Pearl Jam still Alive -- but they're no U2

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  • DarkStar
    DarkStar Posts: 734
    "When Vedder took the stage solo for the tender Better Man, the audience erupted into a thunderous roar. They cheered and sang along on a sweet version of Neil Young's Harvest Moon, featuring back-up vocals from Carrie Brownstein, of opening act Sleater-Kinney."

    Unless I was at a different show, it was Corine Tucker singing back-up vocals on Harvest Moon...which just about sums up the accuracy of Liisa Ladoucer's review.

    ds
    And no one sings me lullabyes
    And no one makes me close my eyes
    So I throw the windows wide
    And call to you across the sky....
  • GivenToWalk
    GivenToWalk Posts: 48
    Innocent_Bystander wrote:
    I don't like it at all. The writer is uneducated, but I guess I would be expected to say that since I'm from Pearl Jam's "Grateful Flock"

    i agree, very uneducated.
    See you @: Camden I, Camden II & MSG II
  • Kricket
    Kricket Posts: 707
    What a Joke!
  • share
    share Posts: 551
    Red Lukin2 wrote:
    havent read it yet, but by going by the title I'd have to disagree


    http://www.torontosun.com/Entertainment/Music/2005/09/20/1227294-sun.html

    When Vedder took the stage solo for the tender Better Man, the audience erupted into a thunderous roar. They cheered and sang along on a sweet version of Neil Young's Harvest Moon, featuring back-up vocals from Carrie Brownstein, of opening act Sleater-Kinney.

    lets face it - this sums up her musical knowledge!!

    Looked like Corin Tucker to me

    these guys just show up, ask people around them what's going on and then
    write up some shit

    I find it innocuous because she screwed up so badly that it's obvious she doesn't know what's she's talking about
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  • Great White North
    Great White North Posts: 253
    at least PJ doesn't play any of their songs twice during their shows
  • peteyorn
    peteyorn Posts: 3
    Poncier wrote:
    Did it ever occur to this woman they might be saying "Booooom" not "boooo" or even "Boooo-urns"?


    omg, lmfao... Booooo-urns...

    this writer is a loser...The Sun is notrious for uneducated and uninformed music reporters... If anyone is from the GTA, they will know that Jane Stevenson once gave the No code album 2 stars......
    ahhh hello, that's because that album got rid of all the shit heads who wet their pants over hearing Jeremy!

    go away losers

    It was a great show, and the show didn't need Bono, just an added Bonus

    great show boys!!!


    probably pissed because she isn't reviewing the Bon Jovi show tonight....
    "as the curtain comes down, I feel that this is just goodbye for now....."
  • Pearl Street Brewery
    Pearl Street Brewery Posts: 113
    "As Bono's presence only highlighted, they're certainly no U2"


    HELLO!!!!!!!!!

    U2 is NOT a ROCK BAND
    U2 is NOT a ROCK BAND
    U2 is NOT a ROCK BAND
    U2 is NOT a ROCK BAND

    Stop comparing Pearl Jam to a commercial POP band!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • P.R.I.V.A.C.Y.
    P.R.I.V.A.C.Y. Posts: 4
    hahahahaha, which song did U2 play twice in a night. i havent heard about that. classic!
    Montreal '03
    Halifax '05

  • rebornFixer
    rebornFixer Posts: 4,901
    What a dumbass review ... U2 is the "greatest live act in the world" if you happen to enjoy the same exact overrehearsed thing every night. I agree, they are polished and professional. Which in my mind is NOT the same thing as "good".
    To each his own, I suppose.
  • olderman
    olderman Posts: 1,765
    i think she is wrong. i wonder if she likes the monkees? this was my 1st show away from kc and it was excellent!
    Down the street you can hear her scream youre a disgrace
    As she slams the door in his drunken face
    And now he stands outside
    And all the neighbours start to gossip and drool
    He cries oh, girl you must be mad,
    What happened to the sweet love you and me had?
    Against the door he leans and starts a scene,
    And his tears fall and burn the garden green
  • Light_years
    Light_years Posts: 58
    they played vertigo twice
    "Pussies no more"
    "Johnny we miss, Pete your still the greatest"
  • Poncier
    Poncier Posts: 17,885
    Squidge wrote:
    U2......what is it with this band. Bono is an arse, The Edge....i mean CUMMON!!!!!!! What fuckin band gives themselves nicknames the stupid C**TS!!!!
    Well they didn't give themeselves the nicknames, you think Kenny Gaspar woke up one morning and said "I think I'll start calling myself Boom"?
    Of course he wanted to be T-Bone, but that was taken already.
    This weekend we rock Portland
  • YeahThatRocks.com
    YeahThatRocks.com Posts: 117
    Most concert reviews in newspapers are written by people who know little about the band they're reviewing. I saw a review of the Nine Inch Nails show that said NIN covered the Johnny Cash song Hurt. I mean I love th Cash version of that song, but how do you review the Nails show and not know that Hurt is written by Trent????
    Leave your lady on the cement floor.

