20 minutes now and have loved it for at least 15 of them.
If you care as to what my credentials are, I’m 26, work as a musician and damn all else and only discovered Pearl Jam due to meeting a good group of people at around the time of Riot Act’s release in 2003. Within months of various journeys with each album I soon loved Pearl Jam for life and beyond, and it often irritates me that no matter how many bootlegs I watch from the early days I will never know what it would have been like to follow this band from the start and go through the different directions they took over the years from album to album, I can be only grateful that I did eventually find them. The only new album i’ve had to look forward to was ST, by which time I had been with them several years and was desperately seeking new material from Pearl Jam just like any of you who might actually be reading this. Since the ST release i’ve seen them as much as I can and only one of those times was in my homeland (first time I ever saw them, holy shite what a night :shock: )
So back to The Fixer. It astounds me that this band can still write and release a song like this, this is the kind of song I need right now. The lyrics are quite personal and sound like a man who has gone through 20 years of what Eddie Vedder has, this song would not be as effective for me coming from the angry wisdom-seeking genius from Ten. The guys are beyond maturity now and although I miss my idol Mike’s combustion of a stratocaster fretboard in this song I know that they are going for a wide audience with this single, and fair play to them. They have tried everything in terms of diversity over the years and even tried to go ‘back to basics’ with the last LP, I like ST as a collection and get serious relief from listening to all but 2 or 3 of it’s stories. The Fixer is just as I expected from both a far more mature and experienced Pearl Jam and Brendan O’ Brien since their last collaboration 11 years ago. It’s making me happy and poignant at the same time in various parts, the keyboard line in the chorus is really hitting me, can’t wait to hear this one live, they’ll be playing this on the European tour I guess?
Got Some intrigues me too, it’s gonna be among the darker tunes. I can’t wait to hear it when the band haven’t just been put cold and dry on front of millions of people on the first ever Conan O’ Brien Tonight Show. You just know there was high ranking NBC suits up in the booths watching them play saying “F**k what Conan wanted, we should have got Fallout Boy”! So The Fixer is poppy, but hey if this gets more airplay than many long term fans would like what is so bad about that? Just as long as some teeny bopper doesn’t come up to me after a gig and try to tell me she loves all Pearl Jams music especially “that yeah yeah yeah yeah song”. Anyway the night is old and the rain is kicking the shite out of my window, so I will go. I love this band, this song and whatever Backspacer has to offer, thank you Pearl Jam for existing and still existing, peace and love to all.
(Is anyone else hearing ‘If I could get it back again... in the chorus? I once thought the end of RVM was ‘something’s so much clearer’, and a good friend of mine and ‘from the beginning’ Jammer once thought the first line of Corduroy was ‘The waiting trophy man..’, have a listen!) :geek:
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I guess I didn't explain my point of view clearly enough. I agree with you about Binaural. It's exceptional. I love it. It really has lasted the test of time and has improved with repeat listens over the years, but for me it just didnt match the sheer beautiful dynamics of Yield. And as for Riot Act, I love it too. Some amazing stand out tracks on that too, however, they do go thru the motions A LITTLE on a few tracks which weaken an otherwise superb album.
But Avo/S/T !! As you succinctly put it "CAHM ON !!!! CAHM ON !!! It feels tired and flabby in places and lacks any progression musically and lyrically. For me it could've been "Lost Dogs" II. B-sides and demos from Bi,Riot sessions !! Not good enough !! Simple as that. Desert Island discs moment : I would NOT take this feeble studio effort with me. Damn sure.
Add to this, Boom's keyboards drag everything they do down (in the live arena especially) and Ed should back off the guitar playing a bit, just like the good old days, and let the GENIUS DUO of Stone and MIke get on with the business in hand. Sometime Stone looks almost bored (Live from the Garden dvd) cause he has less to do cause Ed is hoggin the guitar duties a little too much for my liking and playing with, at best, very average skills !!!! There I said it.
Wow. That's a load off.
Anyhoo. Peace Brothers and Sisters of the Jam.
A
The flip side of this is I'm ready for Backspacer like my life depends on it and I DO think it will deliver, BIG TIME !! I'VE PRE ordered 7" single and full album and just received word Ive secured tickets for Shepherds Bush show, so I'm as a pig in the proverbial.
The widget version on PJ's home page sounds a lot cleaner than the myspace version
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yes..true
"...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
"..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
“..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
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Does anyone else notice how the music sounds similar to DMB's "Funny The Way It Is" at a couple parts?? I keep hearing that in the song, just interesting.
can't wait to get the vinyl of this!
