A Strongly Worded Letter to Pearl Jam

KM73780

Life is short. Time is urgent. WE NEED the next album to be a total effing barn burner. None of this weird shit, I mean just light the bitch (the album) on fire. High and hard, burn it to the ground. With urgency!

Please and thank you. 

JimmyV

I love that this was not at all what I expected it to be. 

pjhawks

Recent events really makes you appreciate the moments to see this band again.  Life is short.  Embrace it

lastexitlondon

My first thought  was late night  drinking?

joseph33

Wait..what???

HughFreakingDillon

JimmyV said:

I love that this was not at all what I expected it to be. 

Haha me too

drakeheuer14

Weird shit? I quite like the new stuff

mattcoz

JimmyV said:

I love that this was not at all what I expected it to be. 

Ha, yup.

evenflow82

In my dream world Stone would write the monster hooky riffs, Mike would solo like he does in concert and Ed would write the lyrics. 

bootlegger10

Well, this is a poorly structured letter.  Where is the greeting?  No closing?  No signature?  Who is this letter addressed to?   

Other than that, A+

bootlegger10

I want this album to be the reappearance of Stone Gossard.  

Ed - You got all the songs on Earthlings which was great.  Time to let Stone contribute.  

ski-bum

lastexitlondon said:

My first thought  was late night  drinking?

lol

mattcoz

evenflow82 said:

In my dream world Stone would write the monster hooky riffs, Mike would solo like he does in concert and Ed would write the lyrics. 

If Jeff worthless to you??!

lastexitlondon

Jeff and Matt.  Thats  all

2-feign-reluctance

Dear Pearl Jam,

Write how you will, play when you can. I’ll be listening when it’s time. 

Love,
C

Jason7192

2-feign-reluctance said:

Dear Pearl Jam,

Write how you will, play when you can. I’ll be listening when it’s time. 

Love,
C

Yup. Nothing more, nothing less.

lastexitlondon

2-feign-reluctance said:

Dear Pearl Jam,

Write how you will, play when you can. I’ll be listening when it’s time. 

Love,
C

Love from  rob too.

RoleModelsinBlood31

Don’t make it another WordSaladton.  We don’t need to see how many god damn words we can fit into each song. As a matter of fact, maybe let Stone etc. write the lyrics and music and you can go catch a swell or two in Hawaii. When you get done, meet em in the studio and you can sing on em.  I happen to like Pearl Jam, and not so much Eddie Vedder as he’s steered this love boat straight into the word iceberg.  The guy loves to hear himself. The lyric book should be as thin as possible, using as few trees and resources as is lyrically possible. I still haven’t listened to anything after the first two tracks of Ed’s Earthling, and have no intention to.

wiscojam

drakeheuer14 said:

Weird shit? I quite like the new stuff

+1

HughFreakingDillon

RoleModelsinBlood31 said:

Don’t make it another WordSaladton.  We don’t need to see how many god damn words we can fit into each song. As a matter of fact, maybe let Stone etc. write the lyrics and music and you can go catch a swell or two in Hawaii. When you get done, meet em in the studio and you can sing on em.  I happen to like Pearl Jam, and not so much Eddie Vedder as he’s steered this love boat straight into the word iceberg.  The guy loves to hear himself. The lyric book should be as thin as possible, using as few trees and resources as is lyrically possible. I still haven’t listened to anything after the first two tracks of Ed’s Earthling, and have no intention to.

Feel free to start a band. 

mpedone

This is a band known for making the music they want to make. Don't see that changing. You don't have to enjoy it, but you also don't get to demand they make music to your taste. 

ddeschler

I'm here for the weird shit too. 

smile6680

KM73780 said:

Life is short. Time is urgent. WE NEED the next album to be a total effing barn burner. None of this weird shit, I mean just light the bitch (the album) on fire. High and hard, burn it to the ground. With urgency!

Please and thank you. 

Well put and I agree.

Spiritual_Chaos

Mirrorball #2 or else!

mpedone

wiscojam said:

drakeheuer14 said:

Weird shit? I quite like the new stuff

+1

+2

Jakpot12

RoleModelsinBlood31 said:

Don’t make it another WordSaladton.  We don’t need to see how many god damn words we can fit into each song. As a matter of fact, maybe let Stone etc. write the lyrics and music and you can go catch a swell or two in Hawaii. When you get done, meet em in the studio and you can sing on em.  I happen to like Pearl Jam, and not so much Eddie Vedder as he’s steered this love boat straight into the word iceberg.  The guy loves to hear himself. The lyric book should be as thin as possible, using as few trees and resources as is lyrically possible. I still haven’t listened to anything after the first two tracks of Ed’s Earthling, and have no intention to.

Maybe let Stone write your posts.  Yours was a bit wordy..

on2legs

Lol

Lerxst1992

Jakpot12 said:

RoleModelsinBlood31 said:

Don’t make it another WordSaladton.  We don’t need to see how many god damn words we can fit into each song. As a matter of fact, maybe let Stone etc. write the lyrics and music and you can go catch a swell or two in Hawaii. When you get done, meet em in the studio and you can sing on em.  I happen to like Pearl Jam, and not so much Eddie Vedder as he’s steered this love boat straight into the word iceberg.  The guy loves to hear himself. The lyric book should be as thin as possible, using as few trees and resources as is lyrically possible. I still haven’t listened to anything after the first two tracks of Ed’s Earthling, and have no intention to.

Maybe let Stone write your posts.  Yours was a bit wordy..

The lyrics sometimes can be like solving simultaneous equations. Thanks Stone!

Red Mosqito

RoleModelsinBlood31 said:

Don’t make it another WordSaladton.  We don’t need to see how many god damn words we can fit into each song. As a matter of fact, maybe let Stone etc. write the lyrics and music and you can go catch a swell or two in Hawaii. When you get done, meet em in the studio and you can sing on em.  I happen to like Pearl Jam, and not so much Eddie Vedder as he’s steered this love boat straight into the word iceberg.  The guy loves to hear himself. The lyric book should be as thin as possible, using as few trees and resources as is lyrically possible. I still haven’t listened to anything after the first two tracks of Ed’s Earthling, and have no intention to.

And here I am thinking that I was the only one who felt this way! Don't get me wrong, I love Gigaton and all but Ed definitely got a little too wordy on some of the songs. Those songs should be interesting to see Eddie sing a couple years from now after a few swigs of wine, lol! 

BF25394

drakeheuer14 said:

Weird shit? I quite like the new stuff

I understood the original post to be in response to Stone's recent comments about the band wanting to make their OK Computer (while admitting in the next breath that it could never be as good as OK Computer).

BF25394

RoleModelsinBlood31 said:

Don’t make it another WordSaladton.  We don’t need to see how many god damn words we can fit into each song. As a matter of fact, maybe let Stone etc. write the lyrics and music and you can go catch a swell or two in Hawaii. When you get done, meet em in the studio and you can sing on em.  I happen to like Pearl Jam, and not so much Eddie Vedder as he’s steered this love boat straight into the word iceberg.  The guy loves to hear himself. The lyric book should be as thin as possible, using as few trees and resources as is lyrically possible. I still haven’t listened to anything after the first two tracks of Ed’s Earthling, and have no intention to.

The biggest problem with the number of words is that, the more words there are in a song, the less likely it will be that Eddie will remember them all when the song is performed live. I was pretty excited to hear Who Ever Said at Ohana since it sounds so good on the record, but I was holding my breath when they played it, thinking, "C'mon, Ed, you can do this."  (And he did.)