    "You boo us, you call us pussies, and still we come back." EV NJ1 2006

    2008 MSG 2
    2006 NJ 1, NJ 2
    2003 MSG 1
  • jtwist
    jtwist Posts: 3
    Sorry guys, this is my first post but after reading that piece of trash I have to vent....

    First off, The Toronto Sun is nothing more than a glorified tabloid!!!! Their writers in ALL areas are morons and this is a prime example. The Boo'ing reference to Boom obviously means she has zero knowledge of the band. To compare U2 with Pearl Jam is laughable. Like someone previously mentioned, (sorry to offend any U2 fans but....) U2 is nothing but an overproduced, overhyped, POP band!! Sure they did have relevence and credibility but that was about 14 years ago. A PJ concert is about one thing, the music. Minimal lights and effects, just the boys up there playing their butts off. As the writer mentions U2 maintains their relevence because of their supreme "showmanship and stage designs". Last time I looked how many of the greatests bands in history had to rely on showmanship and stages to stay relevant, I mean aren't they MUSICIANS NOT PERFORMERS?????? I have now been to 6 PJ shows and everyone of them has been an amazing experience. I have been with several people who were seeing them for the first time (including last night) and every single one of them loved it!!!! If you want to compare a U2 show to another concert, then maybe Madonna would be more fitting.

    I will say that when Bono came out, the crowd went nuts. Even though I don't particularly like U2, I can appreciate their places in music history. To say Bono stole the show is ludicrous, the guy was on stage for ONE SONG. Sure him being there generated a few extra cheers but he did nothing memorable.

    Overall this review isn't even worth the paper its written on. I have disagreed with several of the Sun's concert reviews before but this one took things to a whole other level.
    Spin me round......roll me over.......fucking circus

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  • hodge
    hodge Posts: 519
    I encourage you guys to write the Sun and comment on how you feel about the article, I just did.
    ..and you will come to find that we are all one mind, capable of all that's imagined and all conceivable
  • cellophane_star
    cellophane_star Posts: 117
    When Bono performs with Pearl Jam and vice versa. I don't think the bands are comparible, but to journalists who need to bang out a quick article, it's enough of a basis to go on.

    Most reviews in newspapers are written by non-PJ fanatics, like the people who post on this board. You know they aren't going to capture the awesomeness of a PJ show. It's best to ignore it.
    Makes much more sense to live in the Present Tense.

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  • sweet adeline
    sweet adeline Posts: 2,191
    i wonder if pearl jam comes out with a limited edition ipod, maybe then this reporter will respect them as a "real rock band"...

    what a joke.

    the title of her article should have been:
    "i'm an idiot, i've never seen pearl jam live, oh and i want to have sex with bono".
  • PapaJam
    PapaJam Posts: 23
    Just got back to Philly from Toronto. This morning I pick up The Toronto Sun and see a cool shot of Eddie on the front. So I read and discover how insignificant the Sun is in Toronto. Who puts the Vedder on the front page and then Bashes him 60 pages deep. WHAT A JOKE!

    Fuck you Toronto Sun and that pathetic piece you call journalism.
    If I had known then what I know now.....

    "How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it."
    Marcus Aurelius
  • jsam
    jsam Posts: 1
    The Sun is "pro Bush". Would you expect a ringing endorsement for a band that is decidedly the opposite?
    lost&found
  • VOLITION
    VOLITION Posts: 328
    This guy obvoiusly has a hard on for Bono. I'm sorry but in no way did Bono upstage Pearl JAm. He just added to the fire that was alreay out of control
    "it feels like it's the end of the world and we all got a good seat. you know -- step right up, get your tickets...here we go."

    - EV

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