Pearl Jam: still modern rock?

apparently they are $ellouts with gluttonous fans.

ryanjep wrote:

Caveeze wrote:

Personally, I think their longevity is the craziest..

how many bands of this age (band age) still have all the core members, still tour, still release good music...

22 years guys!! Pink Floyd din't last that long (as a unit)

Led Zeppelin didn't

Rolling stones.. eh. er. kind of.. not the original cast on stage now-a-days though (tragically)

american bands? I am struggling for one..

ZZ TOP!! ZZ TOP have been around forever and still have all original members !!

Tom Petty and the HB for an American band?

Tool
Aerosmith, granted they've had their ups and downs and ins and outs.


I think they're verging on classic rock. I think it has as much to do with their sound as it does their longevity. They've always been a classic rock band and I've been hearing Alive and Evenflow on classic rock stations since I started listing to PJ in around 2000.

I don't take it to mean that they're done making albums either. The Who, Stones, Fogerty, Plant, Aerosmith and countless other artists have continued making albums long after their prime and nobody has ever argued if they're classic rock or not.

I do agree a bit with the poster above that said, I'm paraphrasing "we'll know in October". I think they're past their prime as a studio act, but maybe they've managed to flame the embers a bit. If it's another effort like Backspacer, it could go a long way toward cementing their status as a heritage act.

brianlux wrote:

Easy: Classic modern rock.

I could go with this since the classic rock era ended in the mid 80's.

JonnyPistachio wrote:

I recently saw a billboard with Eddie Money making a duckface advertising a show at a casino I think. I dont know why I'm telling this...

I know the sign.Turnpike of 95 I forget.Its because other then Sabbath we got no other descent shows until 9 inch nails.ehhhh