Pearl jam is better than the beetles and rolling stone.

Yet Pearl Jam are the ones who've paid tribute to The Beatles myriad times. But they very well are better than whoever the "Beetles" are.

Pearl Jam are basically generation X's Rolling Stones. Anyway, all the bands you mention are great. Why does it matter who sits atop the discussion?

I grew up in the sixties, listening to the Beatles, the Stones, the Who, the Kinks, the Animals, etc. I loved this music, and I still do. However, no band has ever touched me emotionally the way Pearl Jam do. I am so grateful I discovered them, even if it had to happen so recently. As I have stated before, I may have missed the first 20 years, but I'm happy to be along to see what the next 20 years will bring!!!

PJForceofNature wrote:

I grew up in the sixties, listening to the Beatles, the Stones, the Who, the Kinks, the Animals, etc. I loved this music, and I still do. However, no band has ever touched me emotionally the way Pearl Jam do. I am so grateful I discovered them, even if it had to happen so recently. As I have stated before, I may have missed the first 20 years, but I'm happy to be along to see what the next 20 years will bring!!!

Yep, no band comes close to PJ in terms of touching me emotionally.

I haven't read through this thread, but the title makes me . I don't really know if it's a fair comparison as in better/worse...PJ and the beetles and rolling stone are all righteous.

Pearl Jam is definitely my favorite band ever, but the assertion made in this thread's original post is simply absurd.

PJForceofNature wrote:

I grew up in the sixties, listening to the Beatles, the Stones, the Who, the Kinks, the Animals, etc. I loved this music, and I still do. However, no band has ever touched me emotionally the way Pearl Jam do. I am so grateful I discovered them, even if it had to happen so recently. As I have stated before, I may have missed the first 20 years, but I'm happy to be along to see what the next 20 years will bring!!!

This is so cool to read.

I think that a lot of people get permanently 'stuck' during a certain era, and never seem to move past it, in terms of really trying new things and giving them a chance. I'm about the same age as the guys in PJ, and have been on this particular train since Ten hit the airwaves...but a lot of my contemporaries are sort of 'stuck' in the late 80's-early 90's. Which is fine, I guess...but personally, I have had a lot of fun with some of the music from the 2000's. Sure...some of it is crap (just like some of it was crap in the late 80's-early 90's - we've just forgotten about that era's crap! )...but I have also found some really great bands by keeping my ears open, and not closing down to new stuff.

Sure, PJ and some other bands who were popular in the 80's and 90's still populate 4 of the top 5 spots my 'favorite bands of all time list'...but hey...it was worth listening to all the new stuff, just to discover the 1...and a lot of other bands who I've enjoyed a lot in recent years.

Good on you for keeping your ears open - sounds like it's paid off just as handsomely for you with the discovery of one awesome band!

PKTrekGirl wrote:

PJForceofNature wrote:

I grew up in the sixties, listening to the Beatles, the Stones, the Who, the Kinks, the Animals, etc. I loved this music, and I still do. However, no band has ever touched me emotionally the way Pearl Jam do. I am so grateful I discovered them, even if it had to happen so recently. As I have stated before, I may have missed the first 20 years, but I'm happy to be along to see what the next 20 years will bring!!!

This is so cool to read.

I think that a lot of people get permanently 'stuck' during a certain era, and never seem to move past it, in terms of really trying new things and giving them a chance. I'm about the same age as the guys in PJ, and have been on this particular train since Ten hit the airwaves...but a lot of my contemporaries are sort of 'stuck' in the late 80's-early 90's. Which is fine, I guess...but personally, I have had a lot of fun with some of the music from the 2000's. Sure...some of it is crap (just like some of it was crap in the late 80's-early 90's - we've just forgotten about that era's crap! )...but I have also found some really great bands by keeping my ears open, and not closing down to new stuff.

Sure, PJ and some other bands who were popular in the 80's and 90's still populate 4 of the top 5 spots my 'favorite bands of all time list'...but hey...it was worth listening to all the new stuff, just to discover the 1...and a lot of other bands who I've enjoyed a lot in recent years.

Good on you for keeping your ears open - sounds like it's paid off just as handsomely for you with the discovery of one awesome band!

that was super cool to read-welcome to the "jamily"! newer bands that are killer- the raconteurs! hope they & the dead weather keep goin'.

STIKYHANDZ wrote:

I heard the Monkeys were a big influence on the beatles.

Rollings wrote:

luke. wrote:

I'm sick of everybody mentioning these two bands when it comes to 'greatest band ever' arguments. I get it, the beetles wrote let it be and shit- so what, pearl jam wrote black, yellow Ledbetter and even flow- boom that just happened. Fuck off losers, pearl win based on the fact that they have more talent. The end

I love the song Shit by the beetles.

Love it.


It's off the brown album, right?

This is going to sound VERY NAIVE of me but I will apologize in advance. I also only read the first page before posting...

Anyway, I only know the Beatles through commercial/media/movies etc...I never actually listened to any of their albums just songs through these outlets. But when people say they are the band of the 60s in that EVERYONE listened to them...is that similar to how everyone listened to N Sync in the late 90s or Britney Spears in 2000s or some hip hop rtist that I am sure has been really big and is always played at the clubs and all over radio that I cannot even think of because I hate that kind of music?!

I mean a band like Pearl Jam is actually talented musically and lyrically. I just wanna know if the Beatles were just the mainstream choice of their era or are they as timeless as people make them out to be?!