The "I think The Fixer is Great" thread

Of A Girl Wonder

It only took me 2 listens to totally dig it. Played for a non-fan at work today and she loved it also.

differentsoon

loooooove it.

yeah - yeah - yeah - yeah

julesandian

I really liked it, I was waiting for Mike to "melt my face off" at some point so I was slightly disappointed at first but when I kept listening again and again...and again and again....etc I started to really like it.

I love the fact that it isn't anything like you would expect, and that is something that since Vitalogy (maybe I should include W.M.A. from Vs in this as well) I believe the band has managed with every album.

I would love every album to be Ten and VS, I'm 33 and I lived and breathed Pearl Jam when Ten was released and still, taken as a whole, believe that Ten and Vs are the best of the Pearl Jam catalogue, but then if Pearl Jam had just kept grinding the same sounds and styles out album after album, I don't think the majority of us would be still interested, and the band would probably have been long gone by now.

Or they'd be Nickelback

tremors

julesandian wrote:

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I would love every album to be Ten and VS, I'm 33 and I lived and breathed Pearl Jam when Ten was released and still, taken as a whole, believe that Ten and Vs are the best of the Pearl Jam catalogue, but then if Pearl Jam had just kept grinding the same sounds and styles out album after album, I don't think the majority of us would be still interested, and the band would probably have been long gone by now.

entirely agree ten and vs cemented their place in my life, 1993 there was food, oxygen, pearl jam! They sounded even more messed up than I was! I know a lot of people love yield, and it is a damn fine album. In fact you can safely say with hindsight now pearl jam preside over the entire 1990s. 5 albums, 5 perfect tens. superb achievement. well done lads, you just nailed a decade! But Yield is valuable, and wonderful but not your lifeblood. Maybe it's just the time when you discover them. I know some weird people actually prefer Binaural! Ten sounded fine at the time, rather like the remix sounds to me today! I will rarely play the original now tho, has been superseded.

Coming back to the point I'm trying to make, which you already made!: If they were still making ten and vs in their 40s we should all be a bit worried about their state of arrested development. Is amusing how one of the most shocking things they can do now is put out a catchy radio friendly rocker. I'm glad, It sounds fresh and in its way reminds me of the same thrill I got when the angst was new too. Back then you found the positivity hidden down deep. Here it's just up there on the sleeve. It's just different slices of pearl jam, and they almost all point to Hope if you follow the line they are pointing. This one it's pretty damn obvious. fuckit. sing!

julesandian

tremors wrote:

Is amusing how one of the most shocking things they can do now is put out a catchy radio friendly rocker

I was thinking exactly that, while I was reading the rest of your post it occured to me that we should be happy that the band is embracing the radio again, especially those that were around back in the no music video, no singles days after Jeremy, along with the fact that they are obviuosly happy in themselves as the music has been reflecting with its less angst ridden, less angry, more happy vibe.

Ok The Fixer is no ............(fill inyour own personal favs)...........(mine would be Black) but its still one of the best rock songs on the radio I've heard all week, and Radio1 played Alive twice on Monday in honour of the new single.

Like I said we could all be stuck with bands like Nickelback (don't like them) (at all) (you know Chad once said he was the most talented musician to come out of Seattle - what a cock)

bry321f11

I also forgot to post, that I think this song is gonna kill live. 99% of the time their shit is even better live so get ready..

Songburst

julesandian wrote:

tremors wrote:

Is amusing how one of the most shocking things they can do now is put out a catchy radio friendly rocker

I was thinking exactly that, while I was reading the rest of your post it occured to me that we should be happy that the band is embracing the radio again, especially those that were around back in the no music video, no singles days after Jeremy, along with the fact that they are obviuosly happy in themselves as the music has been reflecting with its less angst ridden, less angry, more happy vibe.

Ok The Fixer is no ............(fill inyour own personal favs)...........(mine would be Black) but its still one of the best rock songs on the radio I've heard all week, and Radio1 played Alive twice on Monday in honour of the new single.

Like I said we could all be stuck with bands like Nickelback (don't like them) (at all) (you know Chad once said he was the most talented musician to come out of Seattle - what a cock)

Lol -- and Eddie Vedder once said that he was the most talented musician to come out of Winnipeg.

BZ

Liked it the first time I heard it. Even more now!

grdesigner79

2 words, LOVE IT.

JV130312

Wasn't a big fan at first...it definitely has grown on me big time. I'm really liking it.

FinsburyParkCarrots

Count me in on this thread. Loved it right away.

justam

I'll sign this one too.

Gmoney

fight to get it back again!!!


this song is sick. ive never heard anything like it. this song, regardless of the rest of backspacer, is the period at the end of this sentence; pearl jam is the greatest band ever.

goo

I've heard it about 3 or 4 times through, the most recent being on the radio tonight while driving. listening to songs while I'm driving is when I can best get a feel for what I think about a song, and the conclusion is: I don't love it, I don't hate it. surely there will be other better songs on the record. I can see it being one of the songs I skip over. I'm just glad that Brendan O'Brien was back on board for this one and that the record has that going for it.

CG49089

VOLITION wrote:

when i first heard "The Fixer" i wasn't crazy about it at all. I was expecting and aggressive song, riff driven and just plain nasty. After listening to it several times "The Fixer" has grown on me, i like the melody, chorus and its catchy for a single. The lyrics are simple but why does it have to be so complicated? Ed sounds happy almost relieved that a positive change is shaping our world. I'm not sure this song is going to catch on when you look at who's sitting at the top of the charts but who fucking cares anymore? I'm just happy they are still a band after all these years and making music that makes me feel something.

Very Well Said... I completely agree