Ever feel you listen to PJ too much and abuse listening to other music?

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  • Rhinocerous Surprise
    Rhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    vedderoffdead wrote:
    Like I said, I understand the Beatle' s place in the history of Rock & Roll, I just don't understand the attraction. Especially, the early stuff. They 'invented' 'pop' music IMO, they didn't 'invent' Rock & roll. They pop-ularized that style of music. You also have to admit that they were a product of their time. They came along at a time when the world was changing. They captured the feelings and frustrations of the people perfectly. People could relate to what they were saying and what they were playing. Young people had just started to have a voice, to have a say in what they watched and what they listened to. They all of a sudden had a bit of 'power'. The young people pretty much created the landscape of the world in the 60's.

    What I love most about the Beatles is that they, for all intents and purposes, invented pop music, and made some great records. Then they ripped pop music apart and fucked it up, and made some mind-blowing records.
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  • vedderoffdead
    vedderoffdead Posts: 688
    Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:
    What I love most about the Beatles is that they, for all intents and purposes, invented pop music, and made some great records. Then they ripped pop music apart and fucked it up, and made some mind-blowing records.

    You just gotta love mind-altering substances...
  • Rhinocerous Surprise
    Rhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    vedderoffdead wrote:
    You just gotta love mind-altering substances...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVUzTZ5dgwQ :D
    Smokey Robinson constantly looks like he's trying to act natural after being accused of farting.
  • i_am_mine
    i_am_mine Posts: 53
    i listen to a lot of different music but there's lots of times(like right now) when i just can't listen to anything else because i just don't get the same feeling from it as when i listen to pearl jam.. pearl jam and springsteen are my favorites and sometimes i'm only listening to them..a little variety is always good though!
  • Corey Lynn
    Corey Lynn Posts: 681
    I grew up with a picture of John Lennon on my parents living room wall. It was ingrained in me to love them. I think that The Beatles music is the most familiar thing in my life.


    If I knew where it was I would take you there. There's much more than this
  • WeBelongTogether
    WeBelongTogether Posts: 340
    Springsteen is a GOD.

    They say there are two types of people in the world:
    1) those that love bruce; and
    2) those that have never seen him live

    Its no coincidence that my two favorite musical acts (Bruce and PJ) are the greatest live shows out there. The setlists are so varied from night to night and they both care SOOOO much about the fans.

    And I was at the vote for change show in NJ - when Bruce bought Ed out. They played Darkness On the Edge of Town, and then Bruce asked Ed to do Betterman (w/ bruce singing the second verse). Insane!

    I know Ed has also played "growing up" "atlantic city" and "no surrender" at shows.
    Camden - 5/28/06; Camden - 6/20/08; MSG - 6/25/08; Newark - (Ed Solo) 8/7/08; Philly - (Ed Solo) 6/12/09; Philly - 10/30/09; Philly - 10/31/09; Newark - 5/18/10; MSG - 5/20/10; MSG - 5/21/10
  • smile05
    smile05 Posts: 600
    bettermanofthehour wrote:
    i used to feel that way. then i gave other music a try.

    and it turns out that there is some really fucking good music out there.

    I'm the flipside of this, everything else new is pretty poor
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  • Lostdoggie
    Lostdoggie Posts: 257
    smile05 wrote:
    I'm the flipside of this, everything else new is pretty poor



    I agree, I have Sirius radio and I try to listen to new stuff but I just don't like it. I always end up listening to Pearl Jam 90% of the time, and bands like Tool, Radiohead, etc the rest of the time.
    Sometimes life don't leave you alone

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  • catwoman
    catwoman Posts: 256
    Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:
    What I love most about the Beatles is that they, for all intents and purposes, invented pop music, and made some great records. Then they ripped pop music apart and fucked it up, and made some mind-blowing records.

    Hear hear! Couldn't agree with you more!

    I was in Kildare abut 23 years ago. Beautiful country.
  • iluvcats
    iluvcats Posts: 5,153
    catwoman wrote:
    But what I do know is that the Beatles took our society & grabbed it out of the 1950's mentality and into a youth culture (which I was a part of then).

