Prepare for the bandwagoners...

InMyTree4

i hope it brings alot of new fans and they are all really good at getting fan club tickets but i am a little better so my seats will be closer

ledvedderman

We have some people on the board who jumped on post "Pearl Jam" album and are great contributors to the board. Can't say there's anything wrong with that.

Yellow Ledbelly

Weren't we all bandwagoners at one point??

Smarter_Than_U

I am sure this album will sell well -- at least a million-- but it will never be 92-94 again. You just can't recapture that level of buzz twice in the lifespan of one band--especially when the band actively sabotaged their own mega-fame status. I always root for them to do well in sales, but I think people are just too busy/poor to care these days to launch them back to say here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHEYs0CM ... L&index=72

Who knows though?

Better Dan

bigbadbill wrote:

After Backspacer hits stores and gets digested for a few weeks, you're going to see a lot of people jumping on the wagon. Not that that would be a bad thing, but these are the same fairweather fans that were turned off from Pearl Jam when No Code went in another direction. I've, along with many of people here, have stuck by Pearl Jam's side through thick and thin. I just don't understand the "cool" people who didn't think it was "cool" to like Pearl Jam anymore (post Vitalogy), but then will all of a sudden "like" Pearl Jam again. I guess people have the right to do whatever they want in regards to musical taste. Am I unreasonable for thinking this way?

People have been posting things like this before every new PJ album. It may be the best album in the world, but that doesn't mean that everyone's going to start liking them again.

Better Dan

iwasthere wrote:

I remember almost this exact same thread for the last 2 albums. I really like what I've heard so far, but I won't be holding my breath waiting for the masses to jump on.

You beat me to it! I remember those same threads

Better Dan

Yellow Ledbelly wrote:

Weren't we all bandwagoners at one point??

I jumped on during the Binaural bandwagon!

JaneNY

Bands need new fans - it keeps the operation viable. How do you think they continue to fill large arenas? If the music speaks to someone why judge?

pjten77

Fuck Em'.....if they walked away from the band in 96' when No Code came out they missed a hell of a ride the last 13 years!!!!............if they want to come back...well.....to each their own. Now if it generates new fans/young fans that's cool as they can have the PJ exploring experience by going back and listening to the entire catalog.

Fahka

if you didnt like no code, i have nothing to say to you .. thought you couldn't be neutral on a moving bandwagon anyhow er somethin i have no kids and am under 30 ... least their are still a few whipper snappers among us

Mrs.Vedder78

LikeAnOcean wrote:

10 years ago maybe, but those bandwagoners are all boring middle-aged adults with families now. They couldn't be cool if they wanted to be.

LOL! .... uhhh no wait! Im 31 and I have a husband and 3 children, so you describing me? though I've always being a loyal fan

bigbadbill

Smarter_Than_U wrote:

I am sure this album will sell well -- at least a million-- but it will never be 92-94 again. You just can't recapture that level of buzz twice in the lifespan of one band--especially when the band actively sabotaged their own mega-fame status. I always root for them to do well in sales, but I think people are just too busy/poor to care these days to launch them back to say here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHEYs0CM ... L&index=72

Who knows though?

Jeff had that "pimp" thing going.

doompony

I've always loved the "tsshhhh" noise that Mike makes when Stone thanks Dave A.

bigbadbill

doompony wrote:

I've always loved the "tsshhhh" noise that Mike makes when Stone thanks Dave A.

It was like Mike was almost trying not to laugh. And do you notice that Ed always rubs his eyebrows when he used to speak to the public. I saw that when he was talking in early 1995 during the pro-abortion rally.

doompony

stone gets the giggles about something. presumably thanking dave a?

my cousin and i overdubbed this and the cafe scene from singles once many many years ago. ed was rubbing his face because there'd been either a peanut butter or pudding factory explosion downtown. he had something sticky in his eyebrow.

Cosmo

Personally... i don't care either way.
I have gone to see bands or artists that I had no idea what they were like. I don't care what their rabid fans think of me, I'm there to expand my horizons and check it out to see if i like them or not.
People like what they like.