Ever try to explain Pearl Jam to someone who just doesn't get it

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  • Solat13
    Solat13 Posts: 6,996
    nfanel wrote:
    that's funny. :D

    i gave up on trying to explain it years ago. the more i talk, the crazier i look. now i try to keep my pj gushing to pj friends (as much as possible).

    "what are you going to california for?"
    "oh, you know, just to visit a friend, take a mini-vacation"

    it's easier this way. :)

    That's too funny. :D

    When I went to California last month, I just told everyone I was going out for a wedding. It worked great until I showed friends my pics and they were like how come you don't have any pics from the wedding. ;)

    But yeah, you're right - it's just easier to keep people thinking you're not crazy sometimes by not letting them know you fly and drive all over the place to see the band.
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  • SENROCK
    SENROCK Posts: 10,736
    Solat13 wrote:
    That's too funny. :D

    When I went to California last month, I just told everyone I was going out for a wedding. It worked great until I showed friends my pics and they were like how come you don't have any pics from the wedding. ;)
    dude that is freakin GENIUS!!!! i love it!!! :D
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  • stickboy
    stickboy Posts: 2,981
    I gave up a long time ago...besides Im sure ALL my friends and Family know anyways, cause Pearl Jam seems to come up often in conversations with me so Im sure they think..."Oh boy, here he goes again with that Pearl jam shit...thats all he evr talks about...oh and the NYRangers :/

    I dont think I obssess over those 2 things THAAT much, like they say :eek:
    Aah, fuck it, I’m just gonna go home, turn on the fuckin’ TV...
    Watch the nightly news and drink a beer...
    Like I could even change the world, yeah right...
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  • bovy_j
    bovy_j Posts: 1,008
    I, like many others, have attempted to spread the jam. Sometimes it has worked and rubbed off on folks, not to the magnitude of them buying all the albums and becoming a pit member though. ;) hehe
    Other people just either 1) just don't understand the love for this band, or 2) don't enjoy them because of "his voice" or something silly like that! :P Fuck those dislikers!

    I remember one time we were driving to Fredericton, New Brunswick to go see some friends of mine in university, and I popped in Yield. Listened to the whole album, and the girl in the vehicle said "Honestly bovy, didn't like that too much." I was crushed that she didn't enjoy Yield! Not even Given to Fly! Oh well, she's slowly coming around, she finally started liking a few, especially that 'big hard sun' song by Eddie. :D
  • Dissidentman
    Dissidentman Posts: 15,378
    I usually have PJ playing at some point when friends are over. I don't say a thing... Months pass. Friends hear more and more PJ while hanging out. Then one will ask a question about a PJ song playing again that they heard last time. BAM - I start them slow.. point them in the right direction...
  • mariposa
    mariposa Posts: 2,523
    Have tried in the past...still keep trying anyway. And yeah...I have the same problem with the bf and most of my friends...apparently. I think I have become really defensive about the band because of it ...then again "defensive" is probably an understatement. :p
    "All the strength that you might think would disappear, resolving..."
  • Sian-of-the-dead
    Sian-of-the-dead Posts: 8,963
    *shakes head*

    Explaining PJ to people who don't know?

    good luck with that one... ;)
    Been to this many PJ shows: Reading 2006 London 2007 Manchester & London 2009 Dublin, Belfast, London, Nijmegen & Berlin 2010 Manchester 1 & Manchester 2 2012...

    ... and I still think Drive-By Truckers are better.
  • edvedder913
    edvedder913 Posts: 1,810
    GreenTeaDisease wrote:
    that's a huge mistake, thinking pearl jam is depressing. they have some of the most uplifting and inspirational songs ever.


    SO TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    I have given up explaining....people always think I am crazy.

    However, there is ONE great analogy I came up with when people laugh at me for going to so many shows - esp. if it is a guy - I say:
    "Do you like going to Yankee games?
    How many games do you go to a year?
    Why don't you go to just one?
    Oh, because they are all different you say?
    okay then, well that is why I go to 6 shows. Now imagine if the Yankees only came around every 2-4 years. Then they shut up :)
  • Evolution6579
    Evolution6579 Posts: 624
    muppet wrote:
    .....if they don't like them then that's cool and I don't persist. Nothing worse than a pushy fan who thinks that everyone should listen to their favourite band, and everyone who doesn't can not "see the light."

    LOLZ. Yeah, no offense meant, but we don't wanna end up being like Christians. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
    spinDrAtl wrote:
    One of my friends wanted some songs off my ipod so I took his nano and hooked it to my computer and filled it with Pearl Jam. :)

    That is sneaky and underhanded and quite frankly, I like it.
    My friend got an iPod recently. He likes PJ. I get every new album in doubles and give him one. But he was looking through my music when he got to Pearl Jam and says, "you've got a problem". And then when he wasn't looking, I put all the Seattle bootlegs on his iPod.
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  • kh65
    kh65 Posts: 946
    Evolution6579 wrote:
    LOLZ. Yeah, no offense meant, but we don't wanna end up being like Christians. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA



    That is sneaky and underhanded and quite frankly, I like it.
    My friend got an iPod recently. He likes PJ. I get every new album in doubles and give him one. But he was looking through my music when he got to Pearl Jam and says, "you've got a problem". And then when he wasn't looking, I put all the Seattle bootlegs on his iPod.


    Why did you say "Christians", why didn't you say Muslims? They are ones that kill you if you don't convert.

    That is cool that you loaded all that PJ on his iPod. I would have filled every remaining space with PJ.
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  • washedinblack91
    washedinblack91 Posts: 3,079
    edvedder913 wrote:
    SO TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    I have given up explaining....people always think I am crazy.

