Pearl Jam - The New Reality

Jeanwah · March 2010

Stryker420 wrote:

CranMalReign wrote:

Everyone, hug your families and be happy that you're still arguing over Pearl Jam's latest career decision 20 years after the first graced the airwaves!

This is the best fucking advice I've heard all week.

I have to agree. Really, people, if the worst of your troubles is debating and over analyzing how the band has changed, your life is pretty damn good.

I was in a car accident 6 weeks ago and I live right now in nursing home due to two broken femurs, a broken hip and a badly broken fore arm that caused nerve damage to my right hand that I can barely move at all. I have a daughter that I'm only able to see during visits. My husband was in the accident too but is good enough to be home with her. My point is, if PJ is that important that we analyze their existence to death, then life must be pretty friggin' easy for most people on here. Me, I'm on here because I love the band, but don't use my time trying to figure them out.
This quote says it all.

LikeAnOcean wrote:I think people are just way too obsessed and have too much time on their hands

Hugh Freaking Dillon · March 2010

Jeanwah wrote:

Stryker420 wrote:

CranMalReign wrote:

Everyone, hug your families and be happy that you're still arguing over Pearl Jam's latest career decision 20 years after the first graced the airwaves!

This is the best fucking advice I've heard all week.

I have to agree. Really, people, if the worst of your troubles is debating and over analyzing how the band has changed, your life is pretty damn good.

I was in a car accident 6 weeks ago and I live right now in nursing home due to two broken femurs, a broken hip and a badly broken fore arm that caused nerve damage to my right hand that I can barely move at all. I have a daughter that I'm only able to see during visits. My husband was in the accident too but is good enough to be home with her. My point is, if PJ is that important that we analyze their existence to death, then life must be pretty friggin' easy for most people on here. Me, I'm on here because I love the band, but don't use my time trying to figure them out.
This quote says it all.

LikeAnOcean wrote:I think people are just way too obsessed and have too much time on their hands

it's a discussion. you don't like it? don't read it/comment on it. it's pretty simple. the obsessed comment is coming from a person who's post count is at the friggin' moon.

equating the discussions people partake in on this message board with how supposedly easy their life is is borderline retarded.

denverchef · October 2011

One of the best posts Ive ever read on this board.

Cheo Ramirez · October 2011

i like how they handle all the things they lived through.

they all are the same guys but with a different view of life.

tremors · October 2011

denverchef wrote:

One of the best posts Ive ever read on this board.

It's a good one!

brother123 · October 2011

I just wish they'd put out a decent album and get back to rock and roll

I don't need to buy shit tons of products, just give me music I can appreciate

1991-2000 Loved all the songs on the album. From then on? not so much.

Good concerts though.

Johnnyguitarwatson · October 2011

My reality ? I want pearl jam to rock again as well ! What I want honestly isn't possible.... I want to go back to when I first opened up my no code cassette tape (purchased from the Wall) or the hours upon hours of binaural playing in the background while I played N64 perfect dark... I want to be blown away by ten and vs like I was when I played them back to back constantly during the family road trip from philly to Alabama in '96.
I like self titled and bs but it will never compare to how the older albums took you in and just completely changed the way you felt...It took you on a journey and the journey never disappointed. I don't really have a point to this post just felt like sharing my reality. Ask me ten years from now then I'll be saying I want pearl jam from the "spectrum closing days"

tinkerbell · October 2011

I love that PJ has evolved as they have grown up. It would be kind of lame to see a bunch of middle aged guys crowd surfing and climbing the scaffholding. They have all lived through a lot and are in different places in their lives, and their music reflects this. If I feel like a good rock out I'll listen to Vs. if I wanna chill I'll listen to Backspacer.

hrd2imgn · October 2011

They run their own show and can do things how, when and where they like.

To quote the grand sage Luke Skywalker of 2 Live Crew via soundclip of Eddie Murphy:

"IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT GET THE FUCK OUT"

I have no problem with them running their business how they feel fit

abhijeet · October 2011

LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun wrote:

if thats the case with you, you might want to question if thats because you just want to like whatever they put out even though you wouldnt be caught dead listening to it if it were by another band.

Yes, sometimes it does work that way. You listen to a band that changes it's sound dramatically, and bam, you've just broadened your musical taste a little bit... but sometimes it doesn't work that way, and bam, you hate their new fucking sound. You can still be a fan of the band, there's no requirement that you like 100% of their material.

Forget Pearl Jam for a moment, U2 went from straight up rock to electronica influences on Achtung Baby, that's a classic album and no question that broadened my tastes. I got into electronica just because of Achtung Baby. On the other hand, Eric Clapton regularly put out poppy garbage in the last 10 years and I never got on board with it.

abhijeet · October 2011

brother123 wrote:

I just wish they'd put out a decent album and get back to rock and roll

I don't need to buy shit tons of products, just give me music I can appreciate

1991-2000 Loved all the songs on the album. From then on? not so much.

Good concerts though.

Odd that you say this, when Self-titled was arguably their most rock and roll album since Vitalogy.

mike-sizzle · October 2011

People get older, people change. If you've ever seen the Iconoclast(sp?) w/ Eddie and Laird Hamiltion they talk about how it's difficult to go from doing something out of anger to doing something out of happiness/contentment, to me that's what happened and am totally fine with it.

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