Post subject: From the Pit: Total Guitar review (album of the month)
Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 5:41 pm
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Stip, another great review from another crappy euro mag
Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam (J)
who they? - the only seattle band to have outlived grunge (by around 13 years), it's hard to imagine their debut ten is now almost classic rock age, a fact which makes us feel very old indeed. this is their eigth studio album and their first since splitting with long-term label Epic.
Any good? - dig out your check shirts and DM boots boys and girls, grunge is back with a vengeance! after going all country on last album Riot Act (2002), Eddie Vedder & Co have rediscovered what made them such a fucking awesome band in the first place - bags of riffs, attitude and a glut of singalong choruses. Pearl Jam is packed with all three. Gone is Vedder's shoe-gazing, introspective mumbling. he's completely shrugged off his messiah complex, surfed through the band's back catalogue, picked out the best parts and used them as inspiration. it tails off a bit towards the end (come back sounds like standard black crowes blues fare) but overall it's like they have been fitted some kind of pacemaker that's jolted them from a nigh on eight-year snooze!
Must hear? - The sloppy powerchords and Mike McCready's jagged solo on comatose, their punkiest track since spin the black circle, and the soaring refrain of marker in the sand that has to feature their catchiest chorus since daughter all the way back in 1993!
Why buy? - It's easily Pearl Jam's best record since 1998's Yield. and with Alice In Chains reforming this year, could we be seeing a grunge resurgence this summer?
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Juvenal wrote:
They went all "country" in Riot Act?
news to me
turned2black--is this real magazine or like some web thing?
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Thats a ridiculous review. Guy sounds like a moron. Riot act a country album? Has even listened to Riot Act or a country album? Tails off near the end? No way. Come back is great. What an idiot.
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I guess if you put a couple acoustic ballads on an album it makes it a country album. Thumbing My Way and All or None are two of the best Pearl Jam songs musically, and lyrically for a matter of fact
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I guess if the only song this guy heard off of Riot Act was All or None, then maybe that makes a little sense. No even then, what the fuck? He must of asked some guy in the next cubicle,
Reviewer: "Did you ever hear Riot Act?"
Other Guy: "Is that Pearl Jam's country album?"
Reviewer: "Must be."
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i like that the logical follow up to the new record is STP's Core.
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ledvedderman wrote:
I guess if you put a couple acoustic ballads on an album it makes it a country album. Thumbing My Way and All or None are two of the best Pearl Jam songs musically, and lyrically for a matter of fact
All or None kicked ass!!! Especially that solo at the end!
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daviecoop wrote:
I dont think PJ have been grunge for a few years, in fact were they ever truely 'grunge'?
Most people refer to Grunge as a genre, instead of a scene. By that definition I'd say no, they had their grungy side, but they've always been too influenced by classic rock.
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in two of the reviews so far they've complimented comatose
its probably one of my least favourites from the album
without the cool harmony guitar part in it i wouldnt like it at all jk
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