wow. thats just horribly shortsighted. there are hundreds of great bands out there right now.
and to the original poster. spend some time doing some listening..you'll find some great bands..there's more than just pearl jam out there...
black rebel motorcycle club (S/T and Howl)
nada surf (let go)
ted leo and the pharmacists (any album)
albert hammond jr. (yours to keep)
and you will know us by the trail of dead (source tags & code)
at the drive in (relationship of command)
the libertines (up the bracket and s/t)
the black keys
bloc party (silent alarm)
the strokes (all three albums)
the briefs (for your punk fix)
the bronx (both albums)
the catheters (static delusions & stone still days and howling..it grows and grows)
the cribs
death from above 1979
dirty pretty things
elliott smith
forward russia
franz ferdinand
french kicks
the joggers
the walkmen (everyone who pretended to like me is gone) <---amazing album
the futureheads (s/t)
interpol (all three albums)
the hives
hot hot heat (make up the breakdown)
alkaline trio
lcd soundsystem
liars (they threw us all in a trench and stuck a monument on top)
maximo park (a certain trigger)
muse
radiohead
the national
wolf parade
okkervil river
queens of the stone age
the white stripes
ryan adams
shout out louds
there. go download some shit.
everything on that list sounds like what I would imagine AIDS would sound like if it were a band.
I just HATE the word "suck(s)" :mad: I don't know why but I usually tell the person to shut the fuck up if he/she doesn't have a reasonable answer to why they dislike a certain band.
I love music and all sorts of genres and if there's a band I'm not too familiar with I'll just say "I haven't heard much of their music."
I even stopped considering "One-Hit wonders" as that term because I discovered a shit load of those kind of bands that really really rocked. i.e. Faith No More and Soul Coughing.
I just had the opposite experience the other day
A son of our friend (14 yrs) spoke to me the other day
" you like Pearl Jam dont you " he said And I replied you bet. He then said " Ive been playing my Guitar hero and they have this really cool song EVEN FLOW, its unreal, do they have any other good songs"
I just smiled and said mate Let me make you a few discs of live and studio stuff that will blow your head off.
A JAMMER IN PROGRESS
Funny for a 18 year old, I could swear I grew up and lived through the grunge era lol.. I HATE music today..
i'm twice as old as you--god, it pains me to type that--but i was the same way when i was your age. i listened to late 60s-early 70s music--mostly the who and led zeppelin.
I just had the opposite experience the other day
A son of our friend (14 yrs) spoke to me the other day
" you like Pearl Jam dont you " he said And I replied you bet. He then said " Ive been playing my Guitar hero and they have this really cool song EVEN FLOW, its unreal, do they have any other good songs"
I just smiled and said mate Let me make you a few discs of live and studio stuff that will blow your head off.
A JAMMER IN PROGRESS
Vs. to get the train moving, then No Code to send it flying down the track. Once he is that far send him on the bootleg trail to find the songs he already loves, and along the way he'll figure out the rest for himself.
Once in a while you can get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
wow. thats just horribly shortsighted. there are hundreds of great bands out there right now.
and to the original poster. spend some time doing some listening..you'll find some great bands..there's more than just pearl jam out there...
black rebel motorcycle club (S/T and Howl)
nada surf (let go)
ted leo and the pharmacists (any album)
albert hammond jr. (yours to keep)
and you will know us by the trail of dead (source tags & code)
at the drive in (relationship of command)
the libertines (up the bracket and s/t)
the black keys
bloc party (silent alarm)
the strokes (all three albums)
the briefs (for your punk fix)
the bronx (both albums)
the catheters (static delusions & stone still days and howling..it grows and grows)
the cribs
death from above 1979
dirty pretty things
elliott smith
forward russia
franz ferdinand
french kicks
the joggers
the walkmen (everyone who pretended to like me is gone) <---amazing album
the futureheads (s/t)
interpol (all three albums)
the hives
hot hot heat (make up the breakdown)
alkaline trio
lcd soundsystem
liars (they threw us all in a trench and stuck a monument on top)
maximo park (a certain trigger)
muse
radiohead
the national
wolf parade
okkervil river
queens of the stone age
the white stripes
ryan adams
shout out louds
there. go download some shit.
...there's more...
