Thank you Pearl Jam, Andrew Watt, and Josh Klinghoffer!

VINNY GOOMBA
VINNY GOOMBA Posts: 1,828
edited April 2024 in The Porch
I am on my 3rd official listen of Dark Matter and I know this one is going to be an all time classic, and am comfortable saying that it's their best since Yield.  I think a major X factor here was that a couple of PJ super fans had a seat at the table for crafting this album and providing direction.  Seriously cheers to Josh Klinghoffer and especially Andrew Watt!  Big props to Eddie for seeing the potential in this young man, for connecting with him, and bringing him into the fold.  Both of these guys, really.  What welcome additions!  Cheers to our favorite band, we're so lucky to have these guys providing the soundtrack to our lives, and to do it at this level after all of these years is amazing.  You guys really did it with this one.  I love all of your work, but this one really is "Something Special" ;)  I really haven't felt this strongly about anything I've listened to in literally decades, and have gotten emotional a number of times, which is such a rarity for me in listening to new music anymore.  They hype is real.  Dark Matter is just solid through and through, so well crafted with so much thought paid to melody, harmony, structure, and a full tribute to their greatest influences.  To the band, if you're reading, you really all just brought it individually and as a collective unit.  Be proud!  We are proud of you, and thank you, thank you, thank you for all of it!  See you at MSG 2, no complaints here if you played this whole record top to bottom!  But hey, do what you want, you always have and it has always paid off!  Over the moon right now =) 
  
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  • T-Bone 82
    T-Bone 82 Posts: 421
    Loving it. Thank you Pearl Jam. Thank you for all of it. From 1991 to today. 
    "Darkness comes in waves, tell me, why invite it to stay?"
  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 32,366
    Cheers cheers 
    jesus greets me looks just like me ....
  • BlueLedbetter
    BlueLedbetter Posts: 1,392
    Congratulations to the band wasn't sure they still had this in them so glad they did
  • Vedd Hedd
    Vedd Hedd Posts: 4,632
    I fucking love it.  All of it. 
    Turn this anger into
    Nuclear fission
  • KidAOK
    KidAOK Posts: 118
    Genuinely find it hard to comprehend a band is this good 30 years later.
  • Johnny Abruzzo
    Johnny Abruzzo Philly Posts: 12,619
    Love to all! Mike McCready and Matt Cameron are absolute superstars on this album (not anything new of course).

    27 days to Vegas 1!
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  • Greyhound06
    Greyhound06 Posts: 41
    After vs and Vitalogy I lost my connection to the band, because I was musically on a complete other path. The Into the Wild soundtrack brought me back to love the voice of Eddie. But it took another 3 years when I started to listen again to PJ.  

    And over the last 14 years my love grew again, but I was always missing something on the records that were released since then. 

    Until now. Listening to songs like Waiting for Stevie is like being 19 again. So many feelings, so many emotions. When I first heard Scared of Fear I was screaming and dancing around. Never happened with the last releases.

    I love so much about the new album, and I can't wait for the 2 Berlin shows, where we hopefully a lot of songs from Dark Matter.

    Thanks for everything you've given me over the years.
  • bnewman19
    bnewman19 Posts: 77
    VINNY GOOMBA said:
    I am on my 3rd official listen of Dark Matter and I know this one is going to be an all time classic, and am comfortable saying that it's their best since Yield.  I think a major X factor here was that a couple of PJ super fans had a seat at the table for crafting this album and providing direction.  Seriously cheers to Josh Klinghoffer and especially Andrew Watt!  Big props to Eddie for seeing the potential in this young man, for connecting with him, and bringing him into the fold.  Both of these guys, really.  What welcome additions!  Cheers to our favorite band, we're so lucky to have these guys providing the soundtrack to our lives, and to do it at this level after all of these years is amazing.  You guys really did it with this one.  I love all of your work, but this one really is "Something Special" ;)  I really haven't felt this strongly about anything I've listened to in literally decades, and have gotten emotional a number of times, which is such a rarity for me in listening to new music anymore.  They hype is real.  Dark Matter is just solid through and through, so well crafted with so much thought paid to melody, harmony, structure, and a full tribute to their greatest influences.  To the band, if you're reading, you really all just brought it individually and as a collective unit.  Be proud!  We are proud of you, and thank you, thank you, thank you for all of it!  See you at MSG 2, no complaints here if you played this whole record top to bottom!  But hey, do what you want, you always have and it has always paid off!  Over the moon right now =) 
      
    Well said. DM is a really strong album well done to PJ and all those involved in its creation. 
  • VINNY GOOMBA
    VINNY GOOMBA Posts: 1,828
    edited April 2024
    Greyhound06 said:
    After vs and Vitalogy I lost my connection to the band, because I was musically on a complete other path. The Into the Wild soundtrack brought me back to love the voice of Eddie. But it took another 3 years when I started to listen again to PJ.  

