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06-19-2015, 08:28 AM
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SOPHIE FOREVER
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06-19-2015, 08:38 AM
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You guys are daft. Purple is a great album. Pearl Jam has made some incredible music but I still think their debut is their best work.
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06-19-2015, 08:49 AM
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SOPHIE FOREVER
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I don't want to be smart if it means liking STP.
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06-19-2015, 09:15 AM
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The thing I never liked about Pearl Jam was that they spawned a generation of horrible knock off bands trying to sound like Eddie Vedder. (Creed, Nickleback, Silverchair, Bush X)
I never quite understood why, with Nirvana selling more albums than Pearl Jam, record companies chose to sign a gazillion Pearl Jam clones, instead of Nirvana ones. Overnight bands like Skinny Puppy & Killing Joke were replaced by Pearl Jam and STP, that's when alternative became corporate rock |
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06-19-2015, 09:27 AM
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06-19-2015, 09:49 AM
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Core is certainly too much of a ripoff to respect, though there are a few good tunes on it, but I'd say that Purple dropped enough of the dire Pearl Jam schtick to be entertaining as a more purely rock album, even if it was still largely Pearl Jam worship. Underneath the Pearl Jam theft, STP were pretty much just a rock 'n' roll band.
I think that's pretty much what they finally did with Tiny Music by stripping away the last Pearl Jam trappings. **** like this is far more fun than anything off of even Ten, even if STP were trying just a tad too hard to sound quirky.
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06-19-2015, 10:18 AM
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I always thought Dean DeLeo's playing was much more Zeppelin-ish than Pearl Jam-ish.
This being a great example.
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06-19-2015, 11:27 AM
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Pleased to see this thread even if it was started by a troll, less than 10 posts before starting this one.
 Both bands are favourites of mine and STP put out two great albums in Core and Purple before they went softer on the Beatlesque Tiny Music..... Also the first Velvet Revolver album is a big favourite of mine as well. Pearl Jam on the other hand were even more impressive, I can remember going year after year and never understanding what people really saw in this band, but then after years of staring me in the face as it were their brilliance kind of hit me and have been a lover since. Their debut is one of the all time greats and VS, No Code and Binaural are right up there with it.
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06-19-2015, 11:36 AM
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Who wouldn't die to be able to write a song as good as this?
Sheets of empty canvas, untouched sheets of clay Were laid spread out before me as her body once did. All five horizons revolved around her soul as the earth to the sun Now the air I tasted and breathed has taken a turn Ooh, and all I taught her was everything Ooh, I know she gave me all that she wore And now my bitter hands chafe beneath the clouds of what was everything. Oh, the pictures have all been washed in black, tattooed everything... I take a walk outside, I'm surrounded by some kids at play I can feel their laughter, so why do I sear? Oh, and twisted thoughts that spin round my head, I'm spinning, oh, I'm spinning, how quick the sun can drop away And now my bitter hands cradle broken glass of what was everything All the pictures have all been washed in black, tattooed everything... All the love gone bad turned my world to black Tattooed all I see, all that I am, all I'll be... I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky, But why, why, why can't it be, can't it be mine? A lot of people love taking digs at Vedder's singing but it ain't easy to do what he was doing in his prime.
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