Who here gets shit for loving this band?

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  • edvedr13
    edvedr13 Posts: 241
    all the fucking time!
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  • melva02
    melva02 Posts: 298
    MikeLammi23 wrote:
    I guess my friend said it best (please, no offense intended):
    "I had a choice to either grow up a wigger, or a guido. I chose the wigger route."

    Awesome. In my high school (NY suburb class of '98) the choice was "freak" or "g", a g being a rap/hip-hop person and a freak being a grunge/alternative person. I chose freak. Freaks could dress like grunge bands or like hippies. Gs wore basketball jerseys and stuff...this was before there were a lot of urban fashion labels. One year for Halloween, two of my friends swapped styles and dressed like the other one. Amazing what a difference it made to their look.

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  • gozzo5058
    gozzo5058 Posts: 611
    i do...my wife gives it to me every day...
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  • pdalowsky
    pdalowsky Doncaster,UK Posts: 15,247
    yeah only off the wife, she suggests I have a problem
  • washedinblack91
    washedinblack91 Posts: 3,079
    12345AGNST1 wrote:
    Not really me. I never blast or try forcing my friends to like my music.
    for me it was never about forcing anyone to like my music or anything like that, just the mere mention of pearl jam and i get all this crap. like, one time, i was listening to my cd player before class and my 11th grade history teacher came up to me, took my headphones (cuz he's nosy like that) and put them on to see what i was listening to, which happened to be VS. he then said "who is this? pearl jam? ughhh, they had one good album, that pink album. eddie vedder sounds like something dropped on his toe." ughhhh...
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  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    washedinblack91 wrote:
    for me it was never about forcing anyone to like my music or anything like that, just the mere mention of pearl jam and i get all this crap. like, one time, i was listening to my cd player before class and my 11th grade history teacher came up to me, took my headphones (cuz he's nosy like that) and put them on to see what i was listening to, which happened to be VS. he then said "who is this? pearl jam? ughhh, they had one good album, that pink album. eddie vedder sounds like something dropped on his toe." ughhhh...

    how old was this teacher?
  • SENROCK
    SENROCK Posts: 10,736
    Jeremy's Spoken wrote:
    *raises hand* I get it from my sister, from my teachers, and my closest friends.

    Dude you were born a year before they came out, they sound like shit, he mumbles. All of this shit.. I just wish that they can open their ears, and see what it's all about.

    Did you ever wish that you can turn everyone into a fan? Because you enjoy it so much, that you cant understand why others dont?

    yes. i get a lot of trash talk from my family. One of my brothers goes out of his way to say pearl jam is weak and yada yada. My frenz too. They say stoopid stuff like pearl jam are of the past and they are washed up and whatever else. Yet when they hear or see anything pearl jam, they call me all exxxcited :D
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  • battan1120
    battan1120 Posts: 310
    I get some crap from my Deadhead friends.I get are'nt they a mosh band & your to old to like them.Last I knew the band were all in there 40's just like me.
    The bus came by and I got on!!!!!
  • Noonie
    Noonie Posts: 93
    washedinblack91 wrote:
    eddie vedder sounds like something dropped on his toe." ughhhh...
    I don't know why that made me LOL
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  • Corso
    Corso so poor I can't afford to comment on the PJ forum Posts: 201
    edited January 2009
    PJ kicks ass.
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  • 12345AGNST1
    12345AGNST1 Posts: 4,906
    washedinblack91 wrote:
    for me it was never about forcing anyone to like my music or anything like that, just the mere mention of pearl jam and i get all this crap. like, one time, i was listening to my cd player before class and my 11th grade history teacher came up to me, took my headphones (cuz he's nosy like that) and put them on to see what i was listening to, which happened to be VS. he then said "who is this? pearl jam? ughhh, they had one good album, that pink album. eddie vedder sounds like something dropped on his toe." ughhhh...

    When I do mention it I rarely ever get shit. They just go "yea he loves pearl jam, i dont really care though". One of my friend respects it, and one of my friends older bro gives me shit actually but hes just kidding and I think he understands also.
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  • kittykat416
    kittykat416 Posts: 180
    yellowled24 wrote:
    I don't get shit so much-more i'm desensitised....

    I have loved them for so long and have such a passion for the band, that I have no idea the extent to how well known they are/or arent.