    And over the last 14 years my love grew again, but I was always missing something on the records that were released since then. 

    Until now. Listening to songs like Waiting for Stevie is like being 19 again. So many feelings, so many emotions. When I first heard Scared of Fear I was screaming and dancing around. Never happened with the last releases.

    I love so much about the new album, and I can't wait for the 2 Berlin shows, where we hopefully a lot of songs from Dark Matter.

    Thanks for everything you've given me over the years.
    I think you hit it with what makes Waiting for Stevie so special... it just takes me back, to my younger self in ways.  Can't believe how emotional that song in particular gets me-- and usually when a song is as hyped as this one is, it's hard to live up to it.  Not this one.  It's so good.  
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  • wiscojam
    wiscojam Appleton Posts: 344
    Every time. first listen, I'm like, meh (some good, some ok). Every subsequent listen it just builds and builds. 
  • HK103094
    HK103094 Posts: 34
    Totally agree. Best album since Yield after hearing the album a couple of times. Bravo to everyone involved. Great work. I will open a fine bottle of Barolo this evening and celebrate this unique band.
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  • SVRDhand13
    SVRDhand13 Posts: 27,020
    This record exceeded all expectations... by a long shot! 
    severed hand thirteen
    2006: Gorge 7/23 2008: Hartford 6/27 Beacon 7/1 2009: Spectrum 10/30-31
    2010: Newark 5/18 MSG 5/20-21 2011: PJ20 9/3-4 2012: Made In America 9/2
    2013: Brooklyn 10/18-19 Philly 10/21-22 Hartford 10/25 2014: ACL10/12
    2015: NYC 9/23 2016: Tampa 4/11 Philly 4/28-29 MSG 5/1-2 Fenway 8/5+8/7
    2017: RRHoF 4/7   2018: Fenway 9/2+9/4   2021: Sea Hear Now 9/18 
    2022: MSG 9/11  2024: MSG 9/3-4 Philly 9/7+9/9 Fenway 9/15+9/17
    2025: Pittsburgh 5/16+5/18
  • VINNY GOOMBA
    VINNY GOOMBA Posts: 1,828
    wiscojam said:
    Every time. first listen, I'm like, meh (some good, some ok). Every subsequent listen it just builds and builds. 
    I will say, my first listen to every clip was pretty middle of the road.  Was hoping to be blown away.  My affinity did grow quickly with each listen though, and the album as a whole plays very very well.  But really, in the course of my life, only a couple of dozen songs and a handful of albums have had that actual effect on me, and it's been probably 20 years since an album did that for me - Tool Lateralus.  PJ's got it tough in this category because they had more of these types of songs and albums than anyone else for me.  And part of that is due to that it was my first real exposure to music that wasn't my parents, and wasn't super pop radio friendly stuff that was being played all around me.  1995, my friend Kevin gave me a mix tape of the best of Pearl Jam and Nirvana.  It changed my world.  Here I am 30 years later, a big a fan as ever, my life centers around music, and I have my buddy and this band to thank.
  • tino_11
    tino_11 Posts: 2,232
    Johnny Abruzzo said:
    Love to all! Mike McCready and Matt Cameron are absolute superstars on this album (not anything new of course).

