the 2013 Fan Club 45rpm record...opinions?

JimmyV

Eh, I listened yesterday and moved on. Not really worth getting too excited or upset about, at least to me. However, everyone has every right to be as disappointed as they find themselves today with this year's single.

Jean Fucking Tripplehorn. 'nuff said.

jonsey30

Wow does this suck. I like Hova as much as the next guy, but I want to hear Pearl Jam when I get a Pearl Jam fan club single. And I love the song Shattered, but come on, this is stupid. Stupid I say!

nippleholic

Jeanne Tripplehorn was hot in Basic Instinct.

Vitalogensia

It seems the band loved doing "99 Problems." How many times did Ed reference that (directly or indirectly) during this tour?

The Tripplehorn thing is kind of funny (albeit after seeing the Kimmel video), and yeah it might not be a side that I'll find myself playing more than once a year (the Andrews voice is Christmasy), but I think the band was just having fun with this and that's cool to me.

Dead Man Walking

I know is considered being a "whiny baby" around here if you don't like something the band/10c did but I have to admit I'm pretty disappointed with this single.

The Jay-Z/PJ "99 Problems" is fine. I'm okay with what it is. It's Pearl Jam playing at Made In America and them doing a collab with Jay-Z is unique. Totally cool with it. Having W.M.A included would have been nice. Unfortunate it's not there as it would have been nice to hear it along with the transition into 99 but as a whole, it's night to have this little nugget from a show that looks like it won't ever be released.

The B-side however is an absolutely awful choice. It's an actress impersonating another actress in what sounds like a terrible open mic night. It's one thing for a band to release a fun/goofy song but this isn't even that. It's a friend of Ed's (presumably) doing an impersonation over a Stones tune. How this has any relation to Pearl Jam is lost on me. This was a private gig Ed played at and other than Tripplehorn's introduction and the "Shadoobie's," Ed is not even present on either side of this Christmas single. That's a huge disappointment.

With the new album just being released I don't understand why they wouldn't ride that wave and release a pair of demos or alternate takes or songs that never even made the album. Jack White released a 7" that had 3 demos from his Blunderbuss album as part of one of the TMR Vault packages shortly after his album was released. It's brilliant. Pearl Jam fans would love something like that.

I will say the art actually looks pretty nice for this 7"...so there's that.

Here's hoping for next year.

High Fidelity 2000

nippleholic wrote:

Jeanne Tripplehorn was hot in Basic Instinct.

:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

PJ_Soul

My opinion is that it's prettyvstange that the Pearl Jam fan club is now sending out non-Pearl Jam Christmas singles. It's about as Pearl Jam as Mirror Ball is (but not good). The B-side is absolutely unlistenable. Side A is Jay-Z.
This the worst one ever. I don't even want it. I'll probably just give it to a record store for free. Maybe some Jay-Z fan will buy it.

Bigda

Zod wrote:

iOnlyownMymind wrote:

Will we ever get a new original unreleased song again?

Maybe... one day.... it does seem the band is keeping a lid on any studio tracks these days (possibly for lost dogs 2 one day?).

It's a shame. My favorite fan club singles are the ones with new studio tracks on them (or even Don't Believe in Christmas which they recorded the soundcheck.. which is close to studio...).

PJ has so much live content out there (as they release almost every show) that live singles aren't quite as interesting to me. I know this show didn't get released but I have heard it before (the videos were all over youtube).

I have to imagine at some point they'll find the time to put something new on a fan club single.... so many great fan club songs from years past:

1) Sonic Reducer (Cover)
2) Let Me Sleep
3) Don't Believe in Christmas
4) Driftin'

The list goes on

agreed.
i miss times when xmas single really meant some great new, unreleased music. puttin two tracks there where you can barely hear EV on just one of them, is a let down for me.

juddboz80

I think its unique, but I also think it sucks!

I've got all the Xmas singles and I don't see myself ever playing this one!

