***Official Complainers Thread***

DM282158

Abe Froman said:

lastexitlondon said:

Jeffs hat is like boy George and I hate that hat too

Ha!  Yup. 

Free bowls of soup all around 

tschav

Okay, for reals... news of Ohana headliners has made me more or less reset all concert & travel plans for 2024. Decisions, decisions.

tschav

Also, if Taylor Swift can drop a second slate of songs with her album release, we need to see a Lost Dogs 2 or at least a Watt sessions EP

MikeDigs

The Pearl Jam Unplugged album only includes early songs, but the rest of the collection is huge.  I think we are due for another Unplugged album.

And I wish Stupid Mop was a bonus track 

BrainofBGA

I’m gonna complain about the amount of duplicate threads on the board at the moment. Does anyone not check threads that are already there or do they just come in and blindly create threads! So many threads about the same song, album reviews…the list is endless. 

LS164963

My only complaint is Dark Matter has no songs I can skip. That's total BS

JojoRice

This thread should really heat up once the tour starts.  Complaints about merch, setlists, concessions, lines, travel, etc. 

nicknyr15

That little segue after Stevie is way too short. Give us that full song. 

a5pj

Gonna be an unpopular complaint here, but that's what this thread is for right?
Not liking the new album, like at all. Fav is Dark matter I guess
Got to give is the only song that's cohesive, all the others are disjointed, sound is off, etc. 
Way too much about loss so much that I can't like the music of Wreckage or got to give. 
Other songs, meh, poor copies of gigaton songs.
Not enough Mike solo's.
Too short.
Vinyl is wayyy to expensive. Don't think I'm even gonna buy it, use my $50 somewhere else. 
Special should be on an Ed solo album
Listened to the album like 6 or 7 times, hopefully it grows on me, but there's no way it compares to any of their other albums.

Can't wait for the live shows though.

MikeDigs

a5pj said:

Gonna be an unpopular complaint here, but that's what this thread is for right?
Not liking the new album, like at all. Fav is Dark matter I guess
Got to give is the only song that's cohesive, all the others are disjointed, sound is off, etc. 
Way too much about loss so much that I can't like the music of Wreckage or got to give. 
Other songs, meh, poor copies of gigaton songs.
Not enough Mike solo's.
Too short.
Vinyl is wayyy to expensive. Don't think I'm even gonna buy it, use my $50 somewhere else. 
Special should be on an Ed solo album
Listened to the album like 6 or 7 times, hopefully it grows on me, but there's no way it compares to any of their other albums.

Can't wait for the live shows though.

Curious about the format that you gave the album multiple spins on.  Can you hear Jeff's bass in the tracks?  Also, the laugh at 3:01 on React, Respond?

YourDirtisMyfood

I wish Stupid Mop gets played at Fenway.

a5pj

MikeDigs said:

a5pj said:

Gonna be an unpopular complaint here, but that's what this thread is for right?
Not liking the new album, like at all. Fav is Dark matter I guess
Got to give is the only song that's cohesive, all the others are disjointed, sound is off, etc. 
Way too much about loss so much that I can't like the music of Wreckage or got to give. 
Other songs, meh, poor copies of gigaton songs.
Not enough Mike solo's.
Too short.
Vinyl is wayyy to expensive. Don't think I'm even gonna buy it, use my $50 somewhere else. 
Special should be on an Ed solo album
Listened to the album like 6 or 7 times, hopefully it grows on me, but there's no way it compares to any of their other albums.

Can't wait for the live shows though.

Curious about the format that you gave the album multiple spins on.  Can you hear Jeff's bass in the tracks?  Also, the laugh at 3:01 on React, Respond?