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true!
But, every record after vitalogy...i wasn't sure. However, they did ALL come around
except! S/T :( Since 06, has happened (yet)
it's in the cassette deck on the main PJ page, unless you are talking about that player not working....
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you are so stupid.
Thanks! It was my computer. For some reason none of the sound was working on it last night. I fixed it but still have not listened to the song. I'll have to check it out tonight.
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Why can't everyday be like today..
Oh, I could be new... you underestimate me
Melbourne - 16/3/95, 5/3/98, 18/2/03, 20/2/03, 13/11/06, 16/11/06, 20/11/09, EV 24/3/11 EV 25/3/11, 24/1/14, ....
Yes, The Fixer definitely has the makings of a live staple. I can see myself now at the United Center as Eddie knocks me out with his amazing vocal during the chorus (Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah! Fight to get it back again!). We all know PJs music sounds better live and I think The FIxer will lose its "poppyness" in a live setting.
I don't need to be fighting with the fair-weather fans for 2nd & 3rd gig tix in the queue at (GOD FORBID) Ticketek.
"..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
“..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
I look forward to not hearing it on UK radio anytime soon.....
Seen Pearl Jam 4 times in London, once in Manchester, as well as an Eddie show at Hammersmith.
It sounds to me like Ed is channeling Robert Plant solo albums with his vocal slides. That is not a bad thing, but it is a thing I have already heard. And I really liked it the first time, so it's kinda deja vu or deja entendu, as the case may be. I'm not quite as excited as I might be because of this feeling. So, I'm not sure what I think of it. I guess I'll know better when I get the whole album.
We might be here out of a realistic outlook on life. Kinda sad to think, but no way are you ever going to love everything, say, your spouse does. You are going to hate some of things they do. I mean actually hate. And you will love that person in a way that makes your appreciation of the band awfully pale.
That said, I have hated some of the stuff Pearl Jam has put out. Mostly, I've hated just one song--Last Kiss. But, I've disliked a lot of stuff, too. Then again, on the balance, I've loved a lot of stuff they've put out. Way more than the stuff I've hated or that has simply annoyed me. So, I stick around. Because I appreciate them way more than not. But, they're not perfect. Only I am perfect--and in No Way does my spouse hate anything about me. How could he hate anything about me, but still love me over all? Doesn't make sense. The way I see it, the minute he doesn't like one thing I do, he should just divorce me. That's the way clear-headed, mature people handle things. >;)
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I guess, because I thought Avocado was the best thing PJ's put out in years.
Let me starty by saying that you are most certainly entitled to your opinion and I am glad you love Avocado
HOWEVER!!!!!
Really!?!?!?
I just CAN'T get past the recording of S/T
As much as I REALLY LOVE mATT cAMERON, his style was best suited to Soundgarden, Temple of the Dog, Hater etc and I feel that PJ lost something truly special when Jack Irons sadly became unavailable. For me, No Code and Yield marked a very uniquely creative segment in the PJ story.
VERY excited about the new album though and hopefully getting a ticket for the Shepherds Bush show !!!
The World of music is a better place with the PJ boys in it and have enriched my life now for 25 years, so honestly and humbly I say Muchas Gracias.
Long live StoneMikeJeffMattEd
I agree with most of that...EXCEPT, that the creative juices stopped after Yield!?!?!?
My friend, you don't believe this to be true with a masterpiece such as Binaural???
Breakerfall, Light Years, Nothing as it Seems, Of the Girl, Rival, Sleight of Hand...I mean, CAHM ON!!! haha....
Not only was the song writing/lyrics fantastic, but the recording was so...ah! I can't even explain it. There is a mood on that record that we will never hear/see/feel again. Just like Vitalogy, VS. , and No Code
I guess I am little shocked and shaken that everyone doesn't agree with me! haha
Should probably make this my last listen till at least tomorrow. Short and sweet and good possibility for a hit single!
“Late Pearl Jam” isn’t a phrase that typically has us reaching for our headphones, but “The Fixer,” the single from the band’s forthcoming Backspacer, might inspire us — and here we even paraphrase the song — to love again. It can’t be a coincidence that it’s exactly three minutes long: The track is pure and simple pop rock of the highest order, the kind of thing we’ve hoped Eddie Vedder would turn his restless attention toward for years now. He wants to fix things, uncross signals, “get it back again,” and we’re sharing so earnestly in the sentiment that we feel it would be an injustice to relate it to the populist bent of this music."