    Oh I remember those days so well, being a little kid watching the ed sullivan show, playing Paperback Writer on the record player!
    9/98, 9/00 - DC, 4/03 - Pitt., 7/03 - Bristow, 10/04 - Reading, 10/05 - Philly, 5/06 - DC, 6/06 - Pitt., 6/08 - Va Beach, 6/08 - DC, 5/10 - Bristow, 10/13 B'more
    8/08 - Ed solo in DC, 6/09 Ed in B'more,
    10/10 - Brad in B'more
  • iluvcats
    iluvcats Posts: 5,153
    smile05 wrote:
    I'm the flipside of this, everything else new is pretty poor

    I disagree. Try some Brian Vander Ark music (formerly of the Verve Pipe) or Glen Phillips (front man of Toad the Wet Sprocket). Both have gone solo.
    9/98, 9/00 - DC, 4/03 - Pitt., 7/03 - Bristow, 10/04 - Reading, 10/05 - Philly, 5/06 - DC, 6/06 - Pitt., 6/08 - Va Beach, 6/08 - DC, 5/10 - Bristow, 10/13 B'more
    8/08 - Ed solo in DC, 6/09 Ed in B'more,
    10/10 - Brad in B'more
  • fuck
    fuck Posts: 4,069
    "listen to PJ too much" <-- anyone mind clarifying what this means?
  • Rhinocerous Surprise
    Rhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    catwoman wrote:
    Hear hear! Couldn't agree with you more!

    I was in Kildare abut 23 years ago. Beautiful country.

    Technically, Kildare ain't a country. ;)

    Also, were all the Irish people you met sarcastic assholes like myself? :D
    Smokey Robinson constantly looks like he's trying to act natural after being accused of farting.
  • catwoman
    catwoman Posts: 256
    Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:
    Technically, Kildare ain't a country. ;)

    Also, were all the Irish people you met sarcastic assholes like myself? :D

    Hahaha. I meant Ireland was a beautiful country -- was using a type of shorthand.

    The Irish were very friendly. We had been in London before heading to Ireland for a week, and the Irish were a lot nicer than the people in London. My husband has been back twice to play golf with his buddies. So unfair.
  • catwoman
    catwoman Posts: 256
    iluvcats wrote:
    Oh I remember those days so well, being a little kid watching the ed sullivan show, playing Paperback Writer on the record player!

    I have the DVD of the Ed Sullivan shows with their appearances. It has the entire show, including the commercials. The show was so geared towards adults at that time. You can see the youth revolution happen between the first appearances and the latter appearances.
  • spearhead
    spearhead Posts: 600
    vedderoffdead wrote:
    Like I said, I understand the Beatle' s place in the history of Rock & Roll, I just don't understand the attraction. Especially, the early stuff. They 'invented' 'pop' music IMO, they didn't 'invent' Rock & roll. They pop-ularized that style of music. You also have to admit that they were a product of their time. They came along at a time when the world was changing. They captured the feelings and frustrations of the people perfectly. People could relate to what they were saying and what they were playing. Young people had just started to have a voice, to have a say in what they watched and what they listened to. They all of a sudden had a bit of 'power'. The young people pretty much created the landscape of the world in the 60's.

    You live in Jersey? You need to get into NYC one day and catch a Fab Faux show ... greatest Beatles cover band in the world (GOOGLE them ... you'll see some amazing clips on youtube too...), made up of house band members from the Letterman and Conan O'Brien TV shows ... once you see Jimmy Vivino go all Mike McCready on While My Guitar Gently Weeps, or any number of other amazing tunes he absolutely shreds on, you'll get a different perspective on the Beatles music .. it always sounds better done live!!

    As for listneing to too much PJ ... I definitely go through such phases ... I have about 4,000 songs on my I-Pod, ranging from Dylan to Coltrane to Miles to Hendrix to Nirvana to Willie Nelson to John Hiatt to the Pretenders to Clapton to Grateful Dead to Neil to the Beatles to the Stones to the Who to Kinks to Petty to Pixies to Soundgarden to Charlie Parker to Santana and dozens more, but often I find myself choosing the setting ALL PEARL JAM ... sometimes just nothing else will satisfy me...
    I was alone and far away when I heard the band start playing!

    ...I was always a DeadHead, but when I first heard Winston Rodney, aka the Burning Spear, sing, I became a SpearHead too!
  • catwoman
    catwoman Posts: 256
    spearhead -- I like your taste in music!
  • Crazeej
    Crazeej Posts: 8
    Is there such a thing as listening to too much???? LOL Cause I sure hope not!
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  • agusjam
    agusjam Posts: 349
    When I first started listening to PJ music it was the only thing that I wanted to listen to...

    Then I found so many other bands that I like...

    But I still feel that whenever I listen PJ I enjoy it so much more than any other music and I find my self listening to pearl jam all day long.... but it's not a trouble, i love it

    PJ rocks
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me...
  • manipulatedliving
    manipulatedliving Posts: 508
    All the time. All other music just seems...well not as interesting.
    "I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes." - Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, 1977

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