Which songs do you always skip?

most if not all of backspacer, but just breathe especially...

hard to imagine (too vague)
glorified g (too shit)

there was a time i skipped alive constantly for over hearing it. that time has passed.

Got a hard hard head wrote:

Just curious, but why do you skip the entire album?

Not that I'm suggesting you do, but I don't hold with this opinion that Pearl Jam have changed for the worse or, worse still that fucker of all phrases - "sold out" (fucking hate that term, it's just bollocks). Why would anyone want a band to constantly repeat the same sounding album ad nauseum? Change is always necessary in music. You can't stand still.

hey.

im not saying theyve 'sold out' by any means, its just that i dont really think the songs are up to scratch. everyone thought theyd gone off the boil with NO CODE but that was an incredible album, Yield for me is their most accessible rekid, the one i point people to if they listen for the first time. looking at the tracklisting binaural is one of my favourites.

i may be alone here, but when i heard the phrase 'we thought wed try something different with this record and write it before we hit the studio' i thought theyd come up with their best set of songs yet, seeing as how theyd spent time readying themselves beforehand. alas, they came up with songs like 'just breathe' which i find a bit insipid really. the rockers sound really 80s and the 'ballads' sound really naff. no way is this vedder at his best lyrically. i cant think of many decent quotable lyrics, when normally theres loads per album, normally per song.

honestly, is one song on the new record a 'corduroy' or a 'given to fly' or an 'i got id'?

no.

hey, so called fans havent paid a subscription every year since 98

ok, im listening to amongst the waves now, and its alright. and im not saying i dont like progression, infact its what i look for in an artist. No one wants same old same old. There arnt many artists who are prepared to change direction at whim and fuck the consequences (ryan adams springs to mind. but then again bands like blur did that for wholly commercial reasons so its not always to be a trusted ethic). Actually, while i type, supersonic just came on and i forgot i liked it... also, id hardly say that what PJ have done goes towards the selling out edge of things, im still trying to work out why the last 2 albums have been more accepted by the music media as a 'return to form' as, for me, theyre far from that. i find it odd that im moving against the flow again, since when it was 'uncool' to like PJ i loved them, and now theyve been accepted as elder statesmen, or whatever the fuck it it the mass media are saluting them for (surviving?), my love of the music that comes with it has been diminished. i remember right from the beginning when i bought ten because some kid at college brought it in and i was liking it until 'alive' came on when i nearly ran for the cassette box (!!) to see who it was because one morning when my radio alarm came on, that song was played and they neglected to say who it was and i had been listening for it for weeks and never found out. ever since then, when an albums come out and ive bought it on every format (minidisk anyone...) on the day of release, the anticipation building all fucking day at work, every hour seeming to drag before i could set the vinyl in place, lay down, put my headphones on and blast the tunes into my cranium. playing the record over and over again until i had most of the words down that evening. its been like that for every record until riot act. i cant explain my disappointment at the S/T and further with backspacer. i dont know if its because theyre older, or i am, but the words just arnt cutting it and the vocal delivery is too 'fake passionate' at the minute. its all a bit earnest.

i dont think its an 'itll do' album, i think that they think that its a great record, and the media seem to think so, so it could be me. im a bit out of tune. maybe one day ill play the last 2 records and theyll get me, but it hasnt happened so far...

Got a hard hard head wrote:

I wouldn't put it down to anything, being honest. Music depends on a number of things, such as your state of mind (good or bad), the music you're listening to at the time.

For some reason or other, I'm actually finding Wishlist nothing short of amazing at the moment. Maybe it's the simplicity of the song, who knows, but it just sounds so beautiful right now.

Please understand that I wasn't criticising you in any way, I was just curious. And being a fan 11 years before I woke up and smelled the coffee pretty much speaks for itself!!!

i know you wernt being mean!

wishlist is amazing, simply because its got the words 'i wish i was a neutron bomb, for once i would go off' in it.

pandora wrote:

Sweet Lew thats blasphamy!

i soooooooooo agree...wtf? :shock:

Jeremy
Deep
Daughter
Who You Are
Im Open
Evacuation
Soon Forget
Get Right
Comotose
Parachutes

jeremy, its right there with a.i.c. Rooster both skippable---nothings worse than a gremme outta control

DangDang wrote:

Like so many Pearl Jam songs, here's another that grows on you, one blade at a time until you're lying on your lushious lawn thinking, where the heck has this song BEEN all my life.

beautifully put

reenk roink wrote:

Speed of Sound

The great thing about PJ's songs is they evolve over time. Some songs are much better live than on the album.
I didn't get to hear S.o.S. live when they kicked off thier tour in Seattle. Maybe live, this song will improve, but to me it's way overproduced.

To quote Ed " it sounds like........ tastes like....... a popsicle that's been stuck up someones ass. Hey somepeople are into that.", he was refering to Good Charlotte.

HAAHAHA ya thats on the MSG DVD right?