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People who don't like Pearl Jam

chris32482chris32482 Posts: 213
edited July 2009 in The Porch
First let me say that I certainly don't expect everybody in the world to like PJ. Everyone has different tastes and that's cool. But have you ever had a friend or aquaintance to whom you've introduced Pearl Jam, only to have them totally not get it? I hate that!

I've been trying to convert this one friend of mine for a while, but I don't think he's gonna come around. He likes more mainstream stuff like Shinedown and Chris Daughtry. I'm like "dude but that stuff is so bland. It doesn't have any soul!" But to no avail. I guess PJ just isn't pop-ish enough for some people. :roll:
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  • DissidentmanDissidentman Posts: 15,378
    My co-worker doesn't like them at all. No taste. He like RUSH and I don't, so we are almost even...
  • Vedder_Girl77Vedder_Girl77 Posts: 4,335
    Not everyone can be as cool as us. ;)
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  • Ledbetterman10Ledbetterman10 Posts: 16,941
    chris32482 wrote:
    First let me say that I certainly don't expect everybody in the world to like PJ. Everyone has different tastes and that's cool. But have you ever had a friend or aquaintance to whom you've introduced Pearl Jam, only to have them totally not get it? I hate that!

    I've always said that the best place to start when introducing someone to Pearl Jam is the Do the Evolution video. If they dislike it, then there is NO CHANCE they will ever like Pearl Jam. If they do like it, hit up some hard rock from Ten, Vs, and Vitalogy next.
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  • SpinTheBlackOSpinTheBlackO Posts: 385
    that's me. I hate pearl jam
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  • Better DanBetter Dan Posts: 5,684
    Ledbetterman10 wrote:
    chris32482 wrote:
    First let me say that I certainly don't expect everybody in the world to like PJ. Everyone has different tastes and that's cool. But have you ever had a friend or aquaintance to whom you've introduced Pearl Jam, only to have them totally not get it? I hate that!

    I've always said that the best place to start when introducing someone to Pearl Jam is the Do the Evolution video. If they dislike it, then there is NO CHANCE they will ever like Pearl Jam. If they do like it, hit up some hard rock from Ten, Vs, and Vitalogy next.


    Disagree..When I first got into the band (right befor Binaural came out) that was one of my least favorite songs. Love it now of course, but it took some time to grow on me.
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  • josevolutionjosevolution Posts: 30,527
    People like this exist :shock: .... :lol:
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  • Back_PedalBack_Pedal Posts: 1,171
    chris32482 wrote:
    First let me say that I certainly don't expect everybody in the world to like PJ. Everyone has different tastes and that's cool. But have you ever had a friend or aquaintance to whom you've introduced Pearl Jam, only to have them totally not get it? I hate that!

    I've been trying to convert this one friend of mine for a while, but I don't think he's gonna come around. He likes more mainstream stuff like Shinedown and Chris Daughtry. I'm like "dude but that stuff is so bland. It doesn't have any soul!" But to no avail. I guess PJ just isn't pop-ish enough for some people. :roll:
    Does he not realize PJ is where those bands get a good chunk of their sound? Modern rock radio would be a LOT different without PJ.
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  • DB41DB41 Posts: 539
    I know someone who used to be a hardcore fan until a few years ago, and now she HATES them... doesn't make sense.
  • Ledbetterman10Ledbetterman10 Posts: 16,941
    DS114969 wrote:
    Ledbetterman10 wrote:
    chris32482 wrote:
    First let me say that I certainly don't expect everybody in the world to like PJ. Everyone has different tastes and that's cool. But have you ever had a friend or aquaintance to whom you've introduced Pearl Jam, only to have them totally not get it? I hate that!

    I've always said that the best place to start when introducing someone to Pearl Jam is the Do the Evolution video. If they dislike it, then there is NO CHANCE they will ever like Pearl Jam. If they do like it, hit up some hard rock from Ten, Vs, and Vitalogy next.


    Disagree..When I first got into the band (right befor Binaural came out) that was one of my least favorite songs. Love it now of course, but it took some time to grow on me.

    I was and still am amazed by everything about it...but that's just me.

    What I'm saying though is a lot of times people around here people start potential fans out with their favorites....something like Present Tense or Immortality or whatever. I just think uptempo rockers like Even Flow, Rearviewmirror, Corduroy, Animal, etc. is the best stuff to introduce people to the band with.
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  • U R A Crazy BreedU R A Crazy Breed Posts: 8,370
    chris32482 wrote:
    I guess PJ just isn't pop-ish enough for some people.


    really?!!.....did you play the fixer for him?! :mrgreen:
  • julesandianjulesandian Posts: 487
    It's weird, a few people I went to college with in 1992 were really into Pearl Jam right up until Vitalogy came out, and they all kind of drifted after Cobain died. Maybe they were the kind of people that don't want to like the 'In' band (remember in the UK Nirvana dwarfed Pearl Jam at the time) and picked Pearl Jam as the cool other band? No Nirvana no need for Pearl Jam, then the Britpop thing started right about 1995.

