is pearl jam still relevant today?

yes

suns rival wrote:

that's whats buggin' me now. WTF? all the people i know here think that vitalogy was their last album. some of them think that their albums from no code up sucked. some of them couldn't believe that they are still around. they always make joke that the band that i like is a passe nowadays and these all sucked.

are they still relevant today?

For people who don't have the ability to appreciate great and meaningful music, no, they are not relevant.

i can see the point they have if they think that Vitology was their LAST great album... obviously there is a lot more great stuff from the band. Who gives a shit what they think anyway... if their music is still meaningful to you today as it was when you first heard them... So be it!

Pearl Jam will ALWAYS be RELEVANT!

the majority out there onlys see whats put on a plate in front of them. really only stuff up to Vitology gets played on mainstream radio, so thats all they know.
let them sit in their paddock eating the grass like sheep whilst we wolves move in the forest of real music.
PJ deliberatly made the move away, wanting only the real fans/music lovers to follow them in their journey.
I have enjoyed the ride. MAY IT CONTINUE FOR A LONG TIME YET

Well, they're as relavent as they need to be. They can still make music, and tour in arenas. Every single band around has their moment when they are the newest, biggest thing. But unless you're the Stones, most acts dwindle...but there are a handful of acts who tour to big crowds and continue to catch the publics ear from time to time. Pearl Jam is one of those acts...the most important thing to me is that they stay true to themselves and never try to be relavent...historically it's when acts try to be relavent that they fall flat. Unless you think Springsteen's Dancing In the Dark was a watershed moment for the Boss, Shakedown Street was the ultimate Dead, and Emotional Rescue was the real peak of the Stones Career...As the world has changed, and the record industry collapses, it'll be interesting to see how long some of todays big groups hold up. Maybe we'll see the Plain White T's touring arenas 16 years from now...but I doubt it..

The fact that they still sell out 90% of their show's...their last album went gold (as good as platinum these day's)...they headline every festival they do...they still go on SNL...Letterman...Storytellers...Ed was on Iconaclasts...ect

I'd say they are still very relevant!

People change, their tastes change and music changes...not always at the same rate.
Some get left behind.

iwasthere wrote:

my girlfriend says no.

however,

there are still times I drive around in my car. Listening to a pj song I've heard a thousand times before and I can still get goosebumps. I'll think to myself.... "Fuck! Why doesn't everyone else see how fucking good this is!"

Just be thankful you get it.

no matter how many times I hear Black at Benaroya Hall...i get the goosebumps when the crowd sings at the end.

direwolf74 wrote:

They're still relevant to me, and they're definitely relevant to the thousands of fans who still buy their records and snap up tickets to their gigs. And that's really all that matters. They're about as far from the mainstream as possible right now, and yet they continue to sell out 20,000-seat arenas everywhere they play. That's pretty damn impressive. I have a feeling they're gonna be around for a long time to come.

yes. they are still relevant, prevalent for that matter, to me ;]