Arcade Fire
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
The Mars Volta
Bright Eyes
The Dresdon Dolls
10.07.96 Ft. Lauderdale, FL
09.22.98 West Palm Beach, FL
09.23.98 West Palm Beach, FL
08.09.00 West Palm Beach, FL
04.11.03 West Palm Beach, FL
10.08.04 Kissimmee, FL
05.28.06 Camden, NJ
06.11.08 West Palm Beach, FL
06.12.08 Tampa, FL
11.30.12 Ft. Lauderdale, FL (Ed Solo)
12.01.12 Ft. Lauderdale, FL (Ed Solo)
04.08.16 Ft. Lauderdale, FL
04.09.16 Miami, FL
04.11.16 Tampa, FL
I just had the opposite experience the other day
A son of our friend (14 yrs) spoke to me the other day
" you like Pearl Jam dont you " he said And I replied you bet. He then said " Ive been playing my Guitar hero and they have this really cool song EVEN FLOW, its unreal, do they have any other good songs"
I just smiled and said mate Let me make you a few discs of live and studio stuff that will blow your head off.
A JAMMER IN PROGRESS
that's awesome.
There IS hope!
Whoever said Vs. then No Code ...
i think at 14, after Vs. you should get them Vitalogy.
I don't think you should be making the jump from Vs. to No Code with out the "missing link".
If I was to smile and I held out my hand
If I opened it now would you not understand?
i feel your pain. i'm also a senior in hs and i don't know anyone my age who listens to pearl jam. (at the moment they're too into panic at the disco and fall out boy...) i'm kind of glad though, even at eighteen, kids are so immature these days and don't deserve to listen to an amazing band like pearl jam.
Most young people today will never get into pearl jam. The bands we are into are pretty much based on when we grew up.
I was a teen in the 90's so all the pearljam, soundgarden, pumpkins, alice in chains stuff is what I call my music. I like music from the 70's and 80's as well but what I grew up on speaks to me more.
Unfortunately now-a-days all the bands are these fruity little 19 year olds softly singing. I've tried listening, but the lyrics to half these songs are so childish I can't stand it.
I heard some song on the radio the other day, sounded allright til the guy started singing, and his lyrics were whining about how he wants to watch football and basketball at the bar instead of studying for law school. All I could think was "WHAT THE FU**"
Sadly to kids today "panic at the disco" and "fallout boy" are what pearl jam and nirvana were to me.
I am in my senior year of High School.. in NY and about 3 kids (me included) listen to PJ and plan on attending MSG nights 1 & 2... I was listening to my iPod and this "hardcore" kid was like who ya listening to? I said Pearl Jam, he's like o they suck.. I never play even flow on Guitar Hero.. I asked him, has he ever listened to any PJ other than that? He was like no and I never will... I swear I can't stand people who judge before they listen.
Im being bias but how can you say this band sucks? YOU CAN'T they are FUCKING GREAT!
dude you sound like me 2 years ago. I was also a senior in High School and other then my close friends absolutely no one listened to pearl jam and were only known as that band with the song "last kiss." I learned its a futile effort trying to change peoples minds no matter how right you are and how ignorant they may be. At least you get the benefit of enjoying their music, as I got the benefit of seeing them 8 times before graduation
Are you on long island? I'm curious as to what high school it is.
'06- Irving Plaza (What a way to see my first PJ concert), Albany, Hartford, Camden I & II, East Rutherford I & II, Pittsburgh
'07- THE VIC!!!, Lollapalooza (Chicago)
'08- Virginia Beach, Camden I & II, Washington D.C., MSG I & II, Hartford, Mansfield I & II,
EV NY I & II, Newark, DC I & II
I am in my senior year of High School.. in NY and about 3 kids (me included) listen to PJ and plan on attending MSG nights 1 & 2... I was listening to my iPod and this "hardcore" kid was like who ya listening to? I said Pearl Jam, he's like o they suck.. I never play even flow on Guitar Hero.. I asked him, has he ever listened to any PJ other than that? He was like no and I never will... I swear I can't stand people who judge before they listen.
Im being bias but how can you say this band sucks? YOU CAN'T they are FUCKING GREAT!
hey i just graduated high school in 07.....nobody listens to PJ in my grade. start hangin out with ppl in their early twenties. i guarantee they will atleast have some sort of appreciation. the majority of the people i chill with are in their twenties.... i cant stand kids in my grade.
hey i just graduated high school in 07.....nobody listens to PJ in my grade. start hangin out with ppl in their early twenties. i guarantee they will atleast have some sort of appreciation. the majority of the people i chill with are in their twenties.... i cant stand kids in my grade.