    However, there is ONE great analogy I came up with when people laugh at me for going to so many shows - esp. if it is a guy - I say:
    "Do you like going to Yankee games?
    How many games do you go to a year?
    Why don't you go to just one?
    Oh, because they are all different you say?
    okay then, well that is why I go to 6 shows. Now imagine if the Yankees only came around every 2-4 years. Then they shut up :)

    haha, sweet, i might have to use that one time :) i think the reason people dont understand the whole "going to 6 shows in one week" thing is because theyre just so used to the mediocrity of other shows with the same set over and over with no rarities or anything us pj fans are spoiled with.

    i got one of my friends into pearl jam, but you know what really sucks?
    that they like a few songs, but they dont love music so it's like the songs they like, they dont "get". and i dont mean that they dont love pearl jam and that's what sucks, because not everyone in the world is going to love pearl jam, but my friend just isnt in love with music. she doesnt listen to her favorite song with her eyes closed, letting the melody wrap her up or letting the lyrics fill her like a drug. ive once felt so moved by how beautiful a song (light years) was that ive cried a little.

    not only is it hard to explain pj to someone, but it's even harder to explain the beauty of music to someone who just doesn't get it.
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  • mindi
    mindi Posts: 1,862
    washedinblack91 wrote:

    i got one of my friends into pearl jam, but you know what really sucks?
    that they like a few songs, but they dont love music so it's like the songs they like, they dont "get". and i dont mean that they dont love pearl jam and that's what sucks, because not everyone in the world is going to love pearl jam, but my friend just isnt in love with music. she doesnt listen to her favorite song with her eyes closed, letting the melody wrap her up or letting the lyrics fill her like a drug. ive once felt so moved by how beautiful a song (light years) was that ive cried a little.

    not only is it hard to explain pj to someone, but it's even harder to explain the beauty of music to someone who just doesn't get it.

    I know exactly what you mean. These people talk over the best parts of the songs. :(

    In Given To Fly when Eddie sings the line "The love he receives is the love that is saved" there must be silence! When he sings saved, it hits me right in the stomach. I just can't explain that feeling to anyone. Makes me sad for them.
    To 10c; "Your PJ tshirt should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady." - bionicamy
  • blondieblue227
    blondieblue227 Va, USA Posts: 4,509
    washedinblack91 wrote:
    ive once felt so moved by how beautiful a song (light years) was that ive cried a little.

    Oh yeah, I can relate. I never cry. Not even when a loved one dies. What’s wrong with me? Lol. but there’s a few choice pj tunes that make me cry. It’s bizarre to me.

    mindi wrote:
    I know exactly what you mean. These people talk over the best parts of the songs. :(

    In Given To Fly when Eddie sings the line "The love he receives is the love that is saved" there must be silence!

    i know right!
    hehehe
    goosebumps everytime.
    i'm glad i'm not alone on that one.
    *~Pearl Jam will be blasted from speakers until morale improves~*

  • kh65
    kh65 Posts: 946
    blondieblue227 wrote:
    Oh yeah, I can relate. I never cry. Not even when a loved one dies. What’s wrong with me? Lol. but there’s a few choice pj tunes that make me cry. It’s bizarre to me.

    You don't cry during sex do you? If not you sound like just enough of a freak. Do you want to meet up :)

    (Just kidding, don't worry about it things hit people differently.)
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  • blondieblue227
    blondieblue227 Va, USA Posts: 4,509
    hehehe

    i know it ain't right
    i'm sad and all when somebody passes. i just don't cry.

    :) and nope. love sex during and afterwards. ;)
    *~Pearl Jam will be blasted from speakers until morale improves~*

  • pkh43
    pkh43 Posts: 253
    My old friend Matt hated PJ, especially Eddies. Then again, he thinks Poison is the best band, All 80's bands are his gods. Maybe this is why our friendship has gone down the tubes.
  • whispering hands
    whispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
    firecrotch23 wrote:
    i usually get the weird looks from people who dont understand why i would travel to see the band. "why are you going all the way out to george, washington to see pearl jam in the middle of nowhere when you just saw them here?" or my new favorite " i dont understand why you are seeing the same band 5 times in a week, arent you going to see the same show 5 times?"
    some people will never get it

    That is so true!!! Most of my friends and family are flabberghasted @ what I'll work into my schedule to go see Pearl Jam...All I can say is.. ya just gotta go two nights in a row ONCE to freaking get it.. if ya don't want t(o go with me and share the experience (cause it's one of the most religious experiences one can have to see the band transform each and every night into something new AND AMAZING each and EVERY night), Then stay at home and watch TV..And let me enjoy what is great to me.. which is to share this great music.. this intelligent and beautiful music with those who love them too..It's straight up Synergy.. and I've missed it terribly these last tweelve and a half years..I'm gald I get to go again.
  • imspinnin
    imspinnin Posts: 933
    locked wrote:
    welcome to my world..!
    I explain PJ like it's my job!!!

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  • breath_girl
    breath_girl Posts: 189
    In some cases they just have to see them live to get hooked. Plain and simple. Worked for me in 93. Worked for my husband in 05.
  • mindi
    mindi Posts: 1,862
    breath_gal wrote:
    In some cases they just have to see them live to get hooked. Plain and simple. Worked for me in 93. Worked for my husband in 05.
    I took my husband to the VFC show in St Louis. Awesome show, awesome venue, he still doesn't get it. :(

    Seriously he likes stuff that was big in the 80s. Eddie Money,Night Ranger,Van Halen, Sammy Hagar,Survivor, just stuff I consider lack luster no thrills plain music. I bet he likes Nickelback, I am going to ask him.
    To 10c; "Your PJ tshirt should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady." - bionicamy

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