This is one of those posts where I don’t mean for it to be bait whatsoever, I am being totally genuine here, but with the reaction I’ve gotten for stating this opinion throughout my life, I figured I’d start with thatI do not like Pearl Jam at all, save for a song or two I think are good, I like the song Black quite a bit and I heard another song I can’t remember the name of once that I thought was alright. But every single time I try to listen to this band’s discography, I hate it. At one point, I wanted to like Pearl Jam and listened to Ten a ton to try to acclimate myself to the album like I’ve done with many others I had an initial sour taste to. I thought it was annoying. If every band from the 90s is Red Hot Chili Peppers but more or less annoying on a spectrum, Pearl Jam is on the lower end of that spectrum. However, I still find Pearl Jam to be annoying and uninspiring.
Am I just too young to understand them? There are a lot of vocalists I don’t understand that I like because of how they use their voice as an instrument, but I find how Vedder using his vocals absolutely indecipherable. Someone will hear some lyrics from him and be like “damn I felt that” when I didn’t understand a goddamn word Vedder had said. I’ve listened to a lot of grunge, really love The Smashing Pumpkins and Dinosaur Jr. the most because I’m also a lover of dream pop and shoegaze. I should be okay with Veddar having indecipherable vocals, it just seems like they way he does it is stupid.
If you guys have any suggestions for Pearl Jam songs you think I’ll like, feel free to comment them, I’m not going to just be a shithead. I’d also appreciate hearing what you guys specifically appreciate about the group or the song you comment. I feel like I’m missing so much context with how many people I like also being Pearl Jam fans, but maybe I’m not missing anything and other people also agree with how annoying they are?
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They did free concerts and actively organised against Ticketmaster’s efforts to suppress that, but yeah the music itself is reasonably trash. Silverchair did their sound better on Frogstomp, and they were still in high school at the time.
They are actually better than pretty much every other grunge bands when it came to Ticketmaster. No other grunge band backed them because they thought Pearl Jam were sellouts and posers.
Thank you for saying this. :there are dozens of us:
Pearl Jam is really the pop rock equivalent to the 90s alt/ “grunge” scene. I feel like theyre more emblamatic of the whole post grunge movement more than anything.
It’s ok to like Pearl Jam. It’s ok to not like them.
Maybe it has something to do with Singles. Who knows.
Have you tried vibing harder?
I feel you. I hate Steely Dan. I respect the musicianship, they wrote extremely memorable licks, and they get stuck in my head for weeks if I listen to like 5 seconds of a song off “Aja.” They’re good at what they do and I get why people like them. But I don’t. I hate having them stuck in my head. Be more forgettable, Steely Dan! You talented jazz-rock fuckers!
Sometimes bands just don’t work for a person. Sometimes it’s an entire genre. Sometimes it’s just not the right time in your life and one day you’ll like it. It’s all valid, comrade. As a kid I hated opera and jazz. Now I love chilling out to some Miles Davis or cooking while listening to Pavarotti.
As for Pearl Jam they’re kinda grandfathered into my musical taste (older Millenial, Xennial, whatever you wanna call it) but basically just “Ten” as I sorta stopped listening to them as I got into the whole pop punk thing in the late 90s. Maybe I’ll check out some of the suggestions in this thread - I might dig it now that I’m older.
I’ve listened to every pearl jam album and i confirm they are mid at best
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It’s so ridiculous for someone to be posting on a music comm about their opinion of a band, I agree
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Consumerist demonic egregore getting upset and says “each to their own” when their fascist hivemind is punctured by the great critique of all that exists.
“each to their own”
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Propaganda word salad bicycle rock waterfall hot phrase don’t know how to talk to people so you fall back on bullshit reactionist
Look how much the “who cares?” cliche slinger cares so much about performatively not caring!
Grow up.
Says the “who cares?” spouting concern troll.
No one cares
Everyone in this thread that isn’t you cares. And you actually do care because you keep posting how much you don’t care.
That’s grade school bullshit.
Yes. What you’re doing is grade school bullshit. Your performative maturity attempt is childish.
Same vibe
Who cares.
Everyone in this thread, including those that replied to your “who cares” post.
What are you, 12?
“Who cares?” thought-terminating cliches don’t seem that mature to me.
Pearl Jam paved the way for Creed and I can never forgive Scott Stapp for putting out the lamest and most annoying songs of my childhood. Due to my hatred for Creed I must also sacrifice the yarls of Pearl Jam as well.
I agree with you and I’ll take it one step further - I don’t like most grunge.
I think the problem for me is grunge takes a lot of influence from hard rock and heavy metal, two genres I’ve never been big on. A lot of grunge bands are just too close to hard rock for me. I absolutely hear it in Eddie Vedder’s vocals. Maybe it’s something similar for you. You might try listening to some Pearl Jam precursors - Green River is a grunge band I really like. Temple of the Dog I never really listened to but they have that one cool song Hunger Strike. There’s also Mother Love Bone but I’ve never really listened to them.
You may also be reacting to the slew of derivative Pearl Jam copycats that popped up in the wake of the grunge explosion. Post-grunge is a genre that’s generally looked down upon, and I think a lot of those guys copied a lot from Eddie Vedder’s vocal style. It might be a case of you being more familiar with the derivative knock-off bands that Pearl Jam spawned, and only being able to hear those bands when you listen to Pearl Jam.
It might be a case of you being more familiar with the derivative knock-off bands that Pearl Jam spawned, and only being able to hear those bands when you listen to Pearl Jam.
This is my case, I can only ever hear Creed when I hear Pearl Jam
Hunger Strike is fun song to sing to while at work or something. But Say Hello to Heaven was the best thing they made
I also tried to get into Pearl Jam in high school since they were part of the grunge canon or whatever but I could only stand 2 of their songs enough to keep in my library because I had this embarrassing recurring fantasy that my crush would wanna listen to my iPod and be impressed with my music taste so I wanted to cover all my bases
Well that never happened and I don’t really listen to grunge anymore aside from Alice in Chains
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they never should have let kkkrakkkers have guitars
Death to America
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So I like Pearl Jam, but sort of in the way that they’re surprisingly okay for mainstream rock and the band to my knowledge isn’t composed of sex criminals. I kind of get them mixed up with Foo Fighters on occasion, to such an extent that I had to check which band had a Black Metal side-project. It wound up being Grohl on that account. But like, if you don’t like just hunting through their B-sides on Spotify, it might just not be for you.
The [Pearl Jam] Stand in Jojo is pretty funny, so at least there’s that.