Spotify only, different speakers though, including my nice house setup. And once with headphones

MikeDigs

a5pj said:

MikeDigs said:

a5pj said:

Gonna be an unpopular complaint here, but that's what this thread is for right?
Not liking the new album, like at all. Fav is Dark matter I guess
Got to give is the only song that's cohesive, all the others are disjointed, sound is off, etc. 
Way too much about loss so much that I can't like the music of Wreckage or got to give. 
Other songs, meh, poor copies of gigaton songs.
Not enough Mike solo's.
Too short.
Vinyl is wayyy to expensive. Don't think I'm even gonna buy it, use my $50 somewhere else. 
Special should be on an Ed solo album
Listened to the album like 6 or 7 times, hopefully it grows on me, but there's no way it compares to any of their other albums.

Can't wait for the live shows though.

Curious about the format that you gave the album multiple spins on.  Can you hear Jeff's bass in the tracks?  Also, the laugh at 3:01 on React, Respond?

Spotify only, different speakers though, including my nice house setup. And once with headphones

Check the Spotify audio settings, there will be a High Quality option.  That's what I use.  And headphones was by far my best experience.  On React, Respond, you can hear clearly Mike activate his guitar tone at 2:55 and play a couple of intro ghost notes be he goes bonkers.  Need the HQ Spotify setting activated though.

mpedone

nicknyr15 said:

That little segue after Stevie is way too short. Give us that full song. 

Seriously. Pull a Taylor Swift and release a second album's worth of material that didn't make DM.

jimjam1982

Yeah, whens the double album drop?  Every great band needs one at some point!

a5pj

MikeDigs said:

a5pj said:

MikeDigs said:

a5pj said:

Gonna be an unpopular complaint here, but that's what this thread is for right?
Not liking the new album, like at all. Fav is Dark matter I guess
Got to give is the only song that's cohesive, all the others are disjointed, sound is off, etc. 
Way too much about loss so much that I can't like the music of Wreckage or got to give. 
Other songs, meh, poor copies of gigaton songs.
Not enough Mike solo's.
Too short.
Vinyl is wayyy to expensive. Don't think I'm even gonna buy it, use my $50 somewhere else. 
Special should be on an Ed solo album
Listened to the album like 6 or 7 times, hopefully it grows on me, but there's no way it compares to any of their other albums.

Can't wait for the live shows though.

Curious about the format that you gave the album multiple spins on.  Can you hear Jeff's bass in the tracks?  Also, the laugh at 3:01 on React, Respond?

Spotify only, different speakers though, including my nice house setup. And once with headphones

Check the Spotify audio settings, there will be a High Quality option.  That's what I use.  And headphones was by far my best experience.  On React, Respond, you can hear clearly Mike activate his guitar tone at 2:55 and play a couple of intro ghost notes be he goes bonkers.  Need the HQ Spotify setting activated though.

I have mine on auto for cellular and wifi. Wifi would be very high I would assume as I have fios, cellular depends I guess. But I set wifi to very high. Will try that for the next listen. Thanks!

ddeschler

It's not the heavy album I thought we were getting.  A lot of it feels like an extension of Eddie's Earthling album, which doesn't make a great Pearl Jam album, for me.

D-Rod

YourDirtisMyfood said:

I wish Stupid Mop gets played at Fenway.

I’d like to complain that this isn’t a complaint. 

TJ25487

ddeschler said:

It's not the heavy album I thought we were getting.  A lot of it feels like an extension of Eddie's Earthling album, which doesn't make a great Pearl Jam album, for me.

That's interesting as after hearing Earthling I thought Wow Eddie just made a Pearl Jam album. Hope the guys aren't mad at him for not including them. At any rate if the make a PJ record as good as Eddie's Earthling record they have hit a home run. Each song on Earthling has it's own story and unique sound which makes it great. Dark Matter is the same. 

Spiritual_Chaos

TJ25487 said:

Each song on Earthling has it's own story and unique sound which makes it great. Dark Matter is the same. 

I prefer albums soaked in one sound and one overarching creative ideal.

To not have it sound like a compilation.

See: Neil Young - Harvest Moon