backspacer= big let down

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  • Stephen Flow
    Stephen Flow Posts: 3,327
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  • Dr. Delight
    Dr. Delight Posts: 11,210
    This band needs a fresh sound??
    Did you even listen to ATW or Unthought Known? A band that has been solidified as long as this one is not just gonna change up its entire "sound" every record. Its impossible and would be too much to expect. You have to have some consistency, for that is what usually drives you to like a band, its characteristics.

    Also, didnt PJ change their "sound" back in 1996?
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  • se7v7en
    se7v7en Philadelphia, PA Posts: 329
    This is their 9th Album...how much creativity can you expect one band to have... and whats wrong with writing songs with a style that they have previously made their own. I love that amounst the waves sounds like classic pearl jam, why not. Did people criticise springsteen for writing classic springsteen songs 20 years into his career....come on, how rediculous can u be.
  • slightofjeff
    slightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    se7v7en wrote:
    This is their 9th Album...how much creativity can you expect one band to have... and whats wrong with writing songs with a style that they have previously made their own. I love that amounst the waves sounds like classic pearl jam, why not. Did people criticise springsteen for writing classic springsteen songs 20 years into his career....come on, how rediculous can u be.

    What's funny to me is that, until this thread, the biggest complain regarding Backspacer on this board was that "it doesn't sound like Pearl Jam."
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  • rebornFixer
    rebornFixer Posts: 4,901
    slightofjeff wrote:
    se7v7en wrote:
    This is their 9th Album...how much creativity can you expect one band to have... and whats wrong with writing songs with a style that they have previously made their own. I love that amounst the waves sounds like classic pearl jam, why not. Did people criticise springsteen for writing classic springsteen songs 20 years into his career....come on, how rediculous can u be.

    What's funny to me is that, until this thread, the biggest complain regarding Backspacer on this board was that "it doesn't sound like Pearl Jam."

    Exactly. In all honestly, this album sounds massively different to me, at least by PJ standards. To the point where I need to leave it some time to grow on me. Avocado was just instant gratification. This is a bit more like an acid trip, that's kinda cool but kinda wrong at the same time.
  • slightofjeff
    slightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    reborncareerist wrote:
    slightofjeff wrote:
    se7v7en wrote:
    This is their 9th Album...how much creativity can you expect one band to have... and whats wrong with writing songs with a style that they have previously made their own. I love that amounst the waves sounds like classic pearl jam, why not. Did people criticise springsteen for writing classic springsteen songs 20 years into his career....come on, how rediculous can u be.

    What's funny to me is that, until this thread, the biggest complain regarding Backspacer on this board was that "it doesn't sound like Pearl Jam."

    Exactly. In all honestly, this album sounds massively different to me, at least by PJ standards. To the point where I need to leave it some time to grow on me. Avocado was just instant gratification. This is a bit more like an acid trip, that's kinda cool but kinda wrong at the same time.

    What's weird is that Avocado took a while for me. Not as long as some of Binaural and RA. It was more accessible than that. But there were still good chunks that took me weeks (some months, some years) to truly appreciate.

    Backspacer was like right in my wheelhouse for some reason. Everything on it clicked on the first or second listen, save Johnny Guitar and Supersonic. That's rare for me. First time that's happened for me since Yield.
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  • se7v7en
    se7v7en Philadelphia, PA Posts: 329
    slightofjeff wrote:
    se7v7en wrote:
    This is their 9th Album...how much creativity can you expect one band to have... and whats wrong with writing songs with a style that they have previously made their own. I love that amounst the waves sounds like classic pearl jam, why not. Did people criticise springsteen for writing classic springsteen songs 20 years into his career....come on, how rediculous can u be.

    What's funny to me is that, until this thread, the biggest complain regarding Backspacer on this board was that "it doesn't sound like Pearl Jam."


    True, but Amounst the waves and unthought known sound like classic pj to me. And then theirs of course the three itw tunes. I think their is some good new creative stuff like jhonny guitar but that most poeple saying it sounds nothing like pj have been those complaining about the pop element in some of these songs

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