Hahahaha! I graduated in 07 and nobody in my school listened to PJ either. I hang out with my sister's friends who are in their 20's and they all love Pearl Jam. Go figure.
When I was 16 I loved Pearl Jam and there were plenty of people in high school who hated them and shitted on them and thought they sucked..
Now I'm 33, love them even more (if that's even possible) and every now and again I'll still run into some of the same kinds people, with the same kind of baseless hatred, who love to spew bile about a band that they never gave a sliver of a chance to in the first place (these same people would later become Creed fans I believe).
Anyhoo, you know what's the real difference between our love and their hate...
...they are a bunch of assholes.
Keep on Rockin' in the Free World!
Things were different then. All is different now.
I tried to explain...
your musical taste is far beyond your years. . . you can take satisfaction in the fact that you will still be listening to PJ years from now while all your friends will have to listen to new bands bacause all their favorites realised that they suck and had to break up.
no one will remember killswitch engage or any of those bands 10 years from now. . .
Every so often my neighbors and I get into drunken music debates... it always comes back to my buddy's wife telling me, "Eddie sings like Goat Boy from Saturday Night Live". I say "ok, who do you consider the voice of rock/alternative music?" The reply, "Daughtry".
I think you may need to face the fact that you're living in the past musically speaking. Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains and the Pixies may be great bands (I own albums by all of them), but in 2008 you can't expect all the teenagers around you to care about bands that are long gone or have fallen out of favor. That' just not how it works.
Like a couple people who've already posted I'd recommend making an attempt to listen to some newer music, especially the so-called "indie" bands. Not in order to fit in or replace the music you already love, but because you may missing out on creating your OWN musical memories.
I got into Pearl Jam around 1996/97 in my early teens, and even at that time I didn't know other kids who liked PJ. I got the good old "I listen to Nirvana, I hate Pearl Jam" comment and I heard kids talking about how terrible No Code was. And that was 10+ years ago. I don't regret the years I spent listening to PJ and company, and I still look to the past for good music, but there are other bands I missed out on at the time because I was more interested in recapturing the "grunge" years in my own little world. Balance is a good thing.
It all boils down to "musical snobbery". People can't seem to accept that others may have varied tastes. For instance, while loving PJ, I also like Duran Duran - two bands at completely different ends of the scale, produce vastly different music but both I love live and admire, which is the main thing.
Don't forget that many people "pretend" to like or not to like some kinds of music just to appear "cool".
For instance, I've been into the Foo Fighters since their first album came out when I was 15 (I'm a ripe old 27 now). My sister in law declared that they were her all time favourite band on hearing "Learn to Fly" (possibly their weakest song as far removed from their original sound as you can get). Ask her what others she likes or maybe her favourite album and she looks blank. This really really gets on my tits but I just have to bite my tongue and get on with it... sure, I've mocked her before but that was for my own personal pleasure. (Eek... I'm turning into a musical snob)
We're all sensitive and protective of our musical tastes at the end of the day and who gives a f*ck if someone else thinks a band you like "sucks"? As long as you are into them and their music makes you happy, just relish in the fact that really your taste is superior
PJ Virgin.. till the Astoria
Am I the only Welsh person here?
Ydych i'n siarad Cymraeg?
What about this apparently "hardcore" kid playing guitar hero? I mean, it's a great game but seriously... if you are trying to be "hardcore", a plastic guitar and colored buttons isn't going to help you much.
High school blows. Don't let him get to you... you have far superior music taste.
yeah...everyone knows the hardcore kids play Mario Kart to Danzig
wow. thats just horribly shortsighted. there are hundreds of great bands out there right now.
and to the original poster. spend some time doing some listening..you'll find some great bands..there's more than just pearl jam out there...
