Dark Matter - Out Now

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  • schaefferlax
    schaefferlax Posts: 467
    People whining about not getting the vinyl on release day is hilarious to me. Just listen on an app til you get it in the mail. Manbabies
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  • PC237837
    PC237837 Posts: 22
    Pearl Jam album rocks. 
  • daveedgar
    daveedgar Aldridge, England Posts: 2
    schaefferlax said:
    People whining about not getting the vinyl on release day is hilarious to me. Just listen on an app til you get it in the mail. Manbabies
    Not the point manbaby, we've paid good money for the vinyl, I don't want my first listen to be on Spotify!
  • schaefferlax
    schaefferlax Posts: 467
    Just finished my 3rd listen on a long walk. It’s a great fucking album honestly. This will be controversial but I put it over self-titled. Waiting For Stevie, Setting Sun, and Dark Matter are the best songs they’ve put out in 20 years IMO and should be insane live. 

    If this is it, what a great bookend for a legendary band. 30+ years of greatness, thank you PJ
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  • jonposey
    jonposey Posts: 140
    I'm sorry. I listened to it twice. Quick Escape and Alright from the last album are more interesting to me than anything on the new album. Lightning Bolt petered out over the second half, but given the first few listens, this is my least favorite since Avacodo.
    I eventually went back and found songs I now love off the self-titled album, like Come Back, Comatose and Severed Hand, but I don't see those hidden gems on this one.
    I hope time and live shows prove me wrong.
    I will be in Philly to be proven wrong 😜
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  • Theebs
    Theebs Posts: 48
    daveedgar said:
    schaefferlax said:
    People whining about not getting the vinyl on release day is hilarious to me. Just listen on an app til you get it in the mail. Manbabies
    Not the point manbaby, we've paid good money for the vinyl, I don't want my first listen to be on Spotify!
    this is how it always is with new releases from the ten club.  I can not recall a time when they ever arrived on release day.  Lightning bolt ended up having a number of vinyl issues also.

    if you bought the ten club variant they should have emailed you a download code.  
  • ragejoe
    ragejoe Agawam Mass Posts: 1,419
    schaefferlax said:
    Just finished my 3rd listen on a long walk. It’s a great fucking album honestly. This will be controversial but I put it over self-titled. Waiting For Stevie, Setting Sun, and Dark Matter are the best songs they’ve put out in 20 years IMO and should be insane live. 

    If this is it, what a great bookend for a legendary band. 30+ years of greatness, thank you PJ
    I love that you mention avocado here cause as soon as Setting Sun ended on my first fill album listen my first thought was “As a diehard this is their most consistent album since avocado, for a casual fan I think it’s their most consistent album since vitology… people can piss and moan about something special if they want and sure I don’t wanna hear it at all 4 of my shows this year but it’s a 60 year old dad writing about his daughters. I’ve got 2 of them too so I can relate.  If I had to pick my second least favorite song it’s track 2 React and it’s a good tune.  The other 9 are just all pretty incredible and have so much amazing live potential and I just love Ed and the boys emoting all of this happy energy these days whether it’s on stage or through the album   Thank you once again Pearl Jam and I can’t wait to see what you got in store for me/us in September (MSG & Fenway) 
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  • ragejoe
    ragejoe Agawam Mass Posts: 1,419
    NK10452 said:I
    Been listening all day on PJ radio.  First impression is that it's a good album -- better than Gigaton.  That run from tracks 3-7 is HUGE and setting sun is a great closer.  Other than react, respond (realize taste is subjective), I dont think there's a weak track on the album.  Feels like McCready must have had a blast recording it -- he's all over the place.  Very psyched to hear this stuff live.  Let's go!
    Agree with this review 100%  well said! 
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    2004 Tour-     Boston 9/28,9/29
    2006 Tour-     Albany 5/12 Hartford 5/13 Boston 5/24,5/25
    2008 Tour-     MSG 6/24,6/25 Hartford 6/27 Boston 6/28,6/30 Eddie- Boston 8/1
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  • OceansJenny
    OceansJenny Manhattan, NY Posts: 3,409
    edited April 2024
    jonposey said:
    I'm sorry. I listened to it twice. Quick Escape and Alright from the last album are more interesting to me than anything on the new album. Lightning Bolt petered out over the second half, but given the first few listens, this is my least favorite since Avacodo.
    I eventually went back and found songs I now love off the self-titled album, like Come Back, Comatose and Severed Hand, but I don't see those hidden gems on this one.
    I hope time and live shows prove me wrong.
    I will be in Philly to be proven wrong 😜
    Yeah I had this album on all day and I don’t get it. Maybe I need to listen closer but nothing sounded overly inspiring. Felt like a full string of easy listening. 

    Every time YouTube music finished the album and flipped from Setting Sun to an older PJ track my attention was grabbed. I do like the 3 singles released before today so maybe I need more time.

    I really liked Gigaton so maybe this is the antithesis. 🤷🏼‍♀️ I even liked Earthing! Dark Matter… big name for such a snore. 

