I'm Not A Pearl Jam Fan Anymore

Dirty Hank
Dirty Hank Posts: 15
edited April 2008 in The Porch
I didn't think this day would ever come. After 16 years of being a fan, I just can't hold the same interest as I once did. For years I would look forward to the next great album and they never disappointed me! Then a slow decline of interest began to build around 2000 and took up until this year for me to realize that I just can't put in any of my favorite CD's from them anymore:( I still love them as a group and I always will but in terms of the music... the sound... it just doesn't strike me as it once did. Eddie turns more into Bob Dylan by the day and the music doesn't have that punch to the face that I had always loved. Now please don't take this the wrong way, you fans are the greatest part of what this band looks forward to on every tour. I just wanted to give a graceful farewell and to wish all my friends on here the best. I'm almost 26 and I have been into them since the day "vs." came out on cassette and was self-titled, haha. Removing my PJ sticker from my back window of my car was not easy. There music is all I know and now as my music tastes have changed PJ tends to get pushed back each and every year. I always figured I'd be in my forty's before I even considered not playing one of there many great albums but it crept up a little quicker than I thought. Goodbye everybody...
"A compiment for US...is a compliment for YOU." - Eddie Vedder of Citizen Dick
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  • LikeAnOcean
    LikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    lol, do you want us to feel sad for you? Do you feel guilty or something? Why the confession? I forgive you I guess..

    Whats the point of posting this? You obviously care enough or want to care. If you're not a fan anymore, why do you care what people at this board think?
  • Mahone
    Mahone Posts: 62
    Dude, you can grow apart from something without denouncing it. I did it plenty of times with a lot of my favorite bands of the 90's.
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  • DiRtyFranK38
    DiRtyFranK38 Posts: 3,131
    Dirty Hank wrote:
    I didn't think this day would ever come. After 16 years of being a fan, I just can't hold the same interest as I once did. For years I would look forward to the next great album and they never disappointed me! Then a slow decline of interest began to build around 2000 and took up until this year for me to realize that I just can't put in any of my favorite CD's from them anymore:( I still love them as a group and I always will but in terms of the music... the sound... it just doesn't strike me as it once did. Eddie turns more into Bob Dylan by the day and the music doesn't have that punch to the face that I had always loved. Now please don't take this the wrong way, you fans are the greatest part of what this band looks forward to on every tour. I just wanted to give a graceful farewell and to wish all my friends on here the best. I'm almost 26 and I have been into them since the day "vs." came out on cassette and was self-titled, haha. Removing my PJ sticker from my back window of my car was not easy. There music is all I know and now as my music tastes have changed PJ tends to get pushed back each and every year. I always figured I'd be in my forty's before I even considered not playing one of there many great albums but it crept up a little quicker than I thought. Goodbye everybody...

    what a shame man. the band has only gotten better and better by the years. they're different people now. i think the music is better then ever. their shows are the most diverse and excellent yet. they're a better band then ever. they're the greatest band in the world. that will never change for me. god bless pearl jam!! and good luck finding something as good as them to be into.
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  • bacoj
    bacoj Posts: 120
    I would have left the sticker on your car as an homage to your first love and one of the greatest bands of all time. It's not like they turned into nickelback or something. But, farewell and may you re-discover your love for our favorite band.
    mmmmm, it does go well with the chicken.....delicious again peter

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  • Dirty Hank
    Dirty Hank Posts: 15
    No that's just it. I've been into the music for so long and it's all I've ever known. I still admire the band as I always have. It's just that I find myself not being able to play many of there albums. For a long time I figured it was a dry spell which I've had plenty of where I had just killed an album for a few months but later realized it was almost every album. And no I don't want you to think anything than to just read it and take it for what it is.
    "A compiment for US...is a compliment for YOU." - Eddie Vedder of Citizen Dick
  • LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun
    LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun Posts: 6,097
    damn. getting rid of that stickman tattoo is gonna be a bitch.
  • Slip Kid
    Slip Kid Posts: 1,175
    Dude, it's a band.
    I just don't trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesn't die.
  • _Crazy_Mary_
    _Crazy_Mary_ Posts: 1,299
    Good. Turn in your user name and give us the extra space. We don't need you.
    I really screwed that up. I really Schruted it.
  • nukeboot
    nukeboot Posts: 1,465
    I don't get the Bob Dylan reference at all, but that's cool.

    I hope you enjoy your next favorite band.
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  • Dirty Hank
    Dirty Hank Posts: 15
    DiRtyFranK38 wrote:
    what a shame man. the band has only gotten better and better by the years. they're different people now. i think the music is better then ever. their shows are the most diverse and excellent yet. they're a better band then ever. they're the greatest band in the world. that will never change for me. god bless pearl jam!! and good luck finding something as good as them to be into.

    I totally admire that an respect your opinion. It's just that I was that fan who was into the Lallalpalooza phase where they were crazy on stage and broke down barriers and gave bands like Nirvana and Soundgarden some real competition. I don't like where they've been going for almost the better part of a decade and to be honest I wasn't blown away by there shows (youtube some old stuff pre 1994). We all evolve just like the band has. It's just that I have found a different path.
    "A compiment for US...is a compliment for YOU." - Eddie Vedder of Citizen Dick
  • slightofjeff
    slightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    Yeah, I don't see the point of posting this.
    everybody wants the most they can possibly get
    for the least they could possibly do
  • Strangest Tribe
    Strangest Tribe Posts: 2,499
    so if I may ask....

    watcha into now?
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  • wolfbear
    wolfbear Posts: 3,965
    Everyone's different and that is cool. I just can't imagine tiring of a band I love, hell I'm still listening to bands I loved in the 60's. I'm curious though, what bands are you listening to now? :)
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  • Dirty Hank
    Dirty Hank Posts: 15
    Strangest Tribe wrote:
    so if I may ask....

    watcha into now?

    Of course everyone's taste of music is different but Radiohead, Joy Division, MUSE, Interpol, Jesus and Mary Chain, The Stooges, Pinback...
    "A compiment for US...is a compliment for YOU." - Eddie Vedder of Citizen Dick
  • joebot
    joebot Posts: 372
    nukeboot wrote:
    I don't get the Bob Dylan reference at all, but that's cool.

    I hope you enjoy your next favorite band.

    I second that. What do you mean with the Dylan reference? I have a feeling you will return to the fold atleast by the time you hit the inevitable mid life crisis and find yourself looking to recapture your youth by way of nostaglia.
  • bird jam
    bird jam Posts: 107
    Eddie Vedder's got a LONG way to go before he can be compared to Dylan, but I'm sure he would be flattered by the comparison.
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  • patrickredeyes
    patrickredeyes Posts: 8,834
    wolfbear wrote:
    Everyone's different and that is cool. I just can't imagine tiring of a band I love, hell I'm still listening to bands I loved in the 60's. I'm curious though, what bands are you listening to now? :)

    I'm sure we could've talked bands from the 60's for a while Denise in SD. :D
  • sweet adeline
    sweet adeline Posts: 2,191
    what was your 10c number? i could be benefiting from this.
  • IAmMyself
    IAmMyself Posts: 671
    I don't really care if you like PJ anymore or not, but what's your 10C # and can I have it? Oh yeah, probably weren't ever that big of a fan, right?
    "Please help me to help you, help yourself." EV
  • IAmMyself
    IAmMyself Posts: 671
    sweet adeline wrote:
    what was your 10c number? i could be benefiting from this.
    Damn, beat me by seconds!
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