black rebel motorcycle club (S/T and Howl)
nada surf (let go)
ted leo and the pharmacists (any album)
albert hammond jr. (yours to keep)
and you will know us by the trail of dead (source tags & code)
at the drive in (relationship of command)
the libertines (up the bracket and s/t)
the black keys
bloc party (silent alarm)
the strokes (all three albums)
the briefs (for your punk fix)
the bronx (both albums)
the catheters (static delusions & stone still days and howling..it grows and grows)
the cribs
death from above 1979
dirty pretty things
elliott smith
forward russia
franz ferdinand
french kicks
the joggers
the walkmen (everyone who pretended to like me is gone) <---amazing album
the futureheads (s/t)
interpol (all three albums)
the hives
hot hot heat (make up the breakdown)
alkaline trio
lcd soundsystem
liars (they threw us all in a trench and stuck a monument on top)
maximo park (a certain trigger)
muse
radiohead
the national
wolf parade
okkervil river
queens of the stone age
the white stripes
ryan adams
shout out louds
there. go download some shit.
Good thought, but I'd say maybe 4 of these bands are even mainstream, and none of them Hardcore which is kinda what the kid is referring to.
I am a huge Pearl Jam fan, but some of their studio stuff is awful. I think they are one of those bands that it is tough to "get" until you see them live and experience the raw power and enotion of a Pearl Jam show.
Boston Garden 5/25/06
Lollapalooza 8/5/07
Madison Square Garden 6/24/08 and 6/25/08
Mansfield 6/30/08
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a hold-over from my youth...
the bands PJ has taken on tour the past few years are just horrid if you ask me.
everything on that list sounds like what I would imagine AIDS would sound like if it were a band.
edit to say - except alkaline trio
I know you planned it
I'm gonna set it straight
It's Watergate
for the least they could possibly do
Duh-Duh-duh duh
duh-duh-duh-duh
2010 - Newark 5/18 MSG 5/21
2011 - PJ20 9/3-9/4
2012 - MIA Festival 9/2
2013 - Wrigley Field 7/19 Brooklyn 10/18-10/19 Philly 10/22
2015 - Colbert show - 9/23 Global Citizens Festival 9/26
2016 - Philly 4/28-4/29 MSG 5/1-5/2
I love music and all sorts of genres and if there's a band I'm not too familiar with I'll just say "I haven't heard much of their music."
I even stopped considering "One-Hit wonders" as that term because I discovered a shit load of those kind of bands that really really rocked. i.e. Faith No More and Soul Coughing.
EV- 08/09,10/2008.06/08,09/2009
A son of our friend (14 yrs) spoke to me the other day
" you like Pearl Jam dont you " he said And I replied you bet. He then said " Ive been playing my Guitar hero and they have this really cool song EVEN FLOW, its unreal, do they have any other good songs"
I just smiled and said mate Let me make you a few discs of live and studio stuff that will blow your head off.
A JAMMER IN PROGRESS
i'm twice as old as you--god, it pains me to type that--but i was the same way when i was your age. i listened to late 60s-early 70s music--mostly the who and led zeppelin.
Paulie "Walnuts" Gualtieri
Vs. to get the train moving, then No Code to send it flying down the track. Once he is that far send him on the bootleg trail to find the songs he already loves, and along the way he'll figure out the rest for himself.
...there's more...
Arcade Fire
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
The Mars Volta
Bright Eyes
The Dresdon Dolls
09.22.98 West Palm Beach, FL
09.23.98 West Palm Beach, FL
08.09.00 West Palm Beach, FL
04.11.03 West Palm Beach, FL
10.08.04 Kissimmee, FL
05.28.06 Camden, NJ
06.11.08 West Palm Beach, FL
06.12.08 Tampa, FL
11.30.12 Ft. Lauderdale, FL (Ed Solo)
12.01.12 Ft. Lauderdale, FL (Ed Solo)
04.08.16 Ft. Lauderdale, FL
04.09.16 Miami, FL
04.11.16 Tampa, FL
There IS hope!
Whoever said Vs. then No Code ...
i think at 14, after Vs. you should get them Vitalogy.
I don't think you should be making the jump from Vs. to No Code with out the "missing link".
If I opened it now would you not understand?
I was a teen in the 90's so all the pearljam, soundgarden, pumpkins, alice in chains stuff is what I call my music. I like music from the 70's and 80's as well but what I grew up on speaks to me more.
Unfortunately now-a-days all the bands are these fruity little 19 year olds softly singing. I've tried listening, but the lyrics to half these songs are so childish I can't stand it.