I have seen a couple others, one from EW, and they were positive as well.
36 hrs or so later, I still love this song. Pearl Jam's Start Me Up.
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If you care as to what my credentials are, I’m 26, work as a musician and damn all else and only discovered Pearl Jam due to meeting a good group of people at around the time of Riot Act’s release in 2003. Within months of various journeys with each album I soon loved Pearl Jam for life and beyond, and it often irritates me that no matter how many bootlegs I watch from the early days I will never know what it would have been like to follow this band from the start and go through the different directions they took over the years from album to album, I can be only grateful that I did eventually find them. The only new album i’ve had to look forward to was ST, by which time I had been with them several years and was desperately seeking new material from Pearl Jam just like any of you who might actually be reading this. Since the ST release i’ve seen them as much as I can and only one of those times was in my homeland (first time I ever saw them, holy shite what a night :shock: )
So back to The Fixer. It astounds me that this band can still write and release a song like this, this is the kind of song I need right now. The lyrics are quite personal and sound like a man who has gone through 20 years of what Eddie Vedder has, this song would not be as effective for me coming from the angry wisdom-seeking genius from Ten. The guys are beyond maturity now and although I miss my idol Mike’s combustion of a stratocaster fretboard in this song I know that they are going for a wide audience with this single, and fair play to them. They have tried everything in terms of diversity over the years and even tried to go ‘back to basics’ with the last LP, I like ST as a collection and get serious relief from listening to all but 2 or 3 of it’s stories. The Fixer is just as I expected from both a far more mature and experienced Pearl Jam and Brendan O’ Brien since their last collaboration 11 years ago. It’s making me happy and poignant at the same time in various parts, the keyboard line in the chorus is really hitting me, can’t wait to hear this one live, they’ll be playing this on the European tour I guess?
Got Some intrigues me too, it’s gonna be among the darker tunes. I can’t wait to hear it when the band haven’t just been put cold and dry on front of millions of people on the first ever Conan O’ Brien Tonight Show. You just know there was high ranking NBC suits up in the booths watching them play saying “F**k what Conan wanted, we should have got Fallout Boy”! So The Fixer is poppy, but hey if this gets more airplay than many long term fans would like what is so bad about that? Just as long as some teeny bopper doesn’t come up to me after a gig and try to tell me she loves all Pearl Jams music especially “that yeah yeah yeah yeah song”. Anyway the night is old and the rain is kicking the shite out of my window, so I will go. I love this band, this song and whatever Backspacer has to offer, thank you Pearl Jam for existing and still existing, peace and love to all.
(Is anyone else hearing ‘If I could get it back again... in the chorus? I once thought the end of RVM was ‘something’s so much clearer’, and a good friend of mine and ‘from the beginning’ Jammer once thought the first line of Corduroy was ‘The waiting trophy man..’, have a listen!) :geek:
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I guess I didn't explain my point of view clearly enough. I agree with you about Binaural. It's exceptional. I love it. It really has lasted the test of time and has improved with repeat listens over the years, but for me it just didnt match the sheer beautiful dynamics of Yield. And as for Riot Act, I love it too. Some amazing stand out tracks on that too, however, they do go thru the motions A LITTLE on a few tracks which weaken an otherwise superb album.
But Avo/S/T !! As you succinctly put it "CAHM ON !!!! CAHM ON !!! It feels tired and flabby in places and lacks any progression musically and lyrically. For me it could've been "Lost Dogs" II. B-sides and demos from Bi,Riot sessions !! Not good enough !! Simple as that. Desert Island discs moment : I would NOT take this feeble studio effort with me. Damn sure.
Add to this, Boom's keyboards drag everything they do down (in the live arena especially) and Ed should back off the guitar playing a bit, just like the good old days, and let the GENIUS DUO of Stone and MIke get on with the business in hand. Sometime Stone looks almost bored (Live from the Garden dvd) cause he has less to do cause Ed is hoggin the guitar duties a little too much for my liking and playing with, at best, very average skills !!!! There I said it.
Wow. That's a load off.
Anyhoo. Peace Brothers and Sisters of the Jam.
A
The flip side of this is I'm ready for Backspacer like my life depends on it and I DO think it will deliver, BIG TIME !! I'VE PRE ordered 7" single and full album and just received word Ive secured tickets for Shepherds Bush show, so I'm as a pig in the proverbial.
"..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
“..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”