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Post by Paul on Mar 6, 2006 12:14:55 GMT -5
ok . . . *I just heard it* ! (Found some earphones here....) Cool song ! Sounded "tinny" (radio rip) . . . I can tell that it will crank like a Mutha from my own stereo speakers. Yea the radio rip is tinny sounding...the drums barely come out.....Looking forward to May 2nd when I can hear it properly. Overall it's a pretty good song, too early to tell if it's in the upper echelon of PJ songs, but it is kinda catchy and has grown on me w/ more listens. In some ways it's a straight up mid tempo rock song, but then the chorus kicks in, it's heavy, and it's layered nicely which make repeated listens worth while. |
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Post by Paul on Mar 6, 2006 13:39:32 GMT -5
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Post by Paul on Mar 7, 2006 9:12:23 GMT -5
Worldwide Suicide is free for download right now at www.pearljam.comI tell you, no other band is better to their fans than Pearl Jam.... |
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Post by Thorngrub on Mar 7, 2006 10:07:15 GMT -5
...w/the single exception of KORN.
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Post by Thorngrub on Mar 7, 2006 10:07:45 GMT -5
And I should know. . . being BOTH bands #1 fan.  |
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Post by Paul on Mar 7, 2006 13:58:01 GMT -5
Pearl Jam just announced leg 1 of their US tour!!! They are totally skipping out on the Southeast; wierd b/c they have a pretty big fan base in Atlanta....
Anyway, looks like I'm going to Philly on May 27th, and they're playing in DC on May 30th; this will be a great Memorial Day weekend!!!!
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Post by Thorngrub on Mar 7, 2006 15:08:23 GMT -5
Oh, man . . . . I best go let clubber & pissin know . . .
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Post by Paul on Mar 8, 2006 11:42:01 GMT -5
Let me know if you end up in Philly; I'll be on the lookout for you.
Ken, I think they're hitting Texas for leg 2 of the tour. Have you ever seen them live?
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Post by Paul on Mar 8, 2006 11:45:44 GMT -5
DATE CITY STATE/COUNTRY VENUE
it's offical: from pearljam.com
9 May Toronto Ontario Air Canada Centre
10 May Toronto Ontario Air Canada Centre
12 May Albany New York Pepsi Arena
13 May Hartford Connecticut New England Dodge Music Arena
16 May Chicago Illinois United Center
19 May Grand Rapids Michigan Van Andel Arena
20 May Cleveland Ohio Quicken Loans Arena
22 May Detroit Michigan Palace of Auburn Hills
24 May Boston Massachusetts TD Banknorth Garden
27 May Philadelphia Pennsylvania Tweeter Waterfront
30 May Washington DC Verizon Center (formerly MCI Center)
1 Jun E. Rutherford New Jersey Continental Airlines Arena
3 Jun E. Rutherford New Jersey Continental Airlines Arena
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Post by Thorngrub on Mar 8, 2006 12:50:17 GMT -5
hopefully I will be at one of the two following SATURDAY shows:
27 May Philadelphia Pennsylvania Tweeter Waterfront
3 Jun E. Rutherford New Jersey Continental Airlines Arena
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Post by Paul on Mar 8, 2006 16:17:31 GMT -5
Found this write up about PJ and found it to be rather interesting; it's long but really hits on why Pearl Jam is so great, and why they are so important...
...(read the entire thing you may even get goosebumps)
3/7/06
So I just played this new Pearl Jam song, about 20 minutes ago... "Worldwide Suicide"... And I asked for some feedback... It was split aobut 50/50, and I think that's roughly the same ratio of people who still care about Pearl Jam to those who don't...
...and I think that ratio is probably broken down along age-lines... Which would make sense, I guess... If you're between the ages of 18-24, that means you were between 3-9 years old when Ten came out... Most of your experience of Pearl Jam begins and ends with the 5 or so songs of theirs you've been hearing again and again and again on the radio your whole short life... And that small bunch of songs are all more than 10 years old... This band hasn't done much for you since you've been old enough to be a part of youth culture...
Then there's those of you that are at least in your late 20s... And even if you aren't particularly a devoted fan of Pearl Jam, you remember what that band meant when they came out... Pearl Jam essentially was the new U2... Once Bono became more interested in making songs that sounded claustrophobic, who was left to make the big, sweeping, sincere, meaningful, grand-gesture rock music that could fill arenas??... REM just wasn't that band, however many records and concert tickets they sold... Nirvana didn't want to be that band, obviously... But along comes Eddie Vedder, and not only did Pearl Jam make U2 songs for the 90s, they made no-nonsense U2 songs... There wasn't anything precious or arty about it... In a word, it ROCKED... And when you looked at the garbage that was ruling the rock world at the time (read: Guns N Roses), Pearl Jam was a relief... A big relief...
It had been a long, long, long time since a band like Pearl Jam had broken through... The Who, to be precise... Big songs, big chords, a singer with a voice that sounded like it was coming down from Mt. Olympus... And most importantly, that mix of power, vulnerability, and thoughtfulness... And while Nirvana offered destruction, Pearl Jam offered release, and then hope...
You could make the argument that for a band of their size and following, Pearl Jam has more integrity than any other band... Who else willfully abandoned MTV??... Who else went to Capitol Hill to fight Ticketmaster??... Who else released over 50 live albums??... Who else has the kind of fanclub that Pearl Jam maintains online?
So the question is this... Why do people still care about this band?? Why is it still a big deal when they release a new song?? Surely, it can't be just because of those same 5 songs you hear on every rock station around the country... If that were the case, Pearl Jam would be like Live, or Bush... But, regardless of the fact that they haven't really sounded like the Pearl Jam of Ten and Vs., people continue to love this band... This band still inspires...
