Pearl Jam "worst taste in music"

Newch91 · November 2009

This has nothing to do with all of you are probably thinking. This is a story of what happened to me today at school while working.

I was working in the student lounge at one of the regional campuses of UConn and I was on YouTube watching some videos. I started off with some White Stripes and then our favorite, Pearl Jam. I was watching Alive and Even Flow from Reading 2006. As the solo of Even Flow comes on, a kid comes up to the computer and says, "What the fuck are you listening to?" So he goes around the desk and looks at the computer and says, "You have the worst taste in music." How the hell does he say Pearl Jam sucks?

My music taste:
The Beatles
Led Zeppelin
Pearl Jam
The Who
Radiohead
The White Stripes/The Raconteurs/The Dead Weather
Jimi Hendrix
Nirvana
Foo Fighters
RATM

The kids taste:
Breaking Benjamin
Three Days Grace
New Found Glory
and a bunch of other shit

37pheet · November 2009

i had a similar thing happen to me. i was talking about pj with my wife on a line in target, and i kid maybe 15 said they suck. i said Oh Really, what bands do you like, distured, korn, chevelle, other shit, i just said come talk to me when all of your zits are gone. and ask your father about music, u have a lot to learn

afarid · November 2009

Kindly tell those kids to go F**K themselves.

Newch91 · November 2009

Haha love it! It's that stuff he's into also. I thank my father and cousins for showing me good music. My father got me into The Beatles before I was 5 and two of my cousins got me into Pearl Jam and the White Stripes at 15. I'm 18 now and kids today don't know good rock music at all. It's a shame.

Newch91 · November 2009

afarid wrote:

Kindly tell those kids to go F**K themselves.

Will do.

satansbed · November 2009

my ex girlfriend just told me that shes starting to like pearl jam

oh god no!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mcam55 · November 2009

Hopefully he compliments ur right hook after you knock his teeth out.

loopjd · November 2009

Newch91 wrote:

This has nothing to do with all of you are probably thinking. This is a story of what happened to me today at school while working.

I was working in the student lounge at one of the regional campuses of UConn and I was on YouTube watching some videos. I started off with some White Stripes and then our favorite, Pearl Jam. I was watching Alive and Even Flow from Reading 2006. As the solo of Even Flow comes on, a kid comes up to the computer and says, "What the fuck are you listening to?" So he goes around the desk and looks at the computer and says, "You have the worst taste in music." How the hell does he say Pearl Jam sucks?

My music taste:
The Beatles
Led Zeppelin
Pearl Jam
The Who
Radiohead
The White Stripes/The Raconteurs/The Dead Weather
Jimi Hendrix
Nirvana
Foo Fighters
RATM

The kids taste:
Breaking Benjamin
Three Days Grace
New Found Glory
and a bunch of other shit

I had a similar experience in my Biology Class last week. Some guy working at the table across from me is talking to his friend and says something about Pearl Jam being "The gayest band ever." I almost bashed his freakin' face in. I guess he could see I was super angry and got pretty scared. He rescinded his comment, but it was still lame. Heck, I hate it when people use the term "gay" as derogatory, although that's for another thread. I guess some people just don't get it. The sad thing is that there are a lot of people who WOULD like Pearl Jam who write them off as a big corporate band because of "Even Flow" and popular songs. I can't tell you how many times I've surprised my Radiohead-listening friends with the knowledge that, yes, Pearl Jam makes amazing records. One of my good friends would never have discovered PJ if i hadn't told him to give Vitalogy a chance. He thanks me profusely quite often now

Then there is the other side, the people who listen to easy pop, who don't get the idea of songs growing on you. "If I can't listen to it the first time and love it, it's not worth listening to again" is a pretty common attitude. I'm lucky that I'm not one of those people, I would be missing out on a lot of great music, like No Code. I can't tell you how freaked out I was by it the first time. Off He Goes and Around the Bend just seemed to drag on forever, In My Tree was confusing, and I'm Open was just plain weird. A lot of people will leave records at that, unfortunately, but I was able to give it another chance, and boy did it pay off! No Code is my favorite record of all time, with Vitalogy, a similar story, coming in close behind.

However, there is probably still hope for your misguided classmate! Pearl Jam, i believe, has a song that everyone can like, even if you hate the rest of their catalogue. I'm sure he'll enjoy something if you just convince him to give PJ a chance.

Mrs.Vedder78 · November 2009

Newch91 wrote:

and a bunch of other shit

LOL!!!

Newch91 · November 2009

Mcam55 wrote:

Hopefully he compliments ur right hook after you knock his teeth out.

Did that to a kid in Middle School for saying Pearl Jam sucked. Didn't knock out his teeth, but gave him a good black eye.

broloco · November 2009

those motherfuckers..excuse me, those kids, are gonna be listening to Pearl Jam when they "grow up".
shit I used to listen to Simple Minds and OMD before I moved on to Led Zep, Clash, etc.
PJ = future classic rock!

Mcam55 · November 2009

Newch91 wrote:

Mcam55 wrote:

Hopefully he compliments ur right hook after you knock his teeth out.

