Are Pearl Jam your favourite band?

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  • cannotstaylong
    cannotstaylong Posts: 668
    Yes, PJ is my favorite band. Has been for many years, and I am sure it will continue to be that way. My music taste goes through phases, usually with me being completely absorbed by the music of one band or another for weeks or months on end. But I always come back to PJ. Moreover, there is no other band that I follow the same way as I do with PJ. In general, there are very few mainstream current bands that I even listen to very much.

    For me, the other bands that are on the same level as Pearl Jam (or vice versa) are:

    Led Zeppelin
    The Who
    Pink Floyd
    Radiohead

    Those are the only bands whose music captivates me across the entire spectrum of their careers. For each of those bands there is not an album that I don't love. Interestingly, only one of them is a contemporary band. Even among that company, Pearl Jam is still my run-away favorite.
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  • bigeye21
    bigeye21 Posts: 981
    Yes

    8-)
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  • facepollution
    facepollution Posts: 6,834
    Yep, by a mile. There are times when I don't listen to them for a while, but I always come back round to them.
  • deskilla
    deskilla Posts: 279
    hmm are pearl jam may favorite????
    spent shitload of money for cds, records, posters and other memorabillias, and attended hundred of shows... my answer is YOU GOD DAMN RIGHT THEY ARE!!!!!!!! :lol:
  • Stryker
    Stryker Upstate, NY Posts: 585
    Unequivocally, YES!
  • Stephen Flow
    Stephen Flow Posts: 3,327
    Yes, favorite band, hands down. I listen to A LOT of other music though.
  • Trujeeper
    Trujeeper Posts: 58
    I'll put it this way...they are the only band I shell out money for (fan club money, CD purchases, concert tickets) each and every year, which at 37 is not normal according to my family. My sister says I am immature for still belonging to a fan club for a band nearing twenty years since I became a fan. (Mozart doesn't have a fan club...)
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  • PJBuckeye
    PJBuckeye Posts: 1,102
    I have skipped this thread for awhile due to the poor grammar of the author. i want everybody to remember this thread when our educational system gets ripped.
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  • tcaporale
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  • PatricSaint III
    PatricSaint III Posts: 208
    They were for a few years but these days have been surpassed by the mighty Wilco.

    To put it in another perspective, I've traveled long distances and taken time off from work to see 3 bands in my lifetime (so far), the Grateful Dead, Pearl Jam and Wilco.
  • curmudgeoness
    curmudgeoness Brigadoon, foodie capital Posts: 4,133
    Trujeeper wrote:
    I'll put it this way...they are the only band I shell out money for (fan club money, CD purchases, concert tickets) each and every year, which at 37 is not normal according to my family. My sister says I am immature for still belonging to a fan club for a band nearing twenty years since I became a fan. (Mozart doesn't have a fan club...)

    Heh -- I would argue that Mozart fans can spend as much, if not more, money than PJ fans do. Symphony tickets and recordings of all of those performances of one's favorite works can add up, you know. And they might call it "season tickets to the New York Philharmonic," but we know it's membership in a fan club. 8-)
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  • Indifference71
    Indifference71 Chicago Posts: 14,955
    Yes. Hell yes! I listen to a lot of other music, but no one comes anywhere close to PJ for me.
  • broloco
    broloco Posts: 1,237
    PJBuckeye wrote:
    I have skipped this thread for awhile due to the poor grammar of the author. i want everybody to remember this thread when our educational system gets ripped.

    and we'll remember you if we are ever looking for pretentious board members.

    you're # 1.
  • RideRick
    RideRick Hoorn Posts: 703
    Olivavu wrote:
    Simple question...

    Simple answer... YES 8-)

    But only after 1992, before that it was Guns n' Roses and before that nothing in particular...
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  • Calum
    Calum Posts: 635
    no1 by far!

    I like plenty of other bands, but I wouldn't go to the extremes I do with PJ with any other band. Also I just find Eddie to be the best singer I have ever heard.

    I also like.. Jeff Buckley / Beastie Boys / Radiohead / Black Keys / Kings of Leon / White Stripes / Killers / Ryan Bingham / Arctic Monkeys / Band of Horses / Bob Dylan / Nirvana / Rage Against the Machine / Willy Mason

    but they don't come close to how much I love PJ! 8-)
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  • 1STmammal2wearPants
    1STmammal2wearPants Worcester, MA Posts: 3,009
    The Beatles first and foremost. Pearl Jam definitely right after.........
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  • petrocs
    petrocs Posts: 4,342
    up there but not #1..U2 is numero uno
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  • 12345AGNST1
    12345AGNST1 Posts: 4,906
    HELL YEA
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  • triphobz
    triphobz Posts: 152
    broloco wrote:
    PJBuckeye wrote:
    I have skipped this thread for awhile due to the poor grammar of the author. i want everybody to remember this thread when our educational system gets ripped.

    and we'll remember you if we are ever looking for pretentious board members.

    you're # 1.

    LMFAO :lol:
  • Kloddz
    Kloddz Posts: 2,573
    Yes, by a landslide. It's PJ, then














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