There was a time in the mid-90s, around the time No Code came out, when a lot of folks thought Pearl Jam was taking things too far... People thought they were being too uncompromising... Understand: Pearl Jam could've gone on to rule the Alt-Rock landscape, unopposed, for as long as they wanted... They could've stuck to a formula, and milked it forever... They didn't, and no TRULY great band has done what they refused to do...
Think of it this way, even though it's a complete hypothetical what-if... Take the biggest, most enduring classic rock bands from the pre-MTV era... Take Zeppelin... Take The Who, take Floyd, take Queen, you could even take Rush... What do you think those bands would've done in the face of the marketing machinery and hype-demand that Pearl Jam encountered??... Each of those bands released albums in the mid-late periods of their careers that aren't considered their best, kinda considered past their peak... In the mid-90s, those bands would've been written off, they would've been shoved aside for the next musical fad, they would've been called disappointments... And NONE of those bands relied on MTV to get the word out... Or MySpace for that matter...
What I'm trying to say is that in another era, the things Pearl Jam has been faulted for wouldn't have amounted to nearly the condemnation and impatience with which they've been met... Their body of work from Ten to Yield is asbolutely stunning, and it's actually much more consistent than people realize... Never before has there been a band that's been so mercilessly chained to its early work... Almost EVERY great band progresses and evolves in its sound, trying out new styles and presentations... But once Pearl Jam tried this, the backlash was on, and it hasn't really ended...
The real irony is this: Pearl Jam has actually become more and more Alternative the longer they're around... I always thought it was a terrible error in judgment that radio programmers in the late 90s didn't stick with Pearl Jam as much as they leaned on Creed, Matchbox 20, and Smash Mouth and Sugar Ray... Big mistake... And not taking Pearl Jam up on the musical challenges they offered was the equivalent of turning your back on Alternative, and Rock, and embracing some kind of Top 40 mentality where every fad and trend and next-big-thing was ingested and shat out within 12-18 months... The other prime victim of this was The Smashing Pumpkins, and Billy just got too discouraged and gave up...
But here's Pearl Jam, with a new record label, and a new album... I'm what you'd call a casual fan of PJ... I've got a few albums, and I know a majority of the material on most of their CDs... So I'm probably not the best judge of this new single, not as good as a diehard... Is it a return to Vs.?... I wouldn't go that far... A return to Yield, yes... With Binaural and Riot Act, I had the feeling that they were dropping messages from the top of a walled tower... There was something distant and closed off about most of those songs, with only a few breaks... The best Pearl Jam songs give you a sense of motion, a sense of openness, a sense of space, and there's purpose, forward-motion... I definitely get that feeling from this song, and that's a feeling I haven't had from most of their music since the 90s... So in that respect, this seems like it could be a "return to form"...
Either way, I always welcome new Pearl Jam material... It's an event... Everyone is always going to be curious about new Pearl Jam, however many albums removed from Ten and Vs. they get... And that's because everyone still recognizes that Pearl Jam's the real deal, that they're not manufactured... That they're not pandering to ANYONE, that they're still as powerful as they ever were, if not as popular... The simple fact that they haven't conformed makes them mightier every time they stay true to themselves...
Do people feel that way about the Chili Peppers or the Foo Fighters?? No, they do not... Both those bands have mastered writing catchy radio-friendly songs, and have done so without diluting their artistic visions... But you don't need me to tell you that THEY AIN'T PEARL JAM... The communal aspect isn't there, the connection... As strange and stubborn as it is, there's a real spiritual element to Pearl Jam, an earthy kind of spirituality...
I can't tell you that RHCP or the Foo Fighters aren't emotional, that they don't produce transcendant, beautiful music... They do... But Pearl Jam stands for something... They represent something... They're iconic and mythic in a way very few bands are... And I'm confident that I'm not exaggerating, because without that quality they wouldn't have lasted THIS LONG, in THIS culture...
Pearl Jam have outlasted numerous trends and fashions... What they're doing isn't a fashion statement... They're not trying to impress with their cleverness or their ironic sensibilities... None of the great artists do that shit, none of the lasting artists...
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Post by Thorngrub on Mar 8, 2006 16:40:13 GMT -5
,Amen.
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Post by Paul on Mar 15, 2006 11:13:48 GMT -5
this is kinda cool.... pearljam.com/news/index.php?what=News#67PRE-ORDER "PEARL JAM", GET EXTRAS03.14.06 Pre-order "Pearl Jam" from pearljam.com here, and receive a free bonus disc of the classic 1992 New Year's Eve Pearl Jam show from The Academy Theatre in NYC plus a digital download of "Pearl Jam" delivered May 2nd at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time. For the low price of $14 (plus shipping) you will receive a package valued at $35, delivered by USPS First Class, that includes: —the new album, "Pearl Jam", and —the bonus live CD of the 1992 New Year's Eve Pearl Jam show. Although we anticipate delivering this package on the release date, May 2, to U.S. residents, we cannot guarantee it. So, you will also receive e-mailed instructions on how to download the new album within the first minute of the official release date once you have placed your pre-order. |
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Post by ScottsyII on Mar 16, 2006 14:36:18 GMT -5
I heard Worldwide Suicide the other day and REALLY liked it! Had a good Yield sorta sound to it, which is a good thing because as alot of you here probably know - I am fan of the Yield album... possibly my favourite PJ release!
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Post by ScottsyII on Mar 16, 2006 14:36:44 GMT -5
Might have to download it too! :-)
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