Did that to a kid in Middle School for saying Pearl Jam sucked. Didn't knock out his teeth, but gave him a good black eye.

haha, awesome. Maybe its the same kid.

Joerock · November 2009

loopjd wrote:

Newch91 wrote:

This has nothing to do with all of you are probably thinking. This is a story of what happened to me today at school while working.

I was working in the student lounge at one of the regional campuses of UConn and I was on YouTube watching some videos. I started off with some White Stripes and then our favorite, Pearl Jam. I was watching Alive and Even Flow from Reading 2006. As the solo of Even Flow comes on, a kid comes up to the computer and says, "What the fuck are you listening to?" So he goes around the desk and looks at the computer and says, "You have the worst taste in music." How the hell does he say Pearl Jam sucks?

My music taste:
The Beatles
Led Zeppelin
Pearl Jam
The Who
Radiohead
The White Stripes/The Raconteurs/The Dead Weather
Jimi Hendrix
Nirvana
Foo Fighters
RATM

The kids taste:
Breaking Benjamin
Three Days Grace
New Found Glory
and a bunch of other shit

I had a similar experience in my Biology Class last week. Some guy working at the table across from me is talking to his friend and says something about Pearl Jam being "The gayest band ever." I almost bashed his freakin' face in. I guess he could see I was super angry and got pretty scared. He rescinded his comment, but it was still lame. Heck, I hate it when people use the term "gay" as derogatory, although that's for another thread. I guess some people just don't get it. The sad thing is that there are a lot of people who WOULD like Pearl Jam who write them off as a big corporate band because of "Even Flow" and popular songs. I can't tell you how many times I've surprised my Radiohead-listening friends with the knowledge that, yes, Pearl Jam makes amazing records. One of my good friends would never have discovered PJ if i hadn't told him to give Vitalogy a chance. He thanks me profusely quite often now

Then there is the other side, the people who listen to easy pop, who don't get the idea of songs growing on you. "If I can't listen to it the first time and love it, it's not worth listening to again" is a pretty common attitude. I'm lucky that I'm not one of those people, I would be missing out on a lot of great music, like No Code. I can't tell you how freaked out I was by it the first time. Off He Goes and Around the Bend just seemed to drag on forever, In My Tree was confusing, and I'm Open was just plain weird. A lot of people will leave records at that, unfortunately, but I was able to give it another chance, and boy did it pay off! No Code is my favorite record of all time, with Vitalogy, a similar story, coming in close behind.

However, there is probably still hope for your misguided classmate! Pearl Jam, i believe, has a song that everyone can like, even if you hate the rest of their catalogue. I'm sure he'll enjoy something if you just convince him to give PJ a chance.

I was never able to like Pearl Jam on my first listening attempts. Now there is no greater band to me.

Newch91 · November 2009

loopjd wrote:

Newch91 wrote:

This has nothing to do with all of you are probably thinking. This is a story of what happened to me today at school while working.

I was working in the student lounge at one of the regional campuses of UConn and I was on YouTube watching some videos. I started off with some White Stripes and then our favorite, Pearl Jam. I was watching Alive and Even Flow from Reading 2006. As the solo of Even Flow comes on, a kid comes up to the computer and says, "What the fuck are you listening to?" So he goes around the desk and looks at the computer and says, "You have the worst taste in music." How the hell does he say Pearl Jam sucks?

My music taste:
The Beatles
Led Zeppelin
Pearl Jam
The Who
Radiohead
The White Stripes/The Raconteurs/The Dead Weather
Jimi Hendrix
Nirvana
Foo Fighters
RATM

The kids taste:
Breaking Benjamin
Three Days Grace
New Found Glory
and a bunch of other shit

I had a similar experience in my Biology Class last week. Some guy working at the table across from me is talking to his friend and says something about Pearl Jam being "The gayest band ever." I almost bashed his freakin' face in. I guess he could see I was super angry and got pretty scared. He rescinded his comment, but it was still lame. Heck, I hate it when people use the term "gay" as derogatory, although that's for another thread. I guess some people just don't get it. The sad thing is that there are a lot of people who WOULD like Pearl Jam who write them off as a big corporate band because of "Even Flow" and popular songs. I can't tell you how many times I've surprised my Radiohead-listening friends with the knowledge that, yes, Pearl Jam makes amazing records. One of my good friends would never have discovered PJ if i hadn't told him to give Vitalogy a chance. He thanks me profusely quite often now

Then there is the other side, the people who listen to easy pop, who don't get the idea of songs growing on you. "If I can't listen to it the first time and love it, it's not worth listening to again" is a pretty common attitude. I'm lucky that I'm not one of those people, I would be missing out on a lot of great music, like No Code. I can't tell you how freaked out I was by it the first time. Off He Goes and Around the Bend just seemed to drag on forever, In My Tree was confusing, and I'm Open was just plain weird. A lot of people will leave records at that, unfortunately, but I was able to give it another chance, and boy did it pay off! No Code is my favorite record of all time, with Vitalogy, a similar story, coming in close behind.