    I don't think it helps for the casual fan that, certainly in the UK, from as early as I can remember the radio doesn't play Pearl Jam at all. The occasional Alive or Jeremy but I can honestly say I have never heard anything else on the playlists. (The day of the new singles they usually play them, but they don't put them into rotation) add to that the no music videos for years, minimal touring between Yield and S/T it makes the biggest secret in rock, and even the singles are rarely what you would call radio friendly tunes.

    A dude I work with was really into Ten and Vs but not since then so I tried playing him The Fixer and Got Some and he said "Doesn't sound like Pearl Jam, what happened?"
    You can't win, if they still sounded like the early stuff you'd get "try something else" so....

    I think one of the biggest obstacles for people is that Pearl Jam's songs are deep lyrically and musically, they deserve to be heard properly, I really didn't like Yield, and Binaural, and hated Riot Act on first listen, but now I love them all.

    I have tried for years to get my mates into pj to no avail, but my 15 year old nephew is bouncing off the walls ready for his first show at the 02!!!
  • decides2dreamdecides2dream Posts: 14,977
    it is what it is.
    i know a few people who really dislike (hate?) em....and more than a few who are simply meh about em. for me personally i cannot understand it, but yes....taste is subjective and so it goes...
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  • LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSunLikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun Posts: 6,097
    i think PJ has always been a little too mainstream to be weird, and too weird to be mainstream, so they never really fit into many people's style. Most of their music takes awhile to like, and some people just dont like Ed's voice.

    the drawback to their variety is that people can always find something to like, but they can be turned off by the rest.
  • demetriosdemetrios Posts: 94,080
    spintheblackO wrote:
    that's me. I hate pearl jam

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    j/k .. or maybe not! ;)
    ok, j/k! :lol:
  • itsevolution..babyitsevolution..baby Posts: 59
    my wife hates them. Ok, some of that is due to my obsession with the band, but in general she realy doesn't care about them. See the 2002 Key Arena show that she slept through. Other than that we've got very similar musical taste. She tends to skew more to the punk/ska side of things, but there are a ton of other bands we share mutual admiration for. Music is all about taste, and in a lot of cases, you either like it or you don't. She just happens to be wrong here...
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  • IwasBit10IwasBit10 Posts: 646
    I always felt that Live on Two Legs was a good starter. Very tight tracks, a lot of hits, fast and slow paces. Just a great mix of their tunes up to that point. I felt this way until someone I tried to turn on said they don't like live music as much as studio stuff :o To each their own....
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  • not4u10not4u10 Posts: 238
    itsevolution..baby wrote:
    my wife hates them. Ok, some of that is due to my obsession with the band, but in general she realy doesn't care about them. See the 2002 Key Arena show that she slept through. Other than that we've got very similar musical taste. She tends to skew more to the punk/ska side of things, but there are a ton of other bands we share mutual admiration for. Music is all about taste, and in a lot of cases, you either like it or you don't. She just happens to be wrong here...

    She fell asleep at that show? Are you serious? I mean, the 2002 Key Arena shows weren't great by any stretch, but to fall asleep? WOW!
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  • CabbieCabbie Posts: 35
    I find it very surprising how small of a teenage fan base they have. I have tried converting many of my musical friends, but they find them boring, which I dont understand. I tell them to listen to the lyrics but they all put greater importance on the instruments, which still doesn't make sense because the band are all kickass musicians. I guess because my age group is supposed to be rebellious my peers think that incoherent screaming and grunting is cool.
  • Sleep.With.InnocenceSleep.With.Innocence Posts: 607
    I've got a friend who thinks that Eddie Vedder's voice on Ten sounds terrible.