    I’ve hard folks describe this as the next Yield… and I don’t like Yield so maybe that’s it?
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  • E.K
    E.K New South Wales, Australia Posts: 7,726
    OceansJenny said:
    jonposey said:
    I'm sorry. I listened to it twice. Quick Escape and Alright from the last album are more interesting to me than anything on the new album. Lightning Bolt petered out over the second half, but given the first few listens, this is my least favorite since Avacodo.
    I eventually went back and found songs I now love off the self-titled album, like Come Back, Comatose and Severed Hand, but I don't see those hidden gems on this one.
    I hope time and live shows prove me wrong.
    I will be in Philly to be proven wrong 😜
    Yeah I had this album on all day and I don’t get it. Maybe I need to listen closer but nothing sounded overly inspiring. Felt like a full string of easy listening. 

    Every time YouTube music finished the album and flipped from Setting Sun to an older PJ track my attention was grabbed. I do like the 3 singles released before today so maybe I need more time.

    I really liked Gigaton so maybe this is the antithesis. 🤷🏼‍♀️ I even liked Earthing! Dark Matter… big name for such a snore. 

    I’ve hard folks describe this as the next Yield… and I don’t like Yield so maybe that’s it?
    Agree with you both.  Too many soft rock easily listening type songs and not enough hard rockers.  Waiting for Stevie is the only standout to me with the title track a close second.

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  • DL236795
    DL236795 Gold Coast, Australia Posts: 74
    What an album! First album in a while by any artist that I loved immdeiately! Enjoying the nods to U2, Tom Petty, Crowded House and the Cure, but is it just me or is the shadow of R.E.M. running thru this? Love it!
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  • Kcuff me
    Kcuff me Posts: 34
    This album is ridiculously good start to finish, good lord, playing start to finish over and over, these tunes are going to be legit BANGERs live!!!  Cant wait for Barcelona and Philly 2 and if the PJ gods smile upon me, Balt.  Thanks fellas, phenomenal music
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  • Colaresi
    Colaresi Posts: 13
    I have not connected with a PJ album this intensely since at least Avocado and I love the sonic undulations within songs and across the album. The tracks that standout to me as great and memorable are Upper Hand, Wreckage, Waiting for Stevie, Setting Sun, Got to Give, Scared of Fear, and Won’t Tell. I also like DM and Something Special; Running and React/Respond have their moments and fit well within the album but so far are less memorable (for me) than the powerful opening with Scared of Fear, the  3-7 sequence that is the beating, feeling heart of the album and then the great G2G to Setting Sun close. Great album. I feel very lucky. Looking forward to the shows.
  • BF25394
    BF25394 Posts: 4,939
    schaefferlax said:
    People whining about not getting the vinyl on release day is hilarious to me. Just listen on an app til you get it in the mail. Manbabies
    Everyone does not have streaming.
    I gather speed from you fucking with me.
  • schaefferlax
    schaefferlax Posts: 467
    BF25394 said:
    schaefferlax said:
    People whining about not getting the vinyl on release day is hilarious to me. Just listen on an app til you get it in the mail. Manbabies
    Everyone does not have streaming.
    Free spotify and apple music exist. It is not hard to find this music online. 
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  • tino_11
    tino_11 Posts: 2,182
    It’s in YouTube 
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  • eboweddie
    eboweddie Posts: 1,090
    What did Ben Harper say as MSG in.2003
    .'this is the greatest band in the world' 

    i wish i wish i wish i wish, i guess it never stops
  • tradrrr
    tradrrr Posts: 23
    First listen, first thought: this is the most rock and roll album PJ has ever put out. Not rockin or heavy, it just sounded…classic rockish? Eddie’s voice sounded so clear, maybe a little less in your face? I won’t know for a while where I put it against their other albums but I do love that they put themselves out there and try new things and I dig this one so far! 

    Ok now off to read what some of you others thought! 
  • DAVEPJ
    DAVEPJ Posts: 23
    so incredibly grateful for this band...
    he'e nalu
  • BF25394
    BF25394 Posts: 4,939
    schaefferlax said:
    BF25394 said:
    schaefferlax said:
    People whining about not getting the vinyl on release day is hilarious to me. Just listen on an app til you get it in the mail. Manbabies
    Everyone does not have streaming.
    Free spotify and apple music exist. It is not hard to find this music online. 
    You don't understand. It's not a question of "finding" the music. I listened to the album on YouTube Thursday night when that was my only option, before I received the downloads that I burned to a CD that I could listen to in my car and on my stereo system. For me to listen to this music online, I have to sit at my computer. That's something I don't enjoy. I can't stream it to my stereo, or to my car. If that (or listening on your phone) works for you, great. Other people are different. It doesn't make them "manbabies." Regardless, none of it excuses the fact that pre-orders were placed two months before release date, and it's reasonable for people to be annoyed that the CDs or LPs that they ordered in February did not arrive by April 19, a date we've all had circled on our calendars.
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