However, there is probably still hope for your misguided classmate! Pearl Jam, i believe, has a song that everyone can like, even if you hate the rest of their catalogue. I'm sure he'll enjoy something if you just convince him to give PJ a chance.

Yes I agree 100%! I'm an album guy and I love the deep cuts with songs like "Present Tense" and "In My Tree". No Code actually took me a while to listen to and also Binaural. I was so used to the early records and when I heard No Code, I said to myself, "They're really going to test me on this album." I love that album, but not as much as Yield. Also, it was the incredible solo on Even Flow that I was watching when he said that. I took it personally with him saying my taste sucks and mad at him also.

Yes we can leave gay at that. Won't even get into it. I've also got a few friends into Pearl Jam and they love them. Vitalogy usually does the trick for people. I've tried to get my father into them, but he only likes the big hits and "Low Light" and "In Hiding".

Newch91 · November 2009

Mrs.Vedder78 wrote:

Newch91 wrote:

and a bunch of other shit

LOL!!!

Thank you. That's what I consider his music.

Pearl James · November 2009

Similar thing happened to me, i was sitting in my art class and we were talking about music, and a kid in my class was in my speech class the year before, in which I did an amazing speech on Pearl Jam, with this video as an intro to the speech (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK3Mg2aoNMk). But anways, Im doing an Eddie Vedder carving on a sheet of linoleum, with Eddie playing the guitar, Stickman in the back, with Pearl Jam carved out below him. Anyways, the kid got really mad cuz someone was talking shit to him, and he started going off on everything, and he the only comeback he could come up for me was "Dude, all you do is listen to that band Pearl Jam." I literally just laughed and and told him your loss. I dont know why people shun Pearl Jam when they see them. They just shake them off as some band from the 90s.

Sucks to be in high school when 98% of the student body listens to Taylor Swift and Miley Cyrus and the other 2% listen to Nirvana.

justinschanz1982 · November 2009

stupid fuckin kids. all they know is what mtv and vh1 tell them. If u want to change this teach them. Also if P Jam is gay then im sir elton john and my boyfriend is freddy mercury( which by the way are 2 amazing musicans).

InMyTree4 · November 2009

yeah im a sophmore in college and get some much shit for liking pearl jam(mostly just from my friends cause they know im obsessed) but then if i meet someone who has seen them live the response i get the most is just "eddie was so drunk" and alot of times i was at the show too and didnt notice it.

hollow bottle · November 2009

Newch91 wrote:

This has nothing to do with all of you are probably thinking. This is a story of what happened to me today at school while working.

I was working in the student lounge at one of the regional campuses of UConn and I was on YouTube watching some videos. I started off with some White Stripes and then our favorite, Pearl Jam. I was watching Alive and Even Flow from Reading 2006. As the solo of Even Flow comes on, a kid comes up to the computer and says, "What the fuck are you listening to?" So he goes around the desk and looks at the computer and says, "You have the worst taste in music." How the hell does he say Pearl Jam sucks?

My music taste:
The Beatles
Led Zeppelin
Pearl Jam
The Who
Radiohead
The White Stripes/The Raconteurs/The Dead Weather
Jimi Hendrix
Nirvana
Foo Fighters
RATM

The kids taste:
Breaking Benjamin
Three Days Grace
New Found Glory
and a bunch of other shit

I like his taste just as much as yours.

gndcd402 · November 2009

Newch91 wrote:

My music taste:
The Beatles
Led Zeppelin
Pearl Jam
The Who
Radiohead
The White Stripes/The Raconteurs/The Dead Weather
Jimi Hendrix
Nirvana
Foo Fighters
RATM

The kids taste:
Breaking Benjamin
Three Days Grace
New Found Glory
and a bunch of other shit

i think your musical taste sucks too

at the end of the day you need to realize...everybody is entitled to their own opinion on music

Glorified2030 · November 2009

Pearl James wrote:

Similar thing happened to me, i was sitting in my art class and we were talking about music, and a kid in my class was in my speech class the year before, in which I did an amazing speech on Pearl Jam, with this video as an intro to the speech (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK3Mg2aoNMk). But anways, Im doing an Eddie Vedder carving on a sheet of linoleum, with Eddie playing the guitar, Stickman in the back, with Pearl Jam carved out below him. Anyways, the kid got really mad cuz someone was talking shit to him, and he started going off on everything, and he the only comeback he could come up for me was "Dude, all you do is listen to that band Pearl Jam." I literally just laughed and and told him your loss. I dont know why people shun Pearl Jam when they see them. They just shake them off as some band from the 90s.

Sucks to be in high school when 98% of the student body listens to Taylor Swift and Miley Cyrus and the other 2% listen to Nirvana.

i know what your saying. kids are always saying how Pearl Jam sucks, or Even Flow is their best song. Also kids mock Eddie Vedder by mumbling words or singing in a lower octave, saying he is a terrible singer. My usual response is " go home and listen to Release, come back and tell me Eddie Vedder cant sing". It just angers me that people are so ignorant and say that Pearl Jam suck when all they have heard from them is Even Flow or Alive

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