I heard some song on the radio the other day, sounded allright til the guy started singing, and his lyrics were whining about how he wants to watch football and basketball at the bar instead of studying for law school. All I could think was "WHAT THE FU**"
Sadly to kids today "panic at the disco" and "fallout boy" are what pearl jam and nirvana were to me.
dude you sound like me 2 years ago. I was also a senior in High School and other then my close friends absolutely no one listened to pearl jam and were only known as that band with the song "last kiss." I learned its a futile effort trying to change peoples minds no matter how right you are and how ignorant they may be. At least you get the benefit of enjoying their music, as I got the benefit of seeing them 8 times before graduation
Are you on long island? I'm curious as to what high school it is.
'07- THE VIC!!!, Lollapalooza (Chicago)
'08- Virginia Beach, Camden I & II, Washington D.C., MSG I & II, Hartford, Mansfield I & II,
EV NY I & II, Newark, DC I & II
hey i just graduated high school in 07.....nobody listens to PJ in my grade. start hangin out with ppl in their early twenties. i guarantee they will atleast have some sort of appreciation. the majority of the people i chill with are in their twenties.... i cant stand kids in my grade.
8/7/08, 6/9/09
Sir Mike McCready is....THE MASTER!!! WAHHH!!!
EVENFLOW PSYCHOS H.N.I.C~FEEL THE FLOW!!!
"Pearl Jam fans are obsessed, they'd see the boys in HELL if tickets were sold."-CROJAM95
It takes balls to put out a UKE album!
Now I'm 33, love them even more (if that's even possible) and every now and again I'll still run into some of the same kinds people, with the same kind of baseless hatred, who love to spew bile about a band that they never gave a sliver of a chance to in the first place (these same people would later become Creed fans I believe).
Anyhoo, you know what's the real difference between our love and their hate...
...they are a bunch of assholes.
Keep on Rockin' in the Free World!
I tried to explain...
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no one will remember killswitch engage or any of those bands 10 years from now. . .
Yeah, 'nuff said.
You: Frustrated, a little angry at the world, sense of self and intelligence
Him: Pissed off
And I don't feel right when you're gone away
Like a couple people who've already posted I'd recommend making an attempt to listen to some newer music, especially the so-called "indie" bands. Not in order to fit in or replace the music you already love, but because you may missing out on creating your OWN musical memories.
I got into Pearl Jam around 1996/97 in my early teens, and even at that time I didn't know other kids who liked PJ. I got the good old "I listen to Nirvana, I hate Pearl Jam" comment and I heard kids talking about how terrible No Code was. And that was 10+ years ago. I don't regret the years I spent listening to PJ and company, and I still look to the past for good music, but there are other bands I missed out on at the time because I was more interested in recapturing the "grunge" years in my own little world. Balance is a good thing.
It all boils down to "musical snobbery". People can't seem to accept that others may have varied tastes. For instance, while loving PJ, I also like Duran Duran - two bands at completely different ends of the scale, produce vastly different music but both I love live and admire, which is the main thing.
Don't forget that many people "pretend" to like or not to like some kinds of music just to appear "cool".
For instance, I've been into the Foo Fighters since their first album came out when I was 15 (I'm a ripe old 27 now). My sister in law declared that they were her all time favourite band on hearing "Learn to Fly" (possibly their weakest song as far removed from their original sound as you can get). Ask her what others she likes or maybe her favourite album and she looks blank. This really really gets on my tits but I just have to bite my tongue and get on with it... sure, I've mocked her before but that was for my own personal pleasure. (Eek... I'm turning into a musical snob)
We're all sensitive and protective of our musical tastes at the end of the day and who gives a f*ck if someone else thinks a band you like "sucks"? As long as you are into them and their music makes you happy, just relish in the fact that really your taste is superior
Am I the only Welsh person here?
Ydych i'n siarad Cymraeg?
Maybe a little "Girls on Film"???
heh... they played that when I saw them on Broadway last November.
They do an amazing live show - hope you enjoy!
Am I the only Welsh person here?
Ydych i'n siarad Cymraeg?
yeah...everyone knows the hardcore kids play Mario Kart to Danzig
Good thought, but I'd say maybe 4 of these bands are even mainstream, and none of them Hardcore which is kinda what the kid is referring to.
Lollapalooza 8/5/07
Madison Square Garden 6/24/08 and 6/25/08
Mansfield 6/30/08
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