Comments on: 1991 Sounds Better Than Ever

By: XxFallinxX

XxFallinxX — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 05:42:41 +0000

Im a girl im also 10 years old! and i love these guys has any one heard Just Breathe by them? Beautiful song with Beautiful lyrics ‘Hold me Till i die..meet you on the other side’ check out the song if you havent heard it bye! :)

By: Fred

Fred — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 04:13:30 +0000

Persh… do you have a life? Stop being such a fucking douchebag and go stand outside for a while.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 01:36:54 +0000

Persh, Riot Act sold 500k, and the newest sold 700k. That doesn’t look like sales are slipping to me.

By: Max

Max — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:36:39 +0000

I smell a troll!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_(Internet)

Best to just ignore ‘em.

By: John Persh

John Persh — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:20:55 +0000

I stand by my statement that they’ve been making the same record for 20 years. I never backpedaled. Nobody provided any evidence to convince me otherwise.
Your best effort was to play a few recent singles to your mom who didn’t recognize them and thought they sucked. I guess that was evidence of some sort of how their sound has changed. To me it really speaks more of quality, but…
Inaccurate listings in Wikipedia are kind of insignificant and not good ammo for your argument either.

More arguments that Pearl Jam has changed their sound:

1.) Their album sales slipped over time and they alienated fans, therefore it must be because the band changed their sound. Album sales for every band slip over time, this is nothing new. In this day and age album sales mean even less.

2.) Pearl Jam fans have different favorite albums because they’re all so different. This strange phenomena permeates every single band out there as seen on any bands message board.

3.) Glorified G & Rats were a big departure off of anything from Ten. Well no not exactly, and furthermore examples of specific songs here and there or songs that were recorded for an ep or one-offs aren’t going to convince me that the band is interested in leaving their comfort zone.

4.) The old No Code is influenced by eastern music. Hmm..Red Mosquito, Smile, Hail Hail …hmm… garage band or indian bouziki collective? Maybe I need to relisten to that album. I do remember a few mellow pieces but nothing thats radically eastern sounding.

And the semantics part of it is real too…You took my statement of “Pearl Jam are a band who have played it safe over the years and could use a radical re-hauling of their sound and twisted that into “Every Pearl Jam song is identical” I never said that. My argument is that they’ve never really changed radically from album to album other than going from grungy rock to slick sounding rock band to straight forward rock to garage rock band to 2 microphones recording rock band and back to garage rock.

I’ve never trolled on this website once. Trolls don’t take the time to explain their arguments.

Fine, you think Pearl Jam have done a great deal with their sound over the years and I don’t. You think its great they work with the same producers, while I think they should find someone who can offer different ideas and push them into new territories.

By: Skwerl

Skwerl — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:56:50 +0000

i don’t feel very cornered. every single person that has commented here disagrees with you. as for the use of “semantics,” i’ll concede that one if you can explain to me how i misinterpreted the meaning of “they’ve been making the same exact record for 20 years now.” you can backpedal now and change your argument, and say that they haven’t made an album that was 100% experimental as you have, but that’s a classic manipulative move performed primarily by assholes while losing arguments. i’ve got experience with this one, trust me.
that’s not what this is about. you said pearl jam has been doing the same thing for twenty years, and when the jury pointed out that they haven’t, you changed your argument to be that they haven’t recorded tusk. instead of admitting you were wrong, you reached for the nearest thing you could be right about. that’s not semantics, it’s trolling.

By: John Persh

John Persh — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:49:33 +0000

Semantics was used properly. I hate when people are cornered in an argument and try to resort to correcting one’s grammar or use of the language. Kind of trivial isn’t it?

By: Skwerl

Skwerl — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:32:40 +0000

i hate when people misuse the word semantics.

By: Sasho Kaceski

Sasho Kaceski — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:14:32 +0000

Hey John buddy. You sounded like Pearl Jam does the same thing over and over since 10, nobody said that Vitalogy or Binural are “experimental rock”, it’s just rock albums with different approaches and diferent rock songs. Pearl Jam is, i am sorry for you :) but, a rock band not an experimental band. And what i get from your words is that you are extremely dissapointed that Pearl Jam to this day have not released a rock opera album or conceptual album like Pink Floyd’s The Wall maybe or something like that where the whole record would sound in same vein and mood but will be different than the previous body of work. If i guessed just right, i in some amount will agree about that and i would like to hear a conceptual album by Pearl Jam in the near future. But do i feel angry that this band haven’t done that till now?!? Not at all. It’s their choice. We can just listen to them or look for something else. I know i will always want to hear what is the next chapter in Pearl Jam’s career whatever that would be…
And pal, try other bands too, you overplayed all your Pearl Jam albums, boots, and bootleg DVDs so all of their stuff started to sound the same to you!!! :)) Just kidding…

By: John Persh

John Persh — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:37:47 +0000

Semantics Skwerl Semantics. You get my point. “Bugs” doesn’t make Vitalogy experimental.