    I swear the guy smokes rocks.
  • Tuolumne MamaTuolumne Mama Posts: 1,210
    I don't know I have met mostly younger (teens and 20 somethings) that don't like them. Now my son is an exception, but he has been exposed to it since literally in the womb (Merriweather Pavillion '96) and now is obsessive - knows the words to most of their catalog from just listening. I still get them screwed up and I have seen them since 91. I think as the Who once were, they are an acquired taste like fine wine and the older we all get the finer the reserve. I also think many people have preconceived notions about them so they have never further explored their music outside of mainstream airplay limited to Alive, Jeremy, Evenflow.
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  • RicsardRicsard Posts: 1,943
    Vedder_Girl77 wrote:
    Not everyone can be as cool as us. ;)

    yeah, you're right! :roll: :lol:
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  • Bulldog88Bulldog88 Posts: 380
    Wait....what?? There are actually people who don't like Pearl Jam??? :lol:
    It's just very hard for me to imagine :D
  • springsteenfanspringsteenfan Posts: 383
    itsevolution..baby wrote:
    my wife hates them. Ok, some of that is due to my obsession with the band, but in general she realy doesn't care about them. See the 2002 Key Arena show that she slept through. Other than that we've got very similar musical taste. She tends to skew more to the punk/ska side of things, but there are a ton of other bands we share mutual admiration for. Music is all about taste, and in a lot of cases, you either like it or you don't. She just happens to be wrong here...

    my girlfriend hates them, too. Like you, my obsession doesn't help matters. Alot of it has to do with the fact that she worked at a bar for the better part of the '90's and got really sick of hearing Ten and Vs on the jukebox. Funny thing is, I used to go to the bar she worked at before we met, and I probably had alot to do with PJ playing on that jukebox. I've never taken her to a show and I don't play them around her much. When they're on Conan, Letterman or SNL, she'll watch with me but that's as far as it goes. In her opinion, they're too angry. The strange thing is, she loves Into the Wild. I can't quite explain that.
  • pjamaholicpjamaholic Posts: 1,225
    SM300890 wrote:
    I find it very surprising how small of a teenage fan base they have. I have tried converting many of my musical friends, but they find them boring, which I dont understand. I tell them to listen to the lyrics but they all put greater importance on the instruments, which still doesn't make sense because the band are all kickass musicians. I guess because my age group is supposed to be rebellious my peers think that incoherent screaming and grunting is cool.
    ff


    Too many teenagers like the sort of crap that's coming out today, simple as that. Bands like Good Charlotte etc. My 15 year old likes a lot of crap, but she loves PJ and is coming to see them with me (for the third time). Fact is PJ are quality and teenagers go for the crappy sound. They'll grow up eventually and realise what a shame it was they missed the good music back in these days. People who hate PJ - feel sorry for them that they're missing out on the best music around. It's their funeral, not ours.
  • springsteenfanspringsteenfan Posts: 383
    pjamaholic wrote:
    SM300890 wrote:
    I find it very surprising how small of a teenage fan base they have. I have tried converting many of my musical friends, but they find them boring, which I dont understand. I tell them to listen to the lyrics but they all put greater importance on the instruments, which still doesn't make sense because the band are all kickass musicians. I guess because my age group is supposed to be rebellious my peers think that incoherent screaming and grunting is cool.
    ff


    Too many teenagers like the sort of crap that's coming out today, simple as that. Bands like Good Charlotte etc. My 15 year old likes a lot of crap, but she loves PJ and is coming to see them with me (for the third time). Fact is PJ are quality and teenagers go for the crappy sound. They'll grow up eventually and realise what a shame it was they missed the good music back in these days. People who hate PJ - feel sorry for them that they're missing out on the best music around. It's their funeral, not ours.

    most of my students have no idea who Pearl Jam is. I had a sticker on my board and a kid asked if that was a band and I said yes. He then told me that his dad has all their records. I felt real old. I once had a kid analyze the lyrics to Black for part of a poetry project, but I'm not sure if she actually knew the song or was trying to kiss my ass because I told the kids PJ was my favorite band.
  • hopethatuchokehopethatuchoke Posts: 2,927
    I know a few people who don't like pearl jam. Several of them cite ed's voice as the reason for their dislike. Another guy who is in the music industry finds their ticket prices hypocritical after they spent all that time fighting ticketmaster. He also says they haven't made a decent album since Yield. Although I disagree with that somewhat, their output has been rather uninspiring at times since Yield. I think that was their last home run so to speak. I don't have a problem with people disliking them. People are entitled to their opinions and it's not worth getting bent out of shape over.
  • Cliffy6745Cliffy6745 Posts: 33,953
    NEWSFLASH!!!!!! Not everyone has the same music tastes and if someone does not like PJ it does not mean they have a bad taste in music.
  • springsteenfanspringsteenfan Posts: 383
    Cliffy6745 wrote:
    NEWSFLASH!!!!!! Not everyone has the same music tastes and if someone does not like PJ it does not mean they have a bad taste in music.

    Everyone's taste should be exactly like mine! That means Pearl Jam music,Woody Allen movies and garlic balogna sandwhiches for us all!
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