Dozens of Nineties bands got rich ripping off Pearl Jam's basic sound, but none learned to channel grand gestures like these guys, and none have done such a fine job of growing up with their audience.
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Dozens of Nineties bands got rich ripping off Pearl Jam's basic sound, but none learned to channel grand gestures like these guys, and none have done such a fine job of growing up with their audience.
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Anyone else notice that since pearl jam has become more politically active and less belligerent towards this shite magazine that they have also benefitted from much more favorable reviews?
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Anyone else notice that since pearl jam has become more politically active and less belligerent towards this shite magazine that they have also benefitted from much more favorable reviews?
I think you're right. Check out the editor's top ten picks...
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that Blender review, i kind of liked it, it's actually flattering to Ed. but i ask those who know all, some of the interpretations of the songs sounded a little weird to me, especially the ones about Alive, Go and STBC, i mean, i never thought about those songs like that, and i don't remember having read any FAQs or interviews giving those meanings to those songs. how wrong or right am i?
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dea wrote:
that Blender review, i kind of liked it, it's actually flattering to Ed. but i ask those who know all, some of the interpretations of the songs sounded a little weird to me, especially the ones about Alive, Go and STBC, i mean, i never thought about those songs like that, and i don't remember having read any FAQs or interviews giving those meanings to those songs. how wrong or right am i?
Regarding Alive...
This song is "the story...of a mother [who] is with a father and the father dies. It's an intense thing because the son looks just like the father. The son grows up to be the father, the person that she lost. His father's dead, and now this confusion, his mother, his love, how does he love her, how does she love him? In fact, the mother, even though she marries somebody else, there's no one she's ever loved more than the father. You know how it is, first loves and stuff. And the guy dies. How could you ever get him back? But the son. He looks exactly like him. It's uncanny. So she wants him. The son is oblivious to it all. He doesn't know what the fuck is going on. He's still dealing, he's still growing up. He's still dealing with love, he's still dealing with the death of his father. All he knows is 'I'm still alive' -- those three words, that's totally out of burden. Now the second verse is 'Oh she walks slowly into a young man's room... I can remember to this very day... the look... the look.' And I don't say anything else. And because I'm saying, 'The look, the look' everyone thinks it goes with 'on her face.' It's not on her face. The look is between her legs. Where do you go with that? That's where you came from. But I'm still alive. I'm the lover that's still alive. And the whole conversation about 'You're still alive, she said' And his doubts: 'Do I deserve to be? Is that the question?' Because he's fucked up forever!" - Vedder
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