So I watched Hype! again last night...

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  • Zidane
    Zidane Ottawa Posts: 362
    Santos L. Halper wrote:
    JonnyPistachio wrote:
    anyone suggest what albums to check out for Posies, Love Battery, Seaweed and Coffin Break??
    frosting on the beater-posies, between the eyes-love battery, bill-seaweed, and crawl-coffin break

    I also enjoyed "Actions and Indications" from Seaweed.
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  • Hub.
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    I purchased the Hype! DVD one or two years ago and even though I was a little disappointed since I was hoping for more Pearl Jam, I was aware that it wasn't focused on them.

    I don't think I would buy some of the music I've heard, nevertheless, as djjazzy276 wrote: it's more about an era and I really found the DVD interesting and full of information.
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  • High Fidelity 2000
    High Fidelity 2000 New Mexico USA Posts: 4,439
    HA30208 wrote:
    You can stream Hype! on netflix so I decided to give it a whirl yesterday. It was the third time I watched the whole thing through.

    The first time I saw it was around the spring of '97. My college roommate bought the VHS tape and we watched it in our dorm room. No Code was still fresh in our minds and Yield was just below the horizon. It was a great time to be a PJ fan. And I mean REAL fan. One who obsesses over all the music. I grew up in the Midwest. A 1500 miles from Seattle, so I was one of the people the bands made fun of for buying flannel and tying it around the waste.

    The 2nd time was probably around the early '00's. "Grunge" was completely murdered and buried by nu-metal. I had visited a friend who was now living in Seattle. I wanted so much to be a part of that place that Hype! was about. But there was just no way I could move out there from the Midwest.

    So last night was the 3rd time. Fitting that this is the 20th anniversary of my favorite band of all time. Obviously the director meant for Hype! to be a lot more than just Pearl Jam, and more of a statement on the whole time/place in general. But PJ does hang over the whole movie, and Eddie's statements towards the end really sum up the meaning of the film.

    Watching the movie last night I'm surprised by how much all the other band's songs (besides Pearl Jam and Soundgarden) just don't hold up. Most songs were just loud and obnoxious. And that's great, if at the time that's what each band was striving for. But as a document 15 years old there aren't really any songs that I want to re-listen to.

    I don’t know really what I’m trying to say in this post, other than that Pearl Jam’s music REALLY does hold up, and I think that is the defining characteristic of this band. You can take all the politics, popularity, social awareness that this band strives for and throw it out the window if their music sucked. And it just DOES NOT SUCK.

    I love this band. I’m glad I was born at a time where I got to experience their whole 20 years (even if I didn’t live near them).

    I saw the movie when it was making the rounds in movie theaters, and one more time on video a couple years later. It's been over a decade. But I do remember watching some of the bands and thinking "Wow, this is pretty awful." So I gotta kind of agree with you. Watching Not for You from that movie or the Corduroy video from Self Pollution radio that was posted here last week... it does NOT suck. It has aged well.
    There are many bands I used to listen to or played certain CDs over and over years ago, and now I can't even imagine listening to a whole CD (i.e. Queensryche.... hey another Seattle band! ha ha... used to love them when I was younger and now I think they just sound totally silly). But every time I put on a PJ album, it's still good and I like it. :)
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  • mdgsolo
    mdgsolo Posts: 796
    I still listen to Flop all the time. That Rusty Willoughby can write one hell of a song! I haven't really heard much of his work since then, but this post makes me want to go on a hunt...
  • Zidane
    Zidane Ottawa Posts: 362
    mdgsolo wrote:
    I still listen to Flop all the time. That Rusty Willoughby can write one hell of a song! I haven't really heard much of his work since then, but this post makes me want to go on a hunt...

    Hahaha!!! With all this talk about Hype! got me to listen to the soundtrack last night and when Flop kicked in, I just couldn't believe how an awesome song "Julie Francavilla" is!!! A great pop song that should've been playing on any alternative radio stations!! It has a Pixies feel to it...!
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