Nikki Sixx: Pearl Jam is "one of the most boring bands in history"

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  • LeafsJaysCubsRaptorsFan
    LeafsJaysCubsRaptorsFan Posts: 3,417
    Even the beastie boys were able to acknowledge that maybe some of their songs weren’t appropriate towards women. 
  • igotid88
    igotid88 Posts: 28,664

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  • Cropduster-80
    Cropduster-80 Posts: 2,034
    edited February 2022
    LeafsJaysCubsRaptorsFan said:
    Even the beastie boys were able to acknowledge that maybe some of their songs weren’t appropriate towards women. 
    Exactly and what makes me crazy is they got crap for being hypocrites.  That’s one of my all time favourite quotes “I’d rather be a hypocrite than the same person forever.”

    their lyrics were bad then but not nearly as bad as the lens of time makes it look. People said a lot in the 80’s they wouldn’t today. They owned it though and I’d rather they do that 
  • Go Beavers
    Go Beavers Posts: 9,593
    Cropduster-80 said:
    Poncier said:
    Cropduster-80 said:
    Their music didn’t age well. I get Ed’s point. No offence to their fans but he isn’t wrong.  He may have said the same thing more tactfully though 

    In a certain time and place they were very popular, no denying that. 
    Has Ed heard all their music or just a few radio hits? Sure you can call Girls Girls Girls vacuous, it's a song about strip joints.
    But not every Motley song is that way. Sixx has also written some heavy lyrics stemming from his upbringing (which has some striking similarities to EV's as it pertains to his father) and his near death experience etc.
    I’m guessing probably not. Right or wrong I’m sure girls girls girls is the image a lot of people have

    i didn’t know that either and I had an album or two of theirs in high school.  

    I’m also not saying it’s fair to hold someone accountable for lyrics or a lifestyle today when it’s not as socially acceptable as it was at the time.  That happens all the time and I don’t think it’s fair.  

    Not aging well was what I meant. It seems worse today than it did at the time. Someone making a comment 30 years later about something that clearly wasn’t an issue then or he would have said it then. 

     Hopefully that makes sense 
    What was the cut off date for Ed to share his opinion of Girls Girls Girls? 
  • igotid88
    igotid88 Posts: 28,664
    I could be wrong but I don't remember Eddie or any of Pearl Jam clapping back at other artists who dissed their band. 
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  • ComeToTX
    ComeToTX Austin Posts: 8,071
    Motley Crue is horrible. If someone in that band thinks you’re boring it’s a compliment. 
    This show, another show, a show here and a show there.
  • 2-feign-reluctance
    2-feign-reluctance TigerTown, USA Posts: 23,462
    That dude is a douche. He made some real disparaging comments about REM back in the day. 
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  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,808
    I think he's mad because he missed dirty frank.
  • 2-feign-reluctance
    2-feign-reluctance TigerTown, USA Posts: 23,462
    Loujoe said:
    I think he's mad because he missed dirty frank.
    Haha! I think he’s bitter because the Crue were always a shitty Guns N Roses cover band. 
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  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,518
    2-feign-reluctance said:
    Loujoe said:
    I think he's mad because he missed dirty frank.
    Haha! I think he’s bitter because the Crue were always a shitty Guns N Roses cover band. 
    How is this possible timeline wise  :dog:
    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • JeBurkhardt
    JeBurkhardt Posts: 5,336
    2-feign-reluctance said:
    That dude is a douche. He made some real disparaging comments about REM back in the day. 
    He made disparaging comments about R.E.M.!?!? F that dude then!! Nobody messes with Michael and the boys! 
  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,518
    He approved a pearl jam reference in The Dirt Netflix movie. 
    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,808
     I liked motley crue up to shout at the devil. Now I like pj.
  • Poncier
    Poncier Posts: 17,903
    2-feign-reluctance said:
    Loujoe said:
    I think he's mad because he missed dirty frank.
    Haha! I think he’s bitter because the Crue were always a shitty Guns N Roses cover band. 
    Crue predates Guns by 6 years.
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  • JeBurkhardt
    JeBurkhardt Posts: 5,336
    ComeToTX said:
    Motley Crue is horrible. If someone in that band thinks you’re boring it’s a compliment. 
    My thought is that Pearl Jam would seem boring to a band that had to light their pants on fire, have go go dancers on stage and have a rotating drum kit just to keep their fans entertained at their shows. The music sure wasn’t doing it. 
  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,518
    Poncier said:
    2-feign-reluctance said:
    Loujoe said:
    I think he's mad because he missed dirty frank.
    Haha! I think he’s bitter because the Crue were always a shitty Guns N Roses cover band. 
    Crue predates Guns by 6 years.

    Guns former manager:

    “‘Dr. Feelgood,’ the Motley Crue song, that’s a Guns N’ Roses song. Slash and Duff [McKagan] wrote that riff. They wrote it down in Redondo Beach, when I was with them.

    “[Guns N’ Roses] were rehearsing, and Steven [Adler] would come down once a week, and Duff would come down five days a week, and they were jamming and they came up with that riff.

    “Nikki [Sixx] is famous for taking a recorder to a club and stealing songs from bands, [they got it] because they recorded the recorded before we did.”



    @Sea fix the sub-par quote function on this message board. 

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  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,518
    edited February 2022
    JeBurkhardt said:

     The music sure wasn’t doing it. 
    Pretty sure songs like Kickstart my Heart, Dr Feelgood, Shout at the Devil etc do that. 

    Eddie needs a specially constructed lamp to ride on during Porch. And lets nor forget the stack of tamburins to keep the crowd entertained. 

    Have some perspective 
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    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • JeBurkhardt
    JeBurkhardt Posts: 5,336
    Spiritual_Chaos said:
    JeBurkhardt said:

     The music sure wasn’t doing it. 
    Pretty sure songs like Kickstart my Heart, Dr Feelgood, Shout at the Devil etc does that. 
    When I saw them there were a couple of songs that did stand out on their own, but for the most part it if not for the “show” it would have been just another rock band playing on a stage. To each their own I guess. 🤷‍♂️
  • tdawe
    tdawe Posts: 2,091
    Very excited to announce my new podcast. Based on the classic podcast “Analyze Phish”, “Pearls Before Swine” will feature yours truly trying to convince my cohost Nikki Sixx that Pearl Jam is NOT boring and in fact is good and he should like them. I will do this by playing him a combination of deep album cuts and bootleg tracks started in the middle of the song. We will have thousands of one star reviews, with furious all-caps comments about how I’m a moron for choosing the wrong version of Unthought Known. 
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  • Tim Simmons
    Tim Simmons Posts: 9,779
    Ed’s right. MC was sexist and gross. It’s embarrassing. PJ was the antithesis of that. That’s why they are better. Just better people. 

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