    Definitely agree. The best Matt has sounded on a PJ record, he's been unleashed at long last!
    'F*** the pessimists. F*** 'em.' Eddie Vedder
  • VINNY GOOMBA
    VINNY GOOMBA Posts: 1,828
    SVRDhand13 said:
    This record exceeded all expectations... by a long shot! 
    You know, there has been so much hype, I was starting to be afraid of a letdown.  That has NOT been the case.  I can't get over how great it is, and how quickly all of the songs have grown on me to the point of loving them.  It's every part of every song.  To me, every PJ song has a highlight, even in the rare case I don't like the song overall.  Each one of the parts of each one of these songs jockeys for position of being the best part of the song.  There's no laboring through a song to get to the "good part".  They're all good parts.  Amazing.
  • wiscojam
    wiscojam Appleton Posts: 344
    VINNY GOOMBA said:
    SVRDhand13 said:
    This record exceeded all expectations... by a long shot! 
    You know, there has been so much hype, I was starting to be afraid of a letdown.  That has NOT been the case.  I can't get over how great it is, and how quickly all of the songs have grown on me to the point of loving them.  It's every part of every song.  To me, every PJ song has a highlight, even in the rare case I don't like the song overall.  Each one of the parts of each one of these songs jockeys for position of being the best part of the song.  There's no laboring through a song to get to the "good part".  They're all good parts.  Amazing.
    Well put, Vinny
  • VINNY GOOMBA
    VINNY GOOMBA Posts: 1,828
    wiscojam said:
    VINNY GOOMBA said:
    SVRDhand13 said:
    This record exceeded all expectations... by a long shot! 
    You know, there has been so much hype, I was starting to be afraid of a letdown.  That has NOT been the case.  I can't get over how great it is, and how quickly all of the songs have grown on me to the point of loving them.  It's every part of every song.  To me, every PJ song has a highlight, even in the rare case I don't like the song overall.  Each one of the parts of each one of these songs jockeys for position of being the best part of the song.  There's no laboring through a song to get to the "good part".  They're all good parts.  Amazing.
    Well put, Vinny
    Thank you!  So happy so many people are enjoying this.  In ear headphones listening have been superior to my Jeep, which has great sound.

    I am going out on a limb here and I think they're going to get a Grammy for this.  Probably not album of the year, but best Rock album.
  • Johnny Abruzzo
    Johnny Abruzzo Philly Posts: 12,619
    VINNY GOOMBA said:
    wiscojam said:
    VINNY GOOMBA said:
    SVRDhand13 said:
    This record exceeded all expectations... by a long shot! 
    You know, there has been so much hype, I was starting to be afraid of a letdown.  That has NOT been the case.  I can't get over how great it is, and how quickly all of the songs have grown on me to the point of loving them.  It's every part of every song.  To me, every PJ song has a highlight, even in the rare case I don't like the song overall.  Each one of the parts of each one of these songs jockeys for position of being the best part of the song.  There's no laboring through a song to get to the "good part".  They're all good parts.  Amazing.
    Well put, Vinny
    Thank you!  So happy so many people are enjoying this.  In ear headphones listening have been superior to my Jeep, which has great sound.

    I am going out on a limb here and I think they're going to get a Grammy for this.  Probably not album of the year, but best Rock album.
    Looking forward to Stone misplacing it.
    Spectrum 10/27/09; New Orleans JazzFest 5/1/10; Made in America 9/2/12; Phila, PA 10/21/13; Phila,  PA 10/22/13; Baltimore Arena 10/27/13; Phila, PA 4/28/16; Phila, PA 4/29/16; Fenway Park 8/7/16; Fenway Park 9/2/18; Asbury Park 9/18/21; Camden 9/14/22; Las Vegas 5/16/24; Las Vegas 5/18/24; Phila, PA 9/7/24; Phila, PA 9/9/24; Baltimore Arena 9/12/24; Pittsburgh 5/16/25; Pittsburgh 5/18/25

    Tres Mtns - TLA 3/23/11; EV - Tower Theatre 6/25/11; Temple of the Dog - Tower Theatre 11/5/16
  • VINNY GOOMBA
    VINNY GOOMBA Posts: 1,828
    Johnny Abruzzo said:
    VINNY GOOMBA said:
    wiscojam said:
    VINNY GOOMBA said:
    SVRDhand13 said:
    This record exceeded all expectations... by a long shot! 
    You know, there has been so much hype, I was starting to be afraid of a letdown.  That has NOT been the case.  I can't get over how great it is, and how quickly all of the songs have grown on me to the point of loving them.  It's every part of every song.  To me, every PJ song has a highlight, even in the rare case I don't like the song overall.  Each one of the parts of each one of these songs jockeys for position of being the best part of the song.  There's no laboring through a song to get to the "good part".  They're all good parts.  Amazing.
    Well put, Vinny
    Thank you!  So happy so many people are enjoying this.  In ear headphones listening have been superior to my Jeep, which has great sound.

    I am going out on a limb here and I think they're going to get a Grammy for this.  Probably not album of the year, but best Rock album.
    Looking forward to Stone misplacing it.
    HA!  that's awesome...  I wouldn't have gotten that except for I just made my wife watch PJ20 about a month ago.  Such a great documentary!
  • No_Way
    No_Way Posts: 19
    I just teared up during my second listen. I have not been moved like this by music in a long time. Thank you!

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