    I was talking to someone a few months ago about PJ, and they turn around and say, "Who's Pearl Jam?". :eek:

    I have met quite a few people who don't know who they are, even though I just assume that everyone would know? :confused:


    I remember being in Hawaii in Dec '06 and telling a friend's daughter, who was about 18 years old at the time, a whole story about how we had seen Eddie Vedder on Waikiki beach a few days before.... and we get to the end of the story and she says "Who is Eddie Vedder?" Our jaws dropped... and we felt *old* ;)
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  • EchosNobodyHears
    EchosNobodyHears Posts: 583
    i dont know about you guys, but more than getting shit for it i c the people who think they are so into pearl jam and they dont even know much about them at all. now that i have listen to most of there stuff and have a ton of it i no how in depth this band is. at school i have people blaring yellow ledbetter and alive and they think they are big pj fans. and when asked about other songs or anything about the band they dont know. they just looked the lyrics up online and think they know it all...just needed to see if anyone else is in this boat. i c a lot of it now that im back to school.
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  • Noonie
    Noonie Posts: 93
    EchosNobodyHears wrote:
    i dont know about you guys, but more than getting shit for it i c the people who think they are so into pearl jam and they dont even know much about them at all. now that i have listen to most of there stuff and have a ton of it i no how in depth this band is. at school i have people blaring yellow ledbetter and alive and they think they are big pj fans. and when asked about other songs or anything about the band they dont know. they just looked the lyrics up online and think they know it all...just needed to see if anyone else is in this boat. i c a lot of it now that im back to school.
    Oh yes, I know what you mean. But I'd still take someone who thinks they disappeared in 93 over someone saying how much they suck. Just a few months ago I was talking with this guy, and PJ came up in the conversation, so I asked him if he heard their latest album from 06... he was completely floored and asked- when the hell did they reunite??
    But then again just the other day I was talking to one of my oldest friends (I know her since we were like, 3 years old) and she said Binaural was one of her favorite albums. I pretty much dropped dead, lol.
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    And if you rap like me you don't get paid
    And if you roll like me you don't get laid.
  • edpearson
    edpearson Posts: 331
    I gotta say that I don't get shit for digging this band, but that's probably because most people I hang with know that I was down with them when "Ten" came out in '91 and that I pretty much haven't missed a tour since seeing them for the first time in '92. My wife likes them, doesn't love them; and she doesn't understand why I'm on the Message Pit all the time. That's probably the only negativity I can think of. I am very impressed seeing some of the younger fans like yourself on here. If I were 18 like you, I don't think I'd be a Pearl Jam fan simply because I wouldn't be exposed to them. They're rarely on TV (only VH1 rings a bell) and my local radio stations here in the Bay Area rarely play them as well (if they do, it's always something from the early days). Heck, when I flew out to Philly for this past Summer's shows, all the rock stations there played a ton of PJ, but when they played a 3-night stint in San Francisco in '06, the radio stations hardly made an effort to promote them (for you Bay Area fans, I'm talking about our shitty rock stations: KFOG and Live105). So a big kudos for you!
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  • JPS79
    JPS79 Posts: 148
    I do at work, the guys give me hell saying they have 3 songs: daughter,betterman,and that other one. They know better just some innocent ribbing.
    Seems the more you make
    equals the loneliness you get
  • answers are fatal
    answers are fatal Posts: 281
    Jeremy's Spoken wrote:
    *raises hand* I get it from my sister, from my teachers, and my closest friends.

    Dude you were born a year before they came out, they sound like shit, he mumbles. All of this shit.. I just wish that they can open their ears, and see what it's all about.

    Did you ever wish that you can turn everyone into a fan? Because you enjoy it so much, that you cant understand why others dont?


    i always get questioned for liking pearl jam haha. i always get the "thats weird, you were born the same year ten came out." also, my mom thinks im on drugs because i listen to them lol ,its actually funny though
  • ScottandPearlJam
    ScottandPearlJam Posts: 1,126
    I always do
    I find myself defending them all the time
    those who say "who are they" and and those who do know say "they suck"
    "are they still around" crap like that....makes me so angry

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  • Anon
    Anon Posts: 11,175
    y. e. s.!

    most 16 year old girls love, say, fall out boy or hellogoodbye
    i get that pj is 'way before my time'
    well screw you!
    you see, i'm way different than you....
    i actually have good taste in music :]
  • allstar340
    allstar340 NYC Posts: 848
    samjam wrote:
    y. e. s.!

    most 16 year old girls love, say, fall out boy or hellogoodbye
    i get that pj is 'way before my time'
    well screw you!
    you see, i'm way different than you....
    i actually have good taste in music :]
    hey, another 16 year old pearl jam fan
    :)
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