High Fidelity 2000

PJ_Soul wrote:

My opinion is that it's prettyvstange that the Pearl Jam fan club is now sending out non-Pearl Jam Christmas singles. It's about as Pearl Jam as Mirror Ball is (but not good). The B-side is absolutely unlistenable. Side A is Jay-Z.
This the worst one ever. I don't even want it. I'll probably just give it to a record store for free. Maybe some Jay-Z fan will buy it.

Don't do that. Sell it on ebay and pay off some of your tour expenses on your credit card.

jeffbr

PJ_Soul wrote:

My opinion is that it's prettyvstange that the Pearl Jam fan club is now sending out non-Pearl Jam Christmas singles. It's about as Pearl Jam as Mirror Ball is (but not good). The B-side is absolutely unlistenable. Side A is Jay-Z.
This the worst one ever. I don't even want it. I'll probably just give it to a record store for free. Maybe some Jay-Z fan will buy it.

Agreed. A PJ holiday single should be PJ. If they covered those 2 songs, it would have at least been interesting. The B-side was more listenable for me than JayZ for sure. The B-side is just a goof, and they're having a little fun. But the A-side is some attempt at a serious collaboration. For me it is a total waste of time, and I won't be listening to either again.

The band must have gotten ahold of some bad crack when they were making that choice. I get why Eddie chose them, since he wants to be so hipster, edgy, too-cool-for-school. But why McCready, Ament, Gossard and Cameron went along with that is beyond me. Maybe Ed threw a tantrum. Either way, horrible choice. The good news is that 2014's sinigles can only be better with the low bar they set this year.

pjradio

just reading thru the comments...does everyone realize that the "band" wasn't even there for the Shattered thing?...it was an EV solo, private party.

jgardz

I'll buy your 45 if you don't want it..PM me

PJ_Soul

High Fidelity 2000 wrote:

PJ_Soul wrote:

My opinion is that it's prettyvstange that the Pearl Jam fan club is now sending out non-Pearl Jam Christmas singles. It's about as Pearl Jam as Mirror Ball is (but not good). The B-side is absolutely unlistenable. Side A is Jay-Z.
This the worst one ever. I don't even want it. I'll probably just give it to a record store for free. Maybe some Jay-Z fan will buy it.

Don't do that. Sell it on ebay and pay off some of your tour expenses on your credit card.

Do you really think anyone would actually buy it? :think:

:fp:

PJ_Soul

jgardz wrote:

I'll buy your 45 if you don't want it..PM me

Oh. :P

pjradio

just arrived in Louisville...whats with the little sticker strip on the front of 99 Problems?...its like an afterthought

High Fidelity 2000

PJ_Soul wrote:

High Fidelity 2000 wrote:

PJ_Soul wrote:

My opinion is that it's prettyvstange that the Pearl Jam fan club is now sending out non-Pearl Jam Christmas singles. It's about as Pearl Jam as Mirror Ball is (but not good). The B-side is absolutely unlistenable. Side A is Jay-Z.
This the worst one ever. I don't even want it. I'll probably just give it to a record store for free. Maybe some Jay-Z fan will buy it.

Don't do that. Sell it on ebay and pay off some of your tour expenses on your credit card.

Do you really think anyone would actually buy it? :think:

:fp:

Haven't you heard? PJ fans will buy ANYTHING.

And actually, I was figuring this might fetch high prices because of the Jay Z thing... surely his fans will only be able to get it off ebay? Of course, they might hear the other side and go "what the fuck is with this 'Pearl Jam' shit??"

PJ_Soul

High Fidelity 2000 wrote:

PJ_Soul wrote:

High Fidelity 2000 wrote:

Don't do that. Sell it on ebay and pay off some of your tour expenses on your credit card.

Do you really think anyone would actually buy it? :think:

:fp:

Haven't you heard? PJ fans will buy ANYTHING.

And actually, I was figuring this might fetch high prices because of the Jay Z thing... surely his fans will only be able to get it off ebay? Of course, they might hear the other side and go "what the fuck is with this 'Pearl Jam' shit??"

:shock: I never even thought of that. How embarrassing! :fp:

teskeinc

Its so bad, can we reverse auction on here? So I will pay 10$ for someone to take it off my hands, do I hear 11$?

ikiT

YAWN....if you don't like the lyrics you can press fast forward.