Holy shit.. earthlings is very very GOOD

Sarava

I'm very impressed so far. And the songs sounded amazing last night at the show. I'm thinking I will dig this a lot more than recent Pearl Jam albums, which have felt forced to me. 

igotid88

Spiritual_Chaos said:

igotid88 said:

I'm surprised that people are surprised our guys put out good music

I would imagine, some people's expectations were calibrated to what they felt about the singles.

And those were good. But even then there's 30 years of good stuff. Also people can't expect to like 100% of every song of every album. It's like the guys have to be perfect.

1ThoughtKnown

Haven’t heard it. Waiting for my fresh press to arrive. Thanks for the review though! Can’t wait to spin this mofo! 

2-feign-reluctance

Three songs in, just as incredible as I was calibrated to think when they dropped Long Way! Aren't we a lucky bunch to have such an active bunch of musicians creating for us!! 

Ledbetterman10

I'm on the sixth song. So far so good. I like it better than his other two solo albums, and I like the songs I've listened to so far more than I liked the singles. 

Purple Fairy Tree

Spiritual_Chaos said:

Listened to it (only) twice. Don't really see where the highs are? Wordy and the songs go on. Sometimes I feel like the sound of the songs are generic poprock and doesn't mesh well with Eddies vocals lying on top. I liked the Elton duet because it was nicely poppy, upbeat and Eltons voice was a nice addition to Eddies and offered some change.

Liked the mood of the last short song-thing with his dad.

Will grow on me. And some stuff are nice. 

BUT TRY WORKING WITH BED AND BREAKFAST OWNER AND MÖTLEY PRIDUCER TOM WERMAN NEXT TIME.

Earthlings did not land through my letterbox this morning so i listened to 30 second snippets online. Based on that I agree it's more upbeat than expected, although i really like a few of the songs but like @Spiritual_Chaos I expect the rest will grow on me xxx

(I dunno who said PJ are boring, i read that briefly too, they're obviously clueless!)

https://www.billboard.com/music/rock/eddie-vedder-earthling-listen-1235030073/

Spiritual_Chaos

igotid88 said:

Spiritual_Chaos said:

igotid88 said:

I'm surprised that people are surprised our guys put out good music

I would imagine, some people's expectations were calibrated to what they felt about the singles.

And those were good. 

According to you. That is your opinion. Your personal taste. Tastes are individual. 

No need to have the approach of the hare avatar guy regarding Gigaton.

Take the long way on the freeway and all that.

They have released a lot of stuff people do not like also, at least from 1996.

Zod

I've listened through it once.   All I can say is I like some of the songs, but it's not an album that hit me light a bolt of lightning on the first listen.   I'll have to listen to it some more.  That's ok though, it's very rare for albums to hit me on the first spin.  Into the Wild did though.. so there is a bar

PJ5a1

Such a roller coaster of a record... intense at times, a lot of fun, calm and heavy... Love it. Love hearing chad smith, klinghoffer and pleasantly surprised by how Watt can shred both on the record and live. 

Ledbetterman10

Considering how fun the other songs are, I can't believe he chose the singles he chose. Then again, maybe he didn't want electric guitar-driven tunes to be compared to Pearl Jam. 

2-feign-reluctance

Just informed there is an Atmos mix on Apple Music people. 

igotid88

Spiritual_Chaos said:

igotid88 said:

Spiritual_Chaos said:

igotid88 said:

I'm surprised that people are surprised our guys put out good music

I would imagine, some people's expectations were calibrated to what they felt about the singles.

And those were good. 

According to you. That is your opinion. Your personal taste. Tastes are individual. 

No need to have the approach of the hare avatar guy regarding Gigaton.

Take the long way on the freeway and all that.

They have released a lot of stuff people do not like also, at least from 1996.

Most people liked it

Ledbetterman10

Anyone have the instrumentation on the album? I'm just gonna buy it on iTunes so I won't have the liner notes from a physical release. Is it his Earthlings band? 

PJ5a1

Ledbetterman10 said:

Anyone have the instrumentation on the album? I'm just gonna buy it on iTunes so I won't have the liner notes from a physical release. Is it his Earthlings band? 

 I never knew they make the instrument versions... where the hell have I been? Itunes has them?

OceansJenny

2-feign-reluctance said:

Just informed there is an Atmos mix on Apple Music people. 

Nice! Same version as the iTunes download I wonder?

Ledbetterman10

PJ5a1 said:

Ledbetterman10 said:

Anyone have the instrumentation on the album? I'm just gonna buy it on iTunes so I won't have the liner notes from a physical release. Is it his Earthlings band? 

 I never knew they make the instrument versions... where the hell have I been? Itunes has them?

lol, no I mean who is playing the instruments on the album?

Spiritual_Chaos

Invincible sounds like The Killers or some of those newer "making rock anthems" type bands. Unimaginative chorus that verge on cringy. 

Good and Evil is fun. 

Rose of Jericho too.

Spiritual_Chaos

jakesbluskyhome said:

Spiritual_Chaos said:

Listened to it (only) twice. Don't really see where the highs are? Wordy and the songs go on. Sometimes I feel like the sound of the songs are generic poprock and doesn't mesh well with Eddies vocals lying on top. I liked the Elton duet because it was nicely poppy, upbeat and Eltons voice was a nice addition to Eddies and offered some change.

Liked the mood of the last short song-thing with his dad.

Will grow on me. And some stuff are nice. 

BUT TRY WORKING WITH BED AND BREAKFAST OWNER AND MÖTLEY PRIDUCER TOM WERMAN NEXT TIME.

I’m curious your take on gigaton if you think this album is wordy… love gigaton for what it is but talk about some songs that go on haha 

And man if good vs evil doesn’t give you a shot of energy/testosterone/head bopping idk what will on this album 

Love the first half of Gigaton. Great hooks in those songs. DotC should have been produced differently or skipped because it's "dead sound" kills the garagey living and live sound of the songs coming before it. 

The second half drags a bit. Weird to frontload the album with all the faster songs, and then have all the slower numbers in the back. Weird album listen too therefore. 

tino_11

Had a few listens to this now. 

I'm not really feeling it but it is growing on me a little. Some songs like The Haves, Try and the Elton duet I can't see ever being my thing. I know Eddie is older, in a different place etc etc but my listening tastes are not heading in the same direction. We are 100% in the dad rock space here.

Musically I'm not finding much that inspires me. There's quite a few songs that the tempo is too fast on, I think they'd suit being slowed down a bit. 

Reading opinions that the is better than ITW is blowing my mind. That for me will always be one of my top 10 albums of all time. 

Spiritual_Chaos

Try is fun. But not something one remembers when it ends.

THE REEL BIG FISH VIBES.

https://youtu.be/nMpxb-PsEss