Pearl Jam or Taylor Swift?

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  • The Juggler
    The Juggler Posts: 49,598
    Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department
    This is like asking someone to choose between Johnny Guitar or Black. Duh--Swift all day long baby!

    https://community.pearljam.com/discussion/285925/sticky-black-vs-johnny-guitar#latest
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  • bicyclejoe
    bicyclejoe USA Posts: 1,203
    Pearl Jam - Dark Matter

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  • YourDirtisMyfood
    YourDirtisMyfood Boston Posts: 4,668
    Dark Matter/Tortured Poets hmmmmm I see a theme.
  • bicyclejoe
    bicyclejoe USA Posts: 1,203
    Pearl Jam - Dark Matter
    Throw in the Ticketmaster continuum, and this day could have some seriously cosmic consequences.
    My Pearl Jam Road: 10/22/90 Seattle | 12/22/90 Seattle, Moore Theater | 9/29/92 Seattle, Magnusson Park, Drop in the Park | 9/5/93 The Gorge, with Neil Young and Blind Melon | 7/20/06 Portland, Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall with Sleater-Kinney | 7/22/06 The Gorge, 10/21/06 Mountain View, Shoreline Ampitheatre, Bridge School Benefit | 9/21/09 Seattle | 9/22/09 Seattle | 9/26/09 Portland, OR | 7/14/2011 Eddie Vedder, Portland, OR | 11/29/13 Portland, OR
  • mpedone
    mpedone 540xxx - Manchester, NH Posts: 1,961
    Is it okay to like both?
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  • bootlegger10
    bootlegger10 Posts: 16,263
    So far new Taylor sounds a lot like her last record.
  • Johnny Abruzzo
    Johnny Abruzzo Philly Posts: 12,441
    Pearl Jam - Dark Matter
    mpedone said:
    Is it okay to like both?
    YES!!!
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  • EH14457
    EH14457 Orlando, FL Posts: 412
    edited April 2024
    I reeeeeally wasn’t expecting to say this, but Dark Matter is better than TTPD.

    Admittedly I’m a bigger Pearl Jam fan, but I own most of Taylor’s albums on vinyl… I’ve watched all her docs. I appreciate good pop music. 

    TTPD feels like she just wanted to get some shit off her chest quickly after a breakup and move on. There are some great lyrics and some cringe lyrics. Production-wise, it feels like a lazy extension of Midnights.

    No doubt it’ll have billions of streams and be in contention for album of the year because everything she touches turns to gold right now. But it’s… not great. Jack Antonoff needs to go away for a while. 

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  • bmurray06
    bmurray06 Austin, Texas Posts: 164
    Pearl Jam - Dark Matter
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    Pearl Jam/Taylor Swift is the new Barbenheimmer. 

    SwiftieJammer
    #TayJam
  • BF25394
    BF25394 Posts: 4,940
    How does anyone have a considered opinion on this question?! These albums have been out for less than 12 hours.

    The only comparison I'm capable of making at this point on this subject is that Pearl Jam is my favorite band, and I really loved Gigaton, but Folklore was the best album of 2020.
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  • Tim Simmons
    Tim Simmons Posts: 9,991
    My gun to the head hot first take is

    TTPD Disc 2
    DM
    TTPD Disc 1


  • Johnny Abruzzo
    Johnny Abruzzo Philly Posts: 12,441
    Pearl Jam - Dark Matter
    I went to listen to the TS album but got distracted that there's a new Local Natives album. It's "Johnny Abruzzo's Music" Day.
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  • RiotAct10
    RiotAct10 Ohio Posts: 1,640
    Pearl Jam - Dark Matter
    I am lucky enough to be seeing both TS and PJ in Dublin the same week this summer. Have not made it through TTPD, but listened to a few, and skimmed some others, and can confidently say I believe I will be enjoying Dark Matter more even after several listens of both. To each their own though!
    words seem so out of place.

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  • kmcmanus
    kmcmanus Posts: 897
    Pearl Jam - Dark Matter
    BF25394 said:
    How does anyone have a considered opinion on this question?! These albums have been out for less than 12 hours.

    The only comparison I'm capable of making at this point on this subject is that Pearl Jam is my favorite band, and I really loved Gigaton, but Folklore was the best album of 2020.
    2020 had a lot of tough competition, I’d put both Inlet & Fetch the Bolt Cutters above Giga and Folklore
  • YourDirtisMyfood
    YourDirtisMyfood Boston Posts: 4,668
    Taylor has a bassist named Amos. Pearl Jam has a poster from Amos. 

    Coincidence? I think not.
  • mace1229
    mace1229 Posts: 9,942

    Both albums released today. Two artist juggernauts.
    Which album do you think is the best?
    Maybe you should post the same question on Swift's fan page and average the two?
  • MK88178
    MK88178 Chicago Posts: 539
    I have had swift fans also listen to dark matter and their response to me was that darling matter is the album the prefer
  • SVRDhand13
    SVRDhand13 Posts: 27,016
    Pearl Jam - Dark Matter
    The funny part is that Ed's daughters would almost certainly choose Taylor
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  • Foriginal Sin
    Foriginal Sin Scottsdale, AZ Posts: 1,876
    Won’t really listen to TS but that album will make 10x more money than PJ soooooo she wins
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  • YourDirtisMyfood
    YourDirtisMyfood Boston Posts: 4,668
    Fortnight with Post Malone or Better Man covered by Post Malone. Hmmmmm

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